Tom Hirtons
mjosephjordan.bsky.social
Tom Hirtons
@mjosephjordan.bsky.social
Aging ungraciously
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Vaccines save lives. Period.
September 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I know it's beloved, but the Parent Trap had an insane concept.
June 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Corndogs are the working man's Beef Wellington.
June 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Streaming platforms should intuitively know that there is no scenario in which I want to listen to "Big Yellow Taxi".
May 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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ChatGPT ass presidency
Incredible. The Trump administration calculated "tariff rates" by taking the US trade deficit with the respective country and dividing it by the country's exports to the US. And then the tariff rate of the US is often just set by cutting that made-up "tariff rate" in half.
April 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Garth Hudson, founder member of the Band and Bob Dylan collaborator, dies aged 87
Garth Hudson, founder member of the Band and Bob Dylan collaborator, dies aged 87
Hudson was the last remaining member of the folk-rock group, releasing 10 studio albums with them and touring with Dylan in his newfound electric period Garth Hudson, the last remaining founder member of the Band, has died aged 87. The…
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID
Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.
www.pbs.org
January 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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A toothy toadstool. A vegetarian piranha with a distinctive mark. And a pygmy pipehorse floating in the Indian Ocean shallows.

Researchers identified hundreds of new species in 2024, expanding our surprisingly limited knowledge of Earth's biodiversity.
Scientists have identified an estimated 10% of all species on Earth. Here’s what they found in 2024 | CNN
Researchers identified hundreds of new species in 2024, expanding our knowledge of Earth’s startling biodiversity.
cnn.it
December 31, 2024 at 6:52 PM
What exactly do I call a post on blue sky. Is it just a post? Or does it have a cooler name, like a blueski or something.
December 30, 2024 at 10:04 PM