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M. Osborn

@ctll033.bsky.social

839 followers 1.1K following 1.4K posts

Twitter refugee. Retired UPRR. Also on Spoutible. Generally discuss Nebraska, Wyoming, Omaha. No DM’s unless I know you.

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M. Osborn @ctll033.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yet another step towards the US committing national suicide. (Apologies: had to screenshot because my newspaper didn’t supply a link—and even then it would be paywalled.)

Two cyclospora projects shelved; the only one left moved to Iowa so current employees would quit.

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M. Osborn @ctll033.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A verb, a verb, my kingdom for a verb. In other words, which NYT editor let this incredibly awkward sentence into print:

With U. S. Senator Cynthia Lummis declining to seek reelection, Harriet Hageman, a hard-core conservative, vacating the state’s lone U. S. House seat to run for Senate, and Gov. Mark Gordon facing term limits, Wyoming voters face a choice, from the statehouse to the governor’s mansion to the U. S. Capitol.

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M. Osborn @ctll033.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

There are three candidates, two R’s (Bill Bowes, Jay Jackson) and a D, SuAnn Witt. Two candidates will proceed on to the November general election. Local pundits said Bowes would win and the fight would be between 2nd and 3rd. Now, look at the screen shot, and tell me who’s leading:

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M. Osborn @ctll033.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I tend to wrongly think everyone, as I did, lived through the 1973 energy crisis with its follow-on recession, or the 1979 energy crisis, which killed the Carter administration and probably caused the 1982 recession, or the 2000 dot com crash, or the 2008 crash mentioned below.

People who actually lived through the 08 crash didn’t need to be told that the Biden economy was actually pretty good. And I lived through the 08 crash. I mean already having started careers by then, not just in high school or college.

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M. Osborn @ctll033.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

It’s worse than I said: $82.40 including the laundry detergent. The “chicken” is in the salads. The “buffalo” is buffalo sauced cheese. (And I’m posting for documentation and reference, not because I don’t think you’ll believe me; though frankly I don’t believe it myself😡).

Grocery receipt, apologies for not listing all the items again.

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M. Osborn @ctll033.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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