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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · 19h

Congratulations to the 2025 NSF Unidata Community Equipment Award grants: Tuskegee University and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa! To learn more about how NSF Unidata supports universities in building their cyberinfrastructure, see buff.ly/oRrjfAJ

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · 20h

You should be using thredds.ucar.edu

TDS Catalog

thredds.ucar.edu

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · 8d

Remember when this same network asked if Obama gave a “terrorist fist bump”?

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 8d

Secretary of War on deez nuts

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 11d

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · 19d

All I can say is I think it’s easy for someone to argue that a “few deaths” is a cost to pay in the abstract, and very different to pay that cost directly. I’d love to know Kirk’s opinion if he knew he was selected to pay that cost personally.

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · 19d

That safety for OU is significant for some

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · 22d

That’s weird because Kaiser emailed me the other day to come get my COVID shot

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · 26d

I mean, I was going for Futurama, but you do you

Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · 26d

All I’m saying is “Scruffy died how Scruffy lived”

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · 26d

Seems like the proper way to honor Kirk in his death is to give a solid “Meh” since empathy has “done a lot of damage” and his shooting death is just the price to pay for those sweet, sweet 2nd amendment rights.

Blanche Devereaux @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 26d

Here is a nice compilation of his viewpoints:

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · Sep 8

Of course none of that matters if you can’t do shit to stop Henry

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · Sep 8

Now you know you didn’t get the needed 2 pt conversion, while you still have an opportunity to get the field goal you need

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · Aug 27

Again.

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · Aug 27

It’s also a redundant encoding of information. You’re already using color for magnitude, why also use the z-axis for that?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Aug 25

They told me if I voted for Kamala Harris we'd become a socialist country, etc., etc.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 25

CNBC: So we should expect the US government to be taking more equity stakes in businesses around the country?

KEVIN HASSETT: It's possible, yeah. That's absolutely right.

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · Aug 23

Understood. I don’t know the Mississippi electorate. But my prior right now, for the US in general, is far too many people made “vibes-based” votes and are now suffering real consequences of that choice and I got no empathy left for them. Would revise if disenfranchised voters are the difference. 😔😡

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · Aug 23

Can’t agree with “most people”. If “most people” voted differently, you could, by definition, meaningfully affect what’s happening. Any member of “most people” who didn’t vote or voted GOP is living with the consequences of their decision.

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · Aug 22

The GOP needs to look up the phrase “the government controls the means of production”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 22

Chairman Mao touts his state-run economy

It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future. I negotiated this Deal with Lip-Bu Tan, the Highly Respected Chief Executive Officer of the Company. The United States paid nothing for these Shares, and the Shares are now valued at approximately $11 Billion Dollars. This is a great Deal for America and, also, a great Deal for INTEL. Building leading edge Semiconductors and Chips, which is what INTEL does, is fundamental to the future of our Nation. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · Aug 22

To: All Staff
Subject: IMPORTANT REMINDER!!!

NEVER lend animals your phone to order items online. Gavin just confiscated another anvil and six rockets from the coyote enclosure.

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · Aug 22

One more reason I’m glad to be 100% Apple these days.

Please don’t let me down, Apple.

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · Aug 20

I mean, AI is being sold as the solution today for things it sucks at. So saying it “doesn’t work” is reasonable, no?

ChatGPT5 gets sold as “multiple PhD’s at your fingertips” and makes mistakes I would frown on interns making.

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · Aug 18

Threads exist. Always an option to add a post crediting your sources. Even later.

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · Aug 15

I should probably pick one so people aren’t confused.

Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · Aug 15

Well if it wasn’t part of the original AWIPS, it wasn’t important, since that would require retraining people.

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · Aug 13

I can’t help hearing all the arguments about “erasing history” when statues honoring civil war losers were being taken down.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · Aug 12

You can't teach U.S. history without "divisive" narratives. Slavery wasn't "unifying." The Japanese incarceration wasn't "unifying." The anti-immigrant Operation Wetback (real name) wasn't "unifying."
It's history's job to tell the truth, not cover up past racism to pave the way for future racism.

White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions

www.nytimes.com

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Aug 12

Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.

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