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misterscience

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Mostly boosting things that make me think (or laugh, or -- these days -- angry). Occasionally sharing stuff I make

Profile image: cartoon of a smiling, gray-haired, pink-skinned man (me)

Banner photo: some white woodland wildflowers in spring

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Clarion call for all Americans interested in saving what's left of your once-proud nation

@pluralistic on point as always

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/10/miller-in-the-dock/#denazification

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Winter sun reflects off lake Ontario


Winter sun reflects on lake Ontario in the background with Ripley's Aquarium, CN tower, Skydome (or Rogers, something something?) lined up in front as we look west out the 46th floor at King and Simcoe
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Swans swimming by Scarborough bluffs in lake Ontario





Two swans swimming in sparkling, clear Lake water
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If only there were seven of them this would be highly seasonally appropriate!

@NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art avatar NickEast_IndieWriter , to librarians group

As much as I apporve of this creativity. If you have a book you don't want (I know but it could happen, theoretically) give it to a thriftstore, that's where I get most of my books 😁

@libraries librarians@a.gup.pe icon librarians group @bookbubble bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group
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Pictire of three men in work clothes standing in what looks like a bunker tunnel lined with bookshelves. Capstion: Turkish garbage collectors opened a library with all of the books people throw out in their trash.
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@NickEast_IndieWriter @libraries librarians@a.gup.pe icon librarians group @bookbubble bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group

We have so many Little Libraries everywhere in the city. That's where my no-longer-wanted books go

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

in case you needed a reason to volunteer at your local public library: today the librarians let me pick a theme for and then curate one of the featured displays.

time to get this town reading more space operas!

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Fantastic list!

Random comments...

Martha Wells is so good!

Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon might fit here too

For sheer space-operatude, I'd pick Excession out of Banks's oeuvre

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Weird: Toronto Public Library has only a single copy of Hamilton's Pandora's star, reference only, in the Merrill Collection. It's gonna be tough reading 758 pages if I can't check the book out...

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The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?

https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/

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@molly0xfff

If you can spare a few bucks, consider donating to the Wikimedia foundation: https://donate.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give

Wikipedia is a bastion of truth and hope. Let's keep it going!

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    @gerrymcgovern

    Yikes: 'I was surprised to hear a European Bank chief economist explain that “our current system needs growth regardless of the wellbeing of people and ecosystems.”'

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    Friends, I need your help. I know that Instagram isn't the most popular platform on here, but I recently discovered that I need 10,000 Instagram followers before Meta will start paying me to post all the silly stuff I post on Threads. I am currently 2,347 followers away from that goal.

    So to be blunt, if you have an Instagram account and are willing to follow me on there, it would mean the world to me. Here is a link that I hope you will find to be most clickable:
    https://www.instagram.com/lowqualityfacts

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