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Gerard Harbison

@gerardharbison.bsky.social

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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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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 1h

“real scientists have a healthy respect for the unknown”

I particularly love it when an engineer tells me how a real scientist behaves.

I taught little freshman engineers for 35 years. If they are as intelligent as they are arrogant, the world would be a safer place.

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 4h

Yes. This article is just a tiresome rehash of “denialism’s greatest hits”. I would have hope even conservatives had gotten beyond this.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 5h

Or maybe just drunk?

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 5h

That’s the ticket!

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 5h

I was scared to open a lot of the volumes. Old paper, if it wasn’t acid free, just disintegrates.

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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 1d

A Look Inside #Europe’s Most Enchanting #Libraries by Photographer Thibaud Poirier #photography #booklover

Link for more: www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/06/ench...

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 5h

Alas, the science libraries weren’t nearly so nice. They never are.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 5h

‘Accidentally’.

Man up, Councillor. Yiz were flutered.

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 5h

Yes. But McArdle is at least lucidly wrong. Thiessen is like being clubbed over the head after drinking a quart of cheap sherry

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Steve Morgan @steveve.bsky.social · 1d

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 5h

I wonder has it any liberal readers left? I unsubscribed a year ago.Almost everyone I know has also unsubscribed.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 7h

There were mustard burns on the ICE guy’s clothes!

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 1d

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,

A goodly apple rotten at the heart.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 1d

I love the smell of blasphemy in the morning. It smells like brimstone.

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 3d

Everything Trump touches, dies.

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover

Nearly nine months into Trump’s oversight, sales for the three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.

www.washingtonpost.com

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 5d

He knew the war was wrong. But he joined up and went to Iraq anyway.

“ I might have read too much Hemingway” is his excuse, and it won’t do.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 7d

A bit derivative of a Corona beer commercial. Ha ha, fooled them, I’ drinking Presidente.

View from our balcony, Tahiti beach, Sint Maarten.

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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 7d

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

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 7d

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)

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 7d

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

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 7d

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.

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 8d

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

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 8d

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

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 8d

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!

Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 9d

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