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Gerard Harbison

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Emeritus Professor of Chemistry. Irish and American; raised in Dublin, though born in England. Happily married (hope my wife feels the same!) Travels, watching birds. Grows plants. Snarks. Lives in Melbourne Beach, on the Atlantic Coast of the stupid state

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 2h

Not even the worst thing he’s ever posted.

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 3h

Peter Thiel’s lectures in the Guardian. Loony, meandering nonsense. But also hackneyed, unintelligent, and lacking in the slightest sliver of insight. A great argument for the wealth tax. Should someone this dumb and crazy be allowed such a big chunk of wealth?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 5h

Steven Miller. There’s a guy whose eyes light up at the prospect of carving up another human being!

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 5h

As my wife pointed out, if Trump has the heart of humanitarian, it's because he carved it out of the poor humanitarian's chest.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

White House slams Trump’s perceived Nobel peace prize snub as ‘politics over peace’

President has ‘heart of humanitarian’, spokesperson says after unsuccessful bid for prize amid Gaza ceasefire deal

www.theguardian.com

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 5h

The "Heart of a Humanitarian'. White House laughs keep coming. Did y'all love those humanitarian bombings of fishing boats off the Venezuelan coast?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

White House slams Trump’s perceived Nobel peace prize snub as ‘politics over peace’

President has ‘heart of humanitarian’, spokesperson says after unsuccessful bid for prize amid Gaza ceasefire deal

www.theguardian.com

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe he could bring Homan, Noem and Hegseth. For company, I mean.

The dock can be a very lonely place.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 9h

Trump is actually visiting Walter Reed for a delicate medical procedure. They're going to try to remove the Nobel Peace Prize committee's boot from his ass.

Thoughts and prayers, everyone!

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 9h

His candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize is dead.

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 10h

To quote my mentor on this, Jacob Bigeleisen of SUNY Stony Brook.

"Your mistake is you're assuming he became a Dean because h'es good at something. No! They made him a Dean because he's bad at everything else! Bad at teaching, bad at research, and his colleagues can't stand him"

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 10h

Now I understand why Trump has been blowing up Venezuelan boats. He's been trying to kill the competition for the Nobel Peace Prize!

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 1d

Little hypocrites. Doxing for you, but not for us!

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 1d

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

The most honest name in news.

Every time. 🎯

Headline in The Onion below a large photo of Netanyahu. It reads:
Israel agrees to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 1d

They really don't realize the phrase "the only liberal democracy in the Middle East" will never be used again, except with deep irony.

Israel thinks it can become Sparta; I doubt they've contemplated being the international Satan.

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. I expectantly wait for all those Gazan children to come back to life, and all those buildings to re-assemble themselves.

I do know this; Israel thinks it's over, and will never accept responsibility for the destruction and death. Teflon nation.

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 1d

You're also an anti-catholic bigot?

Figures.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 1d

Someone who calls himself 'spooky chum' thinks I'm superficial.

Oh noes!

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 1d

Dope.

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 1d

You're the one, knowing no arabic, questioning the commonly-understood meaning of Nakba.

But then we've just seen another complete denial of historical fact from you. You're an ideological nutcase, who refuses to believe even what your own side has accepted.

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 1d

Complete denialism.

Morris's paper is detailed and based on Israeli military documents.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

‘Place the material in the wells’: Docs point to Israeli army’s 1948 biological warfare

For Decades, Rumors and Testimonies Swirled About Jewish Troops Sent to Poison Wells in Arab Villages. Now, Researchers Have Located Official Documentation of the ‘Cast Thy Bread’ Operation

www.haaretz.com

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 1d

They were included once, for a short one-year period in Israel's 80 year history, because Laid could not form a government without them.

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 1d

I'll take that as 'no'.

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 1d

It's a matter of historical record. FYI Benny Morris is a Zionist historian.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

‘Cast thy bread’: Israeli biological warfare during the 1948 War

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 1d

They were briefly included in Lapid's short-lived coalition 2021-2022. Otherwise, they have never been included.

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 1d

Uh huh. You fluent in Arabic?