Josh Gauthier

Hey that is so very kind of you! The best cheerleader around

Excited for Tech Week to begin for DPMS Theater's Production of "The Outsiders"! It is going to be an amazing show - these kids have been working hard.

If you are in the Northeast Wisconsin area, I hope you can make time to see the show this weekend!

dpmstheater.org

I'm mostly on a social media hiatus for obvious reasons, but stopped in to say hello! Bluesky feels like old Twitter used to - it's a nice place

Haha yes. Balatro is crack

I feel the opposite. If it is close, I think the difference could be the fair maps. More competitive races for democrats should mean, at least marginally more people voting than might otherwise. When our state is routinely within 1%, it really could be the difference.

I really enjoyed it too!

A black cat in a snow white costume. She's pretty darn cute

Halloween cat. Costume doesn't quite fit anymore, but she's a good sport

the best electrician would be an octopus because many hands make light work

I flipping love this game. Had a good run with the joker that makes the stone cards and the one that gives bonus chips for every stone card in the deck. It was great

I still see ads yammering on about inflation and gas prices - they just assume people won't notice I guess

For All Mankind really hit on this vision in Season 4. While a mostly optimistic kind of alternate history show, the subjugation of workers by an interplanetary corporation felt prescient.

Black cats are so pretty, but are just not photogenic whatsoever. Our void always looks cute, but mainly shows up as a blob on camera unless the light hits her fur juuuuust right

Live in a right handed world long enough and you just get used to life's little annoyances

Stuff like this has endeared me to Bluesky in ways Twitter hasn't since 2015

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

I have some jigs, and phytoplankton. Anybody who's anybody is all up in here!

Speaking for myself, I grew up in the deep red south in a very religious household. I was very sheltered. Going to college exposed me to tons of people and ideas that I had never encountered before in my life. Slowly, I began to realize that what I was indoctrinated with was utterly wrong.

Maryland Gov. Hogan Takes Extraordinary Steps To Keep Feds From Confiscating COVID Tests The federal government has reportedly been confiscating supplies brought in overseas by state governments, even as they have been left to their own devices to obtain the medical supplies they need.

Reminder of how great things were under Trump:

Republican Gov Larry Hogan of MD had to station armed troops to keep Kushner & the Trump White House from possibly stealing 500,000 COVID-19 tests that MD obtained from South Korea.

www.forbes.com/sites/ariels...

I love when I do this and can then no longer find anything

Moon-deng but with twang

Moon-deng

I'm glad others got to see the Northern Lights. Apparently the light pollution in the suburbs of Green Bay is just too strong. I saw a whole lotta nothing

You are a hero. This is amazing! I used to get most of my weather info from Twitter using these bots - thank you for this!

Free covid tests by mail program revived by Biden administration People can again order four covid tests per household. The move comes ahead of an expected winter coronavirus wave.

You can get 4 free COVID tests again from covidtests.gov

This is a Moo-Deng fan account, btw. I can't get enough of that little dude

Does what we pay teachers matter? A 🧵.

Teachers once took home salaries in line with workers in similar professions. Through the 80s and into the 90s, they paid a small penalty for choosing to teach; in 1993 the average salary of teachers was about 5% lower than that of others with college degrees.

All of you sharing the starter packs - keep it up! The hardest part of being a Bad Place refugee is trying to rebuild an active timeline of interesting people here

A map of change in nonfarm payrolls by state since Jan 2020

46 states have now had job levels recover from COVID, with TX & FL both 10% above 2020 peaks!

Fastest: Idaho (+13.0%), Utah (+12.2%), Montana (+10.1%), Texas (+10%), Florida (+10%)

Slowest: Virgin Islands (-10.6%), DC (-4.3%), Hawaii (-3.9%), Louisiana (-1.4%), Maryland (-0.4%)

A map of year-on-year change in nonfarm payrolls by state

All 50 states plus Puerto Rico & DC have added jobs over the last year!

Fastest: Montana (+3.4%), Missouri (+3.4%), South Carolina (+3.4%), Nevada (+3.1%), Idaho (+3.0%)
Slowest: Virgin Islands (-1.1%), Maryland (+0.3%), Wyoming (+0.4%), Louisiana (+0.4%), Illinois (+0.6%)

I was accepting that this was going to be a rough season for the Patriots, but I thought our defense was going to at least put up a fight. A big ol yikes on that front tonight