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Gary G Jun 6

mjc0961 Jun 5

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcfadden/116697345353381274

"20 minute front-facing video that doesn't answer the question"

Yup, that's a lot of YouTube these days

Gary G Jun 6

Brian McFadden Jun 5

"Be stupid" is an easier motto to live by than "Don't be evil." https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Gary G May 4

Phil Plait May 4

This may be anti-hot take, but dumping billion of tons of particles into the atmosphere to block the sun is maybe a bad idea, which is why I'm very worried some billionaire will want to do it. Words by me.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/dimming-the-sun-is-probably-a-very-bad-idea

Dimming the sun is probably a very bad idea

Global warming is a massive problem, but let’s not play games with our only planet’s ecosphere

Bad Astronomy Newsletter

Gary G Dec 12, 2025

Qasim Rashid, Esq.Dec 12, 2025

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😐

Gary G Nov 7, 2025

@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.

Gary G Jul 25, 2025

stux⚡️Jul 25, 2025

#Mastodon is there to help

Gary G Jul 14, 2025

Dan Gillmor Jul 13, 2025

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 “People's Cabinet” to Fiercely Counter Trump Administration Chaos and Lies - Democrats

Democrats

Gary G Jul 12, 2025

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Gary G Jul 12, 2025

Ross Grady Jul 12, 2025

I hate a lot of things in this world, and “Feels Like” 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 “feels like” exactly what it always feels like.

There is clearly some referent that goes completely unmentioned, and it drives me up the fuckin wall. It “feels like” 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?

Gary G Jul 5, 2025

mhoye Jul 4, 2025

"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