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Bret Mogilefsky
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#civictech #agile #product and #tech wrangler

Recently in the #WhiteHouse #CEQ and now speeding up #Permitting

... while still in the #US #GSA […]

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@volts.wtf ohai!
David Roberts and Kim-Mai Cutler are speaking into microphones on stage under a huge projected slide advertising this as a live podcast.
November 7, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Transgender youth health care would be nearly banned everywhere under new rules
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/30/nx-s1-5588655/transgender-trump-medicare-medicaid-gender-affirming-care
Screenshot from linked article: > Dramatic new expansion of power The proposal to condition a hospital's participation in Medicaid and Medicare on halting gender-affirming care for youth represents an "unprecedented" use of the executive branch's power to control what medical care is available in hospitals, says Keith. "Because Medicare is such a significant portion of many hospitals' revenue," she explains, the rule would essentially force hospitals to end their gender care programs for transgender youth. That would mean all of those programs' patients - whether they have Medicaid or private insurance - would lose access.
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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AI is going great.

#aiisgoinggreat
A screenshot of running Slack commentary as I rework federal compliance documentation infused with AI-generated slop. Over the course of a few hours, I am clearly not amused.
October 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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CALIFORNIANS! Vote "yes" on Prop 50!

#california #proposition50 #democracy
A indoor photo of a balding, grey-haired, bespectacled man in his 50s in front of some blinds, indicating an "I voted!" sticker on his grey t-shirt while pointedly raising an eyebrow at the camera.
October 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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At least they made canceling easy. (Plus there's time to catch the last episode of Alien: Earth before losing access...)

#disney #disneyplus #hulu
Screenshot of a prominent "your subscription will be canceled" notice in the Hulu account settings.
September 18, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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This isn't even that hard a decision. Buh-bye Hulu/Disney+!

(https://trakt.tv, in case you're wondering).
Screenshot from the website https://trakt.tv of a list of "Movies, shows, seasons, and episodes I plan to watch" filtered down to just those available on Disney+ or Hulu. There's a grid of sixteen shows, none of which are must-see.
September 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Rank-and-file public servants are still delivering high-quality public service in spite of everything out here like...
July 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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More born ferocity
#caturday
June 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Our foster kitten proves that "ferocious predator" comes standard pre-installed.

#caturday
June 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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#caturday
A chubby orange tabby cat lies flat on his back in a padded window-mounted shelf, white belly facing exactly upward while his two rear feet flop symmetrically to either side.
June 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Just reading the Copier docs, minding my own business, when...😊
#grimFandango #copier #lucasarts #nostalgia
Screenshot of an example from the docs for Copier at https://copier.readthedocs.io/en/stable/configuring/#data . The example user is named "Manuel Calavera", the name of the main character in Grim Fandango.
May 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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@davidgerard.co.uk
Screenshot of a... tweet, I guess? by @JaapvanderVelde: "Vibe coding is a great time saver for developers everywhere. It gets a certain kind of people to talk to Al in attempts to get their dumb ideas realised, instead of wasting developers' time by talking to them."
April 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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They've started purging the probationary staff at my agency today. "Accept the fork by XXpm or you'll get a letter saying you're terminated as of that time."
February 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Update
Two orange tabby cats lounge in the sun in the corner of the catio depicted in the previous post. One is on his back, white belly to the sun, with his legs akimbo.
January 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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@simon WTAF
Quote from the Simon's notes, linked in the parent post: * Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon all have net-zero emission targets which they take very seriously, making them "some of the most significant corporate purchasers of renewable energy in the world". This helps explain why they're taking very real interest in nuclear power. * Elon's 100,000-GPU data center in Memphis currently runs on gas: > When Elon Musk rushed to get x.AI's Memphis Supercluster up and running in record time, he brought in 14 mobile [natural gas-powered generators](https://www.npr.org/2024/09/11/nx-s1-5088134/elon-musk-ai-xai-supercomputer-memphis-pollution), each of them generating 2.5MW. It seems they do not require an air quality permit, as long as they do not remain in the same location for more than 364 days.
January 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Toyota has lost the plot. Time to start calling for boycotts.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/toyota-donates
Quoted from article: While billing itself as a global climate leader in recent decades, Toyota was named by InfluenceMap as the third-worst company in the world for anti-climate lobbying, after only fossil fuel giants Chevron and ExxonMobil. InfluenceMap's 2024 scorecard "highlights Toyota's lobbying efforts against emissions standards in the U.S. and Australia and against EV mandates in Canada and the United Kingdom, as well as Toyota's success in weakening emissions stands in the U.S. and fuel efficiency standards in Australia," reads the Public Citizen report.
January 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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@GottaLaff Jack Smith on his way out the door of the Department of Justice.
https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/113811705683011752
January 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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"We didn't like having to bid so far above asking, and the mortgage is definitely pretty steep, but at least we have a foothold in the market now."

#caturday
A photo of two enormous orange tabby cat brothers sitting next to each other on a shelf in a newly-built catio, staring directly at the camera with great earnestness.
January 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Just look at this dummy
An orange tabby cat is curled up with his eyes closed in a white terry-cloth sack suspended from a hoop, attached to a white cat tree. The sack is obviously overfilled because this cat is enormous, and the cat's weight on the hoop is pulling the cat tree about 30 degress off of vertical.
December 19, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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Great news, it's now ridiculously easy to sign your commits with #sigstore and have #github properly show them as verified!
https://github.blog/changelog/2024-12-10-persistent-commit-signature-verification-is-generally-available/
Screenshot of a question about GitHub not showing "Verified" next to SigStore signed commits, with the explanation that GitHub was not properly accounting for the more secure, short-lived keys generated by SigStore, and that they hoped to work with GitHub on the issue.
December 10, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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Shout out to sonic.net, the best damned ISP you could hope for. They finally freed themselves from AT&T's fiber in my neighborhood. The next month speed went up by 10x while my bill was cut more than half: I get 10Gbps for $50!

Humans still answer the phone […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
Screenshot of a "recent invoices" table from sonic.net member services. The charges in November were $118, while the charges in December were cut to just $50. Screenshot of a "broadband facts" label in the style of a food nutrition label, describing sonic.net's service to the author: Sonic Fiber Standard 10Gbps Fixed Broadband Consumer Disclosure Monthly Price $49.99 This Monthly Price is not an introductory rate for the first 12 months. This Monthly Price does not require a contract. Additional Charges & Terms Provider Monthly Fees Optional WiFi device Starting at $5 One-time Fees at the Time of Purchase Upgrade Fee: $ Early Termination Fee $0 Government Taxes Varies by Location Discounts & Bundles Billing discounts and pricing options for broadband service bundles are not available. Speeds Provided with Plan Typical Download Speed 8,700 Mbps Typical Upload Speed 8,700 Mbps Typical Latency 3ms Data Included with Monthly Price Unlimited Charges for Additional Data Usage $0/GB
December 8, 2024 at 5:04 AM
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Open source is the best kind of source! 💞🎉🔒
Screenshot of a GitHub PR comment where a maintainer is thanking me for dramatically increasing their security posture by adding Trivy-scanning with SARIF upload to their CI/CD pipeline, which immediately resulted in closing a bunch of Critical vulnerabilities.
December 5, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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Hey check out these dummies

#catsofmastodon
A close-up photograph of two large tabby cats, leaning their heads together across the gap between their beds, their eyes lidded in satisfaction. Each has a paw curled upward toward the camera displaying toe beans.
December 5, 2024 at 3:21 AM
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🙄
Screenshot of a headline from the website Futurism: "Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains"
November 13, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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November 15th is coming. Have you done it yet?
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November 12, 2024 at 7:56 AM