Ed

@EdCates
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Humanist. Nerd. Introvert. Jaded optimist. Usually cruppish. Server jockey. Dad. World is a fuck. Views are my own.

Profile pic: Man in a gray shirt and green/gray ball cap taking a selfie. His glasses are tinted dark from the sun, and he has a short brown beard.

In the background is a stream, a yellow kayak, and various grasses and trees beyond those. The sky is a brilliant blue with a few fluffy white clouds lazing about.

GenerationX
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Politcs (American)far left
Religionno thanks
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John Brown was born 226 years ago today. An ardent and uncompromising abolitionist, he spent the last years of his life engaged in armed struggle against slavery, first in the Bleeding Kansas struggle, then in the raid on Harper's Ferry, for which he was executed.

"He done more in dying than 100 men would in living.” —Harriett Tubman

As a sports girlie, a sports girlie reared in southern sports, I agree with Ryan Clark 100%. The plantation-style system needs a massive shock. It needs to change.

True story, as an undergrad at UCLA, the Black players called the football field the plantation and the dorm they lived in the projects & that was sunny, lefty LA.

The entire system is broken.

Just my lil opinion.

#BlackVoices

RE: https://norden.social/@wackJackle/116545300444684811

If hating comorbidities was a person.

Tofersen, a New Treatment for A.L.S., Reverses Symptoms for Some

The drug is for a small subset of patients. But evidence that breathing and strength can get better for some of them is remarkable for a paralyzing, usually fatal disease.

The New York Times
Researchers Find Crows Smart Enough Not To Let On How Smart They Really Are https://theonion.com/researchers-find-crows-smart-enough-not-to-let-on-how-s-1844081510/

"Remember that prophecy that some old god would end the world last year?" the guy at the tavern bar laughs. "What happened with that?"

I feel Finna flinch beside me.

"There's no point telling them," I say.

"Well, I didn't kill that old god for their sake."

"Saving the world includes the jerks."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories

I don't want thinner and thinner bevels on my tablets and smartphones. The bevel is where I hold them. No bevel means I'm constantly touching parts of the screen that triggers slide out menus and secondary functions. It's shit engineering.