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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 48m

Dan and Willy Lindner, performing Battle Hymn of the Republic at the 2nd anniversary of the Vermont Forest Cemetery in Roxbury.

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 2h

Cannonball Creek Brewing Company in Golden, CO named "Brewery of the Year" in the 501-1000 barrels/year category at the 2025 Great American Beer Festival. They won a bronze medal for Trump Hands, a "Session India Pale Ale." Here's my 2022 profile on them...

usmanufacturingreport.com/article/cann...

Cannonball Creek Brewing Company - US Manufacturing Report, by Sustainment

General Manager Jason Stengl co-founded a small brewery with big-time recognition among beer judges and industry peers.

usmanufacturingreport.com

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 6d

Wrote an article for the latest Denverse Magazine about the legal peculiarities of mescaline in Colorado, given our statewide decriminalization of plant medicines...

To subscribe to the magazine:
denversemagazine.com

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 3d

🧵Article on Omer C. Stewart in the Rocky Mountain News, 10/21/48. Stewart was an undercover agent during WWII, a professor of anthropology, the author of the book Peyote Religion, and a non-native member of the Native American Church...

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 6h

Plane View...

Couldn't drive into hills to see the fall aspens, but here are yellow stands of trees from sky.

Reflection of sun on top of clouds--not through the clouds.

River in Wyoming.

Mount Hood holding back clouds.

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 6h

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Obamacare Enrollment by State: Most Enrollees Live in Republican Areas (Gift Article)

Millions of Americans depend on Obamacare. Here's where they live.

www.nytimes.com

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 20h

Heavy rain fizzles,
Heavy rain begins again.
Heavy rain hijinks.

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 1d

Glad you checked it out.

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 1d

🧵“Dr. Timothy Leary, high priest of LSD, talks with Mana Pardeahtan, Apache who was recently acquitted on drug charges [in Denver] on grounds that his use of peyote was part of the religious rites of the Native American Church.” Rocky Mountain News, 9/5/67...

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 1d

Henry S. Rosenthal (aka Hank Rank of CRIME) sitting at James Brown's desk, once located within King Records in Cincinnati. From my Please Kill Me interview with Rosenthal...

pleasekillme.com/henry-rosent...

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 1d

🧵“Dr. Timothy Leary, high priest of LSD, talks with Mana Pardeahtan, Apache who was recently acquitted on drug charges [in Denver] on grounds that his use of peyote was part of the religious rites of the Native American Church.” Rocky Mountain News, 9/5/67...

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 1d

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 1d

Kerouac and Cassady in Denver...

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 1d

Nice framing!

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MosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 1d

The landmark report traces the history of “excited delirium,” its baseless scientific underpinnings and roots in anti-Black racism, and the profound harms caused by the continued use of the pseudoscientific phrase.

“Excited Delirium” – Often Cited as Cause of Death in Fatal Police Encounters – Is Scientifically Meaningless: PHR Report - PHR

A new investigation published today by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) finds that “excited delirium” – often cited as a cause of death in fatal encounters with law enforcement – is not a valid medic...

phr.org

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 1d

What is a Waffle Maker?

Dave Marin @dwm58.bsky.social · 1d

Warren Zevon Jeopardy question just now

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 1d

Listened to some of show here. Enjoyed first set. Udder. Protocultura.

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Golden Brown @goldenbrownmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Listen to Ron Miles ♥️

Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social · 2d

5 years ago today in 2020, the wonderful cornetist & composer Ron Miles released his Blue Note debut "Rainbow Sign," a sublime album featuring Ron's deeply affecting originals performed by an incredible band with Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Thomas Morgan & Brian Blade: ronmiles.lnk.to/RainbowSign

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 2d

🧵Peer-reviewed papers co-written by Paul Z. Simons on harm reduction work in Denver:

www.researchgate.net/scientific-c...

Paul z. Simons's research works | Denver Health and Hospital Authority and other places

Paul z. Simons's 3 research works with 105 citations, including: Increasing the use of bleach and condoms among injecting drug users in Denver: Outcomes of a targeted, community-level HIV prevention p...

www.researchgate.net

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 2d

🧵Article I wrote for the Harm Reduction Coalition's newsletter. We co-hosted an important regional conference together in Denver:

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 2d

🧵Dave Purchase obit in New York Times (gift article/free read)...

www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/u...

Dave Purchase Dies at 73; Led Early Needle Exchange (Published 2013)

www.nytimes.com

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 2d

Late '90s: syringe-exchange pioneer Paul Z. Simons hired me at his Denver non-profit PEERS, which co-hosted a harm reduction conference attended by several state health departments. There, I met heavies like Dave Purchase, Dan Bigg, & @percyrhode.bsky.social. Great job/cause/times...(See replies.)