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The People Lab @thepeoplelab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Great to join @benkittelson56.bsky.social on the GovLove podcast to talk about Public Servant Pulse! Listen to the podcast-- and if you are a state or local government employee, take the survey & share! 🏛️📝➡️ bit.ly/4eV2891 🎧🎙️ ➡️ bit.ly/4pgrbXI

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Public Servant Pulse, developed by The People Lab, based at the Harvard Kennedy School, is an annual survey that seeks to better understand the experiences, perspectives, and challenges of state and l...

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 08/06/2026

logging on to bsky dot app

black and white photo from 1991 of a mustachioed man in a sweater and collared shirt sitting at a computer with a dot matrix printer and flanked by 5.25 inch floppy disks beside him. he looks slightly off camera but beams with quiet confidence. he is magnificent.

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Elizabeth Linos @elizabethlinos.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Ok friends - need your help spreading the word! If you work in state or local government, please take this survey and share with your networks! bit.ly/3Rsihtn It's the first-of-its-kind national effort to elevate the voices of local public servants! (1/2)

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Ben Kittelson @benkittelson56.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I feel like @edsbs.bsky.social needs to know this is part of a new park in downtown Jacksonville

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Ben Kittelson @benkittelson56.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Love this, makes my Budget Analyst heart happy

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Ben Kittelson @benkittelson56.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

“We have bought unconditionally the economists’ line that competition and innovation would solve all problems, and that we would finally accomplish a technological end-run around biological reality and the human condition.” - Wendell Berry

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Ben Kittelson @benkittelson56.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

My wrapped is “Ben finds out about MJ Lenderman and also reaches new levels of parrot-headedneas”

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Ben Kittelson @benkittelson56.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

My kid got a Kramer-in-Seinfeld level sitcom greeting at daycare today. A cheer went up when we entered the classroom and they yelled her name. I assume she must be a toddler physical comedy phenom

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Ben Kittelson @benkittelson56.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

a new circle of hell is getting feedback at work that is clearly written by AI

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19/08/2025

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Hot take, people who hate cities shouldn’t be in charge of cities

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Ben Kittelson @benkittelson56.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

It is called the executive branch because the execute the laws of Congress, not because they get to make up their own laws. This happens all the time at the local level too, people are surprised when a mayor can't just waive a magic wand and make things happen. Democracy requires building buy-in

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Ben Kittelson @benkittelson56.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

*log on* *uninstall AI add ons in every program I use* *repeat endlessly until one of us dies*

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Ben Kittelson @benkittelson56.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Trying to reason with hurricane season

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/05/2025

I am a street camera extremist. Put a robot on every single intersection; ticket every single driver who speeds or runs a red light, every single time.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Well, my main thought is that it is too mid to be destroying labor and the earth for.

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Ben Kittelson @benkittelson56.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

True public service journalism: "In addition to avoiding getting drunk and falling out of a boat on top of an alligator, Mazzotti says if a gator is chasing you, run straight, don't zig-zag. 'The more you zig-zag the more you stay in the gator's territory. They'll give up after about 15 feet.'"

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Ben Kittelson @benkittelson56.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

For the latest GovLove Podcast episode I talked about how local governments can manage disruption in a world that is changing quickly. This topics continues to be timely *gestures at the state of the world* and ncIMPACT has useful tools to help organizations manage change elgl.org/podcast-mana...

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Podcast: Managing Disruption in a Rapidly Changing World with Michael Welker, ncIMPACT - ELGL

Michael Welker Director of Policy and Research Partnerships ncIMPACT Initiative LinkedIn Michael Welker, Director of Policy and Research Partnerships for the ncIMPACT Initiative at the UNC School of G...

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The world knows about climate change mostly because of great American researchers, and that work has been largely centered at NOAA. Trump and Musk are now shutting down that brilliant work. They are contemptible, short-sighted, and sold out www.science.org/content/arti...

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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency

White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/04/2025

There is no conceivable rational policy justification for this, and no one will bother to even attempt to offer one.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

"There must be a better solution, something in-between an Amazon Prime Bump and a Bureaucratic Bump. People are getting hurt while we’re waiting around for a solution."

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The city said it would take three years to install a speed bump. So I bought my own on the Internet.

I tried to get one of the richest and most influential cities on earth to fix a street they already believe to be dangerous.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Don’t look up. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...

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Ben Kittelson @benkittelson56.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Nothing will get a Monday morning going like breaking up your dog’s attempt at playing(?) with a possum in the backyard. The joys of dog ownership.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Headed to the New York Stock Exchange tomorrow morning to raise up a single closed fist on the trading room floor, so everyone know that it’s fourth down. The traders need to be aware of the stakes.

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Ben Kittelson @benkittelson56.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Weather has been making the turn into summer which means it’s Sublime season open.spotify.com/track/0vtJ9D...

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40oz. To Freedom

Sublime · 40oz. To Freedom · Song · 1992

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social discusses the parents revolution on smartphones that his book “The Anxious Generation” has started. open.spotify.com/episode/1hKD... youtu.be/RN2GhPal4qA?...

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‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’ | The Ezra Klein Show

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Ben Kittelson @benkittelson56.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

daycare has started trying to introduce letters to the baby and in the pictures they've taken she just looks like an exasperated middle manager trying to understand corporate's latest mandate

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2025

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/03/2025

this sounds very efficient.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 16/02/2025

Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often *the avoidance of loss.* So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses *not* averted?

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Drake is the all-time biggest loser of a rap feud and that includes people who have gotten shot and died as a result of rap feuds

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Ben Kittelson @benkittelson56.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This Kendrick performance has me ready to run through a wall

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/12/2024

One of my long held theories is that a bike actually provides the freedom of movement and exhilaration that a car promises in a city at a fraction of the cost and the dissonance there drives the people in cars *completely fucking insane*

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Ben Kittelson @benkittelson56.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

"There's a lot of corollaries between design-thinking and empathetic, trust-based employee management." This was a great conversation! I loved hearing how Dan's innovation background informs his approach as a City Manager. elgl.org/podcast-inno...

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Podcast: Innovation Officer to City Manager with Dan Hoffman, Winchester, VA - ELGL

Dan Hoffman City Manager City of Winchester, VA LinkedIn Dan Hoffman the City Manager for the City of Winchester, Virginia joined the podcast to discuss his career path of Innovation Officer to the ro...

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