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David Pollak

@bearfeeder.bsky.social

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Geek: spreadsheets, programming languages, cybersecurity. Cats. Rhode Island. Food. Lawyer & economics.


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So does Bill Clinton get a redo after Trump v. US?

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đź’Żwhen my mother in law was in the hospital with stage 4 ovarian cancer (5 years and still in remission) I would go home from the hospital and play breath of the wild to clear my head

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đź’Żwhen my mother in law was in the hospital with stage 4 ovarian cancer (5 years and still in remission) I would go home from the hospital and play breath of the wild to clear my head

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Waiting for godot… or a first officer for the flight…

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Very sad that it’s a 3 hour door to door trip from PVD to DC by plane and 9 hours by train. Sigh.

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Fwiw, I gave up the NYT when they went in as anti-trans. Wapo and Guardian are my news sources. Giving up Twitter was far more difficult… I lost community and notifications about local events

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Don’t show this to my cat Thurgood… he was found under a bush on Fillmore St… now he lives a life of luxury…

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Who owns this? C - dunno, you figure it out Python - one reffy , two reffies Java - dunno, I’ll clean up the garbage Rust - I know and I will be very opinionated about it

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Dave Levitan's avatar Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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By the way, the “Independent Man” is transgender. His deadname was Hope and he thought better of it before climbing to his lofty perch overlooking the city.

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If this city has a signature event, this is probably the one.

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Ribs, tomatoes, and corn. Waiting for my guests to arrive

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When folks argue that a Universal Basic Income would deter working, think about those million-dollar CEOs. If a modest $15k is enough to make one quit working, wouldn’t multi-million dollar packages make CEOs practically comatose? Yet, here they are, still CEOing. Weird isn't it?

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“A girl’s gotta have her standards “

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Quinta Jurecic's avatar Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social
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if your instinct is "calm down, surely this is an exaggeration," allow me to assure you that it's really not

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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We have a president who is executing exceedingly well. Foreign affairs are a mess. And Biden is balancing all the craziness across Ukraine and Gaza. The economy is the best it’s been in my lifetime for everyone but the 1%. We’re making a reasonable energy transition. Re-elect Biden !!

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Jailing people for being homeless is a classic American policy: stupid, brutal, and very expensive.

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happy flat fuck friday

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David Pollak 's avatar David Pollak @bearfeeder.bsky.social
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The logical conclusion is a whole pie is a slice…

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There’s a price… next time you’re in Providence, please sit down with me and teach me the most clever thing you created around the NES and 6502. I want to learn and grow.

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Try reading consumer reports…

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Fwiw, reading the original Apple ][ rom source is a great 6502 tutorial. Wiz did magic with the instruction set

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You delving into the 6502? I never found a use for the Y register

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OMG ESPN is showing cornhole… it’s a sport?!?

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Saeed Jones's avatar Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social
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! “Robert Winnett, the British journalist recently tapped to become editor of The Washington Post later this year, will not take the job and remain at The Daily Telegraph in London, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post on Friday.”

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cait 's avatar cait @cait.bsky.social
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we are all calvin's dad

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rail enthusiast wife Daria's avatar rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com
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Love my (60th-)best run city

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Emily St. James's avatar Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social
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In general, I think those who make film and TV shouldn't own the distribution methods for that film and TV. Theaters, networks, and streamers should exist entirely independently of film and TV studios. The horse is out of the barn on this one, but I think it was a better world when this was true!

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David Pollak 's avatar David Pollak @bearfeeder.bsky.social
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Feline Empty Bowl Syndrome (FEBS) impacts millions of cats every hour. You can make a difference!

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I heard MBTA will be trying electric trains on a line soon… and that line could be the providence-stoughton line… /cc @dariaphoebe.com

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Next time, I book the quiet car… people talking on phones on a train is not okay

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Providence. We hit 140 on the Acela… squeeee

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Current state: freaking because the track hasn’t been announced for my train which departs in 20 minutes… so used to the airport rituals and it’s hard to deal with a more civilized form of transport

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I’m “JFK getting shot” years old

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Cats, despite what they tell you, are pack animals

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Fwiw, in 1991 my condo was worth half of what I paid in 1988. It was a huge trough in the market. But, yes, housing prices have roughly doubled since the early 90s in real terms. This is a problem.

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