Forget "the middle class," the most unifying segment of the US population is people opposed to data centers.
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Recovering traffic engineer, LCI, former bike coop board member, and pied biker of SE WA. Drag stan. Here by the grace of squats, held together mostly by KT tape. #StopDeKindermoord #VikingBiking #CarryShitOlympics #BikeTooter
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Cover pic: A woman on a cargo bike tows a child on a sled along a snowy street.
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Oh good, we've reached the "if I can't have it nobody can" stage of diplomacy.
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@ascentale@sfba.social @pete@masto.hypertelia.com @bikenite@fedigroups.social A5: I plead the fifth. #BikeNite
Talked to my Iranian colleague today. "I talked to my parents this morning; I don't know if it's for the last time or not."
At least the milkweed is going gangbusters
Congrats to the squirrel who got the first ripe strawberry of the season. I hope you and the snail who ate my baby sunflower burn in hades.
LA Metro opened an extension to it's underground subway today. The grand opening was held on the rooftop of the Petersen Automotive Museum.
Things have gone full circle from Big Auto destroying LA's extensive street car system.
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@stephenspencer@mastodon.acm.org @ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us The West Wing isn't nearly cynical enough. The Diplomat gets cynical.
Was I too nice copying "Joe" on my response to the Peter Principle dude who assumed that I know Joe's availability even though Joe works for an entirely different organization. But I get it, I'm a girl, I should be able to schedule the meeting for all the boys, right?
Thinking of the six women (including me) who graduated together with a degree in civil eng 28 years ago.
- P (BW) never worked as an engineer
- J (AW) masters degree, worked a few years, married, had kids, never worked again
- T (BW) masters degree, 10+ years progressive experience, had a kid with special needs, left workforce
- R (AW) PhD, had kids, left workforce
- J (WW) City Engineer of a 2m+ population Metro area
- Me (WW) masters degree, hanging in the industry but do advisory work
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@passenger Oh yes, the moral high ground of getting rid of your nukes before turning over the keys to a Black majority democratic government. I remember it well.
Prayers for another fallen sunflower
TIL 9yos kick soccer balls really hard.
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@glassdelusion@mastodon.social $54m of public subsidy or $54m of private investment in hardware, construction and materials?
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@ingalls@mstdn.ca Wait you are back in the mid-Columbia? I just assumed previous references to Hermiston were you visiting.
I'd hoped last night's rain was hard enough the lightning wouldn't start a fire, seems I was wrong. 😩 Hopefully the smoke will stay out of Richland tomorrow. Cool Desert Nights people would appreciate it but I'm doing my middle schooler bike safety class and we'll be outside most of tomorrow.
Cake pops are overrated
Since most people mad at traffic engineers aren't mad at urban hydrologists, and since I had occasion to revisit this wonderful article today, I thought I'd drop some insight into the professional practice of engineering and the trade offs we make.
https://www.stormwater.com/home/article/13003575/voodoo-hydrology
Science is the search for why, but engineering is the struggle for reliably predicting outcomes.
The photographer took an action shot that made a kid--who was on my kid's soccer team and was so awful several teammates quit soccer--look absolutely ridiculous. My kid and I indulged in some delicious schadenfreude.
I used to work in horse racing. I helped train horses, loaded them into starting gates, analyzed performances, created stallion ads, was a tipster, and so on. Somehow, I always forget big race days are about betting and fashion. #KentuckyDerby
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@passenger Yes, just not done out of noble intentions.
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@cobalt123@beige.party She's the poster child for female body dysmorphia. But I agree she tries to look like a 50s comic book heroine.
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@cobalt123@beige.party "hyper female breasts?" Cus you know how her moulded plastic configures her breasts is not remotely natural so I'm really curious what "female breasts" are as opposed to "breasts" and what makes them "hyper."
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@Will@thepit.social I started working in horse racing as a teen and left in my early 20s; somehow I wasn't exposed much to the booze. Even though all the big races were sponsored by booze or cigarettes and the trainer I worked for most was a recovering alcoholic who relapsed, recovered, and died of liver cancer.
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@garland Didn't check in with my other Iranian friend because I didn't want to trigger her. It's really shitty.
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@passenger I don't know that "enjoyed" is the right word, but I appreciated Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh's book on the privatization of apartheid. https://sizwempofuwalsh.com/product/thenewapartheid
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@mawhrin @passenger Oh you read that article when he passed away last year, cool, good for you. My dad did work at Koeberg once, but please lecture me some more.
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@silvermoon82 Yeah. So the accusation came because Google Docs will play back how the document was created. Type type type paste type type type. That's it. That's why she assumed plagiarism.
She said he had to prove he had written it so he had her put it in an AI detector - 1% chance it was AI-generated. Not good enough, she said. Bear in mind this was a 3rd draft and he'd presented it orally. How do I prove I wrote it? "Figure it out yourself." I guess mom saying it wasn't plagiarized did it.
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@silvermoon82 In related school AI news, kid copy-pasted from a draft into a file for final submission and the different formatting made the teacher assume he'd committed plagiarism (either online source or LLM) and gave him a zero without any conversation with him or parents.
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@LabSpokane@mas.to @glassdelusion@mastodon.social I mean, I am not a data center fan, but also my company has a tremendous amount of growth in engineering and construction management jobs supporting their construction.
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@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org specifically, into my head
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@sarahtaber@mastodon.online I laughed the whole way through. It was basically a comedy if you have that specific sense of humor.
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@Fishd@infosec.exchange @anon_opin@mastodon.social The back roads of Dorset and Wiltshire were a white knuckle ride. Nottinghamshire was relaxing by comparison.
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@ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us Yeah. There is a ball at least for context, but he's holding his hands awkwardly, his hair is pretty long and permed and it's straight up in the air, and he's making a face with his eyes closed.
This is one of my favorite genres of photos, particularly if there's no ball for context and a kid is just contorting their body and making stupid faces.
The old white dude COO announced his retirement at the end of the year and you guys I am waiting with bated breath to hear which old white dude they are gonna replace him with in a few months.
Russian olive trees smell so bad. 🤢