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Feminist. Writer. Camper. Pythoner. Neurospicy. From an Actual Small Town. Unironically described as 'feisty.' Will yell about baseball, football, comfort tv, food, and various other distractions.

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the surprise knock @everythingis42.bsky.social · Nov 11

All of my heroines have resting bitch face.

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 3h

"These reckless actions are disrupting and destroying the lives of everyday working people who are constantly being used as bargaining chips."

Federal Workers Are Being Used as Pawns in the Shutdown

“People are scared," asks one federal worker. “Is WIRED hiring?” jokes another.

www.wired.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22h

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 1d

First photo is what Noem says in the video. Second photo is what DHS sent me in response to me asking if Noem was aware that many municipal airports have policies against political advertising.

They did not respond to my follow up email.

“Hi, I’m Kristi Noem, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security. It is TSA top priority to make sure that you have the most pleasant and efficient airport experience as possible while we keep you safe. However, Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government and because of this many of our operations are impacted and most of our TSA employees are working without pay. We will continue to do all we can to avoid delays that will impact your travel and our hope is that Democrats will soon recognize the importance of opening the government.”

Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

"It is TSA's top priority to ensure that travelers have the most safe, pleasant and efficient airport experience possible. However, Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government, and because of this, most of our TSA employees are working without pay. While this creates challenges for our people, our security operations remain largely in impacted at this time. It’s unfortunate our workforce has been put in this position due to political gamesmanship. Our hope is that Democrats will soon recognize the importance of opening the government."

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

As we all know, real activists who achieve real things talk about doing federal crimes on public social media all the time

(do not trust anyone who talks about how cool doing federal crimes is on public social media)

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the surprise knock @everythingis42.bsky.social · 2d

holy fuck I just saw a Christmas commercial

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John Hanley @johnjhanley.bsky.social · 3d

Cubs and Brewers went 9-9 against each other this season, and Milwaukee outscored Chicago 77-76. No, this doesn’t make me any less dejected.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Marcus P. @reluctantaxe.bsky.social · 3d

A Redditor made a graph of the percent of population of US and Canada metro areas over 1 million that live in a given density. When they ordered them by average density the lowest ranked Canadian metro area, Edmonton, was ranked 14th between Miami and Washington. 6 of the top 15 were Canadian metros

Graph of Canada and US metro areas with a breakdown of percentage of people that live in density density bands

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Aisle424 Has Fallen @aisle424.bsky.social · 3d

Small dick energy

Mark Podskarbi @mvp21.bsky.social · 3d

Whichever player brought the L flag is immediately a Brewers legend

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RobotLemur @robotlemur.bsky.social · 3d

If I’m Jed Hoyer I would simply kill my boss monster, Tom Ricketts, then use the coins that come out of him to buy better baseball players

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d

There's always next season

Wrigley Field with a Spirit Halloween banner edited into the picture

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the surprise knock @everythingis42.bsky.social · 3d

RIP the 2025 Cubs, they died as they played the entire second half of the season

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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the surprise knock @everythingis42.bsky.social · 3d

good lord Kittredge what were you doing there 💀

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Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 3d

The purpose of government is not to maximize earnings to investors

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 4d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 3d

Talk to your children about undefeated Indiana

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 3d

Indiana football is even more fun once you realize they’re being coached by this man

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Chuck🏳️‍🌈 @mooney039.bsky.social · 4d

The ACC should be fucking DISSOLVED

Chuck🏳️‍🌈 @mooney039.bsky.social · 4d

The ACC should be fucking dissolved lol

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the surprise knock @everythingis42.bsky.social · 4d

Wild. Complete misuse of tax dollars, of course.

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the surprise knock @everythingis42.bsky.social · 4d

This is really suspicious to me, because I've never seen THAT nice of a government car used for street work like this.
That's the kind of car the head of an office might be assigned to drive around, and even for that purpose a Grand Wagoneer is nicer than I've seen in use.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4d

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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