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Padraig2112

@isomorphism.net
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IT professional for 30 years. Former local elected official. Education and technology policy, former grad student working on Information Systems for untrained responders in big disasters. Happily married with adult kids.

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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 2h
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 22m
LOL you owned 'em
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 25m
Team "Howler Team-Up Starring Howler"
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 41m
Move to strike last eight words.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 3h
Faster than light travel counts! Teleportation!
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 3h
(I also misread your first post the lesson here is not to get on Bluesky before coffee)
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 3h
None of these people will know God.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 3h
I'm not sure if you're missing my point or not, but <shrug>.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 3h
Sorry, that was *clearly* a bad misframe on my part
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 3h
Oh, no, I'm talking about weirdo Gentile antisemites who have opinions on Jewish holy texts but who think the King James sprung fully formed from the head of Jesus
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 4h
I'm sure that if we rushed the prosecution we totally could have locked him up what's the worst he could do in prison, write a book?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h
These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 4h
I don't know what that means, but it's fucking funny, the position you just staked out.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 4h
I wrote about the Supreme Court's nonstop lawless cruelty ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...
Screenshot of a paragraph excerpted from the linked article, with the text highlighted in green from the word "But" onwards. Excerpt reads as follows:

In places like Thursday’s speech and Friday’s dissent, Jackson has continuously sought to call attention to the deeply perverse ways that the Court is exercising its equity jurisdiction on the shadow docket. Under the Court’s precedents, emergency applicants are supposed to show that they’re “likely to succeed on the merits” of their appeal from a lower court’s ruling, that they will be “irreparably injured” without immediate relief, and that the balance of the equities tilts in their favor; in other words, fairness is both the explicit purpose and the explicit standard. But the Republican justices have repeatedly abandoned those standards in service of their own purposes. And when the people empowered to wield equitable jurisdiction are actively hostile to the concept of equity, they produce injustice instead.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 4h
You're German?
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 12h
Thread
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 17h
No one on his staff even once thought to check if there were any women's games being played that night. These are the people calling themselves defenders of women's sports.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 20h
I mean, yeah, but. We knew that when Bibi went in front of the U.N. *last* time. "We cannot have a workable security arrangement with another country when the leader of that country can't stop a war or he'll go to jail" is a pretty workable rule, I think.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 22h
Your average PTA mom understands the limitations of shared calendars more than anybody who makes six figures. (Unless the PTA mom makes six figures)
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 22h
This exec had an administrative assistant who scheduled his calendar for him (in 15 minute increments) and did not even comprehend that being able to see my calendar would not help him, because I didn't block out the time that way, and *most* people do not have someone to manage their calendar.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 22h
I once tried to explain to an executive that a lot of people carried around a planner with "mtg. Bill 10/A" scrawled across the entire date book page and that's how they knew they had a meeting at 10:30 with Bill in conference room A (Bill always 30 min late)
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23h
Texas, the voter registration deadline is coming up next week. If you live in Texas and want to vote, be sure to check that you are registered properly — even if you you think you did what you had to. A statewide database to check: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 22h
"Just an awful, awful person." in bio. Yup, you're right, dude!
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 22h
Just folks who cannot at all understand that *you* *don't* *need* to accelerate to 40 and *then* *brake* *aggressively* on a street where you *will* average under 20mph because of the lights.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 22h
Every day someone passes me on the left (I'll note, well within the required-by-law 3 ft) in order to stop at a red light where I pass them, and then they pass me on the left again
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 22h
I bike a couple of times a week. There's a stretch where the road is explicitly labeled as a bikeway and there is paint on the road and everything encouraging bikes to ride in the street (there's no bike lane).
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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 23h
*driver gets stuck in car traffic* *cyclist passes them* *slight break in traffic and driver hits the gas to get in front of cyclist* *driver gets stuck in car traffic* *cyclist passes them* *driver flies into a rage and blames the cyclist, obviously not the traffic or their own aggressive passing
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 22h
It is kinda amazing how many people just do not get this stuff at all, even when you explain it to them, *and* it's their job to manage it.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 29/09/2026
Nine months ago:
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 29/09/2026
"Bob in Facilities retired, now I can't get the spreadsheet I used to get from Bob and after arguing for two months with Bob's replacement Alice and Alice's boss Charlie they agreed to give me that spreadsheet and the format is all wrong and I didn't catch it and the Big Boss thinks I'm worthless"
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 29/09/2026
People will build ground-up Rube Goldberg machines to take inputs from three different sources (sales, inventory, facilities) to produce a nice glossy report, which is great. And then the next 3-5 year they will learn what it is like to maintain software, and they are going to fucking hate it.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 29/09/2026
"AI will be a force multiplier in organizational efficiency" is actually worse that "ERPs will be a force multiplier in organizational efficiency" because when you are implementing an ERP, you at least have the ability to force two business units to agree on endpoints of information transfer.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 29/09/2026
You cannot automate a process unless you control the inputs, and in any organization bigger than a breadbox this requires a huge amount of work between business units with different (sometimes orthogonal) priorities and needs.
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sleepynaut @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 29/09/2026
Kills gerrymandering (as a national strategy) dead, no need for anything else.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 29/09/2026
Yeah I've had those days. Off hand I hope.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 29/09/2026
"Used to" Well, that's a charitable guess.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 29/09/2026
Hope the owner wasn't a dick about it and the dog was licensed and had shots
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 29/09/2026
Whoa, man, you okay? A nip or are you in stitches territory?
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 29/09/2026
Matt Tabbi is gonna roast in hell, man
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 29/09/2026
Very young dogs are a joy* and a gift** * exhausting ** also occasionally annoying
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 29/09/2026
If you vote for a ballot initiative in CA that has anything to do with freezing taxes you are a bad person we should send to Idaho (sorry Idaho, but they gotta go somewhere)
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politiburb @politiburb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Talking about why Rahm Emanuel is a bad candidate on the merits and actually going into his record is giving way too much credit to Rahm Emanuel. When your 5 year old says he's going to drive a car to Saturn you don't explain why cars can't achieve space travel. You say "cool, sounds fun!"
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 03/12/2025
Your hands are covered in little men. And the little men can make you sick if you don’t give them a bath. Sometimes they make other people sick too. Please give the little men a bath! I’m not crazy! Just listen to me! Bathe the little men on your hands! This is real! Get the men wet, you fools!
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it's kinda funny the way this article describes how a model being unsafe -- ignoring guardrails, pretending to have done things it didn't, not following user instructions -- also makes a model a shitty consumer product
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 29/09/2026
Yanno you *could* just drop trau in the parking lot
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 29/09/2026
I was really, really impressed with the last one I think the kid's got an arm
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