Brian Buchbinder
@brianbuchbinder.bsky.social
Retired public defender, retired boiler and plumbing repair. I could get you heat and hot water, or get you out of hot water.
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ok, so, this is entirely beside the point, but setting aside the abhorrent racism for a moment, is this a sticky rice that sort of clumps when you press it together? because I am used to rice with separate grains that you couldn't really do this with easily.
i know he's just finding excuses to be racist but it's still funny to be like this when we live in the country of the chili cheese fry, the walking taco, the fried oreo, the loaded potato skin, etc. there's nothing more american than lighting up a big messy pile of starchy goop with your hands
June 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
ok, so, this is entirely beside the point, but setting aside the abhorrent racism for a moment, is this a sticky rice that sort of clumps when you press it together? because I am used to rice with separate grains that you couldn't really do this with easily.
MOBY-DICK
Hard: "With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship."
Easy: "When things get me down, I book a cruise."
Hard: "With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship."
Easy: "When things get me down, I book a cruise."
PARADISE LOST
HARD ❌
As one great Furnace flam'd, yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible
EASY ✅
Hell is hard to describe
HARD ❌
As one great Furnace flam'd, yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible
EASY ✅
Hell is hard to describe
THE BELL JAR
HARD ❌
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York
EASY ✅
That summer was sizzling, and so were the Rosenbergs
HARD ❌
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York
EASY ✅
That summer was sizzling, and so were the Rosenbergs
June 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
MOBY-DICK
Hard: "With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship."
Easy: "When things get me down, I book a cruise."
Hard: "With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship."
Easy: "When things get me down, I book a cruise."
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I personally do not think drug companies should be allowed to advertise the way they do in the US but I have to say that Gardasil (HPV vax) has had some really good ads lately. Very informative and effective communication. What a functioning society’s public health agencies should be doing instead.
June 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I personally do not think drug companies should be allowed to advertise the way they do in the US but I have to say that Gardasil (HPV vax) has had some really good ads lately. Very informative and effective communication. What a functioning society’s public health agencies should be doing instead.
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"This is how we get flotsam: King George insists on levying harsh taxes on his New World subjects. Some Bostonians respond by littering in the harbor."
Historical New York Times Tweets
The contagion of incivility: President Trump says undocumented immigrants want to “infest” the United States. His critics respond with vituperative...
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June 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"This is how we get flotsam: King George insists on levying harsh taxes on his New World subjects. Some Bostonians respond by littering in the harbor."
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14yo got her 2nd Gardasil vaccine! I’m rejoicing that my daughters are now protected against the cervical cancer that killed my mother. Fuck all the vaccine-haters. These vaccines save lives & anyone who chooses not to protect their kid, boy or girl, from HPV is an idiot & menace to society.
June 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
14yo got her 2nd Gardasil vaccine! I’m rejoicing that my daughters are now protected against the cervical cancer that killed my mother. Fuck all the vaccine-haters. These vaccines save lives & anyone who chooses not to protect their kid, boy or girl, from HPV is an idiot & menace to society.
And she wrote the (terrifying) book.
US white evangelicalism is a death cult
New info from @wired.com. www.wired.com/story/shooti...
June 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
And she wrote the (terrifying) book.
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My main surprise is that this move took this long to do but this is about as grave a situation as you can get when it comes to vaccine regulation in the US:
archive.ph/Y5WCM
archive.ph/Y5WCM
archive.ph
June 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
My main surprise is that this move took this long to do but this is about as grave a situation as you can get when it comes to vaccine regulation in the US:
archive.ph/Y5WCM
archive.ph/Y5WCM
June 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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the revolution will be posted through
June 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
the revolution will be posted through
I've read @carlzimmer.com book Airborne. You might want to as well
"The husband-and-wife team worked out how microbes – including those that cause TB and measles – can stow away in tiny droplets that we release even when only quietly breathing. Air currents can keep these aloft for hours, and in an unventilated room, other people can readily breathe them in."
June 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I've read @carlzimmer.com book Airborne. You might want to as well
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once again I must tap my own sign
June 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
once again I must tap my own sign
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Electrochemical steel: absolutely the new hotness.
Boston Metal forges path to commercialization for green steel process
Amid industry setbacks and federal funding losses, the company, which makes green steel without burning fossil fuels, has a robust plan for moving ahead.
www.canarymedia.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Electrochemical steel: absolutely the new hotness.
One of the most gratifying days was the day the GOP prepared for huge crowds to attend this bastard's funeral, only to have pretty much nobody show up.
Everything we see going on today in the Administration is the continuation of Reagan, but with the dog whistle replaced by a steam calliope.
Everything we see going on today in the Administration is the continuation of Reagan, but with the dog whistle replaced by a steam calliope.
Happy Anniversary to Ronald Reagan being dead.
June 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
One of the most gratifying days was the day the GOP prepared for huge crowds to attend this bastard's funeral, only to have pretty much nobody show up.
Everything we see going on today in the Administration is the continuation of Reagan, but with the dog whistle replaced by a steam calliope.
Everything we see going on today in the Administration is the continuation of Reagan, but with the dog whistle replaced by a steam calliope.
Musk to Trump
“Did you even say Thank you”?
“Did you even say Thank you”?
June 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Musk to Trump
“Did you even say Thank you”?
“Did you even say Thank you”?
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And we were too dumb to discover gravitation even though cats were knocking objects off high places since there were objects and places to knock them off of...and cats.
Lasers were a huge scientific breakthrough and now we use them to play with cats. Computers were also a huge scientific breakthrough and now we use them to look at pictures of cats. In other words, science was made for cats.
June 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
And we were too dumb to discover gravitation even though cats were knocking objects off high places since there were objects and places to knock them off of...and cats.
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Stephen King knows horror better than anyone.
June 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Stephen King knows horror better than anyone.
ACAB and the press makes them worse
Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement.
Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime.
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Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime.
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June 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
ACAB and the press makes them worse
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Ventolin, the brand name for albuterol or salbutamol, was first sold in 1968. The first generic inhaler was not approved in the US until 2020 due to manipulation by the pharmaceutical industry. Because there are still so few approved “generic” alternatives it remains cost prohibitive for many people
He needed air. The price was $539.
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
22-year-old dies after being unable to afford asthma inhaler
In our new series “The Cost of Denial,” NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports on the young man who went to refill his asthma inhaler only to find it unaffordable because it was no longer covered by his insu...
www.nbcnews.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Ventolin, the brand name for albuterol or salbutamol, was first sold in 1968. The first generic inhaler was not approved in the US until 2020 due to manipulation by the pharmaceutical industry. Because there are still so few approved “generic” alternatives it remains cost prohibitive for many people
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You could waste your time reading that New Yorker article, or you could listen to the Behind the Bastards episode about Yarvin that rightfully mocks him mercilessly for being an edgelord idiot that doesn’t understand history.
June 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
You could waste your time reading that New Yorker article, or you could listen to the Behind the Bastards episode about Yarvin that rightfully mocks him mercilessly for being an edgelord idiot that doesn’t understand history.
More of the usual common sense. Even if you're not interested in agriculture (You do eat, don't you) Sarah makes it fascinating.
Ok people were asking "What IS a small farm anyway?"
so let's talk farm size, how it's measured in the US, and what that can tell us about how agriculture really works.
so let's talk farm size, how it's measured in the US, and what that can tell us about how agriculture really works.
June 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
More of the usual common sense. Even if you're not interested in agriculture (You do eat, don't you) Sarah makes it fascinating.
This has it all; assonance, alliteration, music, and a h/t to the Bard.
FLOREAT SALOPIA (A Shakespearean sonnet about getting wasted in Shrewsbury):
June 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This has it all; assonance, alliteration, music, and a h/t to the Bard.
In my former industry (contracting) it's said that safety regs. are "written in blood".
Public health mandates are written in little tiny coffins.
Public health mandates are written in little tiny coffins.
June 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In my former industry (contracting) it's said that safety regs. are "written in blood".
Public health mandates are written in little tiny coffins.
Public health mandates are written in little tiny coffins.
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Happy birthday to James Hutton - the Father of Modern Geology!
Hutton used Scottish rocks, like this exposure at Glen Tilt, to support theories of plutonism and deep time.
Here granite intrudes and surrounds sedimentary rocks - evidence these rocks were once molten
Hutton used Scottish rocks, like this exposure at Glen Tilt, to support theories of plutonism and deep time.
Here granite intrudes and surrounds sedimentary rocks - evidence these rocks were once molten
June 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Happy birthday to James Hutton - the Father of Modern Geology!
Hutton used Scottish rocks, like this exposure at Glen Tilt, to support theories of plutonism and deep time.
Here granite intrudes and surrounds sedimentary rocks - evidence these rocks were once molten
Hutton used Scottish rocks, like this exposure at Glen Tilt, to support theories of plutonism and deep time.
Here granite intrudes and surrounds sedimentary rocks - evidence these rocks were once molten