Best of my tweets, July 2010-January 2013: an exercise in total egotism

[tim]

Well, I got my twitter archive, and after checking the contents into a private github repo, I figured that the best use of the next few hours (over a few days) would be to choose my favorite tweet per month that I've used Twitter. In 2010 I pretty much only @-replied to a few people and didn't make any new tweets, but then in March 2011 when I started at Mozilla, I started using it more.

Just pasting the raw results since I've already spent enough time on this :-)

July 2010

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/19540749497
@safiiru: If it makes you feel any better, I'm older than you and I don't have a PhD yet either.

August 2010

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/21509237759?tw_i=21509237759&tw_e=permalink&tw_p=archive
@safiiru Yeah, you've probably seen me rant before about how computer scientists don't seem to understand not wanting to be evil.

September 2010

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/24427695678?tw_i=24427695678&tw_e=permalink&tw_p=archive
@pigworker I can really only approve of anything that discourages reddit commenting.

October 2010

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/27687399622?tw_i=27687399622&tw_e=permalink&tw_p=archive
@cayleehogg Nah, to really be adults you have to buy your own SUV b/c you never know when you'll need to move furniture. Also, a house.

November 2010

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/8600582537351168?tw_i=8600582537351168&tw_e=permalink&tw_p=archive
@cayleehogg "Restart Scripting" under the Proof General menu. The general gets unhappy when you don't do that every couple hours.

December 2010

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/11522063424561152?tw_i=11522063424561152&tw_e=permalink&tw_p=archive
@cayleehogg Fortunately, business lost from clothing-sharing lesbians is more than made up for by gay men. #stereotypesthelanguageofhate

January 2011

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/32342273098252288?tw_i=32342273098252288&tw_e=permalink&tw_p=archive
@safiiru Wow, same for me -- and many of them appear to enjoy Orson Scott Card. This can't be good.

February 2011

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/37987712854130688?tw_i=37987712854130688&tw_e=permalink&tw_p=archive
@ccshan Definitely! I would much rather see 140 characters of sniping than hear a carefully-prepared talk summarizing years of research.

March 2011

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/52824141363032064?tw_i=52824141363032064&tw_e=permalink&tw_p=archive
@cayleehogg It's the old HRC tune: "lip service gladly given, but safety requires avoiding actual activism."

April 2011

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/63038377221558272?tw_i=63038377221558272&tw_e=permalink&tw_p=archive
Why do I still read #reddit? I like to think of it as fuzz testing for my belief system.

May 2011

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/69916838666051585?tw_i=69916838666051585&tw_e=permalink&tw_p=archive
Thinking that "don't trust whitey" is the best advice I've gotten lately.

June 2011

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/86266845719572480?tw_i=86266845719572480&tw_e=details&tw_p=archive
3 hours in, already overheard a guy on the 12-Sandy enthusiastically recounting his meth cooking experiences. Well-done, Portland.

July 11

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/92841686207700992?tw_i=92841686207700992&tw_e=details&tw_p=archive
@heinousbitca My give a damn has a bent derailleur, needs a headset overhaul, and is missing twelve (12) spokes.

August 2011

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/98999965673725953?tw_i=98999965673725953&tw_e=details&tw_p=archive
In reality, my hobbies look something like 'surviving clinical depression' and 'resisting kyriarchy'. Neither has gotten me a job yet.

September 2011

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/112317714009292800?tw_i=112317714009292800&tw_e=details&tw_p=archive
It's not so much a 'goodbye' as a 'smell ya later'.

October 2011

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/126424475339198464?tw_i=126424475339198464&tw_e=details&tw_p=archive
Now it can be told: I'm starting a job as a software engineer in #mozilla Research, working on @rustlang and other things, Jan. 2, 2012.

November 2011

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/133971341543096321?tw_i=133971341543096321&tw_e=details&tw_p=archive
I've never had a way with women, but the hills of Iowa make me wish I was in Chicago already. Broken air hose, my ass. #amtrak

December 2011

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/153259643995557888?tw_i=153259643995557888
Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out, 2011

January 2012

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/162354480149577728
/* It's shit like this */

February 2012

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/174576569422065664?tw_i=174576569422065664
FYI, I am still dead. If you need/want anything from me, you'll have to wait for my resurrection. [No milestone]

March 2012

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/177847709863129088
Someday, I'll work someplace where professionalism is the norm, not resented as repression of white dudes' free speech.

April 2012

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/191753841073594368
Pantsless in Klamath Falls

May 2012

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/203643098469896192
Sometimes, I like to mix a very small quantity of a substance in water and dilute it repeatedly. But just for fun. No homeo.

June 2012

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/218582826306633730
Revised list of things I care about: trans feminism, cats, compile-time error detection, public transit, talking about my vagina

July 2012

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/230030655122206721
About to have surgery. If I die, mark all my open Rust issues as WONTFIX in memoriam.

August 2012

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/236237333215711232
What if I'm just pretending to be an imposter and I'm actually competent? *What if someone finds out???*

September 2012

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/247538053361582080
The central conflict of life is resolving the tension between not giving a fuck and giving a fuck.

October 2012

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/258033622727151616
I've got 99 problems and health insurance covers 80% of them.

November 2012

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/267443123049869312
@zacharyzsparks @drymangobird Separate processes for separate tabs. Separate butts for separate buttplugs.

December 2012

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/282775381168250880
Has anyone thought about how many lost hours of doing nothing the desire to satisfy capitalist productivity expectations has caused?

January 2013

https://twitter.com/eassumption/statuses/295664792658640896
@alleynoir @ksej @AmyDentata I'd prefer a sustainably wildcrafted, ethically harvested artisanal penis.

Comments

[luinied]

Is this related to all those familiar-looking retweets from the past eight months that appeared from you today?

[tim]

Yeah, at the same time I was going through the archive, I was retweeting the best 5% of my retweets from old :-)