The Dread Poet Michael
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Had a fairly interesting life, did some stuff, went some cool places, made some things, and now I'm old.
Funny how that works...
Live naked!
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Funny how that works...
Live naked!
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Slava Ukraini!
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FWIW this feed is full of photography, art, nature, science, philosophy, humor, poetry, and general weirdness, interspersed with my "stream" of consciousness
You *might* want to bring along a life jacket 😳
You *might* want to bring along a life jacket 😳
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I was fortunate enough to have successfully bred a pair of Orchid mantises. This nymph was one of their offspring, which I sold along with the hundreds of others. 🍀💲
#naturephotography #nature #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #prayingmantis #insects #eastcoastkin #photography
#naturephotography #nature #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #prayingmantis #insects #eastcoastkin #photography
January 13, 2026 at 2:14 PM
I was fortunate enough to have successfully bred a pair of Orchid mantises. This nymph was one of their offspring, which I sold along with the hundreds of others. 🍀💲
#naturephotography #nature #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #prayingmantis #insects #eastcoastkin #photography
#naturephotography #nature #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #prayingmantis #insects #eastcoastkin #photography
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The ACLU dropped its lawsuit against the Trump admin today after HHS quietly restored tens of millions in family planning funds to Planned Parenthood and other health clinics at the end of December.
Lawsuit dismissed after Trump admin quietly restored tens of millions to Planned Parenthood
Progressive groups dropped their case against HHS over the withheld family planning funds, but other challenges continue.
www.politico.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:12 PM
The ACLU dropped its lawsuit against the Trump admin today after HHS quietly restored tens of millions in family planning funds to Planned Parenthood and other health clinics at the end of December.
It appears I'm not the only politically-minded person who's not on here much
Feels a bit empty here to be honest
Feels a bit empty here to be honest
January 13, 2026 at 4:39 PM
It appears I'm not the only politically-minded person who's not on here much
Feels a bit empty here to be honest
Feels a bit empty here to be honest
This whole issue needs to be addressed honestly and in good faith
But in America now we just ban things and hurt people
But in America now we just ban things and hurt people
Hartnett: the testosterone *is* the advantage (so once you control for that, their entire argument should fall apart)
January 13, 2026 at 4:37 PM
This whole issue needs to be addressed honestly and in good faith
But in America now we just ban things and hurt people
But in America now we just ban things and hurt people
My second wife has serious and painful condition and can not even get in for the scan needed to diagnose and won't until the end of this month
Which will be about two months after she sought treatment
#LuigiWasRight
Which will be about two months after she sought treatment
#LuigiWasRight
January 13, 2026 at 4:34 PM
My second wife has serious and painful condition and can not even get in for the scan needed to diagnose and won't until the end of this month
Which will be about two months after she sought treatment
#LuigiWasRight
Which will be about two months after she sought treatment
#LuigiWasRight
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For the last 100 years, the US has been involved in a regime change in Latin America every 28 months on average. The “Donroe Doctrine” is not a new thing. But Trump knows nothing about history.
revista.drclas.harvard.edu/united-state...
revista.drclas.harvard.edu/united-state...
United States Interventions
In the slightly less than a hundred years from 1898 to 1994, the U.S. government has intervened successfully to change governments in Latin America a total of at least 41 times...
revista.drclas.harvard.edu
January 11, 2026 at 12:46 AM
For the last 100 years, the US has been involved in a regime change in Latin America every 28 months on average. The “Donroe Doctrine” is not a new thing. But Trump knows nothing about history.
revista.drclas.harvard.edu/united-state...
revista.drclas.harvard.edu/united-state...
Since I gave up streaming (Amazon) I'm watching a lot of local sub-channels
Even with a DVR the advertising is brutal - massive social engineering just to suck more money out of us peons
Not an accident it's being shoved into every available space because it's also about *control*
Turn it off
Even with a DVR the advertising is brutal - massive social engineering just to suck more money out of us peons
Not an accident it's being shoved into every available space because it's also about *control*
Turn it off
January 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Since I gave up streaming (Amazon) I'm watching a lot of local sub-channels
Even with a DVR the advertising is brutal - massive social engineering just to suck more money out of us peons
Not an accident it's being shoved into every available space because it's also about *control*
Turn it off
Even with a DVR the advertising is brutal - massive social engineering just to suck more money out of us peons
Not an accident it's being shoved into every available space because it's also about *control*
Turn it off
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the one silver lining of Bari’s tenure at CBS is that she is Very Online and she knows exactly how much we mock everything she does
keep it up, folks
keep it up, folks
Sources: Bari Weiss has privately been deeply frustrated by the negative reaction to her CBS tenure and has blamed subordinates for not stanching the criticism (New York Times)
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Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
January 13, 2026 at 3:45 PM
the one silver lining of Bari’s tenure at CBS is that she is Very Online and she knows exactly how much we mock everything she does
keep it up, folks
keep it up, folks
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Omg they confuse themselves...no wonder things are a mess, right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing😵💫
January 13, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Omg they confuse themselves...no wonder things are a mess, right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing😵💫
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This approach combines 3D printing, silicone molding and a UV-curable clear resin to fabricate lenses for super-resolution imaging: https://bit.ly/4jzmgOw
Each lens costs less than USD1 to produce, which could broaden access to fully customizable optical parts and enable new imaging tools.
🧪 💡
Each lens costs less than USD1 to produce, which could broaden access to fully customizable optical parts and enable new imaging tools.
🧪 💡
January 13, 2026 at 3:59 PM
This approach combines 3D printing, silicone molding and a UV-curable clear resin to fabricate lenses for super-resolution imaging: https://bit.ly/4jzmgOw
Each lens costs less than USD1 to produce, which could broaden access to fully customizable optical parts and enable new imaging tools.
🧪 💡
Each lens costs less than USD1 to produce, which could broaden access to fully customizable optical parts and enable new imaging tools.
🧪 💡
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KBJ is saying they're setting up new barriers to as-applied challenges.
This is important because the Republicans have already made it hard to make facial challenges to laws. If they make it harder to bring as-applied challenges, guess what, there's no way to challenge red-state laws.
This is important because the Republicans have already made it hard to make facial challenges to laws. If they make it harder to bring as-applied challenges, guess what, there's no way to challenge red-state laws.
January 13, 2026 at 4:13 PM
KBJ is saying they're setting up new barriers to as-applied challenges.
This is important because the Republicans have already made it hard to make facial challenges to laws. If they make it harder to bring as-applied challenges, guess what, there's no way to challenge red-state laws.
This is important because the Republicans have already made it hard to make facial challenges to laws. If they make it harder to bring as-applied challenges, guess what, there's no way to challenge red-state laws.
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For today's horribles: the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on banning trans athletes. It's the most bigoted thing they'll do this term. I'll be jotting down my thoughts here.
January 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
For today's horribles: the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on banning trans athletes. It's the most bigoted thing they'll do this term. I'll be jotting down my thoughts here.
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This was a very interesting read:
An untold story in biology: the historical continuity of evolutionary ideas of Muslim scholars from the 8th century to Darwin's time 🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
An untold story in biology: the historical continuity of evolutionary ideas of Muslim scholars from the 8th century to Darwin's time 🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
January 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This was a very interesting read:
An untold story in biology: the historical continuity of evolutionary ideas of Muslim scholars from the 8th century to Darwin's time 🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
An untold story in biology: the historical continuity of evolutionary ideas of Muslim scholars from the 8th century to Darwin's time 🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Schlepped back from the British Library today with this. It weighs 1.6kg! If I have to have spinal surgery I’m sending @jonnelledge.bsky.social the bill.
January 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Schlepped back from the British Library today with this. It weighs 1.6kg! If I have to have spinal surgery I’m sending @jonnelledge.bsky.social the bill.
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January 13, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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Godzilla, Daniel Nash
January 13, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Godzilla, Daniel Nash
Endorse x1000
Surveillance devices that a corporation headed by a big supporter of fascism conned Americans into putting all over their houses
Admit you got conned and turn the things off
Surveillance devices that a corporation headed by a big supporter of fascism conned Americans into putting all over their houses
Admit you got conned and turn the things off
January 13, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Endorse x1000
Surveillance devices that a corporation headed by a big supporter of fascism conned Americans into putting all over their houses
Admit you got conned and turn the things off
Surveillance devices that a corporation headed by a big supporter of fascism conned Americans into putting all over their houses
Admit you got conned and turn the things off
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China is now the leading clean energy powerhouse with the West falling behind.
The transition is inevitable; the key question is where and how fast it happens.
I look forward to discussing this in Davos next week at the World Economic Forum, facilitating a live-streamed session on electrostates.
The transition is inevitable; the key question is where and how fast it happens.
I look forward to discussing this in Davos next week at the World Economic Forum, facilitating a live-streamed session on electrostates.
January 13, 2026 at 7:43 AM
China is now the leading clean energy powerhouse with the West falling behind.
The transition is inevitable; the key question is where and how fast it happens.
I look forward to discussing this in Davos next week at the World Economic Forum, facilitating a live-streamed session on electrostates.
The transition is inevitable; the key question is where and how fast it happens.
I look forward to discussing this in Davos next week at the World Economic Forum, facilitating a live-streamed session on electrostates.
I was a freshman at Georgia Tech on a 2-meal-a-day plan so for supper I'd chow down on a chili cheese burger at the Varsity and watch Batman on one of their round-screen color TVs
Still taste the burger (they were intense) even now any time that old show comes to mind LOL
Still taste the burger (they were intense) even now any time that old show comes to mind LOL
An impressively creative & funny show, much like Pee Wee’s Playhouse, with famous guest stars. Eartha Kitt played one of the Catwoman characters, so you know it was dope.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#Batman
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#Batman
The 🇺🇲 American live-action
television series based on the DC Comics character "BATMAN" starring Adam West and Burt Ward first aired #OnThisDay in 1966 on the ABC Network. It ran for 3 seasons producing 120 episodes ending in 1968
📺 20th Century-Fox Television 🦇
television series based on the DC Comics character "BATMAN" starring Adam West and Burt Ward first aired #OnThisDay in 1966 on the ABC Network. It ran for 3 seasons producing 120 episodes ending in 1968
📺 20th Century-Fox Television 🦇
January 13, 2026 at 4:02 PM
I was a freshman at Georgia Tech on a 2-meal-a-day plan so for supper I'd chow down on a chili cheese burger at the Varsity and watch Batman on one of their round-screen color TVs
Still taste the burger (they were intense) even now any time that old show comes to mind LOL
Still taste the burger (they were intense) even now any time that old show comes to mind LOL
No lies found
You can better understand any political party's position on any issue, by first understanding whose interests they are trying to protect.
As a rule of thumb, it's never going to be yours.
As a rule of thumb, it's never going to be yours.
January 13, 2026 at 3:55 PM
No lies found
Iranians hate living in a brutal theocracy enough that the UN says 2,000 of them have died protesting it
Some might say they're making us look like we don't care as long a the lights stay on
Some might say they're making us look like we don't care as long a the lights stay on
I am in awe of the bravery of the Iranian people, who are standing up for their freedom against a brutal regime and decades of authoritarian, theocratic rule.
January 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Iranians hate living in a brutal theocracy enough that the UN says 2,000 of them have died protesting it
Some might say they're making us look like we don't care as long a the lights stay on
Some might say they're making us look like we don't care as long a the lights stay on
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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
If you had any illusions about top Democrats not being compromised...
Their new way to defeat the orange thing is to focus on "affordability"
Not a fascist, Russian backed couup
Not the orange pedophile mob boss in the Oval
"Affordability" in the face of a POTUS supported by Big Corp...+
Their new way to defeat the orange thing is to focus on "affordability"
Not a fascist, Russian backed couup
Not the orange pedophile mob boss in the Oval
"Affordability" in the face of a POTUS supported by Big Corp...+
January 13, 2026 at 3:43 PM
If you had any illusions about top Democrats not being compromised...
Their new way to defeat the orange thing is to focus on "affordability"
Not a fascist, Russian backed couup
Not the orange pedophile mob boss in the Oval
"Affordability" in the face of a POTUS supported by Big Corp...+
Their new way to defeat the orange thing is to focus on "affordability"
Not a fascist, Russian backed couup
Not the orange pedophile mob boss in the Oval
"Affordability" in the face of a POTUS supported by Big Corp...+
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This is a deathblow to Tesla in Europe, where it benefits the least from this deal, while big rivals can open the floodgates:
Tariffs on made-in-China EVs on top of the 10% standard duty:
Tesla: 7.8%
BYD: 17.0%
Geely: 18.8%
BMW: 20.7%
VW: 20.7%
R.I.P. Giga Berlin. 💀
Tariffs on made-in-China EVs on top of the 10% standard duty:
Tesla: 7.8%
BYD: 17.0%
Geely: 18.8%
BMW: 20.7%
VW: 20.7%
R.I.P. Giga Berlin. 💀
January 12, 2026 at 7:12 PM
This is a deathblow to Tesla in Europe, where it benefits the least from this deal, while big rivals can open the floodgates:
Tariffs on made-in-China EVs on top of the 10% standard duty:
Tesla: 7.8%
BYD: 17.0%
Geely: 18.8%
BMW: 20.7%
VW: 20.7%
R.I.P. Giga Berlin. 💀
Tariffs on made-in-China EVs on top of the 10% standard duty:
Tesla: 7.8%
BYD: 17.0%
Geely: 18.8%
BMW: 20.7%
VW: 20.7%
R.I.P. Giga Berlin. 💀