🫡.

The status quo would love little more than to convince you of its inevitability. Never forget: you have the power to opt in to things that align with your values, and to opt out of things that don’t. To fight for things that align with your values, and against things that don’t.

With thanks to @thenoodlecanon, this tool worked! It was only able to get to November 4th, but luckily my archive cuts out on November 5 so it got the missing weeks. (note: requires python 3.6-3.9; also needs a specific requirement version, aiohttp==3.7.0)

ok I know it's late in the game, but twitter's data export feature is borked for me (can't request my archive) and I don't seem to have a developer key for the API. Does anyone know of a quick and dirty way to dump simple JSON or CSV of my public tweets from this month?.

He just posted a poll asking whether to reinstate tr*mp and I just want to be clear: if tr*mp comes back on Twitter, this account is going away. I’ve found my community on Mastodon. I’ve put up the archive. I did it all with an eye toward this moment; I’ve prepared as best I can.

this is all just so heartbreaking.

I'm hoping to also have 25 full kits available as soon as next month, which will also be in the shop. That kit will have all the parts you need to build one EXCEPT the Pi Pico (tho I'll put some of those in the shop too I guess). You just need tweezers, solder + a soldering iron.

It feels like I need close out all business here while I can. Open Book update: I have a limited number of bare PCBs in the Oddly Specific shop, as well as the castellated e-paper driver you'll need to build one. Not all the parts, but the two custom ones:

RT @jonrog1: Every comment I see in favor or Musk after another news item is "He has to destroy the evil woke-ocracy in middle management!"….

if you ever see me speak to a co-worker this way, I demand that you slap me across the face. hell, if I were to speak to the staff at my local coffee shop this way, they'd be well within their rights to ban me for life.

I should add that it only works with tweets through November 5, the last archive of my data that I was able to successfully pull. The “Request an archive of your data” feature seems to be one of the microservices that got turned off; I requested one on Monday and it never came :(.

spent some time last night putting my twitter archive online, because I think the site could evaporate, and a lot of my process of making is tied up there. the gist: take any tweet of mine, replace the twitter . com with and you get the archived version.

RT @josecastillo: money doesn’t make things. people make things. and people can unmake them too.

Y'ALL! I forgot a very important way to keep in touch. If you have any interest in Sensor Watch, the Open Book, the LCD FeatherWing or any other Oddly Specific Objects, please join the Oddly Specific Objects discord server! We're building a community here:

in closing, blue bird, if this is the end: 🫡.

in my own way I loved this dumb birdsite. I was always able to be here on my terms, and despite itself it was a good place. I hate that he bought it. I hate what he did to it. I hate what he did to the people who cared enough to keep it going. I hate how he broke it so callously.

I quit for a few years, after trump used it to break things, but eventually I came back. it wasn't what it was in my early 20s. but then, I'm not who I was then either. In recent years I found such a positive and welcoming community here, in spite of hellsite's worst tendencies….

I feel so conflicted. I've been on hellsite through four presidents now. The first app I wrote used the Twitter API. Now I've made products, from a tweet to a real object, and shared it all here. My whole adult life happened here. My career wouldn't be what it is now without it….

as the last fail whale descends, I want you to know that I liked you all, and I'm sad it's likely ending. Pls keep in touch; Mastodon seems to be where it's at. 🐘 👨🏽‍💻 🌐 ✉️ firstname @