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Derrell Durrett
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Ex physics. Software. Life-long observer of the public morality. Devoté of Poe's Law.

Potentially voluble.

Boulder Colorado

Born at 318 ppm CO2.
The IEA might be the stupidest, most easily misled "expert" organization in human history.

They refuse to learn from history.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The IEA might be the stupidest, most easily misled "expert" organization in human history.

They refuse to learn from history.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This spider has the best views of Rainbow Reef.
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Ludwig Boltzmann on the the situation in America about a hundred and twenty years ago, demonstrating that today's profoundly wealthy people have a long way to go and a lot of work to do to live up to the standards of the robber barons of old.
October 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
There's some crazy MAGA shit on Facebook, and I've already seen two versions. One claiming that the author is 74 and the other claiming to be 78.

And the guy posting it is definitely neither since we went to high school together.
October 27, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Absurd.

No idea how to preserve the part we cannot eat.
October 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Two hours of this in Boulder this afternoon.

#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This from @kenklippenstein.bsky.social demonstrates in spades why any intelligent person cannot be associated with this administration.

open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...
October 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Ya know, if all those folks stopped going to work one day, the regime might discover it's powerless.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Spent yesterday (and today) wandering Colorado's wine country, and I'm telling you it's hard to beat this.
October 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This kitty would wish you a brilliant #Caturday except she's wondering what she can get up to this morning....
October 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The subtext to @joshtpm.bsky.social's paragraph here is that too often Dems not elected tend to find the party feckless. Too often the electeds choose to abstain from using what power they have.

This time, at least, they seem to have found their footing.

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/let-i...
October 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Really not beating the allegation that they're using 1984 as an instruction manual.
October 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The divide today is between the liberal and the illiberal actors: those who believe in universal rights and those who believe in contingent rights. Klein claims to defend liberalism while celebrating illiberal rhetoric.

Excellent @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...
September 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I mean.
September 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
As always, read @jamellebouie.net.

Here, very carefully dismantling the notion of a unitary executive being inherent in the design of the US constitution. After all, he notes, the president's election is filtered through the Electoral College.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
September 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Note well that Mr "L'État, c'est moi" here doesn't say US Gov't debt. Somebody oughta ask about that.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
September 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
David A. French on the dangers of permitting Trump to consolidate power.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
September 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
As always, read @jamellebouie.net.

Here making clear that the fight is, as so many have long warned it would become, against gov't-as-would-be-bully rather than by gov't-as-good-faith-actor.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
September 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A'igbt.

1 (I can name several, so buckle up.)
a. Black Diamond youtu.be/msEgf9r8NIA?...
b. Red Sector A (R30 tour) share.google/niH6ZrlcRpeo...
c. Red Lenses share.google/ffa2XGJzWOUC...
d. Red Barchetta share.google/bP6LyzDRBySY...
e. Black share.google/mtnia0RJLPHh...
September 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I'd say I feel like I've been reading about due process violations as long as I've had a newspaper subscription (which was sixth grade).

But this crew not to care even when they lose. They just do what they want.
September 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The answer to Mr Edwards is that the people with the money are desperately afraid of the other messages someone under their employ might convey, and they want complete control to avoid things like support for Palestinians breaking containment.

www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
August 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This metaphor is almost too perfect, and the fact that Trump is proud of it is either a sign he doesn't understand it or that he's celebrating the destruction he's bringing upon America.
August 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
These two posts from @criminalerin.bsky.social appearing this way in my timeline has left me with some questions not answerable by anyone, I'd wager.
August 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The fuck we do, Donald.

You can fuck right off.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
August 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM