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arimorningstar09.bsky.social
Sword Qwest
December 21, 2025 at 5:59 AM
bitemedeluxe.bsky.social
Qwest, a long haul fiber network, bought US West, a baby Bell.
December 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
seagal1.bsky.social
Seattle had stadium issues.
The Kingdome wasn't paid for when it was torn down. They built (formerly Seahawk Stadium, then Qwest Field, then CenturyLink Field) currently known as Lumen Field. 🙄
We lost the Sonics to OK because the Mariners got a new stadium and the Sonics were stuck in Key Arena. 🤪
December 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
blazesboylan.bsky.social
I'd bet Trump sees it in the lens of a pro sports "naming rights," deal, such as when Qwest Field becomes Centurylink stadium which becomes Lumen Field.
He can't understand history and consistency.
Next the Washington Monument will become the Trump Monument.
December 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
iptv-cambot.bsky.social
Qwest TV Jazz & Beyond
France (FR)

#QwestTVJazz&Beyond #France
December 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
redoverred.bsky.social
Rivers running out at Qwest
fantasynflnews.bsky.social NFL Daily News @fantasynflnews.bsky.social · 6d
Philip Rivers is BACK
December 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
hustle-chillson.bsky.social
Remember when Jones had the Qwest Field contract?
December 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
emmanuelcliff.bsky.social
River Ward's qwest. Specifically the cartoon.
December 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
bahamutfan1.bsky.social
Qwest? and QWEST!
December 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
kittyscan.com
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#Minecraft #MinecraftServer #MCScan #kittyscan
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December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
chilari.bsky.social
I don't often do #pixeldailies but today's prompt, #sprout, just had to be done, and it's the best little sprout there is: Quest Sprout! (created by @swordscomic.bsky.social ) #pixelart
Pixel art of a round green friend with two leaves sprouting from the top of his head, holding a wooden sword. Above his head is a speech balloon with "Qwest?" written in it.
December 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
edzitron.com
NVIDIA also said it wasn't Lucent Technologies, which is, again, *correct* but not a comparison you want to defend yourself over. Lucent loaned money to customers to buy its stuff, when NVIDIA...invests in companies and helps them find financing to buy GPUs.
www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-...
A Brief History of Lucent Technologies (And No, It Really Isn’t Like NVIDIA Either) Alright man, if anyone asks about whether you’re like famed dot-com crashout Lucent Technologies, I’ll be sure to correct them. After all, Lucent’s situation was really different — well…sort of. Lucent was a giant telecommunications equipment company, one that was, for a time, extremely successful, really really successful, in fact, turned around by the now-infamous Carly Fiorina. From a 2010 profile in CNN: Yet Fiorina’s campaign biography quickly skates over the stint that made her a star: her three-year run as a top executive at Lucent Technologies. That seems puzzling, since unlike her decidedly mixed record at HP, Fiorina’s tenure at Lucent has all the outward trappings of success. Lucent reported a stream of great results beginning in 1996, after Fiorina, who had been a vice-president at AT&T (T), helped oversee the company’s spin-off from Ma Bell. By the time she left to run HP in 1999 revenues were up 58%, to $38 billion. Net income went from a small loss to $4.8 billion profit. Giddy investors bid up Lucent’s stock 10-fold. And unlike HP, where Fiorina instituted large layoffs—a fact Senator Boxer loves to mention whenever possible—Lucent added 22,000 jobs during Fiorina’s tenure. NVIDIA, this sounds great — why wouldn’t you want to be compared to Lucen- In 1997 Fiorina took over the group selling gear to such “service provider networks.” The company reported that sales to such networks climbed from $15.7 billion in fiscal 1997 to $19.1 billion in 1998. In 1999 they hit an amazing $23.6 billion. In the midst of this rise Fortune named Fiorina — then largely anonymous outside of telecom — to the top of its first list of the country’s most powerful women in business. A star was born. As Wall Street became fixated on equipment companies’ growth, the whole industry entered a manic phase. With capital easy to come by, Qwest, Worldcom and their peers laid more fiber and installed far more capacity than customers needed. Much like the housing bubble that was just beginning to inflate, easy credit fed the telecom bubble. Lucent and its major competitors all started goosing sales by lending money to their customers. In a neat bit of accounting magic, money from the loans began to appear on Lucent’s income statement as new revenue while the dicey debt got stashed on its balance sheet as an allegedly solid asset. It was nothing of the sort. Lucent said in its SEC filings that it had little choice to play the so-called vendor financing game, because all its competitors were too. Oh. So, to put it simply, Lucent was classifying debt as an asset (which it is not, it’s a liability), and did something called “vendor financing,” which means you lend somebody money to buy something from you. It turns out Lucent did a lot of this. In the giant PathNet deal that Fiorina oversaw, Lucent agreed to fund more than 100% of the company’s equipment purchases, meaning the small company would get both Lucent gear at no money down and extra cash to boot. Yet how could such a loan to PathNet make sense for Lucent, even based on the world as it appeared in the heady days of 1999? The smaller company had barely $100 million in equity (and that’s based on generous accounting assumptions) on top of which it had already balanced $350 million in junk bonds paying 12.25% interest. Adding $440 million in loans from Lucent to this already debt-heavy capital structure would jack the company’s leverage up to 8 to 1, and potentially even higher as they drew more of the loan. Okay, NVIDIA, I hate to say this, but I kind of get why somebody might say you’re doing Lucent stuff. After all, rumour has it that your deal with OpenAI — a company that burns billions of dollars a year — will … Anyway, Lucent really fucked up big time, indulging in the dark art of circular vendor financing. In 1998 it signed its largest deal — a $2 billion “equipment and finance agreement” — with telecommunications company Winstar, which promised to bring in “$100 million in new business over the next five years” and build a giant wireless broadband network, along with expanding Winstar’s optical networking. To quote The Wall Street Journal: Winstar was one of scores of stand-alone, start-up companies created in the late 1990s to compete in the market for local telecom services. These firms, known as "competitive local exchange carriers," or CLECs, raised billions of dollars in debt and equity financing, and embarked upon ambitious plans to compete with "incumbent" carriers. For a time in the late 1990s, their stocks were hot properties, outpacing even Internet stocks. In December 1999, WIRED would say that Winstar’s “small white dish antennas…[heralded] a new era and new mind-set in telecommunications,” and included this awesome quote about Lucent from CEO and founder Will Rouhana: On one level we are a customer and they are a supplier. On another level they are a financier and we are a borrower. On yet another level they are providing services around the world to accelerate our development. They also want to use our service, and have guaranteed $100 million in business. Fuck yeah! But that’s not the only great part of this piece: WinStar is publicly traded (Nasdaq: WCII), has more than 4,000 employees, and reports more than $300 million in annualized core revenues. Annualized revenues, very nice. We love annualized revenues don't we folks? A company making about $25 million a month a year after taking on $2 billion in financing from Lucent. Weirdly, Winstar’s Wikipedia page says that revenues were $445.6 million for the year ending 1999 — or around $37.1 million a month.
December 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
bm00re.bsky.social
Qwest Plaza. Seattle, Washington. Architect: John Graham & Co., 1976.
#qwestplaza #seattle #seattlearchitecture #highrise #skyscraper #monochrome #infrared #architecture #architecturephotography #gull #birdsofinstagram #sigmaquattro
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
chilari.bsky.social
Thinking of doing Qwest Sprout from @swordscomic.bsky.social for today's pixel dailies. Time permitting...
December 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
sloboula.bsky.social
The ability of google to fill in blanks in my memory is just astonishing
I was thinking every format ever made but knew format wasn't right and google somehow knew I meant the Qwest add about every movie ever made
December 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
caroleeena.bsky.social
Status Coup reporter Jordan Chariton speaks with Jonni Qwest outside the New York Criminal Court, where activists for healthcare equity and justice rallied in support of Luigi Mangione, the alleged shooter of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, during his court hearing on December 1st, 2025.
December 6, 2025 at 5:27 AM
jerod23.bsky.social
Pro of media consolidation: The promise of the old Qwest commercial that every movie ever made would be available 24/7.

Cons of media consolidation: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA like they would ever do that.
Less content that would be more expensive.
Don't like propaganda? Read a book, if you can find one.
December 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
onehitwondered.bsky.social
#Interestingly By the ’70s, Patti Austin was a first-call New York session singer. She can be heard behind Paul Simon, Frankie Valli, Billy Joel, and more. As a solo artist, she recorded jazz-soul albums in the ’70s, then signed to Quincy’s Qwest label. #PattiAustin #QuincyJones #OneHitWondered
A potato-quality photo of Patti Austin & Quincy Jones hard at work
December 5, 2025 at 6:41 AM
frankmsounders.bsky.social
#OTD 2008 – Sounders unveil jerseys for inaugural MLS season at Qwest Field's WaMu Theater. Wearing kit on runway are Kasey Keller, Sebastien Le Toux (pic) and Sanna Nyassi, plus owner Drew Carey & actress Josie Bissett, a Seattle native.
December 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
jessiejessup.bsky.social
"They're culling now" 😰

Status Coup Jordan Chariton speaks with Jonni Qwest outside New York Criminal Court where activists for healthcare equity and justice rallied in support of Luigi Mangione

🎥 blue_lanes
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
xyntrix.bsky.social
I'm a historical USWest->Qwest hater, ever since they charged me $170 years ago to tell me they couldn't install DSL at my location. 1G Cox (consumer, not business) has been mostly okay.. however it took getting the FCC involved for them to get my connection stable.
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
aureliaxiv.bsky.social
I play Blood on the Clocktower with a part of my online friend group and the Forever ST (by choice) suggested she may make use of the new Zenomancer NPC in our games, so I felt obligated to prepare accordingly.

Art is my own. No generative slop touched the process.
A brown-haired and bespectacled cartoon woman in a blue dress stands against a plain yellow background with a wooden sword raised above her head asking for a “qwest”
December 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
monumental-movement-records.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Ahmad Jamal Trio - Manhattan Reflections | LIVE at Maison de la Radio, 1971 (Paris) | Qwest TV

https://youtu.be/rKvi7YS7Cps
December 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
staceylscott.bsky.social
I worked for US West when it was purchased by Qwest and belonged to the Communications Workers of America (CWA), so I did!! 😁
nwlaborpress.org/2005/8-19-05...
CWA workers at Qwest Communications ready to strike in 13 states
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December 2, 2025 at 3:12 AM
swordscomic.bsky.social
Handy for a qwest
December 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM