Jonathan
@ecodad.bsky.social
Dad, husband, engineer, maker, environmentalist
Played Hansa Teutonica: Big Box on 2025-08-16 boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com app
Hansa Teutonica: Big Box
Build networks of merchants along the roads and market towns of the Hanseatic League.
boardgamegeek.com
September 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Played Hansa Teutonica: Big Box on 2025-08-16 boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com app
Played Foundations of Metropolis on 2025-08-16 boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com app
Foundations of Metropolis
Create the city of your dreams in this elegant and intuitive city-building game.
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September 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Played Foundations of Metropolis on 2025-08-16 boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com app
Played Marrakesh on 2025-09-06 boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/34... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com app
Fun, complex engine builder!
Fun, complex engine builder!
Marrakesh
Influential families react to the whims of the cube tower to gain power in the city.
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September 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Played Marrakesh on 2025-09-06 boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/34... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com app
Fun, complex engine builder!
Fun, complex engine builder!
Power Vacuum
Win and lose tricks to manipulate opponents and achieve your agenda.
boardgamegeek.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
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To be clear: a tariff is a tax.
March 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
To be clear: a tariff is a tax.
Talk about government waste
The CDC is planning to conduct a large-scale study to re-examine whether there is a connection between vaccines and autism, federal officials said Friday. Dozens of scientific studies have failed to find evidence of a link.
C.D.C. Will Investigate Debunked Link Between Vaccines and Autism
Dozens of studies have failed to find evidence of a link. The decision to re-examine the question comes as a measles outbreak, driven by low vaccination rates, widens in Texas.
www.nytimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Talk about government waste
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Trump targets law firms who represent people he doesn't like www.reuters.com/world/us/tru... But, he has no problem with one firm that supplies right wing attorneys who willingly sign DOJ's dubious filings www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump's orders targeting law firms raise constitutional concerns, experts say
President Donald Trump's executive orders terminating security clearances and taking other actions against two prominent law firms may violate constitutional protections and represent exceptional acts of retribution against lawyers who have crossed him in the past, according to legal experts.
www.reuters.com
March 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Trump targets law firms who represent people he doesn't like www.reuters.com/world/us/tru... But, he has no problem with one firm that supplies right wing attorneys who willingly sign DOJ's dubious filings www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Falling debris from a failed test of a SpaceX Starship prototype disrupted flights at several Florida airports.
SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Disrupts Florida Airports With Unsuccessful Test Flight
Video showed the upper stage of the most powerful rocket ever built spinning out of control in space, a repeat of an unsuccessful test flight in January that led to debris falling over the Caribbean.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Falling debris from a failed test of a SpaceX Starship prototype disrupted flights at several Florida airports.
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Someone pointed out he’s the only one of the space billionaires to not have gone up in one of his own rockets yet
Rebranding as the world's most expensive fireworks company
March 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Someone pointed out he’s the only one of the space billionaires to not have gone up in one of his own rockets yet
This is how history gets rewritten and lies replace truth
The US military has removed photos of the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” — which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan — apparently because it contains the word “gay,” which violates their new anti-DEI rules.
War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorites are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts ma...
apnews.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This is how history gets rewritten and lies replace truth
Adaptive equipment as I prepare to operate with only one hand/arm for a while #accessibility
March 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Adaptive equipment as I prepare to operate with only one hand/arm for a while #accessibility
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EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.
On @therecordmedia.bsky.social
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On @therecordmedia.bsky.social
therecord.media/hegseth-orde...
Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning
The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News.
therecord.media
February 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.
On @therecordmedia.bsky.social
therecord.media/hegseth-orde...
On @therecordmedia.bsky.social
therecord.media/hegseth-orde...
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The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach.
www.tsunami.gov
www.tsunami.gov
February 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach.
www.tsunami.gov
www.tsunami.gov
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😡😡😡😡😡She Lobbied for a Carcinogen. Now She’s at the E.P.A., Approving New Chemicals. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/c...
She Lobbied for Formaldehyde. Now She’s at E.P.A. Approving New Chemicals.
Lynn Dekleva, who recently took a senior role at the agency, once led an aggressive effort by industry to block regulations on formaldehyde.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
😡😡😡😡😡She Lobbied for a Carcinogen. Now She’s at the E.P.A., Approving New Chemicals. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/c...
Finally got a decent video of the walking cross walk walk sign in New Zealand!
February 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Finally got a decent video of the walking cross walk walk sign in New Zealand!
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Given I called it Gulf of Mexico in class today, I'd be "restricted" as well.
President Trump said he will continue to restrict The Associated Press’ access to his events and news conferences until the outlet goes along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico in its reports. He acknowledged that the move was a presidential retaliation against AP's editorial policy.
Trump says AP will continue to be curtailed at White House until it changes style to Gulf of America
President Donald Trump says his administration will continue to restrict The Associated Press' access to cover presidential events until the news agency goes along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mex...
apnews.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Given I called it Gulf of Mexico in class today, I'd be "restricted" as well.
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Murphy: "Hegseth got the job because he's the weekend news anchor on Fox, and Trump watches a lot of Fox and so he decided to make that guy the head of the DOD and our chief negotiator in Ukraine. Pete Hegseth is screwing it up badly, but of course he is ... all he knows how to do is read the news"
February 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Murphy: "Hegseth got the job because he's the weekend news anchor on Fox, and Trump watches a lot of Fox and so he decided to make that guy the head of the DOD and our chief negotiator in Ukraine. Pete Hegseth is screwing it up badly, but of course he is ... all he knows how to do is read the news"
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"working to swiftly rectify the situation..."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com
February 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
"working to swiftly rectify the situation..."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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For context, $8 billion is nearly the size of the entire budget of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million.
The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error.
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:39 AM
For context, $8 billion is nearly the size of the entire budget of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
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This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
a stammering Tom Homan on AOC: "She's the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to Congress."
February 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
A little conflicted on using coal for transportation, but it was cool to be on this coal fired steamer and going into the engine room.
February 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM
A little conflicted on using coal for transportation, but it was cool to be on this coal fired steamer and going into the engine room.