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@HyabusaTakashi @DOES_DC I was eventually able to contact someone over the phone and got everything sorted out. My situation was kind of unique so I'm not sure the same will work for you, but the employee who fixed my problem was very helpful. I recommend you keep calling. Good luck!

@ShaunDGrey @DOES_DC im still getting the message over both phone and CPU. glad to know it's not just me 😅😅😅

A technical issue is affecting unemployment benefits. Claimants can expect to receive benefits within 3 business days. Visit DOES.DC.gov for updates.

@HyabusaTakashi @DOES_DC Thank you! I'm periodically checking the phone as well and will update here if I find anything out

@ShaunDGrey @DOES_DC I'm still getting the "exhausted benefits" message online, I'm gonna try the phone in a few. if I get through I'll update you.

@davidgross_man Joel Grossman

without image searching or google: do you have any idea who this cabinet secretary is

@jshgdmn thank you for your service

a "meme" is any concept that spreads widely throughout a society and becomes a shared frame of reference; a picture with a funny caption is an "image macro," which is a type of memetic idea, but the words are not synonyms

@jshgdmn @TrevorLess one mistake: it shouldn't be "salamander," in that second pic, i meant to write "hellbender"

@TrevorLess running list of things that sound cooler than they are, written by @ShaunDGrey

a thing with a cool name is "bone meal"

@makent @SpeakerPelosi will you put politics aside and #InviteSilk

Justice for Silk now

@mkazin @adamjohnsonNYC you're not even verified lol

@adamjohnsonNYC I argued that the left should reclaim patriotism and quoted ML King and others in order to effectively oppose the invasion of Iraq. Did you actually read the piece you're condemning?

reviewing some of the 'The Left Needs to Repeatedly Condemn the Country We're About to Invade' takes and this banger from "Dissent" magazine editor Michael Kazin form Feb 2003.... ages poorly. washingtonpost.com/archive/opinio…

@JohnDiesattheEn But Stephen Pinker says life is getting better every year!

About 1,000 people in my industry lost their jobs this week: cjr.org/business_of_ne…

@me_irl I had a friend in middle school who insisted that “the Night Santa Went Crazy” was a parody of a specific song, but he couldn’t remember the name. I thought he was full of shit for 20 years until I looked it up and it’s like 80% “Black Gold” by Soul Asylum

- polkas, which are medleys of existing songs played more or less straight - style parodies, which suggest a specific artist *but no particular song* - song parodies, which are on-the-nose versions of a given song *with lyrics resembling that song* - originals

weird al "i remember larry" is an *unacknowledged* parody of they might be giants "see the constellation" im pretty sure. this is the type of thing that fascinates me

WHO IS WORSE? Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who starves and murders his own people, or any man that would spill a single drop of BEER???

average woman tweets: my big pussy stinks to high heaven avg man tweets: my dick is very big but it smells my tweets: lets help charity

@JohnDiesattheEn @ne0liberal that link doesn't say anything about markets or capitalism being the reason for those people being lifted out of poverty. it DOES, however, include an embedded video about 100 million people crossing under the poverty line by 2030 due to climate change

@ne0liberal Yep. Sensibly regulated markets are objectively the best tool for feeding, clothing and housing the poor ever invented and it's not close. I believe in them because of that, if they stop working for that, I'll stop believing. The stats tell the tale: politifact.com/global-news/st…

@beanytuesday @ByYourLogic is that real? do you remember the name?

@ByYourLogic Actually it’s the short manga about some prisoner exiled to the moon with a machine that produces a cup of drinkable water when you press a button on it but has like a 1% chance of exploding when you push the button

The Golden Man is the best sci fi short story ever written