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Meandering Me

@meanderingme.bsky.social
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I used to automate physical operations, but I succumbed to software a couple of decades ago. Now, I automate information exchanges.

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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My brother and I were engaged in an intense 3am discussion in New Orleans. The street was too loud to hear, so we found a quiet bar. The stripper on the bar hugged my face in her cleavage, holding me tight, saying “honey, I don’t know what’s going on but you need this!” So maternal and needed.
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Can we please just eradicate mosquitos now? We don’t seem to mind driving other species to extinction, so why don’t we focus our destructive energies here and save the others? www.economist.com/science-and-...
Photo of an Economist headline and cover photo of a mosquito. Headline says, “Mosquitos seem to be getting over insect repellent. They learn to associate it with food”
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I know. Somehow, I’ve become a birder! (maybe, not entirely convinced yet)
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
September 12, 2025
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September 12, 2025
Since a gunman murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, both social media circles and the political sphere have been alight with accusatio...
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Well, this is pretty cool www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/s...
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Rock discovery contains ‘clearest sign’ yet of ancient life on Mars, NASA says | CNN
Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars may have potentially been made by ancient life.
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Good question. Depends on who is asking and what contract they are holding It was simply the first timestamp that popped into my head, but it’s hard to measure “arrived at warehouse”. Do you mean when the truck arrived, when the goods were unloaded, or when the goods are stocked and ready to sell?
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I segment data in “fact” and “opinion” buckets so we can easily identify which is which and tune our models. Ex: “Arrived at port timestamp” is a fact. “Arrived on time” is an emotional opinion, depending on which promised date it’s compared to. “Arrived on time” gets litigated in a dispute.
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Ben Schiff @bschiff.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
But wait. There's more (in case you missed it)! european-security.com/cesspool-and...
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Cesspool and Chaos: the Russian Connection in the Epstein Affair - European Security
In this explosive article, French historian Françoise Thom highlights the close relationship between the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and the father of his
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 16/08/2025
How much money is Donald Trump really making off the Presidency? David D. Kirkpatrick spent months tallying up how much the Trump family has pocketed off Trump’s time in the White House—golf course by golf course, crypto deal by crypto deal.
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How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency?
A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Wait. Those posts were genuine questions?! I thought they were trying to be funny. Surely no adult could be this uneducated, right?
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
We saved a library near our shared makerspace. It had replaced book shelves with computers and trained people in job skills. Such a useful local service! Significantly reduced the # of loiterers nearby, but was slated to close. We requested books for pickup at that branch. Even read several of them
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
June 18, 2025
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June 18, 2025 (Wednesday)
Tomorrow is the federal holiday honoring Juneteenth, the celebration of the announcement in Texas on June 19th, 1865, that enslaved Americans were free.
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Who pays for this and who takes care of the child, should this very early pregnancy actually produce one?
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Do these TEU numbers include empty containers? So, the slump may be larger than these numbers indicate. It’s as if Trump thought “I liked 2020 shortages! Let’s go back to where I left off last time!”
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
It’d be hilarious if it weren’t costing us our jobs. They really don’t understand the consequences of their actions, do they?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
CHATTANOOGA-based @FreightWaves CEO: "I did not vote for a neutron bomb to wipe out supply chains and small businesses 100 days in.” www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ap...
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
And here, I was simply concerned that some of our engineers were moonlighting and not actually working full time on my projects
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Philosophy is DEI? I know some very conservative republican lawyers who were philosophy majors
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Meanwhile, my company just announced that they will be measuring the diversity of candidate pools on age, gender, and ethnicity. We aren’t forced to hire them, but we do have to interview them. We want our engineers to reflect the %s in our customer base. Makes better products and stronger teams
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
theconversation.com/women-are-st...
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Women are steadier leaders in times of crisis, but they are still being overlooked
Although women have long been stereotyped as being “too emotional” for leadership roles, new research suggests it’s actually men who are more likely to let emotions drive their behaviour.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Shouldn’t he be wearing a tie? And did he even thank us for sending him prisoners?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
👇👇
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
If I build robots for a living, does that turn me into a man?
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
They’re going after the children, just like they said they would www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-next...
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Trump’s Next Target: Poverty-Stricken Kids
Head Start and other early-childhood programs are among those affected by massive cuts to HHS.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
April 4, 2025
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April 4, 2025
The stock market rout continued today.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/04/2025
America, you f**ked up! She warned us. She had a plan that would have benefited everyday Americans. But too many ignored her—because it was never really about the economy. Now folks are scared, struggling—and we’re cooked.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
April 3, 2025
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April 3, 2025
Trump’s announcement last night that he was placing high tariffs on countries around the world came after the stock market closed, but it drove stock futures dramatically downward.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
March 28, 2025
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March 28, 2025
“Another wipeout walloped Wall Street Friday,” Stan Choe of the Associated Press wrote today.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵
US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It’s a turnip twaddler
Bloom County Nov 13, 2018 cartoon of Bill the cat sitting on FedEx boxes labeled “turnip twaddler”. Opus, with a bandaged nose, holding one aloft. Quotation above image reads, “some men see things the way they are and ask why. I dream of twaddling and ask why not more than turnips?” Quotation attributed to “our president, Paris, France 2018. Solemn world war 1 commemoration
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Turnip Twaddler
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It’s a turnip Twaddler!!
Bloom County Nov 13, 2018 cartoon of Bill the cat sitting on FedEx boxes labeled “turnip twaddler”. Opus, with a bandaged nose, holding one aloft. Quotation above image reads, “some men see things the way they are and ask why. I dream of twaddling and ask why not more than turnips?” Quotation attributed to “our president, Paris, France 2018. Solemn world war 1 commemorartion
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Welp, there goes the US defense industry.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/03/2025
www.reuters.com/world/us-sus...
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Exclusive: US suspends some efforts to counter Russian sabotage as Trump moves closer to Putin
Several U.S. national security agencies have halted work on a coordinated effort to counter Russian sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks, easing pressure on Moscow as the Trump Administration pushes Russia to end its war in Ukraine.
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
“Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. … CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts.”
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Maybe except for the one about manifest destiny, but otherwise, I wholeheartedly agree!
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
What a good story to hear right now. Happy birthday, Maine
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
www.linkedin.com/posts/ejohns... It’s as if this US administration looked at the early Covid supply chain disruptions and said, “let’s give everyone more of that!”
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#tpm25 | Eric Johnson | 16 comments
There's a hard reality that the international trade community needs to realize. No, it's not the ongoing game of tariff ping-pong. No, it's not accounting for… | 16 comments on LinkedIn
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FloofMcGoof @floofmcgoof.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Senator Chris Murphy took to the Senate floor on Friday to break down the corruption flowing from the WH. He connects the dots, and makes a clear argument regarding who what where and why Shitler and Muskrat are destroying our govt!! This needs to be shared far and wide!! youtu.be/hycoCYenXls
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Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Can confirm. Well said. I’m doing it now, adding in a little bourbon. I’m enjoying this bit of solitude tonight after a long week.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/03/2025
This is it, right here. 🔥 “I’m always curious what exactly conservatives mean when they say they love America because you hate most of the people who live here.”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If Donald Trump can override our elected officials’ control of the purse strings, we are effectively entering a period of taxation without representation.
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Martin Matishak @martinmatishak.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions. On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/hegseth-orde...
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Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning
The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News.
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
All of us have examples of white men failing up while everyone else needs to “prove they can work at a higher level before promotion”. Used to be that if you did a bigger job than your current job, it was by definition a promotion.
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