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#safest #normal #risky #fake #danger #beingnoticed

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#lives #possibilities #infinite

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Isn't MAGA magical thinking? #MAGA #MagicalThinking

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#crackpot #world-changing #idea

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#flax #flowering Flowering flaxes #flowers #fireworks #exploding

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#privilege

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#creativity #depression #drugs

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#stress

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When the voters elect a government that raises taxes to give more money to billionaires you realize why Artificial General Intelligence is easily achievable, since basic human intelligence is non-existent.

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If Trump drops dead there are 18 people in the line of succession, including horror shows like Robert Kennedy Jr., nasty Pete Hegseth, and wrassling titan Linda McMahon. Bad as he is, nothing good would come from Trump croaking -- even if a missile or plane crash took out the first six successors.

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#politics #rage #ignorant #despot #incompetent #kleptocracy #kakistocracy #fascist #coup

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Skies on bluesky. #skies #nature #art #beauty #creator

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#insinuation Or as Mayor Daley used to say, "I resent those insinuendos?

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#memories #memory #fading #acceptance Those that matter...

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#Reality is up

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I wake up around 7:30 each morning, eager to get started on my day. Now if I can just get out of bed... #old

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#directions #memory #forgetting #pride

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For a short time, thousand-foot ships carrying 20,000 cargo containers have stopped arriving in American ports. Do we really need all this stuff? #imports #China #stuff #trade #goods #Amazon #ConsumerEconomy #buying #ordering #OnlineShopping #shopping #retail #ChristmasSeason #credit #SavingsRate

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My garden is more interesting than my studio, because what happens in the garden, from day to day, is more than I can achieve in a lifetime in the studio...

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#argue #argument #arguing #winning What does it mean to "win" an argument?

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#MidlifeCrisis

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"yaketty-yak, don't look back" #watching #listening #HumanNature

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5/5/25 Thought of Demuth's painting, "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold" based on, “The Great Figure,” by William Carlos William's poem: Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city

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#existence #indigestion #regrets #hot! #spicy! #MixedBlessing

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The number might now be much too small! #college #fees #degrees Is that really a TRILLION in outstanding student loans???

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#sleep #awake #sleepwalkers

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"Man plans -- God laughs." -- God

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The governement can improve the military by spending and research -- but improving the strategic position is nearly impossible because territory and borders are fixed, and advances in technology are soon copied and countered.

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At this moment there is a foundation. #anxiety #basis #foundation

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