Gary G

@infodoq
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#DurhamNC #Cyclist #DoctorWho Geek Doc
Reformed baseball Dad, #Yankees fan
Duke grad sports fan #DukeBasketball #DukeBase
Amateur artisan baker (rye, pizza) and pit "master" (not)
The people who support $12B in corporate welfare to farms and forgave $80B in auto bailouts and forgave $700B in bank bailouts and forgave $755B in PPP loans want you to know that forgiving medical debt and student debt is socialism😐
@rossgrady - thought I mght see you at the Fuzzy Needle last night for Object Hours and a couple of other bands. What a throwback! I went because I'd seen Object Hours open for Kim Gordon and was blown away; I liked the opening band Ribs. OH was terrific as always, the space is intimate. I didn't stick around for the headliner but wish I could have.
#Mastodon is there to help

Remember the Democrats' "shadow cabinet" that was supposed to be a media-driving counterweight to the Trump regime's team of fascists?

Seems unlikely that even the feckless Democrats who set it up remember it.

https://democrats.org/news/dnc-chair-ken-martin-launches-peoples-cabinet-to-fiercely-counter-trump-administration-chaos-a

DNC Chair Ken Martin Launches ā€œPeople's Cabinetā€ to Fiercely Counter Trump Administration Chaos and Lies - Democrats

Democrats

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I hate a lot of things in this world, and ā€œFeels Likeā€ temperature malarkey is one of them.

I understand what they think they are trying to convey — essentially, it is humid and sunny at the same time, so when I step outside it’s gonna be gross.

But I have lived in the Southern USA for 45 years. If it is July, it is gonna be sunny and humid as fuck. So it ā€œfeels likeā€ exactly what it always feels like.

There is clearly some referent that goes completely unmentioned, and it drives me up the fuckin wall. It ā€œfeels likeā€ 89 WHERE?

Like, 82 in July with 77% humidity in North Carolina feels like exactly that. Are you trying to tell me that it feels like 89 in someplace else, where it is less humid generally? Like, I dunno, Columbus, Ohio? In what world is that useful to me?
"America has been vaccinating people for fifty years. If vaccines caused autism, America would have trains, okay? We would have so many trains." - Jon Allen

I am furiously, flamingly, incandescently, *supernova-levels* of angry right now.

Trump is trying to kill NASA science. And hoo boy, do I have something to say about it.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/trump-threatens-to-eviscerate-nasa-cb96

Trump threatens to eviscerate NASA

The Presidential budget proposal is a death sentence for the space agency

Bad Astronomy Newsletter
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The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved by Hunter S Thompson

Required reading if you’ve never had the pleasure

Edit: CW — I’d forgotten the use of the n-word and other slurs in this piece; be prepared

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hulSdpLW0OQxxBXGpjNh-B3JTYO3AQJ3/view

Hunter S. Thompson - The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.pdf

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