@gwynnion ~"They got Pam in a photograph with some of those women, and it's Epstein, Epstein, Epstein all over again. Get me Bobby on the line, maybe he can help."~

@chrisstoecker @bbc That's … not how Reuters would report a story like that. But since truckloads of US voters have no critical reading skills, good enough for government work I guess.

@heidilifeldman On top of that, you'll have an armed wing of one of the major parties thrust out into the cold, but with connections inside government at levels high and low. It will require constraining, disciplinarian, dare I say color-of-authoritarian administration to ferret out corruption and instill an instinctive respect for the letter of written rules. It's going to be a heavy lift. The days of the "wild and crazy American can-do spirit" are gone either way. Sad to see it go.

@deviantollam The bullet bears a grudge against the chamber.

@bookstodon @ShaulaEvans There are several, but I'll offer up two:

Jean Merrill, The Pushcart War (1964)

Read in the sixth grade of elementary school. It taught me the positive power of subversion, and the importance of solidarity in the face of corruption.

Donald Knuth, The TeXbook (1984)

Read while working as an early-career legal academic. It unlocked in me a passion for, or obsession with, grasping programming logic and putting it to use.

@jik I once rescued a moped from a neighbor's junkpile, found that it was sold through the Sears & Roebuck department store, and was able to order specific carburetor parts from the exploded view in their catalog to get it going again.

@cstross Curious whether you get a different answer each time you ask.

@paninid Also that anyone attempting to vote is doing so illegally. Imagine courts flooded with thousands of habeas corpus petitions that need to be resolved before votes can be recorded and tallied. With members of the junta screaming at the top of their lungs about foul play in the meantime. The next election could be a real shitshow if the oligarchy is allowed to have its way.

@cbarbermd Lemme guess, if these guys live long enough to be arrested on kidnapping and other charges, warrants'll all of a sudden be big real important to 'em.

@skinnylatte We had a TB diagnosis of a student from SE Asia when I was in uni here in Japan. Word went out, and everyone with contact was called in for testing at an emergency response center downtown, which I learned was infrastructure maintained in part b/c TB is still endemic in the region.