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Deep thinker, slow processor. Spouse, parent, animal lover. Looking for joy, humor and cat videos.

Will follow #nature, #naturephotography, #sciencefiction, #scifi, #brain, #science, #humor. In a quest for equanimity during a time of transition.

The last two things Elon Musk tried to launch blew up in about 30 seconds.
@dangillmor this new era shows an underlying problem. Traffic laws that are truly about safety are not enforced often enough. Most traffic enforcement today focuses on low effort, low cost violations like speeding on highways and illegal parking. Officers don’t want to go to court to back up, and most speeding violators don’t contest. The cities and states like the easy revenue. But illegal u turns, wrong lane behavior, failure to stop for crosswalk/ambulance is largely ignored.
@NorCal_Lynne @BakerRL75 see the excerpt that I posted. Where is the evidence that this works? I’ve seen so much irresponsible fire fighting behavior living in forest fire territory. They need to be held accountable. Though they do life-saving work, that does not excuse them from accountability. The same holds for other helping professions. If a doctor leaves a sponge in one of every 10 surgery patients, we don’t let him off just because he saves lives.
My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:
@drewharwell the ultimate confirmation bias machines
Rare birds are a winner on Mastodon - so let's see how a rare animal goes. Tasmanian Devils (Sarcophilus) are known for their ferocity - so this one is sitting up and showing how cute they are!
#Photography #NaturePhotography #ThreatenedAnimal #RareAnimal #TasmanianDevil #HealesvilleSanctuary #CaptiveBreeding #Victoria #Australia #CuteDevil #AnimalsOfMastodon

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Comic: Sarah Andersen https://sarahcandersen.com #books #art

Sarah's Scribbles

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I saw this little guy yesterday and I can't stop thinking about him. So round. So pink. #borbs #borb

(It's an Australian pink robin and the photos are not mine.)

Credits:
1. © Deepak Karra http://instagram.com/ravi_arora/
2. © Ravi Arora http://instagram.com/ravi_arora/
3. © Ambika Angela Bone http://instagram.com/ambikangela/
4. © Tim J. Hopwood http://flickr.com/photos/timjhopwood/

Joan Didion on learning not to mistake self-righteousness for morality https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/12/05/joan-didion-on-morality/
Joan Didion on Learning Not to Mistake Self-Righteousness for Morality

“When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something … but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable m…

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