Alex Wellman

Yooper / Washington, DC 🇺🇸 / Now working on talent mobility, exchange programs, and immigration reform / Formerly @e_residents 🇪🇪. Opinions are my own.

[Alex Wellman @WellmanAlex]

Someone said that the Estonian word for night "öö" looks like two tiny owls sitting next to each other, and I can't stop thinking about that now. 🇪🇪🦉🦉

[Alex Wellman @WellmanAlex]

Turning out to be a decent final at Roland Garros.

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

A sellout for the USMNT's send-off game 👏

World Cup, here we come 🇺🇸

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

🚨 The House just passed the Ukraine Support Act by a vote of 226-195 to provide military aid to Ukraine and impose tough sanctions on Russia.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

🚨 The House just voted 218-204 to move forward on the discharge petition to provide military aid to Ukraine and impose tough sanctions on Russia. The House will vote on final passage tomorrow. This is our Churchill moment and we must pass the test.

[Alex Wellman @WellmanAlex]

@cornu__copia Me with my tent sauna and some local makkara.

[Alex Wellman @WellmanAlex]

@cornu__copia Some can. This is northern Michigan.

[Alex Wellman @WellmanAlex]

@FinnishGear It's 100% legal to forage in VA state parks for personal use.

[Alex Wellman @WellmanAlex]

The #1 tennis player in the world was minutes from winning his second round match, started cramping up, and just lost in 5 sets.

[Alex Wellman @WellmanAlex]

@sapitonmix Well to be fair you put in something like "Centerville" and you get 25 cities.

[Alex Wellman @WellmanAlex]

Spent way more time on this than I care to admit.

I knew it was time to quit when I started entering random permutations of "ville" and "town"

Some tips:

Names of founding fathers
European cities (with and without New appended)
Geographic features

[Doug Kammerer @dougkammerer]

How about this forecast! WOW!!

[Alex Wellman @WellmanAlex]

@RichardHanania Surprised there is no Kid Rock.

[Alex Wellman @WellmanAlex]

@MattWalshBlog No Kid Rock or Village People?

[Alex Wellman @WellmanAlex]

No Kid Rock?

[Edward Lawrence @EdwardLawrence]

Freedom 250 today announced the first wave of performers for the Great American State Fair. The Fair on the National Mall from June 25 through July 10.
Music Icons:
Martina McBride | June 25

C+C Music Factory | June 26

Vanilla Ice | June 26

Milli Vanilli | June 26

Young MC | June 26

The Commodores | June 27

Morris Day and The Time | June 27

Flo Rida | July 2

Bret Michaels | July 3
#Music #Freedom250 #DC

[Alex Wellman @WellmanAlex]

I read Balaji's The Network State cover to cover when it came out, but I’ve always thought there’s a massive contradiction at the center.

He presents network states as an answer to a fragmented, multipolar world. But actually, network states only really work in some semblance of a rules-based system.

Network states and special economic zones work best when things are stable enough to let people experiment at the edges of sovereignty without constantly being pulled back into the realities of geopolitics.

[Alex Wellman @WellmanAlex]

I can hear a perfect Estonian accent in my head when reading this.

[The Emergent New Man 🇪🇪 @KeyedCorbusier]

Broke: Romanized English
Woke: re-Germanized English
Bespoke: Finnicized English

[Alex Wellman @WellmanAlex]

Epic final match at Roland Garros from Gaël Monfils. Must have been hard for Gaston to have a whole stadium of your compatriots cheering against you though.

[Alex Wellman @WellmanAlex]

Coke Zero is just objectively better. Diet Coke people are Luddites running on pure nostalgia.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

As Coke Zero gets bigger, and threatens to dethrone Diet Coke as the most important diet soda property in the Coca-Cola extended universe, the feud between Diet Coke fans and Coke Zero drinkers is getting pretty fizzy. https://t.co/a5r63q8WKS

[Alex Wellman @WellmanAlex]

Started thinking of weird secondary airport names and American city names that could be European in origin at the end.