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Michael
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Clinical social worker. Lego enthusiast. Fellow traveler. Philosophy junkie. Likely consuming coffee somewhere in the galaxy.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The federal government’s “Compact” will put the University of Texas at Austin under political control. Join with Longhorns for Liberty and tell President Jim Davis and the Regents to protect UT Austin’s independence by rejecting the Compact. #hookem

alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/un...
University of Texas: Reject the federal government’s “Compact”
The federal government’s “Compact” will put the University of Texas at Austin under political control. Join with Longhorns for Liberty before the Board of Regents meeting on November 19-20 and tell Pr...
alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The Psychological and Socio-Political Consequences of Infectious Diseases: Authoritarianism, Governance, and Nonzoonotic (Human-to-Human) Infection Transmission | Journal of Social and Political Psychology doi.org/10.5964/jspp...
The Psychological and Socio-Political Consequences of Infectious Diseases: Authoritarianism, Governance, and Nonzoonotic (Human-to-Human) Infection Transmission| Journal of Social and Political Psycho...
doi.org
October 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“For Jung, questions of the spirit were of highest importance. By ‘spirit’ he did not mean the supernatural, but rather those higher aspirations which are so much a part of man’s striving…”

June Singer, “Boundaries of the Soul”
August 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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March 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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I had help on this one lol @ssunshine.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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This is going to kill many public libraries, especially in rural areas. If you use a public library, you will be impacted. #imls is a dust mote in the federal budget. It also provides things like internet at your local library so people can apply for jobs and kids can do homework.
March 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Poet Heinrich Heine: “Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.”

"Those who burn books will in the end burn people.”
Book burning?
If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."
February 2, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
January 30, 2025 at 4:47 AM
January 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Happy MLK Jr. Day, my friends. In 1968, Dr. King spoke the following words, which are equally true today:

"The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around.... But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars."

We must find & feed the points of light.
January 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Meditating on your mortality is only depressing if you miss the point.
January 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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January 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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November 15, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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Breaking News: President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has spread false information about vaccines and publicly contradicted the CDC’s recommendation that communities fluoridate their water, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. nyti.ms/3UREkbK
November 14, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #944,350!
October 9, 2024 at 4:38 AM
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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

this is my favorite quote in the entire series

merry Hogswatch, everyone
December 25, 2023 at 5:03 PM