Alex

Witness to shows of misplaced confidence and embarrassing defiance.

[Alex @bara]

Time for a new pinned tweet. And keeping it on topic with the old one... Looking for information on BASICTutor

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A parking lot. One nod from a stranger, and I have been gathering shopping carts ever since.

Let me explain how I was knighted.

I returned my own cart to the steel corral. Both hands. A small bow. Japan has no such custom, so I gave it the weight it deserved.

A man loading his truck saw me. He nodded once and said, "Respect, man."

I froze. I know a knighting when I receive one. This man had witnessed my honor and named me. I was now sworn.

So I looked for the next duty. It was not far.

A lone cart, abandoned, drifting across the lot like a riderless horse. I could not leave it. I escorted it home. I bowed. I returned for another.

There were so many. Americans, it seems, abandon their steeds everywhere. By the curb. Between cars. Marooned on little islands of grass. Each one I gathered. Each one I bowed to. Each one I led home to its brothers.

One cart. Then six. Then twenty.

The man with the truck had not left. He was watching me with shining eyes. He elbowed his wife. "Now THAT," he said, "is a good guy."

He believed he was witnessing the most decent man in America.

I believed I was fulfilling the sacred office to which he had appointed me.

Neither of us was going to ruin it.

A store employee came out. "Sir, you don't work here."

I bowed deeply. "The honor is mine."

He went back inside.

By sunset I had gathered forty carts into one gleaming column, aligned like cavalry before a charge.

A small crowd applauded. I did not know why. I assumed it was customary.

The man with the truck shook my hand before he drove off. "Stay classy, brother."

I do not know what a classy is.

But I will guard it with my life.

So tell me, America.

When you leave your cart adrift in an empty lot,

who do you think comes for it?

I do.

I always will.

[Alex @bara]

@fistlosopher @selentelechia Yes. There were also a pile of really good webcomics and fun, supportive communities built around them.

[Cat’s Paw 🇺🇸🪖 @Reel_Knots]

Impossible that Pratt would not get ONE SINGLE VOTE after over 22,000 came in.

Math ain’t mathing.

[Hopalong Ginsberg 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @HopalongAsks]

@LeighWolf @AaronBlake The California electoral system is working exactly as it was designed to.

[Alex @bara]

> California checks signatures and investigates fraud.

Hahahahaha! You should be a comedian.

[Super Duper @Super_Numerary]

@Tiffs_Notes @RonDeSantis You are either a liar or an idiot. And even if true that your children recieved ballots, it would be a crime to use them. California checks signatures and investigates fraud. We have fair elections.

[Alex @bara]

@weegieguy @soncharm @prieurdp > unless you have poor reversing skills

Let me stop you right there chief. (Otherwise I agree).

[Alex @bara]

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear knock-off Caterpillar trucker hats.

[travis4nh @travis4nh]

4/

So after telling people privately for months that I was done with elected office, I changed my mind and filed to run again 10 minutes ago.

I would like to thank @AlexisSimpsonNH and the @NHHouseDems for their help making this decision.

[David Sager @SagerDM]

"The process is logical, and works very well in an environment where success or failure can be trivially measured and is hard to game."

Let me stop you right there

[Alex @bara]

@Aaron_Sparrow It did beat my expectations. But I went with really, really low ones.

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

What kind of Mexican are you?

[Alex @bara]

@teortaxesTex @RightHeterodoxy To be fair, I'm not entirely sure 100% of humans are conscious.

[Alex @bara]

I once read a copy of The Prince with annotations by Napoleon. My brother in Christ, you are not Napoleon.

[Tim Gill @timgill924]

When I was in grad school, I underlined and made notes in nearly every library book (~500) I ever took out. I remember a cohort mate saying it was rude. I saw it as helpful to the next reader. Imagine a student right now encountering my notes. It’s like phoning a friend for help.

[Alex @bara]

This is where the Europoor slur comes from.

[Lunchtime @Rolnicek]

@Roland_THTG @Urbanite107 @RBPundit You looked up the wrong thing. Our building codes arguably give us more freedom than yours to do whatever. What you should look up instead is the price of gas and electricity. Although that information is not for the faint of heart so be warned. That's the determining factor

[Alex @bara]

Ninety nine to go.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

ICE pepper sprayed a US Senator today (@AndyKimNJ)

https://t.co/6K1Ov14HVU

[Alex @bara]

They want AC but can't even get their butter knives back.

[The Cynical Crusader @Cyn1calCrusader]

So, jokes aside, to understand why the heat is worse in the UK than say Arizona for example, the answer is quite long...

First it's the Humidity, it's far higher here.
The UK's island location and prevailing south-westerly winds bring moist sea air, so heatwaves are often humid rather than dry.

In contrast, many of the hottest US states (e.g., Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico) have dry desert heat where sweat evaporates quickly, so you actually feel cooler despite higher temperatures.
Even humid US regions (like the Southeast) usually have widespread air conditioning to offset it.

Second, the buildings and Infrastructure that we have all are designed to Trap Heat, not Release It.

UK homes are built for cold, damp winters: thick brick/stone walls, heavy insulation, small windows, and designs that retain warmth.
During a heatwave, they turn into ovens, solar gain through windows builds up, and there is poor ventilation or passive cooling features like overhangs, shutters, or light-coloured roofs.

Plus, poor air conditioning: Only about 5% of UK homes have AC (vs. ~90% in the US).
It's not standard because it's rarely needed most of the year, but during spikes it's a nightmare.
Also, retrofitting is expensive and tricky in old terraced houses or listed buildings.

This extended to public transport, schools, offices, and even hospitals as they often lack cooling.

Finally, most importantly, we have zero acclimatisation.
Meaning it's just as hot at night as it is during the day.

Britons aren't physiologically or culturally used to sustained heat.

We're properly white!

So, a sudden jump from typical UK summer temps feels extreme, and the body struggles more without gradual adaptation.
Heatwaves often bring "tropical nights" (temps staying above 20 °C), so homes don't cool down overnight.

You can't sleep, recover, or anything which just compounds fatigue, dehydration, etc.
Drier US heat often cools significantly at night.
That is all topped up with the fact that we have longer summer daylight at the UK's higher latitude meaning more hours of solar heating.

Hope this long explanation that no one wanted clears this right up...

[Libertarian Party of Orange County @oclibertarians]

We endorse this X post.

The TSA increases time & 💰 spent on travel

The old system was better and only had 4 failures across decades.

~3 million pass thru TSA daily. Security was good enough.

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[Jay Antelo @Reformed_Rican]

Orthodox and Catholics often cannot answer the question, “do you know you’re going to heaven?” They will say they can’t know for sure, that only God knows, and that they’ll find out once their lives are over.

What a stupid, unbiblical, and sad way to think about salvation.

1 John 5:13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.

John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

Another reason why there is no hope of the Gospel in Rome or in the East, and why their churches are apostate.

[Alex @bara]

@therealLCWOLF @washghost1 Which is basic airplane etiquette. And you pick it up by watching every other passenger if it is your first flight.

[Daniel C. Green | The Eagle Eye @TheEagleyeNews]

I think we need to build this.

I designed this below image, representing Lewis and Clark on the Mississippi in the style of Argonath.

At $1 Billion or more, I think it can be done.