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Cris Hamilton
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#ACA
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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kimilatad.bsky.social
Vaclav Havel wrote about the importance of pointing out the law in a totalitarian society - it may not help in a situation where the government makes and enacts laws willy-nilly, but calling it out keeps the insanity of it all in the open for all to see.
…But precisely because they know how desperately the system depends on it-on the "noble" version of the law, that is-they also know how enormously significant such appeals are. Because the system cannot do without the law, because it is hopelessly tied down by the necessity of pretending the laws are observed, it is compelled to react in some way to such appeals. Demanding that the laws be upheld is thus an act of living within the truth that threatens the whole mendacious structure at its point of maximum mendacity. Over and over again, such appeals make the purely ritualistic nature of the law clear to society and to those who inhabit its power structures. They draw attention to its real material substance and thus, indirectly, compel all those who take refuge behind the law to affirm and make credible this agency of excuses, this means of communication, this reinforcement of the social arteries outside of which their will could not be made to circulate through society. They are compelled to do so for the sake of their own consciences, for the impression they make on oue siders, to maintain themselves in power (as part of the system's own mechanism of self-preservation and its principles of cohesion), or simply out of fear that they will be reproached for being clumsy in handling Ihe ritual. They have no other choice: because they cannot discard the rules of their own game, they can only attend more carefully to those rules. Not to react to challenges means to undermine their own excuse and lose control of their mutual communications system. To assume that the laws are a mere facade, that they have no validity, and that therefore it is pointless to appeal to them would mean to go on reinforcing those aspects of the law that create the facade and the ritual. It would mean confirming the law as an aspect of the world of appearances and enabling those who exploit it to rest easy with the cheapest (and therefore the most mendacious) form of their excuse.
September 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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cbannister.bsky.social
Just noticed this on the checkout notification I get from the Chicago Public Library. I think it’s new and I love it!
You just saved $26.00 by using your library. You have saved $2,160.24 this past year and $6, 122.52 since you began using the library! Thank You!
August 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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June 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
crishamilton.bsky.social
No Kings in Santa Barbara #santabarbara #sb
June 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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merriam-webster.com
You had us at "a book of spells, the key to wonders."
Tweet from @A_B_morgan: My seven-year-old asked for a dictionary this week. We went to the bookshop today to buy one. She walked home hugging it, pausing every so often to look up a word, grinning as though she had been given a book of spells, the key to wonders. Merriam-Webster QT: The kids are alright.
April 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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resistrebelrevolt.net
🙌🏼 I’m not sure who had the amazing idea to invite this constitutional lawyer to a senate hearing that *intended* to prove Biden colluded with Meta to censor conservatives.

But she took the opportunity to speak truth to power ✊🏼 on the hypocrite 👑 KING OF FREE SPEECH, Donald Trump, himself. 👏🏼 Brava!
April 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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mark-carney.bsky.social
Elbows up, Canada.
March 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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cherijacobus.bsky.social
New Rule: Elon Musk must personally be on the next SpaceX rocket flight in order to show his confidence in this "investment" by we, the American taxpayers.
March 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
crishamilton.bsky.social
Tiny council. #tinyart #tinydragon #ukraine #tinywatercolor
March 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
crishamilton.bsky.social
Find the minutes to read this letter. so you know.
cydharrell.bsky.social Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · Mar 1
former colleagues from 18F have asked me to share this open letter widely - please pass on 🙏 🇺🇸 💻💪 18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
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March 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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jdcmedlock.bsky.social
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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schooley.bsky.social
Bluesky right now feels a little like all the Whos gathering to sing after the Grinch stole their floofloovers and jingtinglers.
November 15, 2024 at 1:51 AM
crishamilton.bsky.social
Scream-along.

I turned it into a simple animation because why wouldn’t I, but this is where it started.
November 5, 2023 at 2:40 PM
crishamilton.bsky.social
A little bit of this-will-be-fun-for #kidlitpostcard day. That’s today. Yay. #kidlit #kidlitart
A girl is walking her hump back whale, floating above her
November 3, 2023 at 5:58 PM
crishamilton.bsky.social
Remember. Dia de los Muertos.
November 2, 2023 at 3:28 PM