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@numb.comfortab.ly

Principal software engineer. AWS/CDK/TypeScript.

Interests: Pink Floyd, Star Trek, coding, biking, VR, cats. Not necessarily in this order.
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"No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler is more clean energy, especially solar, and above all, battery storage..." 😀
California Grid Breezes Through Heat Wave due to Renewables, Batteriesthinc.blog No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler …
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Texas has been under GOP control for 25 years. Every single statewide office held by Republicans. Texas ranks last in quality of life, worst in health insurance. Power goes out often; people die of heat or cold. The infant death rate is rising; women die giving birth. These are features, not bugs.
Anger grows as some senior facilities left without power for days: ‘It’s horrible what the state of Texas is doing’ | CNNwww.cnn.com As Tina Kitzmiller sat inside her sweltering apartment, windows and doors open in the hope of catching even the slightest breeze, she was frustrated and worried for her dog and her neighbors.
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And it was Saint Ronnie who pushed gun control
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under trump’s project 2025, a middle-class family with two children would pay $2,600 in additional federal income tax by comparison, a married couple with two children and earnings of $5 million a year would enjoy a $325,000 tax cut
Project 2025 would overhaul the U.S. tax system. Here's how it could impact you.www.cbsnews.com Project 2025, a blueprint for the next Republican president, proposes major economic changes that could impact millions of Americans.
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WSJ has fired Hong Kong-based journalist Selina Cheng after she was elected chair of a local journalism union. She was told advocating for press freedom “would be incompatible with my job.” Cheng’s full statement (posted via twitter):
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Starbucks is now a proud RNC sponsor, in case you still go there
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This episode aired in 1994 and no other joke about American politics has held up that consistently for so long.
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I know it's just a feeble-ass excuse to turn people who lost jobs onto the trans community, but it's funny as fuck that the guy who puts on cowboy hats backwards is going to Texas.
Good fucking riddance
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The Vance VP pick, and the Musk/Thiel/Saks PAC means that the GOP is a completely Kremlin-friendly operation now.
'We're forcing everyone away,' Trump says on Russia sanctions
'We're forcing everyone away,' Trump says on Russia sanctionskyivindependent.com
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The least interesting thing about the Republican convention was Haley and DeSantis pledging fealty. Absolutely zero news to it.
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What, why? Why drag that abomination out of the sewer?
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Good fucking riddance
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I've revived the @joeldongsteen.bsky.social account, inspired by the original @joeldongsteen from twitter. It takes every tweet from Joel Osteen, and replaces "God" with "your dick."
Joel Dongsteen (@joeldongsteen.bsky.social)joeldongsteen.bsky.social Reposting Joel Osteen's tweets with minor corrections. Carrying the torch for @JoelDongsteen
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The masculine urge to escape the research facility
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He has the same look on his face as when DeSantis realized he'd still have to be governor after he lost the presidential primary
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This seems like a good time to introduce everyone to Bobby WaffleCone
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Let's have some fun on Bluesky tonight! Tell me where you live and one thing everyone should do in your city! #flythefriendlysky
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sorry i asked if the photo of your kid was “that fucked up AI stuff”
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I'm minded of the fact mutual aid and tipping goes out the window when drama goes down so please check on your vulnerable friends
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slaughter is the best smedicine
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Dragging his ball everywhere
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