What I've learnt on the Twitter this year:

1. The State of Hawaii makes Jason Kenney honorary Premier.
2. Rod Phillips and John Tory say Rod nodded off on a TTC streetcar and somehow ended up in St Barts.
3. New Conservative Task Force created to locate their MPs and staff.

4. Michelle Rempel says, because some other Conservative politicians did the wrong thing, now she can't do the wrong thing, because the media will report she did the wrong thing, and that's wrong for the media to do. That's it. That's the funny part.
5. Mike Harris awarded the Order of Ontario, which basically makes the whole thing an attendance award.
6. Doug Ford announces that a large order of McDonald's fries and a box of Philadelphia Cream Cheese will also be awarded the Order of Ontario this year.
7. UCP MLA Tracy Allard says she left the country and flew to Hawaii because her family can't celebrate Christmas properly without eggnog served in genuine coconuts.
8. UCP MLA Jeremy Nixon says he only travelled to Hawaii to personally forward a really funny email joke to Allard
9. After appearing more than an hour late for the press conference he'd called, Jason Kenney says Alberta's vaccination rates are low because Trudeau screwed up and delivered the vaccines early. That's it. That's the funny part.
10. Doug Ford sent Jason Kenney a Thank You card.
11. Kenney says he didn't make travel restrictions for his MLAs clear and will be sure to include "No recreational travel during a pandemic, guys!" notes when he packs their lunches for them.
12. The Toronto Sun covers its eyes, counts to 30 and pretends Justin Trudeau is hiding.
13. Doug's vaccine czar, General Rick Hillier, suggests half a dose of vaccine, some good mess chow and a long march with a heavy pack will keep Ontarians safe from Covid.
14. With dozens and dozens dying in LTCs, Caroline Mulroney travels to 1986 and urges us all to buckle up.
15. Doug says he had no idea his Finance Minister had left the country. Says he thought Rod said he was flying to St. Jacobs for the Christmas break.
16. Jason Kenney appears at his New Year's Day press conference wearing a "I ❤️ Maui" hoodie.
17. Brett Wilson says egregious Conservative hypocrisy and shameful role modelling isn't the problem - the problem is that extra 3 dollars all those rich people are paying at the pumps as they make their way to the airport for their traditional Hawaiian Christmas vacations.
18. Poilievre says 2021 is going to be "the year of the worker." Doesn't say what he or Michelle Rempel be doing in 2021 then.
19. Zoom Inc reports huge surge in green screen background use in 2020, saying uptick rates concentrated in cities with provincial legislatures.
20. In a tweeted New Year's Greeting video, Stephen Lecce says he's optimistic 2021 will be a good year. So yeah, we're good.
21. Doug was most upset about Phillips's pandemic jet-setting because Rod was expected at the Ford Extended Family Christmas dinner and Secret Santa swap.
22. After calling in sick most of the year, 2020 finally resigns.
23. In 2035, millions of adults who were kids in 2020 will think back fondly on memories of Nana and Papa's foreheads and stippled ceilings.
24. 2020: The year of the Glory Hole. Oh, and Doug Ford's food orgasm.
25. I usually head to southern Arizona this time of year. Bit of a tradition. Recharge my batteries. Sunshine, hiking, rattlesnake dodging, and killer desert sunsets. Not going this year. Because, you know, pandemic.

Clearly, I'd make a lousy politician.

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More from Twitter

So regarding to my "bombshell"...it's perhaps a bit less dramatic than many presumed, yet it still troubles me a lot, to the point that I wondered whether I should stop posting on certain things


You see, I realized in the last few months that, by translating information and news related to one of the fastest growing spaceflight powers of the world...I inadvertently became a spreader of PRC propaganda.

And with me exactly 180 degrees away from them, I feel scared.

It actually started a few years ago - it's not hard to meet Chinese Twitter users interested in spaceflight, either those living overseas or find a way to climb over the wall. Not surprisingly, many of these S/F enthusiasts are interested in their own military too.

This steadily grew with my followers' count until the flagship Chinese spaceflight missions of 2020 (Chang'e 5 especially but also many others) brought in dozens of them liking/re-tweeting my info tweets sometimes, and similar no. of such followers every month.

I do casually check these new followers/users sometimes. To my horror, far too many of them routinely insults, attacks, mocks others who they see as "anti-China" or spread potential mis-information, even blatant attacks, that started off w/ their state media/spokesperson.
The twitter ban on 45 is a victory in some sense for the immediate but a warning in the long term, not on the curtail of free speech but as gesture towards the expansive power commercial tech has on every aspect of our governance and our lives, I don’t quite have the words but-

What I’m trying to get at, is not just that Twitter’s decision allows us to see—in ways that have been obscured—how much control they have over content moderation—

but as @Elinor_Carmi points out “platforms don’t just moderate or filter “content”; they alter what registers to us and our social groups as “social” or as “experience.”
https://t.co/GSByAOoDWg changed

I’m worried that the celebration of Twitter’s intervention on fascist rhetoric-however too little and too late- directs us to desire tech companies enforcement of liberal and democratic procedures rather than towards an investigation of

how they’ve developed computational infrastructures which exceed the power of the nation state, are hollowing out our institutions for frictionless (see removing human contact) optimization and are insufficiently described by neoliberalism

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प्रसन्न होकर महर्षि कश्यप बोले,"मुझे तुम दोनों से विशेष लगाव है, इसलिए यदि तुम्हारी कोई विशेष इच्छा हो तो मुझे बताओ। मैं उसे अवश्य पूरा करूंगा ।"

कद्रू बोली,"स्वामी! मेरी इच्छा है कि मैं हज़ार पुत्रों की मां बनूंगी।"
विनता बोली,"स्वामी! मुझे केवल एक पुत्र की मां बनना है जो इतना बलवान हो की कद्रू के हज़ार पुत्रों पर भारी पड़े।"
महर्षि बोले,"शीघ्र ही मैं यज्ञ करूंगा और यज्ञ के उपरांत तुम दोनो की इच्छाएं अवश्य पूर्ण होंगी"।


महर्षि ने यज्ञ किया,विनता व कद्रू को आशीर्वाद देकर तपस्या करने चले गए। कुछ काल पश्चात कद्रू ने हज़ार अंडों से काले सर्पों को जन्म दिया व विनता ने एक अंडे से तेजस्वी बालक को जन्म दिया जिसका नाम गरूड़ रखा।जैसे जैसे समय बीता गरुड़ बलवान होता गया और कद्रू के पुत्रों पर भारी पड़ने लगा


परिणामस्वरूप दिन प्रतिदिन कद्रू व विनता के सम्बंधों में कटुता बढ़ती गयी।एकदिन जब दोनो भ्रमण कर रहीं थी तब कद्रू ने दूर खड़े सफेद घोड़े को देख कर कहा,"बता सकती हो विनता!दूर खड़ा वो घोड़ा किस रंग का है?"
विनता बोली,"सफेद रंग का"।
तो कद्रू बोली,"शर्त लगाती हो? इसकी पूँछ तो काली है"।