Train the trainer. If your only tool is a hammer, you may not be right for the job.

I am a musician and I, too have noticed the trend. "A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?" — Martin Gardner

A villain is a symptom; the system is the cause.

We miss the ecology when we only focus on the monsters. My fiction aims to map the machinery, to see the iceberg and everything hidden beneath the surface, so we can learn how to change it, or outlast it.

Few writers understood systemic friction like Dwayne McDuffie. He found the sublime in the mundane, whether he was writing the cleanup crews of Damage Control or the god-tier stakes of Justice League. He was the Spike Lee of comics. We lost him far too soon. #DwayneMcDuffie #Comics

"Electronic-Eye" surveillance gag image from Duck Dosgers in the 24 1/2 century, Warner Bros, by Chuck Jones.

Same story explored in "The Man Who Used the Universe" by Alan Dean Foster (1983)... before 1984 got real!

Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naïve.
- Niven

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Vintage photos show how American cities looked before the EPA regulated water and air pollution Federal actions like the 1970 Clean Air Act and the 1972 Clean Water Act helped regulate water and air pollution.

What good is the EPA? Two examples: 1 Like fishing? Look at the safety recommendations for eating fish from your local lakes and waterways. Things are much better now than they were in the "good old days." 2 see below.

A living Bosch-like ziggurat? I'm intrigued. What's the soundtrack?

Sharpen the quill and break out the vellum!

2025 Corruption Perceptions Index - Explore United States’s results How does United States measure up in the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index?

Score 64/100. Is this graded on a bell curve? Rank 29/182 countries is pretty good if you're North Korea, but it is the worst score for the USA since the index started. Should we have studied more? www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025/...

The BFG. You know, to compensate.

Why the combination of dementia and reverse mortgages are "good for business."

Would this work? Start. Edit (repeatedly). Finish?

Give me bio-mechanical entropy any day!

May the power of scaffolding compel you!

Beautiful. Makes me think of a fantasy mashup of Narnia and the Alien franchise!

Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History Search, browse and learn about the Federal Register. Federal Register 2.0 is the unofficial daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as e...

Paradox -
A nation confident in itself does not fear complexity.
Strength comes not from purity, but from integration:

Achievement and atrocity
Ideals and failures
Progress and resistance
Enforcing “sanity” through omission admits insecurity.

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Regardless, the call to action is self-accountability. Make sure you, your friends, loved ones & co-workers have updated IDs. Do it now.

Frederick MD Book Arts celebrating George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice & Fire!

"And He Shall Eat The Sun" (Bloodbath Dungeon #2) is completely funded in less than 24 hours! If you like tabletop gaming, & Dethklok or GWAR, then this is for you. Congrats to Dale and all at Duck & Crow!!! kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

Every accusation, a confession.

Yay? At least this one talented person is getting paid for streams on Spotify.

Fart of Darkness

I see the love. The songs you have shared now hold different meanings.

Great Decorations

AND HE SHALL EAT THE SUN An old-school, tournament-style roguelike dungeon-crawl inside of a living god at the end of the world.

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heh-heh. heh-heh. those, uh, nacho socks.

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

Another great book relevant to our times by a man who inspired Gandhi, MLK, Hemingway and others. When you are next near Boston, visit Walden and the reconstruction of his cabin: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71