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SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D. @djmosfett.bsky.social · 1h

Gausman:
- went back to the previous location on Cal
- went back to the pitch he used to get Arozarena

Not at all surprising it went over the fence

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D. @djmosfett.bsky.social · 1h

Holy moly, Big Dumper

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SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D. @djmosfett.bsky.social · 2h

Toronto fans have contracted the Dodger Fan “Everything’s a Strike” disease, sad

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

On Twitter, Sky News' account put quotation marks around the word 'dies'. It did not do so here though. Wonder why.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 10h

Palestinian girl, 12, dies after suffering from malnutrition for months

Huda Abu al Naja, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl who suffered from malnutrition for months, has died in Nasser Hospital in Gaza, according to The Times of Israel.

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SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D. @djmosfett.bsky.social · 4h

Paying soldiers R&D money

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D. @djmosfett.bsky.social · 4h

it's deeply funny that Blake Snell has overcome his Opener heritage & now faces the virus he spread

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KLM @klm.bsky.social · 5h

the news is all over my linkedin but there isn't much formal reporting yet www.cutoday.info/THE-feature/...

Mass Federal Firings Begin: Thousands Laid Off As Treasury Reportedly Shuts Down CDFI Fund / THE feature / CUToday.info - CU Today

The Coolest Credit Union News Source

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KLM @klm.bsky.social · 5h

so uh the entire CDFI Fund staff got fired. that's most of the money for community loan funds nationwide stuck in limbo as a consequence

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 5h

The problem with this discourse is that it reveals something that nobody with a stake in their own academic or professional discipline wants to own up to, which is there is no particular educational paradigm that automatically makes you a good person

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 10h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D. @djmosfett.bsky.social · 5h

Trump's daily inner monologue:

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h

Current and former Department of Education employees: We want to hear from you.

Use Signal to contact our reporters @jsmithrichards.bsky.social at jsmithrichards.93, @jodiscohen.bsky.social at jodireporter.88 or @megomatz.bsky.social at 414-207-6225.

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 12h

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SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D. @djmosfett.bsky.social · 1d

Hey a celebration where a person under 35 demonstrates what a real landline is

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SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D. @djmosfett.bsky.social · 1d

😩flyers😩

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

I know the approps committees are impotent shells of themselves now so I don't expect anyone there to do anything about this, but any of their professional staffers would laugh this out of the room

Makes sense that OP in the xitter screenshots used to work for Mike though lol

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SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D. @djmosfett.bsky.social · 1d

So, @mikeblack114.bsky.social is not only correct that this is an illegal process, but this claimed logic also *very clearly identifies* which agency is under threat: Navy R&D

eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 1d

The DoD is allowed to transfer this money per statute apparently (though this is outside of my area). The CR in March upped it to 8 billion.

Of course it has. It always does. Sec 8005 of DOD Appropriations, for starters…

That one provision now allows for $8b in transfers, per March’s full year CR:

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

You can't take yet unused funds from a prior FY multi-year appropriation (which is what this would be) and shoehorn that in to a purpose for which Congress appropriates money annually, but has not yet appropriated

The FY25 MILPERS appropriation is expired, and there is no FY26 MILPERS appropriation

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Negative

For starters as a logical matter there is no universe in which this meets the intended purpose of reprogramming language

But as a legal matter you've got to have a valid appropriation to transfer the monies into

Congress appropriates some things on a multi-year basis and others annual

eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 1d

The DoD is allowed to transfer this money per statute apparently (though this is outside of my area). The CR in March upped it to 8 billion.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 1d

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

People who act confused by Hamas' desire to free Barghoti are bizarre to me, Hamas wants him out even though he isn't Hamas affiliated because they believe he is one of the few, or maybe even the only, individuals who can unite the whole of Palestinian factions under the PLO

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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horse massacre @torqpenderloin.bsky.social · 1d

and they're calling it the most blackface couple since amos and andy

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

chat it's happening

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Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau appear to confirm romance - report

After months of rumours, proof seems to be in that Katy Perry is dating former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The loved-up couple were spotted kissing and cuddling on board Perry's 24-metre y...

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Jim 👎 ジム @jtp2106.me · 1d

When we finally adopt the Rome Statute, this guy needs to be tried

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.

Blinken:

(2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue.

(3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

the official policy of this administration is "be born neurotypical and healthy, never have anything bad happen to you, you're completely on your own"

Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:

Zach Schermele
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NEW: The Education Dept. layoffs continued overnight, w/ the main office in charge of special ed funding being
"decimated," as one person described.
"They cut just about everyone that works with IDEA funding," said another.
"I'm not sure how these programs exist moving forward."
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