Another (extremely grudging!) vote for HRC…
Trump and Bannon turned over every slimy rock in America, hoping to find one more loser for their army under the guise of patriotism. /9
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 21, 2016
Every Trump operative, every pundit, every idiot who wore a MAGA hat was complicit in the most dangerous campaign since the Civil War. /12
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 21, 2016
In other words, Trump and his lunatics have left me with no choice: I will have to vote for Hillary Clinton. /17x
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 22, 2016
But then… yeah, nutpicking — when this is today’s GOP:
@wikileaks – America owes you, bigly! Thank you and God bless you! pic.twitter.com/gvElqdeiOa
— David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) October 21, 2016
NotMax
Okay, I’ll bite. What does /17x stand for?
Kids today and their farkakte crypto-slang.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
The numbers at the end of each tweet mean that they are part of a series, and I believe “17x” means that is the last one.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Ah, so they’re not numbered in succession as any normal list would be.
Takes one character less to type End.
MJS
“The fact that Trump is going down in flames” speaks well of Democrats, and particularly women and minorities. The country as a whole does not get to claim credit for that, but all Republicans can and should be blamed for Trump. “Going down in flames” should have occurred during the primary. That it did not must be owned by all Republicans
NotMax
@MJS
Brr, it’s cold.Throw another deep bench on the fire.
;)
ruemara
@NotMax: they are numbered in succession, these have just been edited for our consumption. And Mr. Nicols seems to have his own style of closing in that count with an “x”.
Anne Laurie
@NotMax:
They’re numbered in succession; this is an excerpt.
The /(n)x is useful in context, since people often start typing out a string of tweets before they know how many separate ‘thoughts’ they’ll end up with. Numbering the tweets means that future readers can see where an extracted (usually forwarded/retweeted) individual tweet falls on the author’s timeline.
Undoubtedly *you* would have come up with a better way of doing this, but that’s the thing about social media — most of it, as with (for instance) English grammar, is not consciously ‘invented’ so much as it evolves from within the group of individuals using it.
MJS
@NotMax: I picture them all having a reunion some day that quickly deteriorates into endless shouts of “Why didn’t YOU bring up all the shit on him that was there for the taking?” Ultimately, everyone turns on Jeb for having a cousin with first-hand knowledge of it.
Major Major Major Major
@Anne Laurie:
Man, when I say stuff like this I get called some sort of naive reverse-snob or something.
Steeplejack (phone)
@NotMax:
They are not numbered automatically by Twitter, if that’s what you mean. They are numbered sequentially by the author, which is helpful because sometimes people start replying to individual tweets and the sequence can get hard to follow.
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
Could probably have been clearer. by “normal” meant as follows:
1)
2)
3)
and so on.
gene108
So is the internet still not under attack?
seaboogie
@Steeplejack (phone): Do you have a musical tidbit before I become one with my bed?
Major Major Major Major
@gene108: It was under attack-ish. For certain values of ‘the internet’.
Warren Terra
I believe the numbering with a slash is intended to inform twitter’s infrastructure that these are part of a series of tweets, so that they will be shown together, ie a link to any one of these tweets will lead to all tweets in the series on the same page (well, 10 at a time).
amk
boy, wikileaks and their crowd hate hacking when it is done to them, don’t they?
Steeplejack (phone)
@seaboogie:
Ahmad Jamal, “Dolphin Dance.”
Mary G
@Steeplejack: Some wingnut maroon tweeted to him about what a traitor he is and just like all of us fraudulently voting Democrats, he’s going to vote for Hillary 17 times! Proof of the rigged election!
seaboogie
@Steeplejack (phone): Thank you….
Mary G
Radio Free Tom is making it clear that he’s voting for Hillary only. Downballot it’s R all the way.
Betty Cracker
@Mary G: Baby steps. Maybe some day he’ll turn from the Dark Side completely like Cole did.
Mnemosyne
@amk:
What did you expect from a secret society that insists that everyone else’s secrets are fair game?
ThresherK (GPad)
@Steeplejack: -30-, as we older ink-stained wretches would say.
Now I excuse me, cos someone has to change paper roll in the AP machine.
Awake and not by plan, but better on a Saturdaymthan a weekday. We are going to an Oktoberfest at a nice restaurant tonite. German in parts in both sides, but I don’t remember having red cabbage as a kid. How could that be?
Steeplejack (tablet)
@ThresherK (GPad):
Older ink-stained wretch here, too. Was just wondering the other day if you can even still find the “copy paper” we used to type on—beige and only slightly smoother than paper towels. Dunno why I thought of that.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Ancient ink-stained wretch as well. Love the smell of printer’s ink in the morning….
Some here probably unfamiliar with the phrase rip ‘n’ read.
Perhaps someone more app savvy than I would know what is the common digital equivalent of the bell on the wire service teletype machines.
NotMax
In honor of us older journalismos, The Typewriter.
Betty Cracker
I think this interminable election is making my insomnia worse. To take my mind off it, I turned on the Science Channel, which is airing a program called “Megaflares.” Now I have something new to worry about! ?
ThresherK (GPad)
@NotMax: I can only lay claim to being a journo while in in college. But our tiny radio station did have an AP machine, which was.a big deal at the time. And once I covered a gun scare(real gun, no shots, I was close by at random) for our lil newspaper and I got details right that the actual city daily got wrong.
So if you ever wonder how an engineer develops a taste for media crit….
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Betty Cracker:
For the wee small hours I find myself gravitating to a second-tier PBS channel that is all Brit all the time: sitcoms, detective shows and, right now, Globe Trekker, a pleasantly brainy travel show.
Mary G
@NotMax: I clicked on the link to the horrendous sight of Rudy Giuliani talking about how great Darrell Issa is. Thanks a million.
Happy 75th to Steve Cropper of Stax. So many great songs.
John D.
@NotMax: They aren’t a numbered list, though. Sentences break off in the middle due to 140 character limit. The numbering is just so that they can be read in order, so the indicator is appended to the sentence fragment rather than prepended. “Normal” in this context is exactly what you see above.
AnotherBruce
@Mary G: Rudy Giuliani is simply melting at a slow rate. The healthy flesh is sloughing off. The eyes are reflecting the absolute horror of his soul. He hasn’t taken a decent shit in ten years. His feet are turning blue. His heart rate is one beat a minute, His hands are as cold as his soul. He sniffles more than Trump. But he has the heart of malice that has kept Cheney alive all these years. Some people are so evil that they’re afraid to die, because they know what’s in store for them if they do.
different-church-lady
@AnotherBruce: His brain is full of spiders. He’s got garlic in his soul. I wouldn’t touch him with a thirty-nine and a half foot pole.
different-church-lady
Gosh, wouldn’t it be great if someone invented a communications medium that didn’t have a 140 character limit? I mean, that would be some Nobel Prize winning shit right there…
NotMax
@Mary G
Say what? Hope you’re kidding. Link works as intended for me.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: Works just fine for me too. A classic.
Mary G
@NotMax: @OzarkHillbilly: I live in Issa’s district so I assume it’s from my ISP. Darrell’s panicking and flooding the airwaves and our mailboxes with a tsunami of ads, and I have confidence it’s not going to work.
satby
@Mary G: It would be delicious to see that guy lose.
msdc
Somebody with greater graphic skill than me needs to tweak that Assange graphic to read RAPIST.
Would also convert easily to RACIST, given his apparent preference in the presidential election.
Joel
@msdc: too on the nose. here’s my take.
Stacy
Well, I guess it’s good to know that David Duke falls on the “bigly” side of the debate. It seems like he should be considered the expert on this controversy.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
@Betty Cracker:
Hell will freeze over first. I know plenty of these types. It kills them to vote for a Dem, kills em because they are thru-and-thru Repubs. The road to Damascus moment Cole had was rare, I’ve seen a couple of those too during the Bushies reign of error but the same people back then who continued to vote for Bush, then Gramps, then Rmoney, are the same people now who are the hand wringers, the Republican Detachment Disorder types, etc., who feel they have no choice but to vote for Clinton.
workworkwork
@Betty Cracker: That’s why I’ve been on a news fast ever since we turned in our ballots last week.
Just finished my Sherlock re-watch on Netflix.
Just One More Canuck
@ThresherK (GPad): Rotkohl? My wife’s family is German and I’ve been subjected to that abomination all too often
Procopius
@ThresherK (GPad): Recommended. I was stationed in Germany twice when I was in the Army and they have some excellent food.
Uncle Cosmo
@AnotherBruce: IOW, it’s the #2 trending fright mask for this year: GHOULIANI!!
Uncle Cosmo
@msdc: ZERO would work & be parsimonious of letters.
(Brings to mind the old multistory Montgomery Ward megastore in SW Baltimore after its conversion to office use. Big red neon signage on top, individual letters. The new proprietors cleverly renamed the edifice MONTGOMERY PARK so they only had to replace 2 letters.)
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Wondering how long before Assange tries to make a run for Russia. That seems to be where all the ‘heroes’ of ‘freedom’ and ‘transparency’ like to hide out these days….from pending criminal convictions.
Ivan X
@different-church-lady: Your sentiment is the first to make me wish comments here could be upvoted.
JR in WV
@NotMax:
Am so old we watched the news of Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre coming over the wires at the newspaper where we met working in ’69. 4 bell stories on the NYT, AP, UPI wires one after another, a 1, 2, 3 am.
Amazing to watch political history happening before your eyes while the rest of the nation slept. Know that history and political science books will be written about what you are seeing.
Now we can all watch.
StringOnAStick
At the airport, on my way home after the death of my BIL; the funeral and Shiva was Friday. My husband iis staying until Wednesday to help the widow and see relatives we’ve fallen out of seeing over the last two years between visits just to help my BIL with his treatment and my FIL with his declining health. My FIL passed in May, My BIL and SIL married in July, and he died last Sunday. I am exhausted and so glad to be heading home.
I was so glad to plug into BJ here at the airport – a reasonable facsimile of being home, so thanks everyone!