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Gerard Harbison

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Emeritus Professor of Chemistry. Irish and American; raised in Dublin, though born in England. Happily married (hope my wife feels the same!) Travels, watching birds. Grows plants. Snarks. Lives in Melbourne Beach, on the Atlantic Coast of the stupid state

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Now at MIA: self driving wheelchairs! Unlike Teslas, they haven’t killed anyone yet.

27.10.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I took Jardiance for my A1C.
Woke up up this morning with no pee-pee!
Jardience makes your testes swell.
From diabetes all the way to gangrene hell!

(Google Fournier’s gangrene for details)

27.10.2025 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Florida is chock-full of losers already. We don’t need any more.

27.10.2025 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The guy’s a professional body-builder. That’s not a job. You eat toxic amounts of protein shakes and steroids, and then lift weights for hours a day.

27.10.2025 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hepatitas sounds like a Mexican dish. Liver with chipotle, maybe?

26.10.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aw, altyellowbelly didn’t like being corrected, so they blocked me.

26.10.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thinking of founding a new political party: the Fibbertarians. Because reality is the cruelest tyrant of them all!

Be like our President, and liberate yourselves from the tyranny of truth!

26.10.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations on your mastery of Google. Those are indeed sandhill cranes. But your original image was a great blue heron.

26.10.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s Walter White’s blue meth.

25.10.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Randazza is unhinged.

Now he’ll probably sue me. He’s that unhinged.

25.10.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wondering if the OP has ever seen a crane.

25.10.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Are you sure that isn’t a duck? /s

25.10.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yet another argument for a wealth tax.

25.10.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He protested the Iraq war and then joined up to fight in it. He condemned US military adventurism, then did another tour in Afghanistan, then returned yet another time with Blackwater, all the time claiming disability from PTSD.

He’s a mite too confused for my taste.

24.10.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Heh heh. If they think a United Ireland is bad, wait until Scotland becomes independent and takes all their nukes.

24.10.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, it’s possible.

J = 0.4
F = 0.6
J + F = 1
F > J

(Disclaimer: I bet that’s not what they mean)

24.10.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Irish people should β€œforget the history” with Britain"

Oh yes, they'd like that.

24.10.2025 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A brown anole was hiding in the bowl of my food-processor this morning. This is a very unsafe place for lizards; he might accidentally have contributed to our protein recommended daily intake.

24.10.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lie.

Blocking the troll.

24.10.2025 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They’re all bad ones.

24.10.2025 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They were fighting suffocation.

There is no humane way to kill someone who doesn’t want to die.

There are many reasons to oppose the death penalty. This is one.

24.10.2025 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, I guess my personal first-hand experience counts for nothing then. Aside from being a biophysicist who can tell you why one passes out.

23.10.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s quite vivid. But I’ve inhaled nitrogen. You pass out very quickly, because it’s not like holding your breath. The nitrogen actually strips the oxygen out of your blood via the lungs.

Of course, it’s still inhumane and horrible.

23.10.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And the strain on the floorboards!

23.10.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s lovely. But I’d hate having to transfer my spices to little tubes.

Still, by my reckoning, 40 spices is quite adequate.

23.10.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Looked at his linked-in page. It screams 'scam artist'.

23.10.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He's demented.

23.10.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So you invaded another country. Big whoop.

23.10.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Attacks on Palestinian farmers during West Bank’s olive harvest captured on video Masked Israeli settler is filmed clubbing a 55-year-old Palestinian woman while she was picking olives

Attacks on Palestinian farmers during West Bank’s olive harvest captured on video

23.10.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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23.10.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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