Find me at https://teapawt.net/t.co/RoDwCBqOgh and @werty on Bluesky and Mastodon.
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Joined February 2007
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I’m only on Twitter sporadically these days. Find me doing tweet-like things on these platforms instead:
BlueSky
bsky.app/profile/werty.bsky.…
Mastodon
mastodon.social/@werty
Threads
threads.net/@netwert
And then there’s my blog, now in its 25th year:
netwert.com/ideapad
David Wertheimer retweeted
My goal for the day is to reach the same level of optimism as AAA’s drive time estimator
My BlueSky feed has pep. It’s upbeat, sassy and good-natured. Mastodon is earnest; the discourse there is often Very Serious. Meanwhile what’s left here is almost entirely journalists and breaking news—useful but not fun. I think bsky is where the fun has gone, and where I’ll be
David Wertheimer retweeted
A look at The Wall Street Journal's decision to drop courtesy titles like Mr., Ms., and Mx., leaving The New York Times as the most notable holdout remaining (@annebranigin / Washington Post)
washingtonpost.com/lifestyle…
mediagazer.com/230523/p1#a23…
The single biggest problem with the Yankees is that Cashman repeatedly acquires fragile players thinking they're value plays, and then the Yanks' strength and conditioning team can't keep them on the field mlbtraderumors.com/2023/05/y…
Business fact of the day: in a typical cable bill, fully $9.42 goes to ESPN, vs. an average of 49¢ for other networks wsj.com/articles/espn-lays-p…
"He’s the ideal [interview] subject. He’s locked up in his house an hour from my house with an ankle monitor. He can’t go anywhere. ... So, as long as he welcomes me into the house, it’s fine." amazing nytimes.com/2023/05/16/books…
In my neighborhood, many buildings cover their awnings when scaffolding goes up, and the temporary address numbers that appear are much more interesting than the ones they cover up
“Log into Twitter monthly or you may lose your account,” says the warning. So I logged into @says_eli to keep it current, and this is how Twitter welcomed me back:
I leave talk radio on in the background while I'm working (ersatz office white noise!), and there's a commercial running that includes a background sound effect of a phone ringing, and I perk up and listen for a second ring every. single. time
Talk about ends of eras: diveintomark got taken over by an overseas sports betting spammer diveintomark.org/hello-world…
My household watched the first episode of this season of "The Mandalorian," then promptly forgot about it. Even the kids. I've mentioned it twice since then and everyone says, "Oh, yeah," and then continues to not watch it. Are we the only ones who moved on?
One of the nicer touches in Microsoft Teams is how meetings spawn matching chat threads, making it easy to continue a conversation via text after the video session has ended
I unironically love the shit-eating grins on Bronxville native Bader (age 28) and Jersey-raised Volpe (21), both obviously still pinching themselves that they play for their favorite team and hang out with its biggest star
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