Tim W RESISTS

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I am an admin of The Union Place, and a proud AWU-CWA Local 9009 #Union member. I'm a Staff SRE at Google, but all opinions are my own, and this account and instance are in […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://union.place/@tim, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

A screenshot of the text "SKU Cloud CDN Cache Fill from North America to China had the largest percentage change in costs of $0.01 (7,533%) compared to the previous period." from the Google Cloud Billing console's AI summary.
An observation lounge on a cruise ship looks out onto an old fort converted into shops and museums, and beautiful blue ocean beyond.
A screenshot of a graph showing 1 day of supply and return temperatures for a building management system, plus outdoor air temperature. The OAT is in the 50s (F) all day and the supply/return temperatures track each other and range from around 70-85F. There's a distinctive sawtooth pattern when the boiler starts kicking in after I decided the loop was getting too cold and tweaked the heat/cool switchover temp to kick it in.
A hexagonal gaming table with four base sections of a Lego Eiffel Tower started, with many unopened bags and the two additional boxes of the tower towards the back.
A letter from VA saying they think I might be registered in another state (I am! I moved!) and I have to fill out a form to explicitly cancel my VA voter registration.
A screenshot of five browser tabs (in Google Chrome), all showing the Gmail icon.
A yellow Lego "podium" with chocolate bars and $100 bills paving the steps. At the top is a red platform with four rabbits in front, and a pig behind. Atop the pig is a salmon-colored platform with four Lego frogs, and a strange tower topped with a Lego fish.
A Leia minifigure holding a pink mug and a green lightsaber, on an orange skateboard with green wheels, sitting atop a yellow wall with translucent covering. Lots of random Lego pieces are scattered around.
Two Lego turkeys, one with two bananas instead of legs and a pineapple head, one with pegasus wings instead of legs and a teapot head.
A Lego turkey minifigure but one leg is replaced by a banana.
A white man with sunglasses in a class 3 high viz poncho holding a "Hands Off our Unions" sign.
A short video clip showing the top of the parking garage, a brief drone takeoff and rotation, briefly showing two people, one of whom is wearing a yellow high-viz vest (that's me!), then landing again, with an AR Drone 2.0 box visible, and a broken piece of propeller appearing at the very end.
A distant view of a small airport with one runway, surrounded by water on three sides. There's a solar farm and a small terminal. There's lush greenery in the foreground.
A hole in some dirt, with a trench leading away from it. I honestly don't remember if this was plumbing or electrical.
An Untappd check-in of Michelob ULTRA that reads "I found this on the ground outside the community pool and hadn't checked it into Untapped yet, so, <ascii shrug>. Tastes like water I guess? I would drink it if I had no other choice." 1.5 out of 5.
An indoor photo shows a large collection of rubber ducks. On the wall, several small wooden shelves are mounted at varying heights, each displaying a group of small, colorful rubber ducks and other tiny figurines. Below the shelves, a long black bench sits next to two wooden stumps. One stump holds a stack of dark-colored figures, and the other has two yellow rubber ducks on it. To the right of the bench, a very large, deflated-looking, yellow inflatable duck rests on the gray carpeted floor.
A photo of a cluttered server room. In the center, a black metal rack holds several pieces of computer equipment, including a monitor, servers, and routers, with a tangle of wires hanging from it. To the right is an orange stepladder. A few cardboard boxes are on the floor. The walls are white and the floor is gray carpet.
The dashboard of a 2005 Ford Escape, with a tiny little screen showing an HV battery, electric motor, and gas engine, a "CD Changer Compatible" label on the radio, and glorious physical buttons and knobs for everything. The AC controls don't even have a thermostat, this was back when you had to choose your zone and temperature by hand like a savage!
A white sign with black text reading "No tourists beyond this point" in English and Spanish, with a lush green forest backdrop.
Foreground: two white men and a white woman, man on the far right is wearing a "Will work for bandwidth :)" t-shirt, other man (middle) and woman (left) are both wearing Hawaiian/tropical style print shirts. The people are standing in front of the Arecibo Observatory's moving gantry and receiver mechanism in the background, with lush forest around.
An electrical circuit breaker box attached to a concrete wall. Both the breaker box and the wall are covered with signatures in a variety of inks (and scratches in the concrete).
Me, a white guy, wearing a Red Sox hat and t-shirt, standing inside the viewing window inside the Green Monster at Fenway Park, in between the "Ball" and "Strike" counters.
The outfield grass at Fenway Park with an image of Big Papi (David Ortiz) mowed into it by extremely talented/creative groundskeepers.
A messy corner office featuring an L-shaped wooden desk and a tall, black leather chair with chrome accents. The desk holds a cluttered arrangement of dual computer monitors, a laptop, and various office supplies. On the floor, there's a black briefcase and several cardboard boxes.
A red key tag label that reads "LOCKS"
Orbit, a white miniature schnauzer with intact tail, laying upside down, back legs spread, and one front leg stretched out against a red hassock he's laying near.
A well-lit, eye-level shot captures a tall, dark wood and metal shelving unit packed with board games, topped by a large green Android robot plushie. To the left, part of a flat-screen TV on a matching dark wooden stand is visible. The shelves are filled with a variety of popular games like "Cards Against Humanity," "Catan Seafarers," "Ticket to Ride," "Monopoly," and "Sequence." The right side of the shelving unit features lighter wood shelves, with the top one holding a clear plastic storage bin, while a blue plastic slide leans against the wall to the far right.
An aerial shot captures a large, sprawling commercial or industrial complex. The main building, centrally located, has a lighter-colored roof in its front section with many parallel, light grey lines, likely skylights or solar panels. Behind this lighter section, the roof darkens and appears to have numerous HVAC units and other equipment. To the far right, another dark-roofed section of the building has several rectangular cutouts or courtyards. The building is surrounded by extensive asphalt parking lots, some appearing empty while others show parked vehicles, particularly in the upper right corner. Curved roads and green spaces with trees and some bare patches of ground, indicative of winter or early spring, frame the complex.
An aerial view shows several buildings and a parking lot. In the center, a long, dark-roofed building with a slightly angled roof extends horizontally, with two light-colored rectangular objects on its roof. To the left of this building, two white cars are parked in a lot. To the upper right, there's an open area, possibly a lot, with what appears to be a blue tarp covering some items. Further to the right, a lighter-colored building is visible.
A black four outlet block that reads "VERIZON EQUIPMENT DO NOT REMOVE NO SURGE PROTECTION", removed, in my hand.
A US 120V power outlet, badly scorched and melted on the top socket. Very bad soup.
A US 120V electrical socket with a metal pick tool inserted into one of the pins. There's no faceplate on the outlet either. Don't worry, it's the ground!
A brick two story building, the Appomattox Court House.
The center screen of a Rivian R1S showing Steve Brusatte's "The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs" playing on Audible (I know, I'm sorry). Electricity, not dino remains, powers this ride!
A brown thoroughbred race horse, from the front but with her head turned to the side.
A selfie of me, a white male with glasses, sitting on the floor wearing a sparkling rainbow t-rex-icorn shirt, with a white miniature schnauzer puppy (9 months) on my lap looking at the camera. In the background is a green frog themed dog bed.
A panoramic shot of the #HandsOff rally in Williamsburg VA in front of the Williamsburg/JCC Courthouse
A white middle aged male wearing a red mask and red Alphabet Workers Union t-shirt, holding a sign reading "Hands off our Unions" with two solidarity fists.
A white poster board with "Hands off our Unions" written on it and two solidarity fists.
No One Earns a Billion Dollars They underpay you to earn it for them.
The "Gulf of America" place in Google maps showing no reviews or ratings (even though I just posted one, and even got local guide points for it, and I know there's thousands more).
A Casio fx-992s scientific calculator, powered on, showing "0", held in the hand of a white person (me!) with light colored carpet and a little bit of a red hassock in the background.
A text message chain asking for my opinion on the Republican Party (1-10, 10 is best; I picked 1) and the Democratic Party (A-E, A is best; I picked D).
Two US $20 bills with Harriet Tubman stamped over Andrew Jackson.
A gift in red wrapping paper with a sleeping sloth, a koala, and a bit of a panda all visible, and a "Le(t it s)now" label, to Liz, from Tim, with a small tear in the label on the left side.
A sheet of Christmas gift labels, centered on a colorful "Let It Snow" sticker with a red background.
A kitchen counter with various battery-operated Christmas ornaments, batteries out, scattered on it, along with a powered precision screwdriver, battery tester, and bin of batteries. And other misc crap on the counter in the background.
Me, a smiling young white male around 16 years old, in a blue shirt seated at a medium-tone wood desk with a keyboard in front of me, two tiers of beds visible behind me, and baseball themed curtains also in the background.
A cage of servers. Left to right: a UPS (backup battery), a stack of rack-mount and pizza-box style desktop servers and network devices (8 items high!), and a desktop tower (amethyst, our very first main server). The cabling is messy and embarrassing.
Orbit, a white miniature schnauzer, chewing a bully stick while laying inside a toy bin (one of many), surrounded by various colorful toys.
Orbit, a white miniature schnauzer puppy, sitting in front of his up-turned playpen with an innocent look on his face, after I turned around at my desk hearing the commotion of him flipping the playpen over. In front of him are arrayed various toys that he has also spread everywhere.
A picture out an airplane window at what the map informs me is Fayetteville, NC, from approximately 33,000 ft. A small wisp of white cloud is visible along with lots of trees, roads, houses, etc. An altogether pedestrian photo.
A screenshot of an error page which says, in white on a red background, "Paused. You need to choose a plan to reactivate this QR code." At the bottom of the page it says "Powered by QR.io"