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Beyond people and capabilities, NOAA is deleting a huge number of datasets, even for coastal and estuarine bathymetry, oceanic sediments, and a US list of thermal (geothermal) hot springs. Forget anything climate-related. The orange is inflicting domestic and global damage.

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Oh hey, you want another? Have another ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ....

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Guess what, asshole. I am autistic, have a fucking PhD, and have been married for over 20 years. Fix your heart or die.

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More and more it seems very clear to me: Fascism is less a political phenomenon, and far more an emergent one, a thing that arises from certain conditions and materials. If the right intersection of requirements and conditions coexist, we get flame, or vapor, or fascism.

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Just saw the term "simulated reasoning" and want now to bleach my brain to remove it from my head.

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Today I got to visit one of my favorite people (who is a cat)

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And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

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On this day 250 years ago, Paul Revere road to Concord, MA to warn them of impending British troop movements, and advising to remove the stores located there, including several cannon. Two days later, his famous ride would warn that those redcoats were on the march.

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I wouldn’t be surprised if they start sending homeless people to El Salvador. It seems like the only thing mildly restraining them right now is people having some social standing in their communities

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15 APRIL 1775, NEW YORK: Patriot leader Isaac Sears is arrested for denouncing merchants doing business with the redcoats, but a crowd of his supporters intercept his captors at the entrance to the jail and liberate him, parading him through the streets as a hero.

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Angry at Harvard for doing something to make me respect Harvard.

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Anne Frank's diary just got removed from a number of libraries, so hopefully most adults understand the importance and implications of having this discussion now.

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Thinking about John Brown.

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Traumatized by Rikki-Tikki-Tavvy: A Survivor's Tale

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Members of Congress in the House will finally act right around the time all of us are in the camps.

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Pretty sure I just heard a British commentator on BBC news say that what's happening now is "what the American people voted for," and folks whoever that woman is you shouldn't listen to her about American politics because she doesn't know what she's talking about.

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When I was in my 20s and reading too much science fiction and blissfully unaware of the stakes or scales at which things work, I wanted something like this very much. Now, at 56, I intend to spend the rest of my life fighting against and working to remain unencumbered by such monstrous wrongs.

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I wonder what those brave people would make of us, were they to see us watching it all slip away.

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Setting the stage for the events of the 19th - the Battles of Lexington and Concord - and the first large scale fighting between redcoats and American militia on the road between Boston and Concord. 250th anniversary of these events this week.

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Two hundred fifty years ago this week, colonists in Massachusetts were nearing the first open warfare against tyrannical British rule (Battles of Lexington & Concord anniversary is Saturday). While we, now, watch it all unravel in the absence of leadership.

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Nothing says freedom like the Soviet-style g̶r̶a̶i̶n̶ deportation targets, ideological commissars, and Mao/NK-style idolatry

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The Korean parliament vowed to impeach their president EVERY WEEK until his party either stopped protecting him or the guy resigned in disgrace. No other business could proceed until they got rid of the attempted dictator.

Beyond people and capabilities, NOAA is deleting a huge number of datasets, even for coastal and estuarine bathymetry, oceanic sediments, and a US list of thermal (geothermal) hot springs. Forget anything climate-related. The orange is inflicting domestic and global damage.

Oh hey, you want another? Have another ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ....

Guess what, asshole. I am autistic, have a fucking PhD, and have been married for over 20 years. Fix your heart or die.

More and more it seems very clear to me: Fascism is less a political phenomenon, and far more an emergent one, a thing that arises from certain conditions and materials. If the right intersection of requirements and conditions coexist, we get flame, or vapor, or fascism.

Just saw the term "simulated reasoning" and want now to bleach my brain to remove it from my head.

Today I got to visit one of my favorite people (who is a cat)

And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

On this day 250 years ago, Paul Revere road to Concord, MA to warn them of impending British troop movements, and advising to remove the stores located there, including several cannon. Two days later, his famous ride would warn that those redcoats were on the march.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they start sending homeless people to El Salvador. It seems like the only thing mildly restraining them right now is people having some social standing in their communities

15 APRIL 1775, NEW YORK: Patriot leader Isaac Sears is arrested for denouncing merchants doing business with the redcoats, but a crowd of his supporters intercept his captors at the entrance to the jail and liberate him, parading him through the streets as a hero.

Angry at Harvard for doing something to make me respect Harvard.

Anne Frank's diary just got removed from a number of libraries, so hopefully most adults understand the importance and implications of having this discussion now.

Thinking about John Brown.

Traumatized by Rikki-Tikki-Tavvy: A Survivor's Tale

Members of Congress in the House will finally act right around the time all of us are in the camps.

Pretty sure I just heard a British commentator on BBC news say that what's happening now is "what the American people voted for," and folks whoever that woman is you shouldn't listen to her about American politics because she doesn't know what she's talking about.

When I was in my 20s and reading too much science fiction and blissfully unaware of the stakes or scales at which things work, I wanted something like this very much. Now, at 56, I intend to spend the rest of my life fighting against and working to remain unencumbered by such monstrous wrongs.

I wonder what those brave people would make of us, were they to see us watching it all slip away.

Setting the stage for the events of the 19th - the Battles of Lexington and Concord - and the first large scale fighting between redcoats and American militia on the road between Boston and Concord. 250th anniversary of these events this week.

Two hundred fifty years ago this week, colonists in Massachusetts were nearing the first open warfare against tyrannical British rule (Battles of Lexington & Concord anniversary is Saturday). While we, now, watch it all unravel in the absence of leadership.

Nothing says freedom like the Soviet-style g̶r̶a̶i̶n̶ deportation targets, ideological commissars, and Mao/NK-style idolatry

The Korean parliament vowed to impeach their president EVERY WEEK until his party either stopped protecting him or the guy resigned in disgrace. No other business could proceed until they got rid of the attempted dictator.

So what are we going to do about it?

Certainly worth repeating in the times we are in..