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Ben West
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Scattered minutiae about about, tech, plants, St. Louis, occasionally all together
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The DNC (actually Acorn) did a massive GOTV operation in MO which helped boost turnout to such levels. DNC hasn't put anywhere near that $$ into statewide turnout since. MO GOP invests heavily in turning out its own base, in its own way.

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"What if the Kwisatz Haderach was one of us? Just a worm like one of us?"

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The corrugated plastic sign material is also really versatile to cut up for crafts. Obvs gotta gotta paint it over depending on circumstances.

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Since learned it'll be the Tandy and Cherokee centers. However I also remember Cara Spencer saying a big problem last year was ppl bringing minors to the extended hours but not always coming back to pickup at midnight!

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Would be helpful if they specified WHICH rec centers: "the city plans to keep two recreation centers open until midnight on Friday and Saturday nights to give people older than 13 a safe place to go"

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I mean, national parks in Europe are mostly like "we ringfenced this bit, it was pretty. You can walk for an hour or so in that direction and then walk back" and national parks in America are more like "this is a region the size of Belgium. It's neat, but don't get lost. We can't find you if you do"

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Aerospace engineer Judith Love Cohen developed an emergency guidance system for spacecraft that is credited with returning the Apollo 13 astronauts safely back to Earth. In 1969, she worked through her pregnancy and brought work print-outs with her to the hospital before she gave birth to Jack Black

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Nichelle Nichols almost quit Star Trek after the first season but got talked into staying after she ran into MLK at a party and he told her Star Trek was the King family’s favorite show then she went on to work with NASA to recruit their first ever Black and female astronauts

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Ben West
@westbywest.bsky.social
Scattered minutiae about about, tech, plants, St. Louis, occasionally all together
46 followers53 following90 posts