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Brian Hawkins
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I think if I'd lived through enough nuclear false alarms to confuse them, I probably wouldn't sleep ever again
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Durham, NC. Interested in: ideas large and small; ethics and tech; pedestrian and bicycle safety; food and cooking; horror, sci-fi, and comics; metal; politics when necessary Day job: multidisciplinary programs in sustainability and global health
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Brian Hawkins
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I think if I'd lived through enough nuclear false alarms to confuse them, I probably wouldn't sleep ever again
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Brian Hawkins
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Same
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Brian Hawkins
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Sorry, I've lost track...are we pro- or anti- hospital bombing this week?
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Kelsey Atherton
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NIN No one you went to concerts with ever expected the world would survive the 90s but what's been most vexing is how *slow* this apocalypse is. Nilihilism & all-black wardrobes feel worse at +2 C so you're trying hope & if that doesn't work you think Dreampop might do the trick
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Kelsey Atherton
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Drive-By Truckers There's mud on your good shoes & a lot of mud on your work shoes. You've got an encyclopedic knowledge of the Battle of Blair Mountain & enough familiarity with college football for small talk. You've quoted Marx while assigning chores
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Brian Hawkins
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Climate criminal and torture apologist, dead.
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Brian Hawkins
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Entropy incarnate. Windup chaos demon from the seventh circle. Also gives good hugs.
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Brian Hawkins
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If you can (probably correctly) proclaim that you are "more than presumptive", aren't you...the party elite?
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Brian Hawkins
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🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
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Brian Hawkins
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I haven’t thought of you as a libertarian in a very long time (complimentary)
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Brian Hawkins
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Enchiladas freeze well. Just saying
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WildGorillaMan
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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”
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Radley Balko
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New from me: Where is your "institutionalism" now?
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-suprem...
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Brian Hawkins
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For future reference (if we’re lucky) a really good way to assess how any given candidate is likely to perform with the electorate is to have a competitive primary
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Daniel Drezner
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Boom. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Chris Hayes
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There's a world on the other side of this with a huge, vibrant, unionized and high-paying industrial base remaking the physical world for the post-fossil fuel age. It's already starting and I think even Trump can't *fully* destroy it, but he can slow it down and make us lag wayyy behind.
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David Ho
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“…past predictions of global warming have proved largely correct. To persist with scepticism is immoral and stupid. Even a free-market fanatic cannot deny that environmental externalities are a form of market failure. Climate is the biggest externality of all.”
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Chef Gaykwon
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This guy was such a G for telling his evil wizard cyborg boss that his religion is bullshit during a work meeting.
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Brian Hawkins
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Just sitting here anxiously watching the rain, hoping it's enough to cool things off but not enough to knock the power out again
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Brian Hawkins
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He was right of course. Anyway here’s hoping the GOP has no idea what is coming.
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Brian Hawkins
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(pardon typos, on a phone w/ bad connectivity) Anyway, as the sole American at the table I was asked whether I thought Trump would win. I said it wasn’t a sure thing but it seemed pretty unlikely to me. To which one of my British colleagues replied: “You have no idea what is coming.”
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Brian Hawkins
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Pardon me if I’ve told you this story before, but I happened to be in the UK in 2016, just a couple of days after the Brexit vote. I had a late night at the pub with colleagues, and to conversation turned m inevitably to elections: the one they’d just had and the one bearing down on us…
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Brian Hawkins
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Good morning to everyone except whichever drunk dipshit crashed into whatever piece of infrastructure last night that has the power out in my neighborhood today (when it’s likely to hit 100F)
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Brian Hawkins
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My most Hank Hill-like characteristic* vindicated once again, on the Fourth of July, no less I’ll tell you what. *always having a spare propane tank
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Shiv Ramdas
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"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me
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Brian Hawkins
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Same
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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“I love America like Anthony Bourdain or Woody Guthrie did” is the phrasing I’ve settled on
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Brian Hawkins
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Not a professional opinion-haver myself (or at least not that kind) but I find myself in the same place as Radley. Not being sure enough to have a strong opinion is not the same as indifference. In fact, I’d argue it’s nearly the opposite: you’re taking things seriously.
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Alex Blechman
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July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)
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Brian Hawkins
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I find WordleBot’s compliments more reinforcing than is probably healthy
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Brian Hawkins
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The only thing I miss more about Tucson than the monsoon is the food
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David M. Perry
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Since 2019 I've liked to remind you that we should work to break up not just ICE, but abolish the entire DHS. It's a post-9/11 reactionary agency that needs to be destroyed.
www.cnn.com/2019/07/04/o...
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Brian Hawkins
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Maggie (L) teaching Inde (R) the finer points of stick chewing
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Ana Marie Cox
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I don’t want to generalize too much but the place I see the most hope right now is from those that have been fighting the hardest for the longest time. Extended doomerism can be a luxury not afforded to those who have the most to lose.
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Brian Hawkins
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One of the times I saw Dream Theater live (probably within a few years of this show) they covered "One" and Portnoy did the vox during the "Darkness, imprisoning me..." break (while also flawlessly executing the drum part.) Kind of a stunt but still...damn
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Brian Hawkins
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This came up randomly in my IG feed and...well I have to hand it to the algo this time, it definitely found an intersection of my interests. Barney Greenway (Napalm Death) with Dream Theater, covering Metallica, c. 1995
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Brian Hawkins
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"Not as good as Joe Dirt" made me LOL
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Matt Singer
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I have become a connoisseur of half-star Letterboxd reviews for canonical five-star classics. (There is no zero star rating on Letterboxd.) Here are a few of my favorites:
screencrush.com/negative-let...
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Brian Hawkins
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Classic rock, grunge as backup. (If metal was 85-90 that would probably be my first choice.)
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Brian Hawkins
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It gives me no pleasure to point this out but some of us have been saying “originalism” was Calvinball for decades
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Brian Hawkins
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I’m no prude and I can honestly say (as a lefty straight guy) that reading this thread is > 90% of the thought I’ve devoted to lesbians with penises in my life
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Brian Hawkins
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A wise person once encouraged me to learn (and practice) the difference between being informed and being immersed. I don’t always succeed at that but I try and it usually helps.
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Brian Hawkins
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Assuming he's free to travel, that is...
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Brian Hawkins
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Agreed. Trump has to win NC to win the whole thing...so I suspect he'll be here a lot (ugh). How willing he is to share the stage (and vice versa) is anyone's guess.
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Brian Hawkins
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I think this is an underrated angle; Robinson is a sufficiently bad candidate that there *could* be a "reverse coattail" effect that helps Biden in NC. Robinson has benefitted greatly from the fact that no one cares about the Lt. Gov. of NC. His crazy has flown under the radar.
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Brian Hawkins
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Anyway happy 4th of July everyone
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Brian Hawkins
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🌲
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Brian Hawkins
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If you’re in central North Carolina, and you can go outside right now, you should definitely do it
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Brian Hawkins
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I definitely don't hate that. But I think what I'd really like to see is Cooper go after Tillis' job in two years.
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