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Andrew Festa

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Software Developer. Maryland. Jersey shore native. NYGiants fan. Unapologetic progressive. He/Him.

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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 1h
“States have federal authority to adopt permanent Standard Time today, the same authority Arizona and Hawaii use… End clock change immediately…” @sthurlow.bsky.social lastfallback.org
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Last Fall Back Act — End the Clock Change in Washington State
Ending Washington's biannual clock change. Permanent standard time now, permanent daylight time once Congress allows.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 1h
“Washington should move to permanent Pacific Standard Time immediately.... Under the federal Uniform Time Act, states can opt out of Daylight Saving Time....”
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Former Microsoft product manager launches bid to end clock change in Washington state, Congress or not

by Sydney Jackson on Aug 20, 2026 at 3:58 pm

Scott Thurlow is founder of Last Fall Back Washington. (Photo courtesy of Scott Thurlow)

Scott Thurlow isn’t a morning person. So much so, he wants to change state law.

In 2019, Washington lawmakers voted to put the state on permanent daylight saving time if Congress ever allows it. Thurlow has a different idea: Stop changing the clocks now, even if that means staying on Pacific Standard Time for a while.

Thurlow spent 32 years at Microsoft in product management for franchises including the original Outlook, Teams and, most recently, Copilot. A constant stressor was working across time zones.

“We always dreaded the time zone changes on either end because it was meeting chaos,” he said. “Talking with India, which is like 12 hours off, went from really bad to worse…
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Andrew Festa @andrewfesta.com · 29/09/2026
I dont like the word "AI" neither. I prefer its technical definition, LLM. But "SI" is even stupider. Trumpnis a moran.
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Ed Valentine @edvalentine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Odell Beckham released by #NYGiants as comeback flames out. www.bigblueview.com/new-york-gia...
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NY Giants release WR Odell Beckham Jr., per reports
Odell Beckham Jr. is once again a former Giant.
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I woke up today in the acceptance phase of the JJ McCarthy deal. Go do your thing and win for us. GO GIANTS #nygiants
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Ed Valentine @edvalentine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
27-7 Bears w/8 minutes to play. The #NYGiants are going to wake up Tuesday tied for first place in the NFC East.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 28/09/2026
A Moms for Liberty activist and loyal Trump supporter is facing up to eight years in prison after she was found guilty on nine counts of election fraud last week. trib.al/yxdfO5t
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Surprise! MAGA Candidate Convicted of Election Fraud
Turns out there is election fraud, after all.
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Patricia Traina @patriciatraina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Giants are trading for Vikings QB J.J. McCarthy. The cost: a 2027 fifth rounder. (Photo: Matt Pendleton-Imagn Images)
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 28/09/2026
Republican House members Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson have called for all transgender people to be rounded up and forcibly institutionalized. trib.al/mOoXiIY
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The Fascists Want Trans People to Leave. I Left. But Should We All?
I moved north. Polls show many trans Americans would leave if they could. Should Canada make us an offer we can’t refuse?
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An ugly win is still a win LET'S GO GIANTS 🏈
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DrawPlayDave @thedrawplay.com · 27/09/2026
The NFCE is the greatest clownshow in professional sports how dare you sir
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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 27/09/2026
FBS College Football Imperialism Map after Week 4! #CFBimperialism⚔️ Rules: FBS teams divide USA by closest county. Beating a team takes its territory & keeps it all until a loss (all goes to the winner), but teams can get back on the map by defeating others with land!
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cam Ward throws the pick Giants gonna win this but this shit was ugly
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Man's Heartfelt Laugh
ALT: Man's Heartfelt Laugh
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Ed Valentine @edvalentine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And the #NYGiants will escape. A scrambling Cam Ward is intercepted in the end zone by Jevon Holland. Intened for Eric Ayomanor.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/09/2026
You read that right. trib.al/Pi7n6xp
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MAGA Senator Goes on Crazed Posting Spree About Furries
You read that right.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 24/09/2026
Chinese state media got access to the White House—but not American outlets that Trump doesn’t like. trib.al/AhZyZJz
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Trump Gives Chinese State Media More Power Than American Media
Chinese state media got access to the White House—but not American outlets that Trump doesn’t like.
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lmfao #nygiants
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Scooter Magruder @scootermagruder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NFC East Meeting: Week 2
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NFC East Meeting: Week 2
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Scooter Magruder @scootermagruder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Giants could be cursed
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Andrew Festa @andrewfesta.com · 24/09/2026
"For a second there i thought you were listing our four best players" www.youtube.com/shorts/Odeu7...
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Giants fans in week 3 #NFL #Comedy
YouTube video by el Jefé
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Ed Valentine @edvalentine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
With Jaxson Dart gone for the season, the #NYGiants are left to pick up the pieces of a season that won't be what they hoped it could be. www.bigblueview.com/new-york-gia...
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Jaxson Dart injury changes the story of 2026, and perhaps beyond, for the Giants
The upward trajectory of the franchise has been halted, and the Gaints will be trying to survive the next 15 games.
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Andrew Festa @andrewfesta.com · 23/09/2026
What if Trump is actually getting GenAI to write his speeches? ChatGPT compiling falsehoods and false praise and is over there telling him how powerful his speech is and encouraging his bluster. Then nobody, not even he or just aides (or Natalie) is actually proofing that bullshit. Maybe?
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Andrew Festa @andrewfesta.com · 23/09/2026
The only place Trump can put his name on and we'd be OK with it - is Epstein Island.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 23/09/2026
Trump once again embarrassed America in front of the rest of the world. trib.al/6uoCxT2
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Trump Tells U.N. He’s Renaming AI Based on a Social Media Poll
Trump once again embarrassed America in front of the rest of the world.
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Ed Valentine @edvalentine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jaxson Dart could face surgery, miss rest of season for the #NYGiants. With quotes from John Harbaugh. www.bigblueview.com/new-york-gia...
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Jaxson Dart injury: NY Giants’ QB could miss the remainder of the 2026 season
Your best source for quality New York Giants news, rumors, analysis, stats and scores from the fan perspective.
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cursed
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Andrew Festa @andrewfesta.com · 22/09/2026
wow, this man really DOES destroy everything he touches.
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Andrew Festa @andrewfesta.com · 22/09/2026
The sound you hear is the screams of Giants fans everywhere. maybe even Harbaugh.
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Andrew Festa @andrewfesta.com · 22/09/2026
well that was a nightmare game. a game that will have lasting effect on future games.
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Ed Valentine @edvalentine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Disappointing half for the #NYGiants ends with a missed FG by the Rams, so a little bit of good news. Giants trail, 14-3.
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Andrew Festa @andrewfesta.com · 22/09/2026
Well that week was fun while it lasted #nygiants
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Entire presidential TV press pool has agreed to suspend its coverage in the wake of President Trump’s decision to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House.
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
GAMEDAY 🏈 #NYGIANTS
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Patricia Traina @patriciatraina.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ernie Accorsi, Giants GM Who Brought In Coughlin and Manning, Dies at 84 www.si.com/nfl/giants/onsi/ernie-ac…
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🤔🤔🤔
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Explicitly Anti-Vaxx @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
I would like to propose that we Fall back and then just leave the clocks alone
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New York Post @nypost.com · 20/09/2026
Ernie Accorsi, GM who drafted Eli Manning and changed Giants history, dead at 84
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Ernie Accorsi, GM who drafted Eli Manning and changed Giants history, dead at 84
Ernie Accorsi, the former Giants general manager who drafted Eli Manning and changed the course of the franchise, died Saturday night, the team announced Sunday. He was 84.
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NY Giants Fans UK @nygiantsfansuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#ErnieAccorsi, who brought #TomCoughlin and #EliManning to New York, passed away Saturday. Accorsi was the Giants' GM from 1998-2006 after serving as an assistant under #GeorgeYoung for four seasons | #NYGiants #UKGiants #NFLUK #NYG (KB) www.giants.com/news/giants-...
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Giants mourn loss of former GM and Ring of Honor inductee Ernie Accorsi
Ernie Accorsi, who became only the second general manager inducted into the Giants Ring of Honor and was instrumental in bringing Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning to the franchise, passed away peacefully ...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Does putting kids to bed while the sun’s out and having them go to school in the dark make sense? Instead Congress should ditch DST.” 👏 Thank you, California State Senator Roger Niello!
Newspaper clipping from September 11, 2026, in the American River Messenger. Editorial by California State Senator Roger Niello for permanent Standard Time.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19/09/2026
Donald Trump plans to spend thousands of dollars installing signs that accuse the museum of bias. trib.al/s6lP4OS
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Trump Wants to Try Publicly Shaming the Smithsonian Into Caving to Him
Donald Trump plans to spend thousands of dollars installing signs that accuse the museum of bias.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“My badge didn’t work, the officer asked me to hand it over.” MS NOW White House reporter Akayla Gardner says she has indeed been banned by authoritarian fascist Trump, as he throws a tantrum over the coverage of his countless failures.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
MS NOW statement: @ms.now
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Andrew Festa @andrewfesta.com · 18/09/2026
Again, WHY? Republicans are destroying democracy, the economy, and waging war and this so called DEM is fucking focused on a little trans girl playing sports with her friends? Get your priorities straight!
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
Advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care is not advocating for Paxton. It's advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care.
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DrawPlayDave @thedrawplay.com · 18/09/2026
The Away team is down 3 scores by the second quarter and I want to do something else. TNF is so back, baby
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Andrew Festa @andrewfesta.com · 17/09/2026
I wonder if Trump's people actually sabotaged the Kennedy Center structure so they'd have to claim it's in disrepair. The art of the Grift.
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Mercedes Allen @mercedesallen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If Republican ads are all "Dem is pro-trans" and Dem ads are "I am anti-trans," then together they've succeeded in making the US election NOT be about affordability, the Iran war, the Epstein Files, rampant corruption and hate, wealth disparity, AI datacenters, climate change, dismantling of educa…
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you're one of these Democrats and you don't turn these attack ads into tying Musk and all his atrocities and billionaire out of state money to your Republican opponent, I don't know what the hell you're doing
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026
Last week, it was a few Dems agreeing with sports bans, calling trans girls "men," and agreeing to vote for national bans on gender affirming care. This week is Marcy Kaptur in Ohio highlighting that she voted "with Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of our schools."
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