Stu Duerson, machina exo deus

I was 'guy in the chalk outline', formerly 'skydog', in the birdhouse.

B'hammer, WA.

Interested in #science, #politics, #3Dprinting, #arthistory, and just about anything else. I have > 17,000 hrs in an airplane, mostly in seat 0-A. (#aviation)

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2024-11-30 23:00:18 UTC

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General chaos favors the powerful.
That's all it boils down to.

2024-11-30 17:20:24 UTC

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Quite to the contrary, you can see MAGA already coming, violently, for members of Congress, with heated rhetoric targeting people like Vindman. And the key to success is taking down the judicial and police protections around such people, so as to overwhelm them.
We are not in Germany 1932.
We are IN Germany 1933.

2024-11-21 16:15:25 UTC

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I was once at a John Fogerty concert in Deer Valley, and my girlfriend got raving drunk, to the point of needing a toilet to hug. I hauled her into the women's restroom, and sat tending her for the rest of the concert, and of the hundreds of other women that came thru the restroom, not a single one raised an objection that I heard.
Americans have, to put it frankly, totally fucked up views, on average, of gender, sex, and reproductive responsibilities. After living in Europe for a number of years, I would flee here if I could, seeing what's on the horizon, but I'm locked into an evolving medical situation that my Medicare will have to cover, and would be irresponsible to put on someone else's fully socially supported medical system.
We may pull out of this, but I'm giving it single digit chances as I watch the new Administration being stitched together out of "holy" cloth.

2024-11-21 16:02:43 UTC

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My son was just prior to the age of learning to walk, and would approach my 2 yr old Wirehaired Pointing Griffon, Merv, in his walker. If you know WPGs, they have huge hairbrows that sweep over their eyes. One night I noticed Merv flinching just a bit as he was on his side, with my son laying on his belly. Turns out, my son had pulled out almost all the hairs from one brow, which must have been incredibly painful, and the dog was still loving him and allowing the contact.
That dog was kind, gentle dog, yet would go berserk on any stranger approaching my son when we were not in the immediate vicinity. In one instance a meter reader had to fall backwards over a low fence he had just crossed, to get back to safe ground.
Dogs make better people than people, and Merv was one of the best.

2024-11-17 03:19:18 UTC

#MakeASongOrPoemSuperficial
#HashTagGames
The Dent in the Edmund Fitzgerald
America, The Passable Looking

2024-11-04 02:29:50 UTC

#TimeChangeTiredASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames
In the Eleven O'Clock Hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4w0kyYmYVo

2024-11-04 02:24:19 UTC

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I'll buy an 'idiot defense' before I'll accept an 'Ambien defense'. What a tool...and he's still employed. At very least, he needs to be put on a desk, out of public contact.

2024-10-21 16:16:17 UTC

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I'm willing to fight fire with a bit of backburn.
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/113/346/305/893/323/291/original/5634452a5d8a4237.jpg

2024-10-13 01:49:33 UTC

#MakeAMovieUseful
#HashTagGames
Dune My Homework
Don't Get Mad, Max

2024-10-12 16:30:48 UTC

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It smells like butt.
Butt what do I know?

2024-09-11 18:19:06 UTC

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People may have missed it because it was very subtle. But when Harris walked over to Trump's podium to shake his hand, she also scattered a dozen rakes on the ground.

2024-08-08 18:47:15 UTC

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I went to a school where every meal, EVERY MEAL, we had to gather in military formation, before being released to go eat. I know, to the gnat's ass, how big a crowd of 4000 is. And Harris/Walz are drawing multiples of that, every rally now. Larger crowds than Trump.
But that's not really the metric, is it? The metric is in people's living rooms, the dorms, the places of community congregation that have the jello salads and home-baked cakes.

2024-08-04 17:17:14 UTC

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I'll admit to not know the core of the debate in Britian, but the psychological position of the right in the US appears to be the same. On the descent, the right feels its increasing irrelevance to real social issues, and it just escalates their need for dominance. Dominance thru any tool available to them.

2024-07-31 16:17:23 UTC

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I think that when you slam MAGA for being "weird motherfuckers", and they start screaming, "We are NOT weird!", well...then I think you've found exactly the right insult to light them up like a con in the spotlight.

2023-12-28 17:30:12 UTC

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The projection employed by the right is interesting, but what is truly, TRULY shocking is their penchant to blatantly lie. Lies they KNOW are unbelievable.
The evidence is there. Courts are using it to convict the insurrectionists. To date, over 1100 have been charged, >657 have PLED GUILTY, and >380 have been incarcerated.
And the courts ARE using discretion. Only about 40% are receiving time in a cell. For an insurrection, this has been handled with kid gloves. All the Right's histrionics ("DC gulag", etc) are performative, and just makes them all the more.....shall I say it?....
DEPLORABLE.

2023-12-28 16:54:33 UTC

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Hey, maw, lookie! Them tourists is plannin' to play baseball, and go tobogganin'! Ain't this a fun city?