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Finally, someone with the courage to stand up for the truth

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Nature’s improbable art on Mt Whitney trail 🏔️

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Someone should buy this guy a statistics textbook

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Office Painting Day 1: COMPLETE! We want this office to be a free community space with clothes, food, and other resources for anyone who needs them. Thanks to our volunteers today, we were able to make it a little brighter and more colorful!

submitted 13 days ago • 57 comments

Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth. This is what seems to be happening with the idea that software teams are "moving faster" with generative A.I., which I see parroted daily online. The evidence says they're not. www.gitclear.com/research/goo...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

The secret to making friends as an adult is putting in the effort to host/organize things. Everyone wants to do fun stuff, but the little bit of activation energy it takes to plan something fun prevents most people from ever starting. It can be simple. “Let’s go for a walk” just do stuff.

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“…not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow”

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

My kids and I do a weekly discussion around a reading. Last week was Heinlein's delightful Menace From Earth. This week was this piece, by Robert E. Kelly and Min-hyung Kim, where they convincingly argue in favor of South Korean nuclearization. www.foreignaffairs.com/north-korea/...

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I think I've heard this tune before...

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The kind of democracy freedom needs

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Rep. Jan Schakowsky, the Ninth District incumbent, just announced she will not be seeking re-election. That means my race is officially an open primary. And I couldn't be more excited:

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India is considering using long-range precision weapons and/or stand-off munitions to conduct limited punitive strikes against Pakistan, the Times of India reports.

submitted 36 days ago • 19 comments

Hey @dnlynam.bsky.social, looks like it came from the top

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Be the change you want to see in your Jenkins pipelines

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I'm no Harvard-educated constitutional law professor, but I do have a 20-year overdue copy of the federalist papers from the Bellingham public library, and I'm pretty sure this is the exact scenario the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote amendments two, four and five of the bill of rights

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Fascinating how some people clearly don’t look at my website before complaining about me. I have the most comprehensive platform of any newcomer congressional candidate. Check it out here: www.katforillinois.com/issues

submitted 38 days ago • 124 comments

The current political system works for our elected officials' job security, but doesn't work for actually improving their voters' lives. We need to be encouraging competitive primaries everywhere so Americans can get the leadership we actually deserve:

submitted 39 days ago • 63 comments

I only have this cd in English and I kept telling my musician son this song was 1000x better in Russian and finally dug it up and turned it on and he's like "this is an entirely different song" Tatu, still the best after 25 years youtube.com/watch?v=VGAV...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

My boss at my last job, Carolyn, was super cool. One of the things we commiserated over was our mutual fondness of these delightful flowers. It was not that she didn't take no for an answer so much as she didn't accept no as her answer. We got shit done because she gave us top cover.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Six years ago, I was on a team that did strategery things for stratcom, and one of the scenarios was: - NK + Putin normalize nuclear threats - Climate change causes water shortage - Water shortage causes regional conflict - Regional conflict escalates to nuclear Just, like. Seems bad, is all.

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One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

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"Government isn't a product." <3

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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Finally, someone with the courage to stand up for the truth

Nature’s improbable art on Mt Whitney trail 🏔️

Someone should buy this guy a statistics textbook

Office Painting Day 1: COMPLETE! We want this office to be a free community space with clothes, food, and other resources for anyone who needs them. Thanks to our volunteers today, we were able to make it a little brighter and more colorful!

Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth. This is what seems to be happening with the idea that software teams are "moving faster" with generative A.I., which I see parroted daily online. The evidence says they're not. www.gitclear.com/research/goo...

The secret to making friends as an adult is putting in the effort to host/organize things. Everyone wants to do fun stuff, but the little bit of activation energy it takes to plan something fun prevents most people from ever starting. It can be simple. “Let’s go for a walk” just do stuff.

“…not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow”

My kids and I do a weekly discussion around a reading. Last week was Heinlein's delightful Menace From Earth. This week was this piece, by Robert E. Kelly and Min-hyung Kim, where they convincingly argue in favor of South Korean nuclearization. www.foreignaffairs.com/north-korea/...

I think I've heard this tune before...

The kind of democracy freedom needs

Rep. Jan Schakowsky, the Ninth District incumbent, just announced she will not be seeking re-election. That means my race is officially an open primary. And I couldn't be more excited:

India is considering using long-range precision weapons and/or stand-off munitions to conduct limited punitive strikes against Pakistan, the Times of India reports.

Hey @dnlynam.bsky.social, looks like it came from the top

Be the change you want to see in your Jenkins pipelines

I'm no Harvard-educated constitutional law professor, but I do have a 20-year overdue copy of the federalist papers from the Bellingham public library, and I'm pretty sure this is the exact scenario the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote amendments two, four and five of the bill of rights

Fascinating how some people clearly don’t look at my website before complaining about me. I have the most comprehensive platform of any newcomer congressional candidate. Check it out here: www.katforillinois.com/issues

The current political system works for our elected officials' job security, but doesn't work for actually improving their voters' lives. We need to be encouraging competitive primaries everywhere so Americans can get the leadership we actually deserve:

I only have this cd in English and I kept telling my musician son this song was 1000x better in Russian and finally dug it up and turned it on and he's like "this is an entirely different song" Tatu, still the best after 25 years youtube.com/watch?v=VGAV...

My boss at my last job, Carolyn, was super cool. One of the things we commiserated over was our mutual fondness of these delightful flowers. It was not that she didn't take no for an answer so much as she didn't accept no as her answer. We got shit done because she gave us top cover.

Six years ago, I was on a team that did strategery things for stratcom, and one of the scenarios was: - NK + Putin normalize nuclear threats - Climate change causes water shortage - Water shortage causes regional conflict - Regional conflict escalates to nuclear Just, like. Seems bad, is all.

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

"Government isn't a product." <3

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Just gonna leave this here... www.gutenberg.org/files/140/14...

A mood driving to Toronto

What movie is this from?