Lifelong Alaskan. I live on land I worked hard to buy. My pronouns are bite/me.
Anchorage, Alaska
Joined February 2023
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Maurice Townshend retweeted
Lots of people are calling the Alaska "fake Dan Sullivan" scheme unethical but legal.
They haven't read the case law. Conspiring to trick voters into voting for the wrong candidate is a federal felony under 18 U.S.C. § 241. My full lawsplainer:
Maurice Townshend retweeted
Operatives aligned with Alaska Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes from her Republican rival. The group worked to coax would-be spoilers into the race to dilute the incumbent's support. nyti.ms/3U1qsP1
Maurice Townshend retweeted
In 2026, this is how women are treated for peacefully standing up for their rights. There was no way I was going to leave that stadium of my own free will. We did nothing wrong.
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50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploring👇
1. zoom.earth — Watch the world via live satellite imagery
2. flightradar24.com — See every plane currently in the sky
3. marinetraffic.com — Track all ships at sea in real time
4. windy.com — Live map of winds and storms
5. lightningmaps.org — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
6. earthquake.usgs.gov — Live list of recent earthquakes
7. submarinecablemap.com — Ocean cables carrying the internet
8. globalforestwatch.org — Watch forests disappear from space
9. worldometers.info — The world's statistics, second by second
10. internetlivestats.com — Current number of tweets and searches being posted
11. thetruesize.com — Compare the true sizes of countries
12. oldmapsonline.org — Maps from centuries ago
13. davidrumsey.com — Archive of 150,000 historical maps
14. openstreetmap.org — World map drawn by volunteers
15. window-swap.com — Look out the window of a random person around the world
16. virtualvacation.us — Virtual walks through cities
17. mapcrunch.com — Teleport to a random spot on Earth
18. atlasobscura.com — Catalog of the world's strangest places
19. neal.fun — Interactive knowledge experiences
20. htwins.net/scale2 — Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)
21. eyes.nasa.gov — Explore the solar system in 3D
22. stellarium-web.org — Real sky map in your browser
23. apod.nasa.gov — NASA's astronomy picture of the day
24. images.nasa.gov — NASA's entire visual archive, free
25. pudding.cool — Visual articles told through data
26. ourworldindata.org — The state of the world with real data
27. gapminder.org — What we mistakenly think we know about the world
28. informationisbeautiful.net — Visualizing complex data
29. data.worldbank.org — World Bank's open data
30. data.tuik.gov.tr — Turkey's official statistics database
31. archive.org — Archive of millions of books, films, and software
32. gutenberg.org — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
33. openlibrary.org — Record of every book in the world
34. loc.gov — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
35. europeana.eu — Europe's cultural heritage archive
36. dp.la — America's digital library collection
37. artsandculture.google.com — Tour museums from home
38. rijksmuseum.nl — Download artworks in high resolution
39. wikiart.org — Archive of 250,000 artworks
40. publicdomainreview.org — Forgotten visual treasures of history
41. openculture.com — Free archive of culture and education
42. metmuseum.org — Met Museum's open collection
43. musicmap.info — Family tree of music genres
44. radiooooo.com — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
45. listen.hatnote.com — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
46. wikipedia.org — Random knowledge well
47. timeanddate.com — Time, sunrises, and sky events
48. sciencedaily.com — Live stream of science news
49. arxiv.org — Free preprints of scientific papers
50. observablehq.com — Visualize data with live code
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Maurice Townshend retweeted
Douglas Murray was completely right about everything
Douglas Murray tried to warn us - 10 years ago.
"If you want to poke fun, no one really cares" 🤦♂️
@DouglasKMurray #charliehebdo #blasphemy
Maurice Townshend retweeted
OMG 🚨 UK TV Host GOES OFF on UK Defense Secretary for refusing to connect illegal mass migration with security risks in the UK.
This might one of the best on air TV rants you will ever see. After 5 Muslims tried blowing up RAF Air Force base in London.
The people in Europe are FED UP with immigration and their failed government that protects illegals over its citizens.
Maurice Townshend retweeted
Shouldn't you be called Birthing Person Jones?
Jennifer Sey, the founder of XX-XY Athletics, a sportswear startup that openly calls transgender people’s identity a “lie,” has spent the last two and a half years stoking the flames of the national panic over trans athletes.
Enter Sophie Cunningham. motherjones.com/politics/202…
Maurice Townshend retweeted
As I sign off, I want to give DCIDS enthusiasts a little inside dope. I've been a bit disappointed that engagement on my car ID threads has dropped precipitously, and what I've learned (through Grok prompts) is that the very format of my ID threads is likely to blame: i.e., a long chain of quote tweets of reader requests.
That's basically how I've been doing this since 2019 or so, but Grok has basically confirmed that this is a kind of posting behavior that the reworked amplification algorithm really dislikes, and dislike more with every new QT in the thread.
I sorta get it in theory, but I like to think of my car ID stuff as a positive community service that I really, really like performing. But the upshot is that lower amplification => less non-follower engagement => fewer and fewer car ID requests from a smaller and more insular group of followers.
I fear the resultant lack of fresh car mystery oxygen will eventually force me to stop DCIDS here and/or take it elsewhere. I'd rather not, though. So I'm asking those of you who like these threads for a favor: please RT or QT or at least share my ID threads so the algo doesn't choke it into a small insular oblivion.
Trust me, this has nothing to do with ad rev share. 99% of my engagement comes from snarky non-weekend shitpoasting, which is completely unaffected by this issue. And honestly I don't even need the money, I actually have a pretty decent day job. But at the end of the day the car IDs are my own mental palate cleanser, a sort of enjoyable penance I love to perform. They are the main, if not the only, reason I remain here.
And so if you feel the same way, you can help this thing keep going by letting people outside the DCIDS bubble know about it, at least until the Almighty Algorithm has a change of heart.
Thanks again for your support, and until next time Happy Motoring.
Maurice Townshend retweeted
Trump calling @JensenHuang live during @theallinpod interview. “The grt thing about Jensen is that he can create the best AI chip in the world but can’t figure out how to put me on speaker phone.” They agree that AI is safe, grt for jobs, economic growth & natl security. 😂🇺🇸🚀
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📺WATCH:
@KarenWhitsett4 exposes Abdul's Medicare for All SCHEME!
WATCH: @KarenWhitsett4 warns Michigan voters about Abdul El-Sayed’s Medicare for All plan:
"I do not want to lose my Blue Cross Blue Shield... You will lose your health insurance if the other candidate gets in office."
"That is what Medicare for All means."
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This billboard wasn't allowed in public, so please don't look at it or retweet it. Thanks dutchbarn.com
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I’m so sorry. Prayers for your husband and you. I see the sadness in your face and hear it in your voice. Millions of us wish you and your husband God’s speed. It’s so difficult. Stay strong.
Earlier this year, my husband Abraham was diagnosed with a very rare bone cancer. This has been a challenging time for us and is hard to talk about. But so many of you have reached out asking how he’s doing, and sharing your prayers and well wishes with us. We made this video to share a little about what this journey has been like, and to update you on his recovery. Mahalo for all of the love and support 🙏🏽
Maurice Townshend retweeted
I needed to move a sofa.
I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"
I did not know anybody with a truck.
He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.
"You gotta know somebody with a truck."
I asked how one acquires such a person.
He said, "You just do."
This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.
He said, "Ask Kevin."
I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.
I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.
Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.
Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.
I had not asked for a second man.
The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.
They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.
I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.
I asked what I owed them.
Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."
That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.
Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.
We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.
Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."
I still think about that.
Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.
"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."
He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.
Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.
I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.
Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.
I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."
I have a guy.
I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.
He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."
I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.