jszym @jszym

I was thinking about how mixed metaphors like these in @NRO@twitter.com betray that they are a rag despite their "SAT-word-per-sentence" metric.

Then I remembered they're climate change deniers that claim Trump isn't racist, and that that should probably be the bigger tell. https://t.co/KpIVlbvie3

“Inscrutable scruples” is on a personal list of things that will always be fun to say

@bgcarlisle "It's why the gov't pays grad students so much, man... it's hush money!"

@natecull Will take the time to promote the presentation/notes layout that Dan McKinley (and others) use

http://boringtechnology.club/

@thurloat bUt ThE MiNeRaLs FrOm ThE nAtUrAl MoUnTaIn RaNgEs

I want my chips with the diippp

“Ottawa seems to be out of ideas on devising a new kind of China policy” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-ottawa-seems-to-be-out-of-ideas-on-devising-a-new-kind-of-china-policy/

“Who Democratic voters think can beat Trump in 2020” - Good use of polling? ⁦@galendruke@twitter.com⁩ & ⁦@FiveThirtyEight@twitter.com⁩

Strikes me a bit odd... https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-2020-national-poll-democrats-electability-20190619-story.html

“Who Democratic voters think can beat Trump in 2020” - Good use of polling? Strikes me a bit odd... https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-2020-national-poll-democrats-electability-20190619-story.html

@thurloat @ThatGeoGuy Good to know :)

Guess this is as good a time as any to thank you for the Herculean effort it takes to keep this thing running!

Hi Glorious Leader @thurloat , any chance we'll get Keybase support on this instance? It'd be super neat!

Some links if you haven't heard of this:

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-proofs-for-mastodon-and-everyone

https://keybase.io/docs/proof_integration_guide

Opposition is a caricature, and Scheer is a humid performer: Neil Macdonald | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opposition-scheer-1.5055428

@nimirea I definitely say “beige-ian” but I Nate Silver says “bays-ian”... i think people in my programme (in Canada) tend to go the Beige-way

In the dark: The cost of Canada’s data deficit https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-in-the-dark-the-cost-of-canadas-data-deficit/

I see what you’ve done there, cbc

@Modern_Industrial Wire ain’t half bad. Currently using Riot.fm w/ E2E enabled for a group chat with friends. Feels a bit like a mix between IRC and XMPP (except with a decent mobile app)

@thurloat jason

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more lazy (but also hilarious) attempt at climate change denial than from ⁦@MaximeBernier⁩ . Next he’ll suggest an AC tax-break to fight climate change.