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Web/database developer, car-free train lover/transit nerd, Unitarian choir singer, soon-to-be retiree. Gay gay gay gay gay.
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trash talk 💜

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“I want to dwell briefly on another line from Larkin’s poem: ‘Our children will not know it’s a different country.’ The damage being done, the scope of the cruelty and tragedy, is hard to take in. It is the sort of stain that should be remembered. Will it be?” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-wont-kn...

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Here's a way to spend less money on driving: drive less. wtop.com/maryland/202...

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Great video, Fred! (And you almost pronounced Susquehanna correctly!) youtu.be/6yLzfNTrULg

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"So, in a sense, the entire country, including the railroad industry, is suffering from a sort of 'Long COVID' that carriers over from the original pandemic, even if the main symptoms today are fear and uncertainty about something similar happening in the future." www.railwayage.com/news/covid-1...

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submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

They can try to take everything from us but they can't take away how beautiful DC is in the spring.

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Jim isn't entirely right when he tars all Americans with the same brush but he's right about everything else.

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The WPA's Federal Art Project "was a simple idea that expressed a deep sense of American decency and fairness" but now much of the art it produced is at risk because of techbros who have no concept of either decency or fairness. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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Entenmann's chocolate covered donuts are nature's most perfect food because the indestructible waxy coating preserves the tasty yellow cake indefinitely.

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If I had a car I could save so much money buying mega packs of toilet paper. But not nearly as much as I save by not having a car.

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Goals 💖

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What an embarrassment. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/a...

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Standing up for Science this afternoon at the Lincoln Memorial

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Why do women with busty profile pics follow me on here like they used to on Instagram? I'm not rich enough to be a sugar daddy and I'm super gay.

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I honestly don't understand why Zelenskyy wants to strike a deal with a Trump administration that clearly wants Russia to win. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/w...

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Trudeau sounds like an actual leader. Imagine that. youtube.com/live/iTKDEZ7...

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San Francisco is Building Anti-Homeless Streets (and transit). Good work on this one, Adam! youtube.com/watch?v=ztBz...

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JD Vance is a Neville Chamberlain for our time.

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There are days when the bottom just falls out of everything.

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Trump Is Breaking Things We Can’t Just Fix www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...

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It would be insanity for Zelenskyy to strike a deal for protection with the US. Who believes we would honor it when we're allied with Russia now?

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Jeff Bezos Sends Note To Whole Foods Staff Forbidding Criticism Of Grapes

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The online application for Social Security retirement benefits actually doesn't suck. But I'm sure they'll fuck it up with some AI nonsense.

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