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Bob Brooks

@bobbrooks.bsky.social

PhD, Biological Chemistry, UM Ann Arbor. Former academic gene jockey, COBOL programmer, and one time Fed civil servant. Unabashed defender of all things science, great movies, and the American democratic experiment.

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Bob Brooks @bobbrooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This image is a fabrication. Notice that the text on the flag is oriented correctly but the text on the building in the background is reversed. What is your motive?

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Bob Brooks @bobbrooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There's no such thing as old people. If you think you see one, you're really just looking at a 25-year old with medical problems.

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Bob Brooks @bobbrooks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Show me people who love to listen to opera on the radio and I'll show you people who need to go to the opera.

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Bob Brooks @bobbrooks.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

If golf is a sport, then golfers are athletes. Same goes for chess.

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Bob Brooks @bobbrooks.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

R.I.P. Catherine O’Hara

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Bob Brooks @bobbrooks.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I think 20th century Democrats like Chuck Shumer believe bipartisanship is the key to fixing Congress. That's pretty much like seals off the Farallon Islands believing the way to deal with great white sharks is to talk to them. I'd like to think 21st century Democrats get that.

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Bob Brooks @bobbrooks.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

For 10 years I've wondered how Trump would handle a catastrophic emergency such as an impending ballistic missle attack. Now I know.

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Bob Brooks @bobbrooks.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

For 10 years I've wondered how Trump would handle a catastrophic emergency such as an impending ballistic missle attack. Now I know.

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Bob Brooks @bobbrooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Well, what you say about fading memories, yep, I hear you. Cheers.

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Bob Brooks @bobbrooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

More likely the ocean will rise over it and Florida will become a sandbar.

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