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Dena Hyena

Dena Hyena

@denahyena.bsky.social

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What is to say? I'm a size-variable hyena of the hermy persuasion.

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Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 19h

Maine has a non-Profit. Maine Community Inclusion through Technology.

It's an Assistive Technology program designed to help folks that, from what I'm gathering, are like you.

They're based out of UMaine - Augusta, apparently?
207-621-3195.

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 22h

Maine CITE an option?

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 23h

Resources vary with area.

So, which resources do you need to have local (which means we need city / county), and which needs can come from a national network?

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 23h

Hm, ever consider a rottie and a melanistic leopard...

(God, I'm terrible with making references!)

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 23h

Followed close by healthcare for minors.

Damn straight I don't want kids dying / getting permanently injured by totally preventable and / or treatable conditions.

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 1d

It's breaking down by economic value of production. Napa Valley is -great- for producing agriculture.

But the MSA's GDP (2023) is 11.4 billion or so.

San Fran's MSA? 778.9 billion.

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 1d

Well, non-Americans sometime forget just how incredibly BIG the US is. It does kind of relate to population, but mostly because the more populous areas were hubs of trade, immigration and production.
A lot of the middle of our country is sparse farmland. Few people.

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 1d

It is breaking down to the metro areas as opposed to the state as a whole.

Port city vs mountainous area covered in trees.

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, but keep in mind the reasons.

Port cities for one. Goods flow in, goods go out.

More goods? More money flowing. So the wealth is ‘concentrating’ around the more economically viable areas for trade, not just production.

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 1d

They broke it down to major metro areas.

That’s how much SF and LA contributed to the overall economy.

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 1d

They did; they just separated LA and SF from the rural areas.

They’re at major metro level vs state level.

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, but I get the feeling it’s also a jab at the Republican voting map that shows most of the country in red.

People generate votes and economic activity, not land.

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 1d

It’s done in the same vein when Republicans pull out that really red voting map.

Land doesn’t mean voting or economic activity.

It’s people and resources.

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 1d

Eh, it’s just looking at gross economic activity.

The blue spots being major cities; NY, Miami, Atlanta, San Francisco, etc.

So those small areas produce half of our GDP… and are the targets of Trump’s ire for resisting him.

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 1d

They won’t. They don’t care.

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 1d

If that cake came from cakewrecks

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 1d

With a bunch of faux-Latin underneath as the seal.

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 1d

I guess the vibrations get his motor running?

And makes him a happy camper?

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 1d

Given Poland's history with Russia...

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 1d

"And what is our 'national security'?"

"Whatever we says it is at the time!"

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 2d

Fair!

Eepiness aside, how are you doing?

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 2d

Shabbos? Eepiness aside… Vos macht a Yid?

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 2d

Look on the upside!
It comes with a neat ‘ai assistant’ to help you find information you weren’t looking for and gives the wrong info to boot!

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think the idea is nuts.

Heck if squeezing one helps, how would she feel if she could heft two?

Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 2d

And a sense of a future that doesn’t involve grinding poverty and desperation.