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Photographer, writer, trouble finder. Chasing light, chasing truth. A navigator of oceans and ideas, relentless in pursuit. Endurance in sport, life, and thought … always searching, always seeing.

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Ambrose Bierce, in The Devil’s Dictionary, defined man as “an animal so lost … that he will reproduce with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable Earth… and Canada.” 🇨🇦 True North, strong and multiplying. #literaryhumor

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We call them instincts but they run like scripts, mammalian code beneath the thought. Only through stillness do we glimpse the stage directions, see our role in a drama older than memory, and maybe, step off cue. #neuroscience

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In 1999, we knew virtually nothing about the brain’s microcircuitry. Now, a mouse brain map reveals 84,000 neurons and 500 million synapses in a fragment the size of a poppy seed. This is a significant leap forward.

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Kindness is attention paid. It’s the pause, the eye contact, the full tip left without a second thought. It’s seeing the whole human behind the handoff, and acting for a moment like their time matters as much as yours. Because it does. #MutualAid

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“This is the true joy in life: the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world won’t devote itself to making you happy.” — G.B. Shaw

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When the world feels stable, investments in resilience look like excess—overcautious, inefficient. But when the ground shifts, they reveal their worth: not lost costs, but civilization’s insurance policy. #resilience #riskmanagement #systemsdesign Thanks to Todd Churchill, regenerative rancher.

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The noise began after the third molting cycle, ulular syllables from the compost vat, where the old navigator’s bones were meant to rest inert. Jaleh, half-ink and mostly scar, fed it scraps of language. In return, it taught her how to see distant memories. #vss365 #biopunk

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Beneath the shuddering hospital, on what was once Thanksgiving, they huddled, lungs irritated with nanomist, hearts tethered to old myths. #Joy pulsed in IV drips, state-issued. A girl lit a protein wafer like a candle. The blast above was early. Gratitude, per protocol, was mandatory. #vss365

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If your goal is a smaller US govt, step one is making it unreliable. Break trust at home, so citizens seek private fixes. Break it abroad, so allies hedge elsewhere. Shrunken influence, by design. Not a bug. A blueprint for making a smaller government. #USpolitics #geopolitics #govtrust

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Tariffs function as a form of economic austerity measures, effectively reducing disposable income by increasing the cost of imported goods. This leads households to allocate more funds to basic necessities, curtailing discretionary spending and potentially slowing economic growth.

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An embattled U.S. administration might view a conflict with Iran as a means to divert attention from domestic issues, leveraging the ’rally ‘round the flag’ effect to boost public support. However, such a move carries significant risks, including more economic instability and regional turmoil.

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America’s debt is held by nations that could become adversaries. In conflict, debt repayment to enemy creditors halts, leading to defaults. This disrupts financial markets and may devalue the debtor’s currency, complicating war financing. Economic interdependence becomes a vulnerability.

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Tariffs surge, alliances realign. Nations bolster local industries, shedding weaker ties for strategic partnerships. In 5-10 years, could we witness a U.S.-Russia alignment countering China? The global chessboard is in flux. #Geopolitics #TradeWars #GlobalStrategy

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He sipped synthchai on the bridge, stars crawling like contrition across the void. “We misprized #time,” he said fifteen generations in, halfway there. “We chased divinity, we maintain entropy.” The ship replied, dryly: “Incorrect. You are the entropy.” He laughed. Then wept. Then laughed. #vss365

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