Kevin Olmstead
@oasisob1.bsky.social
Retired Navy making my way through life. Here for ttrpgs, dice. he/him Black Lives Matter Trans Lives Matter 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
‘7-figure awards are a rarity’ they say, but a $10.3 million award was given out, and I bet it’s gonna be big awards or small ones that don’t require approval from now on
November 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
‘7-figure awards are a rarity’ they say, but a $10.3 million award was given out, and I bet it’s gonna be big awards or small ones that don’t require approval from now on
Or maybe just a DC system where the judge sets a challenge rating, adjusted for appropriate skills and the player has to hit the number
November 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Or maybe just a DC system where the judge sets a challenge rating, adjusted for appropriate skills and the player has to hit the number
Complete a 12 color sequence for a critical (higher for more challenging tasks)
November 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Complete a 12 color sequence for a critical (higher for more challenging tasks)
It’s a d16 system. Hit go to find a sequence of two colors. Consult the table for the result
November 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It’s a d16 system. Hit go to find a sequence of two colors. Consult the table for the result
The products, not the STIs
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The products, not the STIs
According to independent peer-reviewed data it has saved something like 10 million lives.
November 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
According to independent peer-reviewed data it has saved something like 10 million lives.
Who gets credit for cutting foreign aid? Trump or Musk, and the number is in the hundreds of thousands.
November 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Who gets credit for cutting foreign aid? Trump or Musk, and the number is in the hundreds of thousands.
I wish I could remember exactly. There IS a context, though. But also any excuse to say two numbers works.
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I wish I could remember exactly. There IS a context, though. But also any excuse to say two numbers works.
I used it in an appropriate context. The parents were confused, the kids laughed. The parents asked ‘what does it mean?’ I said ‘nobody knows’. The kids agreed.
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I used it in an appropriate context. The parents were confused, the kids laughed. The parents asked ‘what does it mean?’ I said ‘nobody knows’. The kids agreed.
It’s literally perfect. “Meaningless, ubiquitous, and nonsensical, “six seven” is “the logical endpoint of being perpetually online, scrolling endlessly, consuming content fed to users by algorithms trained by other algorithms.”
Last week while helping a customer who was with their teenage kids,
Last week while helping a customer who was with their teenage kids,
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
It’s literally perfect. “Meaningless, ubiquitous, and nonsensical, “six seven” is “the logical endpoint of being perpetually online, scrolling endlessly, consuming content fed to users by algorithms trained by other algorithms.”
Last week while helping a customer who was with their teenage kids,
Last week while helping a customer who was with their teenage kids,
Gift me that article. I WANT to read it.
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Gift me that article. I WANT to read it.
Wow. “Can’t be lettin’ my blood make the deck all slippery. Toss me in a bucket of wheat”
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Wow. “Can’t be lettin’ my blood make the deck all slippery. Toss me in a bucket of wheat”
“I was never going to give up the core values of UVA or my own principles simply to satisfy the prevailing political winds or the political ambitions of some.”
“But stubborn and principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled.”
“But stubborn and principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled.”
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this entire episode. The Board and University leaders set policy; the DOJ enforces the law. Too often, people within the DOJ and on our own Board have implied that if we were following policies that they did not favor, we were somehow doing something illegal. That is not the case, obviously. DEI, for example, is not itself illegal. One can do illegal things in the name of DEI, just like one can do illegal things in the name of promoting viewpoint diversity. [added highlighting]But diversity itself, including viewpoint diversity,
is not against the law.[end highlighting]
We were committed to following the actual law. We were also open to changing policies and practices if they were not working well or if there were persuasive, principled reasons to change course. At the same time, [added highlighting] I was never going to give up the core values of UVA or my own principles simply to satisfy the prevailing political winds or the political ambitions of some. [end highlighting] In the end, that may have been the real problem, though I will probably never know. [added highlighting] What I do know is that I was accused more than once by some Board members and the Governor's office of being stubborn. Perhaps I am. But stubborn and principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled. [end highlighting]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t74xaugpioimy7iyw6eng3zy/bafkreicioq4z4tvh7dbbpzrhbhv6vbxxibwnlxewhlk7zelm22lubzrh6q@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“I was never going to give up the core values of UVA or my own principles simply to satisfy the prevailing political winds or the political ambitions of some.”
“But stubborn and principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled.”
“But stubborn and principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled.”