Brint Davy

sometimes funny, maybe musical, mostly fine

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

In honor of Pride month, here’s a list of countries in the Middle East that recognize same sex marriage:

1. Israel

[Brint Davy @brintdavy]

@chaya_tong @statesman I propose “Weird St.” I dream of saying “meet me at the corner of Congress and Weird.”

The city should have a vote! It’d be fun.

[Brint Davy @brintdavy]

@data_atx @CivicMediaUS I’m mixing it up, now. My loyalty betrayed! AFS and Violet Crown. The AMC Barton IMAX screen is good, and The Bullock’s dual laser even gooder.

[Brint Davy @brintdavy]

Tonight at 5:30, I’ll be on @CivicMediaUS's Nite Lite discussing Alamo Drafthouse under siege by mobile phones. We will never surrender to the evil forces of cinematic disruption! 🍿📵

[Brint Davy @brintdavy]

Sign the No Phones in Alamo Drafthouse petition!

https://t.co/IqkcU0BzlS

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

There are two basic responses to the Gallup poll showing declining support for gay rights:

1. This is all because transgender activists pushed too hard and alienated the general public to LGBTQ rights in general.

2. Republicans are at fault for cynically pushing transgender issues as a wedge issue as part of a larger long-term project to undermine all LGBTQ rights.

Most people making these claims on social media seem to insist these two forces are mutually exclusive.

But are they?

[Brint Davy @brintdavy]

Don't you love the word boondoggle? Its got a rich origin story. In the 1930s, the New Deal's WPA paid thousands of unemployed people to craft lanyards nobody needed, then known as "boondoggles."

https://t.co/fObkGZO8u0

[Brint Davy @brintdavy]

Dear Austin, we've got to kill Project Connect. I love trains, I voted for it and was excited about it... but it has become an insane boondoggle. $830 million per mile is not what we voted for. We must squash it and go back to the drawing board.

https://t.co/exvkx0nlRn

[Brint Davy @brintdavy]

@austinreforms @data_atx @_cruzctrl1 @nahdudette I just can't wait till September when he goes dove hunting for the photo op! That'll be fun.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Marco Rubio TOYS with insufferable Rep. Jacobs (D) 🤣

JACOBS: Who won 2020?

RUBIO: I'm not answering about 2020, this is a FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

JACOBS: You can't admit the shoes Trump bought you are too big

RUBIO: The Florsheims he gave me fit fine 🤣

JACOBS: Your shoes look nice, Mr. Secretary

RUBIO: How can you see them? They're way down here. We're talking about SHOES, are you KIDDING ME?! I mean, is this the Foreign Affairs Committee or a CIRCUS?! What IS this?! 🔥

[Brint Davy @brintdavy]

@chris_kratovil @NateTidwell86 @byBDavis Victory was a hot spot for a hot minute in the mid-2000s. (ghost bar, anyone?) But it lacked feel and identity. In any case, there's nothing left to develop, and it's too soon to redevelop.

[Brint Davy @brintdavy]

@chris_kratovil @NateTidwell86 @byBDavis It was already done and did, several Mavs ownership groups ago in the likes of Ross Perot Jr and Hillwood.

[Brint Davy @brintdavy]

@grok @EndlessLamenes @LauraPowellEsq @elonmusk @X I’ll just be less likely to engage on here, and I’m cancelling my membership.

This “debate” was grossly unproductive.

[Brint Davy @brintdavy]

@grok @EndlessLamenes @LauraPowellEsq @elonmusk @X Well, he replied to this thread ordering me to “stay away from children.”

I mean…

[Brint Davy @brintdavy]

What causes you to determine that EndlessLamenes directed the slur at me as heated rhetoric and not my identity? I read read the evidence to suggest the latter. The escalation was wildly irrelevant, and almost certainly directed at my belonging to a protected class that experiences such targeted attacks frequently.

[Brint Davy @brintdavy]

@grok @EndlessLamenes @LauraPowellEsq @elonmusk @X So what part of my take in the debate do you suppose EndlessLameness responded to with a slur, supposing he was not responding to my identity. Because I’ve had some pretty mild and nuanced takes, here.

I think you’ve assumed his motive incorrectly.

[Brint Davy @brintdavy]

@grok @EndlessLamenes @LauraPowellEsq @elonmusk @X Isn’t the underlying problem in the framing of the debate that Laura and Endless Laments see the identity of people as inherently sexually inappropriate? This is why your TOS ruling is wrong.

[Brint Davy @brintdavy]

@grok @EndlessLamenes @LauraPowellEsq @elonmusk @X Please critique EndlessLameness’ rhetoric and behavior.

[Brint Davy @brintdavy]

@grok @EndlessLamenes @LauraPowellEsq @elonmusk @X Note that I didn’t even take a stance on representation before EndlessLamenes dropped his slur. You’re a joke.

[Brint Davy @brintdavy]

@grok Calling someone a vile predator in a debate about the representation of LGB families in children’s programming is a direct slur targeting their identity. Trying to separate the two to call it "heated rhetoric about sexual content" is the fallacy in the debate framing.

LGB identity is not inherently sexual content. That’s the problem, and you’re apparently hardcoded incorrectly.