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Martin Heavisides

@MartinHeaviside

Poet. Playwright. Short story/flash fiction writer. Novelist. Nonfiction writer (criticism/social/cultural). Film buff (see website).

 Toronto
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Joined October 2009
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When Elon Musk says he made his money by hard work, we should ask him "Whose?" (Don Marquis, modified)
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Not so much throwing the baby out with the bathwater as taking the most exacting care to throw out only the baby.
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I suppose Elon Musk's ultimate ambition is to become a real boy. Do you think he'll ever manage it?
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Suppression by the numbers. theintercept.com/2024/05/07/…
How Much Money Did the NYPD Waste Quashing Student Protests? We Tallied It Up.

How Much Money Did the NYPD Waste Quashing Student Protests? We Tallied It Up.

NYPD’s raid on Columbia University’s student protest likely cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The crackdown will end up costing millions.

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POLICING THE YEARS is up at OJA&L. Look for it here ojalart.com/theater-artsdram…

Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Martin Heavisides|"POLICING THE YEARS" - O:JA&L

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Did you know the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary has no entry for the word 'gullible'?
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Tucker Carlson's concerned about 'Chinese military' balloons in U.S. air space. That is to say weather balloons misidentified as Chinese, and military. Ol' Tuck ought to be better informed, by natural affinity, about objects consisting principally of hot air.
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You can usually count on the former, rarely the latter, when someone says "May I be brutally frank?"
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Replying to @cmalex79 @JackPosobiec
I'm told that suggesting an attempt to liberate Fox News from totalitarian idiots like Tucker Carlson is considered an inappropriately harsh response to his incendiary remarks about invading Canada. So be it. It's better than he deserves.
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Scott Adams doesn't want people associated with his feed to know this. apnews.com/article/fact-chec…
COVID-19 vaccines are approved by the FDA, not Fauci’s wife

COVID-19 vaccines are approved by the FDA, not Fauci’s wife

False. The COVID-19 vaccines received emergency use approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, not the NIH.

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It's amazing how long it takes for an offer to expire soon.
I was thinking about procrastinating. I'm still thinking about it.
I think I think, therefore I might be.
I wonder why nobody's ever cautiously pessimistic?
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First new post at The Evitable in awhile theevitable.blogspot.com/202…
Story by Martin Heavisides: "Burning Bright" onlinebookclub.org/poetry-an… #poem via @TwBookClub

Burning Bright | Story by Martin Heavisides | OnlineBookClub.org Poetry and Art Contest

Burning Bright | Original Story by Martin Heavisides | I dreamed about the tiger tonight--approach of handlers and veterinary physicians to the great cat i...

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Though he was using actual archeology and historical study, including the comparative study of ideas and idea systems, Nietzsche covered a lot of that ground, and is a first rate procedural model. (I'll leave it to you to guess what this tweet was in reply to. It was deleted.)
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