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Chris Tebbens

@christebbens.bsky.social

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Dogs, food, learning about birds, reading leftist politics, good dad jokes. Defector is a good website. 🌹

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Great to see bees on the milkweed!

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He would just call them suckers. He doesn’t care about any individual, only the power they can use to further what he wants. It’s totally ok for him if other people get in trouble as long as he is ok.

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Ann Arbor, pulling into the parking lot for Whole Foods/REI. I hope Ypsi would boo them out of the city.

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Saw my first cybertuck driving today. It looks as dumb moving around as everyone said.

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I allow myself to look through Kowa’s for no more than three minutes a year at BWIAB because more than that and I would have to explain why it was necessary to replace my 2 year old Vortex to my wife

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This was an amazing presentation. I love the thought and caring that is going into this project, and helps illustrate (heh) some of the efforts to increase usability of disparate data sources.

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I have a condition where it is impossible for to hear chimney swifts and not point out said chimney swifts to whoever I am with

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Excited for the holiday dinner tonight!

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Radicalize every library

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MUCH easier to hear than see. I was trying for 10 minutes the other day to get the worst look at one that was singing like crazy.

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We’ve lost the ability to design for repairability, and are focusing on disposable products. We are going to need a shift in the engineering landscape to redevelop those skills.

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We use this hand symbol when someone uses a term that another person isn’t familiar with and would like it explained. We call it “jargon giraffe”.

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I guess I’m saying…. I really won’t have much social media! It’s not optimal, but I don’t think it will hurt terribly due to historical low competition for the race.

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Twitter - nope! Prefer not to be on there. Facebook - I’ve never had a FB account before and don’t really want to start now. TikTok - no one needs me on there Instagram - I don’t even know how that works! LinkedIn - holy hell the worst site possible rather kms than run campaign on there

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Since I’m running for Trustee of the Ypsilanti District Library, I’ve been thinking about my social media strategy (or lack thereof). This account isn’t going to turn into a campaign account, but I will be talking about some campaign activities.

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Ah yes, the amazing to have AI rename Nf3

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Two things can be true at the same time: 1. I can spot a house wren carrying a fecal sac from a hidden nest 2. I am unable to find the loaf of bread in the fridge

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Totally normal to have ska/punk, Beethoven, noise metal, and the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack all in one easy carry binder for your car.

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Spending the evening with the family going through our CD collections to show our teen our music tastes when we were young. HUNDREDS of CDs that we haven’t looked at for years.

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I need a 45 minute deep-dive YouTube video essay exploring the CGI of Creed videos

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Everything needs to stop being a touchscreen. Everything needs to stop having a touchscreen on it. They are my personal enemies and I hate them. I demand the return of buttons, switches, dials, and things that only go click-clack or toc toc toc.

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Great article, but I hate it for reminding me Stefanik exists.

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Humans have their brains wired to touch soft and cute animals so badly that we bred predators to crave us rubbing their bellies.

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Politicians fund what THEY care about, which isn’t necessarily what improves the lives of their constituents.

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Despite the thousands of dollars worth of hi-tech equipment surrounding you, every visit to the dentists ends with them sliding a piece of string in and out of your teeth

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I just had the honor of celebrating my parents 50th two weeks ago! What a milestone!

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There is always one hidden behind something that you can’t see that fucks me over

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In today’s LinkedIn WTF, I saw someone make a post about their underage daughter going through surgery for cancer (including pictures of her in the hospital), followed by plugging their AI Bible study program. 🤪

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“The students realized it was fake only after noticing that the cops in the room had done nothing to stop the pretend shooter” No promise that they would do anything to stop a real shooter, tbh

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I also made this move and…. The level of incompetence in upstate NY Dems compared to what happens in Michigan has been shocking.

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I've watched both TNG and DS9 multiple times, but a lot of that time involves folding laundry.

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"Hey remember how your team had a whole wiki of useful information to help ramp people up and provide references for uncommon work processes? Yeah that isn't available anymore and you can't import it to a new thing. Maybe you can make a new one on Loop?"

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David Forbes's avatar David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social
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Worth noting Carnegie did this when faced with massive strikes and growing radical movements around the country. 1886 was the same year as Haymarket. His business partner/enforcer was literally shot by an anarchist. Public libraries are great but he and his ilk funded them because they were scared.

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I tried some Pride ones earlier today and they were gone

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Once you are free, you can release the Pah-wraiths to once again reclaim the Celestial Temple!

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I love when serial campaigners (people that continue to run for office despite being not elected over and over) show up to local forums and just start spouting unhinged ideas. Yelling at the audience at a housing event how everyone that has been evicted is stupid and can't budget.

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MY CIVIL RIGHTS HAVE BEEN TOTALLY VIOLATED WITH THIS HIGHLY POLITICAL, ELECTION INTERFERING PAH-WRAITH HUNT OF A SHAM TRIAL RUN BY SECTION 34. OUR FAILING QUADRANT IS BEING LAUGHED AT ALL OVER THE GALAXY!

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Same, they were following me as well. Also blocked them.

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Man, good for you. I’m jealous but in a healthy and supportive way.

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Literally no compassion at all. These cops are complete psychopaths.

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Love when birdwatching acknowledges the joy inherent in the activity

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Timothy Burke's avatar Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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since this platform has DMs now, all I can say is: the federal government is already reading them, they don't need to tell you or anyone else that they are reading them, use DMs solely to coordinate your Signal accounts, communicate with others privately there. not here.

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I’m reading a book about native plants as part of becoming a Michigan Naturalist, and the chapter about the diseases and destruction wrought by non-native plants is so depressing I’ve had to take a break from reading it twice.

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I love sending my family weird little guys from the eBird home page. This was the last one I sent to them.

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