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Ray Bray
@gibbers.bsky.social
More of a reply guy - pr flack that's used to catching flak. Trying to be better. Prev: AB21, Kay Hagan, Cory Booker, Obama ‘12
Pre-Covid Alabama (and Mississippi) led the nation in immunization and childhood vaccinations! Mississippi boasts a 99% childhood immunization rate pre-K!
January 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
@davidzipper.bsky.social You've been a critic of CAFE standards right? - thoughts on this?

On the whole I feel like this is bad, but curious if there's a glimmer of good here or if this is just making a bad thing worse.
And this was just his *first* act in office. Said it before, saying it again: if you put all your chips on cleaner cars to decarbonize the transport sector, you have made a bad bet. We need state and local action to make walking, biking, transit, and other modes viable, and we need them yesterday.
Newly sworn-in U.S. transportation chief orders fuel economy rule rewrite
WASHINGTON — Newly appointed U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has ordered a rewrite of stringent federal fuel economy...
www.post-gazette.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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December 10, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Weirdly not bothered by this. Advertising, not subscriptions, were the lifeblood of print media for decades and arguably the best way we could democratize the internet is through an ad-service that puts users/content creators first.

Question remains how BlueSky would approach this imo.
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says it is not "necessarily true" that Bluesky will always be free of advertising, and ads on the service could be "user intent-driven" (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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December 5, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Question for the #TTRPG crowd: As someone that has never GMed a game, but eager to play a co-op TTRPG with my partner, what would you recommend between:
1) The Wildsea
2) The One Ring
3) Borg (Mork Borg, Cy_Borg, Pirate Borg)
4) Colostle
November 13, 2024 at 2:44 PM