Abulsme.com: September 2018

@abulsme tweets from 2018-09-20 (UTC)

01:41:04 Retweeted @JWGOP 01:23:01 Two U.S. Senators told me in the last 7 days Jeff Sessions will be fired almost immediately after Nov 6. Both are pвЂ¦ https://t.co/M70unh6xKV
03:25:22 Retweeted @Quasilocal 2018-09-19 10:25:35 Just got wind of this on Facebook. The most subtle of announcements for what is a huge claim from a titan of mathemвЂ¦ https://t.co/qr8C5ni3ei
04:08:17 This means Tipper is next, doesn’t it? https://t.co/o7WMyn47Kp
04:40:21 Oops https://t.co/4dCMtFuCNo
07:04:28 Retweeted @renato_mariotti 04:18:04 Please take five minutes to watch this important and profound statement from @nytimes columnist @CharlesMBlow, whoвЂ¦ https://t.co/ivTHqIkPCc
15:24:51 Yup -> Software disenchantment @ https://t.co/4cASpKo7o2 https://t.co/LPnw9S6NBf
17:19:47 Listening to Curious Minds Podcast Deep Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Pt. I | https://t.co/rbwBpfJFLd
17:34:57 @btitus Yup. To be fair though, we have a lot of things now because people race ahead on top of layers of stuff thaвЂ¦ https://t.co/7HOktYFRAz in reply to btitus
18:53:22 For a second I thought the evangelicals were upset because the Republicans were not treating attempted rape chargesвЂ¦ https://t.co/e6mySr26om
18:55:32 I liked a @YouTube video https://t.co/zoeyIlr2wx Doctor Who: Series 11 Trailer #2
19:09:36 I liked a @YouTube video https://t.co/yjZi528fmg Apple Watch Series 4 Making of Fire, Water and Vapor faces
21:00:20 Retweeted @rgoodlaw 20:45:36 For more on how a pardon dangle can be a criminal obstruction of justice, read former federal prosecutor and profesвЂ¦ https://t.co/9Ff7Udu1QR in reply to rgoodlaw
23:16:03 Thread by @casey_connects: “I have known men of great character from Georgetown Prep. My son is named after one, anвЂ¦ https://t.co/VosXKItMvm
23:29:03 Retweeted @jaketapper 22:47:46 A prominent DC conservative, trying to promote an alternate theory that someone else (and not Kavanaugh) may have sвЂ¦ https://t.co/KnyzKlzNZ7
23:34:31 Retweeted @JamilSmith 23:30:54 It is quite evident that this is no longer about whether or not Christine Blasey Ford is telling the truth about beвЂ¦ https://t.co/kaoMhijar6
23:35:18 Retweeted @Maggie_Klaus 2018-07-23 14:33:05 Every single day Hillary does something that puts me in awe of her. Even if it’s just showing a level of constraintвЂ¦ https://t.co/zUWl6XELJ5

@abulsme tweets from 2018-09-19 (UTC)

00:08:33 This will be interesting. https://t.co/e8vWBHMHEC
00:11:16 Retweeted @gabrielsherman 2018-09-18 23:04:49 Trump paralyzed on Kavanaugh rescue strategy. Ivanka telling Trump to cut him loose. My latest:
https://t.co/8oGXyROtdH
00:21:08 I understand this desire. It may even make sense. But I don’t think this is going to happen. https://t.co/jB5Gy3Ncde
03:13:10 Retweeted @BBCBreaking 02:59:21 Moon and Kim hail new future for North and South Korea, signing wide-ranging agreement in Pyongyang https://t.co/QNzHH5gdDP
03:20:37 Thread https://t.co/kWxhM6rM9A
03:22:13 Retweeted @joshtpm 2018-09-18 23:58:03 Probably good time to remember that Rep. Jim Jordan clearly lied about his knowledge of sexual abuse in wrestling pвЂ¦ https://t.co/vtgg3lW9c4
03:23:55 Retweeted @ProudResister 2018-09-18 03:53:31 The Republican party is:вЂ” Blaming women.
вЂ” Shaming women.
вЂ” Denying women.
вЂ” Abusing women.
вЂ” Grabbing women.
вЂ” AвЂ¦ https://t.co/zsDAkJi19W
03:28:46 Retweeted @dyllyp 03:11:36 But blind people can’t see thвЂ”you know what, nvm. Good for them. https://t.co/R7bcLlv53p
03:29:50 Retweeted @joshtpm 02:28:28 Note that Grassleys argument is that there’s no relevant evidence beyond Ford’s memories. Obviously recoverable eviвЂ¦ https://t.co/xiRfJrUXrX
03:40:25 Retweeted @mkraju 02:16:41 Here’s the full Grassley statement, sending this message to Ford: Take the offer to testify Monday, or leave it. https://t.co/JAUSAs8EgJ in reply to mkraju
04:42:43 Retweeted @kathygriffin 04:37:42 Amazing Thread https://t.co/rja4MDD8Yi
05:00:55 Retweeted @nktpnd 03:23:01 These aren’t costly concessions for Kim, but a big win for Moon for getting these headlines out of this summit. WilвЂ¦ https://t.co/Qfd6Vv88fF
05:17:00 Read this -> Between Brock Turner and Brett Kavanaugh, when do girls matter? (Simcha Fisher) https://t.co/aRl2MdITKu
05:31:27 Retweeted @emmajthatcher 2018-09-18 22:46:07 Hello, female high school student here. I would just like to say that the emergence of this whole “teenage boys shoвЂ¦ https://t.co/URD42eYe1u
05:55:36 Retweeted @RonBaalke 05:51:20 A seagull steals a camera at night. https://t.co/o9HsBYdUhh
06:02:29 Retweeted @Robert_E_Kelly 05:40:27 If we really get inspectors, that is some progress. It’s not nearly enough – no list of weapons and facilities, notвЂ¦ https://t.co/XWxILzZ6n6
16:59:56 Read this. Every word. It is horrible. But seemingly common. Maybe it has even been normal. We need to be better thвЂ¦ https://t.co/ugctYNailE
18:26:46 Retweeted @freakboy3742 2018-09-07 02:52:43 42 year old me wishes 21 year old me hadn’t been talked into doing a PhD in AI and machine learning. I’d really likвЂ¦ https://t.co/wNlOz0t1Cu
18:31:25 Retweeted @xkcdComic 16:37:34 Curve-Fitting https://t.co/X76aDTJXI9 https://t.co/o2eEe11tXR https://t.co/kkdc2Mk9gr
19:22:11 Preview of one I’m going to use for my next post on @ElectionGraphs if I ever finish writing up the explanatory texвЂ¦ https://t.co/ijwmnCQWDs
23:22:09 Listening to Point of Inquiry The Odyssey of the Plutophiles: Alan Stern and David Grinspoon on the Voyage of New HвЂ¦ https://t.co/6zcZkzRNei

@abulsme tweets from 2018-09-18 (UTC)

06:50:36 Listening to Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and Sarah Kendzior The American Crisis: The View from Flyover CountrвЂ¦ https://t.co/U0FzFdQA11
14:35:00 Retweeted @kelseylh 13:54:11 my god I am dying https://t.co/WmxftwRbIq https://t.co/bR0CT276yH
15:10:11 Retweeted @WFKARS 15:01:14 Yes. The answer is yes. https://t.co/BQlC43bOXV
15:32:16 Retweeted @MollyMcKew 14:44:48 Again: We’re better than this.So, let’s be clear about the core arguments of bullsh*t being used.
It is BS thaвЂ¦ https://t.co/UtjljLGxLl
15:59:27 Really? That’s what they are going with? https://t.co/UXVEQqYAyg
18:37:52 Retweeted @LEBassett 17:23:24 To summarize: He was not at the party. But if he was, what he did was just horseplay. And if what he did was not hoвЂ¦ https://t.co/YSQmakivUb
23:34:14 Retweeted @nmeyersohn 22:24:26 “The woman,” as President Trump referred to Dr. Blasey today, has been forced to move out of her house, NYT reportsвЂ¦ https://t.co/CikllFI6iH
23:38:40 FFS people. Don’t do this. https://t.co/RaWNCBcvzM
23:42:05 Retweeted @CostaSamaras 17:28:31 Peak population of:
-Chicago: 3.6 million
-Cleveland: 914,000
-Pittsburgh: 677,000
-Buffalo: 580,000Current populвЂ¦ https://t.co/1vq5FqebMG
23:44:03 Retweeted @MollyJongFast 23:25:47 Obviously not a Muslim ban, just a ban on Muslims. https://t.co/5haVHteWOc
23:54:10 Retweeted @EricaGrieder 20:57:07 Meanwhile, in #TX22… https://t.co/8VWMW73TaN

@abulsme tweets from 2018-09-17 (UTC)

00:19:22 Retweeted @FiloSottile 2018-09-16 21:55:44 Wow. Linus admits his behavior was hurting people and Linux, recognizes being an asshole does not scale, apologizesвЂ¦ https://t.co/ZC7N98QHPp
00:27:28 Retweeted @joshtpm 00:24:27 Here’s the full video of Sen Susan Collins comments on Kavanaugh, whether she still supports him, whether vote shouвЂ¦ https://t.co/IFxjmtTMPo
00:58:51 Retweeted @helaineolen 2018-09-16 18:16:14 I want to take a moment, now that Christine Blasey Ford has come forward to accuse Kavanaugh of assaulting her in hвЂ¦ https://t.co/SubKCoclMT
01:07:53 Retweeted @yashar 2018-09-16 20:15:57 About a year ago a woman came to me with a highly credible and deeply disturbing sexual assault accusation againstвЂ¦ https://t.co/zTSfa7eMeQ
01:45:42 Retweeted @thegarance 01:44:02 Here’s the @helaineolen thread via @Unrollme — if you didn’t live through it, this is what the world was like. https://t.co/MDKsEF9gUD in reply to thegarance
03:37:27 Retweeted @mattyglesias 00:37:41 There’s a good case for forgiving teenage misconduct but to receive forgiveness you have to seek it, not call the vвЂ¦ https://t.co/BvEQKNrad3
03:39:29 Retweeted @AJentleson 01:34:23 My dude: if you tried to rape someone *at any age* you should not be confirmed to a lifetime appointment on the SupвЂ¦ https://t.co/94oH4eLkgC
03:40:28 Retweeted @mattmfm 2018-09-16 20:19:55 Gotta say, it’s unbelievably disturbing how many Republican men seem to believe that a teenage guy attempting to raвЂ¦ https://t.co/Ya3aiOHV3k
04:50:24 Retweeted @topazwinters 2018-09-15 03:10:00 there is a woman in the apartment across from mine who has a large dog, & every sunrise & every sundown she opens tвЂ¦ https://t.co/xFpbdPMGEA
05:00:18 Wut? https://t.co/5Ak0BTMOFk
05:02:46 Retweeted @EricHolthaus 00:16:25 Current flooding (left) vs flooding still to come (right).For many (most?) places, the worst of Florence’s floodiвЂ¦ https://t.co/8u2rlku6au
16:08:49 Retweeted @ShaneGoldmacher 16:05:09 The swing(?) vote has spoken. https://t.co/McvBx6DbAV
20:20:34 Retweeted @mattblaze 18:37:32 вЂњWhy would a victim wait decades before going public with their story of abuse?вЂќ As someone who waited decades to gвЂ¦ https://t.co/ZFwQY4628L
21:16:26 Retweeted @kairyssdal 19:57:05 This isn’t the way tariffs work. At all. https://t.co/1iNTe1CQxX
21:41:16 HmmmвЂ¦. https://t.co/FcRg8x2ukH
22:18:56 Retweeted @chrislhayes 22:16:56 It’s interesting to watch people defending K *want* to make the case that he was young, he was drunk, it was yearsвЂ¦ https://t.co/zbYT06iqKn
22:19:52 Retweeted @gelliottmorris 22:16:38 Chance that Republicans win the House popular vote: <1%
Chance that Republicans win the House majority of seats: 22вЂ¦ https://t.co/y7VXoIFP88
23:14:28 Important follow up, and yet another example where people have to be a lot more careful before making вЂњbombshellвЂќ aвЂ¦ https://t.co/eLu7lhj3l0

@abulsme tweets from 2018-09-16 (UTC)

01:10:35 Retweeted @AstroKatie 2018-09-14 19:08:27 Blog post! A non-technical explanation of my new paper with @mcnees about extra dimensions of space, black holes, aвЂ¦ https://t.co/bJvmIQ9ROE in reply to AstroKatie
03:18:07 Curmudgeon’s Corner: In Polite Company https://t.co/LJ1k1ewnjK https://t.co/Sgb9dwgBpY
03:43:36 Retweeted @DoctorVive 2018-09-12 15:09:54 1) I am thrilled to announce the launch of https://t.co/ev7WTuupFT, a group I’m founding, with @climatebrad,вЂ¦ https://t.co/5m2fCTg4iu
05:22:14 Retweeted @JonErlichman 2018-09-15 14:57:29 Things that didn’t exist when Lehman Brothers collapsed this day in 2008:Uber
Instagram
Bitcoin
iPad
Snapchat
AppвЂ¦ https://t.co/6S5ZGKqk8g
06:10:29 17166.383 Days https://t.co/VzPatB5jW4
07:35:25 Retweeted @jasoninmia 2018-09-14 16:49:40 Every semester, after three or four weeks, a student I assumed was disengaged comes out of nowhere and says somethiвЂ¦ https://t.co/O5vk565SCt
09:00:44 Retweeted @BruceBartlett 2018-09-15 18:50:37 The article says deficit hawks are dead. It’s completely wrong. Deficits hawks will reemerge more powerful than eveвЂ¦ https://t.co/gF6jzcENp0
17:21:45 Retweeted @matthewjdowd 17:05:24 A political dynamic existing today is geography vs. demography. GOP has geography advantage, Dems have demography.вЂ¦ https://t.co/nIZ9pFCV7R
17:46:45 Anonymous no longer. https://t.co/b1nhyyRAqx
17:48:40 Retweeted @JuddLegum 17:34:58 I think Kavanaugh supporters should clarify whether:1. They don’t believe the allegations against him, or
2. ThвЂ¦ https://t.co/hjRZceoYdU
18:11:17 Retweeted @Susan_Hennessey 18:10:06 What it must feel like to have borne the scars of being a 15-year-old victim only to hear from so many that, even iвЂ¦ https://t.co/R5Syu6Y2Bq
19:58:06 Retweeted @BFriedmanDC 19:57:06 “If somebody can be brought down by accusations like this, then you, me, every man certainly should be worried.”TвЂ¦ https://t.co/Q89ijH4XCx
21:32:52 Retweeted @jenzhuscott 05:15:30 Starting a thread of various videos today in HK and Shenzhen as the world’s strongest storm #TyphoonManghkut wipingвЂ¦ https://t.co/6pXT2u8Fdw

17166.383 Days

As of the moment this is scheduled to post, at 6:10 UTC on the 16th (11:10 PM Pacific on the 15th, 2:10 AM Eastern on the 16th) I am exactly 47 years old. This is of course properly taking into account leap years, the fact that years are not an even number of days, time zones, and the time and place I was bornвЂ¦

So. 47. Woo!

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@abulsme tweets from 2018-09-15 (UTC)

00:58:23 Retweeted @SortaBad 2018-09-14 22:36:48 I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of republican campaign ads and then asked it to write a republican campaigвЂ¦ https://t.co/5LjvKho5jw
01:38:56 Retweeted @costareports 2018-09-13 18:06:47 Spoke to more than a dozen House Rs here at the Capitol. Very few had any criticism of the president’s handling ofвЂ¦ https://t.co/6Ceakk4gUg
16:21:23 Retweeted @exploreplanets 15:48:00 One year ago today, Cassini dove into Saturn’s atmosphere and disintegrated like a meteor after two decades of explвЂ¦ https://t.co/I0NI4b76rF
18:21:55 Retweeted @mattyglesias 18:10:06 Relative to that baseline, it turns out policymakers did a lot better at first but then kind of lost the plot. https://t.co/RXLDPrFFAd in reply to mattyglesias
18:23:38 Retweeted @texasinafrica 18:09:53 It is funny, but it also means that Trump supporters are primed to see a Democratic wave election as illegitimate.вЂ¦ https://t.co/atBBQJ9CkM
18:24:58 Retweeted @Jess_Wade 2018-09-14 14:35:52 I was once in an elevator and a girl dropped her iphone as she stepped in, and we both listened to it careen thundeвЂ¦ https://t.co/EGPArLX5qQ
19:33:16 Retweeted @theastrolarium 2018-09-14 17:01:55 Anyone: Can you be quiet??
Aries: https://t.co/7EuN9Axo1x

@abulsme tweets from 2018-09-14 (UTC)

02:28:09 You can also get to sink zero by leaving the dishes elsewhere in the house instead of taking them to the sink. https://t.co/aPDvrvgWVD
06:09:16 I liked a @YouTube video https://t.co/eJxdtZmGaI Don’t Hug me I’m Scared
06:09:41 WTF did I just watch? https://t.co/n7oMx7PkLS in reply to abulsme
06:26:42 I liked a @YouTube video https://t.co/Mnrt9SCNgZ Kids React to Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared
14:18:07 Retweeted @BeardedGenius 2018-09-13 21:07:50 Scary as fuck weather report. First it’s like, ah smart use of green screen, then it’s like holy fucking shit. https://t.co/J9SmZqTqVI
15:24:02 Some details that were missing yesterday. https://t.co/Xnj1088e2t
16:32:07 I’m a bit late with this because I was dealing with other things when this his, but… BOOM. https://t.co/8Vh3lymRwv
16:33:05 Retweeted @dburbach 15:13:13 Held her down, covered her mouth, attempted to force himself on her is rather different than the “locked her in a rвЂ¦ https://t.co/TnJxBIJRUE
16:39:34 Retweeted @mike_conley 2018-09-13 18:48:35 https://t.co/IbhQgWRzzr
19:32:38 Apply a single permutation of A(6,2) from https://t.co/OlIDGOR9bp to SAMUEL, then when you need a letter to make itвЂ¦ https://t.co/MhJgAnY9Sf

@abulsme tweets from 2018-09-13 (UTC)

15:26:18 Alex 9 Year Interview: https://t.co/14CqM9L4R7 via @YouTube
16:52:25 Alex is NINE!! https://t.co/2iWBhMeTMt https://t.co/wLd80l8ifP
17:00:29 I liked a @YouTube video https://t.co/uwSp8EgyNx Frying Pan Ocean Cam powered by https://t.co/MePX090QcL
17:13:11 With this kind of thing, either release the details of the allegation or don’t. This half assed letting everybody kвЂ¦ https://t.co/GE5tu75Z7o
17:14:58 Interesting https://t.co/DX6reSN5Nc
18:53:02 @imbou To be fair, this is reported multiple places. It is Feinstein that is making public that there is an allegatвЂ¦ https://t.co/to79el3594 in reply to imbou
19:59:33 Retweeted @textfiles 19:26:53 Time for the annual running of the netscape logos https://t.co/EqrxryhWo4
21:43:16 Retweeted @JohnLGC 19:47:25 Apparently @RonanFarrow is in Palo Alto trying to break the #Kavanaugh story.
21:48:56 Retweeted @darrenrovell 20:33:14 Nike stock closes at $83.47, an all-time high for the company.
21:53:37 Retweeted @seungminkim 21:15:14 New — FBI does not now plan to launch a criminal investigation of the Kavanaugh matter; instead the bureau passedвЂ¦ https://t.co/NbDobzi7Zr
21:56:27 This was clear two years ago. https://t.co/qjqIgNu1db
22:00:31 Thread https://t.co/JuwdhQdKbh
22:05:07 Retweeted @BianchiWeather 19:40:16 Harvey did most of its damage as a Tropical Storm. Sandy was a Category 1 at landfall. Categories are a reference tвЂ¦ https://t.co/y4tBkXOSoS
22:11:04 Retweeted @kendisgibson 21:52:59 Breaking news: Tentative deal reached between Manafort and special counsel: Sources – ABC News – https://t.co/CdWHdQbjhC
23:26:11 Retweeted @elonjames 23:23:23 Wait. Wait. A man is his own home. He’s murdered by a cop who had no right to be there. The cops say she thought itвЂ¦ https://t.co/EhAAFt88UE

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