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Alex Pickle
@akpickle.bsky.social
Dad & husband - infrastructure economics guy - Hattiesburger, formerly Jacksonian - Southern Miss - Pelicans/Saints - lifelong progressive raised by conservatives - he/him
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
If you were granted immortality in the year 1 AD, you made twice the hourly wage of the Top 1% 2024 salary in the US, you worked 24/7 with no days off until the present day, and you never spent a nickel of what you earned, you'd have just about as much money as Elon Musk LOST in the last 24 hours.
April 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The amount of times I've been so disappointed to be proven right lately is staggering.
April 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Text messages from Southern Miss AD Jeremy McLain to an anonymous booster leaked after the news of Marshall HC Charles Huff leaving for USM the day after winning a conference championship. #SMTTT
December 8, 2024 at 3:06 PM
It's frustrating how often I play #Connections, get the Purple & Blue in the correct order, and then can't figure out which of the last two categories is supposed to be easier. My most common result since they added Skill Score has been Purple-Blue-Yellow-Green.
December 6, 2024 at 6:13 PM
NYT Op Ed:
Hank Green lied to us about Taylor Swift, and that's why I no longer believe in climate change
December 5, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Now might be a good time for folks to familiarize themselves with one of the biggest economic development trends since the pandemic/Russia-Ukraine War-induced supply chain shocks: "nearshoring".
November 26, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Fun fact. If you listen to Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" on Spotify, they censored these lyrics from the track and forgot to remove them from the written lyrics....
November 19, 2024 at 1:54 AM
250th anniversary, huh?
November 13, 2024 at 1:04 AM