Tired from Moving & Trying to Enlighten with Twittervism
Times are still busy in life these days. Staying late at the office to handle the huge volume of business that occurs this time of year, including helping an individual here and there with figuring out which insurance policy to get. The whole thing gets a little stressful because so much needs to get done, but everyone wants the attention that they need because dealing with the December 15th deadline really stresses them out. So yeah, fun.
In the meanwhile, we still have loads of boxes that we have to unpack at home. . .and I'm not the mastermind behind figuring out what goes where. I help where I can, but at a certain point, my trying to help will only get in the way and cause more trouble than its worth.
Weekend laziness hasn't helped, either, but when the body wants to chill out and lay around, it wants to chill out and lay around. This apartment gets much hotter than the last one, too, so I've been finding myself a little more worn down than usual. But it's all overall exhausting in the long run. Someone mentioned to me that moving can be one of the most stressful things that can occur to a person, even if it's just down a level and across the hall.
Seriously, though, changing all these addresses has become something of a pain, especially credit cards. I have no problems with bank and investment accounts, just change the address on the website then boom, all set. Credit cards, though, I'm finding that I'll need to call them to change the address. I figure this has a level of urgency, too, since it could possibly affect my credit score and stuff.
I expect no one really wants to read about my travails in moving, though, and wants to hear something about my views on politics, culture, literature, etc. I don't have the energy to put together any deep analysis or anything, so I'll just provide a stream of Twittervism below.
My podcast listening still in the era of memo-writing Google bro. Actually heard a couple quotes & realized he was listing collateral symptoms of dealing with assholes like him.
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) November 15, 2017
Damn! Things were quiet while [45] was away. Then he came back. Bleh! Nice while it lasted.
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) November 16, 2017
Clearly our profession has more work to do getting the word out that gloves are never appropriate for handling paper materials. pic.twitter.com/1kuVU3S0G2
— John Overholt (@john_overholt) November 15, 2017
More Susan Collins via @PressHerald @joelawlorph: she wants a bipartisan bill, has "major concern" about expiring middle-class tax cuts while corporate tax cuts are permanent:
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) November 16, 2017
https://t.co/a02WxskP0h pic.twitter.com/fZyqxEOm0Y
There is literally no justification in a democracy to delay an election simply because one candidate should lose on the merits. https://t.co/fZxOV5x4CF
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) November 16, 2017
To survive elementary school, our children have to learn lockdown procedures because keeping guns out of abusers’ hands is too much to ask. https://t.co/Jlyg1JtxNJ
— Resisterhood (@resisterhood) November 15, 2017
Am I uncool because I wasn't directly subject to Russian manipulation of the election?
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) November 16, 2017
Constituents in ME, AZ, TN, WI, AK and OK. Step up and save the day!
— Nick Decaro (@decaro_nick) November 16, 2017
Johnson is a no. Collins is a strong lean no. Murkowski, McCain, Flake, Corker, and Lankford all need to be called TODAY relentlessly.
Stop #GOPTaxScam and #SneakyRepeal pic.twitter.com/5uhJaPImbc
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: Take a stand now against Roy Moore | CREDO Action https://t.co/Ca0qfUGRc6
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) November 16, 2017
[Help end discriminatory sentencing] Real Criminal Justice Reform Now | American Civil Liberties Union https://t.co/wWRXwyDdYz
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) November 16, 2017
Dangit, @NPRCodeSwitch, you had me crying at the end of this episode! https://t.co/q2mU5nRQXA
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) November 18, 2017
People deserve to know what’s in the committee bill passed late last night. Instead of taking our amendments to cut taxes for the middle class, it takes away healthcare, raises premiums & cuts Medicare - all to pay for tax cuts for corporations. pic.twitter.com/Q05QVY70wu
— Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) November 17, 2017
Can’t believe I have to type these words: A president should never be willing to leave US citizens in a foreign jail of a non-democratic regime solely because they aren’t praising him enough. https://t.co/lhADAyx2pg
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) November 20, 2017
[45] looking to strike down net neutrality, increased costs to consumers be damned; but also striking down AT&T/Time Warner merger? Know how to have your cake & eat it, too, [45]? It's disgusting, but he's doing it.
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) November 21, 2017
[Powerful & good education into the benefits Asian Americans have received & continue to receive from fighting for & defending civil rights] Asian Americans should be the friends, not the enemies, of affirmative action (opinion) - CNN https://t.co/40viq6hN4o
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) November 21, 2017
With Net Neutrality gone, the flow of information will be controlled on a level people just aren’t thinking about yet.
— Catherynne Valente (@catvalente) November 20, 2017
Imagine the lowest priced net service including only Breitbart, RT, Infowars, TrumpTV, Fox News, basic email & Facebook.
It’ll happen.
Were you planning on writing something for Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction? Behold! The Guidelines are LIVE! https://t.co/WG0kMfxDdq
— Uncanny Magazine (@UncannyMagazine) November 21, 2017
"Disability is not a one-stop shop for definitions." If you're wondering if you're "disabled enough" to submit to DPDSF, please read DPDSF's Co-Editor-in-Chief @snarkbat's essay. You matter & we want to see your stories! https://t.co/nWU2d6T0oC https://t.co/fQecH6hZoX
— M.Fieriosa 🔥🍜📖🦄 (@GeekMelange) November 21, 2017
Actually, whole episode, even hour 2 is worth it to see horrors of the tax cuts in Kansas.
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) November 22, 2017
I review the November @UncannyMagazine SFF short stories & poetry by @sentencebender @larazontally @rachelswirsky Karin Tidbeck @BAoki @mythopoetica @pensyf @LittleBruxa & @britas. An amazing issue!
— Charles Payseur (@ClowderofTwo) November 22, 2017
Review: https://t.co/gpUfD09wEX
Issue: https://t.co/Slx7HoWs9S
"For the amount of time Mueller has spent on the job, he’s achieved remarkable results." -@StevenJHarper1 https://t.co/D14oM7DcoQ
— BillMoyers.com (@BillMoyers) November 24, 2017
Get a good tester of weed intoxication, I could see Fed legalization & good revenue. https://t.co/Nm9Zm1SpbE https://t.co/s1AXeL0kBE
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) November 25, 2017
In 2007, Comcast began a covert program to prevent their customers from using BitTorrent by secretly resetting their connections to other users. In 2014, Comcast artificially reduced the speed of Netflix to its users until Netflix paid up. Comcast has ALREADY blocked & throttled. https://t.co/PsFZBSVBW5
— Robert Hallock🎄 (@Thracks) November 23, 2017
My conversation with @techreview on Trump Admin’s war on science, a leaderless OSTP, and the dangers ahead -> https://t.co/N4p42yicG2
— Kumar Garg (@KumarAGarg) November 22, 2017
[Does [45] think we're that dumb or is this just insanity? He apologized & action was taken elsewhere that corrobated that events happened. SMH] NYT: Trump questions authenticity of 'Access Hollywood' tape - CNNPolitics https://t.co/sZERdrBueZ
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) November 27, 2017
HUGE NEWS! Uncanny Is Opening an Internship for POC and Native and Indigenous People! LEARN MAGAZINE EDITING FROM @GeekMelange! https://t.co/38iAelzSdA
— Uncanny Magazine (@UncannyMagazine) November 27, 2017
Oh, the Sponsored Posts play a lot into it.
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) November 28, 2017
On this #GivingTuesday, please consider donating to our annual campaign to keep us afloat & doing the work of helping diversify the industry. https://t.co/6UejuB5Ia1
— I Need Diverse Games (@INeedDivGms) November 28, 2017
Evening Space Unicorns! BEHOLD the Uncanny Magazine 2017 Award Eligibility post! KNOW WHICH STORIES WERE NOVELETTES! https://t.co/A5HRuTIvpx pic.twitter.com/Yor38gtwfc
— Uncanny Magazine (@UncannyMagazine) November 29, 2017
When a President like [45] dislikes the media & there's all this stuff about "corrupt" media, social media being a "direct" source of media that requires regulation, etc., I have a lot of cynicism in the public having media literacy. Get media literate, people!
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) November 29, 2017
This is also the story of the Magninski Act, the law that the Russian lawyer tried to get [45] Jr to lobby against. Story scary & filled with injustice.
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) November 30, 2017
Reading 2017 fiction? Try the short story "Rising Star" by Stephen Graham Jones! @SGJ72 https://t.co/bXe14ex5pM pic.twitter.com/uYuLn1ZnkT
— Uncanny Magazine (@UncannyMagazine) November 30, 2017
Reading 2017 fiction? Try the short story "Auspicium Melioris Aevi" by JY Yang! @halleluyang https://t.co/yiIHwdH98H pic.twitter.com/8P79ULQcmJ
— Uncanny Magazine (@UncannyMagazine) November 30, 2017
Giving Theresa May the moral high ground truly takes skill. https://t.co/fwlwMO07Bc
— Molly (@isteintraum) November 30, 2017
Reading 2017 fiction? Try the novella "And Then There Were (N-One)" by Sarah Pinsker! @SarahPinsker https://t.co/cqR6wolUoa pic.twitter.com/kdusE48RWg
— Uncanny Magazine (@UncannyMagazine) November 30, 2017
This seriously feels like what Marx & Engles were predicting with the worldwide working class revolt.
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) November 30, 2017
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) December 1, 2017
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) December 1, 2017
Not surprised: Old white people pushing off the tax bill for the young and marginalized. https://t.co/nDDj2WobV4
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) December 2, 2017
At 104 Grace Brett, member of a band of UK guerilla knitters, was thought to be the oldest street artist/yarn-bomber in the world #womensart pic.twitter.com/6kgpQ9vSQh
— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) December 2, 2017
I mean, are old cranks supposed to be cranky about the youth being backward? I've just come to terms with the heavy metal and "hardcore" and punk music not being intense & aurally offensive enough.
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) December 2, 2017
Proof I'm a nerd: I'm excited about the different views of "indifferents" influencing the exercise of virtue to reach eudaimona between Aristotle & the Stoics AND how that influences the ethical underpinnings of contemporary politics & mid-19th-Century American/Boston politics.
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) December 2, 2017
This is just to say
— Elizabeth Bear (@matociquala) December 2, 2017
I have given
your future
to the top 10th
of the 1%.
I know
you were probably
planning
on school
When I say
you should work harder
I meant
To enrich me.
You should have
been born like me
so rich
and so cold
GOP finally made it clear to me who their base is: Koch Bros, the Mercer family, the rest of the 1% donors, and those dumb enough to eat up the propaganda made by all those rich bastards. I think it's time to bring back Occupy Wall Street . Oh, let's not forget Russian oligarchs.
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) December 3, 2017
Thanks for the tax increase, white working class. Good job "shaking things up" and "draining the swamp". Not going to matter much when we're paying more to keep things the same & just as murky. But at least the GOP is "keeping its promises" and "gettong stuff done", right?
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) December 3, 2017
Remember: the two main means-tested programs in America are Medicaid and SNAP (food stamps). In each case most beneficiaries are children, elderly, or disabled. The idea that we're handing out billions to lazy bums is false and slanderous.
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 3, 2017
Folks, it's really dumb to give me a tax break by making other people lose their health insurance and the ability to afford an education.
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) December 2, 2017
If you wanted to blow a $1.5 Trillion hole in the debt you could have built bridges, roads, railroads, schools, airports & power grids that would have created a gargantuan fuckload of JOBS, manufacturing & real economic growth.But a corporate tax cut & a wild-ass guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
— Christopher Moore (@TheAuthorGuy) December 2, 2017
Parents: Kids are more depressed these days, I wonder why?
— Parker (@panoparker) November 28, 2017
Kids: You destroyed the economy for us, the earth is literally dying, we are going to work until we die and on top of that the Nazis are back.
Parents: It's those pesky iPhones
Today in history: December 4, 1969 - Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark assassinated by Chicago police, state's attorney's cops & @FBI / @FBIChicago: https://t.co/E3kT5Y7tvn via @fightbacknews pic.twitter.com/Ey09BYWy9D
— AAAN (@aaanmarkaz) December 4, 2017
RESIST EVIL WITH ART, BEAUTY, PASSION, & KINDNESS! Become a Space Unicorn! Support Uncanny on Patreon or with a subscription! https://t.co/jQngF6cDJ7 pic.twitter.com/kQ3JbBQ2js
— Michael Damian Thomas (@michaeldthomas) December 5, 2017
Uncanny Magazine Podcast 19B features Tina Connolly's & Tansy Rayner Roberts's stories, Cassandra Khaw's poem, & a Tina Connolly Interview! https://t.co/FA9ejFAoLp pic.twitter.com/GnkNslpPrr
— Michael Damian Thomas (@michaeldthomas) December 5, 2017
Out of left field premises: GOP allergic to everyday people. Everyday people feel politicians ignoring them (b/c allergies), GOP & Dem. Everyday people voted [45] & cronies b/c "in touch". Everyday people will vote opposite to try getting connect but will be disappointed.
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) December 6, 2017
ICYMI, reading 2017 fiction? Try the short story "Packing" by T. Kingfisher! @UrsulaV https://t.co/nJsgeWsNFE pic.twitter.com/QUAoAr4S6i
— Uncanny Magazine (@UncannyMagazine) December 7, 2017
1/ We’ve been writing about how the wrongfully convicted often are burned by the criminal justice system not once but twice. Follow along as we tell you how that happens: https://t.co/1Q6WCzfsLo
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) December 6, 2017
Reading 2017 fiction? Try the short story "Learning to See Dragons" by Sarah Monette! @pennyvixen https://t.co/E4rgXVDaOn pic.twitter.com/uRHnbWUCdx
— Uncanny Magazine (@UncannyMagazine) December 8, 2017
Reading 2017 fiction? Try the novelette "Making Us Monsters" by Sam J. Miller & Lara Elena Donnelly! @sentencebender @larazontally https://t.co/Rmtu6k2g06 pic.twitter.com/TxvBqBmZHl
— Uncanny Magazine (@UncannyMagazine) December 8, 2017
I also include the same and aiders/abettors around them, including the media, entertainment, and business/industry.
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) December 9, 2017
Speeches like this help me remember that I need to remember the anger/courage I felt after Charlottesville https://t.co/S4COw2IdIj
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) December 9, 2017
ICYMI, reading 2017 fictions? Try the short story "Sorrow and Joy, Sunshine and Rain" by Troy L. Wiggins! @TroyLWiggins https://t.co/KwOyxHrcA7 pic.twitter.com/r4LM1Z899m
— Uncanny Magazine (@UncannyMagazine) December 9, 2017
Ugh. After the whole tax deal thing, @speakeryan says they want to cut Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc. So, they want to screw us EVEN MORE! https://t.co/6IVDNeMewp
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) December 9, 2017
Woah! Twitter helped someone out of their bubble. https://t.co/2DFnychtWm
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) December 10, 2017
[I'm an anecdote of this. Per doctor urging, increased Vit D. Years ago, got sick at work because of hypercalcemia. This week, my body tried to resorb my left molar. Time to eat those greens!]
— The_Lex (@screwjaw) December 10, 2017
Is Vitamin D Harmful Without Vitamin K? https://t.co/FoasRgPlL3
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