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Math geek. Software engineer. Mostly here to follow authors, learn about new books, shout about books I love. (And encourage everyone to have all their books released as audiobooks when possible) Also, looking to meet IRL friends in the Denver area.
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Couple things I learned today: - Seniors are extremely fired up about this - "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now - People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA - We all we got, we all we need

re-upping the murderbot opera ideas thread for reasons

Because I'm too busy focusing on ways I can organize in my communities to debate vocabulary online, I still would self-identify as liberal if it didn't cause such abuse. By most people's metric I am probably leftist, but the word is toxic to me after so much inane Very Online bullshit.

Watched a movie sitting in the row behind Ann Richards. (I mean, that's not really an *interaction* exactly, but yeah.)

This is one of my favorite dynamics enabled by Ranked Choice: that you can build a coalition with people you mostly agree with whose message is "maybe them, maybe me... but definitely not that fucking guy"

I really would have liked to have this guy as VP and we should have made that happen

People are easier to manipulate when they believe they have no choices . Travel and exposure lets them see that they do And I just realized why AI discussion offends me so “It’s inevitable” That’s not an argument it’s a surrender

tbqh it's not even too late to start masking half-assedly, and i mean this sincerely. you don't have to be 100% perfect about masking for it to help yourself and others.

United Healthcare set quotas for the maximum number of hospitalizations they would allow for critically ill nursing patients. They changed patient records to DNR to prevent life-saving medical intervention. And they coerced nursing staff to leak patient data and fabricated records to sell more plans

Hey, Sewists! In all the bad news about losing fabric sources, we have some good news: GirlCharlee has resurrected. They re-opened about a month ago! They’ve always been my single best, most reliable source for quality knits. I’ve never gotten a bad piece from them. girlcharlee.com