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@DMasonWest

I taught English, which let me live in various places in South America & Asia. Hoping for another circumnavigation if pandemic ever settles. Writer.

 Austin
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Joined November 2013
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Before 45: —pizzerias sold pizzas, not children —news was real —elections were fair —the world was round & we'd been to the moon —viruses were real & people avoided them —Nazis were never good people (well, Schindler) —Immigrants made US great —FBI were good cops —&c. – at Austin, TX
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It's my #Twitterversary! I have been on Twitter for 9 years, since 18 Nov 2013 (via @twi_age).
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It's my #Twitterversary! I have been on Twitter for 8 years, since 18 Nov 2013 (via @twi_age).
– at Austin, TX
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Happy Valentine's Day, my funny valentine. @RangeelaDesi open.spotify.com/track/4l9hm… – at Austin, TX
My Funny Valentine

My Funny Valentine

Chet Baker · Chet Baker Sings · Song · 1956

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"There's something fishy about Subway's tuna salad sandwiches and wraps, but the menu items don't happen to include any actual fish, according to a lawsuit filed against the fast-food chain." This is as yet unproven allegation of a lawsuit. Is it true? cbsnews.com/news/subway-no-t… – at Austin, TX
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No it's not true.
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So the false tuna allegations gave me a craving for a 12-inch tuna @SUBWAY, which is on its way via a delivery service. The first three locations I tried to order from were either temporarily or permanently closed. My heart bleeds for the food industry, hard hit by the virus.😟
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The tuna sandwich was tasty & real.
Correlation?
50%Like cats; like fish.
0%Like cats; dislike fish.
50%Dislike cats; like fish.
0%Dislike cats & fish.
2 votes • Final results
Bizarre Stephen King stuff.
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Keynesian economics—deficit spending balanced by taxation—has a history of success in the US, & the GOP know it. Their objection to it rests in a desire to feast like cockroaches upon the body politic.
m a s o n (@DMasonWest) profile picturem a s o n@DMasonWest7 Feb 2021
Replying to @DesignationSix @CBSMoneyWatch
Meanwhile Roosevelt did well w/Keynesian policies of deficit spending on labor-intensive infrastructure projects to stimulate employment & stabilize wages during economic downturns. They raised taxes to cool the economy & prevent inflation during abundant demand-side growth.
Imagine there was a god & that he came to earth. Wouldn't he be cruel not to caution us a bit about the future? The last sentence here should read, … cruel not to caution us* in the Sermon on the Mount…
m a s o n (@DMasonWest) profile picturem a s o n@DMasonWest7 Feb 2021
Replying to @BettyBowers
How could Jesusᵍᵒᵈ not know about the Americas? A pair of whole continents in the middle of the shortcut to India where Europeans could act out their genocidal prejudices is the great plot twist of c16 history. Cruel not to caution is in the Sermon on the Mount.
Someone brought up how they thought Jane Fonda was a traitor for going to (then North) Vietnam and talking to the leadership. I provided an explanation.
m a s o n (@DMasonWest) profile picturem a s o n@DMasonWest6 Feb 2021
Replying to @sckberry
If you don't understand what Jane was trying to do, maybe you'll understand what these people were trying to tell you.
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“The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea” (George R. R. Martin). I find this a persuasive blurb for multiple reason. The Kindle edition is marked down to $1.99 today only. Think i should buy it? 🤔
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Here's a link. smile.amazon.com/dp/B002AU7M…
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m a s o n@DMasonWest5 Feb 2021
Replying to @lanechanged
I have a theory that when GOP are little shavers at college they smoke too much Ayn Rand & it fucks their brains up real bad. Symptoms include: malignant narcissism, abject lack of empathy, extensive belief in paranoid fictions, denial of *everything*, manic schadenfreude.
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A credit union I know offers this photo on its login screen. I can't help marveling over this image of happy post-coital banking.
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Not sure what to do with this box Amazon brought me this morning.
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I'm watching The Murders at White House Farm (HBO), & the question from where do I know the actor on the left has been driving me nuts.
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Thanks to modern conveniences like IMDb, such questions needn't linger unsatisfied. I let it hang a couple of days just to walk the dog of my brain, but nothing came out. So I looked her up:
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Yes, she's Yara Greyjoy, Theon's sister. I guess I needn't feel too bad since Theon didn't recognize her either on his way home from Winterfell after all those years.
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