Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@NunyaBidness @melik I mean, that's true of all surgical masks, regardless of color. The fact your glasses fog up while wearing one goes to show how poorly they work.

@NunyaBidness @melik That's a black surgical style mask. I suspect they started making them for the likes of restaurant servers to have a more formal appearance.

@stephanlivera bitcoinenemies.com has THE brightest color scheme... 😎

@SwordFighterSuper "I'm not good enough to explain concepts more sophisticated than literally black vs white"

@alyssa Nah, the mice were just there for show. Behind the scenes of it all, pulling ALL the strings, was actually the bowl of petunias.

@alyssa You sure you're coping with lockdown alright?

You seem to have confused "the world" with "your world"... :P

@alex It's just a static status page hosted by a server in Belize, in South America.

Nothing special about that. I wouldn't even assume the people at the company know they're hosting it: looks like you can sign up for hosting with a fully-automated webpage.

@alyssa Oen of your cats favorite things in the whole wide world is watching you watch it yawn. ❤️

...just kidding, it's a cat. It's thinking about buying Bitcoin and taking over the world.

Official FDA reports:

https://www.fda.gov/media/144434/download
https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download

...the original garbage article: https://web.archive.org/web/20210119021422/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/briefing/donald-trump-pardon-phil-spector-coronavirus-deaths.html

Typical journalism: "OMG OUT OF 32,000 PEOPLE VAXED, JUST ONE GOT SEVERE COVID!"

...leaving you to imagine hundreds of unvaxed getting terribly sick and dying.

Reality: only 10 people got severe covid in the Pfizer trial, _in total_. 9 with placebos, 1 with the vaccine. For Moderna, the numbers are 11 severe cases with placebos, 0 or 1 with vax (possible false positive).

...and severe didn't even mean hospitalization! Out of 21 "severe" cases, just 8 were hospitalized. No deaths.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01042-z

"Increase in suicide following an initial decline during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan"

For children and adolescents specifically, suicides increased by 12% in the first five months, then 49% in the next five months.

The infection fatality rate of COVID-19 in healthy children/adolescents is ~0.4/million infected. Over the ten months studied, the suicide rate in children increased by ~9.0/million.

23x more suicides than covid deaths, even assuming 100% infected. Nuts.

@dsmatthews@mastodon.online Also, independent of the legal situation, that a black man even could be in a position to goad her into climbing through that window dispels a lot of false racism narratives about that crowd.

...also, how the Boogaloo Bois involved were actually aligned with BLM, even providing them with security at protests, and were against *both* Republicans and Democrats:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/boogaloo-boi-leader-aligns-black-lives-matter-boasted-organizing-armed-insurrection-us-capitol/

@NunyaBidness Biden is paranoid enough that he wears two masks; no surprise he doesn't trust the people protecting him.

@alan8325 ...also, flying a drone remotely vs autonomously, flying more than one at once, etc.

There's also self-described anti-fascist John Sullivan, who was arrested for leading the charge during the insurrection at the Capitol.

Good thread: https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1349865669383356419

It's almost like the real world is more complex than the neat little boxes journalists and politicians want to put you in.