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I am insatiably curious. And for better or worse I am blessed with an astonishingly Baroque mind. I most certainly contain multitudes.
Groups: Street Prophets, This Week in the War on Women, Kos Canucks and Friends, The Political Revolution, Climate/Environment Fight, Climate Change Anxiety Support Group, Regenerative Culture for an Altered Planet, GreenRevolution A Direct Action Environmental Protest Group, Original Fiction, Poetry & Memoir, for Fun & Progress
Diaries published: 91 (37 days since last diary on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 08:05 PM PDT)
Comments posted: 8038 (0 days since last comment on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 11:59 PM PST)
Diary frequency: often
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Most Recommended Diary: A Simple Truth. The Bureaucrat Who Said No and Saved the World. (Updated with thank you to posters), 272 comments, 823 recommends
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Ten days ago I posted this comment as part of a thread in the comments on a diary by hp68 which was called Antisemitism right the hell here. I was responding to another poster obviously but all that matters here is the bolded section. As an Indigenous...
by Nonlinear
 125 comments
on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 08:05 PM PDT
with 47 Recommends
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It is not the first time I’ve been called effeminate. For those of you who don’t know the definition of effeminate it is a derogatory term used to refer to a man having characteristics and behaviors traditionally associated with women and considered...
by Nonlinear
621 comments
on Tue Aug 22, 2023 at 11:01 PM PDT
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This morning as I began writing this diary there were 78 wildfires burning in Alberta. Overnight there had been another major emergency evacuation, this time it was Drayton Valley in the foothills of Alberta west of Edmonton. More than 7,000 people...
by Nonlinear
86 comments
on Fri May 05, 2023 at 03:58 PM PDT
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www.nytimes.com/… I hope this link works. If it doesn’t it won’t matter. All I need to make my point is just three paragraphs worth of quoted text from today’s New York Times, the paper you all hate, by David Brooks, the writer you all hate. One of the...
by Nonlinear
47 comments
on Thu Apr 27, 2023 at 10:33 PM PDT
with 26 Recommends
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I made a promise in my last diary that “I am going to take you to the ignition point of what is believed to be the largest contiguous forest fire in North America.” I should have course said, “in North American history.” The Chinchaga Fire, which...
by Nonlinear
58 comments
on Fri Apr 14, 2023 at 10:29 PM PDT
with 93 Recommends
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In order to understand this essay you may need some translation assistance unless you have a Maple Leaf tattooed on your butt (I am admitting nothing). I want you to imagine an American High School Football Field. It needs to be one with a track around...
by Nonlinear
58 comments
on Tue Apr 11, 2023 at 05:41 PM PDT
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- If you’re unaware of Drilled, an award-winning website dedicated to focusing on climate accountability, you would do well to add it to your collection of substacks to read and support. It was founded six years ago by veteran climate reporter Amy...22 comments 135 Recs
- The suspect in the deadly shooting at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada, had a list of targets at the school and at East Carolina University in North Carolina, police said Thursday. Three faculty members were killed and a fourth was wounded by the...28 comments 74 Recs
- The short answer is yes. We have lost the ability to sort through disinformation and determine what is true. We have allowed a drum beat of lies to make us an angry people and lose our optimism. And now, we are teetering on a tight rope between...155 comments 86 Recs
- Luke Goldstein of The American Prospect reports on Senator Chris Murphy’s (D-CT) recent shift to an explicit rejection of neoliberalism. I pressed Murphy about why, despite executive actions, Democrats in Congress weren’t able to move forward in the...407 comments 426 Recs
- A new report from progressive UK.-based think-tanks IPPR and Common Wealth says profiteering played a major role in jacking up prices far above the rise in costs, reinforcing a previous but narrower study showing such an impact. Among other things, the...133 comments 428 Recs
- Theists claim that atheism is a religion. Compare some of the key markers of religion to atheism: Religion involves worship. Atheists do not worship anything. No gods, no demons, no ancestors, no animals, no celestial objects, no kings or other humans,...758 comments 311 Recs
- The title of this diary is borrowed from a couple of thought provoking essays. The first one is from John Ganz, and I urge you to read it in full. The second is from Jon Alterman, who is at an American think tank CSIS. The title is a little misleading,...515 comments 224 Recs
- Huffpost right now has a lead “Why the bad vibes”? They come to the unsurprising conclusion that it is because economic life for many people is worse now than during the pandemic. Surprise! There are two economies, one for the upper 40% and the other...671 comments 371 Recs
- It's no secret that young progressives are one of the most consequential and unpredictable voting blocs in next year's general election. They despise Donald Trump but are undeniably uninspired by President Joe Biden. While foreign policy isn't helping...241 comments 202 Recs
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