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Polymath. Product manager on hiatus. Music. Dogs. Appalachia. Linux. Ruby on Rails. Python, ML/DL/LLMs. Semiconductors. Football. Tacos. Vampire hunter. (Not really.)

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Brian Piercy is caffeinated for your safety. @brianpiercy.bsky.social · 1d

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How Ukraine Turned the Tables on Russia

Russia assumed time was on its side, but a new Ukrainian strategy is yielding surprising results.

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Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

China and India largely drove the rise in renewables and met much of the world’s growing appetite for electricity.

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Brian Piercy is caffeinated for your safety. @brianpiercy.bsky.social · 2d

If Ernest Borgnine’s ghost isn’t in it, I ain’t watching.

Brian Piercy is caffeinated for your safety. @brianpiercy.bsky.social · 2d

This is the correct answer. Our infrastructure is not keeping up with demand.

Brian Piercy is caffeinated for your safety. @brianpiercy.bsky.social · 2d

I'm good with this.

Brian Piercy is caffeinated for your safety. @brianpiercy.bsky.social · 3d

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At 60, Mario Lemieux remains Pittsburgh’s most important and interesting sports figure

No athlete in the history of North American pro sports has been more synonymous with a franchise than Lemieux has been with the Penguins.

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Brian Piercy is caffeinated for your safety. @brianpiercy.bsky.social · 3d

Courts aren’t going to do jack squat. Maybe you don’t this / but the rest of us do. It’s every person for him/herself.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4d

I know we’re resigned after so many years of it but for real, social media giving high-ranking elected government officials the ability to harass individual private citizens by name for an audience of millions as a recreational pastime is actually Caligula shit if you think about it

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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Brian Piercy is caffeinated for your safety. @brianpiercy.bsky.social · 4d

Himmler Barbie

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Dr. Canuck, MD @drcanuckmd.medsky.social · 5d

The Portland Navy is arriving

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Brian Piercy is caffeinated for your safety. @brianpiercy.bsky.social · 4d

Speedy still can outrun donut Stasi troopers 🤟

Brian Piercy is caffeinated for your safety. @brianpiercy.bsky.social · 5d

Are they listening?

Nearly 80% of Americans want Congress to extend ACA tax credits, poll finds

Without the extension, premiums for plans on the ACA Marketplace will more than double.

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Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair - Jaffa Remix

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Dirty Water

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Brian Piercy is caffeinated for your safety. @brianpiercy.bsky.social · 5d

I’d like to start traveling again. Other countries, cultures & (esp) food. But the thought of showing an American passport is a major deterrent. So fucking ashamed of this country.