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Lawrence Whitney
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Some pumpkins are more terrifying than others
A lit Jack o’lantern carved with 6 7
October 31, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Happy Halloween, everyone!
Me in a bright orange north face jacket with a jack o’lantern face taped on it next to two carved pumpkins.
October 31, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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The DHS remake is seriously low budget. Netflix did it better.
Sergeant Major von Rumpel from All the Light We Cannot See on Netflix, played by Lars Eidinger, coming down the stairs in a trench coat pointing a gun.
October 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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In 2012 I got to visit the legendary birthplace of Confucius in Shandong Province. It’s a bit like Christians visiting Bethlehem!
A view of the entrance to the cave, down a paved path, next to a pond, where Confucius is said to have been born. A view of the interior of the cave where Confucius is said to have been born. A sign identifying the cave shown in the other two pictures as the legendary birthplace of Confucius.
September 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Just reading the abstract book and I assume you meant founded?
September 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Analects 2.3, tr. Slingerland
The Master said, “If you try to guide the common people with coercive regulations (zheng ) and keep them in line with punishments, the common people will become evasive and will have no sense of shame. If, however, you guide them with Virtue, and keep them in line by means of ritual, the people will have a sense of shame and will rectify themselves.”
September 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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No matter the size, all cats love sketches!
Poster skirtches a cheetah.
September 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Two ladybugs landed on my knee at @tanglewoodma.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Now here’s a stumper: Which of these is the worse example of Christianity? Both in today’s @theguardian.com.
July 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Ahem, #Brookline!
@brooklinenews.bsky.social
Boston Globe live update headline saying “Firefighters union says low staffing levels cost lives of victims during Fall River fire response.” Accompanied by a photo of the burned out Gabriel House Assisted Living facility.
July 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social understands Confucius’ point about the importance of rectifying names for governance:
Analects 13.3 (trans. Ames & Rosemont, 1999)
July 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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I dunno, from this description the most appropriate use Alligator Alcatraz sounds like a home for retired presidents with dictatorial aspirations. And their cabinets, of course.
From the Guardian: Trump praises 'Alligator Alcatraz' after tour of controversial detention facility in Florida Everglades After touring the detention facility in Florida, Donald Trump is speaking to reporters alongside state governor Ron DeSantis and homeland security secretary Kristi Noem. Trump said of the visit: The trip was nice and the job they’ve done is fantastic. And this is what you need. Asked if this is the model going forward, Trump said: It can be. You don’t always have land so beautiful and so secure. They have a lot of bodyguards and a lot of cops in the form of alligators, you don’t have to pay them so much. But I wouldn’t want to run through the Everglades for long. It will keep people where they’re supposed to be.
July 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Of interest on your beat:
June 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Since Facebook doesn’t want anyone to read this, I figured I should. You should too!

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April 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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I mean… in a manner of speaking…
April 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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This is the vice president:
March 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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The Tufts students and alums demanding more of their institution, as the Boston Globe reports, are right to do so. Alas, with 18.8% of Tufts’ revenue coming from sponsored grants and contracts, I doubt that leadership will so step up.
access.tufts.edu/sites/defaul...
(See pg. 9)
March 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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"Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world." This advice is, in my opinion, not helpful. Nor is it empathetic. On the contrary, it is advice that seems designed to torment men, to gaslight them, and to send them into a spiral of self- recrimination and despair. Because—and hopefully this is obvious—no one, ever, anywhere, has ever set their house in "perfect order." Humans aren't perfect beings; no one has all their shit together. Certainly not Jordan Peterson, who had a major mental health crisis linked to benzos addiction a few years back.
March 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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The view from the other side of the wall:
March 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Gov. Healey: “Massachusetts is going to stay true to who we are.”

Who we are:

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/27/m...
Boston Globe headlines about MA violating deadlines for hearings for parents who lose custody of children and the city of Everett “overpaying” its mayor.
February 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Happy #SuperbOwl Sunday to all who celebrate!
February 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Cover of Sara Imari Walker’s book Life As No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence
February 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Too soon, @netflix.com. Too soon.
February 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Okay, so when they said a “new exhibition space, I did not expect them to mean my gym, but here we are!
January 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM