@kensodemann - Bluesky Profile

One of my colleagues had this as their out of office message, and I thought it was great: "I'm currently a partially deflated beach ball - not as useful at doing my intended job, and no fun to play with. So I'm taking a break to pump myself up again. I'll be back at it on Monday, October 20th."

07.10.2025 14:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OK, seriously, who failed their UI/UX Design course and was able to get a job anyhow...

17.09.2025 20:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The two things that drive me nuts about this are that clearly this is just an overreaction to previous measures that were seen as draconian. Clearly the response could be more moderate. It also baffles me as it also clearly steps on one of Trump's few actual positive contributions (warp speed).

05.09.2025 13:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unfortunately all too common.

31.08.2025 22:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

These Lego plants are great!

26.12.2024 23:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Exactly! Though actually he does not bother me so much as many of the groups that pull his puppet strings.

15.12.2024 00:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please enjoy this shot of Elvis getting a polio shot backstage at the Ed Sullivan show as part of a pro-vaccination campaign in 1956, posted here today for no reason whatsoever

13.12.2024 16:45 — 👍 9252 🔁 2617 💬 102 📌 107

Time for the Nutcracker

15.12.2024 00:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Luigi Mangione was charged with murder - then donations started pouring in In the days since Luigi Mangione was charged with murder for gunning down a top health insurance executive, more than a thousand donations have poured into an online fundraiser for his legal defense, with messages supporting him and even celebrating the crime.

On an NPR podcast, the presenter concluded that Americans have become more open to political violence, but I don't think that is 100% accurate. This has more to do with the fact that we have a bunch of profiteers standing between us and our health care.

www.reuters.com/world/us/lui...

12.12.2024 12:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We put private for profit insurance companies between us and our health care resulting in two entities that need to turn a profit. We have the dumbest, least effective, hardest to navigate, sysstem, and it is mostly due to the greed of the insurance monopolies.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

07.12.2024 00:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It is hard to gain the critical mass that X and FB both have, plus I was never a fan of Twitter and even less so since Elon took it over, and this just has that early Twitter feel to it for me. But still, working out OK for me, but kinda burnt out on social media as a whole, honestly.

02.12.2024 22:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0