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jeff elrod
jeff elrod
@jeffelrod.dev
software guy, spreadsheet enthusiast. i like podcasts, movies/tv, and weird sodas/snacks. started OMSCS at georgia tech in fall '25, hoping to finish in '29. when i'm not studying, i play tennis.
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this week's episode of @blankcheck.bsky.social about "goodfellas" was rough for someone who mostly knows "get your fucking shinebox" to be followed immediately by "and your sack of nickels", from an outkast song whose title griffin once mispronounced.
"trump accounts" are going to end up full of 1-2 share lots of the most societally and environmentally detrimental companies in the country. cheat code to give young people a small, vested financial interest in destroying the world, brought to you by northrop grumman and monsanto.
Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face intensifying scrutiny over their impact on society. https://cnn.it/4yWTjTJ
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“i pay tax before, but still pay tax now?” We spoke with dozens of half-literate morons about the machinations of local governance. Here’s what they’re saying.
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
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Congrats folks, you did it. As of this morning there have been 741,391 early votes in the state of Georgia, putting us 2,841 votes ahead of the same day in 2022. More people voted in 4 days this year than over 5 days in 2022. #gapol #gapolitics georgiavotes.com
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how many cornhusker engineers does it take to build a better viener schlinger?
Der Viener Schlinger, the world’s first handheld hot dog launcher, can now fire a 2.67-ounce Fairbury Tomboy at 90 mph from Tom Osborne Field over the 165-foot-high skyboxes. The machine has come a long way, in part thanks to 170 UNL engineering students. Read more 🔗 buff.ly/RUjRedg
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Replying to @kattenbarge.bsky.social
What about her future? What about how hard she worked to be there? What is to become of her life now? What process of justice could possibly right these wrongs? And how much more will she lose in the process of trying to get it? How much more of this are we all supposed to tolerate?
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Replying to @davidjroth.bsky.social
I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.
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There’s been a lot of incredible writing about what happened 25 years ago but this is the piece that stays with me these days www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Everything you want is downstream of changing the balance of power between capital and labor.
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
@professorbutts.com you watching the cincy open? just saw a commercial for the city of cincinnati soundtracked by proud indianan john cougar mellencamp's "ain't that america" and got offended on y'all's behalf.
it's like "in the air tonight" was written for the show. i drove along the gulf coast from biloxi to atlanta at sunset with "crockett's theme" repeating on a loop when i was like 28 - greatest drive of my life.
anyway while Michael Mann is on the mind it’s always a good time to revisit a scene that nails the entire vibe of being a dude better than almost anything else i’ve scene youtu.be/-aMCzRj3Syg?...
"To many, the slacker-prodigy is an appealing archetype... Why not keep playing all the Pokémon you want, but just put your head down for two weeks, serve your ass off, and steal a Slam from underneath their noses?" - @girinathan.bsky.social
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i grew up in kansas, with a formative three-year stint in north carolina in the middle. when we moved back to kansas, i was excited for my friends to know, so i insisted on recording our answering machine message. i heard it six months later and was embarrassed to discover i sounded like paula deen.
People are making fun of AOC for having a slight southern accent while speaking in Memphis but they clearly don’t know the pain of habitually and unconsciously imitating the speaking style of the people around you
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