This is his website, I am 99% sure he's serious
http://paul.bullen.com/
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 11 February 2019 14:22 (five years ago) link
SexMale–Female Differences mailing list, Links
― Neil S, Monday, 11 February 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
“boys have a penis, girls have a vagina it’s called a vagina”
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 11 February 2019 19:22 (five years ago) link
that dude kept going for like 11 hours btw
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Monday, 11 February 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
where do mainsplainers get their water?
from a well, actually
― flopson, Monday, 11 February 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link
actually it's spelled mansplainer
― rob, Monday, 11 February 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
I appreciate the maddening pivot from the classic mansplainer touchstone of "technically correct is the best kind of correct" to "standard social use is the true correctness so your technical knowledge is incorrect in this case"
― mh, Monday, 11 February 2019 20:00 (five years ago) link
girls always love to telling people not to" Mansplain"but they do not care of, "Man's Pain"— wint (@dril) July 17, 2016
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 February 2019 20:00 (five years ago) link
had that in mind the entire time I was typing
― mh, Monday, 11 February 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
Good lord jesus christ that is Art
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 04:03 (five years ago) link
pouring one out for 8th anniversary of the greatest tweet of all time
Whitney has passed away. RIP u will live on forever. Cant believe it. I wanna run to u. Really cant believe this. @— Wayne Rooney (@WayneRooney) February 12, 2012
― Neil S, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link
7th even
it sucks when I like someone's twitter, but then they start posting 95% about sports. It's kind of weird how often this happens.
― Dan I., Friday, 22 February 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
it's a sign, Dan. you've gotta be a sports guy now
― mh, Friday, 22 February 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
xp this, except for posting about the 2016 or 2020 democratic primaries
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 February 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
Twitter is good for sports, it's one of the few things the format really seems to work for
― frogbs, Friday, 22 February 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
xp I refuse to actually post about the primaries, but I seem to be drawn to replying to people in an attempt to explain they have don't get how caucuses work
― mh, Friday, 22 February 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
I am a sports guy, but for some reason no one else wants to post on twitter about olympic judo!
― Dan I., Friday, 22 February 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
so what if they're a year and a half away
start posting, find your community
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 February 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
I was kind of kidding about the judo thing, but the problem is when I already have found my community, and the damn thing gets pulled out from under my feet when some guy who I normally read for, like, computer programming or who is part of that nebulous sphere of NYC media people who are normally very interesting suddenly decide to post several hundred times a day about basketball :(
― Dan I., Friday, 22 February 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
i feel the same way about basketball guys who post low qual political opinions
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 February 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
fair enough!
― Dan I., Friday, 22 February 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
i mean there are people i follow for considered pro level political opinions
the lamest political opinions actually come from design/c0der ppl in my feed
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 February 2019 18:06 (five years ago) link
VERY TRUE
― Dan I., Friday, 22 February 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
like not even necessarily ~the wrong side~ or whatever just lame
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 February 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link
damn, there was this thing a couple of months ago that all the coding people were talking about where nassim taleb shat out some nonsensical attempted hit job on nate silver, and all the programmers just ate it right up
― Dan I., Friday, 22 February 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
lol yes exactly the type of shit that appeals to those fucks
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 February 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link
otoh, the academics/ex-academics I follow, even if they're "in tech" or whatever now, tend to have very sane and reasonable political opinions
― Dan I., Friday, 22 February 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
maybe some sort of training/interest in how to think about things is valuable..........
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 February 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
no, that can't be right, every problem in the world can easily be solved from first principles, using monads or something
― Dan I., Friday, 22 February 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
if u use the modulo operator on homelessness u will be left with a fraction of a homeless guy which you can then roast over an open fire while microdosing
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 February 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
I have used Rust and the blockchain to determine that nazis are actually good
― Dan I., Friday, 22 February 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
*shudder*
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Friday, 22 February 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link
love to treat politics like people treat programming, as both a truly enlightened art and something we should rewrite on a whim over the weekend
― mh, Friday, 22 February 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
there are some good parallels w/people latching on to key figures that may or may not have good points but get a lot of enthusiasm, ending up with a workable solution only after a bunch of people who are less visible put in a ton of effort
― mh, Friday, 22 February 2019 18:45 (five years ago) link
i don't even know who seth abramson is, but he's in the midst of a 65-tweet numbered thread
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 February 2019 22:28 (five years ago) link
I think he's Nerdstrom?
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Friday, 22 February 2019 22:34 (five years ago) link
― Dan I.
judo beru
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Saturday, 23 February 2019 00:49 (five years ago) link
― Dan I., Friday, February 22, 2019 1:03 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
srsly twitter needs to further unbundle follows. turn off RTs was the first step. have a classifier tag tweets (trained on self-tagged tweets) then u can choose which tags to follow
― flopson, Thursday, 28 February 2019 08:21 (five years ago) link
had my first tweet go semi-viral today (it’s at like 250 likes and counting, mostly from academic twitter), such a rush. it was impossible to get any work done all day just kept checking the feed
― flopson, Thursday, 28 February 2019 08:22 (five years ago) link
every time he says "hope you'll read and share" at the conclusion of the first tweet in his latest 65er I can't state exactly why but it makes me helpless with laughter. tonally it's just so tragic and hilarious
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 28 February 2019 09:42 (five years ago) link
Now there's a guy with an interesting CV
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 28 February 2019 10:07 (five years ago) link
Man *fuck off* with the notifications that aren't about people directly interacting with me
― imago, Monday, 4 March 2019 10:34 (five years ago) link
I have 4 accounts on Twitter, my own, two projects and one for work, there are always notifications from all of them and most of them are just like this "somebody has liked a tweet by somebody else" which I will see on my feed anyway, it's like they are scared I will be less engaged if they don't notify me of something, but all it does is make me notice how nobody reads my tweets, which is not good.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 March 2019 10:57 (five years ago) link
most of my notifications are 'have you read this tweet that's already on your timeline' uh hey twitter, this is the shit that will make me delete my account eventually
― imago, Monday, 4 March 2019 11:19 (five years ago) link
I @ed jack, this will def resolve the issue
Dear @jack when I get a load of notifications about stuff that doesn't involve me, it doesn't engage me, it tells me that nobody is interested in my tweets. While I have to accept this may be the truth, it doesn't make me want to use twitter more. /into the void goes my tweet— uoʇƃuᴉɹɹƎ sǝɯɐſ (@weejay) March 4, 2019
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 March 2019 11:36 (five years ago) link
― Dan I., Friday, February 22, 2019 1:15 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lag∞n, Friday, February 22, 2019 1:16 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
agree w/ this but also academic twitter is p awful in its own way, lots of bad opinions, awful memes about finishing dissertations, getting grants, or sitting through committee meetings, significant tedium and pedantry throughout
― marcos, Monday, 4 March 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
I prefer tedium and pedantry to quite a lot of alternatives
― moose; squirrel (silby), Monday, 4 March 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link