Thomas Kula
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Keeper of the Unkeepable - No one can afford for my opinions to be their opinions - he/him
Nenio Nereala Ekzistas
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Thomas Kula
@kula.tproa.net
· Jun 18
Reaching out to my network here, I've had a good run at my current job but I think it's time to move along. I'm pretty good at infrastructure and systems engineering, been successful at being a sales engineer and architect, and have been doing a lot of internal enablement the past couple years.
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why are they "trad wives" and not "girls gone laura ingalls wilder"
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
why are they "trad wives" and not "girls gone laura ingalls wilder"
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I consistently share this anecdote any time I hear anyone opine on how the poor spend their money then move on to the fact that UBI experiments pretty solidly indicate that poor people overwhelmingly do not do this when you give them money
There's this story about how CS Lewis was out with a friend and stopped to give a vagrant some money. Lewis's friend chided him, saying "you know he's just to buy liquor with it, right?"
Lewis responded, "Well, so was I."
Lewis responded, "Well, so was I."
The right's obsession with SNAP recipients buying popsicles is a modern version of a centuries-old tradition of scolding the poor for what they eat. It mimics verbatim Victorian complaints about the poor indulging in tea and sugar, mistaking consumption as a cause of poverty instead of a symptom.
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I consistently share this anecdote any time I hear anyone opine on how the poor spend their money then move on to the fact that UBI experiments pretty solidly indicate that poor people overwhelmingly do not do this when you give them money
This happened to me once when I gave some guy $5 on the NYC subway and when he got off someone asked me "how do you know he isn't going to buy drugs with that?" and I replied "how do you know I'm not?"
There's this story about how CS Lewis was out with a friend and stopped to give a vagrant some money. Lewis's friend chided him, saying "you know he's just to buy liquor with it, right?"
Lewis responded, "Well, so was I."
Lewis responded, "Well, so was I."
The right's obsession with SNAP recipients buying popsicles is a modern version of a centuries-old tradition of scolding the poor for what they eat. It mimics verbatim Victorian complaints about the poor indulging in tea and sugar, mistaking consumption as a cause of poverty instead of a symptom.
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This happened to me once when I gave some guy $5 on the NYC subway and when he got off someone asked me "how do you know he isn't going to buy drugs with that?" and I replied "how do you know I'm not?"
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Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
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Currently blasting during lunch.
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Gordon Lightfoot
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Currently blasting during lunch.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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peters: (202) 224-6221
slotkin: (202) 224-4822
slotkin: (202) 224-4822
michigan people if i can do this after using all my social energy on my brother’s birthday this morning then you can definitely call them too
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
peters: (202) 224-6221
slotkin: (202) 224-4822
slotkin: (202) 224-4822
For whatever good it did.
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
For whatever good it did.
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Sigh. I apologize on our behalf.
Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile | Gaby Hinsliff
Who is driving the populist insurgency? It’s not grumpy pensioners or vulnerable teenagers – it’s my generation, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Sigh. I apologize on our behalf.
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I spent the morning listening to the Sunday Morning Polka Show and making homemade cultured butter, and I’ve turned into my grandmother.
November 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I spent the morning listening to the Sunday Morning Polka Show and making homemade cultured butter, and I’ve turned into my grandmother.
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there you go
look, this is not how I would have played it, I've posted 'retire bitch' about Schumer repeatedly, but objectively speaking it has worked
"we're offering you an incredible good deal and you repeatedly spit in our faces" is part of why Trump is taking the blame for this
look, this is not how I would have played it, I've posted 'retire bitch' about Schumer repeatedly, but objectively speaking it has worked
"we're offering you an incredible good deal and you repeatedly spit in our faces" is part of why Trump is taking the blame for this
REPUBLICANS REJECT DEMOCRATS' OFFER TO END SHUTDOWN: GOP AIDE
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
there you go
look, this is not how I would have played it, I've posted 'retire bitch' about Schumer repeatedly, but objectively speaking it has worked
"we're offering you an incredible good deal and you repeatedly spit in our faces" is part of why Trump is taking the blame for this
look, this is not how I would have played it, I've posted 'retire bitch' about Schumer repeatedly, but objectively speaking it has worked
"we're offering you an incredible good deal and you repeatedly spit in our faces" is part of why Trump is taking the blame for this
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we are going to win, in part because they are doing things like this, but the suffering is immense and it is on all of us to mitigate it as much as we can until they are gone
November 8, 2025 at 2:42 AM
we are going to win, in part because they are doing things like this, but the suffering is immense and it is on all of us to mitigate it as much as we can until they are gone
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Before we jump to conclusions about this ruling, please pause to understand what it is.
Referring the admin’s emergency petition to the whole court would have slowed down getting the payments out. We expect a First Circuit decision within the next day, day and a half. Monday a.m. tops. Stay tuned.
#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Before we jump to conclusions about this ruling, please pause to understand what it is.
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I saw a lot of people mad about this, but one of the reasons Democrats are winning the shutdown narrative is b/c their asks seem self-evidently reasonable.
Trump saying Democrats have lost their minds isn’t working b/c their position is Americans shouldn’t pay thousands more for healthcare.
Trump saying Democrats have lost their minds isn’t working b/c their position is Americans shouldn’t pay thousands more for healthcare.
SCHUMER is on the floor now making this offer to end the shutdown:
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
November 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I saw a lot of people mad about this, but one of the reasons Democrats are winning the shutdown narrative is b/c their asks seem self-evidently reasonable.
Trump saying Democrats have lost their minds isn’t working b/c their position is Americans shouldn’t pay thousands more for healthcare.
Trump saying Democrats have lost their minds isn’t working b/c their position is Americans shouldn’t pay thousands more for healthcare.
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I think this is smart politics because it makes the GOP look unreasonable in saying no to the offer and I'm not afraid of saying it.
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I think this is smart politics because it makes the GOP look unreasonable in saying no to the offer and I'm not afraid of saying it.
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democratic congressional leadership are not the harlem globetrotters, but the republican party has decided to play the washington generals, anyway
November 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
democratic congressional leadership are not the harlem globetrotters, but the republican party has decided to play the washington generals, anyway
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
$work does this for their *HR* site and I fear I'm going to stroke out every time I think about it.
[opens customer support chat]
"this chat uses AI to solve your query. AI can make mistakes"
jesus christ i am going to set my computer on fire
"this chat uses AI to solve your query. AI can make mistakes"
jesus christ i am going to set my computer on fire
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
$work does this for their *HR* site and I fear I'm going to stroke out every time I think about it.
One of my uncles was a Marine in Vietnam, the only thing I *ever* heard him say about it was how the best movie about the whole ordeal was _Good Morning Vietnam_. One of my aunts told me that for a good six months after he got home you made noise moving around him and didn’t try to shake him awake.
My grandfather and great-grandfather said nothing about wars. Ever. My Great had so much shrapnel still in his jaw from WWI he slurred his speech: was fiercely anti-war. My grandfather had PTSD and he used what he learned to teach my gay uncle hand to hand combat. But never said what he did in WW2.
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 AM
One of my uncles was a Marine in Vietnam, the only thing I *ever* heard him say about it was how the best movie about the whole ordeal was _Good Morning Vietnam_. One of my aunts told me that for a good six months after he got home you made noise moving around him and didn’t try to shake him awake.
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Really love that the sandwich guy was on video whipping a sandwich at a CBP officer and right away was like "damn right I did that shit, I hit that pig with a sandwich" and the Justice Department tried to bigfoot the case and couldn't even get him on a misdemeanor because fuck you
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Really love that the sandwich guy was on video whipping a sandwich at a CBP officer and right away was like "damn right I did that shit, I hit that pig with a sandwich" and the Justice Department tried to bigfoot the case and couldn't even get him on a misdemeanor because fuck you
Tempted to send a Subway gift card to the DC US Atty's office.
November 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Tempted to send a Subway gift card to the DC US Atty's office.