Keith Johnson

@AlexanderTw33ts With teenagers, this is not an issue. There is not a day when I can get to the bathroom, not ever.

people don’t realize that the majority of toilets go unused all day imagine a future where your toilet can go out into the world and make money for you imagine renting out your self driving toilet to your neighbours

The price of insurance for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz has fallen by more than half over the past six days, reducing costs for individual ships by hundreds of thousands of dollars. Premiums for hull war insurance dropped from about 5 per cent of the value of a ship to 2 per cent after discounts are included, brokers said, following a ceasefire deal between the US and Iran signed last week. #oott ft.com/content/b62d82…

@Birdyword It is true; I still have my first a-hed on the wall. The problem is it's in cuneiform.

My first Wall Street Journal front page, a decade ago now (old). They give you a commemorative plate of the edition when you get your first A1. I still have it, but when I frame it, visitors don't immediately see the bylines and just presume it's an endorsement.

While traffic is slowly moving through the Strait, the numbers are nowhere near what CENTCOM says, and the beneficiaries are not the West. (from Windward.)

@chelsea_janes Three words: U.L. Washington.

Hilarious but so dangerous!

"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." --Satchel Paige x.com/JohnCena/statu…

@stevenacook The New Statesman, I think?

This is what the folks at the IRGC-affiliated Mashragh think about Pres Trump's "victory." (h/t Ray Takeyh).

These numbers are false, and that level of traffic would be nowhere near normal in any event. x.com/RapidResponse4…

🚨 Strait of Hormuz Status Update | June 22 Windward tracked 25 vessel transits through the Strait of Hormuz over the past 12 hours: 10 inbound and 15 outbound. Notable traffic: → Multiple OFAC-sanctioned tankers linked to Iran's sanctions program transiting outbound, including one sailing under a fraudulent flag of registry. → An Iran-flagged bulk carrier inbound, also sanctioned under the OFAC Iran program. → Three China-flagged vessels outbound. → Continued LNG traffic, including French- and Qatari-owned gas carriers. Routing continues to operate under a dual-track system: 🔼 The northern route, near Larak Island, remains under Iranian control. Vessels are required to submit full transit details at least 48 hours in advance, receive a single-use permit valid for up to five days, and remain available for VHF instructions while transiting. 🔽 The southern route, along Omani territorial waters, continues to function as the preferred clear lane and does not appear to require the same approval process. In practice: Iran is combining pre-arrival permitting with real-time radio control to channel approved traffic through a corridor close to its shoreline, rather than allowing unrestricted movement across the full width of the Strait. Track vessel activity in the Strait of Hormuz, daily: okt.to/Sp10fV

Iran got its sanctions lifted; Hormuz still not quite open. ofac.treasury.gov/media/936206/d…

You know, when Carthage surrendered to Rome in 241 BC, they only had to pay 3,200 talents of silver. That's $250 million in current dollars, but probably more at the time. Either way, a lot less than the losing side paying $300 billion to gain peace. (There were two more wars.)

@jasonc_nc a city of 4 million somehow survives. madrid.es/portales/munim…

There is simply no available space to make American fire trucks any smaller. Every square inch is occupied with a large amount of specialized equipment that’s unique to us. Elsewhere people just die because they can’t hold the needed equipment on their smaller trucks.

@scottlincicome yes, Europe is aghast.

Now we're just trolling Europe aren't we

@sidhubaba I am so bad at math—one is enough for Americans, we don't need the plural—they took points away from me on the SAT. I couldn't have gotten into a good school even if I played football.

people love when i tweet about maths also I got a 5 on the Calculus BC AP. im still bad at it though. it's very cringe that i'm saying this publicly. idc

I'll just say this as an aside: Yes, Australians, some of the rest of us do know Clarke and Dawe. Yes, the front fell off. Hell, in our case the back end did, too.

@davidluhnow you don't write, you don't call. Fucking chilango.

@davidluhnow El Buen Retiro. And that's technically El Parterre.

Parque El Retiro, Madrid

@blondearabist I was intrigued by the Fitch note this week, as well as some other unnamed stuff, that implied that all was well. It reminds me of a very vulgar anecdote about my old University.

Fabbio Cannavaro. That's literally like frisking Han Solo outside the Falcon. One of the greatest defenders in history. What shame. x.com/AaronBastani/s…

@sidhubaba is this literally a challenge?

What's your tolerance for pain?