Harley Stagner's Webpage

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If only Petey Hegseth had been working for the empire a long time ago in that galaxy far away. Imagine how many Bothan lives could have been saved.

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Listen. If you are a MAGA in the process of waking up or you are now leaving MAGA and denouncing the nonsense, that’s good. You CANNOT expect for the hostility towards you to immediately stop. If you are truly ready to leave, you’d understand why.

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Don’t worry parents. The cult 47 moms in one of my IEP/Special Education support groups have the answer. If your state is not doing right by your kid, just move. 🙄

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Hey “Back to the states” crowd. Standards of learning and curriculum is ALREADY determined at the state level. What exactly do you think is being “sent back?” It sure as hell won’t be funding.

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“For example, children or people who are intellectually disabled. One of the reasons the Supreme Court prohibited the execution of the intellectually disabled is because, due to their impairments, they are more susceptible to wrongful conviction. The Order could even result in the government being allowed to execute people for crimes where no loss of life occurred.”

https://www.texasdefender.org/advocating-for-a-second-chance-2/

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You guys. The amount of brainwashed, ignorant cultists in my Special Education/IEP support groups is astounding. They refuse to acknowledge what is happening and believe that departments can’t be dismantled without Congress. 🤦‍♂️

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IF YOU VOTED FOR TRUMP, I HATE YOU.

Thankfully, I don’t have access to your social security number and other private information to seek revenge. I’m not a government official.

ELON MUSK DOES HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AND MORE RIGHT NOW.

If you are a republican or even voted for Trump, I’m sure this is not what you voted for. Call, write, email your republican leaders and tell them HELL NO!

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When news outlets report that illegal actions from felon 47 like the federal funding freeze affect “real people,” do they think everything else he’s done affects AI people? WTF. Do better.

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How about canceling cancer research for an issue that reaches across the aisle. What now Trumpers?

“Chrystal Starbird, an assistant professor of biology and a cancer researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine, had been planning for months to attend a study section next week where nearly 60 grants were set to be reviewed, but she got word a couple of days ago that it was canceled.”

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/01/24/scientists-worried-after-trump-halts-nih-grant

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Pages removed so far from WhiteHouse.gov

  • U.S. Constitution
  • Spanish-Language version of website
  • Accessibility Page
  • Reproductive freedom
  • Office of Gun Violence Prevention
  • LGBTQ+ rights page
  • Fact sheet for LGBTQ+ Americans’ achievements
  • Pride Month 2024 Proclamation
  • Office of public media
  • Biographies of former presidents

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Most of the studies I have seen in reading comprehension / learning favors physical books. One of the reasons is the distraction inherent in reading digital books on devices. This doesn’t really apply to dedicated e-readers though. Anyone know of studies / discussions that does a direct comparison with a dedicated device vs paper books?

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“Thus, to the reverent question posed by Morse — What hath God wrought? — a disturbing answer came back: a neighborhood of strangers and pointless quantity; a world of fragments and discontinuities. God, of course, had nothing to do with it.” - Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

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In times like these I like to think that somewhere, out there, Johnny Gasparini is still searching for his, adjusted for inflation, $5.86.

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I never did read the Dragonlance novels when I was younger. I’m reading Dragons of Autumn Twilight now and the “friends” are all absolute assholes to one another. 🤣

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With all the talk of UFOs lately, I’m kind of hoping we get the “Childhood’s End” treatment. I’m ready. 🛸

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Just finished importing my literature notes from “4000 Weeks” by Oliver Burkeman into TheBrain App.

4000 Weeks Literature Notes in TheBrain
4000 Weeks Literature Notes in TheBrain

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I’m finally trying out TheBrain app.

Two things stand out. Deliberate terminology. You have a thought and a thought has a type. I find that refreshing. This begs for a relatively flat structure with tags added for flavor.

I have a thought about Groundhog Day. It’s a movie type. And its genre tag is comedy-ish. Just like, well, my brain.

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I just spent WAY too long investigating how to sync a highlighted Zotero pdf into Readwise with the highlights intact. All I had to do was look at the imports on Readwise to see that PDF is supported. Worked great! 🤦‍♂️

This is why I’m currently simplifying my digital stack.

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Lines like this are why I love Murakami.

“Who’d want to use the dishes of someone who’d bummed them out.” (Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball)

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It cannot be this heavy of a lift to PREpend text to an Apple Note can it? Best I can tell, you need to:

  • Find original note
  • Get body
  • Delete original note
  • Create new note with new text followed by the original body text.

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Currently importing all of my Readwise highlights to Apple Notes via the Readwise API and Shortcuts. Gonna try native Apple stack for writing, notes, etc. for a bit.

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