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Circumspectral
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Traveller, photographer, open-mic musician, cyclist. Here to challenge cliches and assumptions.

Living in Oaxaca. Traveling by bus, visiting communities in these valleys and mountains.

Stories & photos free!
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Ocampo y Rayón
Oaxaca, Mexico
November, 2025

With this week’s Lucha Libre posters.

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Man with bicycle waiting to cross at a typical Oaxaca Centro street corner.
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Apartment Lobby
Oaxaca, Mexico
November, 2025

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Black and white study of an apartment building lobby in Oaxaca, Mexico’s historic center.
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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This is how it’s done, folks!

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BREAKING: Hungary explodes with MASSIVE protests against Russian-backed Orban government. Peter Magyar is demolishing Orban in the polls and if there’s a free election, Putin loses his puppet. Protest...
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October 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Great history about rebels writing in the shadows for years against Diaz, leading up to the 1910 revolution.

Often from the US then smuggled in. The power of words.

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October 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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By tomorrow, the only person who won’t have seen this video is Mike Johnson,

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atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26d
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
October 19, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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New Circumspectral

I write about Day Of The Dead, found art & Oaxacan civic planning.
Plus, morning in Puebla.

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October 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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I’m beginning to believe Mike Johnson is kept in a hermetically sealed capsule between interviews.

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catpushmike.bsky.social Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 27d
Good word! I wonder what H. T. Webster would think if he knew then its platonic ideal would be 3rd in line for the presidency 100 years later.
Origin of word, “milquetoast”.
October 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Good word! I wonder what H. T. Webster would think if he knew then its platonic ideal would be 3rd in line for the presidency 100 years later.
Origin of word, “milquetoast”.
October 18, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Antifa have completed their assault on Portland, Oregon and are now back at their vast compound beneath Mount Shasta in Northern California planning further actions.

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Apocalyptic cityscape. May or may not be Portland, Oregon.
October 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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In the end, kindness will win.

Read my latest.

A Village Half Full:
The Education Of A Gringo

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Always Free.

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Words of Pyotr Kropotkin, Russian geographer and anarchist. “Sociability is the greatest advantage in the struggle for life. Those species which willingly or unwillingly abandon it are doomed to decay,”
October 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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I wrote about the vast secondary transport system serving 4M people in Oaxaca’s three valley region. I’m building a map to plot as many stations as I can find. There are dozens scattered around the city’s Centro district, but no source material that lists them in one place. (see photos below)
Mystery In San Miguel
A Village Half Full
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September 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Tlacolula, Mexico is where you catch the bus to San Miguel del Valle.

I witnessed firsthand a sad perspective on the migrant crisis here in Oaxaca state.

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September 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Mystery In SanMiguel Del Valle

Another perspective on the migrant crisis from the other side of the border.

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Mystery In San Miguel
A Village Half Full
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September 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Barrio La Noria, Oaxaca

Not on the tourist radar like trendy Jalatlaco & Xochimilco, La Noria is emerging quietly at the SE edge of Oaxaca’s Centro Historico.
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September 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Uruapan, Mexico
September 16, 1988

Happy Independence Day, mis amigos y amigas!

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Independence Day, Sept. 16, 1988. Uruapan, Mexico.
September 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Followers of Charlie Kirk, offended by a Canadian journalist accurately describing the right’s long public history of making violent threats, respond with, wait for it, more violent threats. Really ugly stuff.

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After the murder of Charlie Kirk, conservatives piled on Rachel Gilmore for expressing a well-founded fear. Then came violent threats.
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September 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Sure, you say you’re a blues fan, but are you this much of a blues fan?

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Old album cover of 101 Strings Plays The Blues.
September 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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We’re seeing “losing trust in institutions” a lot lately, referring to the CDC, but is that really the best framing?

When one sincerely loses trust it’s because they were deceived or victims of incompetence. People are told not to trust the CDC by bad faith actors. It’s simply willful nihilism.
September 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Maybe a little too over-the-top to be a believable cartoon villain.
mmfa.bsky.social Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · Sep 3
Loomer: “You think these kids are so innocent? Because they're kids? Yeah? ... You think little kids are not capable of evil?”
Trump ally Laura Loomer on Palestinian children seeking medical care in US: "You think these kids are so innocent?"
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September 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

-Mahatma Gandhi
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 2
these people need to log off. seriously. bluesky this, bluesky that, how about you look at some actual blue skies and get off the internet for ten minutes
convolutedname.bsky.social Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · Sep 2
These people are insane lmao
September 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Whether he’s alive, dead, healthy, sick, it is very true that he hasn’t made a public speaking appearance, video or live, for the last six, going on seven, days. Any other president that would be a massive story.

Also obvious, the corporate press are openly colluding with the White House on this.
September 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Unless there’s video, nobody should be saying “Trump says”.
September 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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This is a really slippery subject, but if Dem pols & advisors really want to find out how their left/liberal likely voters “think”, they should stop relying on polling and just come to Bluesky and quietly read the replies to the political punditry posted here every day. Absorb the vibes, as it were.
whstancil.bsky.social Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Aug 30
Liberals don't understand the role of influencers, which is MOSTLY NOT to incept ideas into the public consciousness. It's to make the liberal/Democratic viewpoint on existing subjects and topics look like the smart one.
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Aug 30
One last explanation is the DNC just funds low quality content. The Chorus influencers tried to make “Jill Stein” a trending topic on social media after the new Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case. Like in basic quality terms this is hella dumb
August 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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August 30, 2025.
Calling Jake Tapper!
Detail from press photo of Trump this morning.
August 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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This—and the spirit and fortitude to actually do these things and not wait for someone else—is what it’s going to take.

Everybody needs to be a hero now.

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jennofark.bsky.social Jenn Of Ark @jennofark.bsky.social · Aug 29
This is a case of "the beatings will continue until morale improves."

We aren't going to make it to the midterms unless some critical mass of us simply decides to not cooperate - with ANYTHING. Or at least on SOME level. And here's what I mean: maybe 20% of us make the conscious decision to drop
August 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM