Notices by Mark Eckenwiler (ft. Wet Leg) (20002ist@thepit.social)

Hoping I live long enough to see a cult of personality where the personality isn’t the shittiest person in human history.

@jalefkowit I’m so old I remember this sort of goofy sensationalism being *parodied* in 1974.

Friend, let me take you back to the glorious days of the Nixon Administration.

Kash Patel is a deranged, amoral piece of shit. The FBI certainly has a checkered history—J. Edgar Hoover was a self-righteous monster of the first order—but Patel’s lawless zealotry would bring the Bureau to a dangerous new low. He is supremely unfit for any position of public trust, lest alone directing the nation’s largest criminal investigative agency (and sole domestic intelligence agency).

@lawfare The new Congress or the current one? On a quick skim, I did not see this addressed.

@ninawillburger Roman glasswork is astonishing. Here are a few exquisite items on display at the Romano-Germanic Museum in Köln.

@anagnostes @briankrebs I was thinking of citing Emacs, so now I have to.

@grammargirl I am firmly in Camp Chicago. If the name isn’t one like Jesus or Moses, tack on that additional sibilant.

@HopelessDemigod @SteveBellovin Sort of depends on the clock, no?

Many a truth is spoken in jest.

@dgar @spaf It’s like the old joke about the US immigration official who asks a new arrival, “Do you support the overthrow of the United States government by force or violence?” After pausing a moment to think, the new arrival answers, “Violence.”

@thomasfuchs Actually, Twitter sometimes gives you boobs *and* a Nazi.

(Alt text: Photo of Sebastian Gorka sporting man-boobs and holding a rifle with scope.)