Amanda Charbonneau
@procrastinomics.bsky.social
One part science, one part dog person, 80% sarcasm by volume. I don’t represent anyone but me, opinions are my own, etc, etc
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Dear world: when you read today about Trump firing all the probationary feds, I need you to understand that the federal government has its own vocabulary. Probationary DOES NOT MEAN BAD. Trump is relying on you to assume you understand words and not go find out things.
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Hey all! I know the world crazy right now and everyone is trying to help people who need it, but this fundraiser is for a kid I know. Gavin is a 19-year-old who has had a crazy bad year and is now living in a church parking lot. Any donation or share would be an amazing help. gofund.me/3bbf11ff
Donate to Help a homeless teen and his dog build a new life, organized by amanda Charbonneau
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May 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Hey all! I know the world crazy right now and everyone is trying to help people who need it, but this fundraiser is for a kid I know. Gavin is a 19-year-old who has had a crazy bad year and is now living in a church parking lot. Any donation or share would be an amazing help. gofund.me/3bbf11ff
Hey all! I know the world crazy right now and everyone is trying to help people who need it, but this fundraiser is for a kid I know. Gavin is a 19-year-old who has had a crazy bad year and is now living in a church parking lot. Any donation or share would be an amazing help. gofund.me/3bbf11ff
Donate to Help a homeless teen and his dog build a new life, organized by amanda Charbonneau
Gavin is only 19, but he's already lived through a lifetime of tr… amanda Charbonneau needs your support for Help a homeless teen and his dog build a new life
gofund.me
May 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Hey all! I know the world crazy right now and everyone is trying to help people who need it, but this fundraiser is for a kid I know. Gavin is a 19-year-old who has had a crazy bad year and is now living in a church parking lot. Any donation or share would be an amazing help. gofund.me/3bbf11ff
Hey all! I know the world crazy right now and everyone is trying to help people who need it, but this fundraiser is for a kid I know. Gavin is a 19-year-old who has had a crazy bad year and is now living in a church parking lot. Any donation or share would be an amazing help.
need.you
May 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Hey all! I know the world crazy right now and everyone is trying to help people who need it, but this fundraiser is for a kid I know. Gavin is a 19-year-old who has had a crazy bad year and is now living in a church parking lot. Any donation or share would be an amazing help.
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It shouldn't have to be said but if you're law enforcement and you have to cover up your face while doing your job, you are not the good guys in this situation.
May 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It shouldn't have to be said but if you're law enforcement and you have to cover up your face while doing your job, you are not the good guys in this situation.
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“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
May 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
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Be like The Verge.
May 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Be like The Verge.
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if you elect me president i promise everyone involved in this administration will be ripped from their families by plainclothes thugs and then shipped to abu dhabi where they will sit and wait as their cases work their way through the courts
May 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
if you elect me president i promise everyone involved in this administration will be ripped from their families by plainclothes thugs and then shipped to abu dhabi where they will sit and wait as their cases work their way through the courts
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Once again, I’m begging the media not to headline what Trump says he will do as if speaking the magic words dissolves reality
In the coming days you’ll see headlines like, “ICE Can Now Come Into Your House Without a Warrant.”
They will be false.
Trump’s Attorney General, who once accepted a bribe from him when she was FL AG, instructed her agents to ignore the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution.
That’s the story.
They will be false.
Trump’s Attorney General, who once accepted a bribe from him when she was FL AG, instructed her agents to ignore the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution.
That’s the story.
April 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Once again, I’m begging the media not to headline what Trump says he will do as if speaking the magic words dissolves reality
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What percent approve of arresting state-court judges for asking ICE for warrants?
Remarkable from WaPo poll: Trump sinking fast on immigration among independents.
56% disapprove of handling of issue
62% oppose removing foreign students
52% oppose renditions to El Salvador
Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there
Engage, Dems.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
56% disapprove of handling of issue
62% oppose removing foreign students
52% oppose renditions to El Salvador
Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there
Engage, Dems.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
Trump Is Suddenly Bleeding Independents. A Brutal New Poll Shows Why.
Immigration was his best issue in the polls. But now he's sinking on it. Maybe Americans care about the rule of law after all.
newrepublic.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
What percent approve of arresting state-court judges for asking ICE for warrants?
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I just think if these AI tools were any good the apps I use every day wouldn't practically trick me into using them
April 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I just think if these AI tools were any good the apps I use every day wouldn't practically trick me into using them
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What do you even DO with sentences like this. What do you even do.
I'm so happy. please someone else read this story so we can share in our joy. I never want to stop reading this.
April 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
What do you even DO with sentences like this. What do you even do.
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and to be honest I found various acts of conformity to be both startlingly foreign and impressively intimidating. A guy setting a trash can on fire is one guy feeling feisty. but a thousand strangers sitting down in neat rows apropos of nothing is a veiled threat.
April 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM
and to be honest I found various acts of conformity to be both startlingly foreign and impressively intimidating. A guy setting a trash can on fire is one guy feeling feisty. but a thousand strangers sitting down in neat rows apropos of nothing is a veiled threat.
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An attention-grabbing thing R1 presidents could do is to announce that should NIH (etc) cuts happen, they will reappropriate all athletics allocations into research to protect the core of their academic enterprise. If presidents had the chutzpah, this could stop the administration in its tracks.
March 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
An attention-grabbing thing R1 presidents could do is to announce that should NIH (etc) cuts happen, they will reappropriate all athletics allocations into research to protect the core of their academic enterprise. If presidents had the chutzpah, this could stop the administration in its tracks.
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Hey @ethanris.bsky.social thanks (really!) for turning this idea into a good read!
slate.com/life/2025/04...
slate.com/life/2025/04...
April 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Hey @ethanris.bsky.social thanks (really!) for turning this idea into a good read!
slate.com/life/2025/04...
slate.com/life/2025/04...
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This is what happens when you ask me to indulge your false equivalencies about the Trump tariffs.
April 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is what happens when you ask me to indulge your false equivalencies about the Trump tariffs.
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It’s an important ruling, but nobody want anything.
We can celebrate Weyne:
1. this man is returned to US soil
2. the illegal deportations stop
We can celebrate Weyne:
1. this man is returned to US soil
2. the illegal deportations stop
"U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, MD, ordered the Trump admin. to return Kilmar Abrego García, husband of a U.S. citizen, to the U.S. no later than Monday, 11:59. Supporters outside the courtroom cheered"
People-power, political pressure and the judiciary won!
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
People-power, political pressure and the judiciary won!
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Judge orders Trump administration to bring back Md. man mistakenly deported
U.S. officials have argued in court records that the United States is powerless to effectuate his return because he is now in Salvadoran custody, and that Kilmar Abrego García’s lawyers have “not clea...
www.washingtonpost.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It’s an important ruling, but nobody want anything.
We can celebrate Weyne:
1. this man is returned to US soil
2. the illegal deportations stop
We can celebrate Weyne:
1. this man is returned to US soil
2. the illegal deportations stop
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He’s producing reality tv, using the White House as a platform
April 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
He’s producing reality tv, using the White House as a platform
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Today’s White House tariff announcement schedule includes the time (8pm) when “global markets” will respond to “America’s renewed strength”. 🇺🇸
April 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Today’s White House tariff announcement schedule includes the time (8pm) when “global markets” will respond to “America’s renewed strength”. 🇺🇸
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Target foot traffic falls for the eighth consecutive week after the retailer ended its DEI programs. Meanwhile at Costco, which kept its DEI programs, foot traffic has been up for 13th straight weeks.
Target can't get its footing after its DEI program demise and a 40-day boycott against the retailer. Foot traffic at stores is down for the eighth consecutive week
For the week that began March 17, foot traffic fell 5.7% YoY for Target, according to data from Placer.ai.
fortune.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Target foot traffic falls for the eighth consecutive week after the retailer ended its DEI programs. Meanwhile at Costco, which kept its DEI programs, foot traffic has been up for 13th straight weeks.
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Two comments on the Luigi Mangione news.
First, it's absurd DOJ is prosecuting this crime at all. New York could successfully prosecute it. But, New York doesn't have the death penalty, and DOJ loves few things more than bringing a capital case in a state without the death penalty.
First, it's absurd DOJ is prosecuting this crime at all. New York could successfully prosecute it. But, New York doesn't have the death penalty, and DOJ loves few things more than bringing a capital case in a state without the death penalty.
April 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Two comments on the Luigi Mangione news.
First, it's absurd DOJ is prosecuting this crime at all. New York could successfully prosecute it. But, New York doesn't have the death penalty, and DOJ loves few things more than bringing a capital case in a state without the death penalty.
First, it's absurd DOJ is prosecuting this crime at all. New York could successfully prosecute it. But, New York doesn't have the death penalty, and DOJ loves few things more than bringing a capital case in a state without the death penalty.
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Whew. Over 11,000 lines of new code? How'd that happen!? #rustrustrust
Anyway, not much to see here. Just ~20x-60x speedup now available in core #sourmash.
Anyway, not much to see here. Just ~20x-60x speedup now available in core #sourmash.
MRG: impl full mem-based `RevIndex` in Rust, and add Python support for mem- and disk-based `RevIndex` by ctb · Pull Request #3545 · sourmash-bio/sourmash
This PR:
fleshes out the memory-based RevIndex in sourmash core to fully support the RevIndexOps trait;
adds a CounterGather struct to hold the hash-to-color information and support peek/consume o...
github.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Whew. Over 11,000 lines of new code? How'd that happen!? #rustrustrust
Anyway, not much to see here. Just ~20x-60x speedup now available in core #sourmash.
Anyway, not much to see here. Just ~20x-60x speedup now available in core #sourmash.