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James Goetsch

@profjrg.bsky.social

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Retired Professor of Philosophy. Author, Vico's Axioms:The Geometry of the Human World "Evils are many and good things are few" (Plato). Corollary: Goodness is real.

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Ian Fortified with Sexy (but spooky) Vitamins @ianfortey.bsky.social · 11h

I hope by the end of the month the only thing any news network can show of Portland is footage of masked men in body armor with automatic weapons facing down a magical army of giant, puffy animal people armed with fans and awkward dance moves.

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 13h

This is awesome.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 11h

Portland isn't burning, it's lit

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 13h

This is awesome.

James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 14h

"We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one'. We forget we still have to make a study of 'and'. (A.S. Eddington)

This is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1d

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 2d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 1d

Cowabunga, dude.

James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 2d

For just one second let your mind shake at the horror.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

I yearn to rave with the Portland massive

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 3d

It's a whole block party vibe over here.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 4d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Mayhem RN @mayhem1994.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t let them feel comfortable bsky.app/profile/mayh...

Mayhem RN @mayhem1994.bsky.social · Aug 26

How ironic, ICE doesn’t like when random strangers come up to them in public aggressively asking for papers and to ID themselves? Woman are holding it down

James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 3d

(5) Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt.

James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 3d

(4) but its defective and imperfect construction puts it in their power to perpetrate the worst of mischiefs, should they be bad men. Would not all the world . . . blame our distracted folly in resting our rights upon the contingency of our rulers being good or bad?

James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 3d

(3) Where are your checks in this government? Your strongholds will be in the hands of your enemies. It is on a supposition that your American governors shall be honest, that all the good qualities of this government are founded;

James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 3d

(2) Your President may easily become king. Your Senate is so imperfectly constructed that your dearest rights may be sacrificed by what may be a small minority; and a very small minority may continue forever unchangeably this government, although horridly defective.

James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 3d

(1) Man, Patrick Henry really saw it coming:

"This Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other deformities, it has an awful squinting; it squints towards monarchy . . .

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 6d

Influencers? Meanest thou the three Fates who weave, measure, and cut the whispere-thin yet iron-strong threades that bynde togethir all of spacetyme and that spelle out, yn sorcerous glyphs unreadable to any save the three, everyethinge that ys, was, or will be? Aye, Ich knowe of influencers.

James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 6d

I always watch each episode in parts: one day for the signature, next day the technical, third day the showstopper. Gotta space it out to make the good feelings last longer.

James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 6d

a man in a captain america uniform is sitting in a room and saying `` i understand that reference . ''

ALT: a man in a captain america uniform is sitting in a room and saying `` i understand that reference . ''

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 6d

Texas and California added more clean power capacity in 2024 than the next 30 US states combined. In California, two Bay Area refineries (around 15% of that state’s capacity) are closing as demand for gasoline falls into permanent decline. buff.ly/lLMyPU3
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California Refineries Close as Gasoline Demand Slips into Permanent Decline - CleanTechnica

California’s refineries are closing not because of regulation, but because gasoline demand is shrinking as EV adoption crosses tipping points.

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MeidasE @ericpere.bsky.social · 7d

#WeAreStillHere

James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 7d

Do you have any influence with the Illinois State Police? Are you, perhaps, in charge of them in some way? Or are they totally out of your control? Until you explain what is going on with the state police, how can we trust a single thing you say?

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 9d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off