Eclectic, intellectual, gay man, road cyclist, skeptic, atheist, liberal, rhetorician, doctorate in Indonesian literature. AIDS/LifeCycle 2023 rider #1301.
San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2008
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Vice President Harris: Donald, I do hope you'll reconsider to meet me on the debate stage. As the saying goes, if you got something to say, say it to my face
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Hurles photographed gritty models plucked from obscurity, including hustlers, drug addicts, and convicts.
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Lots of people suddenly writing about dismal US life expectancy. Glad to see focus on the geography, as in this good piece by Jeremy Ney 1/ americaninequality.substack.…
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1900 map of Europe. The Russian Octopus 🐙 was frequently featured on European and US American propaganda picture maps. Time contemporary cartoonists bring the octopus back!
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One of the most famous early world maps was created by Anaximander (610-546 BC). A fun mixture of detailed mapping of coastlines and guess work. Source: buff.ly/2G3zX7v
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Burt’s transition is like losing a family member. These words I’ve been asked to write are being written with sadness over the loss of my Dear Friend and my Musical Partner. On the lighter side we laughed a lot and had our run ins, but
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Here’s a superb process of that JunoCam image by someone who really knows what they’re doing.
A very early and preliminary version of Europa image PJ45_1 obtained by @NASAJuno earlier today (Sept 29, 2022). This shouldn't be very far from Europa's true color; I expect to improve the color later with more careful processing though. North is up.
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After spending all night shooting around 600,000 photos of it, I’m thrilled to show you my sharpest Jupiter shot so far. This was captured using an 11” telescope and a camera I usually use for deep sky work. – at Twin Falls, ID
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There is a lot going on in #Ukraine at the moment. The macro story is that Russia appears to have lost the initiative at every level. But there is also an interesting story to be told about Ukrainian campaign planning. 1/24
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Antietam was 160 years ago tomorrow, called most lethal battle in American history:
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A little something for the cartoon architecture aficionados out there. For some reason the Storybook Fungalow made me laugh…
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Wolves are a critical keystone species in a healthy ecosystem. By altering prey movements, browsing, + foraging behavior, wolves impact plant/tree regeneration. In this regard, wolves have had trickle-down effects on trees, rivers, birds, beaver + even fish.
Appreciate wolves 🐺
