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ButterflyEffect  ·  16 hours ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 19, 2025

a thanks really does go a long way! i can’t think at a global scale this days, it’s too much of a bummer for me.

ButterflyEffect  ·  16 hours ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 19, 2025

INCREDIBLE. I don’t think Trump/MAGA happens if we had a system like that.

ButterflyEffect  ·  1 day ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 19, 2025

im glad they also have the bars as an option! man do we really have anything like that here in the states? not sure if there’s a 1:1, that’s cool that yall have that.

ButterflyEffect  ·  1 day ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 19, 2025

there’s a post from a few months back with some interesting conversation from kleinbl00 and uhsguy on housing. maybe not applicable to your situation? but at a macro level I don’t think anything’s changed since november:

here found it

congrats on the engagement!!

ButterflyEffect  ·  1 day ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 19, 2025

it’s probably obvious from this past week on here that i don’t have patience for disingenuous or otherwise completely out of touch comments and views. apologies on if the related and ensuing drama was a bit much…

…small acts of resistance:

- team who reports to me, all members, PTO requests currently blanket approved. (note that team performance is well past “good”, and I have a team where people have immediate relatives in puerto rico, taiwan, or israel)

- purchased a rather nice folding saw which ive used before to facilitate trail maintenance work this summer - planning to get use out of it on urban trails around here and in the more “real” wilderness.

- monetary donations to certain nonprofits important to me

- emailing and calling my state senators and local house reps

not quite sure what else to do tbh.

ButterflyEffect  ·  1 day ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 19, 2025

What is “Adult Day Centre” from the street sign image on that page? I can’t determine if it’s a social housing program thing or a bar!

Congrats on the house!

ButterflyEffect  ·  2 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 10% of NASA’s workforce has been laid off, sources say

Bad bad week for federal employees. Entire districts of USFS employees, gone…USDA and USFW employees? Gone. NASA? Gone.

Where’s the judicial system and where’s the Democratic Party? Especially, where’s all the people who voted third party or didn’t vote at all.

appreciate your citations, too bad it’s not going to get through to him. your problems, my problems, and the problems of people tng doesn’t interact with on the daily, might as well not exist. or rather, we are the problem to people like him.

ButterflyEffect  ·  5 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trumps First Two Weeks

yep you’re blocked

im going to go out on a bang though

when your wife disagrees with you do you tell her “im sorry

You feel that way” like what you’ve said to me, kb, and user_inactivated over the past week or so?

ButterflyEffect  ·  5 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trumps First Two Weeks

Dude im sick of your shit on RFK JR. he’s

Going after SSRIs already which will impact no fewer than 5 people close to me if they cannot easily get access to them.

Let me know where the health and access to healthcare are at for your and people close to you in the next four years and ill do the same. We’ll see just what an advantaged, privileged bubble you’re in.

ButterflyEffect  ·  21 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 29, 2025

think im going to periodically pop a good news sub thread into pubskis moving forward. those were some really nice comments from yall last week!

going ice climbing montana for the weekend. definitely nervous for the flight after the reagan thing yesterday even though i know that was a very very different situation.

ButterflyEffect  ·  21 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 29, 2025

Welcome back! What kind of volunteering have you been doing?

I’m going to have to reread that post by AF.

ButterflyEffect  ·  29 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 22nd, 2025

awesome! probably the best way to get a job right now…

ButterflyEffect  ·  29 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 22nd, 2025

that sounds like great news!!!

ButterflyEffect  ·  29 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 22nd, 2025

good news: my bonus pays out this friday

ButterflyEffect  ·  29 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 22nd, 2025

this is now a good news sub thread of pubski

ButterflyEffect  ·  29 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can prebunking outpace fake news?

the Instagram thing is even worse, a lot of people are now following POTUS without having made the chance to. allegedly it’s a “glitch” impacting “random” users, and some of these people haven’t been unable to unfollow POTUS.

ButterflyEffect  ·  37 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Confessions of an College Application Reader

wow, how the heck did you come across this very old post?? i mean, going back to 2013-ish!

my views certainly have developed since then, reading back on it…