Rusty Shackleford
@geoff-fuckley.bsky.social
Owner of Dale’s Dead-Bug (watch for my queen ant-topped Bugabago van in my hometown of Arlen, Texas). Exterminator. Bat veterinarian. Private investigator. Bounty hunter. Manitoba-brand cigarette smoker. Arlen Gun Club president. Independent thinker.
I’ve slept so awful over the past couple of weeks – especially these last few days in a fucking Hilton while working a massive trade show – I keep having to double take the floor lamp, which my eyes have consistently betrayed me to appear as some unknown slender man.
April 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I’ve slept so awful over the past couple of weeks – especially these last few days in a fucking Hilton while working a massive trade show – I keep having to double take the floor lamp, which my eyes have consistently betrayed me to appear as some unknown slender man.
I’m working on the next edition of Power & Philately—and watch out because it's a doozy.
Until then, uncover the wide world of stamps as mass media tools of myth-making and nation-building propaganda using my comprehensive mind map.
powerandphilately.substack.com
#philately #stamps #AI #politics
Until then, uncover the wide world of stamps as mass media tools of myth-making and nation-building propaganda using my comprehensive mind map.
powerandphilately.substack.com
#philately #stamps #AI #politics
April 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I’m working on the next edition of Power & Philately—and watch out because it's a doozy.
Until then, uncover the wide world of stamps as mass media tools of myth-making and nation-building propaganda using my comprehensive mind map.
powerandphilately.substack.com
#philately #stamps #AI #politics
Until then, uncover the wide world of stamps as mass media tools of myth-making and nation-building propaganda using my comprehensive mind map.
powerandphilately.substack.com
#philately #stamps #AI #politics
Oh, sweet, sweet Satan—no wonder we have no nice things; we move in circles among the chaos; and we lack a stable guiding light to lead us.
Journalism is only part of the problem—partly because it should be a solution. These midwits are an embarrassment to the profession.
Journalism is only part of the problem—partly because it should be a solution. These midwits are an embarrassment to the profession.
Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯!
"You journalists need to get your balls back"
"You journalists need to get your balls back"
April 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Oh, sweet, sweet Satan—no wonder we have no nice things; we move in circles among the chaos; and we lack a stable guiding light to lead us.
Journalism is only part of the problem—partly because it should be a solution. These midwits are an embarrassment to the profession.
Journalism is only part of the problem—partly because it should be a solution. These midwits are an embarrassment to the profession.
Canada’s rarest stamp, the 1868 two-cent Large Queen on laid paper, offers collectors three scant examples. They each cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the chance to buy one rarely arises.
#philately #history #politics #propaganda #writers
#philately #history #politics #propaganda #writers
Canada's Large Queens gave us our rarest stamp
Canada’s rarest stamp, the 1868 two-cent Large Queen on laid paper, offers collectors three scant examples. They each cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the chance to buy one rarely arises.
powerandphilately.substack.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Canada’s rarest stamp, the 1868 two-cent Large Queen on laid paper, offers collectors three scant examples. They each cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the chance to buy one rarely arises.
#philately #history #politics #propaganda #writers
#philately #history #politics #propaganda #writers
In the third story of a four-part series, I explore Canada's Large Queen stamps, their regal design, their interest among collectors worldwide and their use at tools of mass media propaganda.
#writers #substack #history #poetry #canada #philately #politics
#writers #substack #history #poetry #canada #philately #politics
The Large Queens: Part III
Even before the fellas undertook the project of Canadian Confederation, myth-making bureaucrats had already wielded their powers of political persuasion to start building the fledgling nation.
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January 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I look at postage stamps as mass media propaganda through the lens of the musical #Wicked, the 20th-century Canadian philosopher Marshall #McLuhan and cunning linguist Noam #Chomsky.
powerandphilately.substack.com/p/the-large-...
#writers #substack #history #politicslive #poetry
powerandphilately.substack.com/p/the-large-...
#writers #substack #history #politicslive #poetry
Queens, witches & powers of persuasion
"Did they have brains or knowledge? Don't make me laugh; they were popular."
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January 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I look at postage stamps as mass media propaganda through the lens of the musical #Wicked, the 20th-century Canadian philosopher Marshall #McLuhan and cunning linguist Noam #Chomsky.
powerandphilately.substack.com/p/the-large-...
#writers #substack #history #politicslive #poetry
powerandphilately.substack.com/p/the-large-...
#writers #substack #history #politicslive #poetry
Many such cases.
"I Got Hawk Tuah'd By Trump!"
January 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Many such cases.
The latest edition of Power & Philately begins a new series on Canada's "Large Queen" stamps.
#writers #history #poetry #substack #trump #trudeau #greenland #panama
#writers #history #poetry #substack #trump #trudeau #greenland #panama
The Large Queens’ Enduring Legacy
What constitutes a nation?
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January 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Reposted by Rusty Shackleford
An easy way to take the temperature down if uncomfortable conversations come up around the table is to put possum kingdom on repeat at 90db
November 28, 2024 at 11:48 PM
An easy way to take the temperature down if uncomfortable conversations come up around the table is to put possum kingdom on repeat at 90db