emptycircles
@emptycircles.bsky.rominesmills.com
books, bikes, buses, trains, parks, forests, Buddhism, Vedanta, anarcho-communism, YNWA, Crew
Pittsburgh now, Philly for a while, OH for a bit, WV originally
montani semper liberi
Pittsburgh now, Philly for a while, OH for a bit, WV originally
montani semper liberi
“Take a simpleton and give him power and confront him with intelligence—and you have a tyrant.”
Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
November 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“Take a simpleton and give him power and confront him with intelligence—and you have a tyrant.”
Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
While I wish they wouldn’t do this on the one of the three sisters with a bike lane, it is neat.
October 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
While I wish they wouldn’t do this on the one of the three sisters with a bike lane, it is neat.
I think my favorite “shit sucks” tv is people from my xennial cultural touchstones doing travel shows - James May, Conan O’Brien, and most recently Billy Boyd and Dom Monaghan. It’s a bit saccharine but the “turns out we’re all just humans struggling in our circumstances” thesis is what I need.
September 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I think my favorite “shit sucks” tv is people from my xennial cultural touchstones doing travel shows - James May, Conan O’Brien, and most recently Billy Boyd and Dom Monaghan. It’s a bit saccharine but the “turns out we’re all just humans struggling in our circumstances” thesis is what I need.
She is a good looking town.
September 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
She is a good looking town.
Does a credit union really need a street team? Stop inundating me with advertising.
September 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Does a credit union really need a street team? Stop inundating me with advertising.
I was 1 of the 1100 and my quote was published in this article. This is my minute of fame (down from the previously allotted 15 minutes due to the our dwindling collective attention span).
More than 1,100 of you wrote to tell us about the books that broadened your horizons, that you kept through every move, that inspired you to become English majors, librarians, writers and teachers. n.pr/4n46GLs
What books shaped you in high school? Here's what you said
More than 1,100 of you wrote to tell us about the books that broadened your horizons, that you kept through every move, that inspired you to become English majors, librarians, writers and teachers.
n.pr
August 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I was 1 of the 1100 and my quote was published in this article. This is my minute of fame (down from the previously allotted 15 minutes due to the our dwindling collective attention span).
Take a fucking bow Rio Ngumoha. Also Szoboszlai with the best dummy in the history of dummies (I don’t care that I’m exaggerating.)
What a team goal with every player having a touch except Szobo whose no touch was sublime.
What a team goal with every player having a touch except Szobo whose no touch was sublime.
August 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Take a fucking bow Rio Ngumoha. Also Szoboszlai with the best dummy in the history of dummies (I don’t care that I’m exaggerating.)
What a team goal with every player having a touch except Szobo whose no touch was sublime.
What a team goal with every player having a touch except Szobo whose no touch was sublime.
Don’t mind if do.
August 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Don’t mind if do.
I don’t follow baseball but I like laziness with bursts of energy and spreadsheets so maybe I should start.
August 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I don’t follow baseball but I like laziness with bursts of energy and spreadsheets so maybe I should start.
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the guy hit with the subway sandwich has passed 😔
August 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
the guy hit with the subway sandwich has passed 😔
If you have a boss, you need a union.
A simple way to summarize this is to compute the sentiment difference between labor unions and big business for each individual who answers both questions.
The largest gap between 1964 and 2012 was about +5 pro-union in 1974. Now, we are at +16.
The largest gap between 1964 and 2012 was about +5 pro-union in 1974. Now, we are at +16.
August 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
If you have a boss, you need a union.
Provided w/o comment
August 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Provided w/o comment
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WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
July 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
Thought I was catching a bus…turns out it was a TIME MACHINE.
July 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Thought I was catching a bus…turns out it was a TIME MACHINE.
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The classic:
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
July 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
The classic:
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
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“None of us is free until everybody’s free.” - Fannie Lou Hamer
July 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“None of us is free until everybody’s free.” - Fannie Lou Hamer
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “Are we reading the same Book? The Book I know says ‘I was hungry, and you fed me… I was a stranger, and you welcomed me… insomuch as you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it also unto me.’”
#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
July 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “Are we reading the same Book? The Book I know says ‘I was hungry, and you fed me… I was a stranger, and you welcomed me… insomuch as you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it also unto me.’”
#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
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"What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech
“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech
We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester,...
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July 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech
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This was posted this morning by Humans of New York and I think this captures exactly what we are all experiencing right now
July 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This was posted this morning by Humans of New York and I think this captures exactly what we are all experiencing right now
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when you write off Appalachia as an ideologically backwards region that deserves what it gets, you aren't actually doing anything to help. you're actually writing off a hell of a lot of people who are in the struggle with you. y'all do know that, right?
June 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
when you write off Appalachia as an ideologically backwards region that deserves what it gets, you aren't actually doing anything to help. you're actually writing off a hell of a lot of people who are in the struggle with you. y'all do know that, right?
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Kids on bikes rally around “illegal alien” protecting them from detention and deportation by masked agents of an oppressive government agency.
June 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Kids on bikes rally around “illegal alien” protecting them from detention and deportation by masked agents of an oppressive government agency.
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Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
May 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people