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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not just one of my fav science fiction authors, Adrian Tchaikovsky demonstrates that he knows us gamers too well. ;)

Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sharing. Climate change is real. But we CAN do a lot to fight it -- and in ways that save money compared to old ways of doing things. But that's hard. It requires waking up a little and learning stuff, then doing stuff (like electing the people who don't want to wreck the world). DO IT ANYWAY.

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Not an inappropriate observation...

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Appears that way to me (a junior Boomer born before JFK became President).

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I really like "Spider-Man: Brand New Day." Not like I loved "The Odyssey" or "Project Hail Mary," but I really enjoyed it like I enjoyed "Supergirl." I did not think my theater pennies misspent. ^_^

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This "taxation without representation" and illegal withholding of funds designated by Congress is illegal and anti-American AF. But I think that we have seen that his cultists WANT stuff that is illegal and anti-American, as long as it is also hateful. I'm old. Good luck, y'all!

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Do you understand why what Kegsbreath is doing is both wrong and violates our laws and policies? If not, I have no desire to discuss it with you. If yes, take action appropriately (e.g., voting, letting your representative know, protests, strikes, etc.). www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

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Opportunities Narrow for Women as Hegseth Blocks More Promotions (Gift Article)

For the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Opinion: In my view, it's important to note that Dr. Okorafor's Africanfuturism aesthetic highlights African science fiction, etc., without the framing of the Diaspora. I love it. But I do ALSO love Milton Davis' MVMedia and its Afrofuturism, Steamfunk, and Sword and Soul. Both enrich my world.

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Very good to see, in my opinion. (I do have a bias: dismantling racism and promoting equality are goals that my religious denomination, the United Methodist Church, pursues as Biblical. And you can't legally discuss how to break four centuries of racism, and more of misogyny, if it's outlawed.)

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Might have chuckled at this. ^_^

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Sharing. Honestly, from today's "ethnic cleansing" by ICE (genocide) to the midnight knock on the door and illegally "disappearing" people without a public trial, many GOP leaders favor Stalin's Communist tactics. (The Nazis and Italian Fascists were far right; the Soviets far left. All were evil.)

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Take note: • Forecast is 100°F (38C). • Limit is one bottle of water per person entering. • Four hydration stations will be set up for an estimated 150,000 attendees. See why I call the GOP the "Pro-Death Party"?

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has the LHC offline for upgrade to HiLumi configuration after 2030, which is neat. (I don't blame the stone marten -- the woozle -- for this horrid timeline. I blame my country's misogyny and misogynoir and worship of the Epstein class. :P )

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Wow! ❤️ Quoting NPR: "And when it was all over and the 44-year-old Williams had performed admirably in a three-set defeat to an opponent less than half her age in the opening round of Wimbledon with her two daughters cheering her on, Williams smiled as she walked off to a loud round of applause."

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I really liked Supergirl and hope to see it again. I wish that I were aghast at all of the hate by boys of all ages, but we are hypersocial apes who sometimes follow the crowd a bit too much. (I will admit that I have taken to referring to it and Superman as Krypto 1 and Krypto 2, irrespectively.)

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

On 28 June 1969 police raided a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village: the Stonewall Inn. The Stonewall Uprising began. A year later the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade began our traditions of Pride. PBS: www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...

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Stonewall Inn: Through the Years | American Experience | PBS

Greenwich Village's Stonewall Inn has undergone several transformations in the decades since it was the focal point of a three-day riot in 1969.

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

When I was born, the rights of many LBGTQIA+ Americans weren't recognized by state and federal governments, and open discrimination was encouraged. The Stonewall Uprising, just over three weeks before the Moon Landing, changed that. Remember its heroes. PBS (10 June 2023) pbs.org/wgbh/america...

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Stonewall Uprising | American Experience | PBS

In 1969, homosexuality was illegal in almost every state... but that was about to change. The Stonewall riots marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement.

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This helps illustrate why I don't like the "law and order" crowd: they have no respect for the actual law, much less concepts like equality and justice.

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Downsizing now would be a bad, bad choice. (Which might be intentional: people often tolerate more totalitarian measures in times of stress and crises.)

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

1621: His people decimated by leptospirosis, the Wampanoag Confederacy's Massasoit Sachem, Ousamequin, made a mutual defense treaty with the Pilgrims of Plymouth. 1636: Ousamequin sheltered Roger Williams, whom the Puritans exiled for preaching freedom of religion; Williams founded Rhode Island.

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Sharing. (If you do not see why this is an issue, I do not think that I will invest time in trying to explain it to you.)

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is an amazing thing (and well needed).

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride month! Quoting the United Nations: "...[W]ith the UN General Assembly, the UN Human Rights Council and the Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights repeatedly calling attention to the need to protect LGBTQI persons from violence and discrimination." www.un.org/en/fight-rac...

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Sharing; of concern to all of us on this planet. :(

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I believe Dr. Snyder is accurate. Alas, getting the GOP to stop this will be nigh impossible, I think, because the GOP leadership doesn't want America to remain America; they feel threatened by Americans (of their own party and not), and they want to eliminate democracy in favor of white supremacy.

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Re: trans folk. As a cranky old pale and male church-goer and U.S. Army veteran who was born back when Eisenhower was President, I'd like to say one thing right now: SUPPORT YOUR TRANS FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND FELLOW HUMANS. Sure, we humans love to hate scapegoats. BUT YOU KNOW BETTER. Thanks!

Senior citizen (me) in front of a stained glass window.

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Sharing -- A lot of what we see today seems to model itself on 20th century totalitarianism, and that is Dr. Snyder's area of expertise. He is one of the foremost scholars in what happened in Europe, and invaluable if we hope to avoid a similar fate.

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Old Man Glas @oldmanglas.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Soybeans: No Strait of Hormuz. (Plant-based renewable diesel is pretty much climate-neutral.) farmdocDaily Urbana, Illinois (10 Sep 2025) "The Soybean Industry Response to the Renewable Diesel Boom, Part 2: Squeezing More Oil from the Soybean Crush" farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2025/09/the-...

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The Soybean Industry Response to the Renewable Diesel Boom, Part 2: Squeezing More Oil from the Soybean Crush - farmdoc daily

Joe Janzen, Scott Irwin, and Yu-Chi Wang - The US soybean industry has responded to increased renewable diesel demand for soybean oil since 2020 by improving oil extraction efficiency in addition to j...

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