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Slack is down. Who am I. What am I.

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As a nation I think we can all unite around the fact the update process for #TableauPublic is the worst.

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An oil pipeline company is suing Greenpeace after protests https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5292463/greenpeace-lawsuit-energy-transfer-dakota-access

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Most days since the election a guy has driven by my house and shouted "Trump! Haters! Haters live here." Most of the time I can dismiss it. My dude, this is a sign against the neonazis organizing in our town. But some days it takes a minute. 😑

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Anyone know any good literary agents? I'm at 35,000 words on my book on the Lord of the Rings and the Modern Environmentalist Movement. It's starting to feel like the time I need to start planning pitches.

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FEMA backtracks on stronger building codes for disasters https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/nx-s1-5303478/fema-trump-building-codes-floods-hurricane-disasters

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Isn't it weird how your frame of mind impacts your enjoyment of a book? Example: I have tried and failed many times to get into George Eliot's "Middlemarch". I always found it dry and incredibly slow paced. Where is the plot? It's so many words about nothing. This time around, I finally get […]

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Absolutely wild that a book can be $42 as a phyiscal copy and $0.75 as an Ebook from Amazon and Google. #ebooks #bookstodon

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heh. I didn't know the USDA invested in broadband tech for rural America. Reminds me a little of the NEA. https://digitalmarketingdegree.org/fiber-revolutionizing-agricultural-technology/

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I like the combat in #Avowed - it feels chunky, there's a sense of weight.

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There's a saturday long seminar on land use law for municipalities and... I'm considering it? https://www.ctbar.org/events-education/events/event/2025/03/22/default-calendar/2025-ct-land-use-law-for-municipal-land-use-agencies-boards-commissions-spz250322-1910999

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Home safe. We've used eight chargers today. 😮‍💨

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The charging infrastructure in the U.S. is getting better. But it is not there yet. 😮‍💨

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Techies, you can be helpful to organizers. My town DTC had an old GoDaddy site. I upgraded us to WordPress and now we can do more complex stuff, like an events calendar and an action board. #techfordemocracy #uspol

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Listen to: States aim to cut energy costs for low-income households with community solar projects - https://one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5116561:nx-s1-5356174-1

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Also, kitty.

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Had a good organizing night tonight. My town had a speaker from another town's DTC, who also worked on a USAID contract that was canceled. A third town's organizer was present. We've got a blog and a commitment to organize a book club. This is how we start the change. Actions will come, we […]

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I'm so proud of my team for this. We have a fraction of the resources of Esri but we've built a really slick, free tool for environmental story telling. And THIS feature was built because we did field work and listened to our partners about what was most important to them. It feels good […]

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https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/02/11/katherine-clark-trump-democrats

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This project has been my baby for nearly a year. I'm so proud of my team for building it. https://fosstodon.org/@terraso/113981381357428344

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My professional network is heavy in international development. My LinkedIn feed is wall to wall people announcing they are looking for work. Interesting strategy for the administration to piss off democracy promoters and suddenly give them a bunch of free time.

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I'm at SRM in Spokane, Washington. Highest ratio of cowboy hats per head for any conference I've been to!

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The Shepard Tone is a sound that always appears to be intensifying. You can listen to it on loop and it feels like an ever-tightening clench made audible. https://youtu.be/DfJa3IC1txI The fitting audio mascot of our times.

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Just ran into a colleague of mine from the US Bureau of Land Management. Sounds like there are shakeups happening there too. 😔

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The real struggle with travel is not being able to pack my massive hardcover copy "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell". 😔 It's an absolute brick. Weighs as much as the rest of my carryon. #bookstodon

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Is @bsky.brid.gy down? No responses to my follow requests for the past few weeks.

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I think the #ACLU has a really good call to action page. Quickly jump through possible actions, filter by your own bandwidth. Clear CTAs. It's good. #webdesign #activism

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Here's a 5-minute action you can take to resist the dismantling of the U.S. government. It's particularly important for people with Republican senators. Urge your senators to vote "No" on the appointment of Russel Vought to director of OMB. Steps: 1. Go to […] [Original post on social.coop]

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Ah! These seem like things #Democrats can actually do to obstruct action in Congress (speifically the Senate). Source: action playbook by @moveon @indivisibleteam and @WorkingFamilies […] [Original post on social.coop]

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#USAID website is down

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I thought this was interesting. What is a party platform? Here’s how they’re made and what you should pay attention to https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-is-a-party-platform-heres-how-theyre-made-and-what-you-should-pay-attention-to

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Farm programs, USDA would shrink under Project 2025 goals for ag - Investigate Midwest https://investigatemidwest.org/2024/07/19/farm-programs-usda-would-shrink-under-project-2025-goals-for-ag/

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In honor of some weird guy's birthday (mine!) plese treat yourself in some way today.

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Sometimes, I just don't understand money. OK, I get that we're A) supposed to look at trendlines and B) the point for investors is not profit but growth, but it's astounding to me that $7 billion in profit can be considered terrible.

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#Github is down. My workflow us disrupted. Suddenly I am a being that exists outside of a project and dozens of issues. My thoughts can go where they will. This is uncomfortable. Let me back in.

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As I read this, "maintaining and enhancing your monitoring experience" means "you have to pay to see monitoring data". Time to try the open source version... #sunpower #solarPanels

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Freezing Congressional appropriations that have already been contracted is illegal.

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