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Experimentalist. Taxonomist. Builds things with twist most days.

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Did they not see Das Boot?

06.03.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Five things to know about GLP-1s and addiction Stanford Medicine psychiatrist Anna Lembke unpacks the potential of FDA-approved weight-reducing GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic as tools in treating addiction.

I think it's the botox, but for Ozempic and brain chemistry (I assume that this is the mechanism of action), see

med.stanford.edu/news/insight...

06.03.2026 04:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So well put!

06.03.2026 04:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Please elevate the photographer with a photo credit in front of the paywall. The exposition is brilliant.

05.03.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Command Post: Hegseth Press Event, Iran War Updates with Tom Nichols Lt.

Tangential, but I just enjoyed you on Command Post with Mark Hertling. You threaded the war college smackdown deftly. I suspect you are one of your own alert and responsible editors.

www.thebulwark.com/p/live-react...

05.03.2026 16:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is RFK Jr gonna go after heroin as hard as he's going after sugar? Weirdly, he's worried specifically about teenage girls and sugar.

05.03.2026 01:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for your point about the age of Gen X. Starts with 1965, maybe give or take a year. Certainly not 1962.

04.03.2026 22:01 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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New-to-me periodic table:

04.03.2026 21:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The mechanical world writ small! I imagine that every machine we observe in the visible world has a molecular analog. Physics is physics.

04.03.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you listen to Mark Hertling on @thebulwark.com? He's great in the way that only a retired general can be.

04.03.2026 04:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The bottom line is that Trump is the bestest boy and deserves all the lollipops?

03.03.2026 20:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

What a way to run a draft!

03.03.2026 06:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been thinking about it all day.

03.03.2026 06:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did you read The Great Gatsby in high school?

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisyβ€”they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made".

03.03.2026 06:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I whack all of the ice off of the lab freezers with a 2# mallet, but can only do that so often.

03.03.2026 04:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Stellan SkarsgΓ₯rd was recently interviewed on Fresh Air - a delight.

03.03.2026 04:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Dilletante's Crusade

03.03.2026 03:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe they will call their dogs off Harvard as well, and let the scientists live their nerdy and productive lives.

03.03.2026 03:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hmm, tank operator comes to mind. Also, pilots (for the Navy at least) have min and max heights. Still, that probably leaves 98% of positions open.

03.03.2026 01:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My dude, EVERYTHING is wrong with this guy.

01.03.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(checks stock of anti-emetics)

01.03.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They should have, they should have, they should have and oh by the way I'm not going to tell you what I would find acceptable.

Always the same goddamn thing with this D list bully from central casting.

01.03.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But you can bet on just about anything. Did you know that when Andrew Wiles was on the brink of demonstrating his proof of Fermat's last theorem, mathematicians (plural) a the meeting attempted to bet on this with local bookies (or that's how I remember it from the Simon Singh book).

28.02.2026 23:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is killing me.

28.02.2026 11:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In that goddamn hat no less.

28.02.2026 11:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good morning, sunshine (I have also been up all night writing).

28.02.2026 11:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Much may have happened in the intervening seven months! In politics, especially in this era, it seems like a lifetime. Happy to have provided the link!

27.02.2026 04:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why I Got Thrown Out of a Jasmine Crockett Rally The crowd was fired up. The candidate was on her game. And I was escorted out by armed guards.

Gift link for the article in the OP:

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

27.02.2026 03:18 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Excluding the press is nearly always a weak move - so I'm not endorsing anything. I just thought the backstory might be interesting.

27.02.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Democrat for the Trump Era Jasmine Crockett is testing out the coarse style of politics that the GOP has embraced.

Have not read either article (I'm in the middle of 14,000 piece on a completely different topic and am working to deadline) BUT here's something Godfrey wrote seven months ago on Crockett:

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

27.02.2026 02:40 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1