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Bill Reagan

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Retired, old guy attempting to make sense of the world, by looking back a few billion years to understand human psychology. Current interest in the evolution of the psyche making us who we are today. Interested in the sciences, as it's a wonderful world.

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Assuming panpsychism [P] is a thing, we need to work out its appearance in life. For now, let’s call it an instinct, a built in fact of life as a source of behaviors. P would fall in line with other instincts of primordial times from 4.2 billion years ago.

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 3m

Me too! 🤭 I'm just riffing off an article @jhorganism.bsky.social posted this morning. "What if" are countless.

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 5m

Hemingway always comes to mind when thinking of the Spanish war.

Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 4h

¡No pasarán!
El fascismo quiere conquistar Madrid
Madrid será la tumba del fascismo

¡They shall not pass!
Fascism wants to conquer Madrid
Madrid will be the tomb of fascism

📷 Mikhail Koltsov (likely), Calle de Toledo, Madrid, October 1936 (likely) just before the Francoist siege of Madrid began.

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 7m

In another time line, you would have decided not to shower at that moment. Or in another, perhaps the person decided to smoke outside. Or in another, you are fabulously wealthy and stayed at your villa instead.

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 9m

Time to destroy the current system and develop one people centric rather than power centric. Wonder not why history repeats when humanity continues implementing and foisting a horrible system onto the world.

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 47m

Emergencies always happen at the worst time. Coincidence? I think not.

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 54m

Isn't this just the bees knees! Learned something today.

The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 9h

Mackintosh Raincoats #OnThisDay theorkneynews.scot/2025/10/12/m...

Mackintosh Raincoats #OnThisDay

On 12 October 1823, Charles Macintosh, a Scottish chemist began selling his new form of waterproof raincoat. Charles Macintosh was born 29 December 1766 in Glasgow. After studying science under Jos…

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 1h

A lovely article looking at life from a human perspective - Not AI.

The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 8h

Something is always stirring in bookland and one of the places to guess what that ‘something’ might be is Bologna.
Curiouser and curiouser - the changing world of books theorkneynews.scot/2025/10/12/c...

Curiouser and curiouser – the changing world of books

Something is always stirring in bookland and one of the places to guess what that ‘something’ might be is Bologna. The seventh largest city in Italy, the magic of Bologna is, despite its’ siz…

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 1h

I always enjoy John's personal experiences tossed in to make sense of, to struggle with weird ideas.

John Horgan @jhorganism.bsky.social · 2h

I denounce the many worlds theory as "bullshit," and yet part of me suspects it's true. johnhorgan.org/cross-check/...

My Secret Affinity for Many Worlds — John Horgan (The Science Writer)

HOBOKEN, OCTOBER 12, 2025.   I’ve been feeling guilty about my last column, which reports on a shindig called Rat Fest , whose attendees adhere to a philosophy called critical rationalism . I g...

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 1h

No, Kubrick gave the go ahead, but that was it. Clarke did write the book which was used as the basis for the movie - such as it is. Good acting and cinematography, but the attempts at replicating Kubrick in some of the shots, and especially the music, fall flat.

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 1h

Delightful music for the new day. According to some souls, movie music cannot be considered classical. Why not?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y7V...

Andrea & Ennio Morricone - Love Theme From Cinema Paradiso arr. A. Del Sal (Uros Baric - MIDNIGHT)

YouTube video by Uros Baric

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 3h

As some say, correctly, this is where WWII began, and the world sat by, watching, then turning away.

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 3h

Lucky you! Our Neolithic ancestors are shaking their heads at us. 🤭

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 17h

Butchering is such unpleasantness.

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 17h

Nothing cool here, except pondering certain aspects of the universe mirrored in human behavior.

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 17h

Glad Mouse is honest about such things for accuracy.

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 17h

Oh! Yes, yes!

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 17h

LOL! You know others who have done the same?

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Emily Zemler @emilyzemler.bsky.social · 20h

An honor to have written Diane Keaton’s obit for Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 20h

Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning actress known for a prolific career in uplifting comedies, has died at the age of 79. More:
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Diane Keaton, 'Annie Hall' and 'The Godfather' Actress, Dead at 79

Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning actress known for a prolific career in uplifting comedies, has died at the age of 79.

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 21h

They made the sequel anyway.

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 23h

Well, just sleep on it, and you'll forget all about it.

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 23h

Antifa is the best non-existent existent organization in existence.

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 23h

And I thought Shakespeare hard. Hmmm . . .

Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 23h

Yes! People think I'm nuts for chalking it up to the behavior of gods, one in particular, but there is an undeniable recurrent motif through mythology of sleep and forgetfulness. One which hardly seems accidental. Hypnos bids us sleep, and drink of the River Lethe. Who can stand against this god?

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Bill Reagan @billreagan16.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently, we do need constant reminders, because we have lost feelings for the authentic.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1d

One of the great Irish craft supporters is @wemakegood.bsky.social They have some beautiful products, all handmade in Ireland! This puffin is here: wemakegood.ie/products/han...

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