Peter Mains

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Data Scientist. Artist. Writer. Go Blue! poliscopic.com yimbymaricopa.org

LinkedIn Post: I exited a $150M company with zero unit tests. (Somewhere, a TDD evangelist just screamed into a pillow.) We didn't have automated testing. No CI/CD pipeline. We pushed straight to production. We were doing $35M in ARR. Meanwhile, the startup "doing it right": 95% test coverage 3-stage deployment flow Every line of code gets a code review Two-week sprint cycles $O in revenue Customers are the best testers you'll ever have. They find edge cases your mocks never will. They pay you while they do it.
SNL Weekend Update Segment "Bitch Pleeze" featuring Michaela Watkins as celebrity blogger, Angie Tempura and Seth Myers.
Oil at a measly $83 per barrel
Authentic Restaurant Quality Gyros Kit. Made with Premium Beef & Lamb Gyro Slices
Scam ad. “BREAKING NEWS: BROADWAY SHOWS EXPOSED AS ONE OF THE MOST OVERLOOKED ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS IN AMERICA”
Independent Headline: “SantaCon organizer arrested as the feds label popular holiday event a ‘con’”
New York Post headline: Cocaine-fueled sharks are on the prowl in the Caribbean — scientists blame party tourists By Ben Cost Published March 26, 2026
Tall building with the word, “Deloitte” displayed in huge letters.
Line chart from the article showing the percentage of energy generated by each source by month. Solar peaks over 22% in June, but reaches troughs of around 5% in December and January of each year.
Passage drawn from Festivus! The Book. Most O'Keefe Festivus celebrations had a theme, though the stated theme was often too vague to be of any real meaning to the celebrants. For example, some of the stated themes were "Are we Scared? Yes!", "Are we Depressed? Yes!", "Are we too easily made Glad?", "Are we Getting Along, or Are We Getting On?" and "Life... Is Like a Fountain."
Frylock, Meatwad and Master Shock from Aqua Teen Hunger Force in an above ground pool. Meatwad is riding in a pool floatie.
Pinned skeet: “Don't forget to turn on my post notifications so that you can slowly descend into terminally online madness with me”
Quote from “What We Knew”: Thus one already knew in December 1942 that they were killing the Jews? Oh, yes. One knew that. But then they said to him, "What kind of atrocity story is this that you are telling us? What makes you think that they are killing people there? How do you get that idea?" "Ah, you don't have to tell me that," my father said. "I know that. I know exactly what's going on there.
Quote from “What We Knew”: It was known at that time that these transports went directly to Treblinka or Auschwitz. Terrible, terrible! But people didn't want to talk about it. When the German Jews learned about it, they really refused to believe a lot of it. The German Jews themselves would say, "This is atrocity propa-ganda. That can't be so. After all, it's the twentieth century and we're Ger-man." Many of them still considered themselves German. They didn't believe it primarily because they didn't want to believe it. Who can blame them?
Various farm animals (cows, pigs, sheep, alpacas, horses, donkeys) set over bouncy music (Sunny by iksonmusic)
Sagrada familia, viewed from a side street
Sweeping shot of Old Town Scottsdale’s canal
Chart showing Arizona’s white population in 2020 is 53.37%
A medieval painting of Jesus, lovingly restored by an elderly woman unfamiliar with several of the rudiments of art restoration.
[Russ Vought] says US "has a religious heritage, that in which its civic life is based on — Judeo-Christian worldviews. And that, while we may give religious liberty to everyone, that there is an importance in a foundation and a structure to our system.."
Screenshot of the Cambridge Core website ("The home of academic content"), with the following error message: The organisation you have selected has not submitted information to Cambridge University Press for their Shibboleth/Athens account. Therefore you cannot access Cambridge Core with this login. Please notify your librarian to ensure they have set this up with us. Error code: SHIBBOLETH_NOT_FOUND
Chart showing income growth and the rise in the price of housing in Phoenix.
Chart of county income in 2023 dollars. Austin (Travis Count) leads at $100k, with Dallas and LA Counties nearly tied around $85k. Harris County (Houston) is right at $80k. Maricopa County (Phoenix) is at $73k.
Chart showing housing affordability from 1975 to 2023, comparing Dallas, Harris County (Houston), Travis County (Austin) and Maricopa County (Phoenix).
Cleavon Little threating himself with a six shooter in Blazing Saddles and begging the townsfolk, "help me, help me!"
Hapless businessman Michael Scott preparing to disappoint Scott’s Tots.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson presents a robot as his entry for the World’s Most Evil Invention competition.
James Il the Just succeeded him after ceding Sicily to his younger brother, Frederick. Multilateral contacts ended with the treaty of Anagni (1295), which included peace with France; the marriage of Jaume |I with Blanca, daughter of Carles d'Anjou; the future restitution of the Balearic Islands to their king; the donation of Sicily to the pope, which opened the door to a future conquest of Corsica and Sardinia and the lifting of the sovereign's excommunication. The Sicilians did not accept the agreement and proclaimed Frederick king. The hostilities with the Angevins did not end until 1302, with the peace of Caltabellotta. A branch of the dynasty settled for a century in Sicily, until the territory was reintegrated, at the beginning of the fifteenth century, into the crown of Aragon.
Chart showing real Kenyan GDP going from $5.75B in 1993 to $107B in 2023
Chart of religious knowledge quiz results by religion. Jewish 9.5 Atheist 9.3 Agnostic 9 Evangelical 8 Mainline Protestant 7.6 Catholic 7.6 Mormon 6.8 Nothing in Particular 5.9 Historically Black Protestant 4.9
Approximately 8 inch statue of Tanit, Astarte and/or Demeter surrounded by other lesser artifacts
Firebombing In 2000, Thompson was living with his boyfriend, French documentarian Joel Soler, in Hollywood. Soler had smuggled footage out of Iraq to make an E! News-style satiric political documentary comedy, Uncle Saddam, about the eccentricities in the home life of Saddam Hussein and his family, which bubbled behind Hussein's dictatorial façade. Thompson wrote the narration for the movie, which was read by actor Wallace Langham.
Lindsey Bluth speaking to her husband, Tobias Fünke. Tobias: "The theory is you could move the party left by voting for a no-hope third party candidate." Lindsey: "Well, did it work for those people." Tobias: "No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but ... but it might work for us."
First, realizing the Toledot Yeshu consisted of related but separable narrative elements that were designed to be transformable according to the teller's mood or need means that while we may speak of narrative families of the Toledot, as some have, looking for any kind of ur-text is ultimately not the most helpful path to determining the development of the tradition or its context. Understanding the story or stories of the Toledot were primarily an oral literature, and designed to entertain as well as polemicize, also helps to explain why so few early written versions of the Toledot seem to have survived in Europe, though Christian destruction of manuscripts and the desire to hide these traditions from Christians for safety's sake may have also played a part.
Whereas in the Protonike stories, contact with the cross resurrects Protonike's daughter, thus revealing the cross's true nature, in this particular version of the Toledot Yeshu, Jesus claims that he is able to make a girl pregnant with the benefit of intercourse. When her "pregnancy" lasts too long, the "child" is taken from her, and turns out to be a stone. The young woman dies. In this plot twist, the Jewish author(s) mock(s) Jesus's claim to come from a virginal birth. On the one hand, they make him unable to recreate the miracle that was attributed to his own birth. On the other, in the Jewish account, rather than bringing life to a child (especially a child of the rulers), Jesus brings death to the woman and her offspring. Overall, the message is that Jesus is incapable of imbuing anyone with life. Instead, his so-called powers bring suffering and death.
"And it was when he stood on trial before them, and our God, blessed be He, was zealous about His Torah ... and He put in his heart, and the answers were in him, to give correct replies to those who speak falsely and incite." This is how the Hebrew account of the public disputation against the Talmud held in Paris in 1240 portrays the Jewish protagonist, Rabbi Yehiel of Paris, as he sets out to do battle with the Christian representative, the apostate Nicholas Donin. An account of the cut and thrust of the polemical encounter follows with Yehiel ably overcoming the questions posed by Donin. This text, seemingly, is evidence of the first public encounter between Jews and Christians over the Talmud and is seen as the precursor of both Barcelona 1263 and the Disputation of Tortosa in the early fifteenth century.
Typical Mets fan passing judgment.
Geronimo Stilton — publisher of the Rat Gazette — dances in front of a cheese pyramid while dressed as an ancient Egyptian.
Christopher Columbus counted on the assistance of Jews and converts to organize his travels in the Indies Although the possible Jewish origin of Christopher Columbus is nothing but pure speculation, what is evident and clear is the participation and enthusiastic help of characters of Jewish origin from the Catalan-Aragonese court for the benefit of Columbus' travels, especially the noblemen Lluís de Santàngel, scribe of Racío, and Gabriel Sanchís, royal treasurer. These two prohoms—fully aware of their Jewish origins and with relatives persecuted by the Inquisition - they offered both moral and political support, and did to convince the Catholic Kings of the merits of the admiral's project.
In his writings, Columbus showed himself capable of perfectly citing the Bible and even to know Jewish history. Precisely, when speaking of the first or second temple in Jerusalem, he called them “house,” a literal translation of the Hebrew word, “bayit,” with which Jews referred to the Jerusalem temple.
Plaque for “Plaça de Hedy Lamarr. Actress, scientist and inventor. Vienna, 1914 - Orlando, Florida, 2000”
What's this, then? A Liver Donor's Card.
Wallace wearing the wrong trousers, terrifying both Wallace and Gromit
How many e's are in the word, "Wednesday?" There are three "e"s in the word "Wednesday." Write a short script to count the number of e's in the word, Wednesday, run it and give me the output. The script counted 2 "e"s in the word "Wednesday." (›-) Write a short script to count the number of r's in the word "strawberry", run it and give me the output. The script counted 3 "y"s in the word "strawberry." (›-)