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mburns.bsky.social
@mburns.bsky.social
240 followers 700 following 34 posts
Pacific Northwest, DevOps nerd
Formerly: IPFS Infra, Rackspace, Mozilla
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mburns.bsky.social
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #23,602!

This is what distributed systems should look like on the modern Web. Congrats bsky team!
Celebrating 10 million users #23,602 @mburns.bsky.social Joined April 17, 2023
September 16, 2024 at 10:18 PM
mburns.bsky.social
Are you maybe thinking of the “Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010”, which was passed, separately, 3 months after the ACA?
Less excusable is French’s contention that Obamacare was passed via reconciliation. It wasn’t. It was passed in the Senate under regular order, by a vote of 60-39 on December 24, 2009. Later, after Democrats lost their supermajority in the Senate, the House passed the Senate bill and then passed a second bill that implemented a few modest increases to subsidy levels and taxes. None of them were critical to the overall bill, but the Senate agreed to support these changes. These small, nonessential adjustments are the only part of Obamacare that was passed via reconciliation.
August 21, 2024 at 5:23 PM
mburns.bsky.social
Search your camera roll for “art”.
Photo of graffiti on a concrete wall in Paris showing 2 pink hearts: one with the phrase “Biggie + Tupac” and the other showing 2 cartoon-ish characters of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur in a friendly embrace.
October 12, 2023 at 6:49 PM
mburns.bsky.social
there’s always tomorrow.
A very handsome German Shepherd Dog named Sergeant, sitting on a chair and looking at the camera.
July 30, 2023 at 8:17 AM
mburns.bsky.social
Miscellaneous old computer equipment: SGI Indy R5000, Cisco catalyst 3550 series, Sampo brand black & white television, Macintosh Classic, Macintosh Classic II, HP 99/4A
July 30, 2023 at 1:28 AM
mburns.bsky.social
Here are the cosponsors:
Cosponsor, Date Cosponsored Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]* 02/16/2022 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] 03/31/2022 Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV] 03/31/2022 Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM] 04/05/2022 Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] 04/05/2022 Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] 05/10/2022 Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] 05/10/2022 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] 09/22/2022 Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] 09/22/2022 Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI] 09/22/2022 Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] 09/22/2022 Sen. Hickenlooper, John W. [D-CO] 12/06/2022 Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK] 12/06/2022
July 26, 2023 at 5:58 PM