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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · 19h

12:30... Down by the City County building

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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · 19h

Also Pittsburgh

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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · 3d

My granddaughter just asked me yesterday what 32+35 was and got really excited when I said 67... thanks for explaining this to an old man lol

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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · 3d

Takeaway is that Covid job shakeups were really good for the bottom 50%?

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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · 29d

It's not even a fee for accepted applications.. it's a fee even to apply. You could pay 100k and get nothing

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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Sep 10

I beg all of you, if you are tempted to dunk on Charlie Kirk's death, please remember that this little girl just lost her father too.

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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Sep 8

I really wanted this site to succeed and replace Twitter, but sadly it doesn't seem likely to happen.

gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Sep 5

If all you hope for BlueSky is to be like a very online progressive subreddit, that's fine. But I personally was hoping that it completely replace Twitter as the center for political discussion on the internet, and it doesn't look like there is any hope for that at this point.

gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Sep 3

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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Aug 31

I kind of wondered if the reason the EU made that unfavorable deal was that they anticipated this decision?

gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Aug 30

I find myself using it more than StackOverflow more and more ymmv

gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Aug 30

Well if you want an example, just the other day it helped me diagnose a complex network routing problem that had been giving me headaches for months.

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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Aug 29

Fwiw, I use ChatGPT pretty much daily for my job

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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Aug 28

This reminds me of the old accountants at the steel mill I worked at who were stressed out because they had to learn Excel.

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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Jul 21

I agree, but this seems like political suicide for any politician trying to run for statewide or nationwide office.

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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Jul 16

I seriously think he could win the GOP nomination in 2028

gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Jul 10

It seems to me that markets won’t react because of TACO….. at least until we get closer to August 1

gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Jul 8

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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Jun 16

It irritates me that he uses that 21 million number all the time which has absolutely no basis in reality, and there's no pushback at all. We've just accepted that he makes shit up and let it go.

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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Jun 11

It’s a shame… I really wanted this place to succeed

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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Jun 8

I’m a centrist Dem. I would like very much for the other site to fail and this one to succeed. It seems to me like this is not happening because this site is extremely unwelcoming to people with differing opinions

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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Jun 5

Expect shareholder lawsuits if the board doesn't ask him to step down

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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Jun 2

Ugh, I really wish we could get off twitter and away from the Nazis, but this place has its own deep dysfunction. If you abandon it, I guess I’ll go back to following you over there.

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gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · Jun 2

I mean "get rich quick" schemes aren't really a new thing

gravylake.bsky.social @gravylake.bsky.social · May 30

Home ownership among younger people is roughly tracking previous generations

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