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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

In times of trouble, a good reminder of perspective: “How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.” — Dorothy Sayers.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

America must stand for freedom again one day. Today was a terrible day for America, but there are countless Americans who still carry the highest ideals of the better angels of our founders. Don’t give up.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A exposition on the worship of ignorance, as told in two screenshots.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Francis Fukuyama (of “The End of History” fame) writes of current events. The topic is terrible to consider, but the writing is excellent. www.persuasion.community/p/the-ultima...

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The Ultimate Betrayal

America just switched sides in the Ukraine war.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

When MAGAs publicly express their fantasies, it sounds an awful lot like the annexing the Sudetenland.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

If you have the temperament to responsibly own and use firearms and you do not already own them, I would do so immediately.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A MAGA Senator (Tuberville) just suggested that kids with ADHD get “the belt” instead of appropriate care at the hands of a medical professional. Contempt for empathy is a hallmark of fascism.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I have long loved this poem. If it's new to you, now you can too.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Gustavo Petro, the President of Colombia, has handed Herr Trump his ass. You’ll want to read all of this, it’s beautiful.

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Laura Donnelly @laurakdonnelly.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Ok, Bluesky, let’s start here

“As for What the Rain Can Do” by D.A. Powell

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Half of MAGA is living out a Daddy/Dom fetish in public, and other half has a fetish for the taste of boot-leather.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Cremaine Booker plays "On the Nature of Daylight", which happens to be the theme song from my favorite modern speculative fiction movie: "Arrival". This is (literally) too beautiful for words. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tDP...

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On the Nature of Daylight (Cover)

YouTube video by ThatCelloGuy

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The bishop in question was born in New Jersey. Deporting someone back to NJ seems like it would violate the 8th Amendment. ;)

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

In case there was any doubt.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

A reminder from MLK on this day that both celebrates him, and ushers in a new age of fascism: “When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.”

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This is the Doll’s Song from Offenbach’s “Tales of Hoffman”. I consider the opera insufferable except for this one exquisite aria. For decades I’ve thought of Natalie Dessay’s rendition as unmatched and unmatchable, but this performance by Patricia Janeckova comes pretty close!

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes”.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

1. Watching Fran, in the video below, talk about her home in Altadena broke me. The enormity of the loss in the LA area is hard to comprehend and is ongoing as the fires continue to expand and new ones pop up.

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Woman Talks About Losing Her Home In LA Fires

YouTube video by Yashar Ali

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

A terrific account of the struggle to overthrow the Bohr model of the atom. 100 years ago this year, humanity took the great leap that overturned Newton and confounded Einstein. And if you make the obvious joke, you will be publicly shamed. 🤪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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How quantum mechanics emerged in a few revolutionary months 100 years ago

It began with concerns about the orbits used to explain the motion of electrons in atoms — but quantum theory ended up upending reality itself.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Contra whatever THIS is: Look around. Everywhere, there are good, serious, intelligent human beings doing hard things that need doing. Don’t let buffoons beclowning themselves on social media blind you to to the reality of masses of people bettering the world.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I stumbled across this Paul Morphy puzzle. While it’s not exactly Anderssen and Kieseritzky’s “Immortal game”, it’s clever and took me a moment (or three) to see. White to move, mate in 2.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

This is either a new world record for Poe’s Law, or a new world record for historically illiterate tweets. I wish I knew which!

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Stacey and I did a thing. Well, OK, we did THE thing.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

She’s testing out her new rolling pin.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

On Twitter there is a (racist) MAGA civil-war being waged over the issue of H1-B visas. About 90% of the “they’re taking our jerbs!” folks have never invented, designed, programmed, or built any new, complex technology in their lives. This country needs every bright, educated mind it can get.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Over at “the other place”, people are arguing about “The Odyssey”. I’m turning 59 in a few weeks, and I’ve had an extraordinary life. Every year that passes, this poem means more to me: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/...

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Ulysses

It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and kn...

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Kids are asleep and a plate full of cookies awaits Santa… along with the sweetest note for “Santa” ever penned by an 11 year old girl.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

MAGA is an unparalleled disaster for the public health infrastructure in this country. Link to article in the first comment. It's as bad as it sounds. This is the Endarkenment.

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Looking at the incoming administration, there will be lots of harmful public health effects, and among them: I think we (in the US) may end up losing the Gardasil vaccine. (Cont)

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Doug Wolf @douglaswolf.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Today is the anniversary. For anyone that flies anything craft at all, a pilgrimage to Kill Devil Hill is something you shouldn’t miss.

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