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Guy in Pittsburgh, fluent in dad jokes, recovering Zamboni driver, manages a civic data project at Pitt. Once finished third in the Pennsylvania Farm Show butter sculpture contest. I brake for estate sales.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Take Action: How to Write a Public Comment on Federal Data. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Ever wondered whether public comments actually matter—or how data advocates use them strategically? Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at how regulatory advocacy really works. We’ll cover how public...

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11.03.2026 12:08 👍 8 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

I think there should be a defensive player back-checking the shooter from the top of the faceoff circles when they touch the puck on these shootouts to make it less gimmicky

11.03.2026 02:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Since everyone else is dunking on this…

AI chatbots can never “contain the sum of all human knowledge.” No need to read any further when an article makes a bs claim like that.

10.03.2026 11:52 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We need more of this

10.03.2026 02:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How do we really know that god has forgiven them? I need receipts.

05.03.2026 13:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do you know what the name was? My wife might have seen them

05.03.2026 04:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

The bar scene in Westmoreland County seems like there’s never a dull moment

05.03.2026 01:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This you, @adamgretz.bsky.social? www.wtae.com/article/para...

05.03.2026 00:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Cooling with a Whole House Fan A whole-house fan, in combination with other cooling systems, can meet all or most of your home cooling needs year round.

I’m glad I have a whole house fan. Put one of these in last summer since I have radiators and no ducts www.energy.gov/energysaver/...

04.03.2026 23:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hockey doesn’t make sense sometimes

04.03.2026 00:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our president has talked to more people in Saudi Arabia and Israel about this stupid war more than he’s talked to any Americans that haven’t been to Mar a Lago.

01.03.2026 23:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not too many people were sad when he left Pittsburgh

28.02.2026 23:41 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
courtesy psa printed ads above a bus window - anthropomorphic pickles on a bus - one poster says “want a smoke just dill with it” another says “they’d relish the seat”

courtesy psa printed ads above a bus window - anthropomorphic pickles on a bus - one poster says “want a smoke just dill with it” another says “they’d relish the seat”

Pittsburgh Regional Transit is running a dad joke pickle-themed psa campaign focused on courteous behavior and it is a jar-ringly big dill

27.02.2026 00:14 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Dalessandros and John’s Roast Pork are great but haven’t tried them all

25.02.2026 23:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Only a rapscallion would suggest that name for the address

25.02.2026 13:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why not just take them to the banjo club?

25.02.2026 04:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

🎯🎯🎯

24.02.2026 16:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don’t know how you glide back into the d zone there

22.02.2026 16:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

At least with 3-on-3 hockey we won’t have to watch Tom Wilson, probably

22.02.2026 15:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wish I could score a goal like that some day

22.02.2026 13:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I never considered themes for each year- we usually add a new one to the pool + try and find a day to do two.

21.02.2026 01:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a cartoon of homer simpson with a picture of a monkey in his head Alt: a cartoon of homer simpson with a picture of a monkey in his head playing cymbals

Probably looks like this

21.02.2026 01:13 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a kermit the frog is looking out of a window in the rain . Alt: a kermit the frog is looking out of a window in the rain .

Thinking wistfully about Brazil, South Korea, and the UK this morning

19.02.2026 13:19 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pittsburgh version of My Fair Lady has a young lady from Mt Oliver spend 3 months at a professors house in Shadyside for speech lessons

19.02.2026 02:12 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

@snonsumr.bsky.social - we were just thinking about this

18.02.2026 11:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When the AI bubble pops, we should hope that all of the empty data centers are converted to curling and hockey rinks.

17.02.2026 23:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So was this a blind taste test or more of a pickle juice flight?

17.02.2026 23:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I am raising a private equity fund to buy and monetize the collection, but that’s going to be hard to do if you keep asking questions like this. Please don’t ruin it for me /s

17.02.2026 22:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Looking for a way to take action on the OPRE restructuring -- join our sign-on letter here: datafoundation.org/news/advocac...

14.02.2026 00:08 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Fish Fry Map Update-a-Thon! Join us to update the Pittsburgh Lenten Fish Fry Map!

Hey Pittsburgh - time to update the Pgh Fish Fry Map. Do it for the halibut www.eventbrite.com/e/fish-fry-m...

14.02.2026 02:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0