…[P]eople have come to associate the circle head with masculinity, and because of this association, we felt that it was important to explore alternate head shapes. We reviewed many variations of our figure, altering both the head and shoulders to…
Hollywood’s Protests Are Getting to Trump – Vulture
“This Meryl Streep speech is why Trump won,” warned Meghan McCain. “And if people in Hollywood don’t start recognizing why and how — you will help him get reelected.” No sale. The argument that Trump voters flocked to a TV…
Posted in Culture & Entertainment, Noted & Quoted, Operation American Greatness Tagged with: Streep, Trump, Twitter
Getting to Better WordPress Twitter oEmbed
1) The content of deleted tweets, if ever previously fetched and rendered, should remain “there” in an affected post’s post meta, and 2) it should be quite possible to emulate the rendering process programmatically, whether for the sake of presenting deleted tweets in a way that marks them as such and also harmonizes aesthetically with “normal” tweets, or whether for the sake of automating and customizing the display in other ways, without having to resort to hacks.
All-Nude Tweets (Hacking Extraneous Content from Twitter Embeds) – Updated
The Twitter default is for “cards” and “conversation” to display, but you can get rid of them either tweet by tweet or through a copy-paste-search-and-replace-re-copy-paste.
Übertrolls
In short, blocking self-indulgently, whether out of laziness or anger or boredom or trifling annoyance or whatever obscure motive, amounts to a special kind of trolling: a narcissistic negation of discussion that, like most trolling, would be impossibly embarrassing to a contemptibly contemptuous perpetrator if attempted in “3-d life.”
Having your tweet and embedding it, too
If Twitter changes its API or, as also occurs, a quoted tweep’s account disappears, the embedded content may disappear along with it.
It’s easy, as I just discovered today, to have your tweet and embed it, too, and in a way that should, as we say, “degrade gracefully.”
Making Tweet-Based WordPress Posts Easier: Hacking “Twitter Digest”
For now all I want is a tool for collecting tweets quickly and having them automatically placed in a draft post, in a form that I can easily manipulate.
Israeli realism/realism about Israel
“If you expected me to burst into tears, I’m sorry to disappoint you. I will not do that.”
Posted in International Relations, Twitterei Tagged with: Arnon Soffer, Benny Morris, Greater Israel, Israel, nation-state, sovereignty, Twitter
Vox of the Voxless (Read The Comments 2)
All posts – as by further reasonable extension all articles, essays, treatises, books, Facebook updates, multimedia Snapchat ephemera, and retweeted links to images of the more photogenic galaxies – are commentary by other means