Matt Niemann

Live in the Bay Area. Roots in the Midwest (Kansas City, Chicago).

[Matt Niemann @NiemoSF]

@SGSFOX Never expected this to happen!

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@exlarson Issac’s Storm was an incredible book. Your books got me back into a reading habit and it hasn’t stopped. Thank you!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.

The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.

The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.

Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.

"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.

It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.

"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.

I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.

In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.

And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.

You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.

The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.

I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.

Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.

"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.

Discipline is a journey.

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@FREESKIER No one’s calling it that

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

a slurring Trump in new video on American troops killed by Iran: “Sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is. Likely be more.“

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@ry_storm Seriously, get a grip man

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@Nestradaumus1 What the heck are you talking about?

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@JonRothstein KU Baylor

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@mayor_neon Present

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@RickGeorgeCU Love this Rick! Well done man! Great to be relevant again!!

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This is stressing me out.

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@thrillsbill @BitQuagmyre @phish @treyanastasio @TomMarshall111 @riverportgin PYITE

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@elonmusk Are you 12?

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@elonmusk Breaking story: worlds richest man buys communications platform to spread self serving tweets

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@koojababy I love what they are doing and can’t wait to see this thing live, but these blanket statements are pretty silly.

[garntd (Garrett) @garntd]

God dang goose

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@Wombat_Matt Thanks, plineys are always a treat. Will check out the others.

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@Wombat_Matt What do you recommend?

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@GovofCO Xcel should also be pushed to make investments in the grid that can improve reliability and safety in these events.

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@mitchellbyars At this point I’m looking at losing two refrigerators of food. Xcel needs to do better instead of just covering themselves from a lawsuit.