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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer)
@peterjwagner3.bsky.social
Computational Paleobiologist, Lord of Chaos & Entropy, Cubs Fan, Estranged Lover of 🐌 & self-proclaimed Bilbo Baggins of Paleontology. Opinions & sarcasm mine & mine alone, but model-based. I block apologists for the South, MAGA, etc. He/Him.
But if we send in the wild dogs, then the meat won't go to waste.
February 1, 2026 at 4:50 PM
I do feel like the "walked to school in a blizzard uphill both ways" sort explaining 1970s winters to my kid. We never worried about "White XMas": it was "will there be snow already by Thanksgiving" and "will there still be snow on opening day?" And in between: 🥶. But that all changed in the '80s…
January 31, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Congrats: you found the only wring answer!
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 AM
… intensely vivid memories of where they were and what they were doing when they learned about the Shuttle explosion.

But the vast majority of those memories disagreed with their responses from years earlier!

So, was I actually serving lunches in East Quad? Who knows!
January 29, 2026 at 6:12 AM
There was a great study on just this topic initiated by the Challenger explosion. Someone did a big survey shortly afterwards asking people where they were & what they were doing when they heard. Some time later (5 or 10 years), they re-surveyed as many as they could. As predicted, people had…
January 29, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Unbroken time!
January 23, 2026 at 2:32 PM
I’m at the “who’s counting?” point, kind of like “classic rock” band farewell tours…
January 22, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Whereas as I am only back up to 2nd grade in my latest 2nd childhood…
January 22, 2026 at 3:20 PM
That’s because sociopaths always are portrayed as geniuses on TV…
January 22, 2026 at 3:17 PM
That’s kind of coherent for him.
January 21, 2026 at 5:38 AM
The well-regulated militia is supposed to answer to the Federal government in the end. And, let's face it: national guards are filled with people who are on ICE's side.
January 21, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Trump would federalize them immediately.
January 21, 2026 at 2:55 AM
I thought that it only needed room for 144k?
January 20, 2026 at 3:54 AM
I would say that "who ever knows what Michael Stipe was singing (other than Michael Stipe)" but Mike Mills sang that part.
January 20, 2026 at 3:30 AM