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Paul 🏳️‍🌈
@nerdy70.bsky.social
Retired HIV researcher 🏳️‍🌈 🔬
Living in Greece 🇺🇸 ->🇬🇷
Married. 👬
Dog and cat dad. 🐶😺
Travel, beach. ✈️🏖
Major flirt. Mostly harmless. 😏
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gay people will say “you know I’m gay cuz I just had to get my iced coffee in a blizzard” but we actually know you’re gay cuz you post different parts of your body on different days of the week
January 26, 2026 at 4:50 PM
I'm glad the rest of the world is still calling it by its proper name [taken on Austrian Air]
January 25, 2026 at 7:41 AM
I spent the flight thinking about bearing the children of the man across the aisle from me.

He spent the flight oblivious to my existence.
January 25, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Barbra Streisand told us that people who need people are the luckiest people in the world.

I would contend that it's people who are able to sleep on airplanes.
January 25, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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this taking me out 😭😭
January 24, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Maybe I'm overthinking, but "Good Luck" doesn't seem like the most appropriate thing to write on a restaurant's doors.

"Good luck! Hope you don't get botulism!"
January 23, 2026 at 6:25 PM
When the house of cards falls, all the enablers will try to say they didn't know or they were working to prevent even worse things

Do. Not. Believe. Them.

They know exactly what they are doing.
January 23, 2026 at 5:55 PM
They are predicting a record low tonight. I'm pre-preparing my insides.
January 23, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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The reality is that 2024 was a fundamental test of the moral character of the nation and we failed spectacularly. We’re living with the consequences now. Maybe we improve. I hope so.
January 23, 2026 at 4:14 AM
I had a check up with my US doctor today. He was asking about life in Greece. Also asked if everyone there automatically hated all Americans now because of the Orange one.
January 22, 2026 at 6:58 PM
When a game's advertisement says "only 1% of people can solve this puzzle" it's an immediate "no" from me. That sounds like stress and frustration. I just wanna relax!
a woman is sitting on a couch with her hands on her head and a mtv logo behind her
ALT: a woman is sitting on a couch with her hands on her head and a mtv logo behind her
media.tenor.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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This is what it’s like when you’re with me btw 🤣🤣
a woman in a santa costume is riding a sled
ALT: a woman in a santa costume is riding a sled
media.tenor.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to

Madonna
Cher
Lady Gaga
Reba
Santana
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to

Prince
P!nk
Billy Joel
Cher
Culture Club / Tom Bailey (of Thompson Twins) / B-52s
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to

Culture Club
Heart
Elton John
Cher (x2)
Celine Dion (didn't want to go but loved it!)
January 20, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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My extra sensitive toothpaste cries because I don't use it.
January 20, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Name a movie about time travel
January 20, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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officially a doctor now
January 19, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village
January 19, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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If an Uber driver had cameras in the backseat it would be over for me
January 18, 2026 at 5:08 PM
It's always a trip being in a Uber where the driver has religious music playing and a cross hanging from the mirror and I'm in the back seat looking at your 🍆 pics.
January 18, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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This is why I don't really buy into the "this is not who we are" framing of this moment. This is exactly who we are, amplified, expanded. The worst of ourselves laid bare. We must root it out.
This David French article shows the analytic peril of ignoring the way normal policing and repression work in communities of color. The so-called "dual state" he's highlighting (laws applied unequally, non-compliance met with violence) is *exactly* what Black Lives Matter was protesting.
Opinion | An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Good advice
[Seen in Penn Station, New York]
January 17, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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Does a woman of color gifting her Nobel Prize to an undeserving white man mark the end of DEI—or a new beginning?
January 16, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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Okay…well, after another heartbreaking day of being an American, I’m off to bed

Praying that they let up on Minneapolis and can’t believe the strength of the citizens of that city*

*strength that shouldn’t be needed because protesting is a right and shouldn’t be met with force
January 15, 2026 at 5:46 AM
Drop a great pair of eyes from a movie or tv show
January 14, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Repost your home river.

This is "home" as in where I was born. It's the North Canadian River in Oklahoma. It's not particularly beautiful.
January 14, 2026 at 9:44 AM