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Meagan

@mmarie.bsky.social

Data consultant working on data engineering, analytics, and data viz stuff. Mildly obsessed with my dog. Owner of an ultralight travel trailer. Taker of mediocre photos of nature things.

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Floodlight@floodlightnews.org · 2w ago

NEW: Thermal drone footage shows the Microsoft-backed DataOne AI data center in Vineland, NJ is running dozens of gas generators. None of them have permits. A Floodlight visual investigation with @us.theguardian.com:

One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law’

Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators

floodlightnews.org

Meagan@mmarie.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just saw some schema changes planned for a vendor-owned SQL Server database. They are changing some fields from varchar to text. The naughties called and want their data type back.

Meagan@mmarie.bsky.social · last mo.

TIL about the beelike tachinid fly (Adejeania vexatrix). I encountered some in Rocky Mountain National Park yesterday. And I did think it was a bee at first. The bright orange abdomen was not something I had seen before, so I looked it up once I had signal. They like to sip nectar from coneflowers.

Hedgehog fly on a coneflowerOrange-red flies on a group of coneflowersTwo hedgehog flies on a tall coneflower
Accessibility Awareness@a11yawareness.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You might personally choose not to use AI, but you might not have a choice as to whether your team or office uses it. If your organization is using AI to write alt text, always review it to make sure it's accurate and appropriate. AI won't necessarily understand how or why an image is being used.

Meagan@mmarie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems useful, but I have no idea where to start,” this post is for you. https://datasavvy.me/2026/06/22/crawl-walk-run-with-agentic-development-of-power-bi-assets/

#Crawl, Walk, Run with Agentic Development of Power BI Assets - Data Savvy

If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems useful, but I have no idea where to start,” this post is for you.

datasavvy.me

Meagan@mmarie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I took my dog on her first hike since she had her TPLO surgeries and arthritis injections. She did great, went about 3 miles. We'd been working up to the distance with walks around the neighborhood, but hadn't gone more than 2.5 miles. Here's Izzy posing for a photo about halfway through our hike.

A tan, white, and black bulldog-mix wearing a purple harness stands proudly on a moss-covered boulder during a hike. The dog is on a purple leash held by an out-of-frame person, and it is looking directly up at the camera with an alert, content expression and its mouth slightly open. The background shows a rugged, rocky mountain trail with scattered pine trees and forest terrain.
Justin M@justinmm2.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's not that you'll get your ballot and the USPS won't send it back to your state; it's that they won't let the state send you a ballot to begin with. Glad DC (et al.) are suing. www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/p...

Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive | CNN Politics

State election officials could soon face a stark choice: hand over voter lists to the Trump administration or risk losing Postal Service delivery for mail-in ballots.

cnn.com