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Black Hart of Saint Paul @blackhartstp.com · 6h

We don’t want to dox anybody but there are so many freaking nerds in Saint Paul

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 7h

Tells "you'll be a lot happier if you watched the NBA" to a bunch of people in the DC area is diabolical

Lakshya Jain @lakshya.splitticket.org · 7h

my thoughts on the shutdown: you guys would be a lot happier if you learned to watch the NBA.

Dems aren't losing this battle at the moment, and even if they do, none of this is likely to matter one year from now. think long-term for a second. www.theargumentmag.com/p/it-will-sh...

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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 7h

It took me half my coding block to figure out what everything did. I did manage to move the ball forward slightly before running out of time.

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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 7h

That game was bad for my liver.

David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 11h

Revisiting half-written #rstats code that I wrote in June. No documentation, just a couple of test examples. Can Fall David figure out what Summer David was up to??

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 16h

some visual metaphor for something

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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 1d

Last night she was up from 1 to 3. I appreciate that she got going earlier tonight, at 11:30.

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Downtown Brandi Frown 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 1d

Her sister definitely texts like a parent who says CALL ME NOW about something not urgent.

www.wsmv.com/2025/10/08/i...

‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister says after asking for prayers

Dolly postponed her first Las Vegas residency in more than 30 years late last month, saying she was dealing with health challenges.

www.wsmv.com

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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 1d

Sleep regression says hi.

A photo of a groggy baby and a put-upon bearded adult man.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 1d

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 2d

In South Dakota, at least, the difference isn't just cultural, it's geological. East River was glaciated; West River had no glaciers but millennia of erosion.

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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 2d

Having lived in Pierre, Rapid City, and Sioux Falls really drove home where the Midwest's western boundary lies.

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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 2d

But is Uptown in the Midwest??

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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 2d

My guess is that the name solidified late enough (1890s/early 20th Century) that that original important distinction had faded in importance.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 2d

When I surveyed people about this, it was mixed: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We Mapped 'the Midwest' for You, So Stop Arguing

We surveyed more than 12,000 people (and counting) about the most contentious border question in the U.S. to reveal the true geography of America’s midsection.

www.bloomberg.com

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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 2d

Are you one of those people who defines “the Midwest” as mutually exclusive with regions like “the Rust Belt” or “the Great Lakes”?

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Bobcat Moran @bobcatmoran.bsky.social · 2d

Many moons ago, I took a course on "Regional Geography of North America," and our very first activity was to break into groups, take a map of the US, and draw regional boundaries. Everyone agreed that "The Midwest" was a thing (only consistent name on all maps) and NOBODY agreed on its boundaries

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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 2d

Like this? bsky.app/profile/dhmo...

David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 2d

And if you really want to think about the Midwest, here's a map of the U.S. with the maximum extent of glaciation during the last ice age overlaid on it.

A map of the U.S. with the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers and the extent of the last glacial maximum.

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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 2d

Centuries ago, people used to refer to the area west of the Appalachians as "the West". But over the 19th Century the U.S. expanded to the Pacific Coast, so what had been the "West" was now in the middle. Eventually people started calling it the "Middle West," and things got shortened from there.

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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 2d

I'd bet there's at least some causation there, but I haven't researched it yet.

David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 2d

This version gets you a little closer: bsky.app/profile/dhmo...

David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 2d

And if you really want to think about the Midwest, here's a map of the U.S. with the maximum extent of glaciation during the last ice age overlaid on it.

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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 2d

Time is another factor! My mother grew up in northern Oklahoma in the 1960s. She says her hometown felt Midwestern then, but today it feels more Southern.

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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 2d

I will commend to you this reply, then: bsky.app/profile/dhmo...

David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 2d

And if you really want to think about the Midwest, here's a map of the U.S. with the maximum extent of glaciation during the last ice age overlaid on it.