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Allan Donsig
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Math Prof, Nebraskan of Canadian origin,
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Lincoln’s flag was adopted in 2022 and I think it’s pretty good:

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A rectangular flag with a golden circular design at the center and dark blue in the bottom half and light blue in the top half, with golden rays radiating out from the central circle.
August 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Back cover of a book listing two titles “ex-prodigy: my childhood and youth” and “I am a mathematician: the later life of a prodigy”, by Norbert Wiener. The blurb begins These two volumes (both are available in the MIT Paperback series) comprise Norbert Wiener’s autobiography. Sometimes with humor and sometimes with sadness, they render an account, without sentiment, of the life of the world-renowned mathematician and scientist. …
August 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Cutting Medicaid is more likely to reduce than to increase the number of people able to work.

From www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
How Does Medicaid Expansion Affect Employment? Ninety-one percent of non-elderly Medicaid adults in 2022 worked full or part time, acted as caregivers for family members or loved ones, attended school, or had an illness or disability affecting their ability to work; 61 percent were employed. [71] Most people enrolled in Medicaid expansion who can work do work; their jobs generally don’t offer employer-based coverage or pay enough for them to cover the costs of individual market coverage.
July 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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One could reflect on Alex Colville’s work:
Dog and Priest, by Alex Colville: a black-clad man and a large black dog recline on a dock, both looking out to sea.
July 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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In 1215 CE, they decided even the king must follow the rules. (www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...)
Magna Carta Libertatum, or the Great Charter of Freedoms, has been described by scholars as one of the most important documents in the Western world.
First penned for King John of England during an open revolt by his barons in 1215 — and offered as a kind of peace treaty — the charter famously declares that even the king must follow the rules.
May 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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If you visit the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa, you can see the following exhibit, to have a sense of what happens to gifts from foreign states to Canada’s leaders.
Diamond and Sapphire in a display case, with a caption that reads Bejewelled! We love jewellery! But precious metals and gemstones must be mined. Our desire for beautiful jewellery has affected politics, economics, and the environment worldwide. Diamond and Sapphire Jewellery Set, 2010 This jewellery set was a state gift from the King of Saudi Arabia to Laureen Harper, wife of former prime minister Stephen Harper, and by extension to the Canadian people. Made by Al Moallim Jewellery Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Artifact no. 2014.0192
May 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Image of James Baldwin and then text reading “I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
March 31, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline
A pine tree stem with green needles and 3 purple pine cones
March 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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QuotePost with a picture you took in a National Park.

#NationalParkService America’s Best Idea

Perry’s Victory Monument in Lake Erie, celebrating the long peace between the US and Canada.
A sign labeled The Legacy of Peace that starts Peace takes time and commitment. Perhaps no simpler lesson emerges from the history of increasing friendship and cooperation among the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. . . . It endures not under the shadow of fear or threat, but because each nation has resolved to avoid violence, even in cases of conflict. . . .
February 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday, driving a Vespa scooter with a look of glee
February 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Sign at Perry’s Victory Monument, discussing the slow development of friendship between Canada and the US since the Treaty of Ghent that ended the War of 1812.
January 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Nothing like that happens in Ottawa nor do large crowds gather at the tower’s base once a year for a ritualistic celebration. 😉
Image of Peace Tower in Ottawa, Canada against a grey sky with the Centennial Flame in foreground.
December 7, 2024 at 5:46 AM
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A pond with a bare tree in the foreground and clouds lit by the just set sun in the distance
October 25, 2024 at 1:52 AM
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It’s okay to write for money. In fact,…
Image of Samuel Johnson and his statement: No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
August 30, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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Douglas Adam for the win:
The Encyclopaedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as “Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun To Be With.” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,” with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent. Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopaedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came.”
July 31, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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It’s the Bester & Heinlein story contest story, right? (from en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_...)
Bester's first published short story was "The Broken Axiom", which appeared in the April 1939 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories after winning an amateur story competition. Bester recalled, "Two editors on the staff, Mort Weisinger and Jack Schiff, took an interest in me, I suspect mostly because I'd just finished reading and annotating Joyce's Ulysses and would preach it enthusiastically without provocation, to their great amusement. ... They thought "Diaz-might fill the bill if it was whipped into shape." This was the very same contest that Robert A. Heinlein famously chose not to enter, as the prize was only $50 and Heinlein realized he could do better selling his 7,000-word unpublished story to Astounding Science Fiction for a penny a word, or $70. Years later, Bester interviewed Heinlein for Publishers Weekly and the latter told of changing his mind for Astounding. Bester says that he replied (in jest), "You sonofabitch. I won that Thrilling Wonder contest, and you beat me by $20.”
June 27, 2024 at 3:57 AM
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I’m so old I remember when the only astronomy website in existence was

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Cover of “Stars” A Golden Nature Guide, a book published in the 1960s.
June 25, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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Poster with picture of Frederick Douglas and text “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who wants crops without plowing up the land. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will.”
May 8, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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He’s not wrong about the cost of … a Bentley
April 19, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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Tshirt with text: Programing is 10% writing code and 90% understanding why it is not working.
February 2, 2024 at 4:02 AM
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This is cartoon villain behavior:
From Shrek, Lord Farquaad says “Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make”.
January 15, 2024 at 5:26 AM