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Inappropriate question asker. Death speaker. Breakable mountain biker. Concert connoisseur. Unbeliever in unfalsifiable claims. One half of "the Bickersons." "I contain multitudes" *Walt Whitman
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Hey @harvard.edu Please, please, please don't CAVE. Figure it out. Maybe get smaller for a time. But, please don't cave to this Admin's demands. Help keep America free, in thought and life!!!

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At least I'm good at a few useful things

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I have been fixated on this album since its release in March. Two of my favorite things combined: space/astronomy/science/philosophy and melodic prog rock. A great lyric "and there with his first telescope, a teenager stands full of hormones and hope." Wasn't that all of us once?

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I can't! I can't, I can't, I can't. I can't!!!

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Finished my taxes, then went riding. Quite a night for it.

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A fetus is always a person when one wants to be judgmental and punitive towards women, but now there's money on the line, so suddenly a fetus ISN'T a person. Isn't that convenient?

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The only time some people get to be treated like human beings is while they are a Fetus. After they're born, they are seen as sub-human and despicable.

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Pretty much... Just make the beard white and there I am.

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My wife and I are planning a trip to San Francisco in September (to see Steven Wilson in concert at his closest-to-Portland tour stop). We've considered flyin, but with the FAA gutted, it's a no-go. We will road-trip, and see the Redwoods (which she's never seen). #aviationincidents

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The sickening thing is knowing there are people who watch this and smile with joy at the suffering of other humans beings.

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Whatever you do, do not eat this computer monitor.

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#BookSky My fiction reading typically includes a lot of "hard sci-fi" and "feel-good" novels. But as I've been binging on the latest Squid album "Cowards" I've read three books that influenced the songwriting--not my typical reads...dark and dystopian. They are:

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