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Here’s how #minnesota is responding to ICE in our neighborhoods and the murder of Ms. Good. From ISAIAH MN.

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1_glfqFDoPCLK3MdaK7Xxb01TzQdcKtAZFqOkk4K8qIA/mobilebasic?pli=1
January 9, 2026 at 3:33 AM
We (US) took Denmark’s child vaccination schedule - can we also take their immigration policies and enforcement mechanisms? Having been an immigrant in both the UK and Switzerland, what we do in the US is barbaric.
January 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
January 8, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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free-press.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
BREAKING NEWS 🚨🚨🚨

Reports of Dozens of US helicopters dropping American paratroopers into Caracas, Venezuela!
#aurefreepress #News #press #headline #gop #Politics #uspolitics #USpol #Breaking #breakingnews #Trump #mastodonnews
January 3, 2026 at 6:45 AM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
The best of 2025 : Accountabiility.
4 frame comic. a street reporter approaches a man wearing a big hoodie, asking : sir! how much do you think we should hold feminism accountable for the male loneliness epidemic? he replies : there is no meaningful difference between the rates of loneliness between men and women*. the reason we're always talking about men's is that they're making it everyone else's problem. A note under the frame adds : *in fact, several studies (graham & ong, 2024; cigna & morning consult, 2021) suggest that more women experience loneliness than men. In the 3rd frame, he says : according to research*, the primary reason that men isolate themselves is because they feel incapable of living up to rigid gendered expectations. the far-right exploits that vulnerability to radicalize young men. another note under the frame adds a source : *the state of american men 2025, equimundo: center for masculinities and social justice. fourth frame : If anything, feminism is the solution to men's loneliness. let's deconstruct the gender norms that hurt everyone, before these techno-fascists divide us even more.
January 1, 2026 at 6:54 PM
First entry in a series of blog posts on the #cdisc Dataset-JSON standard. Diving in on the future of #clinical #research #data (and related to the #pharmaverse and #rstats folks in #Biomedicalresearch)

https://brianrepko.github.io/blog/posts/2025-12-31-datasetjson-part1/
Dataset-JSON – Learning, Thinking, and Coding
Part 1 - intro to the series
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January 1, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.

www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
Showing highlights of paragraphs 202 through 206 in a doc with 203-205 blacked out. Text in next image 202. Defendants also actively obstructed law enforcement by denying investigators access to Little St. James beyond its boat dock. 203. Defendants also attempted to conceal their criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct by paying large sums of money to participant-witnesses, including by paying for their attorneys’ fees and case costs in litigation related to this conduct. 204. Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused. 205. Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants’ criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct. 206. Defendants also concealed their fraud on the Government in obtaining unearned tax benefits by providing false testimony and submitting false and inaccurate reporting to the Economic Development Commission to prevent detection of Defendant Southern Trust Company’s non-compliance with requirements concerning the nature of its business and the residency of the persons it employed.
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
New blog post on #tiledb and #snowflake integration and what is possible for #biomedical #research and what I wish I could do in #duckdb

https://brianrepko.github.io/blog/posts/2025-12-20-tiledb-snowflake/
TileDB and Snowflake integration – Learning, Thinking, and Coding
Webinar on data integration
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December 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@brianrepko/115747470507287929

And here is the inspiring keynote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1UeDfTk8HI
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Here in #minnesota, on Dec 13th, there was a gathering of over 5000 people of all faiths (ISAIAH) to put forth an agenda we can advocate for with our various political parties - The People’s Agenda: Dignity and Affordability for All - https://bit.ly/PeoplesAgenda2026

The Christian coalition was […]
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December 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy
HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:

Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.

The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed […]
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c.im
December 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Here in #minnesota, on Dec 13th, there was a gathering of over 5000 people of all faiths (ISAIAH) to put forth an agenda we can advocate for with our various political parties - The People’s Agenda: Dignity and Affordability for All - https://bit.ly/PeoplesAgenda2026

The Christian coalition was […]
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hachyderm.io
December 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
US tech (#software) companies used to hire and train and you could grow your experience with them. That was my experience of the 90s. Then it became hiring only those with experience - training really fell off - if lucky you could go to the big firms for those first jobs. Now, this feels like […]
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hachyderm.io
December 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy
This is from a few hours ago but:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/catastrophic-flooding-expected-in-king-snohomish-skagit-counties/

If the link doesn't work here's the map.

#seattle #flood #floods #flooding #WashingtonState #wawx #cascadia
A map showing "catastrophic" national weather centre flood hazard outlook following mostly the watersheds of the Snohomish, Stillaguamish and Skagit rivers in King, Snohomish, and Skagit counties. Area outside that show anywhere from "limited" to "considerable" flood potential.
December 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@rstatsblazeemail/115685976251613412

For #clinicaltrials and #rstats - this is a big deal - CSRs (Module 5 in an eCTD) can now contain R packages within zip files (and html files - for WASM/Shiny?) and it looks like binary R package files for Modeling and Simulation […]
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hachyderm.io
December 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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joeinwynnewood.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
This is what every police chief in America should be saying and enforcing.

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
https://www.ms.now/news/minneapolis-police-chief-unlawful-force-ice-jobs
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force. The post Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job appeared first on MS NOW.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I know #FrankGehry is dead (RIP) but everyone of his buildings that I’ve lived near - all northern climates - require mediation of falling snow and ice - typically closed sidewalks. Just don’t get that that is “great” architecture.
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
TIL about the Open Source Pledge - https://opensourcepledge.com - based on @Posit posting on their 2025 status on their pledge commitment - https://posit.co/blog/posit-open-source-pledge-2025/

Highly recommend sharing this internally at companies - particularly those with $$$. I'd really like […]
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
I just realized the current stable version of Python is 3.14.1, which makes it Pi-thon
December 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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ananasparachute.turtleisland.social.ap.brid.gy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/health/trump-us-world-aids-day.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E8.UUhy.dTr48BcwEfL9

It's like I've woken up in the #80s, with #rottenronniereagan back in the #whitehouse. #felon47 is even worse.

What a disgrace.

#hivactivism #worldaidsday #aids #uspoli #who […]
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turtleisland.social
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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adwright.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
So back in 1944, a German U-Boat Commander named Heinz-Wilhelm Eck did exactly what US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered US military forces to do - kill the survivors of a destroyed boat at sea.

Now, as then, this is considered a War Crime.

In 1945, Commander Eck was tried, found guilty […]
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mastodon.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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denisedwheeler.bsky.social
🧵I spent 10 hours reading through the latest Epstein files that the Oversight Committee released.

One thing that stands out in it all is that Epstein was a huge threat to Trump throughout Trump's first term.

A huge threat.

Trump is mentioned in almost every email, every single one.
November 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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danwentzel.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy
You'd think other Republican members who have already announced their retirement like Don Bacon (R-NE) would sign the Epstein files discharge petition.

You'd think any of those five endangered California Republicans who want to try and hang onto their seats like Kevin Kiley (R-CA) would sign […]
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urbanists.social
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Honored to be a speaker at R/Pharma - my presentation is a pre-recorded one that plays today. Kind of cool to take my experience as a software engineer in Java and share that with the R community and specifically the pharmaverse developers. Talk is about the […]

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Presentation title slide - R library validation using acceptance-test driven development - by me
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Excited to be attending #rinpharma and very cool to see a summary of all the work from last year - the {pointblank} workshop was great
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM