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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 2h

Are you discussing your plot or San Jose's offense?

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I love how 8 pieces of chicken is a SIDE ORDER!

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My institution published its budget and the amount of money collected from students for education basically matches the amount given out in student aid. The average student who pays is not paying for themselves, they are paying for the person sitting next to them.

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ahem .... Fa la LA la laaa ... Fa la LAAAA la LAAAA .... BuT WhAt AbOuT PARKING!!!!

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Maybe I should have been more specific and said, do not wake the residents .... :)

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh, no, we already have the Real Scientists using agentic LLMs to review the PRs. One is can guess how other reviews are likely done ....

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The thing is that this means Word is baked into the future. You can never move away from it because of past generations inability to learn new technologies. "In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only Word"

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Birth of A Nation ... of Medicare Recipients.

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well it does say Proposals Accepted Anytime under Due Dates. It used to be that I could only be rejected once a year, but NOW ....

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can you imagine what a faculty meeting with her would be like?

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It has been explained to me that you need to "light yourself up like a Christmas tree" and you look decidedly non-festive there.

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Went to UCSC and now work there. As I said, a huge chunk of staff and faculty do not live in SC.

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is a bit more on campus faculty housing which is a lot less expensive than living in town. Or you can do what half of the faculty and staff do and live outside of the county (or even the state!)

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The dude was an oscar deserving performance in my totally objective opinion.

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hence the following statement from the AAS: Therefore, referees may not use — in any aspect of the refereeing process — any LLM that might use uploaded material for training.

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yea that was an amusing email to get….

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It is my experience that assholes love clear bright lines and strict rules, because then they can just hangout barely inside those lines and say "tell me what rule I violated!" while still ... well ... being assholes.

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Somehow all of them had the same list of prescriptions though....

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My mom had them, and, worse, for her last years the place she lived used a separate CVS company that provides meds for institutions. My mom had four different accounts. One them still sends updates like "you owe $2.13" followed a month later by "we are crediting you with $2.13"

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I was super lucky and my mom had long term care insurance, a thing that will never exist again. As Medicare will be zeroed out soon enough, I just assume that I will die in a ditch somewhere of cancer?

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

See Benne, this is what you cannot understand as a European. In America, certain rights are inalienable, like endangering your neighbors with a car. Other things, however, are too important for individuals to decide, like what color to paint your house.

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

At some point, and this is much younger than you think, you realize that you have to parent your parents. This ain't a boomer thing, this is just a dealing old people with no self-awareness thing. Just work not to become your parents

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There is no enforcement for cars. We have tons of pedestrian deaths where I am and the response is literally more signs, flashing lights, and paint on the road. The flashing signs helpfully tell people they are speeding and they JUST IGNORE THEM. Bur sure, its the bikes that are the problem.

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Where I live, the US, people drive through stop signs, run red lights (a non-US acquittance was told **when taking his driving test** never go on a green light because people always run reds) and people speed all of the time. I see traffic enforcement maybe once a year?

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Anecdotally I have been almost run over by cars driving against the lights and through intersections which I, as a pedestrian, am allowed to cross. It is like these drivers of cars and trucks think they are fully above the law! Maybe we should ban cars until we figure this out.

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I am glad that they included a picture of salmonella next to the guacamole.

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

That brace looks really familiar, alas….

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I am excited about the idea of ... <checks notes> ... having an AI agent do my hobbies for me? Does anyone read this before sending it out the door? Oh wait, no, the agent writes it ....

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

LA should be a cycling paradise. It is mostly flat, you can ride like 11 months of the year (well maybe not in Burbank) and the traffic is terrible, so many should want to ride.

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

That is basically my entire wardrobe Well, my helmet is orange…..

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

FWIW I would recommend the bigger tires, I crammed 28 on my 2013 bike and, cause I run a lower tire pressure, it is a nicer ride on our crater filled streets here.

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

2004, that is an extremely well loved bike.

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A Calfee! Fancy! Is it custom? (My Calfee story is more prosaic, I almost had them fix my bike after I got doored last year.)

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My commute, a local university, has the best rate of routes in the county. At best it's 20 minutes from the transit center to work, but can be 30-40. I can ride a bike to work in 40 and home in 20. (Do the math on the hill involved.) And the bike never closes a door on my face because it is full.

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Good luck trying to tell people this, though. “But a bad thing just happened, I saw it on the news/read about in my feed!” People evaluate risk and quality of life based on the worst case anecdotes, not based on the overall experience. If things are on average better, well that is just normal now.

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Sometimes you get a steal, $250 a night for staying next to a state highway and stale "bagels" for breakfast!

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

And you are told the results 6 months later by a letter from someone you have never met.

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

That is amazing! My undergraduate lab reports were longer!

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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

But I thought the closer to The tip you hold it, the better your control? Well until you drop it because your fingers are on fire ….

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