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David Locke
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Reject imposed obligations, expectations, and roles.
Pinned
You owe your best to the people who love you most.
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Siberia is one of the largest colonial frontiers in world history, but its Indigenous peoples are consistently pushed to the margins of mainstream discourse about colonialism and Indigenous rights. dailycollegian.com/2025/11/we-n...
We need to talk about Siberia
Learning indigenous history is just one step in restoring visibility to peoples who have been systematically erased.
dailycollegian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I just heard the best jazz track in the history of jazz tracks.
Better than all the other tracks:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7pC...
Isma'a [Listen]
YouTube video by Release - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I don't know who posted this video. I don't know who this man is, or why he's standing in front of this particular background — but I can't think of a more complete or a more concise summary and message, which so many people need to hear so badly:

www.tiktok.com/@keishagray/...
TikTok video by Bluetiful82
www.tiktok.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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My co-worker: "If you gave Trump an enema, you could bury him in a shoebox."
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
MAG7 corporations are borrowing *how* much money to develop a *completely unnecessary* product — with almost no market value?
Who will lose what, exactly, because of this waste?

Leadership shouldn't be determined by who can pay to be a leader, but by merit.

www.honest-broker.com/p/10-scary-h...
10 Scary Headlines the AI Cult Doesn't Want You to See
Forget Halloween—these news stories will give you a bigger scare
www.honest-broker.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Remember Saadam Hussein's Minister of Information during the 2003 Iraq War, who was called "Comical Ali" or "Baghdad Bob" because his press conferences always featured staccatos of comically outrageous, demonstrable lies?

Mike Johnson is Baghdad Bob.
Q: "The threat against Hakeem Jeffries...Did President Trump make a mistake by just offering up a blanket pardon for every person that was convicted [for Jan. 6]?"

Johnson: "The assassination culture that's been advanced now, this is the Left...not the Right."
October 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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T1M1 at the solo show in SF last year.

#SciFi #cyberpunk #dystopian #sciencefiction #biomech #Ansible #scifiart #sculpture #art

@david-locke.bsky.social gives an idea of the space/show. Backdrop is old weed barrier that got dug up.
October 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Now playing:
"Plainsong [Sine Bubble Embossed Dub]" by Seefeel
It's quite good.
October 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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In a police state everyone is a suspect including the police.....
October 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
What might happen without Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, you ask?
October 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Morning then.
October 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I must create my own system or be enslaved by another man's.

William Blake
Jerusalem
October 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Let’s go spider peeps and wordsmiths! Do your best!
Excellent.
Now, it is up to us to invent a definition for this new and amazing addition to our lexicon.
Co-spider (v.): To ________________

???
October 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Trump wants us to get used to the idea of military on the streets before the 2026 elections.
He'll post people outside of polling places, and control the elections by seizing ballot boxes so his administration can count the results.

J.B. Pritzker
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-8-...
October 9, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The machine of authoritative power is your own animated corpse —
A false identity controlled by data streams, it lives *someone else's* life… in an alignment of balance and decay.

Interior Ministry [ #AlienistManifesto ]
Principles of Anarchitecture
alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/p...
PRINCIPLES OF ANARCHITECTURE
Principles of Anarchitecture (full book/PDF), Interior Ministry (2019)
alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Pretty soon you are paying a hundred bucks a month to carry around a telephone.
Freedom, they call it.
You pay to be surveilled.

We never escape the Iron Curtain.
Not really.
Agents everywhere…

r.g. vašíček [ @rgvasicek.bsky.social ]
machine elf
sweatdrenchedpress.webador.co.uk/order-1/mach...
MACHINE ELF / Order | Sweat Drenched Press
sweatdrenchedpress.webador.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Let’s return the term “versificator” to our popular lexicon as a euphemism for ChatGPT.

substack.com/@tedgioia/no...
Ted Gioia (@tedgioia)
George Orwell wrote about AI slop in his book 1984: "There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced...
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October 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Titushki is a Ukrainian term for astroturf groups who disrupt democracy by mobilizing impressionable people into action.
Recent concatenations of disorder and violence are the tactics of asymmetric conflict staged by our enemies…

Paul Mason [@paulmason.bsky.social]
htsf.substack.com/p/britains-g...
Britain’s Got Titushki
Deep dive into a Whitehall demo about Gaza, organised by fans of Chinese communism and people who want to 'confront Zionism on campus'
htsf.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Screens are lenses which distort *both* incoming and outbound expressions.
Our awareness is shaped by the characteristic distortions of these lenses.

And so is machine awareness.

Sam Samiee
Fig Leaf
Allegorithms [@litterariaprag.bsky.social]
litterariapragensia.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/a...
ALLEGORITHMS
ALLEGORITHMS edited by Vít Bohal & Dustin BreitlingISBN 978-80-7308-708-1 (paperback) 176ppPublication date: April 2017Price: € 12.00 (not including postage) Order: paperback / Kindle / Amazon.…
litterariapragensia.wordpress.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Why else would the president or his administration consider deploying a *parachute assault division* into a major U.S. city under the made-up pretext of "crime", if not to normalize the operations of a military coup within the United States?

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-5-...
October 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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October 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We are watching the children of screens — kids who can’t comfort anyone in real life, who fail at communal care because touch has been outsourced to emojis…

David Leo Rice [@raviddice.bsky.social]
Paul K. [@wakeisland.bsky.social]
wakeisland.substack.com/p/wake-islan...
Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025
September Edition (Written by Paul K and David Leo Rice)
wakeisland.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Trump is grooming our military for a hostile seizure of power on his behalf:
Trump today told several hundred generals that American cities should be “training grounds,” calling on the military leaders to “handle” the “enemy from within…before it gets out of control.”

The president's comments can often be viewed as orders.

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Hegseth uses rare meeting of generals to announce new military standards
He warned commanders who don’t support the changes could leave the service.
www.politico.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Truth is solely a matter of appearances.
September 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM