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Ed Featherston

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Technology evangelist , Enterprise/Cloud Architect, with over 3 decades designing and delivering Enterprise Architecture (EA) solutions for the most complex technical environments. #ciochat LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edfeatherston/

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Ed Featherston @efeatherston.bsky.social · 16h

Regarding the East Wing demolition, I have a silly question. Apparently the Presidential Emergency Operations Center is in a bunker and hardened facility underneath the East Wing, a secure shelter in time of emergencies. What exactly happens to that?

Ed Featherston @efeatherston.bsky.social · 1d

Minor detail, Trump was in office during the COVID 'lockdown'

Ed Featherston @efeatherston.bsky.social · 1d

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Reefer Madness (1936) Cult Classic | Full Movie | Subtitled

YouTube video by Cult Cinema Classics

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Andi Mann @andimann.bsky.social · 2d

FFS @apnews.com, your bias is showing!

Why, in a serious article about legal use of adult medication, use a biased pejorative 'pot', not #cannabis or (also not ideal) #marijuana?

If it was #alcohol would you call it 'hooch'?!

No, you absolutely would not!

Do better.

apnews.com/article/supr...

Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns

The Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights.

apnews.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

AZ AG Mayes: We have people in Arizona who are being actively harmed by Mike Johnson playing politics and apparently trying to protect the Epstein files. That’s not okay. We’re going to fight as hard as we can to put an end to it and to get Adelita Grijalva sworn in.

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Ed Featherston @efeatherston.bsky.social · 1d

Lets just say I would not bet against that

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Andi Mann @andimann.bsky.social · 2d

He definitely diddled his daughter too, right?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

> @newyorker.com

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Ed Featherston @efeatherston.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is a grift, the federal coffers are his piggy bank

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Andi Mann @andimann.bsky.social · 2d

He's taking our tax money regardless of what is legal, right?

He's stealing our taxes. Every day in every way. He is stealing your social security, defence spending, Medicare, all of it.

He's stealing our taxes. It's what oligarchs do. It's what his heroes do.

www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Trump said to demand DOJ pay him $230 million

The situation has no parallel in American history, as Trump, a presidential candidate, was pursued by federal law enforcement and eventually won the election.

www.seattletimes.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

He’s doing his best to make us like one of his failed ventures.

A tweet from Jessica Riedl reads: “That it took the White House 9 months to figure this out is economic malpractice.” Below it, a tweet from Unusual Whales says: “BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on ‘products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States,’ per WSJ.”

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Ed Featherston @efeatherston.bsky.social · 1d

that thought did cross my mind

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Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve taken four AI job interviews.
Only one could hold a conversation.
The rest rewarded lighting, not logic.
#AI #Hiring #TechEthics #Automation #FutureOfWork

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Ed Featherston @efeatherston.bsky.social · 2d

(2/2)
- You ready for the facility costs (power/space/maint)?
- You ready to ramp up operational support staff?
- You ready for migration costs?
- You ready for all the parallel testing to ensure smooth transition?
- You ready when you have your first outage (on premise does not mean no outages)

Ed Featherston @efeatherston.bsky.social · 2d

So with the latest AWS outage behind us, the mad rush to go 'back on premise' discussion has already started. I am neither for nor against, depends on the business case but... (1/2)

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Ed Featherston @efeatherston.bsky.social · 2d

He specifically said when he announced the ballroom, the original structure will not be touched. Sure looks like touching to me

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Chris Petersen @cpetersen-cs.bsky.social · 3d

Paving over the rose garden was blood awful. Demolishing part of the White House itself??? 🤯 How is that not a protected, historic building?

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 3d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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Bob Carver @cybersecboardrm.bsky.social · 3d

Major Global Outage Impacts Amazon and More: What to Know | TIME time.com/7326950/glo... #cybersecurity #cloud #AWS #global #outage #Lloyds #BankofScotland #Facebook #DeltaAirlines #UnitedAirlines #more

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Ed Featherston @efeatherston.bsky.social · 6d

Don't confuse the discussion with actual facts

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Andi Mann @andimann.bsky.social · 7d

Your occasional reminder ...

Republicans are the majority in the House and Senate, have the Presidency, control SCOTUS.

REPUBLICANS SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT

REPUBLICANS CAN END THE SHUTDOWN IN 5 MINUTES

Democrats cannot 'shut down the government'. The minority simply doesn't have that power.

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Ed Featherston @efeatherston.bsky.social · 7d

Sadly he will just ignore them like he does all the other court orders saying he is acting illegally

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LaRoeBoat @johnlaroe.bsky.social · 12d

You're forgetting that we went to war in 1776 to *keep* King George. The Confederacy won the Civil War. And we were supposed to join World War II on the Axis side, but FDR signed the declaration of war upside down.

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Ed Featherston @efeatherston.bsky.social · 12d

Sadly all media is now bending the knee

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Andi Mann @andimann.bsky.social · 13d

"Russian asset allows state sponsor of Islamic terrorism to build military base in the US"

If any I/US journal was honest ...

www.foxnews.com/politics/heg...

Pentagon agrees to host Qatari F-15 fighter jets and pilots at Idaho air base

Pentagon agrees to build Qatari Emiri Air Force facility in Idaho as part of the ongoing U.S.-Qatar partnership, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Friday.

www.foxnews.com

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