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Pat L
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Engineering leader; Grad Instructor in spirituality, creativity, digital personhood, pilgrimage. Passionate about the common good, human flourishing, being a good ancestor.💥Powerlifter, mountain biker, Gonzaga basketball fan, reader, lifelong learner.
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Again today, I used @5calls.org to help frame a call on the Trump Budget Bill to my US representative
@repkimschrier.bsky.social and for the first time calling any of my Congress people, I got a staffer live on the call. Still used some of that script, but it was helpful. Call your representative.
After having discovered the Southern Reach series by Jeff VanderMeer late and reading it this fall, I’m now reading the fourth book, the prequel, Absolution. This is such wild, crazy unique stuff (it’s sci-fi/fantasy/horror/mystery/ecoterrorism). Love it and don’t understand 60% of it :-)
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Happy Go Zags for the 2025-26 Season Day to all those who celebrate.
Well, I better renew then, shouldn’t I? :-)
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For Seattle area, ESPN+ for the half dozen or so games not on bigger ESPN? (Including tomorrow)?
I feel sorry for their kids
Now we can transition to Zags Basketball season 🎉
Unbelievable game and unbelievable series. Happy that George Springer lost too :-)
Wow. We go to November basebal.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
I have a guest speaker for my class tonight - Heather Stringer, www.lifeinritual.com, helping us with how/why to make little rituals to help us process meaningful moments.

Consider 3 questions:

How do I want to live?
How do I help myself become present?
How do i imagine sharing my life w/others?
Life In Ritual
www.lifeinritual.com
Uhh, this is important and dystopian
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Fewie in the first preseason game
Here was yesterday’s fit check (photo grabbed from the Spokesman without permission because they’re not on Bluesky)- it seems to me like they have a good variety of staff shirts and they all wear the same thing each game.
Nathan, how much weight do you assign to the idea that Naylor seems to genuinely LIKE hitting at T-Mobile, and that's a minority opinion
In case you need a personal reminder: COVID is still out there, and we're in an upswing again. Spouse and I picked it up two weekends ago, tested positive early last week. Started Paxlovid, but I was still testing positive a few days ago and had to cancel a business trip.

Stay safe, mask up, etc
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The people who think the government should be run like a business are killing something that has a 180% ROI. THAT is how you bankrupt a casino.
#HugOps to my friends who are at Amazon, waiting to see whether they get The Email today
It’s a lost merchandising opportunity. Which is probably better for my wallet, but still.
I tuned in around the eighth inning after the Gonzaga preseason game, and I still saw 11 innings of tense baseball
I was hoping that a former Mariner would get it done, but this is good enough I guess
Phew. Well, now I can go to bed
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The baseball will continue until morale improves