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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 18h

This looks bad when completely divorced from context

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 18h

The problem isn't that they're too open with their communication. Simply shutting up addresses none of the grievances.

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Vermont Green FC @vermontgreenfc.bsky.social · 1d

Vermont’s women’s soccer story continues... 🏔️

Vermont Green FC has announced that the club’s women’s team will compete in USL W League as a founding member of the league’s Northeast Division.

Vermont Green FC to Join USLW as Founding Member of Northeast Division - Vermont Green Football Club

Vermont Green FC has announced that the club’s women’s team will compete in USL W League as a founding member of the league’s Northeast Division. Participation in the 2026 W League season is contingen...

vermontgreenfc.com

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 23h

A sorry record. This is one reason I don’t care for the Nobel prizes. Three others being:

1) promotes a “great man” view of scientific progress, whereas science is best understood and celebrated as a collective, community activity.
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Graph showing the low and declining percentage of physics Nobel prizes awarded to women. 2.18% as of 2025, despite the fact that 15% of physics phds have been awarded to women over the last 50 years.

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 2d

There is nothing fiscally conservative about bailouts.

The same people that call the left socialist for wanting healthcare and a UBI want the public to pay for their business failures.

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 2d

Very informative video with some things in there that were surprising to me.

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d

History lesson: the best way to stop farm consolidation is stop doing bailouts.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD50...

AcreTrader, Bailouts, & The Future of US Farms

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

www.youtube.com

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 4d

They did create BASIC. I took a picture of the historical marker a while back.

Green freestanding historical marker with the seal of the state of New Hampshire on it, which says:

BASIC: THE FIRST USER-FRIENDLY COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

In 1964, Dartmouth College math professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz created one of the first user-friendly computer programming languages, called Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. BASIC made computer programming accessible to college students and, with the later popularity of personal computers, to users everywhere. It became the standard way that people all over the world learned to program computers, and variants of BASIC are still used today.

2019

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 4d

Well done to the Warming Stripes La Rochelle team!

Starting climate conversations in France! 👏

Warming Stripes painted in the harbour area of La Rochelle, France

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 4d

Are you saying the Bluesky people are making asses of themselves or the people who are mad at them?

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 5d

Is it out of line to think if you're leading an organization and any time you say anything, an extremely upset group responds by reminding you about the thing they're upset about, the problem isn't that they're off-topic?

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 5d

Apparently, I'm a the craven.

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 5d

ok, but it's hard to ignore

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 6d

If they're trying to kill a tunnel project unless or until they can take it over, that's exactly what he'd do. In fact, that's exactly what he did.

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 6d

The cure for infrastructure cancer is trains, not self-driving cars.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 7d

I need journalists to be able to identify a push poll when they see one.

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 7d

No rules of engagement‽ That made me doubletake.

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 7d

A version of this lyric that's worse than the original...

2025 really did jump the shark.

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 8d

Makes sense if email was seen as the informal thing you use to chat with your friends, which your parents will never see, vs the thing you use to send important things to adults and institutions.

JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 8d

I've noticed a generational difference between how x-ers and savvy boomers I've worked with use email vs millennials.

The former treat it more like notes in class, and the latter treat it more like letters to the editor.

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 8d

A messaging app that supports IMAP and serves emails up in a view that looks a lot like IM chats.

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 8d

This reminds me of an app idea I had, which went to where they all do, the magical world where I have time and money at the same time. UBI, people.

JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 8d

@microsoft.com, emoji email reactions sound fun, but the reality is awful.

I send email

Response: 👍

I don't see 👍 unless I go to my Sent folder, so I don't know it happened.

But don't fear, there's a daily digest email of reactions!

It's great because people expect half day email delays...

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 8d

There are a few ways to solve this, but the one that would work best within the standard email workflow is to just send me the reactions as replies.

If new reactions come in, add them to the same reply, like you add them to my buried sent email.

Everything stays in-app. Reactions come immediately.

JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 8d

Simply tacking on functionality from another communication mode that has a fundamentally different workflow doesn't work.

You need to consider how the product you're working on gets used.

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 8d

I open the daily digest, and I don't see the 👍 unless I trust the sender. I thought I did that. Oh, the sender changed.

I click "Go to message" and it takes me to web outlook in the browser, which is a *different app*.

Now I have to go through auth on the web app, which again, is a different app.

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 8d

@microsoft.com, emoji email reactions sound fun, but the reality is awful.

I send email

Response: 👍

I don't see 👍 unless I go to my Sent folder, so I don't know it happened.

But don't fear, there's a daily digest email of reactions!

It's great because people expect half day email delays...

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