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sarahquaint

@sarahquaint.bsky.social

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Forensic scientist, fangirl, & trivia magnet. Spouse of rahaeli. Baltimore has two syllables. She/her.

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · Jan 23

a request: I’m making a concerted effort not to post or repost anything US politics related without using the uspoli hashtag. please poke me if you catch me slipping.

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 5h

if it turns out our firearms guy has been insisting on more specificity than eTrace requires and this is why no Glock has imported into the Beast correctly in two years, I'm gonna...

I'm gonna...

...probably just sigh, because why am I even surprised that no one has noticed this 🤦🏻

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 5h

wait

I think it's even stupider than I thought

on the NCIC list, a Glock is:
GLC Glock, Inc.

on the eTrace list, there are two:
GLC GLOCK GMBH-AU
GLC GLOCK INC.-US

...but the code is the same! eTrace uses the same code, even if the country of manufacture is different?

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 6h

Right? For example, the NCIC list only has:
Glock, Inc.

But eTrace has both:
GLOCK GMBH-AU
GLOCK INC.-US

Which is fine and all, I get that the ATF wants more specificity, but if only someone else in my agency would agree leaving the make field empty is not an acceptable compromise...

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 7h

Mandatory age verification to "protect children" is not to protect children. It is to deanonymize every adult speaker and consumer of speech online so the government can retaliate against speakers and speech they don't approve of. For instance: apnews.com/article/trum...

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

apnews.com

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 7h

Gavin Newsom is a shitheel who should never be president, but the legislation he vetoed was unconstitutional, poorly written, both underinclusive and overexclusive, a severe privacy infringement for adults, and would have done nothing but cost California lots of money in court (to lose)

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 7h

but it seems to me this could be easily solved by renaming the current field to 'eTrace make', and adding a field named 'NCIC make' that is mapped to the police database's 'firearm make' field.

Because god knows the FBI and the ATF will never manage to agree on anything at all.

sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 7h

But our police officers chose from the NCIC list in their police database

When a gun is imported to the lab database and no match is found on the eTrace list, the software goes ¯\_(ツ)_/ and leaves the field blank

Now, I'm just a lowly analytical chemist, and I do not get paid to design software,

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 7h

I was also told this was recognized as a known issue two years ago, but no one cared enough to pursue it with the vendor.

I, personally, would like to know the make of the gun I'm testing. It would help me distinguish when there are multiple guns in the same case (which is all the freaking time).

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 7h

Did you know that the list of firearm makes used by NCIC (an FBI database) and the list of firearm makes used by eTrace (an ATF database) aren't the same?

I discovered this today when I asked why most firearms imported to our lab's evidence tracking system don't have a make listed

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 8h

maybe start with just one or the other?

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 8h

I hope you sleep well, hon!

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Midatlantica @midatlantica.bsky.social · 10h

So does this mean Visa and Mastercard will cut them off as a payment processor?

The Verge @theverge.com · 15h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 9h

Periodic reminder: if you get a generic that is less effective for you, of any medicine, filing a Form 3500 with the FDA's MedWatch if you're able contributes to getting non-bioequivalent generics pulled from the market: www.fda.gov/safety/medic...

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 12h

lolllll

so sorry for the loss of your soul, but I look forward to your cautionary biopic

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 12h

If only I could get, say, a warm chickpea salad bowl at the drive thru when I'm late to work in the mornings

(I know why I can't, just dreaming out loud. Sigh.)

sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 12h

you, standing at a crossroads at midnight, a heavy brass table lamp in hand, ready to deliver a long overdue beatdown...

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 12h

the devil's own invention!

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 1d

THEY’RE HERE PETE!

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 1d

There's never enough counter space. But enjoy your feast!

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 1d

point of clarification: Real Presence, yes, but Lutherans do NOT believe in transubstantiation . They believe Christ's body and blood become present, but the bread and wine don't physically change

(I'm very much not Lutheran any more, but recall a pastor joking about spirituality possessed bread)

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 1d

I somehow avoided learning to ode to any but the most common pokemon until this year, but once I did, mimikyu instantly became my favorite

sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 1d

...I don't know why it didn't occur to me they make internet-enabled kettles

I need an internet-enabled mug that will ping me if it still contains a beverage, but hasn't been picked up in 20 mins

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 2d

So awful on many levels 🫂

sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 2d

Aha

My admin put up a screenshot from The Sixth Sense that says, "I see dead people... and I enter them in CODIS" because I perpetually forget to do so.

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 2d

unless they're dead -- are you allowed to put them in?

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