Paul beard

Pesky statistics ino.to/2wo8hJy "When they are frightened enough, I am sure they will show growth." Like Toad and his seeds? @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social

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I’m reminded of how little I saw of the valiant defenders of the 1st and 2nd amendments during Occupy Wall Street.

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power.” Robert Ingersoll.

Golda Mier responded to a suggestion of a curfew on women, so they won't go out in the evening, that on the contrary, the curfew should be laid on men. I think about that a lot.

One bit of urbanism that caught my imagination and I've always remembered: Design a city that works for women -- where women can move freely & independently, without fear -- and you will have a city that works for everyone.

This is tough. Children struggle to learn that choices have consequences. But the consequences of their choices don’t kill their neighbors. Accountability is valuable. Do those who voted for these consequences regret that?

KEXP amplifier of many years here…not a national treasure but a global one. Expect to hear music of Iran on Wo'Pop this Tuesday night…music is a language we all know and share.

“I could pay half the working class to kill the other half.” Imagine applying for and accepting a job doing whatever this is.

This is the libertarian vibe that some “progressive” cities share…property rights outweigh human rights, so buildings and land are more important than the people who could live in them, rather than on the sidewalk in front of them.

Flag Day is right there…a renamed holiday — Democracy Day? — could be imagined.

“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.” Attributed to cardinal richelieu…

So…just like global heating and nicotine…they knew but creating value for the shareholders took precedence over public health.

"The dictionary definition of sterile is “not able to produce children or young” and children are the canary in the coalmine for what is happening to our cities." Maybe Seattle's leadership will figure this out before the city becomes a theme park for the rich? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fascinating (not really) to see how many holders of well-paid sinecures think this book is dumb and bad without an iota of self-reflection. Step back — way back — and look at the whole picture. Then shut up and look again.

I was open to your critique, especially in the face of purges at the U.S. federal level. However, you merely offer a 90% ad hominem attack of the late author and I discern just one counter argument that "most people are very bad at ascertaining the importance and purpose of their jobs." 1 star.

maybe an obvious idea but in response to the idea of freezing Ukraine's borders where they, what if France or Britain suggested the USA do that in 1863, rather than crushing the rebellion?

austinlouisray.com#/how-id-fix-... This, but for Seattle.

This Gizmo Cuts Plastic Bottles Into Neat Strips ino.to/ZGvyODe This is how you re/upcycle soda bottles into 3D printer filament…that long strip is fed thru a machine using pultrusion, making filament from PETG. I'm sure a jig to remove the top/bottom cleanly would be simple. @core77.bsky.social

It would be fun to see the signs and websites pushing this idea…

www.core77.com/posts/136031... @core77.bsky.social might want to look at the Olympus XA family to see a similar design language.

I was told years ago that Seattle's northern boundary is around 50th, maybe 65th. @theurbanist.org agrees, as this map seems to be their default. Reminiscent of the New Yorker cartoon "View of the World from 9th Avenue." D5 should join Shoreline, I guess. Or break away on its own.

Lottery winner who owes his success to a job at a gov't research institution says what?

using a child as a shield? what's with these clowns making this kid part of every public appearance?

Is he capable of feeling humiliated? Look at him.

The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. They are the lovers of law and order, who observe the law when the government breaks it. wist.info/thoreau-henr...

One for the calipers and skull shape crew… PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)

Run America like a business…by cutting your billing and accounts receivable departments.

Tell me you have never been in a public school or school board meeting recently without…you know. Every meeting/training opens with a land and labor acknowledgement.

Reading terry pratchett’s Sourceror, wherein the wizards take over as if they own everything but also understand nothing about how the world works…

They could also shout “you lie!” like some performative jackass when Obama gave his SOTU.

So much for the 14th amendment/section 4. “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, […] shall not be questioned.

They voted for the guy they thought hates the same people they do. They didn’t vote for policy or governance. They voted for resentment and validation. I hope they enjoy what they got for their votes.

kottke.org/25/02/in-wha... This is the underlying message of this book. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spi...

Canada can't revoke Phony Stark's citizenship…sez here he renounced it as part of taking USA citizenship. I wonder if Sa will accept him back…does he also disagree with birthright citizenship? www.uscis.gov/citizenship/...

Sounds right to me. Someone described the city where I live as wanting progress without change. "I want things to get better but I don't want be inconvenienced in the process…" tell me you have never undertaken a big household project without… you know how it goes.

Someone told me that the invasion of UA was justified because UA is full of Nazis. Same person argued that NATO should go cuz it gave Russia a sad. I bet he doesn't know this historical detail. The 1st point wasn't worth engaging…but on the other, how can you be a union member and believe that?

www.thenation.com/article/poli... I have been asking the same question since a drug-addled sex tourist ruled the AM airwaves and created an army of unquestioning "dittoheads." Do the Dems need their own version of Phony Stark to clean house, like the other one is doing to the entire government?

wist.info/chuangtzu/74...

This is what 45/47 is throwing away…more intergenerational goodwill than any nation could buy, all to satisfy some racist urge of his own and the same feelings of those in his demented orbit. crookedtimber.org/2025/02/18/n...

make your own at gulfof.mapquest.com

www.futilitycloset.com/2025/02/18/u... See also JS Mill.

PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. — Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) Amer. writer/ journalist related: PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

srsly, who expected a guy who couldn't run a casino along with a guy whose entire business is founded on gov't contracts and tax wheezes to know what they are doing?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... I disagree. Poverty *is* a crime but the poor are the victims, not the perpetrators. Those responsible are cities and states that have allowed rentier capitalism/housing speculation to swell this diaspora of the dispossessed.

Go to Google Search "Gulf of Mexico" Click the 3 little dots next to "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" Choose "Send feedback" Click "Gulf of America" Click "Inaccurate content" Click "Incorrect" Tell Google the correct name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of...