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David Abuín Eichinger

@davideichinger.bsky.social

I enjoy playing with family, reading science fiction and history, gardening, board games, and jazzercise. I'm a father, husband, Navy veteran, and graduate student studying Robotics at George Mason University. Mastodon: https://scicomm.xyz/@David

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Anna O. Law@unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 3w ago

Only child. Been there. It was and is a lonely road. Friends and acquaintances would literally change the subject on me abruptly because it’s depressing. Unless you’ve done it, you don’t know how hard it is.

Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 4w ago

Sharing a gift link to this because I know when I was caretaking my mom every ounce of validation that I was doing something emotionally, physically, professionally and financially impossible helped me feel less alone

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

John Prevost, the pope’s older brother, rang from Chicago with a computer problem — because Bob, as the family still calls him, has always been the one who fixes these things. “John, I’m the pope,” Leo reminded him. The reply came without a pause: “Oh, sorry pope. My computer is broken.”

“John, I’m the Pope” — Viral Nikes, Car Talk, and the Disarming Humanity of Leo XIV

Fr. Jim Sichko of Lexington just handed Leo XIV his second pair of custom Nikes, and a six-year-old in Barcelona got him to admit he played American football. The world is meeting Bob Prevost one deli...

thelettersfromleo.com

David Abuín Eichinger@davideichinger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The clearer the proof of their inability to treat stateless people as legal persons and the greater the extension of arbitrary rule by police decree, the more difficult it is for states to resist the temptation to deprive all citizens of legal status and rule them with an omnipotent police." - H.A.

Cover to Hannah Arendt's - The Origins of Totalitarianism
Dr. Todd Arrington@btarrington.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Josephine Baker born 120 yrs ago today: 6/3/1906. The singer/actress/dancer had great professional success in France. She spied for the French Resistance during World War II. She later returned to her native U.S. & became a vocal civil rights advocate. She lived until 1975. Image: Public domain.

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Union of Concerned Scientists@ucs.org · 3mo ago

A proposed bill in the Puerto Rico legislature threatens to dispossess Puerto Ricans of their cultural and constitutionally protected coastal heritage. Yamilín Rivera-Santiago and Dr. Juan Declet-Barreto warn it would limit public beach access and enable harmful private development. Read their blog:

The Coast in Dispute: Climate, Development, and Dispossession in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico's beaches: beautiful AND culturally and environmentally important. A new law would keep everyone but greedy developers out.

blog.ucs.org

David Abuín Eichinger@davideichinger.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest - forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries. - Hannah Arendt Origins of Totalitarian