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

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

### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1363351187492249606/interactions)
![Engagements Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/cr:twitter::1363351187492249606/c:line/m:interactions.svg)

- [--] Week [---------] -47%
- [--] Month [----------] +967%
- [--] Months [----------] +345,634%
- [--] Year [----------] +112,247%

### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1363351187492249606/posts_active)
![Mentions Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/cr:twitter::1363351187492249606/c:line/m:posts_active.svg)

- [--] Week [--] +69%
- [--] Month [--] +215%
- [--] Months [--] +208%
- [--] Year [--] +20%

### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1363351187492249606/followers)
![Followers Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/cr:twitter::1363351187492249606/c:line/m:followers.svg)

- [--] Week [---] +0.30%
- [--] Month [---] +0.61%
- [--] Months [---] +6.10%
- [--] Year [---] +9.30%

### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1363351187492249606/influencer_rank)
![CreatorRank Line Chart](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:600/cr:twitter::1363351187492249606/c:line/m:influencer_rank.svg)

### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  [finance](/list/finance)  [stocks](/list/stocks)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [social networks](/list/social-networks)  [gaming](/list/gaming)  [ncaa football](/list/ncaa-football)  [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) 

**Social topic influence**
[japan](/topic/japan), [in a](/topic/in-a), [in the](/topic/in-the), [if you](/topic/if-you), [south africa](/topic/south-africa), [lincoln](/topic/lincoln), [$2269t](/topic/$2269t), [costco](/topic/costco), [up the](/topic/up-the), [lack of](/topic/lack-of)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST)](/topic/costco) [DoorDash Inc. (DASH)](/topic/doordash) [Harmony (ONE)](/topic/harmony) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Populous (PPT)](/topic/populous) [Flux (FLUX)](/topic/flux) [Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (CMG)](/topic/chipotle) [Telos (TLOS)](/topic/telos) [Decimal (DEL)](/topic/decimal) [SENATE (SENATE)](/topic/senate) [Crocs (CROCS)](/topic/crocs)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@AviWoolf It's particularly ironic considering the 1980s-2000s window isn't even representative of the consensus of [--] years of movement conservatism on foreign policy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1427983907614433280)  2021-08-18T13:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"People talking about the experience of 2020-2021 in the passive voice and using the royal sentimental we is what will eventually cause me to snap"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1628454706946408448)  2023-02-22T18:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@CougarSpider @AviWoolf It was striking driving through some former plantation areas recently after having spent a lot of time in agricultural areas established under this regime and realizing how much of an impact this had You just don't see a lot of poor Midwestern farm towns"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1674524311804100610)  2023-06-29T21:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@politicalmath I think there should be a distinction of what "high-information voter" means because someone who works for an organization like this and believes in a monocause and someone who shows up to all the city council meetings and has strong opinions on sewer management aren't the same"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1674570038668410882)  2023-06-30T00:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf It would hit a bit harder if this weren't from when he was in college in a time when this style of humor was much more common Not great and it's surprising his campaign didn't find it but not unique"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1678876563729793024)  2023-07-11T21:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"This led to the somewhat horrifying thought of historical excavations of the past [--] years being interpreted through rationalist blogposts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1693749384133923190)  2023-08-21T22:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Seems like [--] am is the pretty hard line here for when summer days become "don't go out you'll die" hot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1695507927027638538)  2023-08-26T18:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"But they could only dream of getting works with titles like this published"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1696709546549342524)  2023-08-30T02:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@_its_not_real_ The revelation of habits of mind of this particular group kind of makes me want to avoid every respectable middle class suburb forever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1699960565894914424)  2023-09-08T01:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"The new spinoff concept Hibike Pokemon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1700335803006611459)  2023-09-09T02:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DitchDesigner @eigenrobot Politicians pay lipservice to it while they utilize every lever of decisionmaking in a manner that suggests they don't I heard more about the west side ruining things or the east side being ignorant kulaks than I ever did about pride of place (contra Oregon surprisingly)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1701274022485405823)  2023-09-11T16:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MattOsterndorf Denying provocateurs oxygen is apparently cooperating on a prisoner's dilemma (and people who feel obligated to defend them in the name of a united front fail to on the second iteration)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1705636252114882831)  2023-09-23T17:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@OneEyedAlpaca I bought one of those last year before Costco started selling them for any winter weather you see in the state they're completely serviceable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1707901964363956603)  2023-09-29T23:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"occasionally you wonder how an original anime series can have such high production values and then you get shots like this and immediately understand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1708671172089377183)  2023-10-02T02:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@politicalmath I'm not even sure why people decided that three years later was the perfect time to revive this intellectually stimulating wankfest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1708877939855577604)  2023-10-02T16:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The portrayal of his conduct in the Senate for the [----] CRA is remarkably uncharitable to basically anyone who didn't agree with every detail of his vision Dirksen in particular is portrayed as an unserious blowhard @AviWoolf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1709245082367611029)  2023-10-03T16:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Predictably after a generally good detailed account of his vice presidency and the [----] convention fight we get a few pages describing his opponents that sounds like it could have been written by history twitter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1709541503666889021)  2023-10-04T12:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf Do you know why Combination of economic downturn/inflation and early stages of the great migration"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1711890262086352965)  2023-10-10T23:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf It's a lot easier now to convey that lefties actually view their opponents (especially but not exclusively those they can group as "white") as opponents in a cold civil war perpetuated through institutions So I'm hoping liberals have more reason to stop finding them useful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1712488434642698648)  2023-10-12T15:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TheAgeofShoddy Aside from former party operatives who don't have factional interest in the current fight it's near impossible to get a grasp of the internal dynamics of any GOP caucus because nobody is incentivized to report on it in a basic "here are the players and here's what they want" way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1714013279847076097)  2023-10-16T20:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@kendrictonn @growing_daniel Spending part of my time in Kyoto in Uji and not seeing nearly as much stuff was worth the trade-off of no crowds and seeing maybe one other group of yts in two days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1715562203082875279)  2023-10-21T02:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Have the increasing suspicion that Al Mohler leading the conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention in [----] was far more important for the viability of functional pockets of the Republican Party than anything movement conservatism did"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1716665283102875846)  2023-10-24T03:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ctwill6 @CougarSpider It varies by position in a lot of software has minimal beyond HS math as long as you understand algorithms/allocation but in data science the math wall is much easier to hit Technical interviews tend to be a series of puzzles because it's a simple predictor for competency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1717184633912066056)  2023-10-25T14:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Tell that to those of us who spent months on end going into a job with ridiculous hygiene theater and coming home to a completely destroyed social network while your people destroyed the housing market of every desirable escape you gaslighting narcissists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1717862355730661517)  2023-10-27T11:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Annals of Washington state institutions desperately trying to circumvent their own laws"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1720341226648690930)  2023-11-03T07:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"I'm sure the state supreme court is cooking up a way to magic this out of existence just like they do with every part of the state constitution party leadership finds inconvenient"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1720342452178133131)  2023-11-03T07:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MattOsterndorf In the small town I lived in immediately after college I had what amounted to a bodega two blocks from my house and a grocery store a [--] minute walk away I hardly ever shopped at either because it was still a better deal to time my trips to Walmart and Costco 45+ minutes away"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1726802894186512795)  2023-11-21T03:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@knrd_z @_its_not_real_ Consider yourself fortunate to have missed out on an entire internet subculture dedicated to rejecting your cringe upbringing at one pole for an even cringer life defined solely against it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1727778508426932477)  2023-11-23T19:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"No idea when "travel = starvation diet" was assigned in my head but I have to self consciously avoid this pattern when I do and it's probably not ideal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1730413249844351104)  2023-12-01T02:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"So say I want to try the Panera death lemonade But the most exposure I ever have to caffeine is occasional dark chocolate and I rarely have beverages with added sugar On a spectrum from "unpleasantly wired" to "want actual death" where does it leave me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1733197619042926769)  2023-12-08T18:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf When the decision makers start to view you as illegitimate they may not have the power to get you out but they will make sure anyone on faculty like you is not replaced with their political equivalent So there's probably a lot of frogs who don't notice the temperature rising"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1734345208853307432)  2023-12-11T22:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@GarrettPetersen @AlexGodofsky I remember earlier this year comparing the process of buying a house with a family friend from Australia who was almost in disbelief at how mortgages work here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1734394681973502435)  2023-12-12T02:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@postjawline Impeaching immediately after the riot probably could have gotten you there but nobody in house leadership seemed interested and only returned to it as a symbolic political scissor Nobody treats the legitimately bad parts like a threat and risk creating something far worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1737551601538068487)  2023-12-20T19:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Recent Events did not prompt this tweet but they did make me realize basically every internet "community" that's self-consciously such is in this class"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1737631078171427133)  2023-12-21T00:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Got a Costco rotisserie chicken where the spine had turned to mush no idea how that happens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1738389098677584127)  2023-12-23T02:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"One of those periods with consistent bars was also when the US built up the majority of its industrial base and cemented itself as a world power Ossification that can't produce the prosperity it exploits is the core tradeoff of the New Deal system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1739168456023453978)  2023-12-25T06:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Really felt spending the holiday season without anyone whom I consider it socially acceptable to get shitfaced around"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740229359154397278)  2023-12-28T04:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf Most of the people I knew in Washington who were under [--] and living otherwise normal lives did this as a matter of necessity prior to buying If you're in a bad housing market and not in a lucrative career sticking it out with parents is by far the most economical option"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742224098879553777)  2024-01-02T16:39Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"The boundary streets between old money suburbs and the main city in the rust belt are absolutely wild Streets with lights on one side and not the other fortifications on any street that crosses city limits perfectly manicured houses and shops next to bombed out buildings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1743303678595854370)  2024-01-05T16:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@eigenrobot Same people who go to China and use awe at the shiny public spaces in the major cities to assert their advancement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743317809671672253)  2024-01-05T17:05Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@CougarSpider You do have smaller southern cities like Pine Bluff and Jackson that basically took the South Africa route inasmuch as US allows A key difference being the ruling class of those cities in the Jim Crow era were far more incompetent than SA (the closer analogs would be up north)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1743336094190420470)  2024-01-05T18:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@CheeseForEvery1 If they ran someone like Polis against him they'd probably win by double digits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1743427084616159339)  2024-01-06T00:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Kansas basketball fans getting angry at the refs is one of the richest moments a fan of any other team can have watching them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1743740700745765204)  2024-01-06T21:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@_its_not_real_ I'm really hoping wind and solar don't affect the local ecology as much Boy I have some towns and tribal groups in eastern Washington who would love to tell them their exact thoughts on this versus hydro"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1744795447267369159)  2024-01-09T18:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@eigenrobot When there was any egging on it was by judges or unelected groups the accounts of electeds I've read have a naivete but they seem to have thought it was bad Less confident in that with electeds who didn't get books in cities that went full South Africa and never recovered"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1745101430740885557)  2024-01-10T15:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@eigenrobot I mean Saban probably will keel over within a year without coaching and is easily in the pantheon of the sport so it's not the worst bet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1745305848006471923)  2024-01-11T04:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@iowahawkblog Alabama head coach Kirk Ferentz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1745447976737370505)  2024-01-11T14:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


""high [--] wind chills values as low as zero" is a hard no from me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1745726975941980491)  2024-01-12T08:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Paying twice as much as Chipotle for a burrito bowl that's not any better and remembering why I moved from an expensive area"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1746752801307328932)  2024-01-15T04:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@eigenrobot I'm leaning into every weeb stereotype by using this as an opportunity to point to an anime/manga as counterfactual but *cough*"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1749478049152659790)  2024-01-22T17:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf Teachers probably have more impact inasmuch as they foster an environment that allows peer pressure to run rampant and gives students material that can easily be fashioned into weapons for that end They'll do it regardless but authority figures can make it worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1749796471606513677)  2024-01-23T14:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf In terms of the sexual stuff making its way into the younger grades this is the most widespread effect You have really bad edge cases that make headlines but teaching kids there's a meritorious status they can assert over others without question is giving them a weapons cache"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1749797640471241064)  2024-01-23T14:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@eigenrobot Typical American who only watched DYRL because Harmony Gold holds the original hostage smh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1749818495108370895)  2024-01-23T15:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@SwannMarcus89 Joe Kent had many suicidal political instincts but tweeting during the Super Bowl about how dumb sports are in a district where the Seahawks are one of the few institutions people in his district actually like was up there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1749838726115496063)  2024-01-23T16:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@eigenrobot It probably had a bounce back as a universal signifier due to its lack of particularity but the use of it as a status seems like a more recent development"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1751141446772482201)  2024-01-27T07:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The fact that there were this many people inside willing to acquiesce to South Africa-style ethnic patronage where load-bearing institutions are looted for parts is why I would really like their opposition to figure out how to not be a political disaster A scandal at the FAA has been moving on a slow-burn through the courts for a decade culminating in the class-action lawsuit currently known as Brigida v. @SecretaryPete brought by a class who spent years and thousands of dollars in coursework to become air traffic controllers https://t.co/c2LL2d3kJK A scandal at the FAA has been moving on a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1752137632174473433)  2024-01-30T01:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf Bakke and (hopefully) Chevron dying will certainly have more force in changing institutional behavior"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1752330819920609495)  2024-01-30T13:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Windwaker38 @AviWoolf @dvaughanCI Taking up the mantle of internal improvements/transportation infrastructure was a unifying theme among the progressive politicians that came out of that region in the 20th century for a reason (it's why Oklahoma has shipping ports)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1752806145259982950)  2024-01-31T21:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@_its_not_real_ I've noticed looking at rust belt cities on Google Maps that certain residential streets off main roads have barriers to ensure only residents access it via side steeets and going by the houses usually not looking as bombed out as the surroundings I'm gathering this works"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1755212811284656516)  2024-02-07T12:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@_its_not_real_ Not that "we're replicating tactics from cities that became race war pvp zones" speaks well of the local trajectory"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1755213672182329464)  2024-02-07T12:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Goodtweet_man The pictures used looked AI generated honestly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1756830848509223238)  2024-02-12T00:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"College basketball takes years off my life for nothing in return"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1761529851519848775)  2024-02-24T23:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@CheeseForEvery1 I'm not used to that last part happening but it actually did this time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1761533210528231662)  2024-02-24T23:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Bizarre to go back on amphetamines and find it makes me wildly more productive at work compared to prior results on them but leave me in a state where I'm unable to summon desire to do anything once home"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1762293030449459536)  2024-02-27T01:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@JacobAShell Category error of lumping "rural voters" together. Go to a farming county in IA that's been voting for Rs since Lincoln and their reps are very in tune with demands. Places like SW WA (logging country were D voters pre-2016) differ because no legacy party infrastructure exists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1762851210489466971)  2024-02-28T14:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"In attempting to find a good book on postwar Korea I get the impression you run into a similar problem as westerners trying to interpret Japan but on even less basis and hence an order of magnitude worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1763345068381892964)  2024-02-29T23:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@eigenrobot The decline of the Daley machine in Illinois politics ushering in a party establishment who views politics like the ANC precipitated my grudging respect for the New Jersey model"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1765636952496157159)  2024-03-07T07:13Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@default_friend Feels like discursive flourishes designed to push action on more legitimate issues (ByteDance/CCP reaction all but proving TikTok is a data harvesting op to a degree that US social media companies aren't allowed to do directly where mitigating the security risk is defensible)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1765980163953557790)  2024-03-08T05:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Why does his outfit look like Senketsu and what is this doing in a Pokemon series"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1766522699084419324)  2024-03-09T17:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ReubenR80027912 Resist lib wine moms are to Ds what politically activated evangelicals are to Rs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1766910447356149810)  2024-03-10T19:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf I recall in his memoir/autobiography Thomas Sowell having some interesting things to say about the shifting climate at the Ivies when he was at Cornell where students became more likely to appeal to admins to mask poor performance I'd bet grade inflation was one of the results"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1769164302726930707)  2024-03-17T00:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf I watched both for the first time in succession a few months ago and honestly preferred T1 to T2 The lack of lavish budget means Cameron really has to squeeze every bit out of a scene and it leads to a satisfying compactness his later movies don't have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1770632731585548292)  2024-03-21T02:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf @CheeseForEvery1 And there's a good description of that early on (he and his father were part of an insurgency to displace the old machine in Grand Rapids which had mob connections and successfully orchestrated the murder of a potential federal informant)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1772974555142795725)  2024-03-27T13:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@_its_not_real_ Common error in assuming that because your superiors see you as a house pet whose radicalism is toothless and who will always come home means they don't also have slightly different radical conmitments"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1778407796830064891)  2024-04-11T13:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MattOsterndorf @TacticalNukachu It's because of the dry summers and despite the reputation for rain it's not as much as you think because nearly all of the region's most populous areas have rain shadows. Average annual rainfall in OKC is actually higher than Seattle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1778905234137645150)  2024-04-12T21:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@wrongbutkind I don't think I've watched [--] since it came out and remember being much more negative on [--] than I ever would have expected upon rewatch so I'm curious what I'd think now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1784662261849555156)  2024-04-28T19:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Massive point against people who rediscover old Christian heresies that it almost always comes with a sense of how clever they are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1786193789796643292)  2024-05-03T00:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Generally suspicious of people in any formal religious tradition who don't work out their theology with fear and trembling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1786194474202243524)  2024-05-03T00:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@CougarSpider This is probably the biggest reason he helped structure the Treaty of Portsmouth to reorder the region around Japan Though US warmth towards Japan seems longer standing (one of my favorite bits in Keene's Emperor Meiji bio describes when he met Grant and they really hit it off)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1786200765335319027)  2024-05-03T01:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@eigenrobot Unrelated but the reddit-brained "it's like pickup trucks" comment in the second screenshot got me thinking about the extremely cursed concept of CAFE for dogs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1786227544716361831)  2024-05-03T02:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@GreenPlusAnE @AviWoolf Bold to assume we can benefit from baseload when governors of the states propelled to prosperity on its back in collusion with green NGOs and the White House have any say in it https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/09/27/memorandum-on-restoring-healthy-and-abundant-salmon-steelhead-and-other-native-fish-populations-in-the-columbia-river-basin/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/09/27/memorandum-on-restoring-healthy-and-abundant-salmon-steelhead-and-other-native-fish-populations-in-the-columbia-river-basin/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1787812493676462343)  2024-05-07T11:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@fxxfy I think the disdain comes from those who used eccentricity as a pose when it became popular which then gets misdirected at actual eccentricity Because absent that they're basically the younger version of the retirees who populate hobby groups who are generally lovely people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1790436814496436577)  2024-05-14T17:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@SwannMarcus89 Because it didn't happen in congress until the 1990s VRA revisions And statewide victories for Rs were uncommon until the 1980s And that those victories were on a reform platform due to rampant D corruption Or that Ds didn't collapse in state legislatures until the 2010s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1790835877557493806)  2024-05-15T20:05Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@AviWoolf @RhythmDoc01 @bethanyshondark The western market for shounen anime/manga (both current and past) is probably a lagging indicator of that There's a reason Dragonball Z is almost [--] years old but you can still find kids obsessed with it here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1798327654200099132)  2024-06-05T12:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@wrongbutkind And almost all of them are less than [--] years old (Berkshire Hathaway and Eli Lilly are the exceptions and only the latter resembles what it was in the 19th century)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1799083093984428246)  2024-06-07T14:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf @Historycourses It's such a core thing to the American system and I don't have enough knowledge of competing ones to even have an idea what a counterfactual would look like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1801590659041677753)  2024-06-14T12:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf Swartzenwelder I think Had a big New Yorker profile a few years ago but is generally very reclusive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1806403702518878524)  2024-06-27T19:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I'm sure Wuhan has its appeal as a place but I don't think you're going to have much luck with these ads in the near future"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1807367264749953051)  2024-06-30T10:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf I'll note that I was able to pay about 10% of what you'd pay in NYC for two nights in Tokyo last year Not being controlled by a bootlegger-baptist coalition between your hotel real estate cartel and NIMBYs does wonders"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1810641036185932140)  2024-07-09T11:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"It's irritating reading history on topics you're unfamiliar with only to find the author has outsourced so many of their thoughts to a given political catechism its insight is circumsctibed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1813827475929276798)  2024-07-18T06:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Making catches to build my team of [--] (different colors of Nordstrom store brand pants)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1815525447901295037)  2024-07-22T23:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Me reading the grey tribe side of my feed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1818257563735015707)  2024-07-30T12:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf It seems like something has changed in the past year that's pushed companies to genuine capital flight from California Complete guess is that it's some combination of the legislature crossing red lines and commercial real estate valuations starting to look extremely ugly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1820401674659201034)  2024-08-05T10:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@PrinceVogel With how cheap it is to acquire old texts replicating their education is about as easy as it's ever been Replicating their institutional environment (especially their positioning relative to a political environment in flux) is the catch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1820429891214479475)  2024-08-05T12:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@orthonormalist Kept reading through wondering where the catch was until I got to "teacher pensions" Clever enough at graft to stash it all somewhere away from public scrutiny you have maximum leverage over"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1821249100345463277)  2024-08-07T18:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@CougarSpider It's mostly window units. Even in the roughly [---] square foot apartment my friend has he only has one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1822024010416455843)  2024-08-09T21:35Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@Goodtweet_man Customs in any country that's closely allied with yours is trivially easy as long as the agent isn't going on a power trip maybe a couple minutes tops"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1827652333326446898)  2024-08-25T10:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf The biggest overlap in that regard seems between the middle class dissenters who eventually form the core of Labour and US progressives where making the poor respectable was a mutual impulse (Progressives often being fervent Atlanticists is also interesting in this light)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1829172180439183598)  2024-08-29T15:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"College football has added a two minute timeout it's so over"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1829328392136610202)  2024-08-30T01:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@CougarSpider In fairness (not that this is any better) anti Asian and anti Catholic agitation were doing a lot of the work there But the tail of the state's first generation of establishment figures all being the appointees of 1850s doe faces is long"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1831051477097353486)  2024-09-03T19:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@eigenrobot Two groups fighting on the basis of competing models of second order behavioral responses of representative agents would have a much better time if they channeled that impulse into something productive like tabletop gaming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1835004335828148245)  2024-09-14T17:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@kendrictonn In fairness to truck-kun Japan has some of the shortest yellow lights compared to anywhere I've been in the US and they're interspersed among lights with normal length yellows"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1835870887322472556)  2024-09-17T02:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Poor government bookkeeping is a jobs guarantee for people who want to solve arbitrary yet legally binding puzzles at taxpayer expense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1837160929995157777)  2024-09-20T16:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@_its_not_real_ What point would it have to get to for Houston residents to be so fed up with diminishing quality of public services with ever increasing taxes that you start getting candidates who run on that basis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1838011794771608004)  2024-09-23T00:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf It's why I've basically stopped paying attention to presidential election coverage Anything interesting we can glean will be next to impossible to parse prior to results"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1838242635196039205)  2024-09-23T15:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf I agree but I think the circumstance in which that industry was transferred (as a self-conscious policy choice to court foreign alliances using the exact same mechanism as before with different beneficiaries) is an area where advocates of trade agreements tend to hide the ball"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1838606445304025270)  2024-09-24T15:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf He *was* alive when Taft-Hartley was passed but I guess he was too young to remember the political circumstances that led to it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1841096899878678780)  2024-10-01T12:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Historycourses @CDHenry_PA Nobody was smashing anything and this was for something that has literally never happened in school history. The only destruction besides dumb injuries sustained by participants was the goalposts and maybe some railings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1843806619567903071)  2024-10-09T00:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf @IVMiles @WASPmexicano The middle class and upwardly mobile part seems pretty important. There's a reason you don't start seeing Midwest style evangelicalism take off in the South until the 1980s powered by both Midwestern transplants and a rising professional class"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1844050901503459479)  2024-10-09T16:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf And calling them that is a misnomer anyway. The group was a mix of legacy GOP establishment guys and regular swamp creatures who glommed onto the party because of when they came up. They were in the same social circles as the 1970s generation but weren't the same people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1852086340965298678)  2024-10-31T20:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf Put another way the clearest connections between the W admin and a previous president were from Gerald Ford not Reagan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1852087349598937244)  2024-10-31T20:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"thesis: Scott Alexander is the Daniel Bell of his generation of public intellectuals @politicalmath His curse as things seem to be going is to have his writings most effectively leveraged by people whose politics he'll never be able to countenance @politicalmath His curse as things seem to be going is to have his writings most effectively leveraged by people whose politics he'll never be able to countenance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1852422307131629869)  2024-11-01T18:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Duderichy He was also one of the first in the round of popular figures who had convincing proof of plagiarism and suffered zero consequences for doing so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1852435296505499837)  2024-11-01T19:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf Chipotle has always felt like a strong candidate. On the leading edge of a lot of changes in American restaurant preferences that most new generation chains have followed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1852786000701136938)  2024-11-02T18:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@pstein4 @AviWoolf It does seem like he would be much happier if he could just withdraw from public life and read books. He's stuck in the same place a lot of popular YouTubers are where your living is shackled to your audience and what you once loved to do becomes a drain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1852792271126564887)  2024-11-02T19:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@MartinSkold2 @LiteralSheridan My primary takeaway from paying more attention to energy people is that most of what people call "industrial policy" in practice is "are we willing to deregulate enough to make energy infrastructure and inputs cheaper" Accountants choosing boundary conditions all the way down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1852882876884246731)  2024-11-03T01:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@eigenrobot OK has straight ticket for county/state/federal races but once you get to supreme court justices (nonpartisan appointments with vote to retain) and city elections I'd imagine it craters I'd imagine this is why people use ballot measures as an analytical shortcut"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1853919204183044214)  2024-11-05T21:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Spoken by someone who has clearly never been to Oklahoma Native Americans being the most based demographic by [--] whole percentage points was not on my [----] Bingo card https://t.co/PDQkE2vNDI Native Americans being the most based demographic by [--] whole percentage points was not on my [----] Bingo card https://t.co/PDQkE2vNDI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1854247894380859588)  2024-11-06T19:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@GarrettPetersen Assuming that those with eyes to see can discern the forms all around them and that those forms have a telos you can't control is memeing yourself into schizophrenia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1855808954632192146)  2024-11-11T03:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf NGOs squatting on the semantic territory occupied by older more robust institutions has probably prevented longstanding observations about their difference from entering popular discussions of policy https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1392106214901702656 @AviWoolf One of the weird things I noticed in a lot of poli sci writing is the tendency to elide "civil society" with "community activists." There's actually a chapter in Bowling Alone where he covers the volatile character of modern social movements where this elision clearly factors in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1856386039520125062)  2024-11-12T17:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf Purely from a coalition maintenance perspective (where RFK and Gabbard are narrowly defensible) I figured this was coming. There's no meaningful constituency he represents in the party and he's done nothing in his caucus to get anyone there to defend him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1859652242204393695)  2024-11-21T17:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Calories-in-calories-out is the MBA of nutrition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1859719728228688332)  2024-11-21T22:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MartinSkold2 The role that Idaho plays for the west coast states and South Dakota does for the blue midwestern states isn't exactly a secret when you go talk to people and look at the migration patterns/changes in property values"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1860462606064013703)  2024-11-23T23:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Insisting that one can understand Hobbes by skipping all the parts of Leviathan where he expounds on his heresy is akin to assuming one can understand Moby Dick while skipping the whale taxonomies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1861395216273399817)  2024-11-26T13:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@growing_daniel Straussian reading that this is purposefully absurd and meant to oneshot people with LinkedIn brain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1861694606175260737)  2024-11-27T08:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf He's a symbol that leftists in OK coyly invoke because most only know him for his music to pretend that leftism used to be popular here (particularly using only the first part of the phrase on the sticker)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1862114148009591117)  2024-11-28T12:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@goblinodds @gigafelon They do that significantly more and it was jarring as a visitor not expecting it This was the line for summer Comiket (everyone stuck outside for an hour or more on pavement temperature was in the upper 90s)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1867395177637458272)  2024-12-13T02:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Given the above this the corporate management by private equity of nutrition https://x.com/lyfscraft/status/1867365090288373814 Ive been up all night thinking about sweetened condensed milk Sweetened condensed milk is probably the most nutrient and calorie dense food per oz per dollar with the best macros and micros that exists. [--] cups costs around [--] dollars to make and gets you to [----] calories https://t.co/SgHw4MPKq7 https://x.com/lyfscraft/status/1867365090288373814 Ive been up all night thinking about sweetened condensed milk Sweetened condensed milk is probably the most nutrient and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1867555717416198522)  2024-12-13T13:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@kendrictonn When given the choice between risking sounding like an LLM hallucination and just not saying anything I tend to lean towards the latter (this probably makes my posting suffer)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1867574195087192493)  2024-12-13T14:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TheAgeofShoddy I'm sure you're aware from living in a west coast city how these exist alongside each other in a mutually compatible political economy It's South Africa but rich and with a parent jurisdiction that can always bail them out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1868034463654944924)  2024-12-14T20:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AviWoolf Johnson didn't agree at all with their assessment because it flew in the face of his prior political victories but went along It's also interesting to note that this was happening in parallel with MLK and the SCLC underwriting all their efforts with northern foundation money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1868065093751349650)  2024-12-14T22:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf Postwar margins were razor thin in both directions up until the [----] recession"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1869335971906633775)  2024-12-18T10:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Every organization with a "good culture" is quietly underwritten by the exceptional spreadsheet jockeying of whoever is doing their budget and scheduling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1869864007722774783)  2024-12-19T21:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AviWoolf Pickles being the most popular instance of fermented foods when they're a strictly worse version of kimchi is proof that the world is fallen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1871365606865551696)  2024-12-24T01:21Z [---] 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

Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing