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Database stuff at a public university (Institutional Research) MS in math & former college math teacher 2 indoor 🐈s + 1 tree frog // SLC, Utah // he/him Fan of #startrek #warcraft #math and other things Please add alt text to images.

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Scott Mikos@scottmikos· 21d

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TRANSCRIPT: My overwhelming feeling about transgender young people is the awareness that half of them try to kill themselves before they're 18.
When I think about this debate, the thing that I'm concerned about is how many desperate, vulnerable young people there are who literally try to kill themselves, who feel completely unaccepted.
So I'm someone who loves sports. I played three sports in high school. I played varsity sports through college. I love sports. But if you ask me what is more important - who gets to be on the team or who's accepted as a human being and doesn't try and kill themselves?
My heart goes out to the vulnerable people who are trying to kill themselves. And to be clear, this is not some huge epidemic. This is a right-wing attempt to victimize and villainize already vulnerable and desperate people.
My heart completely goes out to the people who were so sad, feel so rejected, so unaccepted that half of them would try and kill themselves. That's my overriding concern here and I believe the law is right.

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Jun 18

Screenshot of the Gravity Falls Wiki entry for Quentin Trembley

Quentin Trembley III is the forgotten founder of Gravity Falls, Oregon and the 8½th President of the United States of America, whose silliness has prompted his erasure from history.

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· May 30

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Tweet from Greg Bovino (The Border Patrol guy who was the public face of a lot of the Minneapolis ICE bullshit).

Text: ICE Agents at Delaney, hang in there.

Every one of us wants to be shoulder to shoulder with you.

In speaking with he Mean Green Team, they send you support and are wishing you the best.

Give them hell and live the moment!! 🇺🇸 💪 🤠

End of text from Bovino's tweet.

Description of image in his tweet: Bovino is standing next to what looks like a law enforcement vehicle of some kind, wearing tactical gear, and holding his right arm up with his hand flat and fingers all together. Some might describe it as looking similar to a Nazi "Sieg Heil" salute.

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· May 4

Same! This gem was in the basement of a building at the University of Utah. "Is the sign sarcastic?"

A metallic bronze sign on a pillar reads:
"RESTRICTED AREA"
"NO THOROUGHFARE"

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Mar 20

Is this anything?

DUNE poster with the two main characters (portrayed by Timberland Camembert and Zendaya standing in front of whatever they call the sun in whatever system they're in. The word DUNE is written in all caps in the Papyrus font.

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Mar 5

The word LANTERNS in all caps in the font Papyrus. White lettering on a black background.

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Feb 19

End of the article is good

Screenshot of the quote-posted article from NPR:

Of course, small mammals cause problems in all sorts of organizations. Yesterday, a group of children took National Public Radio off the air for over a minute before engineers could restore the broadcast.

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Feb 18

Screenshot of text from the posted NPR article:

At the time, Trump was turning up the heat on the U.S.-Canada relationship with significant tariffs and comments about making Canada the 51st state.

Just before the tournament began, the Florida Panthers visited the White House to celebrate their Stanley Cup win from the summer before.

There, Matthew gave the president a warm, personal thanks. "Being one of the few Americans who loves this country so much, this is such an incredible day for myself," he said. "You wake up every day and really grateful to be an American, so thank you."

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Jan 6

get him on the case

The fedora wearing teenager from outside the Louvre heist

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Dec 24

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Screenshot of a tweet from Kat Rosenfield (@katrosenfield):
not calling out anyone in particular here but guys, if your theory of the 60 Minutes segment snafu hinges on Bari Weiss being at once cartoonishly evil, completely corrupt, AND a bumbling incompetent on the order of a Scooby Doo villain, you may want to examine your biases a bit

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Dec 13

MOTHS:

Mug that used to say "ENJOYING MY HOT CUP OF LIBERAL TEARS" on it with LIBERAL crudely crossed out and MOOSE written in its place (as though it was done in MS Paint).

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Dec 9

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Accountability for Better Care Act
Senator Jon Husted

Problem: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has made health care less affordable, and extending the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits (EPTCs) without any reforms simply transfers the rising cost of health care onto taxpayers. Without any action, American families will see their premiums rise because of the perverse incentives and failures created by Congressional Democrats through the Affordable Care Act.
American health care is not underfunded; it is under-accountable.
Solution: The Accountability for Better Care Act extends EPTCs on a short-term basis with reforms to promote program integrity and remove perverse incentives. The Accountability for Better Care Act creates a runway for Congress to address the root causes of higher health care costs, while providing Americans with stability in their premiums.

The Accountability for Better Care Act:

- Extends Enhanced Premium Tax Credits for two years, providing Congress a runway to
substantively address the rising costs of health care.

- Requires a minimum monthly payment of $5 for all ACA enrollees. Zero-dollar premium
plans created by the American Rescue Plan Act invited fraud at the taxpayer’s expense.
Requiring even a modest monthly premium will help reduce the incentives for fraudulent
enrollees.

- Maintains household premium contributions for incomes between 100% and 400% of the
Federal Poverty Level (FPL).

- Extends eligibility to individuals between 400% and 600% FPL, with gradually
increasing houschold premium contributions up to 600% FPL threshold (600% FPL for a
household of 4 is $192,000 annually).

- Extends eligibility to individuals between 400% and 600% FPL, with gradually increasing houschold premium contributions up to 600% FPL threshold (600% FPL for a household of 4 is $192,000 annually).

- Expiring EPTCs create a large premium increase for individuals earning above 400% FPL. This proposal phases in increasing household contributions up to the 600% FPL income cap.

- Appropriates Cost Sharing Reductions beginning in 2027.

- Funding the Cost Sharing Reductions would lower premiums approximately 10-20% percent by removing the need for silver-loading.

- Includes Hyde Amendment protections for Qualified Health Plans beginning in plan year 2026.

- Extends eligibility only to U.S. Citizens. Currently, EPTCs are available to noncitizens lawfully present in the United States.

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Nov 18

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As leaders, we lost our mission a bit about what higher education was about. We’re educational organizations. We’re not political organizations, like the R.N.C. or D.N.C. We’re not even social advocacy organizations.

Roth: No, and none of our schools has ever been that.

Jennifer Mnookin: I think that many universities, not all, but many, were for a period of time deeply focused on identity diversity, and really not so focused on viewpoint diversity or belief diversity. I think there’s a danger of a pendulum swinging too far in the other direction, and we need to worry about that. But I think universities should be spaces where ideas, and different ideas, embodied by people from different backgrounds, come together, and where it won’t always be comfortable, but where we will learn and do better from that engagement.

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Nov 18

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Kaminer: President Roth, you’ve also said that some of the Trump administration’s priorities align with work that you already felt colleges and universities should be doing. Is this crisis empowering you to do things you otherwise could not?

Michael Roth: Oh, on the contrary. I think it’s given viewpoint diversity a bad odor because it’s being imposed on us, not because the federal government was looking for ideological diversity, but because they’re looking for loyalty. I think this initiative has as much to do with scientific research as the early [antisemitism] initiative had to do with protecting Jews. This is an extortionist move to try to hold institutions that are heavily dependent on federal funding, as research institutions are, to have leverage over them.

I think, of course, as my colleagues have said, we can do more than one thing at the same time. The problem, I think, for many people is: How do you negotiate with a partner who’s willing to actually destroy what we do well?

Beilock: Instead of stepping back and name-calling, I think our response ——

Roth: I didn’t name-call, did I?

Beilock: Oh, you definitely name-called. Instead of doing that, I think our responsibility as presidents should be to look at what we’re doing and how we can do it better, certainly in concert with the federal government, and be clear and defend our rights and values, whether that’s free expression, academic freedom, and understand that’s our responsibility to the American people, where trust in higher education is low.

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Nov 14

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Katie Wilson, Seattle’s next mayor, is a millennial socialist with scant experience in electoral politics and a persona that may seem incongruent with the vibrant, artsy, tech-forward city she’s about to lead.

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Nov 14

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HEADLINE
Man in the News; Finding a New Mission; Michael Rubens Bloomberg
END HEADLINE

Michael Rubens Bloomberg, among the wealthiest people in New York City, has been a man in search of a mission beyond making money. With yesterday's come-from-behind victory in the mayoral race, he seems to have found it.

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Nov 13

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(Bloomberg Government) -- Senate
Republicans are quietly pushing back
against President Donald Trump’s mid-
level nominees, prompting more picks
to withdraw than any president in
recent history.

The White House has withdrawn more
than 50 nominees so far this Congress
— the most in any single year over the
last few decades, a Bloomberg
Government analysis of Senate
records shows. The nominees have
cited a variety of reasons for their
withdrawal, including health and
personal considerations, but a growing
number have backed out because
enough Republican senators said they
wouldn’t support their confirmation.

When the Senate returns from recess...

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Nov 7

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(Salt Lake City) - During this week’s Salt Lake County Council meeting the Republican majority voted
to close the beloved 10th East Senior Center.

Similar to the daycare closure, the action came without any specific notification to the public or to the
seniors who rely on the services provided at the center. Nearly 600 seniors visit the center for meals,
recreational opportunities, and critical social interactions with their peers and community.

In November 2022, the County Council voted unanimously to fund a $10 million re-build of the aging
senior center. The decision to rebuild the center was made after residents expressed significant
support for the project.

All four Democratic members of the County Council listed below voted to keep the center open, and to
honor the commitment made by the County to its seniors to rebuild the facility.

Reconstruction of the center began in September of this year, and approximately $3 million has
already been spent on the project. The County will need to spend additional funds to ramp down the
project and to demolish the building.

Closing this senior center will result in millions of taxpayers dollars being completely wasted.

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Oct 24

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JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting from the denial of application for stay and denial of certiorari. Take out your phone, go to the clock app, and find the stopwatch. Click start. Now watch the seconds as they climb. Three seconds come and go in a blink. At the thirty-second mark, your mind starts to wander. One minute passes, and you begin to think that this is taking a long time. Two . . . three . . . . The clock ticks on. Then, finally, you make it to four minutes. Hit stop. Now imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating. You want to breathe; you have to breathe. But you are strapped to a gurney with a mask on your face pumping your lungs with nitrogen gas. Your mind knows that the gas will kill you. But your body keeps telling you to breathe. That is what awaits Anthony Boyd tonight. For two to four minutes, Boyd will remain conscious while the State of Alabama kills him in this way. When the gas starts flowing, he will immediately convulse. He will gasp for air. And

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Sep 17

A replica of the famous World of Warcraft sword Frostmourne, a large sword with blue runes engraved on the blade and a skull of some horned creature on the hilt.

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Sep 13

Screenshot of the last two paragraphs of the article:

Herb Alpert agrees: "Music should not be a privilege, it should be a part of the public education system." He hopes more visibility around the repair shop will encourage other school districts to re-invest in such facilities, too.

While Alpert's donation is part of a long career filled with philanthropy, he says the current political climate makes the investment feel more urgent. "I say, 'why are public funds not being spent on this?' This is a crucial part of a child's development."

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Aug 26

It's no SHADES by DESIGN, I'll tell you what

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Jul 17

The comments on this are pretty entertaining.

Comment by Sun Chainik (3 hours ago):
Powell is not an economist, he is a politician, a DNC plant at the Fed.

Reply by Jake W (3 hours ago):
And yet he is a republican and nominated by trump himself in his first term! Make it make sense 💀🤣

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Jun 13

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Apr 16

A film that takes place where you’re from:

Still image from the film A Christmas Story. Ralphie, his mom, and his brother are watching his father precariously try to put the star atop their Christmas tree. The kids are sitting on a couch with a lit fireplace in the background. Their mom is trying to help and maybe keeping the dad from toppling over.

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Apr 8

WEEEEEEeeeeeEEEE!!!!!

Screenshot of a graph and other supporting info about the Dow Jones Industrial Average over for today's trading. The graph starts a little over 39,000 (up over 1000) and wiggles a little higher. Around midday, things start to decline. It goes negative below yesterday's close around 3pm and drops precipitously from there.

Screenshot is taken just before 4pm and the Dow is down over 750 points. A drop of almost 1200 from its high for the day

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Apr 5

There's a little bit of Grand Nagus Zek energy in that pic, right?

Drawing or heavily stylized photo of Grand Nagus Zek from Star Trek: DS9. A closeup of his face down to his shoulders. He's laughing and you can see his golden staff/scepter thing in the lower section

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Mar 31

His pangolinification is almost complete.

A pangolin standing on its hind legs with its hands held in front like it has to give you bad news, but is scared about it. It looks like a servant giving bad news to a monarch.

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Mar 26

welcome back darth!!!! sorry about <waves hands> all this

Short-haired grey cat with big-ish ears. She's sitting kinda loafed on a bed, very near a pillow. If she puts her head down, it will probably be on the pillow. One of her back feet is turned up exposing her pink/purple toe beans.

Scott Mikos@scottmikos· Jan 13

The Runnin’ Utes finally got a Big 12 win. Can it turn their season around?

Screenshot of the Salt Lake Trib Bluesky account posting an article about Utah men's basketball. The text of the post, the headline of the article and the subheading of the article all use the same text, "The Runnin’ Utes finally got a Big 12 win. Can it turn their season around?"