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Brian Buchbinder

@brianbuchbinder.bsky.social
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Retired public defender, retired boiler and plumbing repair. I could get you heat and hot water, or get you out of hot water.

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
ok, so, this is entirely beside the point, but setting aside the abhorrent racism for a moment, is this a sticky rice that sort of clumps when you press it together? because I am used to rice with separate grains that you couldn't really do this with easily.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
One hopes for the Gov's sake that he doesn't do that right after shaking hands with Hegseth.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
You can't win if you're running for Mayor in NYC. Back some time ago, Bill DiBlasio got dragged for eating pizza with a knife and fork, instead out of the hand the way "real NYers" do. Though in the home of pizza, utensils are required for good manners.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
😱
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
It's even worse than you can imagine:
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Sen. Gillebrand reacts:
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
What does anyone expect from someone who bases his practice on the mythical "subluxations". Playing tennis w/o a net is fun until the kids get sick and die.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
They spelled "tax avoiders" and "tax cheats" wrong.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I guess "walking on eggs" is no longer in fashion. Maybe all the necessary omelettes have been made.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
MOBY-DICK Hard: "With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship." Easy: "When things get me down, I book a cruise."
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Public health depends on people's NOT "doing their own research" (for obvious reasons) but upon trust. That's gone, mostly, and I don't see a way back to that.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Was there (In Mainz/Wiesbaden) last month. Yes, you can get pretty much anywhere without a car and the trains run frequently.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
They're huffing the hopium that Iran agrees that there's no war.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
We are so screwed. Like it or not the protections public health offers depend on trust, and in the pandemic, a charitable interpretation of mistakes made when nobody knew much about the infection. That's largely gone, and won't soon be recovered, no matter who runs CDC
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
When I've tried that, the cats' response has been, "There will be blood."
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Back in 2017, when I was still in my 7th decade, I met tons of young people on my 2000 mile hike of the Appalachian trail. "The kids are ok" or at least those were, then.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I personally do not think drug companies should be allowed to advertise the way they do in the US but I have to say that Gardasil (HPV vax) has had some really good ads lately. Very informative and effective communication. What a functioning society’s public health agencies should be doing instead.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/06/2025
"This is how we get flotsam: King George insists on levying harsh taxes on his New World subjects. Some Bostonians respond by littering in the harbor."
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Historical New York Times Tweets
The contagion of incivility: President Trump says undocumented immigrants want to “infest” the United States. His critics respond with vituperative...
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The Earth is a spheroid The Earth is flat. Teach the controversy. <sigh>
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Thanks for posting this. Helen made the hellsite worth visiting and I'll miss her.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
thank you
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Much easier to sell the vaporware of going to Mars, especially for that sweet, sweet government money.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Got to remember not to reply until the coffee kicks in.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
It was the words "follow farmers" that motived my response. I'm sorry, I misinterpreted that. "follow farmers" are those trying to get follows back. <emily litella voice>. Never mind. But she's good to follow anyway.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I don't see her on the list, but if you follow farmers, you will love @sarahtaber.bsky.social
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Yeah, no true Scotsman is having a much too long moment.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
GFY
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
My fav was a FB friend who a few years back called Melon Husk a "socialist" because his companies accept government subsidies. Who knew?
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I used to follow Bruning on the hellsite. Religion has poisoned her mind to this extent, as it can do for some.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
My grade school marching band was more in step than this gaggle, and we had to play instruments at the same time.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
cf. "Born in the USA"
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
We're approaching USSR levels of humor. And for similar reasons.
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
14yo got her 2nd Gardasil vaccine! I’m rejoicing that my daughters are now protected against the cervical cancer that killed my mother. Fuck all the vaccine-haters. These vaccines save lives & anyone who chooses not to protect their kid, boy or girl, from HPV is an idiot & menace to society.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Melania wins with the poker face
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
And she wrote the (terrifying) book.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Another "general" fighting the last war.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
<sigh> Some police agencies have used 'psychics" so at least this is actual pseudoscience.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8BR...
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The Merry Minuet
YouTube video by The Kingston Trio - Topic
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
After all, back in high school I had to read Mrs. Gaskell. That didn't turn me into a nazi, but it did have me turn to better things to read.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
As if there were no other books to read. "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Did anyone (especially a Senator with a legislative staff) really believe RFK's lies, especially as he was caught lying on-camera, and has a very easily researched history of lying about just about everything. That and the dead Samoans.
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
My main surprise is that this move took this long to do but this is about as grave a situation as you can get when it comes to vaccine regulation in the US: archive.ph/Y5WCM
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
There's an extremely depressing chapter on Christian fundies' use of violence against their kids in @swordsjew.bsky.social recent book "Wild Faith". Fun Fact: You can buy implements to beat kids with on Amazon.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Now do "A squeeze of the hand."
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
It was (unintentionally) true in 1968 as it continues to be. "The police are not here to create disorder; they're here to preserve disorder."
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
And proper medical coverage.
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
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Brian Buchbinder @brianbuchbinder.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Oh shit. Adorno, you are correct. Note to self: Don't post when enjoying extreme jet lag but wanting something to do when wide awake at 3AM
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