Padraig2112

Padraig2112

@isomorphism.net

IT professional for 30 years. Former local elected official. Education and technology policy, former grad student working on Information Systems for untrained responders in big disasters. Happily married with adult kids.

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Replying to @darthbluesky.bsky.social

“why do u think “elizab…” “hold up who is asking the questions here” *stares* *stares* *stares* *stares*

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Hey remember a couple months ago when I almost died from sleep apnea and begged y'all to be checked if you have symptoms of sleep apnea? Eric Bauza just died from sleep apnea. We were the same age. Don't ignore sleep apnea.

Ryan Estrada@ryanestrada.com

Do you get a full night's sleep but wake up feeling like death? Does your whole body feel off in ways you can't explain? Research signs of Sleep Apnea. Get a sleep test. You can't diagnose it yourself, cuz you sleepin'.

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This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

ghanacitizenship.comGhana-Ivory Coast Cocoa Alliance: Mahama and Ouattara Sign Joint DeclarationGhana and Ivory Coast signed a Joint Declaration to strengthen their cocoa alliance, aligning producer prices and expanding local processing.
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For whatever it's worth, I have met Senator Sasha Renée Pérez, I endorsed her in her election campaign, and this account sounds entirely credible based upon the principles. You go, Memo.

Memo Torres@eltragon.bsky.social

I did not want to do this, but they called me out. substack.com/@memotorres/...

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Why repost an old shoe flapping racism when you could repost this skeet below about a super cool holiday boutique in Los Angeles on Saturday 11/7⬇️

Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew@amandasmith.bsky.social

LA-area folks who support reproductive rights, here’s a great way to do it! Shop at LAGRH’s holiday boutique on 11/7! Tackle all your gifting needs, stock up on baked goods, and pick up an emotional support chicken or two.

ratchel@ferret5557.bsky.social

THEY'RE CALLED MECHA, COOP. REAL WACKADOO STUFF THE BOYS BACK AT LANGLEY HAVE BEEN COOKING UP. ENORMOUS ROBOT BODIES THAT'LL WIN THE NEXT TEN WARS. BUT HERES THE KICKER: THEY CAN ONLY BE DRIVEN BY MALNOURISHED TEENAGE LESBIANS. TRANSGENDERS TOO IF THEY'RE MALNOURISHED ENOUGH.

That 33.5% number is *sending* me

Dj@djsoke.bsky.social

18k 18-29 voters in GA today, 53% of the same day in 2024, by far the highest %24 day so far. Today only: Black 18-29: 77.3% of 2024 White 18-29 voters in blue ATL counties: 51.9% White 18-29 in the rest of the state: 31.3% Cumulative numbers below

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I would like to report the owner of Mar-a-Lago who signed an oath under penalty of felony perjury that the White House was his *Florida* voter registration residence Oh wait, he has to be arrested and convicted. darn

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

I don't really mind commercial television but in this day and age we should be able to provide feedback to the streamer along the lines of "Do not show me fucking DraftKings ads any more because the ads make me want to hunt down DraftKings execs and nobody wants that"

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Replying to @andycraig.bsky.social

I get they're inextricably intertwined but I kind of feel like leaning so much into how he was the longtime best buddy of the world's most notorious sex criminal has given it something of the feel of a political gotcha rather than the important part, which is that the president raped people.

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"Energy independence"

Lauri Myllyvirta@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social

New from me: The US has faced a higher cost than any other country from the global Hormuz oil shock, with the crisis adding $160 billion to its fuel bill — or $471 per person on average — despite being the world’s largest oil producer.

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Something that stood out to me when I was in Greensboro, how many Black women were conscientious of their grandparents' role in fighting for their right to vote. "Ancestors have fought for this right, and so it’s my duty to do it," one of them said thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/theyre-att...

thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com‘They're attempting to disenfranchise us, and that's not right’In Greensboro, N.C., students from North Carolina A&T State University make the trek to turn out despite the lack of a polling place

There's a very funny anecdote about Ahmed Zewail I don't feel free to share but he's a Muslim and he has a Nobel and I have actually met him so I know for sure this isn't Fake News, Robert me lad. Never mind the others, of which there are many, and, yadda yadda (yanno you're a racist turd)

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Thread: (I won't say I'm not still critical of long term viability but this is a clear pass over the first four bridges that could have been out and marked where it was gonna die, and it would be dishonest to say otherwise)

*ANTHROPIC FILES PUBLICLY FOR US IPO www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

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Our 11yo daughter has grown up with two astronomer parents and that's probably too much astronomy for anyone. She's reading the new Scott Reintgen book (The Void Dragons) and dropping 'stellar mass black holes' and 'primordial black holes' over the breakfast table and we're both like

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I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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Hannah Barnes once published a paper in the British Medical Journal with some fake scandal about trans kids and then the next day published an "exclusive" in the BBC saying that the "BMJ found a big scandal". Her source was her own report but she never disclosed that she also wrote the BMJ paper.

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Don't forget the Cheesecake Factory owner built a cult compound to last for 700 years in order to welcome the return of Meher Baba, the Sufism Reoriented guru and inspiration for the song "Baba O'Reilly" The House Of Worship The Cheesecake Factory Built | The FADER share.google/HcHXc1OXPeg8...

share.googleThe House Of Worship The Cheesecake Factory BuiltSufism Reoriented, a small, well-funded California religious group, announced plans for a new sanctuary. Then the battle lines were drawn.

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If you have Cheesecake Factory, Spaghetti Warehouse, and Souplantation in your opening hand, by turn three you're tapping for 7 colorless mana

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Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

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And we've come full circle from Obama wasn't even born here to it doesn't matter if Obama was born here.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."