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Lawrence Mar 9, 2025

Going for my last hike of this (winter) season today. It’s been cold this January and February so most weekends have been a bit unappealing. Here are a couple of photos from January - my first hike of winter.

Lawrence Mar 9, 2025

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Simon McGarr Mar 9, 2025

God bless and save you, 8% of Americans who think they can defeat an elephant in a fist fight.

Lawrence Nov 14, 2024

WTF Just Happened Today?Nov 12, 2024

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Lawrence Jun 28, 2024

Jennifer Ouellette Jun 28, 2024

Sonia Sotomayor Is Trying to Warn Us About the Supreme Court’s Dirtiest Open Secret. The case represents, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned in dissent, an unconstitutional “power grab” by the federal judiciary. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/sonia-sotomayor-warns-supreme-court-dirty-secret.html

Sonia Sotomayor Is Trying to Warn Us About the Supreme Court’s Dirtiest Open Secret

The case represents, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned in dissent, an unconstitutional “power grab” by the federal judiciary.

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Lawrence Jun 21, 2024

stux⚡️Jun 20, 2024

Ha! And they say Dutch is a fake language

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Lawrence Jun 17, 2024

@nlowell Just a part of what makes us human I expect. Love your writing by the way!

Lawrence May 8, 2024

Charlie Stross May 8, 2024

I am slightly boggled that this on-the-nose "RFK had a brain worm" piece in the NYT does, indeed, appear to have been published in the New York Times and not, say, The Onion.
https://fedi.andrlik.org/@daniel/112405197183484426