Sylvie Grimes Not An Actress
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Sylvie Grimes Not An Actress
@sylviegrimes.bsky.social
Data queen. Mother to nine cats and a boy. Reboot.
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February 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I can understand why many people swallow whatever story Trump tells to rewrite the past. Gaslighting is classic Biderman 101, and we as a nation are the domestic partner in this proverb.
Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."
February 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
It is beyond my ability to provide acceptance for your data access request. You have my deepest empathy.
“Empathy” is now woke speak.
To comply with Trump's executive order on DEI, workers at NOAA have been instructed to deactivate specific agency materials containing the following keywords, per memos I obtained:
February 1, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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“Empathy” is now woke speak.
To comply with Trump's executive order on DEI, workers at NOAA have been instructed to deactivate specific agency materials containing the following keywords, per memos I obtained:
January 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
-Fydor Dostoevsky
January 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We keep looking for the one tipping point that will finally reveal the insanity. The truth is, we have plenty of dead canaries. It's an incremental mass extinction.
meta rolling back dei programs is a canary that just up and died in the bit mines
January 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Hey, you never know — maybe if you keep staring at the code, you’ll figure out why it’s not working.
December 14, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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Any self-help book you didn’t write is not a self-help book.
December 14, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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digging around in the couch cushions for more training data we can use since we’re done scaling, coming up with

+ CVS receipts
+ EULAs
+ unread spam political text messages
+ grocery store 2 for 1 boneless ham ads
+ unintelligible voicemail transcripts
+ fine print from lottery tickets
December 15, 2024 at 2:29 AM
You no longer have feng in your shui.
Tore down my entire PC setup to rotate my desk 90 degrees (and to re-cable everything) yesterday -- this process took six hours :)) my exhaust fan was NORSTY so I cleaned that out too, and now the exhaust fan doesn't work xD
I should have known better than to tamper with the old gods
December 15, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Two years ago. Needed a quick shim for a short table leg.
December 15, 2024 at 1:51 AM
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On Linux you're an admin
On Mac you're an end user
On Windows you're a victim
December 14, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Who says God does not play dice? This will be the seventeenth time I fully process my SSAS updated dimension before fully processing my MOLAP cube. I feel lucky...
December 10, 2024 at 2:46 AM
American citizen: the cup now costs $5.99 compared to two years ago when it cost 39 cents and the water is no longer free.
Optimist: The cup is half full.

Pessimist: The cup is half empty.

Rhetorician: The cup is a metaphor.
Optimist: The cup is half full.

Pessimist: The cup is half empty.

Sociologist: The cup is a social construct.
November 24, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Amen.
Netflix needs to stop asking if I’m still watching and start asking if I moved the laundry to the dryer
November 16, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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Vaccines work—thread:
Thank you to Tynan DeBold and Dov Friedman at the @wsj.com. Measles. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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RFK Jr. believes anti-depressants cause school shootings
November 14, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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People are acting like authoritarianism will have a 4 year expiration date.
November 14, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry: a great poem for troubled time...
November 14, 2024 at 12:16 PM