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Covid vaccination rates
Various visualizations of global vaccination rates
2020-12-31 vaccination • covid19 • publichealth • coronavirus • visualization
Starlink Constellation
Excellent visualization of the deployment of the ambitious satellite network
2020-12-31 starlink • satellite • space • isp • spacex • elonmusk • tootme
Josh Hawley, voter fraud
Senator votes illegally not from his home in DC, but registered at his sister's address in Missouri
2020-12-30 missouri • voterfraud • joshhawley • politics • registration
Voat shut down
One of the "free speech for hate groups" social media sites has failed
2020-12-29 voat • reddit • hatespeech • nazis • socialmedia
Cocaine Decor
Twitter account of amazing 70s-90s architecture
2020-12-28 cocaine • architecture • culture • design • funny • tootme
Filipino vinegar
A guide to different kinds of vinegar
2020-12-27 filipino • food • cooking • vinegar • tootme
Why the US failed Covid
Details of Trump's deadly incompetence. It's a big part of it, but I think American selfishness also is to blame
2020-12-27 america • politics • trump • covid19 • coronavirus • epidemic • disease
Reverse engineering an mRNA vaccine
Fascinating details of the molecular design of Pfizer's SARS-CoV-2 vaccine told by analogy to computer programming
2020-12-27 health • vaccine • covid19 • coronavirus • mrna • tootme
Yuba Stakeholder map
A map of fire management efforts in Nevada County; Firewise communities, projects to clear land, etc
2020-12-25 fire • nevadacounty • maps • firewise • grassvalley
GoDaddy Christmas trap
Offers bonus to employees and then says "lol jk we were doing a phishing test"
2020-12-24 christmas • godaddy • phishing • monstrous
Gingrich hates democracy
The former leader of the Republican Party in Congress openly says he just doesn't like "the whole election"
2020-12-23 politics • trump • gingrich • democracy • republicans • rnc
Trump is now crazy
It's getting real bad in the White House
2020-12-22 politics • trump • whitehouse • crazy • batshitinsane • danger
Navalny's poisoning
Incredible story of figuring out which of Putin's thugs poisoned the opposition leader and how. Amazing investigative work by Bellingcat.
2020-12-21 bellingcat • russia • putin • assassination • murder • politics • tootme • poisoning
ex-cop Trump lunatic
Houston man paid by right wing nutjobs to stalk and then attack a random air conditioning repair guy, alleging he was part of a voter fraud conspiracy
2020-12-20 trump • batshitinsane • politics • election • texas
Fake electoral college
Conspiracy theorists cosplay at an alternative democracy
2020-12-15 politics • trump • electoralcollege • batshitinsane • cosplay • funny
About that Covid celebrity spreadsheet
This spreadsheet made the rounds this weekend as being about vaccination, but really it's about potential celebrities for a pro-Trump propaganda campaign
2020-12-14 tootme • covid • politics • psa • vaccines
Vaccinated but still infectious?
Clear article on why having a Covid vaccine doesn't mean you can't infect other people. Testing continues and we should know in a few months.
2020-12-14 politics • covid19 • coronavirus • vaccine • infection • publichealth
Celebrity vaccine spreadsheet
Trump administration's notes on which celebrities should get vaccinated. which is worse; identifying Sigourney Weaver as worried about climate change? Or labelling her "elderly"? *Update* this is wrong: this is not about vaccination, but a Covid PSA
2020-12-14 celebrities • trump • politics • covid19 • coronavirus • tootme
How's Milo Yiannopoulos doing?
Not well, it turns out
2020-12-13 deranged • gay • lgbt • politics • milo • funny • trump
Investigating Trump
A thoughtful take on how we should start to root out the corruption Trump has seeded in America
2020-12-12 politics • corruption • trump • biden • investigation • prosectuion • democracy
Elsevier fraud
Yet another Elsevier journal is full of garbage
2020-12-12 elsevier • startrek • fraud • funny • science • publishing • bundling • tootme
La Malfa sounds dumb
My local congressman goes on CNN to defend his anti-democratic support of an election overturn, ends up sounding like an idiot
2020-12-12 lamalfa • california • politics • trump • election • votingrights
Rep LaMalfa hates democracy
My local congressman has been trying to subvert the popular vote
2020-12-11 lamalfa • congress • politics • elections • trump
Be A Better Cyberpunk
A bundle of games that are cooler, better, or less offensive than Cyberpunk 2077
2020-12-11 games • cyberpunk • indie • tootme • lgbt
Gay Lifetime Christmas
Smarmy feel-good movies for Christmas finally have (limited) gay inclusion
2020-12-10 gay • lgbt • christmas • lifetime • tootme
Uber / Swift disaster
A sad engineering story of Apple's not-ready-for-primetime deveopment platform
2020-12-10 programming • swift • apple • uber • tootme
Big Freedia - Rona Rona
Truly the bounce video for our times
2020-12-09 music • funny • bigfreedia • covid19 • coronavirus • tootme
Chuck Yeager vs Ed Dwight
Black astronaut's career derailed by racist white guy
2020-12-08 yeager • racism • aviation • nasa
Trump coup rolls to PA
President of the United States reaches out to Pennsylvania government to try to subvert the popular vote
2020-12-08 trump • politics • coup • election • pennsylvania
Rebekah Jones assaulted by cops
Florida's dissident public health expert had her home invaded at gunpoint by police serving a search warrant.
2020-12-07 florida • politics • covid19 • coronavirus • desantis • intimidation
The danger of Trump's coup
Thoughtful essay on language but more importantly the meaning of Trump's attempts to undermine the election
2020-12-07 politics • trump • coup • turkey • election • republicans • gop
Giuliani, plague spreader
Arizona Republican senators have to quarantine after meeting with Giuliani to hear his insane attempts to undermine democracy.
2020-12-07 giuliani • politics • arizona • trump • corruption • voting • covid19 • coronavirus
Stu wants a PS5
SNL parody of Eminem's Stan, it's pretty good
2020-12-06 funny • ps5 • snl • eminem • stan • santa • tootme
Trump is acting crazy
The danger of just shrugging off Trump's insanity
2020-12-05 politics • trump • corruption • democracy • republicans • gop
Missing kids' data hidden
Trump administration failed to provide basic data that could have been used to help reunite immigrant kids with their parents
2020-12-05 trump • politics • immigration • humanrights • cruelty • border
Flynn calls for a coup
Trump's former national security advisor, convicted and pardoned criminal, now calling for martial law in the US and a "new election"
2020-12-02 politics • flynn • trump • corruption • fascism • batshitinsane • martiallaw
Barr: no fraud
Even Trump's corrupt AG admits there was no election fraud
2020-12-01 election • voting • politics • trump • barr
Corollaria Railing
Beautiful installation by Nervous System
2020-12-01 design • generative • voronoi • railing • tootme
M1 speed analysis
Excellent summary of various innovations Apple has made in their system-on-a-chip
2020-12-01 apple • cpu • arm • m1 • systems • architecture • tootme
Trump lawyer calls for murder
DiGenova, one of Trump's campaign lawyers, says that Krebs (former cybersecurity chief) should be murdered
2020-12-01 politics • election • murder • trump • fascism • digenova • outrage