Very close race between @gtconway3d and @scottjshapiro for the #ShitPostOff Championship. There are still five hours to vote. Who will take the trophy? And what will the prize be? Right now, Scott is in the lead…. dogshirtdaily.com/p/who-will-tak… But George has two million followers in his firehose. Will be blow Scott off his feet like a policeman facing an unarmed protester with a water cannon? Will Scott’s mob of violent exclusive legal positives rig the vote against him?
A lot can happen in five hours!

The Octagon House When the White House burns and the barbarians sack the heart of our nation, the Octagon House is always there for regrouping.

Ok this SMO will not be happening tonight, though the test was a success. But here’s a little preview. Next weekend, my confederate and I are going to set up a hashtag to which people can tweet to have #LordLaser project their messages to the Russian government onto the embassy.

https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/1637437494055641091

The messages will be subject to human review, to prevent counter-trolling. The idea is to let people in Ukraine and Ukrainians abroad speak directly to the Russian government. We will enable messages in Ukrainian, English, and Russian.

Faces of Aphrodisias

Puppy with antiquity.

Mosaics

Newborn kittens, born overnight. To all who are either congratulating me or chiding me for not neutering my cat, the cat is not mine. I am in a hotel in rural Turkey. I am a bystander who likes animals.

To all my #Ukraine-supporting friends: For the past couple of weeks, I have been attaching @shanovna_s’s laser essay to every tweet by Russian foreign ministry twitter accounts. See below for an example. The idea is to make sure that Russian propaganda is broken up with something

https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/1633840926706798594

Serious and compelling. Today, the ministry accounts began blocking me. So far it’s just one, but I am worried that I won’t be able to continue doing this for much longer. So please pick up the torch and start appending Katya’s video to embassy tweets,

This is russian policy: ships stacked up in the Sea of Marmara trying to go through the Bosporus to get grain out of #Ukraine while food prices worldwide remain high.

Police and Secret Service have sealed off Wisconsin Avenue NW in front of russian embassy again. There seem to be a LOT of police cars. On the other hand the perimeter is narrower than it was during the washing machine episode. It would be convenient for the russians for a security incident to preclude the vigil that has been planned for more than a month to take place precisely in the space that is now sealed off.

This is the projection essay we will be presenting this evening onto the russian embassy. The text is by @shanovna_s, whose diary of surviving Bucha moved me deeply and whom I asked what she would want to say to the russian ambassador in Washington.
Here is the diary: medium.com/the-ukrainian-…

Good Morning

Wow.
This is as offensive a sign as I have seen in a while!

https://twitter.com/mavkaslavka/status/1627390519126163456

https://twitter.com/ciaglepada100/status/1627423338879455233

Round I, Match 4 of #ShitPostOff2023 begins now: @Timodc vs. @p8stie.
The contestants may shitpost in this thread for 24 hours, starting now, under the rules of the #ShitPostOff. May the best shitposter win. (tweets from @DarkP8stie @LightP8stie @p8stieSales @P8stiesIntern @womanlukas, @p8stieisLegend and @pharaohp8stie will also be accepted as shitposts from @p8stie)

I really think we should have a shitposting March Madness bracket. Obviously @scottjshapiro would be the number 1 seed. But there are some other truly great shitposters on this website, even in its degraded state. There are the long-time legend shitposters like @seafish1982. There are the unintentionally hilarious shitposters like @RichardGrenell (at whom you should tweet a footpic).

There are the occasional shitposters like @OrinKerr, who drop little bombs of excellence every now and then.

There are the great political shitposters like @Timodc.

The new standard of toughness in the GOP: posing with a gun and boasting about how you personally would shoot down a balloon.

https://twitter.com/karilake/status/1621506285765099520

Ok, please ignore this tweet thread unless you are @johnhawkinson. Let's see if this works. 1 2

Twitter really feels empty now. If it weren't for the need to promote @lawfareblog content and the fact that my Ukrainian contacts are all on Twitter, I would be so out of here.

I will be there.
#LordLaser will be there attempting to cover the front of the russian embassy with candles.
You should be there too.

DC folks: Please turn up for this. It's the anniversary of the full-scale invasion. You have a month's notice.
facebook.com/events/s/1-yea… The Ukrainian community hasn't asked much of us as citizens of this city. It would be great if a large turnout of non-Ukrainians showed up for this one.

Time for more coffee. Which requires standing up.