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Barry Lyons

@lyonsnyc

I’m all over the place as a writer: I've written about the Beatles, cannabis, the Second Amendment, and Indiana Jones (https://nitter.cf/t.co/KATqdp5X2Y).

 Upper West Side, NYC
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Joined August 2010
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Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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Replying to @JoshMalina
Not falling for this, you cruel prankster. 🤭
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David Sirota
@davidsirotaNov 4
This contentious interchange between the NY Times and @GinaHinojosaTX was truly amazing. Hinojosa offered one of the best explanations of populism I've ever seen. Her comments were a total rejection of Corporate Dems' neoliberal formula. Her Texas victory is a game changer.
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The moment he transforms into Mr. Bean is insanely good.
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Adam Schwarz@AdamJSchwarzNov 4
Vibes in America tonight.
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Replying to @VerizonSupport
@VerizonSupport I truly hate your new and not-improved forward and rewind options on the TV remote. It's anti-consumer, actually. It used to be that I could rewind only a few seconds to hear something I missed...
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...but now you have these segmented increments where I have no choice but to rewind 30–40 seconds. This new method takes away my choice to rewind or go forward as much as I prefer. I no longer have a choice. That's why I say this is an anti-consumer move. Fix this.
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I see that you haven't responded. Hmm. If you intend to keep this awful new approach to the remote, where you explicitly deny the user a choice on how to rewind or go forward as the user sees fit, you should offer two options: the new way and the old way. Yes? Anyone home?
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Replying to @Verizon
@Verizon I truly hate your new and not-improved forward and rewind options on the TV remote. It's anti-consumer, actually. It used to be that I could rewind only a few seconds to hear something I missed...
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...but now you have these segmented increments where I have no choice but to rewind 30–40 seconds. This new method takes away my choice to rewind or go forward as much as I prefer. I no longer have a choice. That's why I say this is an anti-consumer move. Fix this.
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I see that you haven't responded. Hmm. If you intend to keep this awful new approach to the remote, where you explicitly deny the user a choice on how to rewind or go forward as the user sees fit, you should offer two options: the new way and the old way. Yes? Anyone home?
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Ricky Gervais
@rickygervaisOct 31
There’s no way this poster will go down as well in America 🇺🇸 Might try it anyway 😂
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🤣 thank you Ricky for showing the world side of Patrick.
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"I've said for decades here that the @nytimes doesn't particularly like the far-right Republicans who rise to the top of the GOP...but it loathes Democrats once they've taken power—and sometimes even when they're merely on the verge of accruing power." nomoremister.blogspot.com/20…
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☲First Clown☵@1stClownSep 24
The first five of the 10 Commandments are bullshit. Disrespecting the Christian God (or any god) or one's parents (if they haven't earned your respect) is not wrong, QED sin is just an invented disease to sell a snake oil cure.
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@darwintojesusSep 23
Is it though? I find it fascinating how many atheists are obsessed with denying the reality of sin, me thinks the lady doth protest too much, don’t you?
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All life dies: No afterlife. Body decomposes. Energy disperses. The end.
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"Perhaps the only way for us to recreate a society in which we don’t have to be tethered to these brain-rotting devices is for someone to take up the mantle of being a pain in the butt." nytimes.com/2026/09/16/opini…
Opinion | My Dumbphone Made My Life Better. It Made Everyone Else’s Worse. (Gift Article)

Opinion | My Dumbphone Made My Life Better. It Made Everyone Else’s Worse. (Gift Article)

An extended digital detox is freeing, but it can be hard on friends and family.

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One of these men is thinking in centuries - the other is thinking "is the camera still on me?”
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Geoffrey Miller
@gmillerOct 4
Replying to @elonmusk
AI had been the standard term since 1956. 'Superintelligence' had a very specific and powerful meaning when Nick Bostrom wrote about it in 2014 - an AI that vastly exceeds human cognitive abilities across all domains. Conflating these terms is very confusing, counterproductive, historically uninformed, and insulting to the hundreds of thousands of people who have worked on AI over the last 70 years.
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This looks like a case of "Trump Derangement Syndrome" to me. Something I wrote and posted last year: lyonsnyc.medium.com/trump-de…
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