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Narad Trabant

@borisogon.bsky.social
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No longer on Tw*tter. IANAL and have no biomedical training beyond secondary school. I do try to travel in good company, though. All sales as-is.

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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
really wish that I didn't suddenly wind up with Tony Orlando & Dawn stuck in my head after a fall this evening.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I missed this one last week. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/h...
nytimes.com
Kennedy Assures Vaccine Skeptics That They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’ (Gift Article)
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a tough one for a cover. The Ramones, I think, only got in the ballpark. youtu.be/6GizTr6QLfc
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The Trashmen - Surfing Bird (1963)
YouTube video by Charles Moreira
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bump, bump, bump, down the funny stairs. aplaceformystuff1.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-co...
aplaceformystuff1.blogspot.com
A Comparison: “The Ginger Man” (by J.P Donleavy) and “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me” (by Richard Fariña)
I read J.P. Donleavy’s “ The Ginger Man ” while I was in college, sometime after I’d read Richard Fariña’s  “ Been Down So Long It ...
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think that I may have been missing out by not digging into Playhouse 90.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Peacock is hit or miss, but they seem to have the original Dark Shadows, one of the strangest ideas for a soap opera ever conceived. (My memory is from snow days out of school.)
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
youtu.be/O1ptA6TgMhg
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Loudon Wainwright III - Fame And Wealth (Live at The Music Hall Tarrytown, NY 1988)
YouTube video by The Mosh Pit - Topic
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The tagline in these ceaseless Muse ads, "AI that hustles for you," keeps reminding me of Larry Flynt.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Found another "Delta Dawn" cover while thinking about perusing more Finnish material. This is not Finnish. www.facebook.com/groups/74559...
facebook.com
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Peacock search engine is terrible.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I find it occasionally amusing to see which of the hard-won films I'm seeding is of no apparent interest to anyone. Seriously, *nobody* but me is interested in Peter Robinson's "Asylum"? (And yes, I paid for the DVD, but I am also without much of my property at the moment.)
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I really enjoyed reading DIO, just by the by. www.dioi.org
dioi.org
DIO, The International Journal of Scientific History
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not actually what I was looking for, but I'd check out the abstracts.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm getting very tired of actualizing Maslow's hierarchy of fall risks.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.motortrend.com/news/long-lo...
motortrend.com
Long-Lost '68 Ford Mustang Bullitt Stunt Car Found in Mexico
One of the stunt cars from the movie "Bullitt," long thought to have been crushed, was discovered in a junkyard in Mexico. Get the full story here.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-in-ads-...
brookstonbeerbulletin.com
Beer In Ads #4787: Farewell To Miss Rheingold 1965
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As a result of several encounters in the mass media lately, I would like to stress that plopping a hyphen into an "-ly" adverbial construction is brain-dead and riles some folks up.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yikes, my head autocorrected this to "Barnaby Jones" and it took over a minute to sense that something had to be off with this conclusion. („Die Beverly Hillbillies sind los!“ was in fact released in Germany though.)
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cripes, it took me all day to remember the name of the Chunky chocolate object.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Does a hanging kinda art deco four-bulb candelabra count as a chandelier? Asking for a friend.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Surveying versions of St. James Infirmary appears to be fruitless.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Purr-o-Meter at 4. It's amazing, in a way, that naturally predatory, obligate carnivore, small cats are into cuddling.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The signage is impressively annoying, and the cartoon embodiment of Muse resembles nothing so much as -- again -- a Teletubby. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
sfchronicle.com
She designed Meta’s new AI logo. Now this Bay Area artist is facing backlash
A Bay Area artist is facing criticism from designers after revealing she helped create the visual identity for Meta’s new AI agent. She took to social media to explain why she accepted the job.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You're not Franz Mesmer, Augie, but nice try.
Augie the Cat tries some wizardry.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Muse ads at Cat Magic School seem to be obsessed with the notion that first-graders need backpacks. It will place the order for you. L-rd knows how I made it out of college without one of these accessories.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have come to dislike the role of true (rather than slang) interlocutor.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The G--gle "AI" has never had a cat. It's pretty easy to recognize when Augie is having a dream about hunting.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You misspelled "meat."
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Amazingly, no tornado warning from downstairs yet. youtu.be/-S4TOIEX7rM
youtu.be
Natural Disaster - Loudon Wainwright III
YouTube video by Andrea Dottling (Zelda)
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LizW @cave-malum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The US has limited production capacity for radiopharmaceuticals so we import a lot of them from Canada. So I hope no members of the military, their dependents, or veterans need these drugs in a timely fashion for medical imaging or cancer treatment.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Because Augie the Cat has woken up and gone to attend to something or other, I shall note that the Latin naming of stars, such as "Alpha Centauri," is the *partitive* genitive, not the possessive.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" seems to be another invitation to crappy covers that are trapped in a poke.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm going lose it between stuff like this and the Winred spam texts. youtu.be/QkSUnARle-w
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From Ego to Infinite Consciousness with Professor Donald Hoffman
YouTube video by Simon Mundie | Awakening Meets Real Life
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"I say we advertise at Cat Magic School."
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Food tasters might also work as an analogy.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Augie the Cat seems to have settled into a pattern of either hanging off the edge of the bed like a cheetah in a tree or sitting next to my library-bound copy of the Bench Press edition of Millbrook.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Might come in handy at some point. youtu.be/frjcIwMMj9k
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The A-Team | I Got No Time for the Jibber Jabber
YouTube video by Stuff I Watched
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Time for a little more Washboard Chaz, I think. youtu.be/Us-TVg40ExM
youtu.be
Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around The World
YouTube video by Playing For Change
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Uh-huh.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is going to take forever to disassemble. paranthropologyjournal.weebly.com/free-pdf.html
paranthropologyjournal.weebly.com
Free PDF
Follow the links below to download free .pdfs of the journal.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm starting to have second thoughts about whether I really need to have a Whammy from That's a Burger at 83rd & Stony some day.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
youtu.be/57qaDmeDx5s
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Hard Times Come Again No More Live | Made of Ale Sessions | The Longest Johns
YouTube video by The Longest Johns
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ugh, Meta's "Muse" has entered the Cat Magic School ad space. I would have preferred one of the Erinyes, frankly.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
sites.google.com/view/elizage...
sites.google.com
ELIZAGEN - Original ELIZA
Joseph Weizenbaum's Original ELIZA
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Euler's formula should be introduced in secondary school to mitigate the nomenclatural quagmire that is the rote teaching of trigonometry.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I insist that it is crucial to understand this. (I couldn't find "Easter Parade.") youtu.be/yPvl8qcgEJ8
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Was GENE THE DANCING MACHINE a phony on The Gong Show?
YouTube video by Retro Rules: Paul Van Scott
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Heh, blocked by Kent Anderson, whose whiny, turgid prose I used to loathe.
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Narad Trabant @borisogon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Herb Alpert's "Good Morning, Mr. Sunshine" is like a slow-moving version of "Spanish Flea."
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