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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM:

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Coder, pest of local gov'ts, mason & tech nerd. Lower Salford Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA. I love flashlights, social justice, mechanical keyboards […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ epistolary.org/@vees, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025
The Epistolary instance is retiring in 90 days Thanks to everyone who joined and helped test out this little corner of the Fediverse. I still believe in the idea that social media works best as many small connected spaces, not one big platform but unfortunately my costs have climbed over […]
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025
#Baltimore #Police #WTF www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments…
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 30/10/2025
Transgender youth health care would be nearly banned everywhere under new rules www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-n…
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> Dramatic new expansion of power

The proposal to condition a hospital's participation in Medicaid and Medicare on halting gender-affirming care for youth represents an "unprecedented" use of the executive branch's power to control what medical care is available in hospitals, says Keith.

"Because Medicare is such a significant portion of many hospitals' revenue," she explains, the rule would essentially force hospitals to end their gender care programs for transgender youth. That would mean all of those programs' patients - whether they have Medicaid or private insurance - would lose access.
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025
To my #Pennsylvania friends who may need assistance with food, housing, utilities, transportation and more panavigate.org
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
My favorite e-newsletter I never signed up for but continue to but stay on for the lols wants all their American Patriot subscribers to know why their dicks don't get hard anymore.
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Demian @dgodon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025
Hi Fediverse, I figured I'd try #GetFediHired since I like the tech ethos here so much more than LI. I'm a senior QA Engineer/SDET with 10+ years experience. I've built automation solutions in Cypress, Selenium, JMeter, Postman, Grafana K6 and more. I'm looking for a remote position or […]
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
@jcrabapple Um actually you can count on death and taxes too
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
I have a custom license plate that starts with the letter K. I've had it for 26 years across three different states. Pennsylvania starting issuing *sequential* passenger number plates with 'G', 'H', ‘J’, ‘K’ first so now they are the oldest on the road and when they are transferred between […]
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
I have a custom license plate that starts with the letter K. I've had it for 26 years across three different states. Pennsylvania starting issuing *sequential* passenger number plates with 'G', 'H', ‘J’, ‘K’ first so now they are the oldest on the road and when they are transferred between […]
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
@stevefoerster Eventually yes. So many people in a row trying to fudge the numbers on me. I showed up with a spreadsheet and a TI-30 calculator. I’m gonna notice if you spelled a decimal point in the wrong font.
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025
50° and clear as the local #Souderton district middle schools go head to head. My daughter is on the sports journalism club so she’s out here with a camera and a notepad getting content. Son with me in the stands is mildly impressed but cold. I’m having flashbacks to 1995.
A panoramic view of a high school football stadium at dusk, featuring players on the field in red uniforms, bleachers filled with spectators, and stadium lighting illuminating the scene. A scoreboard is visible, along with goalposts and surrounding facilities.
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025
Fellow neurodivergents, I have had to make a lot of phone calls to businesses over the last few weeks that is not normal practice for me, and the simple trick of having a notepad where you write down the person's name on a page as soon as they answer the phone and tell it to you has been *life […]
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025
Baltimore County Inspector General Kelly Madigan finds *yet. another* $125,000 in government waste in September, four years after now former Councilwoman Cathy Bevins complains about the cost of Madigan's staff and "improper" double sided business cards […]
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025
The statue of a problematic Freemason is back up in Judiciary Square and I would rather that it was not.
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025
#Indiana #Republican Gov #MikeBraun called Monday for state lawmakers to return to Indianapolis for an emergency session to redraw the state’s congressional map. #Trump has pressured Republican governors nationwide to draw new maps so the #GOP can keep control of the #House in the #midterms […]
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2025
@FritzAdalis Anne Arundel county kids will get more asthma but the "limits" are environmental restrictions by MDE not structural operational limits
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2025
@FritzAdalis Testimony in Harrisburg about AI in education
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2025
SeeGov: Highlights of #Souderton Area School Board on October 23, 2025 The board brought a proposal to eliminate the per capita tax and approved parameters for a 2026 bond issue increased to $55 million, with an update on Oak Ridge Elementary's HVAC promised at the next operations meeting […]
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025
When you check-in Github Action configs with emoji bullet points in the "Deployment Summary" section, don't try to tell me you wrote that shit on your own. Nobody with actual devops chops writes a deployment summary because lack of uncaught error should already tell you everything you need to […]
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025
"Are you better off than you were ten months ago?"
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Ruth Mottram @ruth-mottram.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025
The incredible tragedy for #ArcticScience of NOAA shutting down their #methane monitoring data. 5th May 2025 is the last data we'll ever get. #NCKF25
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025
Happy 26th birthday to epistolary.org, first registered in a dorm room in Catonsville, Maryland in 1999 and attached to the bind server of a friend who had a pair of static IPv4 addresses from his employer in colo.
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025
Maryland, it’s time to restrict Andy Harris into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025
@meredeth It is as amazing as you imagine it to be
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025
@briankrebs Rogue agents have historically been a problem for the Healthcare Marketplace. I would not be surprised if enforcement is down because of disarray at HHS. www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases…
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CMS Statement on System Changes to Stop Unauthorized Agent and Broker Marketplace Activity | CMS
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is committed to protecting consumers from bad actors and ensuring the program integrity of the Federally-facilitated Marketplace (FFM). That’s why CMS is taking additional action to address increases in unauthorized changes in consumers’ enrollments by agents and brokers. Starting on July 19, 2024, CMS will block an agent or broker from making changes to a consumer’s FFM enrollment unless the agent is already associated with the consumer’s enrollment.
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025
Got up with my son at 2:30am to lie on a sleeping bag on the back porch and watch for #Orionids and after more than half an hour and crystal clear dark skies we had not seen a single one.
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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025
We have the usual cycle of Rs destroying the economy, and Ds repairing it.. but this time, the Rs literally destroy the white house, and the next president (assuming we still have functioning elections) would be tasked with literally rebuilding it. And then after a decade, the whole thing would […]
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025
@Nonilex Exactly how many laptops are on the cargo ships FROM the United States TO China? I'm guessing its the one the Captain uses for navigation and the ones in crew quarters going back and forth
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025
I hope people realize this is a DIFFERENT leaked group chat with Republican leaders — not “young Republicans” — with many many serious racist slurs made by Trump’s nominee for the Office Of Special Counsel #PaulIngrassia #Trump #law #MAGA #GOP #Republicans #Nazis #antisemitism #racism […]
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025
@ai6yr Melissa knows exactly what she's going to do.
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025
Cloudflare kicked my report back for a SSA_Secure_Access_v1.7.exe file on ledcim dot es being advertised with phishing emails because "Cloudflare is not the hosting provider of the reported content." So good luck to every credulous U.S. senior with an email address and Windows machine I guess.
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025
POLITICO interviewed 2 people in the chat & granted them anonymity after they expressed concerns about personal & professional repercussions. One retained the messages & showed the text chain in its entirety to POLITICO, which independently verified that the number listed on the chain belongs to […]
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025
#GOP Senators Ready to Dump #Trump Nominee With Self-Proclaimed ‘#Nazi Streak’ “I can’t imagine supporting that,” Sen. James Lankford told reporters. …One of Trump’s nominees…said in a leaked group chat that MLK Day should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell,” & that he has “a Nazi […]
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025
@jenzi Why is it still in raspi-config?
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025
I had a perfectly good instance of MagicMirror2 running on a Raspberry Pi 3A+ and Firefox browser up until a few weeks ago. The SD card corrupted itself due to excessive swap (probably) and I had to rebuild the system. Now Firefox refuses to run with less than 1GB of RAM and even trying to VNC […]
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025
@jik In Maryland (and possibly points south) it is a construct for children addressing adults in a semi-formal way. I have not personally seen it in common use north of the Mason-Dixon. When I grew up in NJ my neighbors were Mr. and Mrs. Smith but in Maryland my kids referred to our neighbors as […]
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025
The word "ceasefire" is really being stretched to its semantic limits lately.
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025
With the windows open I will hear a fire truck or ambulance speed down the road and then a few moments later the reason for the call will scroll across my Mastodon feed from @montcopadps.
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025
Every year or so I get a little "thank you note" on this page gist.github.com/vees/b3fb1e5b62da15… Demonstrating that: A page of random-ass text notes from a personal hardware struggle posted as an afterthought to a Github Gist has helped dozens of people. People are […]
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025
@noodlejetski Tag me when you sneeze out a nasal polyp you didn't know was there
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025
@phillycodehound Yep, we took a few minutes to talk about the importance of local elections.
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025
Today at the but stop I made sure my new neighbor was registered to vote, and she was!
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025
Nobody ever got fired for choosing AWS.
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rar is win @xyla.zip · 20/10/2025
Today is my first day at AWS. I noticed a small bug in DynamoDB clustering implementation and I think I fixed it. Shipped to prod already. Going to make a coffee and will check back if everything is working.
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025
Attention #Pennsylvania today is the last day to register to vote in the 2025 local elections which include retention of the democrats on the PA Supreme Court. Remember to vote Yes to Retain! #LocalGovernment #Elections
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025
At the protests yesterday a woman in the crowd turned to me and said she was so happy to see young people like me turning out. I said ma’am I’m forty six years old. What exactly is the demographic you expected? For the record I was far from the youngest there.
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025
Parking a few blocks from the No Kings march in our politically purple town in front of someone’s house. Owner walks out to his mailbox and turns to us to ask “Are you going to the protest?” Me, cautiously: “Yes we are.” Him: “There’s a shortcut up there next to the last house on the right […]
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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025
Stolen from RJ Johnson: "POTUS commutes sentence of former Brazilian Drag Queen, Kitara Ravache."
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Ben Foote @benpocalypse.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025
Happy no kings day to those that celebrate.
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