I’m sure Jack will spring into swift action by, uhh, spending 9 weeks in a remote Nepali hill village meditating about what to do. https://t.co/GDadGiH1aJ
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) August 30, 2019
Jack’s been compromised by Nazis for years. https://t.co/jenTjfKh0B
— Bethany Black (@BeffernieBlack) August 30, 2019
Jack filed a report and got an email back saying there were no violations of the Twitter Rules.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 30, 2019
Just imagine the head of Twitter's security team right now, on seven different kinds of mushrooms, nude, in a giant bamboo steampunk rocketship called the Love Temple, ignoring his push notifications
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) August 30, 2019
J R in WV
Wow, what a way to start a weekend!!!
Double wow — first post!!!! ;-)
Lee
Are we sure his account was hacked?
I’m not convinced
A Ghost To Most
@Lee: Proof, or it didn’t happen. It is all too plausible that Jack let slip how he really feels.
trollhattan
Some damn funny tweets there.
Here’s a petard, anybody got a hoist?
StringOnAStick
We did our Labor Day weekend travel early, joining some friends at a rented condo in the mountains starting Wednesday night and came home very late Thursday, the exodus out of Denver as we drove home was obvious, but this evening will be insane. We will now hunker down and enjoy a quiet long weekend in town, since everyone else will be out of town. Three day weekends in the Denver area mean murderous traffic into the mountains; we’d rather stay home and create our own 3 day weekends at other times because it is worth using a vacation day to avoid the insanity. The mountain counties have fire bans right now too, so no campfires due to very high fire danger; I’m laying good odds that there will be a human caused fire up there before the long weekend is over.
Chyron HR
“After a horrifying 31 months of incoherent pseudo-words and actual Nazi propaganda being pushed from the President’s unhacked account…”
debbie
Someone needs to hack into Trump’s account and erase every tweet he’s ever sent. He’d be apoplectic.
trollhattan
@debbie:
“I Love Hillary so much. Beautiful, beautiful Hillary.”
#TweetLikeTrump
zhena gogolia
Paul Bronks has disappeared from Twitter again, to my great dismay.
Mary G
@StringOnAStick: My housemates are going camping in Mammoth. I didn’t tell them what I thought of the idea.
Major Major Major Major
Was this done by Nazis or people who want him to take twitter’s Nazi problem seriously? The world may never know.
Quinerly
Interesting fact. I had beers the other night with Jack Dorsey’s baby brother. He drinks at a bar/Blues club just blocks from my house; known him about 7 years. Their father also has a small business in my neighborhood. This brother was involved in a terrible car (might have been motorcycle) accident years ago. His skull is slightly misshapened from the reconstruction. Good kid. Slightly brain damaged, though. Only time I have ever heard him even mention who his brother is was when Jack met Obama a few years back.
dmsilev
Donald Trump hacked Dorsey’s account? He must have learned something about the cyber from his son.
chopper
hope everyone in the path of dorian is getting out of dodge.
as i said in another thread, it’s delicious that dorian was headed straight to puerto rico, but when twitler tweeted out some spiteful shit about PR, the storm suddenly veered around the island and aimed right for mar-a-lago. poetic justice.
trollhattan
@Mary G:
Does one camp at Mammoth? It’s basically a ski resort town.
Excellent gateway for backpacking, though.
To your point, the crawl up 395 will be epic.
Bill Arnold
@chopper:
Got his attention, that did.
Major Major Major Major
Welp
chopper
@Bill Arnold:
never seen a hurricane go “you know what, fuck that guy!” before.
MomSense
Playing the world’s tiniest ? for poor Jack.
Week 2 done. I’ve been so tired from the new job lately. I have invites at two different camps this weekend but part of me just wants to sit on the couch for three days doing nothing. Sad!
kindness
Funny thing is the Burning Man stuff could very well be true.
Jay
NotMax
@trollhattan
Sigh. A petard is a primitive type of grenade.
/pet peeve
Mary G
@trollhattan: Her sister’s husband’s family evidently goes every year, but I don’t know if it’s actually in Mammoth or not. She is an obsessively neat person, so I imagine it will be her first and last time camping. I’m tempted to set up a pool picking the day and time she decamps to a hotel.
NotMax
@chopper
And as responded on the other thread, it never was headed straight towards Puerto Rico. All the tracking from the time it first formed showed it would skirt nearby but not make landfall there.
Bill Arnold
@chopper:
Less than a week previously there was a leak about how DJT had been proposing out loud to use thermonuclear devices for hurricane control.
No finesse.
Brachiator
@chopper:
Yep.
Fortunately, I don’t have close friends and family that I am worried about. And of course I hope that Balloon Juice people will be okay. But I have to admit that it has been a little nerve wracking reading about the storm gathering strength and slowly moving towards the US. It’s got what, the entire holiday weekend to do it’s thing.
I hope that it weakens before it hits land. And I am happy that it seems to have bypassed most of the island communities in the region.
Mary G
RIP Valerie Harper.
Bill Arnold
@NotMax:
There was a prediction track for a half day or more where it hit PR dead-center. I was watching. (Specifically on cyclocane)
chopper
@NotMax:
totes wrong. at the time trump started tweeting, the NHC advisory in effect at the time had the storm going right through PR.
in fact, until the storm wobbled around it, PR was in the path or the cone in pretty much every NHC advisory.
trollhattan
A sort of junior Hope Hicks gets her WH walking papers.
Remember reading about the Mar-a-Lago phones being connected to Trump’s personal suite? Executive time.
trollhattan
@NotMax:
Isn’t that the point of the expression?
TenguPhule
Ladies and Gentlebeings, I give you the dumbest man on Earth.
TenguPhule
@trollhattan: The hoist refers to the explosion blowing the victim into the air. Not the mechanical variety.
Mnemosyne
@trollhattan:
Maggie Haberman narced on her.
I don’t think I’m kidding.
C Stars
@Mnemosyne: Not unlikely.
lollipopguild
@Major Major Major Major: One of the problems with a country with 4 major political parties is that 31 percent of the voters get to run things, the other 69 percent are screwed.
TenguPhule
FEMA Is so fucked.
Elizabelle
@Mnemosyne: Some of the lesser souls were getting access, and Maggie wanted her place under the table protected?
Also interesting: the aide was drinking at the dinner that did her in. Will not have gone over well with Trump, known teetotaler.
FWIW, I find it interesting the current press secretary has had 2 DUIs, one while in Trump’s employ. (Plus the usual plagiarism and padded expense reports, but the expense reports — that we know about — were earlier.) I remember this woman being the overwhelming choice for the job (no one wants …)
debbie
@Mnemosyne:
Maybe Trump will hire her away from NYT. Win win.
Ladyraxterinok
@Mary G: Goodbye Rhoda. This is so sad.
Her character Rhoda was so much fun to watch.
Jay
Elizabelle
More from trollhattan’s BBC item about the aide’s firing:
ETA: Westerhout was making $145K for her job sitting outside Trump’s office, controlling access.
Part of what makes me livid. All those cretins, making buck at the public trough. I still think Trump is an illegitimate president, and they are illegitimate staff.
Major Major Major Major
@lollipopguild: something tells me the 14% supporting the Brexit Party are also happy with BoJo right now.
Ladyraxterinok
@Ladyraxterinok: When I watched the shows , she seemed young. I had no idea she was just a few months older than I am!
mrmoshpotato
@Elizabelle:
But is that because some people have to get drunk to do stupid shit?
Another Scott
@trollhattan: Was this at the infamous SHS going-away dinner party, I wonder? Would be just desserts for that “party” to take down one of his own…
Cheers,
Scott.
Elizabelle
@mrmoshpotato: Yeah, really. Whereas some people need no additional help from any substance whatsoever.
Elizabelle
@Mary G: She lived a long time with terminal cancer.
Glad we have her television work to remember her by. Valerie Harper was wonderful at it.
HinTN
@TenguPhule: Hence the bawdy reading of the phrase, which can be construed as lifted by his own fart.
Elizabelle
Politico (natch) has more reporting on the Westerhout firing. Take that, Tiffany!
Another person who says the quiet parts out loud.
And she’s a douche.
Recent history. Bitch.
zhena gogolia
@Mary G:
Oh, that’s sad. But I think she lived a lot longer than she expected.
Gin & Tonic
Open thread? Here’s a couple of musical things I’ve been saving up, definitely opposite ends of the spectrum. 1- A nice Atlas Obscura video piece about something called “The Polyphony Project” – a Hungarian guy collecting old folk music in Ukraine (I know some people who have worked with him and/or are doing similar work.) 2- A piece from the UK’s The Independent about a female rapper calling herself Alyona Alyona – she’s a former kindergarten teacher who probably doesn’t fit the rapper stereotype, but she’s hot, hot, hot in Ukraine right now.
Gin & Tonic
@Elizabelle: At this point, that shit is booo-ring. I want ritual disemboweling, preferably in the Rose Garden, otherwise I don’t give a shit.
MomSense
@Gin & Tonic:
Oh cool. Thanks for that link.
Brachiator
@Elizabelle:
As an aside, you cannot expect to get honest reporting when journalists are buddy buddy with the people they are supposed to be covering.
chopper
@chopper:
anyway, that aside here’s hoping it grinds mar a lago into a stump. fingers crossed!
Calouste
@Major Major Major Major: The Guardian mentioned today that the Tories need about 8% over Labour to win a majority, but who knows what is going to happen with tactical voting. Only thing I’m willing to predict is that Labour and the Tories will end up with 2 seats between them in Scotland and the rest will go to the SNP and a few seats to the Lib Dems.
Calouste
@Calouste: There was a by-election for the Scottish Parliament yesterday. LibDems won as more or less expected, and Labour came in 6th with a little over 1% of the vote.
Bill Arnold
Some details on the hack. Plausible. (I haven’t verified.) Ugh.
How Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Account Was Hacked -Like so many Twitter attacks lately, it was a SIM swap. (Brian Barrett 08.30.2019)
How to Tweet via text message – If you add your mobile number to your Twitter account, you can tweet by sending a text message to a short or long code.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Yes, and “to be hoist on one’s own petard” is a venerable saying. Trollhattan’s wordplay—on hoist—is within bounds, Nothing there to suggest not knowing a petard is a grenade. We will allow it.
Or should we all start pedantvetting your wretched puns?
Steeplejack
@TenguPhule:
Jesus fucking Christ. Did something suck all humor out of the room here?!
Steeplejack
@Another Scott:
“Just deserts.”
Christ, someone give me a rein/reign gaffe for the trifecta.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Hoist by one’s own petard, not hoist on. It’s the explosion that does the hoisting, not a freaking block and tackle.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Your continued literal-mindedness is astonishing. Trollhattan was making a play on words.
And I refer you to the archives.