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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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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

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

19.05.2025 13:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

I totes am a real person lol. And sometimes I even remember to post on this app. Not often, but sometimes.

19.05.2025 16:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

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

19.05.2025 13:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

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.

17.05.2025 21:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

09.05.2025 20:47 — 👍 4582    🔁 1212    💬 140    📌 68

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

09.05.2025 23:19 — 👍 44737    🔁 10101    💬 1386    📌 699
A string of headlines by different outlets saying Trump fired the Democratic commissioners on the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and then one headline from The Verge that begins: “Trump illegally fires…”

A string of headlines by different outlets saying Trump fired the Democratic commissioners on the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and then one headline from The Verge that begins: “Trump illegally fires…”

Be like The Verge.

10.05.2025 03:59 — 👍 4790    🔁 927    💬 25    📌 26

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

09.05.2025 13:12 — 👍 1316    🔁 187    💬 86    📌 13

Once again, I’m begging the media not to headline what Trump says he will do as if speaking the magic words dissolves reality

26.04.2025 14:24 — 👍 1556    🔁 395    💬 20    📌 6

What percent approve of arresting state-court judges for asking ICE for warrants?

25.04.2025 19:00 — 👍 128    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 0

I just think if these AI tools were any good the apps I use every day wouldn't practically trick me into using them

21.04.2025 14:49 — 👍 395    🔁 102    💬 0    📌 0

It would also be an improvement for the country. Win win

15.04.2025 15:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What do you even DO with sentences like this. What do you even do.

15.04.2025 13:32 — 👍 250    🔁 24    💬 17    📌 1

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.

06.04.2025 06:00 — 👍 2390    🔁 325    💬 10    📌 30

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.

08.03.2025 21:04 — 👍 123    🔁 22    💬 2    📌 5

Hey @ethanris.bsky.social thanks (really!) for turning this idea into a good read!

slate.com/life/2025/04...

04.04.2025 22:00 — 👍 100    🔁 38    💬 7    📌 14
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This is what happens when you ask me to indulge your false equivalencies about the Trump tariffs.

05.04.2025 16:30 — 👍 1617    🔁 437    💬 57    📌 50

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

04.04.2025 20:05 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

He’s producing reality tv, using the White House as a platform

02.04.2025 12:04 — 👍 38    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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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”. 🇺🇸

02.04.2025 11:58 — 👍 826    🔁 184    💬 265    📌 291
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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.

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.

01.04.2025 15:25 — 👍 3649    🔁 923    💬 166    📌 332

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.

01.04.2025 17:38 — 👍 6082    🔁 1194    💬 135    📌 45
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...

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.

01.04.2025 14:47 — 👍 19    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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Trump administration yanks $42M from Michigan schools by changing deadline to be reimbursed, MDE says 27 school districts in Michigan had been pre-approved for projects they were told the federal government would reimburse them for. The U.S. Department of Education sent a note last week the deadline…

ICYMI: Trump broke a promise to fund school improvements AFTER districts signed contracts for the work. Now schools across Michigan will be millions in the hole and forced to make choices that harm our kids' education.

01.04.2025 15:00 — 👍 14    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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Hearing from all corners of HHS this morning about a total bloodletting — firings of scientists, analysts and many more as delayed RIFs take effect.

Many folks didn’t see early AM email and showed up, only to be turned away when badges didn’t work. Was sent this photo of long lines at one HHS site.

01.04.2025 13:11 — 👍 4152    🔁 2221    💬 202    📌 233

"Turned away when badges didn't work." Just gratuitous cruelty to committed civil servants who've already taken so much abuse. The costs of these reckless cuts to all of our health will be vast. But the inhumane treatment of hard-working employees is itself a moral stain.

01.04.2025 13:29 — 👍 500    🔁 157    💬 10    📌 3

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