Woodshrink.
@woodshrink-smith.bsky.social
Wistful renaissance man. I used to shrink minds. Now I make sawdust and sit on the beach. Imagine.
Interests: Neuroscience, Biology, Climatology, Cults & Cluster B pathology, Skiing, Canoeing, VR, Technology, History, Scifi, Zen, Movies, Music, Woodwork
Interests: Neuroscience, Biology, Climatology, Cults & Cluster B pathology, Skiing, Canoeing, VR, Technology, History, Scifi, Zen, Movies, Music, Woodwork
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💙💛 Oleksandra Paskal, a gymnast from Chornomorsk who lost her leg in a Russian missile attack, performed at the Rizatdinova Cup tournament.
As a result, the gymnast won the title of Miss Unbreakable.
As a result, the gymnast won the title of Miss Unbreakable.
December 31, 2024 at 6:28 PM
💙💛 Oleksandra Paskal, a gymnast from Chornomorsk who lost her leg in a Russian missile attack, performed at the Rizatdinova Cup tournament.
As a result, the gymnast won the title of Miss Unbreakable.
As a result, the gymnast won the title of Miss Unbreakable.
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My God imagine if media had told anyone about this
December 11, 2024 at 4:10 AM
My God imagine if media had told anyone about this
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Republicans did this to the working class while becoming the party of the working class.
This is the legacy of the Reagan Revolution 👇
This is the legacy of the Reagan Revolution 👇
December 9, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Republicans did this to the working class while becoming the party of the working class.
This is the legacy of the Reagan Revolution 👇
This is the legacy of the Reagan Revolution 👇
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Bad, but expensive.
December 9, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Bad, but expensive.
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December 7, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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Social media has dissolved the mortar of our society and made America stupid, Jonathan Haidt argued in 2022. It’s not just a phase. theatln.tc/XH7Zf8OQ
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
theatln.tc
November 27, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Social media has dissolved the mortar of our society and made America stupid, Jonathan Haidt argued in 2022. It’s not just a phase. theatln.tc/XH7Zf8OQ
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Ukrainians are fighting and dying every day so that we can be safe and enjoy the right to say asinine, ignorant, and cowardly things on podcasts.
November 26, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Ukrainians are fighting and dying every day so that we can be safe and enjoy the right to say asinine, ignorant, and cowardly things on podcasts.
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If Trump has a "mandate," it's to lower the price of eggs.
Not to appoint accused sexual predators to his Cabinet, or repeal the First Amendment, or implement Project 2025, or weaponize the state against his enemies. MAGAworld should stop pretending otherwise.
wapo.st/4eHTHuk
Not to appoint accused sexual predators to his Cabinet, or repeal the First Amendment, or implement Project 2025, or weaponize the state against his enemies. MAGAworld should stop pretending otherwise.
wapo.st/4eHTHuk
Opinion | This is Trump’s real ‘mandate’
No, Trump doesn’t have a mandate for his extreme agenda.
wapo.st
November 26, 2024 at 7:24 PM
If Trump has a "mandate," it's to lower the price of eggs.
Not to appoint accused sexual predators to his Cabinet, or repeal the First Amendment, or implement Project 2025, or weaponize the state against his enemies. MAGAworld should stop pretending otherwise.
wapo.st/4eHTHuk
Not to appoint accused sexual predators to his Cabinet, or repeal the First Amendment, or implement Project 2025, or weaponize the state against his enemies. MAGAworld should stop pretending otherwise.
wapo.st/4eHTHuk
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"The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands have received layers of bipartisan protection for 100+ years. Worried about poachers, President T. Roosevelt established the Hawaiian Islands Bird Reservation in 1909, the 1st federal move to protect the area. But those protections have never felt less certain."
Next President Will Shape The Future Of America's Largest Marine Monument
www.civilbeat.org
November 27, 2024 at 12:25 AM
"The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands have received layers of bipartisan protection for 100+ years. Worried about poachers, President T. Roosevelt established the Hawaiian Islands Bird Reservation in 1909, the 1st federal move to protect the area. But those protections have never felt less certain."
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Have I had my mind changed on social media? Yes - NOT by arguing with randoms, but by following experts and first hand folks who share what they do, what they think and what's going on. The change isn't binary - I used to think one thing, and suddenly now another - it's slow and additive: Learning.
November 26, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Have I had my mind changed on social media? Yes - NOT by arguing with randoms, but by following experts and first hand folks who share what they do, what they think and what's going on. The change isn't binary - I used to think one thing, and suddenly now another - it's slow and additive: Learning.
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I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era.
To dismantle the machinery of autocracy, you first need to understand how it works.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
To dismantle the machinery of autocracy, you first need to understand how it works.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era.
To dismantle the machinery of autocracy, you first need to understand how it works.
www.politico.com
November 24, 2024 at 4:11 AM
I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era.
To dismantle the machinery of autocracy, you first need to understand how it works.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
To dismantle the machinery of autocracy, you first need to understand how it works.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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I love this very touching video from many years ago, about Ukrainian children who died in the Holodomor.
She says: You brought me an apple?
The boy asks: How did you know?
She replies: People always bring me apples😭
She says: You brought me an apple?
The boy asks: How did you know?
She replies: People always bring me apples😭
November 23, 2024 at 3:27 PM
I love this very touching video from many years ago, about Ukrainian children who died in the Holodomor.
She says: You brought me an apple?
The boy asks: How did you know?
She replies: People always bring me apples😭
She says: You brought me an apple?
The boy asks: How did you know?
She replies: People always bring me apples😭
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THIS.
November 22, 2024 at 10:26 PM
THIS.
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Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
November 21, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Friendly reminder: The USG spends $290 billion on personnel. If you fired EVERYONE who worked for the federal government, you’d save 5% of the budget. You know where most of it goes? Defense and back to us in Social Security and Medicare.
Musk, Ramaswamy vow “mass head-count reduction” in federal government
Musk, Ramaswamy vow ‘mass head-count reductions’ in U.S. government
The leaders of President-elect Donald Trump’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ outlined their efforts in a new Wall Street Journal editorial.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Friendly reminder: The USG spends $290 billion on personnel. If you fired EVERYONE who worked for the federal government, you’d save 5% of the budget. You know where most of it goes? Defense and back to us in Social Security and Medicare.
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Workshopping for the Trump second inaugural address: " ... that government of the sexual predators, by the sexual predators, for the sexual predators shall not perish from the earth."
November 21, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Workshopping for the Trump second inaugural address: " ... that government of the sexual predators, by the sexual predators, for the sexual predators shall not perish from the earth."
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👋 Hey there!
If you like what we do (support national parks) and think others would too, can you help us spread the word? 🌟 We're aiming for 1,000 followers by the end of the week—can you help us get there? 🤝
🙏 Mahalo nui loa (thank you very much)!
#FollowerGoal 🎯 #HPPA 🌺 #SupportNationalParks ❤️
If you like what we do (support national parks) and think others would too, can you help us spread the word? 🌟 We're aiming for 1,000 followers by the end of the week—can you help us get there? 🤝
🙏 Mahalo nui loa (thank you very much)!
#FollowerGoal 🎯 #HPPA 🌺 #SupportNationalParks ❤️
November 20, 2024 at 10:51 PM
👋 Hey there!
If you like what we do (support national parks) and think others would too, can you help us spread the word? 🌟 We're aiming for 1,000 followers by the end of the week—can you help us get there? 🤝
🙏 Mahalo nui loa (thank you very much)!
#FollowerGoal 🎯 #HPPA 🌺 #SupportNationalParks ❤️
If you like what we do (support national parks) and think others would too, can you help us spread the word? 🌟 We're aiming for 1,000 followers by the end of the week—can you help us get there? 🤝
🙏 Mahalo nui loa (thank you very much)!
#FollowerGoal 🎯 #HPPA 🌺 #SupportNationalParks ❤️
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Wonder why the rule of law is failing? Here are six reasons . . . the rot at the top. This is what happens when we allow government officials to operate in an ethics-free zone with zero accountability.
November 20, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Wonder why the rule of law is failing? Here are six reasons . . . the rot at the top. This is what happens when we allow government officials to operate in an ethics-free zone with zero accountability.
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🐥 Gosling break!
Nēnē, or Hawaiian geese, make soft nests on the ground 🌿 where 2–5 eggs are laid, usually between Oct. & March. The eggs hatch ~month later & the goslings are soon able to walk with their parents 🦢 to find food.
Goslings stay with their family for about a year. 💛
#WildlifeWednesday
Nēnē, or Hawaiian geese, make soft nests on the ground 🌿 where 2–5 eggs are laid, usually between Oct. & March. The eggs hatch ~month later & the goslings are soon able to walk with their parents 🦢 to find food.
Goslings stay with their family for about a year. 💛
#WildlifeWednesday
November 20, 2024 at 8:22 PM
🐥 Gosling break!
Nēnē, or Hawaiian geese, make soft nests on the ground 🌿 where 2–5 eggs are laid, usually between Oct. & March. The eggs hatch ~month later & the goslings are soon able to walk with their parents 🦢 to find food.
Goslings stay with their family for about a year. 💛
#WildlifeWednesday
Nēnē, or Hawaiian geese, make soft nests on the ground 🌿 where 2–5 eggs are laid, usually between Oct. & March. The eggs hatch ~month later & the goslings are soon able to walk with their parents 🦢 to find food.
Goslings stay with their family for about a year. 💛
#WildlifeWednesday
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This feels like a #BirdYoga morning. :) One of my fave shots, a young 'apapane getting creative sipping nectar from tiny, tiny pukiawe flowers. 📷🌿🦉
November 20, 2024 at 2:56 PM
This feels like a #BirdYoga morning. :) One of my fave shots, a young 'apapane getting creative sipping nectar from tiny, tiny pukiawe flowers. 📷🌿🦉
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We see it so often that I think we can state this as a general rule:
Those who most loudly proclaim their patriotism will, given the time and opportunity, harm their own nations as surely as any foreign adversary.
Those who most loudly proclaim their patriotism will, given the time and opportunity, harm their own nations as surely as any foreign adversary.
November 20, 2024 at 9:44 PM
We see it so often that I think we can state this as a general rule:
Those who most loudly proclaim their patriotism will, given the time and opportunity, harm their own nations as surely as any foreign adversary.
Those who most loudly proclaim their patriotism will, given the time and opportunity, harm their own nations as surely as any foreign adversary.