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5-7 books to something something about me? Good Lord. Um...

Okay, "A Wrinkle in Time", that's like a free space.

Thaddeus Golas, "A Lazy Man's Guide To Enlightenment".

Robinson, "A Short, Sharp Shock".

Me, "All Reality" (docs.google.com/document/d/1KH)

Ram Dass, "Be Here Now"

I don't know! Maybe Morick (ed) "Challenges to Empiricism".

Ooh how about Abbott's "Flatland"?

"Principia Discordia" of course.

Darn, that's eight already, and I haven't listed "The Wind in the Willows" yet, which should probably have been first.

And lots more!!

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Bachelor's degree in from Princeton, 1981, which makes me ?good at ?discussion?.

(for the US) , in that I think power should be more fairly distributed than it is now,.

Master's in from Pace, 1985ish; professional for like 40 years, mostly for and now for (all opinions strictly my own, of course, not theirs!), mostly on the side. and anything else really, they're just languages. :)

Greatly enjoy , and I've done a number of novels (working on the dozenth in 2022). Have also greatly enjoyed playing with .

I have no visual skills, but lately I've been producing thousands of images using and a few with other text-to-image tools. The future is wild!

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I think the first two years of college should be free, student loans should be at 0% interest and available to anyone who needs one, we should take care of our veterans, we should have free public transportation, the post office is not a business and should not be run like one, healthcare is a right

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Absolutely insane that every vote is a squeaker, and literally no one wants this bill but they don’t wanna get primaried. This bill is insane trash and will make everyone’s life worse except mine. And I don’t want the tax break. I want to pay for kids meals and Headstart with my taxes.

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"The Other Side Of The #COIN: Counterinsurgency And Community Policing by Kristian Williams

"This essay outlines the current counterinsurgency model, with an emphasis on its domestic application in the United States. It shows that many contemporary counterinsurgency practices were developed by police agencies inside the U.S., and illustrates the transfer of theory, strategy, and technique from domestic police to the military- and back."
Index page interfacejournal.net/2011/05/i #ACAB #AmericanGestapo

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And now we are getting close to having the world‘s first trillionaire. That’s just nuts. Good for you, you won capitalism, and we all forgotten what an 80% marginal tax rate looks like? We had one under a republican president and the world did not end

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An avoidance strategy I've noticed more lately is people losing sight of what is in their control & only focusing on atrocities that arent in their control (or, only very minimally so).

The atrocities matter.

Combating learned helplessness also matters.

Do what you can, where you can, within reason.

"What are you crying for? You're tall, I like that; you have long hands which all but obey your will; why aren't you happy about it? Always wear dark cuffs, that's my advice. -No-I flatter you and yet you cry? I think you cope quite sensibly with the difficulty of living."

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Me reading: *ok this sounds like a nice combination of flavours*
Me getting to the final sentence: Wait?! What?!

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Elon Musk perfectly laying out the case against privatization in a single tweet

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Get ICE the fuck out of Los Angeles. Them, alongside the National Guard, coming here to disrupt our city to cause bedlam and chaos in an attempt to rip people from their homes and lives is a disgrace

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A new class of materials that passively harvests #water from the air.
Because science.
From a project funded by the US National Science Foundation.

science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv

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Thing about donating Bibles to a homeless shelter is - we already have them. Shelters get Bibles all the time. Once in a while, somebody picks one up. If you want to donate something that will help, check the shelter website. They might have a list of stuff they need. Socks and hygiene items are always useful.

If you *really* want to help the homeless, destroy capitalism.

Even an empty cup is right twice a day.

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