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73 year-old retired guy, didn’t expect to have followers. Joined to continue reading interesting posts from favourite f&sf authors, science writers, and learning new things from other interesting people. Occasional likes, replies, and reposts.
Nick Pettigrew @Nick_Pettigrew Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act. Quote Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63 · Jun 24 Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.
REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
04.11.2025 22:41 — 👍 9269 🔁 2527 💬 149 📌 54‘Democracy and sanity’ is a good phrase. I’ll add contempt and disgust.
05.11.2025 03:03 — 👍 39 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0The latest, 11pm:
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG; & gain in House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win supreme court
—ME vote-restricting measure loses
—Krasner & Bragg win
—JD's half-brother loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
+ Dem are leading to flip so many local offices.
i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
04.11.2025 21:20 — 👍 10088 🔁 1466 💬 266 📌 80Dick Cheney dies, Zohran Mamdani wins, a beaver moon shines in the sky… I just know the Etsy witches have been busy.
05.11.2025 02:20 — 👍 2571 🔁 721 💬 15 📌 14
Teen Vogue's politics section not only took young people — a crucial electorate — seriously, but allowed journalists like me to cover reproductive rights without the damaging and misleading bothsidesism of legacy publications. Another huge loss for media.
www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...
Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.
04.11.2025 20:09 — 👍 3605 🔁 628 💬 59 📌 36He has PTSD
Post traumatic sandwich disassembling.
Trump announces he will refuse to follow the court order to provide SNAP benefits to needy families.
04.11.2025 16:17 — 👍 2158 🔁 815 💬 359 📌 179
Air travel during the Trump administration:
"Photos from Houston's Bush Intercontinental airport show TSA lines at Terminal E extending outside the building and down the sidewalk Sunday night.
At 6:15PM, new photos showed the same long lines hours later..."
www.click2houston.com/news/local/2...
Open defiance of a court order + dissolution of the House = dictatorship.
Dictators don't get voted out.
gregolear.substack.com/p/8647-donal...
Again, really appreciate all the centrist pundits who whitewashed Charlie Kirk's proud legacy of putting teachers in the crosshairs of psychos.
04.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 839 🔁 235 💬 19 📌 5Paterson NJ is ~65% Hispanic,
~20% Black, ~10% white.
I’m sure that’s not at all a coincidence.
Democracy literally dies in bomb threats.
maybe this is cocky of me, but after mastering nebulae (which are not easy whatsoever) I feel can paint anything
04.11.2025 16:19 — 👍 67 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
A Pentagon spokesperson claims that Donald Trump is "restoring the warrior ethos" to the military.
That cowardly draft dodger is doing what?
"exododus"
The New York Post: Come for the shameless propaganda, stay for the embarrassing illiteracy.
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
03.11.2025 22:30 — 👍 29538 🔁 7791 💬 865 📌 508With all these extrajudicial boat murders, we have a president who is not only an adjudicated rapist, but also an unapprehended serial killer.
03.11.2025 20:45 — 👍 17425 🔁 5100 💬 571 📌 217
Rafael Cruz, a man who is afraid to use his own first name because he knows the people who vote for him are xenophobic racists, is stirring up xenophobic racism against another politician because "Ted" is trash.
04.11.2025 18:30 — 👍 2601 🔁 648 💬 174 📌 33
Sounds like today's GOP
03.11.2025 19:18 — 👍 290 🔁 114 💬 13 📌 3Just because a billionaire or some rich person is a marginalized minority doesn't mean y'all should expect them to help others; they will side with capitalism just like any other rich person. Otherwise, they wouldn't be rich.
04.11.2025 02:38 — 👍 79 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0
Deux lauréates pour le prix Verlanger !
Bravo à Katia Lanero Zamora et à Premee Mohamed !
buff.ly/M0JgCZH
#JuliaVerlanger #Prix
Many full time creatives have “invisible safety nets” like bread-winning partners, trust funds, external support, etc. No shame on anyone, but it creates a false vision of success. The cost of going to cons alone on top of hoping to eat as a freelancer are untenable, IMO.
01.11.2025 23:35 — 👍 2579 🔁 685 💬 34 📌 189
books of THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS and WE SPEAK THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN with a red banner reading PRIX JULIA VERLANGER 2025 on a table with other books
HEY
THEY ANNOUNCED THE PRIZE BEFORE THE ACTUAL CEREMONY
LE HOLY CRAP I WON THE JULIA VERLANGER PRIZE
Was having a talk with a writer friend yesterday and reflected on how much of our writing has been a series of warnings. Warnings are a form of grief - an imagination of a better world that is about to be lost. Maybe it’s time to stop warning and start imagining a world after the current horrors.
01.11.2025 07:08 — 👍 112 🔁 19 💬 6 📌 0I’m impressed at how well he avoided smiling.
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I have a lil' idea for a holiday gift for my Patreon that I may not manage to get together but I think I should tryyyyyyy. :)
patreon.com/ce_murphy has LOTS of good loot, and will have more if I get this going! :)
