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Jim O’Gara

@kaizenguitar.bsky.social
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Musician/Mathematician, AuDHD, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Survivor, Muscular Therapist, Irish-Puerto Rican w/ Jewish wife & kids. Multi-Cultural is how I roll. U.U.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This. We have a cult of millions living in a separate reality but also living alongside us. And voting in our elections. And an oligarchy eagerly and effectively exploiting them.
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“"It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth." -John Locke
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"I am not this hair. I am not this skin. I am the soul lives that within." -Rumi
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Apparently, the other day Zohran Mamdani said his wife Rama Duwaji, “is an oasis.” Does that mean ….. she’s his wonderwall? And after all? (I can’t believe I made that joke. I have been in Dad joke mode with my kids for so long now. Please send help!)
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological-social-psychological-economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple & infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.” -Dana Meadows, 1982
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Boy he must have really been hoping no one would look at the documents he talked about tonight because they underscore what I've been saying for 6 years, which is that the Trump-Ukraine Scandal was infinitely worse than people thought from the facts revealed during Impeachment #1
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure" -Clarence Darrow
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BassRck67 @bassrck67.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It's tragically appropriate that we spent a whole generation telling students that the humanities were moribund, and they should all study STEM, only for the greatest innovations in STEM to prove why the humanities were so essential all along.
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.”
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Sabermane @homelessrobot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Tolkien: evil defeats itself and only friendship can keep us sane in the power of such darkness Every goddamn billionaire: I'm going to name my company after the cool evil things in this book I skimmed.
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
In my last dream of last night, I had an impromptu lecture on drum kit and percussion routing in a DAW (digital audio workstation) showing that while each source is separate your job as a mixer to make it all sound balanced and cohesive.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
November 6th... 2024. How did I do?
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
For the World Cup, as a dual citizen of Ireland, I have decided to root for Scotland and who is ever playing against England any time they play.
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
What small thing are you doing today to make the world a better place? I’m donating platelets.
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Experts are projecting that the war in Iran will cost taxpayers $1 trillion. The people in charge just gave the richest 1% a $1 trillion tax break. And they really want us to believe SNAP and healthcare are the problem?? Get real.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 16/05/2026
Here is a graph of the daily temperature anomalies above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline over the last 20 years using Copernicus data. As you can clearly see, the trendline shows the planet passing 1.5°C within a year. Get on the boat, people!
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Every day I think to myself, “Is he dead yet? No?! Fuuuuuuuuuuuccccccck! (Said in Roy Kent’s voice)”
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I'm literally writing about a set of Tennessee segregationists in the 1960s at the moment. I swear to God, they were not *this* comically and overtly racist.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Someone has to tell the truth.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
democrats: if we win this fall we wont do the single most obvious thing to hold this administration accountable also democrats: we dont understand why its so hard for us to get our voters to show up
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DeepBlueThinker @its-just-logical.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
So Trump canceled all Green energy projects including paying $1Billion to cancel a contract wind power Mean time China moved into #1 car maker in world with their BYD car. Trump has put US automakers in the catch up position behind by years in technology. Shows what fossil fuel money can buy
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
“Ready for some bullshit? You paid the the higher prices… They raised prices on you to cover the tariffs, kept prices high, and now they get the refund. Also: 88 of the largest US corporations paid zero income tax in 2025.” (From @attorneyryan.bsky.social )
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A poll he doesn’t like: “It’s a rigged poll.” An election he loses: “The election was rigged. It was stolen.” A court ruling that goes against him: “The entire process was rigged. Judge was unfair to me.” Media coverage he doesn’t like: “Fake news. I’ll sue em.” What a weak, pathetic, coward.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
MAGA howled for a decade about President Obama unfreezing Iranian assets, falsely calling it a gift and terming him a terrorist enabler. So we'll now hear MAGAs howl about Trump for 50 years and call him an *actual terrorist*, right? Because they're not fucking hypocrites, right?
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
In another massive data set of more than 1.5 million children ‌born between 1997 and 2022, the use of Tylenol during pregnancy was NOT associated with autism, even after accounting for ​individual risk factors. Autism was diagnosed in 1.8% of children exposed to Tylenol and 3% of the unexposed group.
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Acetaminophen Exposure During Pregnancy and the Risk of Autism in Offspring
This cohort study evaluates the potential association between prenatal acetaminophen exposure and risk of autism in Danish national registers.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 10/04/2026
In their third report on the subject, researchers reach the same conclusions that have twice bedeviled the anti-wage hike sector of the restaurant industry: California’s $20 an hour fast food minimum wage, instituted in 2024, did not reduce employment.
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California’s $20 Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs, New Study Finds
The data-driven study pushes back against multiple industry-backed reports that cast a grim light on the higher wage.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
So before Trump’s war, Iran did NOT control the Strait of Hormuz. And now because of Trump’s war, Iran DOES control the Strait. And will continue to. What a fucking disaster this illegal war has been. What a fucking idiot Trump is.
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I can’t be the only one who reads this and hears in their head… "In every generation there is a chosen one... the Slayer!" Just me? #buffythevampireslayer
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you" -Silent Bob, in “Clerks”
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NPR @npr.org · 29/03/2026
Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.
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Trump is dismantling democracy at 'unprecedented' speed, global report finds
Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings
An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1.	He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2.	He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3.	He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4.	He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5.	He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6.	He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7.	He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8.	He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9.	He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10.	He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11.	For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12.	For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13.	For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14.	For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15.	For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16.	For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17.	For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18.	He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19.	He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20.	He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
At a No Kings protest, & a choir is singing protest songs. It’s all good. I can appreciate Bob Dylan’s “The Times Are A-Changin.” But as a Gen Xer, I want “Killing in The Name” to become standard protest songs repetoire. Getting the whole crowd singing “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Jack Smith gathered evidence that Trump took top secret documents during his first term that specifically related to his worldwide business interests — and investigators considered this a likely motive for Trump concealing them at his Florida club, according to newly released case records.
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Trump appeared to have business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds
The special counsel’s office found that Donald Trump held on to documents so secret that only six people could legally review them — and the team believed his reason for doing so was financial gain.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/03/2026
Schrödinger's investigation, which both totally exonerated Trump and dragged him through the mud in a politically motivated witch hunt
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MAGA’s Mueller Myths
The 7 lies that Trumpists still cling to.
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
In honor of his passing, I feel the need to make one final Chuck Norris joke. Death didn’t take Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris has taken Death’s place. So now we won’t say that’ve died, we’ve been Chuck Norrised.
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. " -Mark Twain
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Jim O’Gara @kaizenguitar.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life." - James Joseph Sylvester
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