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reading list (open tabs) 5 apr 2023

isometric dot cc (archive dot org (while it's still up?)) - https://web.archive.org/web/20141102155400/http://isometri.cc/strips

the beast weeps with one eye - http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-beast-weeps-with-one-eye/

perseus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus

yu the great - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_the_Great

chinese mythology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_mythology

clubhouse - https://www.redfin.com/OR/Portland/6016-NE-Willow-St-97213/home/26605227

wallhouse - https://www.redfin.com/OR/Portland/605-NW-Macleay-Blvd-97210/home/26574183

koinhouse - https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1414-SW-3rd-Ave-Apt-3001_Portland_OR_97201_M29797-00894

frasierhouse - https://www.redfin.com/OR/Portland/1414-SW-3rd-Ave-97201/unit-2503/home/26304932

home habitat range niche territory - https://www.tor.com/2021/04/19/home-habitat-range-niche-territory-martha-wells/

orion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(mythology)

officehouse - https://www.redfin.com/OR/Portland/3221-NE-33rd-Ave-97212/home/25778105

raven tales - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_Tales

frederick i - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Barbarossa

huginn and muninn - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huginn_and_Muninn

lludd and llefelys - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lludd_and_Llefelys

manhattan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan

1122 nw summit ave (archived photos from when it was beautiful) - https://www.maceyandmj.com/news/1122-nw-summit-avenue-1750000

nonsensehouse - https://www.redfin.com/OR/Portland/407-NW-Marlborough-Ave-97210/home/26388510

brickhouse - https://www.redfin.com/OR/Portland/1703-SW-Montgomery-Dr-97201/home/26550508

hundred years war - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War

crisis of the late middle ages - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Late_Middle_Ages

a holiday of ashes - https://theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/a-holiday-of-ashes

robocop - https://readallcomics.com/category/robocop-marvel-comics/

the hernandez bros - https://www.gq.com/story/love-and-rockets-hernandez-brothers

worship of talos is strictly forbidden - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talos

the ringworld of robert fett - https://www.polygon.com/22903093/book-of-boba-fett-halo-ringworld-space-station

banks orbitals - https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4845ef5c4ca7c

titan (torus world) - https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/writing-in-the-garden

nobody cares about your blog - https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html

kate beaton's ducks - https://doctorow.medium.com/kate-beatons-ducks-fcabaadfc72

mugshawtys:

tofu oyaku keychain stacking cubes

robots

montreal i think

rings of power spoilers

this house was beautiful until some clown bought it and wanted to resell it and painted it all cream white

sp//dr 1998

genuine ostrich

haute pope

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These cheat codes focus on gameplay mechanics and affecting the world/NPCs in GTA San Andreas.

HESOYAM - Health, Armor, $250k, Repairs car

BAGUVIX - (Semi)Infinite Health

CVWKXAM - Infinite Oxygen

LXGIWYL - Weapon Set 1

PROFESSIONALSKIT - Weapon Set 2

UZUMYMW - Weapon Set 3

STICKLIKEGLUE - Perfect Vehicle Handling

ANOSEONGLASS - Adrenaline Mode

FULLCLIP - Infinite Ammo, No Reloading

TURNUPTHEHEAT - Increase Wanted Level +2

TURNDOWNTHEHEAT - Clear Wanted Level

BTCDBCB - Fat Body

BUFFMEUP - Muscular Body

KVGYZQK - Skinny Body

AEZAKMI - Disable Wanted Level

BRINGITON - Six Star Wanted Level

WORSHIPME - Maximum Respect

HELLOLADIES - Maximum Sex Appeal

VKYPQCF - Maximum Stamina

PROFESSIONALKILLER - Hitman Level for all Weapon Stats

NATURALTALENT - Maximize All Vehicle Skill Stats

SPEEDITUP - Fast Motion

SLOWITDOWN - Slow Motion

AJLOJYQY - People attack each other with golf clubs

BAGOWPG - Have a bounty on your head

FOOOXFT - Pedestrians hunt you

GOODBYECRUELWORLD - Suicide

BLUESUEDESHOES - Elvis Models for People

BGLUAWML - People attack with Rocket Launchers

LIFESABEACH - Beach Party Mode

ONLYHOMIESALLOWED - Gang Members Mode

BIFBUZZ - Gang Control

NINJATOWN - Ninja Theme

BEKKNQV - Women Talk to You

CJPHONEHOME - Big Bunny Hop

KANGAROO - Mega Jump

STATEOFEMERGENCY - Riot Mode

CRAZYTOWN - Funhouse Mode

SJMAHPE - Recruit Anyone

ROCKETMAYHEM - Recruit Anyone

CPKTNWT - Blow Up All Cars

WHEELSONLYPLEASE - Invisible car

ZEIIVG - All green lights

YLTEICZ - Aggressive Drivers

LLQPFBN - Pink CArs

IOWDLAC - Black Cars

EVERYONEISPOOR - All Cheap Cars

EVERYONEISRICH - All Fast Cars

CHITTYCHITTYBANGBANG - Flying Cars

FLYINGFISH - Flying Boats

JCNRUAD - Cars Blow Up Easily

SPEEDFREAK - All Cars Have Nitro

BUBBLECARS - Moon Car Gravity

OUIQDMW - Free Aim While Driving

GHOSTTOWN - Reduced Traffic

FVTMNBZ - Country Vehicles

BMTPWHR - Country Vehicles and People

Spawn Cheats

These codes will spawn a variety of vehicles.

ROCKETMAN - Spawn Jetpack

IWPRTON - Spawn Rhino

AIYPWZQP - Spawn Parachute

OLDSPEEDDEMON - Spawn Bloodring Banger

JQNTDMH - Spawn Rancher

VROCKPOKEY - Spawn Racecar

VPJTQWV - Spawn Racecar

WHERESTHEFUNERAL - Spawn Romero

CELEBRITYSTATUS - Spawn Stretch

TRUEGRIME - Spawn Trashmaster

RZHSUEW - Spawn Caddy

JUMPJET - Spawn Hydra

KGGGDKP - Spawn Vortex Hovercraft

OHDUDE - Spawn Hunter

FOURWHEELFUN - Spawn Quad

AMOMHRER - Spawn Tanker Truck

ITSALLBULL - Spawn Dozer

FLYINGTOSTUNT - Spawn Stunt Plane

MONSTERMASH - Spawn Monster

Weather Cheats

The following cheat codes will adjust the weather in San Andreas.

PLEASANTLYWARM - Sunny Weather

TOODAMNHOT - Very Sunny Weather

ALNSFMZO - Overcast Weather

AUIFRVQS - Rainy Weather

CFVFGMJ - Foggy Weather

YSOHNUL - Faster Clock

NIGHTPROWLER - Always Midnight

OFVIAC - Orange Sky

SCOTTISHSUMMER - Thunderstorm

CWJXUOC - Sandstorm

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reading list / open tabs

https://web.archive.org/web/20141102155400/http://isometri.cc/strips

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_%C3%89poque

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army_(1922%E2%80%931969)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lesser_Key_of_Solomon#Ars_Goetia

http://www.malcolm-x.org/docs/int_playb.htm

https://www.abebooks.de/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22450441819&clickid=wvYzmOSYjV2s36-2fCypsyueUkg1ruwlRTkYWM0&cm_mmc=aff-_-ir-_-72163-_-77798&ref=imprad72163&afn_sr=impact

https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/ksbd-2-32/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_line

https://web.archive.org/web/20160312021402/http://www.netrootsmass.net/hughs-bush-scandals-list/

https://www.somanyofus.com/

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wood henge -- https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3191-SW-Hampshire-St_Portland_OR_97205_M19165-11258

beaumont hilltop -- https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3665-NE-Merges-Dr_Portland_OR_97212_M26589-71483

18th mason -- https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1831-NE-Brazee-St_Portland_OR_97212_M29935-33039#photo7

garage studio -- https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1302-NE-Tillamook-St_Portland_OR_97212_M17167-78218

ridgemont -- https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/2871-NE-Alameda-St_Portland_OR_97212_M20185-11995

alameda x 21st brickington -- https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/2132-NE-Alameda-St_Portland_OR_97212_M28180-48939

siskiyou attic -- https://www.redfin.com/OR/Portland/1521-NE-Siskiyou-St-97212/home/26505899

sellwold townhome -- https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1671-SE-Lambert-St_Portland_OR_97202_M22883-55724#photo4

17th bungalow -- https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3524-NE-17th-Ave-Portland-OR-97212/53851550_zpid/

21st attic -- https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/2043-NE-Tillamook-St_Portland_OR_97212_M26982-74977

cesar chavez knives out -- https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/610-NE-Cesar-E-Chavez-Blvd_Portland_OR_97232_M25138-82207#photo15

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reading list 30 july 2020

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july-august-2018/how-the-right-wing-convinces-itself-that-liberals-are-evil/

... https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwp85z/rich-people-broke-america-and-never-paid-the-price?utm_source=vicefbus

... http://imaginations.glendon.yorku.ca/?p=2949

... http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-names-of-women/

... http://www.anathemamag.com/eruption

... https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/an-irving-penn-portrait-for-the-coldest-days-of-winter

... https://mikedempsey.typepad.com/graphic_journey_blog/2019/01/-beware-book-covers-ahead-part-3-.html

... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-22/muggy-disney-parks-downed-at-t-towers-firms-tally-climate-risk

... https://kottke.org/19/01/its-time-for-some-queueing-theory

... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_space

... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/28/the-secrets-of-lyndon-johnsons-archives

... https://therumpus.net/2019/03/the-thread-down-girl/

... https://niskanencenter.org/blog/democracy-for-republicans/

... https://eand.co/if-the-1930s-are-repeating-themselves-what-did-we-learn-from-the-last-world-war-1e2623ea3afb

... https://www.starwars.com/news/nnedi-okorafor-dianoga-from-a-certain-point-of-view

... https://www.startrek.com/news/whitney-houston-tupac-hologram-star-trek-ethics?amp&__twitter_impression=true

... https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2019/october/1569373570/sarah-krasnostein/man-who-hates-women

... http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-sloppy-mathematics-of-half-ghosts/

... https://variety.com/2019/film/features/star-wars-kathleen-kennedy-david-benioff-db-weiss-1203388611/

... https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/year-after-kavanaugh-cant-go-back-to-scotus.amp?__twitter_impression=true

... https://time.com/5720323/billie-lourd-princess-leia-essay-carrie-fisher/

... https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-less-wealth-net-worth-compared-to-boomers-2019-12?

... https://www.gq.com/story/folgers-incest-ad-oral-history/amp?__twitter_impression=true

... https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dr-manhattan-cop-watchmen-frantz-fanon/

... https://www.wikihow.com/Unlock-a-Disabled-iPod?amp=1

... http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/interview-ellen-datlow/

... https://wearyourvoicemag.com/entertainment-culture/knives-out-confronts-false-narrative-self-made-white-wealth

... https://tinyletter.com/youveescaped/letters/a-haunting-in-florida

... https://mara.substack.com/p/of-aol-teens-and-eye-drops

... https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/how-break-federal-government-michael-lewis-podcast-transcript-ncna1000586?

... https://ultralaser.tumblr.com/post/168779042423/awed-frog-runicbinary-jennyanydots42

... https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/5/7/21248713/tara-reade-joe-biden-sexual-assault-accusation?__twitter_impression=true

... http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-5005

... https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/the-untold-tale-of-young-william-barr

... https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-sexist-legacy-in-star-trek-s-progressive-universe-1844147116/amp

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oh hey

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i guess the street view car went around bc during fire season

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reading list 1.27

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/naturalized-citizens-live-in-fear-of-status-reversal

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War

https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-tried-to-warn-you-about-sleazy-billionaire-jeffrey-epstein-in-2003

http://www.anathemamag.com/eruption - Eruption - by Jaymee Goh

http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-names-of-women/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Prefecture

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/10/25/suffocation-of-democracy/

https://www.thenation.com/article/noam-chomsky-diagnoses-the-trump-era/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-resistance-to-donald-trump-is-not-what-you-think/

http://imaginations.glendon.yorku.ca/?p=2949 - PERCEPTIONS OF JEWISH FEMALE BODIES THROUGH GUSTAV KLIMT AND PETER ALTENBERG

https://www.thecut.com/amp/2018/09/3-women-on-testifying-at-their-sexual-assault-hearings.html

https://uncannymagazine.com/article/slaughterhouse-killing-floor/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/01/how-russia-helped-to-swing-the-election-for-trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/opinion/sunday/brett-kavanaugh-anger-women-metoo.html

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july-august-2018/how-the-right-wing-convinces-itself-that-liberals-are-evil/

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwp85z/rich-people-broke-america-and-never-paid-the-price

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booklist 9.4

17 >>> sept 25 - the hchom book - https://www.amazon.com/Hchom-Book-Marian-Churchland/dp/1534308342 17 brothers of the gun - https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Gun-Memoir-Syrian-War/dp/0399590625 35 katie goes to hollywood - http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/863434 36 babefest v2 - http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/883962

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reading list 9.4

https://www.autostraddle.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-top-or-a-dominant-in-lesbian-sex-425912/ https://www.thecut.com/2018/04/7-sex-workers-on-what-it-means-to-lose-backpage.html https://oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine/harm/protecting-inequality/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/border-patrol-the-green-monster-112220?o=1 http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/05/the-case-against-dark-matter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phryne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyx https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mount_St._Helens&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_weather_events_of_535–536

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reading list 5.12 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/all-american-nazis-fascist-youth-united-states-w519651 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nza8q8/an-unseen-side-of-the-1992-la-riots http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/robert-mueller-must-expose-trumps-crooked-business-empire.html https://slate.com/culture/2018/05/watch-donald-glovers-tour-of-the-millennium-falcon-for-solo-a-star-wars-story-video.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamiliarization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phryne

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reading list 5.5

https://pitchfork.com/news/watch-chad-vangaalens-animated-short-film-tarboz/ https://www.thecut.com/2018/04/7-sex-workers-on-what-it-means-to-lose-backpage.html https://oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine/harm/protecting-inequality/

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http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/columns/freshly-rememberd-kirk-drift/#part3 http://benito-cereno.tumblr.com/post/171332715823/hello-friends-i-have-found-myself-with-quite-a https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/4xaw8q/neighborhood-emergency

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longreads 3.20

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/opinion/iraq-war-anniversary-.html?smid=fb-share&referer=https://m.facebook.com/ http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/nick-ayers-mike-pence/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/the-gops-biggest-charter-school-experiment-just-imploded/ https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/4xaw8q/neighborhood-emergency http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/columns/freshly-rememberd-kirk-drift/

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https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/3/2/17070454/lego-bricks-sustainable-plastic-toys http://vidamasverde.com/2013/ecoturismo-cuales-son-sus-ventajas-y-desventajas/

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Cuts to National Monuments Mostly Bringing Uncertainty

(Metate Arch in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument - photo by Brian W. Schaller)

    In November leaked documents suggested that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s review of Federally managed national monuments would call for dramatic reductions to both the Bear-Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments in Utah, and that’s just the beginning of his report’s recommendations.  Zinke’s assignment from President Trump was to review any monuments over 100k acres created in the last 21 years (since Clinton’s second term, for those counting) and seek to counteract ‘abuses’ by the Federal Government against local land rights.  The initial results are the surprise downsizing of Obama’s newly created Bear-Ears monument by 85% and the Clinton era Grand Staircase monument by nearly half.

    Proponents of the move cite a combination of federal overreach by Washington over the last few decades, unfairly restricting local economic potential in various natural resource industries, resulting in reduced opportunities for local residents.  To quote President Trump, “some people think that the natural resources should be controlled by a small handful of very distant bureaucrats located in Washington. And guess what: They’re wrong.”  Opponents meanwhile have declared the move a giveaway to the oil and mineral industries at the cost of priceless archaeological and scenic treasures, which will only serve to hamstring the changing tourism economy in the region.  

    Bear-Ears was only created at the end of Obama’s second term and has barely begun the transformation from public to federally managed land.  But Grand Staircase Escalante, created in 1996 by President Clinton, has had twenty years to transition to a tourism economy, and locals have been divided all along on whether the loss of a proposed coal mine in the late 90s and the shutdown of a lumber processing facility in the 2008 recession have been sufficiently counteracted by 78 million in annual tourism revenue.  As well, there is debate over whether monument status accomplishes one of the intended goals of wilderness and archaeological preservation.  The existing infrastructure already struggles to protect the sites from misuse by civilians, and whether a cut in federal enforcement funding will be counteracted by a reduction in tourism due to the installation of oil and coal operations is anyone’s guess.

    In any case, the transformation of both monuments into several, much smaller monuments, marks a significant shift in direction for the Department of Interior under the Trump Administration.  Three months after the initial reports of the change came out, how that new land management policy change will take shape remains uncertain.  The last drilling rig to operate within monument boundaries was plugged in 1992, and despite the Trump Administration’s friendly attitude towards the coal industry, locals will point out that even during the 70s coal boom the local deposits were deemed unprofitable to extract.  A series of impending court challenges to the legality of the president’s power to retract previously declared monument borders, paired with the already long lead time on setting up mineral extraction technology, means it could be years before the consequences of this decision, positive or negative, are clear.

    A copy of Zinke’s memorandum to the President can be read here.  As always we recommend contacting your representatives to let them know how you feel about the Trump Administration’s new policies.

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The Risks of Deregulation - a Short History of Urban Smog

    Our story begins, as befits our era, with a Trump Tweet.  On 14 December President Trump proudly tweeted that he was beginning the process of cutting down the Code of Federal Regulations from it’s current size of 180k pages back towards it’s 1960 size of just 20k.  To quote the President, “Today, we CUT THE RED TAPE! It is time to SET FREE OUR DREAMS and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

    The problem, of course, is that every single line in the official Code of Federal Regulations was put there on purpose - every line represents someone, somewhere, who cut corners on safety rules, and someone else who paid the price.  As Joy Reid put it in her response to the President’s tweet, “Every one of those pages protects your food from being filled with rat droppings, [...] & corporations from polluting the air you breathe...”.  Case in point - this was the view of NYC from the World Trade Center as recently as 1988.

(photo by  Dr. Edwin P. Ewing, Jr)

    In fact, Los Angeles, once infamous for it’s midday smog, despite steady progress over the years has recently seen a spike in daytime ozone readings from a 2015 low.  The last two years have been such a significant increase, in fact - 145 days above federal limits in 2017, up from 132 in 2016, and 113 in 2015, with 2004 being the last year with more than 140 days above the limit - that environmentalists are wary to directly attribute the rise to weather patterns or climate change caused by global warming.  In fact, they’re specifically citing weak regulations as the root cause, suggesting that while officially LA has half as much smog-forming pollution coming out of cars and factories, city officials may well be underestimating emissions from economically important polluters like oil refineries and the ports. 

    And Californian officials share their concerns - they have been actively resisting EPA director Scott Pruitt’s recent decision to delay the introduction of an Obama administration rule tightening air quality standards to below current limits.  "California is forging ahead with aggressive actions to reduce ozone levels, irrespective of EPA's delay," said California Air Resources Board spokesman Stanley Young last June, citing the longstanding problem with air pollution in the state, and existing plans to achieve a 70ppm goal regardless of the federal standard.  

    Whose dreams exactly President Trump seeks to set free are unclear, but the comparatively unregulated skyline of Beijing might suggest a counterargument to his fears of “burdensome” red tape.

    You can contact Scott Pruitt yourself here, and tell him we need more robust air quality regulations nationwide.  President Trump can always be reached on Twitter.