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alex swavely ❓ retweeted
Attention lab technicians: PLEASE start listening to your patients.
Today went like it often does.
Me: “They can only get a vein in my hands. Please use this one.”
Tech: “Everyone says that. I’m going to try your arm.”
Me: “You’re not going to get it. Please don’t.”
She tried anyway. Dug around. Tried again. And again. And again.
After 6 sticks, she finally used the vein I pointed to in the first place.
Then she tried to blame it on me being dehydrated. Well, I have active Crohn’s disease right now, so yes, I probably am.
But, had she listened to begin with...
alex swavely ❓ retweeted
Dear Police:
You cannot charge someone for obstruction for refusing to talk to you. "Being suspicious" is not a crime. Just because you "got a call" does not obligate anyone to ID themselves or answer any of your questions. If you suspect someone of committing a crime, then arrest them, but they STILL don't have to talk to you.
Hope this helps.
alex swavely ❓ retweeted
I recited this to my wife Cathy.
She said "Those are three problems". I said "What part of 'off by one error' did you fail to understand?"
I am resting comfortably and expected to make a full recovery.
alex swavely ❓ retweeted
Hey! Any geniuses here know what's up with this?
Wired it up, and w/ antenna, I get a massive buzz when I key the mic. Is that a ground issue with the mic cable or something internal in the radio?
I bought it mostly as set-dressing in the studio, but was playing with it today.
alex swavely ❓ retweeted
Looking at CDC guildlines, this means it is time for every American to shove a paper mask into their asshole.
If you see someone alone in their car with a paper mask in their asshole, try to remember they are doing it to keep you safe as well as themselves.
xitter.cf/Polymarket/status/2077…
72% chance the Cyclosporiasis outbreak surpasses 3,000+ cases by the end of the month. poly.market/OZiYbWJ
alex swavely ❓ retweeted
I always assumed people were just reading too many star wars books when they came up with these.
alex swavely ❓ retweeted
Today is the last day to benefit from my spite.
The first two Quintus Fox books are still free over on that one site. I'm just under 300 free ebooks given away so far. I'd like to hit 500.
Why?
Don't know.
But I'm sure it'll all work out.
So if you liked Firefly but always thought it would be funnier if Jayne had been in charge, these are right up your alley.
Bounty Hunter -- amazon.com/dp/B0DS6X7VLL
Moons Run Red -- amazon.com/dp/B0DS9ZQ3B3
#freebook #freebooks #quintusfox
alex swavely ❓ retweeted
Someone pulls out a knife and every white dude in a 500-foot radius pulls out their knife and wants to talk knives.
Just posting this makes me want to pull out my knife.
alex swavely ❓ retweeted
Proud to introduce new legislation that will eliminate the remaining NFA taxes on machine guns and destructive devices.
Taxing our constitutional rights is unacceptable and unconstitutional, it’s past time we put an end to it!
alex swavely ❓ retweeted
I’m starting a petition here on X to fight 3D printing ghost gun legislation.
To participate, reply with the following:
Full Name
Address
How many printers you have
How many ghost guns you have
How many dogs you have
When you are usually sleeping
Photos of ghost guns too.
alex swavely ❓ retweeted
🚀 I’ve been working with @Polymaker_3D for the last few months to secure a free spool of Polymaker filament for anyone who watched the Artemis II launch!
Register and get your spool here!
loyal.ms/freefilament
alex swavely ❓ retweeted
I loathe to make the slippery slope argument but they're not going to stop at requiring you to monitor your 3D printer so you don't print guns.
If they can claim simply because something is in computer code that is not considered free speech, then your PC is prime real estate for the government to spy on.
This is like asking word processors to report everything back to the government so that they can make sure you're not writing something illegal.
"But I don't do illegal things," I hear you say. Not yet you don't. That day is coming.
alex swavely ❓ retweeted
This 3Dprinting law fare is a serious problem. Not just for myself but for other basic rights in the US around free speech.
What if our speech is not considered free if “code” delivers it? Could our speech online be deemed unprotected because the machine used code to send it? Thats the kind of wild implications that can happen from general wide sweeping laws that are happening right now.
3Dprinting and code is not the problem - just like electricity didn’t spawn demons in your house or that video games made people violent when they grew up.
You Can’t slap a lock on a making device and expect those wishing to do harm to not just pry it off. They have bad intentions. A lockout will not stop ghost gs. This trajectory means good innocent people and a whole industry of manufacturing IN AMERICA will be affected. 3 states in the country trying to pass laws like this.
You’re hurting innocent peoples livelihood by passing judgements and laws that are not solving the problem of illegal firearms. It’s like doing articulate surgery with a hammer.
Not all computer code protected as speech, US appeals court finds in ghost gun case reuters.com/legal/government…