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Geoffrey Conley

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Geoffrey Conley

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Hey I’m still wondering how much these “retail theft operations” are costing?

spdblotter.seattle.gov/2025/10/28/r...

Detectives and officers teamed up with loss prevention employees to identify and apprehend suspects they caught stealing. Ultimately, police arrested three suspects for burglary and nine suspects for shoplifting. Officers recovered $1,679
in stolen merchandise.

Police booked some of the suspects into the King County Jail, the rest were investigated and released at the scene. All of the suspects are permanently trespassed from entering into the store.

"This was a team effort and could not have taken place without the hard work by GIU detectives, patrol, and partnership with the loss prevention employees at Lowe's," said Sergeant Austin Davis.
GIU detectives will handle all of the follow-up investigations.

October 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM

Geoffrey Conley

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Ya seems fake. Here’s the White House website.

During this special White House tradition, thousands of children and their parents will proceed around the South Lawn to visit various trick-or-treat booths and
enjoy the autumnal decorations on the South Portico of the White House. The event will take place from 4:00 PM to 8:30 PM and is open to ticketholders, including military families, law enforcement families, foster and adoptive families, and Administration officials with children.
The President and First Lady will hand out commemorative candies on the South Drive for a
portion of the event. Adding to the festivities and fun, the United States (U.S.) Air Force Strolling Strings will play traditional Halloween songs and modern tunes while the President and First Lady welcome children and families.

October 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM

Geoffrey Conley

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Okay this is officially the best thing I’ve read today:

‘The technique proves a backdoor "to provide partial oxygen support while allowing the lungs to rest," he added.’

"Enteral ventilation is not meant to replace mechanical ventilators or ECMO, but rather to serve as a complementary oxygenation route," said Takanori Takebe, an expert in organoid medicine with appointments at both Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Osaka, in an email to 404 Media. The technique proves a backdoor "to provide partial oxygen support while allowing the lungs to rest," he added.

October 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM

Geoffrey Conley

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@404media.bsky.social’s spectacular podcast title jumping to the top of my queue… it’s intentional right?

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EPISODE 92 • FRIDAY
Pornhub Exec Discusses Pulling Out o...

January 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM

Geoffrey Conley

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Based on a quick Google, I have a guess that the OP meant C-Suite jobs.

According to an Investopedia page updated July 2024, “men still constitute 72% of the C-suite.” Seems like a reasonable enough proxy for “best jobs” to me.

www.investopedia.com/corporate-le...

Those hoping for gender equality in the business world can find encouragement in the growing number of women leading large corporations. Since 2015, female representation in the C-suite has risen from 17% to 28%, alongside growth in the numbers of women occupying vice president and senior vice president roles. Despite this progress, men still constitute 72% of the C-suite. The promotion gap persists as well, with only 87 women promoted for every 100 men moving from entry level to managerial roles.

December 28, 2024 at 3:58 PM

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NYT is telling us with a straight face here that 60% women is “significantly skewed” and that the “trend is clear.”

White men really didn’t mind when it was 100% white men at universities. Now there are like 500 more women than men at a small school and they’re offended.

Last year's freshman class at Tulane was nearly two-thirds female. Tulane's numbers are startling, but the
school is not a radical outlier: There are close to three women for every two men in college in this country.
(The way schools report gender may not yet reflect many students' nonbinary understanding of it, but the overall trend is clear.) Last year, women edged out men in the freshman classes of every Ivy League school save Dartmouth, and the gender ratio is significantly skewed at many state schools. (The rising sophomore class at the University of Vermont is 67 percent female; the University of Alabama is 56 percent female.) Most small liberal-arts colleges are close to 60 percent female, and the discrepancy is even more pronounced at community colleges and
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December 28, 2024 at 3:44 PM

Geoffrey Conley

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I was this many years old when I learned that Congress could pass stuff by yelling “yea” enough. We still do that??

Allow Me to Retort by @elienyc.bsky.social

In 1993, Democrat and then-representative Charles Schumer intro-
duced the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RERA). Support in the
House of Representatives was so overwhelming that it passed with a
voice vote (which means that enough congresspeople literally shouted
"yea" that there was no need to force the House to call each individual
to vote, like winning a rap battle). Senator Ted Kennedy introduced the
bill in the Senate, where it passed 97-3. President Bill Clinton signed it
into law.

December 27, 2024 at 11:04 PM

Geoffrey Conley

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Apparently the kid actually did not get into UCLA (or USC) lol

Given then she thinks “Ivy League” schools are apparently “festering hive[s] of gender orcs, Hamas kids, Jew haters, Trump haters, white haters, communists, and nonbinary furries” I think everyone is probably okay with that

Screenshot from related article by the same pundit:
What to Look For In a School
The easiest way to vet a school is to see how often they use the word "diversity" or "inclusion" on their website. The more they use these words, the lower your chance of getting in if your child falls on the paler side of the skin spectrum.
For example, our local state system, the University of California, rejected my star student this spring, as did USC. In fact, no white kid I know got into a single UC school this year! A few did get waitlisted at UC Merced, the bottom feeder of the UCs.
Ten or 15 years ago, all of these kids would have waltzed into their pick of the UCs. That era is over for good.

December 27, 2024 at 9:38 PM

Geoffrey Conley

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FWIW Sinema was running against Martha McSally when elected in 2018. I voted for Sinema in that general election, and I'd do it again if it were the same situation. That race was NASTY to watch living in AZ.

The unfortunate reality is that Arizona is not an ally.

December 11, 2024 at 11:09 PM

Geoffrey Conley

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Things I love about Safari on desktop. Day #1!

It's actually easy to set Safari to open the browser in a "Private" window by default. I don't need cookies or history longer than a session--delete that junk!S

Screenshot of "Safari opens with" settings showing options for "a new window," "a new private window" (selected), "all windows from the last session," and "all non-private windows from last session."

December 9, 2024 at 5:37 AM

Geoffrey Conley

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No data is being deleted, right? This isn’t covering anything up. Any seizure backed by an appropriate legal process should allow access to this data through cooperation with the device’s owner.

How is the behavior described here any different than what cops are doing?

“Remember that the real threat here is not police. It’s the kind of people who will steal your iPhone for malign purposes,” Matthew Green, a cryptographer and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, told 404 Media. “This feature means that if your phone gets stolen, the thieves can’t nurse it along for months until they develop the tech to crack it.”

November 9, 2024 at 6:26 PM

Geoffrey Conley

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I was in Flagstaff at the time, and what a beautiful group it was. Incredibly saddened to be back here, and maybe worse off, again a few years later.

November 6, 2024 at 11:00 PM

Geoffrey Conley

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Thinking about many of my favorite images from the 2016 Women's March.

November 6, 2024 at 11:00 PM

Geoffrey Conley

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Yes there is!!

September 29, 2024 at 1:40 AM

Geoffrey Conley

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The report suggests, based on Census data, that the population in most of these neighborhoods is over 50% white. Chinatown International District neighborhood does not match that trend in census data, but the report suggests it for all other proposed neighborhoods.

September 20, 2024 at 4:57 PM

Geoffrey Conley

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Forgive me for not trusting that Seattle’s proposed CCTV pilot will be “data-informed” enough to avoid racial biases, when the following paragraph claims that the cameras will only “record people who choose to be in a public place where the technologies are being used.”

#Seattle #SPD #Surveillance