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Ioana Patringenaru

@ioanapatrin.bsky.social

PR pro at UC San Diego. Recovering reporter. As old as Microsoft. Books and comics geek. Robotics/AI/cybersecurity/civil engineering You might want to mute me during San Diego Comic-Con she/her

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We also have an insane parking lot at one of our Trader Joe's here in San Diego! A U-Haul got stuck on one of the height limit signs a few years ago. In the olden days, there was an FB group where people could vent about how insane it was.

02.03.2026 17:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hope they're safe Niema! Thinking of you!

02.03.2026 17:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Did they report what his pension will be? Because it's probably quite a bit.

28.02.2026 00:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What's that Sting song: sell all the stock and spend all the money?

27.02.2026 17:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
26.02.2026 18:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Spanish guy living in France or vice versa?

26.02.2026 17:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Blackberries, if you can grow them

25.02.2026 17:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes! Well 20% of the team not being on board with a WH visit is not nothing I guess. I did see that most of the guys not going are from Minnesota.

25.02.2026 17:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Would have been nice if they just had said that. Sigh.

25.02.2026 01:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Jake Guentzel among 5 US men's hockey players not at State of the Union Jake Guentzel of the Tampa Bay Lightning is among five players from the gold-medal winning U.S. men's hockey team not in Washington, D.C.

Ah found it: www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

All their reasons read to me like they just didn't wanna be there. FWIW

25.02.2026 00:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh who are the five? Maybe there's hope lol.

25.02.2026 00:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Good

24.02.2026 21:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And there are studies about how kids with older fathers are more likely to be autistic! Also studies about how it's pretty much a genetic thing! Oh my god

24.02.2026 21:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also: can you imagine being a gay male hockey player and this is your locker room? No wonder no one is out.

24.02.2026 19:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Siiigh
What is wrong with these men? (Rhetorical)

24.02.2026 17:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ok, legit question: this is the Daily Mail we're talking about. What are the chances the quote is accurate? Altho I suspected they lifted it from somewhere else.

24.02.2026 17:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My favorite bald eagle fact is that Ben Franklin thought they were too cowardly to be the national bird. (Brought to you by my kiddo doing a report back in 5th grade.)

24.02.2026 01:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I re-read the Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater pretty regularly. She is such a good writer.
I love her Scorpio Races too, but definitely not a comfort read.
Also, I've been reading a ton of fanfic lately.

24.02.2026 01:14 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Another argument for locking fics...

24.02.2026 01:05 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And then people wonder why there are no out players in the NHL...

23.02.2026 22:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Trump Invites Caucasian Half Of Alysa Liu To Visit White House

Trump Invites Caucasian Half Of Alysa Liu To Visit White House

Trump Invites Caucasian Half Of Alysa Liu To Visit White House

23.02.2026 18:40 — 👍 4999    🔁 742    💬 40    📌 33

My head hurts

23.02.2026 17:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They're gonna put AI in everything gah

20.02.2026 21:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hahah ok! I thought the blunt was a cigarette, and then the beanie was giving Ilya in that scene where they first meet.
Love the hockey pigeons too !

20.02.2026 19:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is this Ilya from Heated Rivalry as a pigeon? XD

20.02.2026 18:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm not a lawyer so I don't know how this works, but...

20.02.2026 00:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And this is why my oldest dropped out of sports until high school and my youngest doesn't even want to think about it. It's just not fun.

20.02.2026 00:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ooh we still have an old model my kids played with like 10 years ago. Maybe I should see if we can revive it.

20.02.2026 00:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh my god
Assuming this is grounds for suing?

20.02.2026 00:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I've covered #genAI for a while now, and this is probably one of the most important studies I've press-released. This method leads to both improvements & vulnerabilities, such as jailbreaking. It's also significantly less costly computationally.

19.02.2026 21:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0