Overnight Open Thread (2-21-2016)

Quote of the Day - Hopper PBUH Edition

12 I'm sorry Ace, I love your analysis and commentary but this fawning over Dennis Hopper is silly, to be generous.

Posted by: MrPaulRevere at May 30, 2010 02:19 AM (BP0+R)

13 Actually, I do worship Dennis Hopper, and I mean that quite literally.

I believe he is a god. Not THE God, but a god. Like Apollo.

I have a big shrine to him. I do coke because he did. I call it the coke-shrine.

Posted by: ace at May 30, 2010 02:20 AM (66DVY)

Quote of the Day

Lefty loosie, righty tightie, and wash your hands before eating lunch was the entire plumbing handbook when I was a kid. The appendix held one one additional piece of advice: Water always runs downhill. Wanna bet?

When the clocks run backwards, when the sun rises in the west, when the lion lays down with the lamb, when politicians start telling the truth, when water doesn't run downhill, when the laws of supply and demand are revoked -- supplying finless brown trout to the porcelain gods and demanding that they go away -- that's when you know you're in for it. You got existential trouble there, Camus, I'm tellin' you.

I don't think I can accurately describe what that geyser of excrement in the carhole meant to me at that moment. It was literally an existential threat.

-- Sippican Cottage in Interestingly, 'Geyser of Excrement' Is the Name of My Tears for Fears Tribute Band. But I Digress

Is Twitter Silencing Conservatives?

In addition to shadowbanning Twitter is now stripping verified accounts of their verification with no explanation. Presumably for some unnamed offense but how does an offense possibly make you stop being yourself? And these new tactics on the part of Twitter seem primarily focused on conservative users.

I've been sat on the naughty table! pic.twitter.com/2ppJ3X4J62

-- Milo Yiannopoulos  (@Nero) January 8, 2016

My Verified blue check is gone! IT'S GONE!!!!!!

-- John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) February 20, 2016

Furthermore as Ace mentioned in the sidebar Twitter has created a new "Trust and Safety council" to police tweets and stocked it with a rogue's gallery of SJW-types. Including Anita Sarkeesian, GLAAD, and Islamic activist groups among others it's like the UN Human Rights Committee of free speech opponents on the internet.

RSM (@rsmccain) Banned From Twitter

With no explanation given as usual. At this point I think we've moved beyond coincidence and are heading into enemy action territory.

Related: Slashdot: Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump?

Well That Wasn't Supposed To Happen: Bernie Sanders Supporters Yell "English Only!" at Spanish Translator

What They Cannot Take They Destroy

"...they tell us these [illegals] are a 'cultural enrichment' for us ... I ask myself where their cultural riches are. Because if it is to sack, to destroy, to steal, to rape and so on, the French were fully capable of doing it themselves, one only had to ask."

-- Calais resident Simone Hericourt

Onlookers Cheer in Germany as Refugee Housing Burns, Arson Suspected

Ugly but that's what you get when you attempt a demographic transformation of a country against the wishes of its citizens.

538: How Jeb Bush's Path To Defeat Began A Year Ago

Wait - Wizard of Id is Still Being Published and Is Actually Topical?

Black Lives Matter Kicked out of Nashville Library Because Segregated Meetings Aren't Allowed on Public Property

Taking the Budget Bus: A Tale in Three Tweets

The Shuty Improved 3-D Printed 9mm Semiautomatic Pistol

Getting ever closer to a modern Sten gun that you can print and build at home.

Massachusetts Plans to Create Their Own Version of Snake Island with a Rattlesnake Colony

Quick - What Animal Do You See Here?

And find out what it says about you with this one simple trick.

'Talk Bernie To Me'

Annette Kellerman: Hollywood's First Nude Star

In 1916.

'We Are Human Beings, Please Stop Biting Us'

Thanks to Slu.

Steven Den Beste Explains Pixel Maritan

Weekly Commenter Standings

Top 10 commenters:
1 [668 comments] 'Christopher Taylor' [93.79 posts/day]
2 [630 comments] 'ThunderB'
3 [375 comments] 'redbanzai'
4 [371 comments] 'Lauren'
5 [365 comments] 'Ricardo Kill'
6 [352 comments] 'Nevergiveup'
7 [350 comments] 'chemjeff - PuppyMonkeyBaby '16'
8 [348 comments] 'FenelonSpoke'
9 [340 comments] 'Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T)'
10 [323 comments] 'Harry Paratestes'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [131 names] 'D. Trump' [18.39 unique names/day]
2 [83 names] 'Prince Ludwig the #Problematic'
3 [71 names] 'Dale Ernhardt Sr.'
4 [45 names] 'Mimzey'
5 [39 names] 'Don Quixote'
6 [38 names] 'Bertram Cabot Jr.'
7 [36 names] 'garrett'
8 [33 names] 'The Political Hat'
9 [32 names] 'Cicero (@cicero)'
10 [32 names] 'Mike Hammer, etc., etc.'

The group. Banned on 12 universities.

Where it used to be at - the Twitter

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