As a habit I don’t promote stuff on substack but Jason does invaluable reporting in Florida.

No cheating, reskeet with the most recent photo of your pet.

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"sudden cash sweep by it's lender" is going to be something we hear more of.

Let’s see what happens when we press this button.

As someone who follows/covers local municipal government, the discourse around naming things gives me a chuckle.

This was my home at one point. Glad to see a happy ending for the Powells. Orrin treated us kids well.

Here’s where cold weather shelters are open in Hillsborough and Pinellas tonight www.cltampa.com/news/heres-w...

If all goes well, this should show up on Bluesky. (https://michaelbishop.me/notes/1767071560/)

Testing Micropub from Drafts. (https://michaelbishop.me/notes/1767074727/)

Don't look now but got this working with my @11ty.dev site. github.com/benjifs/serv...

China Launches Snap “Warning” Drills Around Taiwan Simulating A Total Blockade www.twz.com/news-feature...

Are there any Bluesky clients that when you refresh your timeline, keep you at your last seen post? Tweetmarker was such a great tool. I prefer to catch up, not scroll back.

lol so many land use hearings are going to be mucked up because of mis-notices

clearing up my notes and came across this thought

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🚨 WA and other vote-by-mail states: The post office changed its postmark policy and no longer guarantees a postmark will be given on the date mail is received. For deadline sensitive mail, like ballots, this means that you need to mail far in advance (10+ days before) or use a drop box. #waelex

What is the point of spam accounts like this? There’s snow on the ground. Tampa hasn’t seen snow since 1976.

Hulu Live added the CSPAN channels. That is all.

Watch the Bucs back into the playoffs with a losing record & go to Super Bowl.

Why didn’t Bowles challenge the call? His arm was going forward.

Sorry Uber Eats, Baker Mayfield has made me lose my appetite

Think I’d rather vote for David Jolly than this piss poor example of a Dem.

One Christmas I thought I was pulling a prank on my dad & borrowed his friend’s empty C-64 box to wrap my dad’s gift in. Watching him unwrap it, all surprised and when he opened the box the prank was on me. He’d gotten ME a C-64.

Thinking about that Christmas that @jonhendren.com was retweeting all of the spoiled rich kids complaining about their iPhone. Truly special day on old Twitter

24 years ago I snuck this song onto a Christmas music CD I burned for a few friends. When Dan’s post popped up in my reader it brought back a few memories. Was surprised to find the jewel case. Here’s to long roads & better years.

Internet friends, if you get an emergency alert from your county or state government (and are NOT in an active emergency) could you kindly send me screen shots and links your government shared? I’d like to analyze these from a usability perspective and produce a short report. Drop ‘em here! ⬇️ #cawx

I hope at least by rescheduling weed at the federal level that dispensaries can take plastic $ like a liquor store.

If it is a prank, can you nail the long play any better?

Bad redactions? @documentcloud.org's Add-On can uncover poorly redacted text hidden in documents. More: www.documentcloud.org/add-ons/Muck...

If something is unfounded, you don’t know if it’s true or false.

Fuck, took a break from the internet for 2 hours & y’all have created Napster News.

expecting a little empathy from a SaaS when I make the fatal mistake of leaking an API key is too much to ask I guess

listening to a discussion with a local politician and they're asked about a book that's heavily influenced them. They cite Lee Kuan Yew who I wasn't familiar with. jfc what a person to be your biggest influence. Yeah, he was an authoritarian but he had some good ideas on government.

took a peek at the groupings of posts on bluesky over the past 48 hours

The DOJ's position is that this is wiretapping, 404 reporters can be indicted for it, & forced to prove they had the consent of the people who appear on the videos. Their appeal of Judge Mizelle's ruling that they are wrong is due at the 11th Circuit today. Help me fight to keep journalism legal.

“Dems in disarray”

“JD Vance took the stage to the Hollies’ “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress.”” They definitely doin’ it

Read my dispatch from AmericaFest and maybe I’ll get to go to more weird things. www.ms.now/news/america...

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

The newspaper layout demo 👀

Records show the #Florida food libel law was literally written by farm industry lobbyists -- and their intention was less about helping farmers and more about hurting environmentalists. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/they-said-... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social

a lotta yall still dont get it Political consultants can use multiple slurp juices on a single candidate So if you have 1 astronaut and 3 rust belt conservatives, you can create 3 new moderates

Hot girl on girl action

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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

I mean...

Just mapped out first phase of moving Tampa Monitor off WordPress.

Take a ride on the Hell Train