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Mickey Marlin White

@mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social
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Venerable flatulence. Retired printer, photojournalist. Maverick Scientist. B.S. Microbiology UT Arlington. Go Mavs! Hobbies: keys, frets, harmonica; art. Myself and wife mid 70s. Son-in-law mid 30s. Only one employed. Banner: The History of Painting.

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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Texas official graph of data from the nearest (walking distance) test well. My well is running dry. This is not a natural phenomenon. Who's gonna pay for this? I'm not the Lone Ranger here, hundreds or even thousands of people will be effected (afflicted) by this.
Texas official graph of data from the nearest (walking distance) test well. My well is running dry. 
Who's gonna pay for this? I'm not the Lone Ranger here, hundreds or even thousands of people will be effected (afflicted) by this.
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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What's a book you love with all your goddamn heart that you believe did NOT get the love and attention it's due? I'll go first, and it's abso-LUT-ely THE CITY IN GLASS by Nghi Vo. There are moments from that book that live in my blood and wake me from the dark.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Treue der Union" monument to German immigrants who died attempting to join the Union Army. Comfort, Texas.
"Treue der Union" monument. Comfort, Texas. "Treue der Union" plaque. Comfort, Texas. "Treue der Union" plaque, dedication. Comfort, Texas. "Treue der Union" plaque, funeral. Comfort, Texas.
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Nikolay V Klimchuk @klimchuk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
www.ibtimes.co.uk/anthropic-se... What the hell mis-Anthropic?
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Inside Project Panama, Anthropic's Secret Effort To Scan and Shred the World's Books
Anthropic secretly scanned and destroyed millions of books for AI training, raising legal and ethical questions. The operation, Project Panama, involved both piracy and legal purchases, impacting book...
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is a Kissing Bug. These may carry a deadly parasite called Chagas Disease. I forget the scientific names. Avoid them at all costs.
This is a Kissing Bug. These may carry a deadly parasite called Chagas Disease. I forget the scientific names. Avoid them at all costs.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I have to steel myself to attack a project like this.
Herman Backe was responsible for starving Ukraine during WW2. I was surprised by this resemblance.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I bought a little travel trailer to fix up as an art studio. It came with a lot of things the previous owner didn't want. One of them was this signed photo of LBJ. You may wonder why I include the doves mosaic, but there is a "method to my madness."
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BluesterB @bluesterb.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Can’t be repeated enough…
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This classification of scales came out of my study of the Classical music of India. It's intended to present these scales to Western musicians of all stripes. Classical Indian music is mostly monophonic, staying with one scale in one key (determined by the main vocalist or instrumentalist).
The Periodic Table of Musical Scales

Based on the South Indian melakarta system of 72 melas/ scales/modes.

This (I think, still) is a printable PDF.
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RobzieNC🫘🏳️‍🌈🇺🇲🇺🇦🇵🇸🥎🥁🎸🤿🎣🏕🐕🐈🐴🐔✌️ @robzienc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🙌🏼 This!
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Um... does this mean that NIH funded collaborators of mine will need to get approval to publish with me?!?!?
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
More on Vought’s proposed rule to kill science. Includes a great sample comment. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Salting the earth for US science (ACTION ITEM)
Sometimes it feels like scientists in the US are trapped in a burning building and no one is even trying to put out the fire. So few people even seem to recognize that the fire is there.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The family cats snoozing on my best keyboard and bench. Cats are weird. That's why we love them.
The family cats snoozing on my best keyboard and bench.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
'Nuff said.
Headline about Arizona State commencement address by Harrison Ford.

The word "speech" is spelled as "speach."
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George @retiredsurgassist.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Zero medical and science training so obviously tRump put him in charge of securing our health. This is tRump's revenge for not electing him in 20' plus 34 felony convictions, adjudication of rape, etc.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A Muslim family celebrated a big win on Wheel of Fortune. This is what our country is "supposed" to be about.
A Muslim family celebrated a big win on Wheel of Fortune. This is what our country is "supposed" to be about.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Just for the fun of it! Tyson and Colbert clowning around.
Tyson and Colbert clowning around, wearing foil hats.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
If you're wondering about my politics.
Rough pencil drawing of Mount Rushmore with Musolini, Hitler, Stalin, and Trump. Titled: Mount Trumpmore.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This is what needs to happen if this planet, humanity, and, indeed, all terrestrial life ID to survive. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15094808/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Checking your browser - reCAPTCHA
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Stop calling them conservatives! "Conservative" is an Orwellian euphemism for authoritarian, fascist, und so wieter. Like a statement from a scientific text that I wish I could remember the source (paraphrased). Stop calling a spade a "soil macrotome." Call them what they are: Nazis, neo or not.
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 17/04/2026
Not to put people off by resorting to jargon, but I think the technical term for what is wrong with Trump is that he is EVIL.
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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Tonight’s #FridayLimericks watch the worst of the circus turn on the ringmaster. For too long we’ve seen airwaves immersed In the shouts of America’s worst. But with every new fumble, Alliances crumble; We’re watching the Trump bubble burst. substack.com/@heathercoxr...
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NAFO'S Grammy @grammynafopart2.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
👍👊
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
AI removes 200 books from school library, including Orwell's 1984 - the irony writes itself sinapti.ca/post/en/an-ai-removed-20…
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An AI removed 200 books from a school library in Manchester, including Orwell's 1984 - Sinaptica
A secondary school in Greater Manchester, UK, used an artificial intelligence chatbot to generate "safeguarding risk" justifications and remove nearly 200 books
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
We burn fossil fuels and forests, pumping the sky full of poison until the air we breathe chokes us. Children in cities grow up with lungs the size of smokers’. Glaciers melt. Storms intensify. The atmosphere isn’t some distant sky. It’s the blanket that keeps our dinner table from burning
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is ART??? Photograph: Thor Brødreskift | Edgar Calel, Installation view of ‘Ni Musmut (It’s Breezing),’ Bergen Kunsthall, 2024. ‘Oyonïk paruwi Juyu’ (Invocation over the mountains),’ 2024.
An art gallery with piles of dirt and some potsherds. Looks like they built a clean white room around an archeological site.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
CBS just cut off final Jeopardy and put the effing Moron on. Those baby effers need to die horrible, painful, and lingering deaths.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We just voted.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I bought David Bowie s Black Star when it first came out, but the CD kept skipping and I put it away with a ton of other CDs that have already been ripped. Anyway, I searched it out and put it on my old laptop (Win 7 to Win 10 to SUSE to Deb 10 to Deb 11). It ripped fine. Music analysis to come.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I'm one of many who will not be watching the Moron in Chief blather on and on tonight. I will watch Colbert's last live show. I will read a transcript manana.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I was raised by wolves and my best buddy was a panther.
Recently rediscovered painting of Mowgli and Bhaghera. I was raised by wolves and my best buddy was a panther.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE AUTOMATIC BUT ACTUALLY YOU HAVE TO PUSH THIS BUTTON John Brunner, "Stand on Zanzibar"
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
www.ecoticias.com/en/stephen-h...
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Good evening to BlueSky. Time for Colbert.
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Traces of Texas @tracesoftexas.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
A blues guitar tour-de-force from the great Lightnin' Hopkins for you on a Friday night. Holy smokes! youtu.be/BATlJwKB8ts?... RIP Lightnin' Hopkins, who died 44 years ago today.
youtu.be
Lightnin' Hopkins - Woke Up This Morning
YouTube video by Axel Morlet (Axel Morlet)
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The Moon
The Moon with a ring around it. The sky is cloudy showing one planet and four stars.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Goya's painting of Third of May Massacre. Soldiers shooting unarmed citizens on the dark of night.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Just read Goliath's Curse, by Luke Kemp. It confirmed a lot of my suppositions (suspicions, superstitions) about the untold part of history. Kemp uses paleontology, archaeology, and written history to construct a cohesive explanation of the rise and fall of empires. I'm convinced.
Sculpture depicting Claudius raping Britannia.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
There are some Evangelicals who want to bring about the Apocalypse. The wars and rumors of wars in the Middle East are fuel to their fire. These Apocalyptics want a nuclear holocaust. They believe they will be translated. They believe that Trump is the Antichrist. That's why they vote for him.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The American Empire now has its first Insane Emperor.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song. But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Science Friday today. Great quote. MARY-CLAIRE KING: It really led me to believe that once your evidence is good, you really have to be very loyal to your own evidence. You really do. You have to be very, very critical of it. But once you’re convinced you’ve got it, you can’t cave.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
A quick and dirty list of estimated top Labor Day march attendance from GPT-4o mini. No claim for accuracy.
Top cities Labor Day march attendance 01Top cities Labor Day march attendance 02
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I gotta stop looking at the news before breakfast. (The ulcers will come back. Pass the antacids.) biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Trump Administration Waives Dozens of Laws to Bulldoze Border Wall Through Texas National Wildlife Refuge
Center for Biological Diversity: STARR COUNTY, Texas— The Trump administration today waived 31 environmental and public health laws to speed border wall construction through the Lower Rio Grande Valle...
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
@trg-commentary.bsky.social I'm new here and I've not yet experienced this level of trollery. My first post was about applying group theory to music and building structures in the Game of Life using Wolfram's Rule 22. The series show interesting patterns and symmetries. I liked your posts.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I got to thinking about differing viewpoints. For instance, scientists just want to have the whole picture, no matter how long it takes. Engineers just want their stuff to work, ASAP. This leads, possibly inevitably, to enormous conflicts about such subjects as global warming.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Just had serious O2 situation. Reset my phone password during my delerium. Arrrgh! Took a total reset. Sucks to be old. Visited a couple of human [oid] planets. Le Guin like. Medicine was practiced in some very different ways. Less painful. Glad to be back in the blue sky world...pain and all.
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Mickey Marlin White @mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I used to be proud to be a Texan. I used to be proud to be an American. Now, I'm not even sure that I'm proud to be a human
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