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Gordon Pattie

@gwpattie.bsky.social
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Retired Network Analyst, UVic Alumni '78 Biology, opinionated curmudgeon, fair-weather sailor, proud dad.(view from South Pender Island, paradise) PPC=Block. No DMs without first asking.

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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 3m
The more you know about this, the harder it is. We can work to save a level of civilization. The world will not be the same.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 5m
We must try. We can't give up. Every fraction of a degree means more survives, but is very grim. fight to keep a spark of humanity going. A candle in the dark.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 7m
Maybe we can save 500 million. Beyond that? good luck. No one is doing anywhere near enough to mitigate. Carbon Capture is a scam but the survival plans depend on it working. What may save some is a total collapse that stops the burning of fossil fuels. I've read some of the papers. 😬
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 11m
You would be correct.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 12m
We won't get the time to use geo-engineering on a big scale. Time's up.
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Jeff Goldblum: Times Up - Independence Day Scene
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 14m
In a few short years, crops will fail across many areas. People will have to move or die. Wars will intensify. Local nuclear wars will occur. Famine will kill 80-90%. The global economy & oil consumption will collapse. It may save the environment but with a lot less people. This'll happen by 2075.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
No civilized country has the death penalty.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There are lots of solutions and drugs available for medically assisted death when it is the wish of the patient. No pharmaceutical company wants their products used for state murder.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We will have a better chance of a Palestinian state and peace in ME after AnsurAllah overruns the Saudi dictatorship.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Never give up
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Major idiots that didn’t pay attention in 5th grade
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Terminator Time Travel Appearance
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Turkey vultures kettling over my house before they get enough altitude to glide across Juan de Fuca Strait and head south.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As someone who worked with preserved fish in a lab in the 80s, I figure I have enough formaldehyde in my system to never decompose.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ants smell of formaldehyde. They use it for defence. Their name is Formicida. You can use ant bodies to extract formaldehyde.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Haha! I have arachnophobia, a pain for a biologist but have always had it. Once I was looking at an anthill and my skin began to crawl. I looked closer and spotted a single ant-mimic spider among the ants. The phobia detected it before I consciously saw it. 😆
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The US was founded by money grubbing psychopaths. It has never changed. Any poll will tell you that American citizens want decent fair healthcare and education. They want fairness in work (like unions) & a reasonable retirement plan. They never get that because the rich don’t think they deserve it.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My wife is a "super smeller". We have travelled on pathways and trails where she has smelled heavy cat smell. We live in cougar central so that is not surprising. Many women are super smellers. You may be one. It is a known survival adaptation.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That would be glorious. 😆
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nurse? I say that because my RN wife was working in blood collection. She was screening a donor and got concerned about a lab result he reported. He shrugged it off but she told him to talk to his doc. He came back 6 months later to say that she saved his life. Cancer. He had misunderstood the doc.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The FN people are just applying our own Crown laws. We used to deny them access to they court system because we knew we were in the wrong. This crap has to stop. Full legal rights to First Nations. Recognition of their legitimate claims. Negotiation where all win. /fin
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I support the efforts of 1st Nations people I share this province with, in their struggle to have their basic rights honoured as the Crown promised. If an FN great grandparent claim to a piece of land in BC is not acknowledged, why should older White claims in Ontario or Quebec be acknowledged? /5
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
BC did not make treaties but for some local exceptions, They just pushed the rightful occupants off their land, against Royal law, and shoved them to places the they hoped they would die. I will not accept these atrocities being defended. Reconciliation is not an option. Study history. /4
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If it was white property and claims, no one would question their right to it. The Crown recognized their rights in 1763 and insisted that only negotiated treaties to change it. BC Settlers just couldn't be bothered. They stomped on a population still recovering from a 90% fatal plague. /3
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Before 1850, they would have been a First Nations person. They occupied the land. They had community recognized property: berry harvest spots; fish harvest spots; places to gather resources. Not just bare land but rights to resources. Gardens the settler couldn't understand. Marine harvest sites. /2
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I am 72. My Grandmother was born in 1889 and moved to Sumas at 1 year old. That was less than 75 years from any real European contact in the BC, Oregon, Washington area. Just think if your great grandparent or mine lived there. They would have a strong claim on the land they occupied. / 1
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Digestive function is lizard brain level. Brain stem. Not Intelligence. Bare functionality. I suggest you take about 4 years of actual biological science education before embarrassing yourself again. There is something called expertise. It is hard earned. Not Google.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
AI is not even at the level of a grasshopper.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Running a digestive system is a lower brain action. News Flash: I earned a degree in biology so don't attempt to spout pseudo science bullshit to me. I will rip you a new one.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tucker is a complete idiot and performance artist. I don't give shit whether Tucker actually believes the stream of shit he spews or not. I know that the UK and the UK Diaspora stood against the forces of darkness for 2 years before the US got involved. They can go fuck themselves.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Both OneBC and BCCP are pushing this crap. It is unacceptable. 😡
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
AI is software and it is not intelligent. These clowns are creating fake crisis to scare people. Any "secure sandbox" that has a physical connection to the Internet without being air gapped is just set up to fail. These guys depend on stupid people swallowing their bullshit.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Israel is likely the least safe place for Jews. A genocidal state will not survive long term.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The free press is under assault because it totally failed its job. Every member of the press who has not stood up to Trump to his face and called him out should never be respected again. Gutless wimps and traitors. Shame.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Well, I shouldn't say he isn't stupid. Joe Rogan is just that gullible shmuck at the bar that is good at bullshit but not critical thinking. Whatever the last person told him must be the truth. People like him will get us all killed.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Rogan is not stupid. He is just amoral. He is a POS. For sale.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Joe Rogan is a whore. He will do or say anything he thinks will gain him points. My apologies. I insulted whores by comparing Rogan to one. He is beneath contempt.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Yes. There is no divine design but evolution has pruned our mutations to the extent that humans (not me) can run many plains animals into the ground. The prey overheat.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Humans are evolutionarily built to run. The adaptations for running on the African savanna are impressive. Standing upright=less sun exposure. Curly dark hair=ventilate the air over the brain and block the sun Full bipedalism. No fur combined with full body sweating. Plus many more refinements.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It has become an identity for them. You have to accept all the tropes to be accepted into the group.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The founding fathers were trying to recreate a Roman Republican state where men of substance had all the power. It was a corrupt system from day one.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The fact is that the US has a stupid system designed by slaveholders and plantation owners to retain their power. It needs to be ripped out and redone.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I attracted my wife because I talked to her like a human being and I made luxurious home made meals. 😂
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My wife was an RN who worked a lot of night shifts when they were young. They observed the two of us sharing cooking & childcare throughout their lives. I do leave the laundry to my wife as I am deemed incompetent. I do vacuuming, some cooking, & household exterior work, firewood etc. They learned.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Yes. They do. Both like to cook but no bathing kids yet. Anxious potential grandparents are still waiting. 😂
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/07/2026
Calibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/
Comic. [Person 1 with short hair on stage behind podium reading off paper while addressing audience. People are shown sitting in chairs while Person 2 with ponytail and Person 3 waving are walking toward stage.] PERSON 1: This year’s Nobel Prize in “calibrating your equipment carefully and not embarrassing yourself by publishing spurious results” goes to Dr. Adams and Dr. Smith, who did *not* announce the discovery of microbes on Titan. PERSON 3: Thank you, thank you.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Excellent. There should be awards for all the mundane results the confirm or deny previous work. I'm not bitter for having my only publishable results scooped by some journal in Siberia 50 years ago weeks after I verified them but hadn't submitted. Same environment & study subjects, same results. 😬😂
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
In BC, we have a tax on empty homes that are occupied for less than 50% of the year. A guy wrote to the paper complaining about the tax bill. (2%) To hit the tax level he was whining about at 2% required his SECONDARY condo to be worth $3 million. No one sympathized. We have a severe vacancy crisis.
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Gordon Pattie @gwpattie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Yes. FK their careers. They decided to flush their careers when they decided to rape. I can't understand what drives some idiots to carry on after a woman says "no", or "I don't want to have sex now." Anything from that moment on is just a physical power trip. Nothing like affection or making love.
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