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# ![@squirrelspcsuit Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1363351187492249606.png) @squirrelspcsuit Squirrels in space

Squirrels in space posts on X about in the, if you, japan, $2269t the most. They currently have [---] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1363351187492249606/posts_active)
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### Followers: [---] [#](/creator/twitter::1363351187492249606/followers)
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### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1363351187492249606/influencer_rank)
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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  12% [finance](/list/finance)  9% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  6% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  3% [ncaa football](/list/ncaa-football)  2% [stocks](/list/stocks)  1%

**Social topic influence**
[in the](/topic/in-the) 5%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 5%, [japan](/topic/japan) 5%, [$2269t](/topic/$2269t) 3%, [sentiment](/topic/sentiment) 3%, [lincoln](/topic/lincoln) 3%, [flight](/topic/flight) 2%, [snow](/topic/snow) #2064, [london](/topic/london) 2%, [build](/topic/build) 2%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@nobodyknows2322](/creator/undefined) [@aviwoolf](/creator/undefined) [@eigenrobot](/creator/undefined) [@conservamuse](/creator/undefined) [@orthonormalist](/creator/undefined) [@fxxfy](/creator/undefined) [@firstclassduck](/creator/undefined) [@mattosterndorf](/creator/undefined) [@martinskold2](/creator/undefined) [@garywinslett](/creator/undefined) [@oliverjia1014](/creator/undefined) [@dedruckus](/creator/undefined) [@oh1om1ke](/creator/undefined) [@justinwhang](/creator/undefined) [@galooticus](/creator/undefined) [@legalfil](/creator/undefined) [@alancornett](/creator/undefined) [@yanabibiyana](/creator/undefined) [@touchgrassron](/creator/undefined) [@goblinodds](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[DoorDash Inc. (DASH)](/topic/doordash) [Decimal (DEL)](/topic/decimal) [SENATE (SENATE)](/topic/senate) [Crocs (CROCS)](/topic/crocs)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Washington's political class's warpath to kill its golden goose is only saved from nationwide scorn by having a near neighbor even more hellbent on it Let's take a look at how Seattle's DoorDash law actually turned out. In [----] Seattle implemented "PayUp" a minimum wage law for food delivery drivers setting the rate at $26.40/hour. The intent was to protect workers. Here's what actually happened: DoorDash added a $5 fee Let's take a look at how Seattle's DoorDash law actually turned out. In [----] Seattle implemented "PayUp" a minimum wage law for food delivery drivers setting the rate at"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2022857982405407211)  2026-02-15T02:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The fine line between the author bringing out the fallibility of man through tragedy and putting all their characters in the torment nexus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2019577554357846346)  2026-02-06T01:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf Just wait until people find out that an electoral majority this large almost always succumbs to infighting after they achieve their top priorities (who am I kidding they won't pay attention that long)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2020682553221668909)  2026-02-09T02:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@nobodyknows2322 I've been to Chicago a few times in March and it was usually around [--] degrees and raining but you could get lucky Kansas City has better odds of being warm but if you got a cold front it would be a lot like Chicago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2020970828645663006)  2026-02-09T21:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@fxxfy It would have been a nice capstone for his efforts around LSU to properly christen "Death Valley""  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2021049733159264441)  2026-02-10T02:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nobodyknows2322 Similar dynamic for why American tourists have a better reputation in Asia than Euros or Aussies who in turn have a better reputation than near neighbors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2022495814476795994)  2026-02-14T02:19Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@nobodyknows2322 It is a bit surprising that we don't have a similar reputation in places like Cancun or Cabo that Aussies have in Bali (though I think we keep a lot of that domestic given that flights to Bali sound like the equivalent of a budget flight to Vegas)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2022497250161889598)  2026-02-14T02:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@nobodyknows2322 The worst experience I've ever had with other passengers on a flight was last year with a couple of mainlanders next to me so that would track I know their reputation in Japan is also really bad for reasons beyond ethnic hostility"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2022500551112450408)  2026-02-14T02:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The egregious part only gets a couple sentences: - This was a collapsed 72" main which is a sign their asset management is in bad shape - The break occurred on 1/19 and the winter storm causing the delay arrived 1/25 which tells me their line maintenance is a dumpster fire It will take another nine months for DC Water to fix the sewer pipe near I-495 and Clara Barton Parkway that collapsed on January [--] and sent nearly [---] million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River. https://t.co/MrY3XKVdIl It will take another nine months for DC Water to fix the sewer pipe near I-495 and Clara"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022874470877106332)  2026-02-15T03:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Shoveled snow for [--] hours No thoughts head empty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2015574133573066758)  2026-01-25T23:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"RT @JustinWhang:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2016271828742717604)  2026-01-27T22:07Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"The secret is to clean a dish after you've finished using it for prep and distribute that horrible pile throughout the process its so crazy that all these people harp on cooking as this insurmountably hard act when the reality is its cleaning up after cooking yourself a good meal that is hell on earth its so crazy that all these people harp on cooking as this insurmountably hard act when the reality is its cleaning up after cooking yourself a good meal that is hell on earth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2019613555440722295)  2026-02-06T03:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Rental Family (2025) No one knows you. No one has a story about who you are. No one is waiting for you to be the person you were yesterday. You're just a stranger in a chair by the window watching a city that doesn't need anything from you. It's the feeling that anything could happen. That the No one knows you. No one has a story about who you are. No one is waiting for you to be the person you were yesterday. You're just a stranger in a chair by the window watching a city that doesn't need anything from you. It's the feeling that anything could happen. That the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2020377948465811734)  2026-02-08T06:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


""1960 Richard Nixon cultist" is too legibly political for it to go in my bio but it wouldn't be wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2021695085067252173)  2026-02-11T21:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"You can also replicate this sensation by doing a mid length bike ride and lifting immediately afterwards Shoveled snow for [--] hours No thoughts head empty Shoveled snow for [--] hours No thoughts head empty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2023191601703715269)  2026-02-16T00:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@eigenrobot The ability to tell a story to a younger audience in a way that takes their concerns seriously while tacitly acknowledging their transient qualities is a skill that people like Whedon helped to kill off in western media"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1872042769000358259)  2024-12-25T22:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@galooticus Nobody bats an eye at three sig figs when two are before the decimal point they're just taking that lesson in the wrong direction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1872070736191652244)  2024-12-26T00:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Legal_Fil @AviWoolf @alancornett The South Africa model but with far less genuine grievance underwriting it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1874554503888072920)  2025-01-01T20:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nobodyknows2322 I think this is largely a measure of freeway coverage or lack thereof Kyoto is the one I'm familiar with where there's only one expressway that goes through the city and the number of historic sites would make it difficult to build more. London and Dublin look similar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1876847172282433665)  2025-01-08T04:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@FirstClassDuck @nobodyknows2322 Yes what they have is closer to congestion pricing even on expressways outside the cities. If you're traveling between hubs public transit is reliable enough there's a clear price gradient from bus/local rail - limited express/expressway - shinkansen based on time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1876963829109620904)  2025-01-08T12:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MattOsterndorf @yana_bibiyana Concepts from somewhere at the vanishing point between suburban middle class evangelicalism and white collar managerial jobs (historically a force of conservatism in both groups recently less so)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1879621183014158598)  2025-01-15T20:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@touchgrass_ron @MartinSkold2 All remote work does is turn a small town into a housing cartel with a permanent underclass which is what has happened in the mountain west You bringing your job brings no local benefit meaning if you want to build political equity to change anything you start at a deficit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1880398183597240777)  2025-01-17T23:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ConservaMuse The [----] recession tanked R hopes for the senate and was the main reason LBJ had such large margins after taking office If you really get into the realm of old political trivia it's also why we don't have William Knowland in California's Cold War Republican pantheon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1882615755747037210)  2025-01-24T02:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@goblinodds It was funny discovering this applied to Japanese people and Crocs Not especially widespread but they are sold in fashionable stores"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1888153801623826816)  2025-02-08T09:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@shakoistsLog The people at Ghibli screenings are basically normies by anime fan standards you have to go to the ones for popular non-shounen franchises to really know my people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1905773997708709900)  2025-03-29T00:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ConservaMuse This feels a lot more like people grabbing for the nearest catechism at hand and shouting it at your opponents because fashioning a new one that better describes the current environment is too hard Hence I'd be very careful about assuming anything durable from this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1908490825220178206)  2025-04-05T12:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@orthonormalist The lesson from the biggest loser is that getting a D trifecta that tries to enact the South Africa model on your state and magic an income tax into existence apparently offsets low energy costs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1911511932068384880)  2025-04-13T20:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ConservaMuse Every tweet or article I've read in this genre calls to mind the later section of Road to Wigan Pier where Orwell realizes he's so thoroughly imbibed English middle class norms he'd never be able to fit in with the working class and the awkward question it poses for his politics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1911885176210166191)  2025-04-14T20:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"It's not unreasonable for goalposts to move when the people who set them in the first place did so for a hypothetical construct that fails to withstand scrutiny if you don't share their very specific metaphysics reminder of how far AGI goalposts have moved https://t.co/9wWWXvOiyk reminder of how far AGI goalposts have moved https://t.co/9wWWXvOiyk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1913452404739109145)  2025-04-19T04:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


""but all constructs built out on a very specific metaphysics prove brittle if you don't share the framework" Yes so you can evaluate by either deciding one is correct or going full Spengler (and the conclusions from either path about AGI would be similar)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1913457496921932131)  2025-04-19T04:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MattOsterndorf Plenty to work with Bios: Stalin (Kotkin) Salmon P. Chase (Stahr) Martin van Buren (Bradley) Chiang Kai-shek (Pantsov) Douglas MacArthur (Herman) Milton Friedman (Burns) Huey Long (Williams) Emperor Meiji (Keene) Joseph Smith (Bushman) Mozart (Swafford) Other history below"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1915122820105089043)  2025-04-23T19:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nobodyknows2322 To reiterate a question I've spent almost a decade asking: Why go in so hard on Hungary when Poland is right there (I understand think tankers and magazine writers who were wined and dined it's the people who do it for nothing)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1915465496465416544)  2025-04-24T17:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@eigenrobot Watching the tandem of west coast de facto drug decriminalize all drugs/FanDuel et al becoming ubiquitous/games with gacha mechanics gaining mass market appeal has convinced me anti-vice crusaders were only wrong in their tactics (total bans versus spatial and medium restriction)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1917107319424618844)  2025-04-29T06:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I have to spend [--] hours in the Las Vegas airport and I'm not nearly inebriated enough going in to cope"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1923900346902155608)  2025-05-18T00:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Having eight county sheriffs killed in the line of duty in ten years is one way for your town to become a historic landmark"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1935858110918541667)  2025-06-20T00:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf I view Bannon as the personal equivalent of the RW militia groups that have a small army of reporters/NGO workers/federal agents wildly disproportionate to their actual influence Which isn't to say the sentiment he expresses is *less* prominent on the right than a decade ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1938388610836750539)  2025-06-27T00:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@politicalmath "shock therapy" gets an unduly bad rap from Russia's institutional problems Estonia and Poland both did the same things and it worked swimmingly and Argentina seems to be following suit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1941735695887814706)  2025-07-06T05:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf The "like everyone thought of Lincoln" is my operative point Anyone who thought that happened to be more right about Grant than Lincoln but it has more to do with the direction their model of the world errs and wouldn't have made that model less catastrophic leading the ACW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1942727084973121963)  2025-07-08T23:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf @ConservaMuse @SWGoldman If the party's fate were purely dictated by New England Mennonites and Lutherans would never have been the two most committed R constituencies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1942731199753118197)  2025-07-08T23:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"An American account of Shanghai during the Taping Rebellion where it was an open city attracting the world's unscrupulous drifters said it risked becoming a "second San Francisco" 1850s California was a wild place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1943663057541947449)  2025-07-11T13:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@woke8yearold Going to a deserted Cape Cod when it was [--] degrees and overcast and getting blasted with a biting wind off the bay definitely evoked those feelings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1944522273014083752)  2025-07-13T22:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Why go read the western philosophical canon when you can have its core questions presented by anime girls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1947444609417707586)  2025-07-21T23:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf @GaryWinslett It was easier for him to say when his upbringing was transient and his pre-WWI professional life reads like an Ayn Rand protagonist but given the American track record of going nuts when the future starts to look closed off he wasn't wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1948384130787328245)  2025-07-24T14:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf @GaryWinslett (I make the Rand comparison especially because Hoover's only documented interest in literature was his attempts to convince London society to produce a novel that sounds like hers) https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1925699003624112416 When he lived in London pre-WWI Herbert Hoover frequently pestered the local literati about writing something where the engineer uses his knowledge and business acumen as the hero https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1925699003624112416 When he lived in London pre-WWI Herbert Hoover frequently pestered the local literati about writing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1948386082527060379)  2025-07-24T14:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@MartinSkold2 @ConservaMuse But that was a historic aberration at least where the bulk of settlers weren't from the south D progressivism in the mountain states was a product of FDR co-opting existing heterodox sentiment and adding infrastructure and as soon as the concerns receded the program died"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1952852972880441564)  2025-08-05T22:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@OliverJia1014 Random usage of "et al" is when you know it's terminal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1954482411376456157)  2025-08-10T09:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"ESPN commentators astonished at a team up [--] where the opponent has no timeouts not kicking a field goal on 4th and [--] to go up [--] college football is truly back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1959335557198385473)  2025-08-23T19:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I'm not a huge fan of the "terrorist organization" label only because a network of thugs sanctioned by the locality selectively enforcing laws to off a target exercising a constitutional right they disapprove of has a much longer homegrown history On May [--] [----] I ran for my life through the streets of downtown Portland Ore. Antifa had discovered me working undercover after one of their members John Hacker exposed me to the mob. I screamed for help as I fled but drivers and pedestrians looked away. The businesses https://t.co/kX7PKoIm8a On May [--] [----] I ran for my life through the streets of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1969154838983311865)  2025-09-19T21:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@eigenrobot Minnesota continues its competition with Washington to see who can most comprehensively enact the South Africa model of politics when you represent 7% of the population instead of 70%"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1970337134574743950)  2025-09-23T03:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@PunishedLuddite @ded_ruckus @PrinceVogel I'm not willing to read FDR charitably but Churchill was vocally critical of the rising civil service class and their values his entire career ditto Britain's loss of self-confidence and embrace of weakness when faced with imperial contraction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1974912133889732908)  2025-10-05T18:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@OliverJia1014 Most people I know here rely heavily on high-protein yogurt to make up the last bit and those are frustratingly hard to find where you are (I only found Greek yogurt in Japan in small containers if I found it at all and you can't get skyr anywhere)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1975449128797897161)  2025-10-07T06:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@eigenrobot My views on this are known and my Roscoe Conkling impression is at the ready https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1970955623601930662 @averyfjames Nobody is aiming for the true solution the Retvrn to Stalwarts synthesis (staunch ideals by way of openly and relentlessly transactional politics) https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1970955623601930662 @averyfjames Nobody is aiming for the true solution the Retvrn to Stalwarts synthesis (staunch ideals by way of openly and relentlessly transactional politics)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1975451981411233931)  2025-10-07T06:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ded_ruckus The genuine belief that uplift is possible for most people was always one of the distinguishing qualities of the American right and those who scorn it in light of competing concerns almost never have a sense of what they're throwing out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1892500440635351452)  2025-02-20T09:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@eigenrobot It's time to stop letting the ancestors of the Hartford Convention whose only contributions were bloodlust and bolting the project claim monopoly on constitutional unionism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1975452634430775307)  2025-10-07T06:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nobodyknows2322 The localized nature is an interesting wrinkle because it's very different from the path the Midwest took. Places like Huntsville northwest Arkansas or the Research Triangle might as well be operating in different centuries than the old plantation areas in each state"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1976662183712018639)  2025-10-10T14:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@_its_not_real_ Long tail of ancestral partisan affinity same reason Kansas gets used as a stand-in for "ignorant backwards hicks" when it has multiple neighbors that are far more culturally conservative"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1981451425319383178)  2025-10-23T20:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf Every state's territorial period has its share of wild stories we just tried to do it after the biggest logistical problems of the 19th century had been surmounted https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1755675491414008083 Apparently the initial Oklahoma territorial legislature wasted most of their biennial session on location of the state capital and didn't actually pass laws for elections and reapportionment forcing Congress to do it for them Good to know we've always been like this https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1755675491414008083 Apparently the initial Oklahoma territorial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1982996110558806216)  2025-10-28T02:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf Such a late arrival also selected for a population that would not be the best test case for any system of government https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1849647382524236181 @fxxfy We boldly answer the question of what would happen if you took the leftovers and sketchy characters from every other state and united them under the ethos of "Baptists who refuse to look at each other at the liquor store" https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1849647382524236181 @fxxfy We boldly answer the question of what would happen if you took the leftovers and sketchy characters from every other state"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1982996554068664808)  2025-10-28T02:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@turrible_tao Spending an entire summer cycling multiple times a week just made me hate the heat more All the negative effects of cold can be mitigated and are therefore categorically less annoying"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1983650432410120541)  2025-10-29T21:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf The part of me that's extremely pessimistic about this would take the meteoric ride of antivax idiots from the fringe because of COVID but there's also not a pro-Israel faction any meaningful number of Rs would negatively polarize against"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1983986770745422296)  2025-10-30T19:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf A point in the other direction is that despite the dissident right dynamic I mentioned most of the smarter ones I see on here think antisemitism is for drooling idiots (and are frequently willing to say so) even if they're ambivalent about Israel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1983987593097445554)  2025-10-30T20:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"I want to know what the Meiji Restoration equivalent of the "you can only understand the American founding if you go back to the uniting of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms" argument is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1984268417873117657)  2025-10-31T14:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@CheeseForEvery1 Blaming a loss on the functional part of your team because they weren't perfect is giving me Lincoln Riley flashbacks Putting up double the yards of the season average for your opponent's defense and still losing is not the fault of your offense even if they made mistakes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1985138759751618951)  2025-11-03T00:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf @CarlPaulus That's an aspect that doesn't really come through unless you're reading very specific topical studies or books on Lincoln's presidency. Buchanan's corruption was extremely off-putting and was part of what ensured Lincoln had an electoral mandate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1987329440129687690)  2025-11-09T01:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf Two points one about his faction and one about their opponents 1) Framing opposition to Yarvin in terms of "damning quotes" shows they have no idea how to fend these people off. Using moral valence against someone people flock to for his amoral outlook is worse than useless"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1988037817130512601)  2025-11-11T00:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@nobodyknows2322 That's one of the funnier ways to make your map fit page size I've seen I'm assuming they just put an inset box in whatever GIS engine for New Zealand and then removed the border on hopes it would be good enough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1990054167168356448)  2025-11-16T13:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Definitely the most liminal rail station I've been to here new polished fixtures unnaturally bright from LEDs and nothing around for several miles really does it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1992576624408359033)  2025-11-23T12:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nobodyknows2322 Every interstate ramp in Seattle was designed then and is its own special kind of adventure It's understandable there with geographic and space limitations but this is also true in Oklahoma City where no such constraints exist and every concept is uniquely terrible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1994836547691311401)  2025-11-29T18:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"My work computer is now on hour [--] of installing a month's worth of Windows [--] updates"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1996244428323770790)  2025-12-03T15:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Finally finished clocking in at just over [--] hours Meanwhile my sense of urgency to try out different Linux setups before my personal machine croaks has gotten a boost"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1996260758607577266)  2025-12-03T16:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@orthonormalist Nobody can answer this and the people who don't need an answer to oppose it have a single alternative to rally around The "we want FDR but more racist" crowd will probably not like what that implies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2002951827592302621)  2025-12-22T03:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@PstafarianPrice What a lack of WinCo bulk spices does to a mf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2004687666810638484)  2025-12-26T22:55Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Clearly I should have been paying attention to my Nisioisin digressions before cycling in Japan (this is the point you ride out into the intersection in the direction it's about to turn green to ensure everyone can see you)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2006508721967706595)  2025-12-31T23:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf If we lived in the economic environment Japan has since [----] most parts of the country would have already collapsed into low grade many-sided civil war People point to 1970s cities as an example of what this looks like but there's a red version too https://harpers.org/archive/2022/04/notes-on-the-state-of-jefferson-secession-northern-california/ https://harpers.org/archive/2022/04/notes-on-the-state-of-jefferson-secession-northern-california/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2008729814841356331)  2026-01-07T02:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@OneEyedAlpaca I love alpacas because I was planning on going to the store"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2010216089834471687)  2026-01-11T05:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf I've lived it on the just-above-the-dole end and it's a miserable existence surrounded by equally miserable people who so hate where they came from they're willing to stick it out for the small number of lucrative rent seeking roles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2011646718669177267)  2026-01-15T03:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Historycourses In the annals of figures who gave voice to inchoate sentiment that was better off left unarticulated Hegel doesn't get nearly the grief he deserves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2013461804693807219)  2026-01-20T04:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@nobodyknows2322 Having a narrative of a series of blows you came back from can be a powerful institutional catalyst. It's why everyone you encounter in a position of leadership in Oklahoma City uses the 1983-1995 period as a foil for the current (drastically improved) culture of governance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2013759598147129772)  2026-01-20T23:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@FrankelGarion @AviWoolf @MichaelWatsonDC It's vaguely upsetting every time I'm reminded the boundaries of Fort Worth and Dallas are only [--] miles apart"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2013962032849056066)  2026-01-21T13:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@LiteralSheridan I have no idea how you're supposed to have a serious discussion about this topic when one side is in the permanent thrall of the moral suasion of psychos and the other side responds by having no threshold at which they believe they can concede"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2015218975055941878)  2026-01-25T00:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf Video game criticism also suffers from the time it came of age largely being populated by liberal arts majors raised on a framework contemptuous of the canon So the insiders are learned people with no thoughts and outsiders are articulate people with uncultivated thoughts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2016176949824004223)  2026-01-27T15:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf There's another macro trend this explanation meshes well with that explains the timing if I can flog my pet theory https://x.com/i/status/2002052553492885815 @kitten_beloved One point I don't think this addressed is what beliefs female social dynamics enforce. You see women in these "feminized" environments go from vaguely conservative to woke right when the generation following mainline protestantism's collapse comes in. https://x.com/i/status/2002052553492885815 @kitten_beloved One point I don't think this addressed is what beliefs female social dynamics enforce. You see women in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2016608530673840182)  2026-01-28T20:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@orthonormalist Ambivalently attempting to maintain the three legged stool as per usual"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2016639159528468645)  2026-01-28T22:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@nobodyknows2322 Beasley's The Meiji Restoration is a bit old but seems to still be popular Keene's biography of Emperor Meiji is good for a court/cabinet view of the events but isn't great intro Standard caveats about tracking unfamiliar names and geography apply"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2016953605476020350)  2026-01-29T19:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nobodyknows2322 I belabor it way too often because urbanists love to use it but the exact same is true of Japan As soon as you get to a part of Tokyo where land is less than exorbitantly expensive you start seeing a bunch of lot-sized single family homes with a parking space"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2017080587773730841)  2026-01-30T03:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf After which Democrats co-opted the infrastructure components in areas like electricity and waterways where Republicans were split Got them the vote for a generation in ancestrally red areas of lower Appalachia and the mountain west"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2017670193938337930)  2026-01-31T18:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf I need a comparable poll with Harris's intra party favorables in [----] to determine how seriously I should take this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2019619787341464008)  2026-02-06T03:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@kerry62189 America as a polycentric structure where each determines which class of error doesn't get to have rights"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1685852951645147136)  2023-07-31T03:20Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"They appear to finally be putting Chinese classics on in English I look forward to the [---] hour unabridged Three Kingdoms audiobook"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1749821095237009890)  2024-01-23T15:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"If you become a presidential biographer it's your birthright to engage in dollar store psychoanalysis that comes off like your carefully maintained house is outfitted with shag carpet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1925653814457078032)  2025-05-22T20:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Characteristic that he hasn't keyed into his party having quietly dropped the ACW references in the past year Tim Walz: "When things looked bleak it was Minnesota's 1st that held that line for the nation on July 3rd [----] and I think now we may be in that moment." This guy has lost his damn mind. https://t.co/6km37lavAH Tim Walz: "When things looked bleak it was Minnesota's 1st that held that line for the nation on July 3rd [----] and I think now we may be in that moment." This guy has lost his damn mind. https://t.co/6km37lavAH"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2009345683908960734)  2026-01-08T19:25Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Relieving the need to have a less filtered private account by having a roommate who hears me dictate most of the things that would go on it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2009613942981644771)  2026-01-09T13:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Crunchywashing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2010192405782507744)  2026-01-11T03:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"It would probably behoove me in the future to not let my small living and storage space get to the point where it takes [--] hours to reclaim from entropy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2010573036442046872)  2026-01-12T04:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"McCloskey managing to go through the period of [----] to [----] examining the development of religious liberty and bourgeois norms without once using the word "conscience" is an omission so egregious it's almost discrediting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2010874915680043243)  2026-01-13T00:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Nearly every economic historical claim this made seemed sound nearly every claim about the cultural provenance of that activity felt like tunnel vision"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2011185682405081399)  2026-01-13T21:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Whatever abstract arguments I understand about nonstick coatings are no match for the [--] minutes I spend cleaning the aluminum pot every time my dumb ass fails to caramelize onions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2015915133193629771)  2026-01-26T22:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"It turns out the American presidential biographer has nothing on the British royal family biographer If you become a presidential biographer it's your birthright to engage in dollar store psychoanalysis that comes off like your carefully maintained house is outfitted with shag carpet If you become a presidential biographer it's your birthright to engage in dollar store psychoanalysis that comes off like your carefully maintained house is outfitted with shag carpet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2016528801245679902)  2026-01-28T15:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Lo and behold (I was off by a factor of two and a half on the length; it's "only" War and Peace level) They appear to finally be putting Chinese classics on in English I look forward to the [---] hour unabridged Three Kingdoms audiobook https://t.co/fFMVMVQruQ They appear to finally be putting Chinese classics on in English I look forward to the [---] hour unabridged Three Kingdoms audiobook https://t.co/fFMVMVQruQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2018137428284899510)  2026-02-02T01:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"This is one of the only policy questions I know of where the socially acceptable response is nihilism about the status quo and suggesting you're heartless for thinking it's tractable DeBoomering the economy is simple: [--]. Flatten Social Security (cap at $2.5k a month). No more six-figure SS benefits for millionaire households. [--]. End Medicare Advantage waste (saves $1 trillion). [--]. End all senior tax breaks esp. on property. [--]. Build housing and nuclear. DeBoomering the economy is simple: [--]. Flatten Social Security (cap at $2.5k a month). No more six-figure SS benefits for millionaire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/2019216145384108160)  2026-02-05T01:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

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@squirrelspcsuit Avatar @squirrelspcsuit Squirrels in space

Squirrels in space posts on X about in the, if you, japan, $2269t the most. They currently have [---] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Social Influence

Social category influence countries 12% finance 9% travel destinations 6% automotive brands 3% ncaa football 2% stocks 1%

Social topic influence in the 5%, if you 5%, japan 5%, $2269t 3%, sentiment 3%, lincoln 3%, flight 2%, snow #2064, london 2%, build 2%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @nobodyknows2322 @aviwoolf @eigenrobot @conservamuse @orthonormalist @fxxfy @firstclassduck @mattosterndorf @martinskold2 @garywinslett @oliverjia1014 @dedruckus @oh1om1ke @justinwhang @galooticus @legalfil @alancornett @yanabibiyana @touchgrassron @goblinodds

Top assets mentioned DoorDash Inc. (DASH) Decimal (DEL) SENATE (SENATE) Crocs (CROCS)

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Washington's political class's warpath to kill its golden goose is only saved from nationwide scorn by having a near neighbor even more hellbent on it Let's take a look at how Seattle's DoorDash law actually turned out. In [----] Seattle implemented "PayUp" a minimum wage law for food delivery drivers setting the rate at $26.40/hour. The intent was to protect workers. Here's what actually happened: DoorDash added a $5 fee Let's take a look at how Seattle's DoorDash law actually turned out. In [----] Seattle implemented "PayUp" a minimum wage law for food delivery drivers setting the rate at"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"The fine line between the author bringing out the fallibility of man through tragedy and putting all their characters in the torment nexus"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@AviWoolf Just wait until people find out that an electoral majority this large almost always succumbs to infighting after they achieve their top priorities (who am I kidding they won't pay attention that long)"
X Link 2026-02-09T02:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@nobodyknows2322 I've been to Chicago a few times in March and it was usually around [--] degrees and raining but you could get lucky Kansas City has better odds of being warm but if you got a cold front it would be a lot like Chicago"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@fxxfy It would have been a nice capstone for his efforts around LSU to properly christen "Death Valley""
X Link 2026-02-10T02:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@nobodyknows2322 Similar dynamic for why American tourists have a better reputation in Asia than Euros or Aussies who in turn have a better reputation than near neighbors"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:19Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@nobodyknows2322 It is a bit surprising that we don't have a similar reputation in places like Cancun or Cabo that Aussies have in Bali (though I think we keep a lot of that domestic given that flights to Bali sound like the equivalent of a budget flight to Vegas)"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@nobodyknows2322 The worst experience I've ever had with other passengers on a flight was last year with a couple of mainlanders next to me so that would track I know their reputation in Japan is also really bad for reasons beyond ethnic hostility"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"The egregious part only gets a couple sentences: - This was a collapsed 72" main which is a sign their asset management is in bad shape - The break occurred on 1/19 and the winter storm causing the delay arrived 1/25 which tells me their line maintenance is a dumpster fire It will take another nine months for DC Water to fix the sewer pipe near I-495 and Clara Barton Parkway that collapsed on January [--] and sent nearly [---] million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River. https://t.co/MrY3XKVdIl It will take another nine months for DC Water to fix the sewer pipe near I-495 and Clara"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Shoveled snow for [--] hours No thoughts head empty"
X Link 2026-01-25T23:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"RT @JustinWhang:"
X Link 2026-01-27T22:07Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"The secret is to clean a dish after you've finished using it for prep and distribute that horrible pile throughout the process its so crazy that all these people harp on cooking as this insurmountably hard act when the reality is its cleaning up after cooking yourself a good meal that is hell on earth its so crazy that all these people harp on cooking as this insurmountably hard act when the reality is its cleaning up after cooking yourself a good meal that is hell on earth"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Rental Family (2025) No one knows you. No one has a story about who you are. No one is waiting for you to be the person you were yesterday. You're just a stranger in a chair by the window watching a city that doesn't need anything from you. It's the feeling that anything could happen. That the No one knows you. No one has a story about who you are. No one is waiting for you to be the person you were yesterday. You're just a stranger in a chair by the window watching a city that doesn't need anything from you. It's the feeling that anything could happen. That the"
X Link 2026-02-08T06:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

""1960 Richard Nixon cultist" is too legibly political for it to go in my bio but it wouldn't be wrong"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"You can also replicate this sensation by doing a mid length bike ride and lifting immediately afterwards Shoveled snow for [--] hours No thoughts head empty Shoveled snow for [--] hours No thoughts head empty"
X Link 2026-02-16T00:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@eigenrobot The ability to tell a story to a younger audience in a way that takes their concerns seriously while tacitly acknowledging their transient qualities is a skill that people like Whedon helped to kill off in western media"
X Link 2024-12-25T22:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@galooticus Nobody bats an eye at three sig figs when two are before the decimal point they're just taking that lesson in the wrong direction"
X Link 2024-12-26T00:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@Legal_Fil @AviWoolf @alancornett The South Africa model but with far less genuine grievance underwriting it"
X Link 2025-01-01T20:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@nobodyknows2322 I think this is largely a measure of freeway coverage or lack thereof Kyoto is the one I'm familiar with where there's only one expressway that goes through the city and the number of historic sites would make it difficult to build more. London and Dublin look similar"
X Link 2025-01-08T04:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@FirstClassDuck @nobodyknows2322 Yes what they have is closer to congestion pricing even on expressways outside the cities. If you're traveling between hubs public transit is reliable enough there's a clear price gradient from bus/local rail - limited express/expressway - shinkansen based on time"
X Link 2025-01-08T12:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@MattOsterndorf @yana_bibiyana Concepts from somewhere at the vanishing point between suburban middle class evangelicalism and white collar managerial jobs (historically a force of conservatism in both groups recently less so)"
X Link 2025-01-15T20:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@touchgrass_ron @MartinSkold2 All remote work does is turn a small town into a housing cartel with a permanent underclass which is what has happened in the mountain west You bringing your job brings no local benefit meaning if you want to build political equity to change anything you start at a deficit"
X Link 2025-01-17T23:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@ConservaMuse The [----] recession tanked R hopes for the senate and was the main reason LBJ had such large margins after taking office If you really get into the realm of old political trivia it's also why we don't have William Knowland in California's Cold War Republican pantheon"
X Link 2025-01-24T02:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@goblinodds It was funny discovering this applied to Japanese people and Crocs Not especially widespread but they are sold in fashionable stores"
X Link 2025-02-08T09:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@shakoistsLog The people at Ghibli screenings are basically normies by anime fan standards you have to go to the ones for popular non-shounen franchises to really know my people"
X Link 2025-03-29T00:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@ConservaMuse This feels a lot more like people grabbing for the nearest catechism at hand and shouting it at your opponents because fashioning a new one that better describes the current environment is too hard Hence I'd be very careful about assuming anything durable from this"
X Link 2025-04-05T12:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@orthonormalist The lesson from the biggest loser is that getting a D trifecta that tries to enact the South Africa model on your state and magic an income tax into existence apparently offsets low energy costs"
X Link 2025-04-13T20:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@ConservaMuse Every tweet or article I've read in this genre calls to mind the later section of Road to Wigan Pier where Orwell realizes he's so thoroughly imbibed English middle class norms he'd never be able to fit in with the working class and the awkward question it poses for his politics"
X Link 2025-04-14T20:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"It's not unreasonable for goalposts to move when the people who set them in the first place did so for a hypothetical construct that fails to withstand scrutiny if you don't share their very specific metaphysics reminder of how far AGI goalposts have moved https://t.co/9wWWXvOiyk reminder of how far AGI goalposts have moved https://t.co/9wWWXvOiyk"
X Link 2025-04-19T04:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

""but all constructs built out on a very specific metaphysics prove brittle if you don't share the framework" Yes so you can evaluate by either deciding one is correct or going full Spengler (and the conclusions from either path about AGI would be similar)"
X Link 2025-04-19T04:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@MattOsterndorf Plenty to work with Bios: Stalin (Kotkin) Salmon P. Chase (Stahr) Martin van Buren (Bradley) Chiang Kai-shek (Pantsov) Douglas MacArthur (Herman) Milton Friedman (Burns) Huey Long (Williams) Emperor Meiji (Keene) Joseph Smith (Bushman) Mozart (Swafford) Other history below"
X Link 2025-04-23T19:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@nobodyknows2322 To reiterate a question I've spent almost a decade asking: Why go in so hard on Hungary when Poland is right there (I understand think tankers and magazine writers who were wined and dined it's the people who do it for nothing)"
X Link 2025-04-24T17:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@eigenrobot Watching the tandem of west coast de facto drug decriminalize all drugs/FanDuel et al becoming ubiquitous/games with gacha mechanics gaining mass market appeal has convinced me anti-vice crusaders were only wrong in their tactics (total bans versus spatial and medium restriction)"
X Link 2025-04-29T06:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"I have to spend [--] hours in the Las Vegas airport and I'm not nearly inebriated enough going in to cope"
X Link 2025-05-18T00:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Having eight county sheriffs killed in the line of duty in ten years is one way for your town to become a historic landmark"
X Link 2025-06-20T00:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@AviWoolf I view Bannon as the personal equivalent of the RW militia groups that have a small army of reporters/NGO workers/federal agents wildly disproportionate to their actual influence Which isn't to say the sentiment he expresses is less prominent on the right than a decade ago"
X Link 2025-06-27T00:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@politicalmath "shock therapy" gets an unduly bad rap from Russia's institutional problems Estonia and Poland both did the same things and it worked swimmingly and Argentina seems to be following suit"
X Link 2025-07-06T05:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@AviWoolf The "like everyone thought of Lincoln" is my operative point Anyone who thought that happened to be more right about Grant than Lincoln but it has more to do with the direction their model of the world errs and wouldn't have made that model less catastrophic leading the ACW"
X Link 2025-07-08T23:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@AviWoolf @ConservaMuse @SWGoldman If the party's fate were purely dictated by New England Mennonites and Lutherans would never have been the two most committed R constituencies"
X Link 2025-07-08T23:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"An American account of Shanghai during the Taping Rebellion where it was an open city attracting the world's unscrupulous drifters said it risked becoming a "second San Francisco" 1850s California was a wild place"
X Link 2025-07-11T13:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@woke8yearold Going to a deserted Cape Cod when it was [--] degrees and overcast and getting blasted with a biting wind off the bay definitely evoked those feelings"
X Link 2025-07-13T22:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Why go read the western philosophical canon when you can have its core questions presented by anime girls"
X Link 2025-07-21T23:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@AviWoolf @GaryWinslett It was easier for him to say when his upbringing was transient and his pre-WWI professional life reads like an Ayn Rand protagonist but given the American track record of going nuts when the future starts to look closed off he wasn't wrong"
X Link 2025-07-24T14:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@AviWoolf @GaryWinslett (I make the Rand comparison especially because Hoover's only documented interest in literature was his attempts to convince London society to produce a novel that sounds like hers) https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1925699003624112416 When he lived in London pre-WWI Herbert Hoover frequently pestered the local literati about writing something where the engineer uses his knowledge and business acumen as the hero https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1925699003624112416 When he lived in London pre-WWI Herbert Hoover frequently pestered the local literati about writing"
X Link 2025-07-24T14:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@MartinSkold2 @ConservaMuse But that was a historic aberration at least where the bulk of settlers weren't from the south D progressivism in the mountain states was a product of FDR co-opting existing heterodox sentiment and adding infrastructure and as soon as the concerns receded the program died"
X Link 2025-08-05T22:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@OliverJia1014 Random usage of "et al" is when you know it's terminal"
X Link 2025-08-10T09:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"ESPN commentators astonished at a team up [--] where the opponent has no timeouts not kicking a field goal on 4th and [--] to go up [--] college football is truly back"
X Link 2025-08-23T19:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"I'm not a huge fan of the "terrorist organization" label only because a network of thugs sanctioned by the locality selectively enforcing laws to off a target exercising a constitutional right they disapprove of has a much longer homegrown history On May [--] [----] I ran for my life through the streets of downtown Portland Ore. Antifa had discovered me working undercover after one of their members John Hacker exposed me to the mob. I screamed for help as I fled but drivers and pedestrians looked away. The businesses https://t.co/kX7PKoIm8a On May [--] [----] I ran for my life through the streets of"
X Link 2025-09-19T21:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@eigenrobot Minnesota continues its competition with Washington to see who can most comprehensively enact the South Africa model of politics when you represent 7% of the population instead of 70%"
X Link 2025-09-23T03:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@PunishedLuddite @ded_ruckus @PrinceVogel I'm not willing to read FDR charitably but Churchill was vocally critical of the rising civil service class and their values his entire career ditto Britain's loss of self-confidence and embrace of weakness when faced with imperial contraction"
X Link 2025-10-05T18:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@OliverJia1014 Most people I know here rely heavily on high-protein yogurt to make up the last bit and those are frustratingly hard to find where you are (I only found Greek yogurt in Japan in small containers if I found it at all and you can't get skyr anywhere)"
X Link 2025-10-07T06:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@eigenrobot My views on this are known and my Roscoe Conkling impression is at the ready https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1970955623601930662 @averyfjames Nobody is aiming for the true solution the Retvrn to Stalwarts synthesis (staunch ideals by way of openly and relentlessly transactional politics) https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1970955623601930662 @averyfjames Nobody is aiming for the true solution the Retvrn to Stalwarts synthesis (staunch ideals by way of openly and relentlessly transactional politics)"
X Link 2025-10-07T06:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@ded_ruckus The genuine belief that uplift is possible for most people was always one of the distinguishing qualities of the American right and those who scorn it in light of competing concerns almost never have a sense of what they're throwing out"
X Link 2025-02-20T09:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@eigenrobot It's time to stop letting the ancestors of the Hartford Convention whose only contributions were bloodlust and bolting the project claim monopoly on constitutional unionism"
X Link 2025-10-07T06:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@nobodyknows2322 The localized nature is an interesting wrinkle because it's very different from the path the Midwest took. Places like Huntsville northwest Arkansas or the Research Triangle might as well be operating in different centuries than the old plantation areas in each state"
X Link 2025-10-10T14:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@its_not_real Long tail of ancestral partisan affinity same reason Kansas gets used as a stand-in for "ignorant backwards hicks" when it has multiple neighbors that are far more culturally conservative"
X Link 2025-10-23T20:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@AviWoolf Every state's territorial period has its share of wild stories we just tried to do it after the biggest logistical problems of the 19th century had been surmounted https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1755675491414008083 Apparently the initial Oklahoma territorial legislature wasted most of their biennial session on location of the state capital and didn't actually pass laws for elections and reapportionment forcing Congress to do it for them Good to know we've always been like this https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1755675491414008083 Apparently the initial Oklahoma territorial"
X Link 2025-10-28T02:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@AviWoolf Such a late arrival also selected for a population that would not be the best test case for any system of government https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1849647382524236181 @fxxfy We boldly answer the question of what would happen if you took the leftovers and sketchy characters from every other state and united them under the ethos of "Baptists who refuse to look at each other at the liquor store" https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1849647382524236181 @fxxfy We boldly answer the question of what would happen if you took the leftovers and sketchy characters from every other state"
X Link 2025-10-28T02:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@turrible_tao Spending an entire summer cycling multiple times a week just made me hate the heat more All the negative effects of cold can be mitigated and are therefore categorically less annoying"
X Link 2025-10-29T21:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@AviWoolf The part of me that's extremely pessimistic about this would take the meteoric ride of antivax idiots from the fringe because of COVID but there's also not a pro-Israel faction any meaningful number of Rs would negatively polarize against"
X Link 2025-10-30T19:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@AviWoolf A point in the other direction is that despite the dissident right dynamic I mentioned most of the smarter ones I see on here think antisemitism is for drooling idiots (and are frequently willing to say so) even if they're ambivalent about Israel"
X Link 2025-10-30T20:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"I want to know what the Meiji Restoration equivalent of the "you can only understand the American founding if you go back to the uniting of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms" argument is"
X Link 2025-10-31T14:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@CheeseForEvery1 Blaming a loss on the functional part of your team because they weren't perfect is giving me Lincoln Riley flashbacks Putting up double the yards of the season average for your opponent's defense and still losing is not the fault of your offense even if they made mistakes"
X Link 2025-11-03T00:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@AviWoolf @CarlPaulus That's an aspect that doesn't really come through unless you're reading very specific topical studies or books on Lincoln's presidency. Buchanan's corruption was extremely off-putting and was part of what ensured Lincoln had an electoral mandate"
X Link 2025-11-09T01:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@AviWoolf Two points one about his faction and one about their opponents 1) Framing opposition to Yarvin in terms of "damning quotes" shows they have no idea how to fend these people off. Using moral valence against someone people flock to for his amoral outlook is worse than useless"
X Link 2025-11-11T00:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@nobodyknows2322 That's one of the funnier ways to make your map fit page size I've seen I'm assuming they just put an inset box in whatever GIS engine for New Zealand and then removed the border on hopes it would be good enough"
X Link 2025-11-16T13:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Definitely the most liminal rail station I've been to here new polished fixtures unnaturally bright from LEDs and nothing around for several miles really does it"
X Link 2025-11-23T12:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@nobodyknows2322 Every interstate ramp in Seattle was designed then and is its own special kind of adventure It's understandable there with geographic and space limitations but this is also true in Oklahoma City where no such constraints exist and every concept is uniquely terrible"
X Link 2025-11-29T18:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"My work computer is now on hour [--] of installing a month's worth of Windows [--] updates"
X Link 2025-12-03T15:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Finally finished clocking in at just over [--] hours Meanwhile my sense of urgency to try out different Linux setups before my personal machine croaks has gotten a boost"
X Link 2025-12-03T16:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@orthonormalist Nobody can answer this and the people who don't need an answer to oppose it have a single alternative to rally around The "we want FDR but more racist" crowd will probably not like what that implies"
X Link 2025-12-22T03:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@PstafarianPrice What a lack of WinCo bulk spices does to a mf"
X Link 2025-12-26T22:55Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"Clearly I should have been paying attention to my Nisioisin digressions before cycling in Japan (this is the point you ride out into the intersection in the direction it's about to turn green to ensure everyone can see you)"
X Link 2025-12-31T23:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@AviWoolf If we lived in the economic environment Japan has since [----] most parts of the country would have already collapsed into low grade many-sided civil war People point to 1970s cities as an example of what this looks like but there's a red version too https://harpers.org/archive/2022/04/notes-on-the-state-of-jefferson-secession-northern-california/ https://harpers.org/archive/2022/04/notes-on-the-state-of-jefferson-secession-northern-california/"
X Link 2026-01-07T02:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@OneEyedAlpaca I love alpacas because I was planning on going to the store"
X Link 2026-01-11T05:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@AviWoolf I've lived it on the just-above-the-dole end and it's a miserable existence surrounded by equally miserable people who so hate where they came from they're willing to stick it out for the small number of lucrative rent seeking roles"
X Link 2026-01-15T03:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@Historycourses In the annals of figures who gave voice to inchoate sentiment that was better off left unarticulated Hegel doesn't get nearly the grief he deserves"
X Link 2026-01-20T04:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@nobodyknows2322 Having a narrative of a series of blows you came back from can be a powerful institutional catalyst. It's why everyone you encounter in a position of leadership in Oklahoma City uses the 1983-1995 period as a foil for the current (drastically improved) culture of governance"
X Link 2026-01-20T23:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@FrankelGarion @AviWoolf @MichaelWatsonDC It's vaguely upsetting every time I'm reminded the boundaries of Fort Worth and Dallas are only [--] miles apart"
X Link 2026-01-21T13:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@LiteralSheridan I have no idea how you're supposed to have a serious discussion about this topic when one side is in the permanent thrall of the moral suasion of psychos and the other side responds by having no threshold at which they believe they can concede"
X Link 2026-01-25T00:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@AviWoolf Video game criticism also suffers from the time it came of age largely being populated by liberal arts majors raised on a framework contemptuous of the canon So the insiders are learned people with no thoughts and outsiders are articulate people with uncultivated thoughts"
X Link 2026-01-27T15:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@AviWoolf There's another macro trend this explanation meshes well with that explains the timing if I can flog my pet theory https://x.com/i/status/2002052553492885815 @kitten_beloved One point I don't think this addressed is what beliefs female social dynamics enforce. You see women in these "feminized" environments go from vaguely conservative to woke right when the generation following mainline protestantism's collapse comes in. https://x.com/i/status/2002052553492885815 @kitten_beloved One point I don't think this addressed is what beliefs female social dynamics enforce. You see women in"
X Link 2026-01-28T20:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@orthonormalist Ambivalently attempting to maintain the three legged stool as per usual"
X Link 2026-01-28T22:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@nobodyknows2322 Beasley's The Meiji Restoration is a bit old but seems to still be popular Keene's biography of Emperor Meiji is good for a court/cabinet view of the events but isn't great intro Standard caveats about tracking unfamiliar names and geography apply"
X Link 2026-01-29T19:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@nobodyknows2322 I belabor it way too often because urbanists love to use it but the exact same is true of Japan As soon as you get to a part of Tokyo where land is less than exorbitantly expensive you start seeing a bunch of lot-sized single family homes with a parking space"
X Link 2026-01-30T03:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@AviWoolf After which Democrats co-opted the infrastructure components in areas like electricity and waterways where Republicans were split Got them the vote for a generation in ancestrally red areas of lower Appalachia and the mountain west"
X Link 2026-01-31T18:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@AviWoolf I need a comparable poll with Harris's intra party favorables in [----] to determine how seriously I should take this"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@kerry62189 America as a polycentric structure where each determines which class of error doesn't get to have rights"
X Link 2023-07-31T03:20Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"They appear to finally be putting Chinese classics on in English I look forward to the [---] hour unabridged Three Kingdoms audiobook"
X Link 2024-01-23T15:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"If you become a presidential biographer it's your birthright to engage in dollar store psychoanalysis that comes off like your carefully maintained house is outfitted with shag carpet"
X Link 2025-05-22T20:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Characteristic that he hasn't keyed into his party having quietly dropped the ACW references in the past year Tim Walz: "When things looked bleak it was Minnesota's 1st that held that line for the nation on July 3rd [----] and I think now we may be in that moment." This guy has lost his damn mind. https://t.co/6km37lavAH Tim Walz: "When things looked bleak it was Minnesota's 1st that held that line for the nation on July 3rd [----] and I think now we may be in that moment." This guy has lost his damn mind. https://t.co/6km37lavAH"
X Link 2026-01-08T19:25Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"Relieving the need to have a less filtered private account by having a roommate who hears me dictate most of the things that would go on it"
X Link 2026-01-09T13:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Crunchywashing"
X Link 2026-01-11T03:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"It would probably behoove me in the future to not let my small living and storage space get to the point where it takes [--] hours to reclaim from entropy"
X Link 2026-01-12T04:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"McCloskey managing to go through the period of [----] to [----] examining the development of religious liberty and bourgeois norms without once using the word "conscience" is an omission so egregious it's almost discrediting"
X Link 2026-01-13T00:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Nearly every economic historical claim this made seemed sound nearly every claim about the cultural provenance of that activity felt like tunnel vision"
X Link 2026-01-13T21:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Whatever abstract arguments I understand about nonstick coatings are no match for the [--] minutes I spend cleaning the aluminum pot every time my dumb ass fails to caramelize onions"
X Link 2026-01-26T22:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"It turns out the American presidential biographer has nothing on the British royal family biographer If you become a presidential biographer it's your birthright to engage in dollar store psychoanalysis that comes off like your carefully maintained house is outfitted with shag carpet If you become a presidential biographer it's your birthright to engage in dollar store psychoanalysis that comes off like your carefully maintained house is outfitted with shag carpet"
X Link 2026-01-28T15:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Lo and behold (I was off by a factor of two and a half on the length; it's "only" War and Peace level) They appear to finally be putting Chinese classics on in English I look forward to the [---] hour unabridged Three Kingdoms audiobook https://t.co/fFMVMVQruQ They appear to finally be putting Chinese classics on in English I look forward to the [---] hour unabridged Three Kingdoms audiobook https://t.co/fFMVMVQruQ"
X Link 2026-02-02T01:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"This is one of the only policy questions I know of where the socially acceptable response is nihilism about the status quo and suggesting you're heartless for thinking it's tractable DeBoomering the economy is simple: [--]. Flatten Social Security (cap at $2.5k a month). No more six-figure SS benefits for millionaire households. [--]. End Medicare Advantage waste (saves $1 trillion). [--]. End all senior tax breaks esp. on property. [--]. Build housing and nuclear. DeBoomering the economy is simple: [--]. Flatten Social Security (cap at $2.5k a month). No more six-figure SS benefits for millionaire"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

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