Charlie Byers

Archives professional, digital-humanities human, music lover, culture geek. Virginia and Henry's dad.

[Charlie Byers @C_L_Byers]

"We believe that everything can be remembered in time, that anyone may be redeemed... that poetry is the key to a lock worth springing, that what is called for is not subjugation but genuflection."
--Barry Lopez, _Resistance_

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@thenerdbrarian @bcartw Hellyeah!

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@DanushaLameris Seller's description: If it asks you a riddle and you can't answer the riddle before dawn, you become the ceramic frog. No refunds.

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Free software I use all the time: LICEcap

When I find myself sending an email with more than two steps of GUI instructions, I stop, capture it as an animated gif, and send that instead.

To whatever convention person I stole this from, thank you!

https://t.co/rfYoDDeVp8

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Consider the possibility that you *do* understand cryptocurrency, and it's just incredibly vile and stupid.

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In case twitter straight-up vanishes off the face of the earth soon: thanks for the memories!

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@kathrynslover @CHLThor +1 for handbrake. If it works at all with this source, it will work well.

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Okay, *this* detail was new to me. :)

[Washington Office of the Secretary of State @secstatewa]

This morning, we completed a random seed draw to determine which ballots to audit.

Once the RLAs have been completed later today, final reports will be available here: https://t.co/6DbBjrSKO9

3/6

[Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga]

leave twitter just because it's fallen into disrepair under terrible leadership? babe, i’m a christian

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@darcysmissb @GreatDismal Yeah, and I hope this doesn't come across as backhanded, but I feel like she understood the hillbilly assignment in a way Moretz and Reynor maybe didn't quite. She looks great, but she doesn't look *too* great.

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@Shelithia87 We 100% do not manage to keep our house clean. I think the only options are to hire someone to help clean, or regularly get someone to take your kids somewhere else so you can clean.

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5yo's drawing of "a cat climbing out of jail."

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A lot of people backed Trump because they thought he could hurt people they don't like. Now they're doubting that'll happen, and they're abandoning him.
Journalists? If they want to spin a different explanation, *make them.* Don't do it *for* them.

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@EppicSally Yeah, I think a lot of sites realized advertisers don't like that.

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I think the best the internet got was in like 2002, when Safari had a built-in RSS reader and you could just have a customized feed of all your rss subscriptions right in your browser.

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@pattonoswalt For real though: if you need a nationwide casual dining chain to help you peek at boobs while pretending you are not consuming sex work, maybe you are not actually that brave?

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Get a nerd over 40 drunk and ask them about the Blackberry messages app sometime. There's a lot of great UI that the internet-as-brutal-behavipral-psych-experiment just killed off.

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@emilyvdw That's the punchline, right? Every other news site, nowadays, just tells you what's happening on Twitter.

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@IwriteOK There's another character in this story who just wants to know where the fuck her Taco Bell order is.