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Hylen S
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A monumental work ... brilliantly executed. It really is.
A paperback copy of "Winter" by Len Deighton featuring the quote in the skeet (via the Daily Telegraph). A torn family photo revealing a swastika. Not a short read but a compelling one.
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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A CEO on a throne on top of the world surrounded by regular cops and riot police facing outward who are in turn surrounded by a row of ballot boxes and television screens which enthrall various white family groupings. The families are surrounded by armed soldiers and a tank facing outward toward the encroaching third world, which symbolized by people of various ethnicities in a dystopian landscape featuring oil derricks and bombed out buildings. I'm sure it is the work of Matt Wuerker although I have never been able to come up with the exact citation.
November 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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@ccleaner.bsky.social New, updated CCleaner: Now I'm trapped at the opening screen.
CCleaner says "Start and clean faster, no interruptions" etc. but there's no way to move beyond that screen. Helpful.
October 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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A very cute German Shepherd showing how to wear a mask. Not over your eyes, not as a hat, and not in your mouth. The proper way is to cover your nose and mouth.
October 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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This is so stupid.
@anniesgolden.bsky.social has added you to the "Grifters/Spammers: Follow Farming variety" moderation list
September 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/sham...
At the link.
September 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Call the USTA at (914) 696-7000. Tell them they're cowards.
September 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Best comment:
More than just treason: this is a very quiet crime against humanity, on a scale with abandoning MRNA research. It’s not going to kill anyone today or next week or probably even the next couple years, but eventually the death toll will be in the tens of millions. The climate denialism is staggering: you can loathe solar farms and windmills as much as you like, but there’s no way to put the economics of them back in the bottle. They’re the cheapest way to make electricity now, and they’re only going to get cheaper. Every country in the Middle East is feeling around for plans after Peak Oil. Us? We’re following Russia into being a backwards, thuggish petro-state. It’s not going to end well.
September 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Poetry.

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Eighth Street, in Greenwich Village, runs East-West, between Sixth and Third Avenue, where it shifts name and gear to become the frenzied hotspot, Saint Mark’s Place, before going underground at the sloppy green expanse of Tompkins Square Park, before resuming its route from Avenue B to Avenue D. In 1976, when I moved into a fourth-floor walk-up garret apartment on the block between Sixth Avenue and MacDougal, the street, dubbed Book Row, boasted a plethora of bookstores, including St. Marks Bookshop at 13 St. Marks Place, B. Dalton’s, at the corner of Eighth and Sixth, Book Masters, at 60 E. Eighth St., Marboro Books, at 56 W. Eighth St., and the Eighth Street Bookshop, at 17 W. Eighth St.
August 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Sherman's Lagoon. The Santas do not run free on Christmas Island. "The Santas are caged??"
August 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/the-...
One of classic fascistic features of Trumpism is that it simultaneously affirms that America is an extremely dangerous place, where murderous Others are lurking around every corner, especially in our supposedly anarchic cities, while at the very same time affirming that we have also entered a golden age, in which crime and violence are disappearing rapidly, because of the protection afforded us by the Leader. This kind of flagrant logical and empirical contradiction is swallowed by the masses, because in an age of pervasive propaganda contradiction is also intentionally pervasive. Such contradictions imbue the polity with a sense that they live in a world of total deceit, where nothing can be trusted, especially any fancy statistics from the Government, to the extent the Government maintains any ability to contradict the Leader.
August 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Proud Boys in kilts at a protest bend over to show what clever things they have written on their buttocks.
August 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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What a great book.
PD James, The Lighthouse, a book well worth reading.
August 3, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
An 82-year-old man in Pennsylvania was secretly deported to Guatemala after visiting an immigration office last month to replace his lost green card, according to his family, who have not heard from him since and were initially told he was dead. According to Morning Call, which first reported the story, long-time Allentown resident Luis Leon – who was granted political asylum in the US in 1987 after being tortured under the regime of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet – lost his wallet containing the physical card that confirmed his legal residency. So he and wife booked an appointment to get it replaced. When he arrived at the office on 20 June, however, he was handcuffed by two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers, who led him away from his wife without explanation, she said. She herself was kept in the building for 10 hours until relatives picked her up.
July 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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judiciariesworldwide.fjc.gov/incarceration
Click the link to read.
July 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Spiderman pointing at himself behind an unmarked white van.
June 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Text at the link.
June 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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A CEO on a throne on top of the world surrounded by regular cops and riot police facing outward who are in turn surrounded by a row of ballot boxes and television screens which enthrall various white family groupings. The families are surrounded by armed soldiers and a tank facing outward toward the encroaching third world, which symbolized by people of various ethnicities in a dystopian landscape featuring oil derricks and bombed out buildings. I'm sure it is the work of Matt Wuerker although I have never been able to come up with the exact citation.
June 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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"US immigration officials push for increased detentions, including ‘collateral’ arrests"

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Senior US immigration officials over the weekend instructed rank-and-file officers to “turn the creative knob up to 11” when it comes to enforcement, including by interviewing and potentially arresting people they called “collaterals”, according to internal agency emails viewed by the Guardian. Officers were also urged to increase apprehensions and think up tactics to “push the envelope” one email said, with staff encouraged to come up with new ways of increasing arrests and suggesting them to superiors. “If it involves handcuffs on wrists, it’s probably worth pursuing,” another message said. The instructions not only mark a further harshening of attitude and language by the Trump administration in its efforts to fulfill election promises of “mass deportation” but also indicate another escalation in efforts, by being on the lookout for undocumented people whom officials may happen to encounter – here termed “collaterals” – while serving arrest warrants for others.
June 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Hot dog guy. Wants to know who did this.
May 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Easter Monday, Willem de Kooning, 1955-56, the Met.
Easter Monday, Willem de Kooning, 1955-56, the Met
April 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#RümeysaÖztürk
See link
April 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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www.gocomics.com/drewsheneman...
Elderly couple in their kitchen. "Our actual eggs are worth more than our nest egg."
April 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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A crowd of people in New York City hold up signs. All sorts of people are there. The clearest sign says "First they came for Mahmoud." Others say, "A crime against ALL of us," "Fuck ICE," "Free Mahmoud!," etc. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-free-speech_n_67d1e065e4b0668b4e9d495b "CHARLY TRIBALLEAU via Getty Images"
April 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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An official website of the United States Government Social Security Online Service Not Available
April 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM