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Retired tech manager, pythonista, emacser and fitness nut.

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09.02.2025 11:17 πŸ‘ 34795 πŸ” 7879 πŸ’¬ 420 πŸ“Œ 270
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Black excellence: Twice as qualified, half as respected, and still passed over or labeled as a β€˜DEI hire.’

Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.

07.02.2025 15:16 πŸ‘ 37429 πŸ” 11816 πŸ’¬ 1307 πŸ“Œ 543
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Ann Telnaes hits it out of the park:

30.01.2025 01:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer on Substack And so goddamn accurate. Fight back, folks.

substack.com/@themouthyre...

28.01.2025 03:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ugh

07.01.2025 18:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

100%

04.01.2025 21:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My wife vetoed setting our home to gruvbox (but she also said she'd tolerate solarized!) 😏

30.12.2024 02:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Own the libs...

29.12.2024 03:36 πŸ‘ 12107 πŸ” 2210 πŸ’¬ 175 πŸ“Œ 90

100%……Was part of Y2K remediation as well at a very large asset manager

29.12.2024 16:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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25.12.2024 03:31 πŸ‘ 19510 πŸ” 3829 πŸ’¬ 550 πŸ“Œ 231
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The Economist news quizβ€”Christmas special Fifty questions to test your knowledge of the year's events

Fun quiz for an inveterate Economist reader!
I scored 71 out of 100 points on @TheEconomist Xmas news quiz!

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Can you do better? Economist.com/XmasQuiz24

21.12.2024 17:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Look either the entire US economy turned around sometime in the month of November, or the economy really was great and we’ve just been mainlining media doomerism all along

21.12.2024 13:42 πŸ‘ 2085 πŸ” 453 πŸ’¬ 90 πŸ“Œ 48
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Trump's transition is happening over private emails. Federal officials are nervous. Agencies are weighing in-person requirement for sensitive data.

i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

19.12.2024 16:21 πŸ‘ 19572 πŸ” 5790 πŸ’¬ 611 πŸ“Œ 450

Instead of Canada becoming the 51st state, the US should consider becoming an 11th province.

Americans would get universal healthcare, parental leave, sensible gun control and fries smothered in cheese curds and gravy.

19.12.2024 17:41 πŸ‘ 16111 πŸ” 2983 πŸ’¬ 1019 πŸ“Œ 305

California, a state of nearly 40,000,000 people, has the same amount of representation in the United States Senate as Wyoming, a state of less than 600,000 people.

This is the direct result of a deal struck between slave states and free states in the 1700s.

It’s time for that to change.

15.12.2024 19:46 πŸ‘ 15359 πŸ” 3724 πŸ’¬ 631 πŸ“Œ 199

So when mass shootings of average people and school children occurs, it's all "there's nothing we can do, these things just happen" but when a CEO gets shot, we need a special hotline, new safety protocols, and to lock up housewives over frustrated phone conversations.

Got it.

16.12.2024 22:18 πŸ‘ 3288 πŸ” 1229 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 38

ABC’s settlement with Trump feels like it could be an inflection point in the Orbanization of our politics.

I hope it isn’t.

14.12.2024 21:51 πŸ‘ 2295 πŸ” 379 πŸ’¬ 182 πŸ“Œ 34
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Fold. Your. Arms.

15.12.2024 00:28 πŸ‘ 16287 πŸ” 3757 πŸ’¬ 354 πŸ“Œ 151

ABC (Disney), Washington Post (Bezos), Meta (Zuckerberg), LA Times (Soon-Shiong)... all bending the knee to Trump, all obeying in advance, all sucking up to the Dictator-in-Waiting.

This is (part of) how democracies die. This is the Orban, Putin, Netanyahu and Modi playbooks.

15.12.2024 03:29 πŸ‘ 10506 πŸ” 2889 πŸ’¬ 354 πŸ“Œ 144
Exclusive: Trump transition recommends scrapping car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Tesla

Exclusive: Trump transition recommends scrapping car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Tesla

It begins

www.reuters.com/business/aut...

14.12.2024 01:08 πŸ‘ 3707 πŸ” 1155 πŸ’¬ 162 πŸ“Œ 130

Donald Trump has now admitted that he cannot guarantee that his policies will lower grocery prices.

He said the complete opposite on the campaign trail.

Yet another lie from Trump. House Democrats, meanwhile, will continue to work to lower your costs.

13.12.2024 00:48 πŸ‘ 544 πŸ” 109 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 7
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For the next four years…

13.12.2024 00:02 πŸ‘ 32095 πŸ” 4888 πŸ’¬ 645 πŸ“Œ 188
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My God imagine if media had told anyone about this

11.12.2024 04:10 πŸ‘ 13508 πŸ” 5515 πŸ’¬ 653 πŸ“Œ 359
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@sanders.senate.gov calls out the absurdity of big money's role in politics.

10.12.2024 15:59 πŸ‘ 835 πŸ” 146 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 8
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Exactly

09.12.2024 16:15 πŸ‘ 34668 πŸ” 6984 πŸ’¬ 958 πŸ“Œ 303
Trump didn’t rule out pardoning people who had pleaded guilty, even when Welker asked him about those who had admitted assaulting police officers. 

β€œBecause they had no choice,” Trump said.

Trump didn’t rule out pardoning people who had pleaded guilty, even when Welker asked him about those who had admitted assaulting police officers. β€œBecause they had no choice,” Trump said.

Trump said that rioters on January 6 had "no choice" but to assault police officers

If any Democrat in the country publicly justified the assault of a police officer it is all you would ever hear about for years

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

09.12.2024 01:02 πŸ‘ 9481 πŸ” 2751 πŸ’¬ 424 πŸ“Œ 233

People not elected to government should not have the power to reshape the government, especially people whose obscene wealth depends on the government functioning a certain way.

This is not a hot take.

It's just plain common sense.

07.12.2024 20:04 πŸ‘ 48416 πŸ” 10690 πŸ’¬ 1074 πŸ“Œ 418

Brill

07.12.2024 05:00 πŸ‘ 819 πŸ” 128 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 10