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David Mayo 🦜

@dcmayo.bsky.social

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I'm a programmer, a Kentuckian, a veteran, and a progressive. I helped send a spaceship to the moon.

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David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · Dec 11

I... have gotten a space job! I am going to be the Research Engineer Mission Operations Systems for a spacecraft... ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON!

Pic unrelated.

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David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 3h

Chuck Schumer delivering what he believes to be a rousing speech:

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4h

Had the trump of judgment blown, they could not have quivered more

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 15h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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CC Kirby @cckirby.bsky.social · 1d

Alex Trebek saying "the creature" on this episode of Jeopardy! from Halloween 1997

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David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 1d

Mariners win! Congratulations to Ichiro Suzuki, Ken Griffey, Jr., and, uh... Dr. Frasier Crane.

David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 1d

ERRORS BY CHARACTERS: Despite its name, the song actually features 89 lines about 44 women, due to the "Nuh-uh, not Katherine" addition.

David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 1d

Used this today for the first time ever, and it felt like cheating.

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David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 1d

You run other articles with much less emotionally charged language when you want to, for example "the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein."

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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 3d

US House GOP delays seating Rep.-elect Grijalva, potential deciding vote on Epstein petition kentuckylantern.com/2025/10/08/u...

US House GOP delays seating Rep.-elect Grijalva, potential deciding vote on Epstein petition • Kentucky Lantern

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Democrats failed again Wednesday to force Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva. Johnson has said he’s holding off on swearing in Grijalva — an Arizona D...

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David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 1d

Between this post and the actual article, you call this guy a "child killer" five times.

Just wholesale adopting the Trump Administration's language. I wish you wouldn't do that.

David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 1d

LMAO

Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 1d

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 2d

About to teach a room full of non-coders how to code. Wish me luck!

David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 3d

What the Hell was that?

David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 4d

Won a bullet game against a higher rated opponent while playing with a 600ms ping. 👍

David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 4d

I could drive through water on the road, no problem. It doesn't even look too deep.

David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 4d

I think it's super cool that my niece's public elementary school is using fundraising tactics that are indistinguishable from ActBlue, which are in turn indistinguishable from a scammer trying to steal my credit card.

A text message that looks like a scam/phishing message, ostensibly from my ten year old niece.

Continuation of the scammy text message, which has a photograph of my niece.

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David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 4d

Today I learned that Python does not support doing bitwise operators on bytes objects. Kinda annoying imo.

David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 5d

Nice! Congratulations!!

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Defakator (Officiel) 🧆 @defakator.bsky.social · 6d

Haddock : Quelle semaine, hein ?
Tintin : Capitaine, on est lundi, il est 10h

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David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 5d

I cannot do this again.

Lexington Herald-Leader @kentucky.com · 5d

“This is a different race, it’s a different year, it’s a midterm,” McGrath said, comparing 2026 to her 2020 run for U.S. Senate.

‘Battle-tested’ Amy McGrath launches second Kentucky U.S. Senate bid

“This is a different race, it’s a different year, it’s a midterm,” McGrath said, comparing 2026 to her 2020 run for U.S. Senate.

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David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 5d

We don't give Google enough shit for destroying Image Search and Reverse Image Search.

David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 6d

They should make a seventh season of "Lost." All Walt, all the time.

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Museum of Twitter (Haunted version) @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 8d

Tweet from Film Daze (@filmdaze):

Blade Runner 2049 directed by Denis Villeneuve

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 8d

Billy Gillespie getting suspended right as Bobby Petrino gets to be an interim coach, they're like the Jefferson and Adams of college sports www.espn.com/mens-college...

Tarleton State coach Gillispie under investigation

Tarleton State coach Billy Gillispie has been placed on temporary administrative leave as the university investigates an anonymous complaint.

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David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 8d

This is a really cool shot. I like it a lot.

David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 8d

The name "Pizzarina Sbarro" floats into my head once a month or so, always eliciting an out loud chuckle, no matter where I am at the time.

David Mayo 🦜 @dcmayo.bsky.social · 8d

Or if Manti Te'o had dated anyone.