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orgoEuellGibbonsistic-anarchohobbitrist "The world owes all its onward impulse to [people] ill at ease. The happy [person] inevitably confines [themself] within ancient limits." from: 'The House of the Seven Gables' by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)

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Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· 16d

Still think your photo may well show the original, and the cat in the doorway looks like a type of local I'd expect to see there. Do you recall where you found the photo? Here's what's there now, no side office, just a standalone structure, no character. Sad.

Photo of a free book shed at a town transfer station.

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· 28d

Photo of Woody Guthrie with guys at a bar.

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Jul 8

TV-B-Gone is the waiting room captive audience's best friend. As seen on TV!

An advertisement for TV-B-Gone universal remote.

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Jul 5

One of those earlier activists almost became president, John Kerry. Something to think about.

Newspaper photo of John Kerry participating in a Viet Nam Veterans Against the War protest C.1970

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Jul 1

Storm cloud forming C. 2026.

An aerial view of a relatively small data center under construction.

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Jun 29

This better be true.

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Jun 19

Mine all pretty much ran on baling wire, band aids and this here book, one of human civilization's greatest of works of literature.

Cover of the book "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot"

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· May 14

Grand Wizards sure clean up nice these days.

REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo of John Roberts

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· May 14

found this gem under a youtube

"If you ever feel useless, just remember it took 2.5 trillion dollars and 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban"

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Apr 16

Image of an X post showing that ChatGPT determined that an audio file of fart sounds was beautiful music.

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Feb 22

"Paul Lafargue's masterpiece, The Right To Be Lazy, at once funny and serious, witty and profound, elegant and forceful, is a logical expansion of The Right to the Pursuit of Happiness announced by Thomas Jefferson." “If he is a Marxist, then I am clearly not”. Karl Marx, Lafargue's father-in-law

Cover of a library book titled "The Right to be Lazy" by Paul Lafargue.

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Feb 20

Demasduit (c. 1796 – January 8, 1820) was a Beothuk woman, one of the last of her people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demasduit

Demasduit (c. 1796 – January 8, 1820) was a Beothuk woman, one of the last of her people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demasduit

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Feb 6

Today I learned that bobcats do it too.

Bobcat in snow, examining its nether parts.

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Jan 28

A remote learning institution. truthschool.org/what-we-do/

Photograph of people in a lecture space at The Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership.

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Jan 26

Photo of graffiti written on a whitewashed brick wall that says "STOP BUYING THINGS".

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Jan 23

Here're two books about one of history's most interesting people, Gudrid The Far Travelled (Thorbjarnardottir). Leif Erikson's sister in law, she co-lead a Norse Greenlander settlement somewhere in North America C. 1010. She birthed a son there, Snorri, before traveling to the Vatican later in life.

Cover of the book "The Sea Road", by Margaret Elphinstone.

Cover of the book "The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman", by Nancy Marie Brown.

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Jan 1

"Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru" - El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega - 1609

Cover of the book "Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru" by El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega - 1609

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Dec 31

Why is this post flagged as spam?

Screengrab of a post marked by Bluesky moderators as "spam" which reads: "This year brought only sorrow and loss. I lost friends, my home, and was forced to live in tents and rubble.
We faced famine, sickness, and constant danger.I survived, but nightmares and fear haunt me still.
I hope 2026 brings safety and my city’s return, a place to finally feel secure."

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Nov 29

Hyannis to Mar-a-Lago. What a long, strange trip it's been.

Photo juxtaposition of JFK and family in Hyannis and Trump alone in gilded Mar-a-lago.

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Nov 29

Cover for the book "How to Shit in the Woods" by Kathleen Meyer showing someone with their pants down and holding a toilet paper roll.

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Nov 15

Loki.

A photo of a cat up in a tree looking down at the picture taker.

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Nov 7

The best part of this film.

A picture of the Sergeant at Arm's shocked expression when he learns he's being recorded.

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Oct 26

Here's the 1967 FBI "Rabble Rouser Index (subversive control)" entry on Stokely Carmichael, Hulon Mitchell Jr. and an unnamed third party. Recent reports of agents knocking on demonstrator's doors just "asking some questions" leads me to assume some form of Rabble Rouser Index is back in action.

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Oct 22

A letter to his town's selectboard by a Viet Nam War Marine combat vet I know. He's really hurting. (he'd be ripped about my redactions but I'm worried for him) .

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Oct 19

A gold mine of ant-fascist tactical advice to be found in here. d119vjm4apzmdm.cloudfront.net/open-access/...

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Oct 17

Abbie would've loved the frogs. "A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station. Once you get the right image the details aren't that important. Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less." Abbie Hoffman

A photo of Abbie Hoffman laughing while holding an open copy of his book"Steal This Book".

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Oct 15

Loved this.

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Oct 12

'How I Became A Socialist' (1905) is one of Jack London's best short pieces of writing, imo. www.online-literature.com/london/3875/

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Oct 9

Factory worker Freddie Reed, 14 years old, October 1910. Photograph taken by Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940) while working on behalf of the National Child Labor Committee.

Atomic Bum@atomicbum4real· Sep 28

Was just thinking the same about those "antifa" stickers etc. - "aktion/action" being the essential part of the message.