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- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
- Degree
- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
- Work
- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
Joined Apr 2022
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On September 25, 1965, 59 year old Satchel Paige pitched for the Kansas City A's against the Boston Red Sox. He pitched 3 innings and only gave up 1 hit - a double to Carl Yastrzemski.
This concluded his career in the American League w an ERA of 3.29 over 476 innings and two All Star selections - all done when he was between 41-59 years old.
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My Paraphrase of a Recent Faculty Meeting:
"2023 is going to be a year of INNOVATION for us - by which I mean, we're going to resurrect some programs that we've tried repeatedly over the years but have never worked and which we refuse to alter based on feedback from those who've been through this cycle multiple times. If you resist, it's because you don't care enough about our kids' success to risk being INNOVATIVE!"
US Politics
With today's second set of #Classified documents, it is time for #Biden to step aside and not seek the #democratic presidential nomination in #2024.
He is already a weak candidate with a poor track record when it comes to making significant progress on the economy, the climate crisis, women's health and judiciary reform. He is a very old man and his age alone adds greater risk of becoming unable to campaign at a critical moment. (can you imagine what happens if a 82 year old candidate ends up in the hospital a few weeks before the general election?)
Now we have this political gift to the GOP. Not only does this totally blunt any messaging on the Mar-a-Lago documents, but it will hand around Biden's neck like "her emails"
Maybe for a great candidate with strong popular support it would be worth enduring the political headwinds of this #scandal, but Joe Biden is the least popular first term #democrat in the age of modern polling. It would be better for the party and the country for him to step aside now and allow for a robust open 20-24 democratic primary.
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RT @RichardRubinDC
First CBO score of the new Congress is here.
Says that the GOP IRS funding bill would reduce spending by $71.5B and reduce revenue by $185.8B.
Net deficit increase of $114B.
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Starting January 1, California now requires that companies with more than 15 employees disclose the pay range for their positions both to job applicants and to current employees. I attended a mandatory training for managers about how to respond. I'm wondering if anyone has put out guidance for employees about how to use this newly available data?
And nobody seems to like him
they can tell what he want to do
and he never shows his feelings
But the Fool on the Hill
Sees the sun going down,
and the eyes in his head
see the world spinning round.
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I'm more or less part of the fediverse since 2017, but I still can't get over the fact that you people are describing images, very often making me almost content with not being able to see them at all. I've never seen so many people taking time to write meaningful descriptions on this level anywhere else.
It really, really means a lot! Thank you for making it awesome for everyone! Keep 'em coming! ☺️
It really, really means a lot! Thank you for making it awesome for everyone! Keep 'em coming! ☺️
I am a proud Cal Poly Alumni and I am glad to see Poly Canyon getting some recognition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhHM9MT41IE
Back at work. I'd forgotten how many different way wearing a mask is annoying.
The power went out. I'm isolating because of I have Covid. Can't cook; can't heat the place. No one to play board games with by candlelight and our usual thing of driving to a restaurant that has power probably isn't respectful of community health. 😫
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Happy New Years Western Europe and Central Africa.
This is why we need to build more above ground storage folks. That's almost 50,000 acre ft a day we are dumping into the ocean instead of drinking and growing crops. It is enough water wasted each day to supply 150 homes for a full year - every day. All because we don't want to invest in storing more water.
Folsom Dam began gradually increasing the release of water today at 8am. By 8pm, it will have gone from 8,000 CFS to 25,000 to make room in the res...
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"The Human's world ends soon," said the cat.
"Again?" said the dog.
"They are fond of endings and beginnings. Even if nothing changes."
The dog whined.
"Same procedure as last year?" said the cat.
"Please."
The cat lay on the dog's head and purred, muffling the fireworks.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Just a gentle reminder that the world is not all on EST. https://www.timeanddate.com/counters/newyearmap.html
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Seriously though, fedi was *built* by furries, trans and queer folk, disabled neurodivergent people.
This is *the reason* the culture here is what it is. Why CWs are a thing. Why image descriptions are a thing. Why privacy matters here. Why moderation tools not only exist, but are usable — and used.
If you had joined and asked yourself "wow, how come this place is so chill and kinda… nice?" — that's thanks to all the nice people from communities some people call "weird".
So #KeepFediWeird.
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Right now, the difference between Southwest Airlines and #Covid19 is that COVID-19 is airborne…
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I was just telling my 8.5 yo son about how in 2d video games they used magenta for transparency.
My 6yo daughter says "tootie video games??" and starts making fart noises.
She got me good
- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
- Degree
- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
- Work
- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
Joined Apr 2022
