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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2025-02-02 at 00:14

[#]Hiking #Outdoors #mammals

Name that mammal!

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2025-01-31 at 01:30

"We should just normalize gender transition."

We should normalize leaving people the fuck alone to find their own way, their own tribe, their own path to meaning.

I'm just an old white cis guy, but I resent any action that makes it harder to be gay, trans, or queer because it infringes on MY right to find my own way. My path might not lead that direction, but that's not for anyone but me to decide.

Any right we don't all share isn't a right.

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2025-01-29 at 21:39

[#]Atheism #Atheist

There is no just god in a universe where Freddie Mercury died and 45 and Donald Trump is alive at 79.

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2025-01-29 at 21:20

[#]TransRights #TransJoy #CivilRights

As Trump seeks to trample trans folk's rights and identities, I have to ask myself who benefits from this? Will one homeless person be house[d]? Will one hungry child be fed? Will one cancer patient be saved?

No, no, and no. The only people who benefit are sadists looking to inflict pain.

It costs nothing to treat people as they wish to be treated, and it increases the net happiness in the universe.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/trump-executive-order-trans-passport-renewal-gender.html

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2025-01-24 at 16:50

All these NAZIs trying to be Trump's Ernst Röhm would be wise to read up on the Night of the Long Knives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2025-01-23 at 22:06

[#]Birthright_citizenship

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

Isn't that the clearest text you've ever read? Trump claims that children of non-citizens are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, but unlike the children foreign diplomants, the children of non-citizens get arrested and convicted of crimes and they pay taxes exactly like citizens.

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2025-01-23 at 17:11

[#]SanDiego #Outdoors

Spent the #hiking in ancient footsteps in the Jacumba Wilderness.

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2025-01-15 at 21:35

Destroying #ElonMusk 's testicles with a spinning kick is a wholesome and endearing activity.

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2025-01-12 at 00:48

[#]Hiking #Desert

Spent the day hiking with friends.

If you need to get outside, no place is more outside than the #AnzaBorrego desert.

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2025-01-10 at 17:30

Emory's Rock Daisy

(Perityle emoryi)

[#]AnzaBorrego Desert State Park

33.002425° N 116.442314° W (692 m)

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2025-01-03 at 17:26

[#]FossilFriday #Paleontology #NaturalHistory #Museum

Still working on the bison skull. Discovered in the QualComm stadium parking lot during demolition to make room for the new Snapdragon stadium, it was discovered face up. We opened the field jacket with the face down, and we've nearly completed this side.

We've got both horns, the back of the skull, seven neck vetebrae, and the first two spinous processes. When we flip it, we're expecting massive damage from the equipment that exposed it

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2024-12-30 at 23:51

[#]Evangelical_Christianity #JimmyCarter #Religion #Atheism

If the majority of #Christians acted like Jimmy Carter rather than Bull Conner, I might have more respect for #Christianity

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2024-12-26 at 22:15

[#]Billionaires #Greed

Martin Kerr

https://www.martinkerrmusic.com/

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2024-12-24 at 01:37

[#]Billionaires #Guillotine

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2024-12-20 at 15:01

[#]FossilFriday #Paleontology #NaturalHistory

Been working on the same bison skull for weeks, so I pulled something interesting out of the back. This is a dire wolf skull from La Brea collected in 1938. There were massive muscles attached...scary bite force!

(I'm not gonna wade into the dire wolf/grey wolf controversy.)

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2024-12-16 at 21:23

[#]SchoolShooting #Christianity #SeparationOfChurchAndState

"A shooter opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis., leaving at least three people dead and six more injured, police said Monday."

I thought bringing God, prayer, and the Ten Commandments into schools was supposed to prevent school shootings. Isn't that what all the Christian talking head have been telling us?

https://www.kpbs.org/news/national/2024/12/16/2-people-and-the-suspected-gunman-are-dead-in-wisconsin-school-shooting

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2024-12-13 at 21:48

Another day in the museum, but not in #paleontology. I spent the morning helping out in #herpetology. More #snakes that you could shake a stick at!

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2024-12-13 at 15:15

[#]FossilFriday #Paleontology #NaturalHistory

Well into year two working on this bison skull.

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2024-12-11 at 20:15

[#]ColdWar #Propaganda

"Is your washroom breeding Bolsheviks?"

So my brother-in-law died a few weeks back and my wife is going through his very limited possessions. The oddest thing she's found so far is this cold-war poster using the Red Menace to sell paper towels and toilet paper.

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Written by Marc W. :sun: on 2024-12-08 at 01:01

Long time with no posts...COVID is a bitch.

Finally able to get out and about, so I hiked through the Coyote Mountains Wilderness in the #AnzaBorrego desert. Spectacular vistas in every direction.

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