Dad of four. Old house lover. Fan of @CleGuardians and #Nebrasketball. Design and code at @hanscomstudio. Lots of golf practice swings in the kitchen.
Omaha, NE, USA
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Remember when everyone thought instead of building rural broadband, we should let a single company provide all rural internet service? Shocked it’s now a monopoly in practice.
Generally, I love Starlink. It’s fast, reliable, and my husband and I run our law firm from home with it. HOWEVER- it’s monopolized internet in rural areas.
Today, we received notice our internet bill is going up another $500/year. Don’t like it? Too bad. You have no other options. Nebraska gave up $300 million in federal rural internet funding for fiber because “Starlink fixed it.”
This was a mistake that will cost Nebraskans dearly in the long run.
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Heroes come and go.
But legends like @KentPavelka live forever.
Reminder: Even though #Nebrasketball doesn't need the tournament tracker this year ... plenty of other teams *are* worried about their NCAA hopes. For those poor guys, tourneyodds.info exists. Bubble status for everyone else!
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Vanderbilt losing on the road against Texas is testament to how darn impressive Nebraska's unbeaten record is.
Vandy had a 33% chance of losing at Texas.
Nebraska has had NINE games this season where they had a 30%+ chance to lose. Won all of them.
What if we did the #Nebrasketball odds machine ... but for *everyone else*? Behold: tourneyodds.info/
Uh, guys ...
Federal legislation ("One Big Beautiful Bill Act") will cost #Nebraska state govt c. $100 million per year for next four years, state Dept. of Revenue estimates: revenue.nebraska.gov/sites/d…
#Nebrasketball semi-calming thought of the day: Since NET began, only one team with at least six Quad 1 wins and fewer than 15 losses has been left out of the tournament.
2024 Providence — NET: 57, KPI: 69, SOR: 42, Kenpom: 54, WAB: 45
Adding the (R) symbol next to "WordPress" in the dashboard is definitely a level of corporate pettiness I can support @HeyFlywheel. Love you guys.
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If you want to know how mad the Nebraska Supreme Court was about the actions of the Secretary of State and Attorney General, they made a SIMPSONS reference in the opinion and said Marge's sisters understand their constitutional obligations better than our Executive branch. Dang.
Help me solve an Omaha mystery: I've seen this sticker around town. Mostly in east Omaha/Midtown. The location listed on the sticker is the center of the intersection at 14th and Harney. So what is JMKP?
"Meta’s Nebraska data center alone used nearly as much energy as the North Omaha coal units produced in 2023, company and federal energy disclosures show. It is enough electricity to power more than half the homes in Omaha."
Google and Meta targeted Omaha as a digital frontier. But their plans to push the energy transition forward there are not working out. A coal plant is filling the void. wapo.st/4869G3J
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We were saddened and appalled by Matt Mullenweg’s actions this morning appropriating the Advanced Custom Fields plugin that our ACF team has been actively developing for the WordPress community since 2011.
Please read the following post for our full statement.
advancedcustomfields.com/blo…
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Okay, I think it's important we push back on this regular talking point and show why the "funds should follow students, not schools" line sounds reasonable to those uninformed on education policy, but is actually fundamentally flawed (1/16)
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For the fifth time since 2016, the American League Central runs through Cleveland! 🍾
#ForTheLand
Yes! So proud of all these folks. 👏🏼🥹
This year’s Startup of the Year is @flatwaterfreep, which has grown rapidly since its launch in 2021.
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The Medium Division winner of the Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism is “Who’s Buying Nebraska?” by @flatwaterfreep’s @yanqixu_ and @destinyherbers.
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This is a crazy visual.
The top 10 Formula 1 drivers in Monaco finished exactly where they started, while the Indy 500 had 649 overtakes, the most since 2017.
(h/t @_SportsBall_)
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this is what they’re trying to take from us teapawt.org/NBAonTNT/status/989709…