Matt
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The issue extends far beyond fire/EMS reporting. Similar consolidation and buyouts have hit the simplest systems for scheduling, alerting and training and the most complex for dispatching. And the impacts aren't limited to the cost issues discussed here: Innovation and customer service also suffer.
Private equity has found a new source of profit: volunteer fire departments.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The issue extends far beyond fire/EMS reporting. Similar consolidation and buyouts have hit the simplest systems for scheduling, alerting and training and the most complex for dispatching. And the impacts aren't limited to the cost issues discussed here: Innovation and customer service also suffer.
This is what happens when I return after a weekend away.
December 9, 2025 at 4:17 AM
This is what happens when I return after a weekend away.
Ran a thing. 26.2 things, actually.
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Ran a thing. 26.2 things, actually.
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“I think we want to win every single night,” Nicole Hensley said. “We know it’s a long season and we try to stack points on top of each other.”
Minnesota Frost shutout new Seattle Torrent team 3-0 in front of historic 16,000 fans
In front of 16,014 fans — breaking the record for the largest crowd for a women’s hockey game in a U.S. arena — the Minnesota Frost shutout the 3-0 Seattle Torrent at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle o...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“I think we want to win every single night,” Nicole Hensley said. “We know it’s a long season and we try to stack points on top of each other.”
There will only be one inaugural home opener for women's hockey in Seattle
November 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
There will only be one inaugural home opener for women's hockey in Seattle
Ordering a new 2025 pass (with a beautiful bird on it) now, good through most of 2026, to avoid this fascist garbage.
November 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Ordering a new 2025 pass (with a beautiful bird on it) now, good through most of 2026, to avoid this fascist garbage.
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Gavin Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Thomas, 20, planned to take over Gonave Island and murder all men on the island, prosecutors alleged. n.pr/4puzyhb
Texas men indicted in plot to take over Haitian island and enslave women and children
Gavin Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Thomas, 20, planned to take over Gonave Island and murder all men on the island, prosecutors alleged.
n.pr
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Gavin Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Thomas, 20, planned to take over Gonave Island and murder all men on the island, prosecutors alleged. n.pr/4puzyhb
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Group of Mountain Climbers Dies on Mountain Everyone Dies On: tinyurl.com/emzu2z7v
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Group of Mountain Climbers Dies on Mountain Everyone Dies On: tinyurl.com/emzu2z7v
Zella trying to lick her nose clean of the ice cream splattered everywhere by her impolite eating habits
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Zella trying to lick her nose clean of the ice cream splattered everywhere by her impolite eating habits
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🚢 It's been 50 years since the #EdmundFitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. The tragedy has fascinated Minnesotans for decades.
50 years later, the legacy of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald looms as large as ever
The exact cause of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking is still a mystery, but the lasting legacy is this: There were more than 6,000 shipwrecks on the Great Lakes in the century prior to the wreck of th...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🚢 It's been 50 years since the #EdmundFitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. The tragedy has fascinated Minnesotans for decades.
Zelenska says black cats deserve a spoonful of ice cream today.
October 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Zelenska says black cats deserve a spoonful of ice cream today.
National holiday in my honor, you say? Sorry, I can't even.
October 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
National holiday in my honor, you say? Sorry, I can't even.
Among the most mundane news items of the era, I managed to put a pair of new bearings in each of a pair of these mini splits. Blissful silence again.
October 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Among the most mundane news items of the era, I managed to put a pair of new bearings in each of a pair of these mini splits. Blissful silence again.
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I think this cat is half prairie dog. Also, the blanket was nicely folded over the back of the couch until she pulled it down to make her burrow.
September 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I think this cat is half prairie dog. Also, the blanket was nicely folded over the back of the couch until she pulled it down to make her burrow.
Zelenska Marie provides towel warming. I provide dripping water on the floor of the shower for her entertainment.
September 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Zelenska Marie provides towel warming. I provide dripping water on the floor of the shower for her entertainment.
Progress in Nepal, and the articles have started describing actual reasons (corruption, inequality) for the protests in place of yesterday's stories about kids wanting their socials.
Nepal prime minister quits after deaths at protests sparked by social media ban
KP Sharma Oli resigns as police meet protests with deadly force, leaving 19 dead, and federal parliament is set alight
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Progress in Nepal, and the articles have started describing actual reasons (corruption, inequality) for the protests in place of yesterday's stories about kids wanting their socials.
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Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities, shares Stateline.
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Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire - High Country News
Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.
www.hcn.org
September 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities, shares Stateline.
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The worst one so far from september-8-nepal.vercel.app. That's a child in the typical school uniform of Nepal apparently shot in the head, his backpack soaked with blood.
September 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The worst one so far from september-8-nepal.vercel.app. That's a child in the typical school uniform of Nepal apparently shot in the head, his backpack soaked with blood.
Graphic photos and videos from Kathmandu
Nepal September 8 – The Brutality of the Protests
The Truth shall not be burried.
september-8-nepal.vercel.app
September 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Graphic photos and videos from Kathmandu
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God I fucking love pissed off civic technologists so much americabydesign.fail
America by Design Fail
Trump fired the best designers in the Federal Government
americabydesign.fail
August 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
God I fucking love pissed off civic technologists so much americabydesign.fail
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I've been stewing about this for a few days now but I just can't contain it anymore. what the fuck is this bullshit. americabydesign.gov
America by Design
A National Design Studio Initiative
americabydesign.gov
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I've been stewing about this for a few days now but I just can't contain it anymore. what the fuck is this bullshit. americabydesign.gov