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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · 11d

I think generally if people are going on fishing expeditions, they need to come in and do most of the work themselves. This seems especially true if they’re following an LLM‘s unfounded hunch.

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · 12d

My neighbor started flying an upside down German flag. I’m having a hard time figuring out what the hell is going on in this town.

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · 15d

For my train weirdos and my food weirdos, here’s the corporate recipe book and serving standards of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad . Please enjoy these elegantly-served aspics. hdl.handle.net/11134/3992510

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Standard Recipe Book | CT Digital Archive

hdl.handle.net

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · 16d

Same. I’m dying to subdivide our lot and build something modern but dread a public hearing.

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · 17d

Down the street, a three acre empty lot was subdivided into two very nice single family homes. This required a variance, since it did not meet the two acre minimum. Dipshits on Facebook with falling-down farmhouses are losing their minds because of the "loss of character".

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · 17d

I live in a very small, kinda crappy, rural town that is cost burdened by housing. Our town has a GREAT website about housing affordability and an awesome diagnosis of the problem. Their "affordable housing plan 2022-2027" does very little to meet the moment www.brooklynct.org/planning-zon...

Housing Affordability | Brooklyn CT

Real estate prices are still skyrocketing as high demand meets low supply in the housing market. Brooklyn is no exception to this phenomenon.In 2019, more than one third of Brooklyn households paid mo...

www.brooklynct.org

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JF @jessefarrar.com · 21d

no way dude. cmon. that cant be it

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · 23d

The priest at my church would talk about how every once in a while our pride flag would be stolen. She said that she liked to think that it was by a student who couldn’t afford her own. The thing about security culture is that it doesn’t let you take a generous view.

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · 23d

In my view, the two biggest safety risks in our town are being hit by large vehicles that go too fast and slipping into homelessness because of the cost of housing. Lord knows this is not what local Facebook groups would have you think.

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · 23d

This PoV infiltrates. My spouse and I have a mild disagreement because we want to put up a pride flag from a tall tree in our very conservative small town. She’s worried about someone messing with it and asked about putting up a camera. I don’t want to live that way! We can just replace the flag!

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · 23d

It is very sad to me how many Americans have untreated anxiety disorders. I do not need to do a 20 minute security sweep of my hotel room. I do not need to put AirTags in my kid’s shoes. No one is trying to traffic anyone at the grocery store.

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · 27d

My fun weekends used to end with bottle caps in my jacket pockets. Now it’s these.

A photo of a woman holding caps from toddler squeeze pouches in her open palm.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Sep 11

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · Sep 8

It's really alarming how many Americans don't care or don't know that they're constantly operating killing machines and see any impediment to that as a breach of freedom.

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · Sep 8

At one point Vance is torn between caring for a family member and getting to a Big Law interview. He drives all night at 100 mph and then when he's pulled over he explains to the cop that he's a veteran.

Far from the MOST objectionable passage, but the reckless, macho entitlement was always there

adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · Sep 8

iirc, this book was a Required Reading for all first-year students at my undergraduate school (uh, not for *me*, I'm old) and I wonder if it's still on any lists there or anything.

Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · Sep 8

People who hyped HillBilly Elegy must pay

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Niki Dykstra @enephdee.bsky.social · Sep 5

“We’ve lost our way. We’re fearful about championing the issues and the causes that really matter, the day-to-day expenses of living in [Connecticut].” - State Rep. Josh Elliott, who is challenging Gov. Lamont from the left.

#nutmegsky

Looking Left, Elliott Pokes At Guv's Popularity

Insurgent candidate Joshua Elliott isn't convinced the governor he's taking on is so popular. …

www.newhavenindependent.org

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · Sep 4

There were awkward goth teens at the town ag fair last weekend!!!!

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · Sep 4

We know that we live in the age of bullshit and misinformation when even the covid-cautious scolds are vaccine deniers.

It is not the case that breakthrough infection is inevitable. The covid vaccine DOES prevent catching and spreading covid. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

A comment from a defector article by a user named Woz. "While you should definitely get vaccinated, remember that it does little-to-nothing to prevent you getting COVID or spreading COVID to others. But the good news is there's no reason you can't mask in most/all public situations, which is incredibly effective at both preventing you from getting and from giving it to others. Mask up people!"

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · Sep 3

I love to see it!

Maureen @meau.bsky.social · Sep 3

How am I expected to fall asleep?!?!?

Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · Sep 3

Noooooooooo

Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time

After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series

www.bbc.co.uk

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · Sep 3

The cause of poverty is not having enough money.

There are, indeed, distorting effects when we don't address the root causes of shortages. But in the meantime, we can and should alleviate suffering!

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · Sep 3

For the past three years, the city has been giving cash to some struggling renters, no strings attached.

The first-in-the-nation experiment has been even more successful than researchers studying its impact expected.

Philly’s first-in-the-nation experiment giving cash to struggling renters is working, researchers say

Families that got cash rental assistance were less likely to be evicted, experience homelessness, and report having serious problems with their homes, according to a study of the PHLHousing+ program.

www.inquirer.com

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · Sep 3

At my archives, I have a reading group where we read articles and chapters from scholars who have used our holdings. I’m starting to think that none of you want your evidence to be reproducible.

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Sep 2

If there is anything I have learned from writing a book that spans 67,000+ years and a great many disciplines, it's that SO many academics have really poor citation practices.

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · Aug 28

lol and also we've all been there or currently are there or are in some other version of these kinds of repository management choices

The repository had relied partially on external storage media (external hard drives and CDs) for storing digital archival content. Staff were following guidelines like the “3-2-1” rule5 but did not have plans or procedures to monitor the health of external storage devices.

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · Aug 28

Then they hired Emily, which was a really smart move, and my read on the situation was that she was like "oh holy shit we need to build some structure here."

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Maureen @meau.bsky.social · Aug 28

In parallel, the archives would happily accept records on external media, slap an accession number on it, and let it sit on the shelf.

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