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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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James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 20h

I yearn to rave with the Portland massive

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

It's a whole block party vibe over here.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 2d

"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 · 2d

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 · 1d

(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 · 1d

(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 · 1d

(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 · 1d

(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 · 1d

(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 · 2d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 . ''

media.tenor.com

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 5d

#WeAreStillHere

James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 7d

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

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for making me laugh. Much appreciated.

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 16d

dudes rock

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Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 10d

Coates says Black Americans have stories about relatives who were lynched or had to flee and that a life free of political violence is not in reach in his time

Klein:
"Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic."

They lynched a kid last week.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 10d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

www.nytimes.com

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Lauren J. Young @laurenjyoung.bsky.social · 7d

“I think chimpanzees have helped people understand that we are part of and not separated from the animal kingdom, and that has opened the way to having respect for the other amazing beings with whom we share the planet.” —Jane Goodall, @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/jane...

Jane Goodall, Trailblazing Primatologist and Chimpanzee Conservationist, Has Died

The anthropologist was famous for her pioneering research with chimpanzees and her influence on conservation

www.scientificamerican.com

James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 7d

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 7d

Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 8d

James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 8d

Imagine if they had all got up and walked out. They could have really served their country. But as I learned in my time in the military, almost everyone above the rank of Captain was a politician. Expecting a general officer to risk their career for the sake of their country is an impossible dream.