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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Anybody rich enough to buy elections is rich enough to fund the day-by-day costs of running a country. How about a tax rate of 99.5% for such a super-wealthy person? That leaves plenty for personal needs, one would think.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not good enough. The magats are responsible for this devil. None of them deserve to be elected.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Students are a country's future. Act like it.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh that's just super duper. Let judgements be made about potential life-saving trials and treatments by fanatical, or maybe just plain, ignoramuses.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If fake news is to be avoided, everything that comes out of the White House during this regime is to be avoided, more than that, repudiated.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It is bloody about time. What good can possibly come out of broadcasting the outpourings of a lie machine?

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And that's what you get from Putin's puppet. Destroy NATO, knock down the country's friends. and award its enemies.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Someone should copy that to Trump.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

An excellent example for the argument that public education and public schools need more vastly more investment than they are getting.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yet the ever-needy little decerebrate posted a meme with her.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If this is actually the case, Congressional repugs had better wake up, impeach, and convict. Even they must detest such things.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Maybe it's time to allow such gladiatorial spectacles to die off. I personally will not watch any more football games. Try the national sports, baseball or much of the world's favorite, cricket.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

From Denys Lau's APHA newsletter: "This week, the world lost the Queen of Country, Dolly Parton. Her message of inclusion, acceptance, and belonging resonated with so many. A lifelong philanthropist, she donated millions of dollars to public medical research, and community health efforts."

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Don't give up. Most Canadians don't blame all Americans. However, the shock of how such a creature's actions could be accepted by the country is what annoys them. That has to change, and soon.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One can argue that honest and trusted negotiators are required for any good faith agreement to succeed. There is no point in negotiating with someone lacking those essential qualities.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Nice. A minor point, if you permit, ... Atmospheric extinction causes dimming; and is greater in the blue than in the red. The main cause of the atmospheric reddening is not absorption, however, but molecular scattering with a strong dependence on wavelength; the blue sky is a consequence.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

On the mark. In "Solar System Astrophysics" (Springer, 2nd ed. 2014), Bill Wilson & I show the calculation of a cold equilibrium temperature of an airless earth (outside the HZ), and also the effect of the rapid CO2 injection since the industrial revolution, with the climate crisis as a result,.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

But, one should not forget, arguably another war criminal.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Excellent responses from Talarico, an impressive candidate.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Every day and in every way, increased chaos and ruin.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This is one of those classic failure to communicate situations, so I say to you in earnest: Good luck and goodbye.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Are they not Supporters of trump? How does that help any Democrat they endorse?

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Those who vote to fund concentration camps must be held as accountable as those who propose and build them.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Initially, Dr. Gorman, you posted some strange term involving the word "planet", and that was what I first "umm'd" about. It is clear that the study is serious and interdisciplinary; I don't really care what you call it; but funding agencies and the public to whom they answer might... "splained!

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I would have thought that this would suffice for the corporate elite to quietly dispose of this liability...

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Ah yes, piracy, extortion, outright theft, and murder, all hallmarks of the most explicitly corrupt gangsterish regime in the history of the world.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Why does this training give me the impression it's a very bad idea? ...

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

... a waste of two seats that could have been given to actual, living sports fans.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

What needs to be bulldozed is this administration -- and that includes each and everyone of its enablers in Congress.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I was not "mansplaining" anything to anyone. I have worked with and taught courses with archaeologists for decades. What was described did not look like archaeology as I have seen it practiced. But fields change, and I accept that. So you can sit down yourself after misconstruing my comment.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Here's what "humble before God" means: admitting when you are wrong; asking God for mercy and wisdom; paying attention to those who criticize you lest they are messengers from God, and understand what they are saying and try to do better. Or, as an unrepentant sinner, prepare to go somewhere else

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

It would help if there were nuclear experts and skilled, trustworthy diplomats at both sides of the table.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Why do 30-odd percent still think favorably of this devil? This is the mystery. How much more proof is needed?

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Ummm, this sounds rather like sociology to me; unlike Archaeo- (i.e. dealing with the old and even ancient societies and civilizations), this study is contemporary. I am all for scientific studies but credibility requires accurate labeling.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Ummm ..."Planetarity" sounds like an empty subject. You need archaeological data to work on the archaeology of some hypothetical non-terrestrial society, one would think.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Maybe they could try funding democracy and science, and maybe legality, for a change.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Oh my, a truth was uttered suddenly. Remarkable. It's like the Shakespearean sonnet produced by a monkey on a typewriter.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Very nice. It reminds me of NRL's echelle spectra that I worked on back in the '60s.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Unless they are heavily reddened by IS dust, the dominant colors of globulars is usually blue. Is that the explanation here?

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The orbits of Nereid and Triton are fascinating and this excellent paper provides some clues of their origins.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

and regarding THIS government, Reagan was finally proved right --- IT is the problem.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It occurs to me that if I were a true conservative, this guy would fit my image of what a RINO is.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

EVERY member of Congress needs to step up and end this chaotic degeneracy, NOW.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Apparently the only sane Republican is an ex-Republican.

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The Romans were well aware of Homer, and indeed, of everything in the Greek world that preceded them, were they not?

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Is this a joke? Why would anyone want to eradicate such a beautiful flower?

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Gene Milone @starrybright.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

On would hope that pronouncements about statistical outcomes about critical health matters would be made only by people qualified to interpret them.

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