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pro bono bonobo, rando nobo hobo (enjoyer of corny rhymes)
grouch with a poetry problem

{socialism = community} must win
🥖 the revolution starts within
aka Oscar G. Marx
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ogmarx.bsky.social
truth does not equal freedom when dollar bills are at stake. capitalism washes away sins but leaves the world on pins and needles awaiting the next round of fuckery in its name. make money obsolete and don’t let the power hungry have a class at all. flip the scrip and this all ends!
“Soeharto was named among 10 honorees given the title of national hero on Monday. The award, decided by President Prabowo Subianto, Soe-harto's former son-in-law, has stirred criticism among activists and academics who cite the deceased military leader's record of mass human rights violations, corruption and nepotism during his three-decade rule.”
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
ogmarx.bsky.social
mood
a leftist baseball cap in red white and blue with a frog and RESIST you know who Hop to it. Just do it: the needfully absurd, dance naked in the rain, tweet like a bird. through snow and rain and wind and fog, be kind and unwind and make like the frog
November 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
ogmarx.bsky.social
does it make sense now?
Bastion Theory replaces the error prone right/left split. Non-linear formulation that reveals “center” to mean the center of power and privilege, the politely crypto fascist focal point of what it really they’re trying to win
October 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
ogmarx.bsky.social
ain’t nothing but a party
vote with yer feet and take back the street. people over cars!
✊🏽
A bike leans up against a parking meter. The bike bears a small child in the backseat holder. There are panniers holding saddle bags on each side. In the background are workers setting up for a free concert in the street. Old people have already starting filling in spaces with folding camp chairs and coolers full of homemade treats
October 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
ogmarx.bsky.social
just gutted over how bad it’s become and how quickly… do the needful 😞
Unblock ••• us gov Moderation list by @eva.computer block list for us gov accounts (does not include NOAA, NWS, CPSC, or accounts for individuals) screen capture with the above text showing just how far we have sunk down the fascism hole when our right to peaceful protest and non-violent civil disobedience is threatened by our own government to the point where we have to block them from our timelines or risk being denied exit from the US, which is already happening to citizens on the left
October 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
ogmarx.bsky.social
UBI would provide jobs that increase soil fertility, paying families to regenerate the land, sequestering carbon on a societal scale, living off renewables and farming the land the old way, the way outlined here:
cover art of a book that has served as a major source of revolutionary inspiration for me: THE ONE-STRAW REVOLUTION by MASANOBU FUKUOKA
October 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
ogmarx.bsky.social
in 2016, the handful of actual publicans still left in the chat warned us to take note of the slow erosion of our civil liberties and take over of our government… this is the deciding moment, the crossing of the Rhine. the US is going full on Nazi and voting with yer feet is about all that’s left.
It is this power under Title 10 that White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller yesterday claimed was "plenary," or absolute. The idea that exceptions to the rule of law reveal who is really in charge of the government was central to the political philosophy of German political theorist Carl Schmitt, who joined the Nazis and whose work is increasingly popular among the radical right in the U.S. these days. Since taking office in January, Trump has declared at least eight national emergencies that the administration has used to justify the use of emergency powers.
October 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
ogmarx.bsky.social
the real (what we feel) flows like a river, that giver of life, the bearer of poems, and the ender of strife. in the river of perspective there is no elective but cooperation and flow. whirlpools form the faster ya go.
September 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
ogmarx.bsky.social
flash drought they are calling it and most of the region is suffering from it… at what point do we admit we are out of balance?!
September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Big Falls in up country Maine, the very spot where i caught my first brook trout 50 years ago… sadly, water levels are too low for fishing these days.

this entire valley (Sandy River) was once bursting with water but the drought and climate change has taken its toll —still a beautiful spot to hike
September 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
ogmarx.bsky.social
and especially this
THE ONE-STRAW REVOLUTION MASANOBU FUKUOKA INTRODUCTION BY FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ
September 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
ogmarx.bsky.social
and this…
A PEOPLE'S HISTORY of the UNITED STATES By Howard Zinn
September 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
ogmarx.bsky.social
2008 and I was losing my shit…these two radicalized me.
A book shelf with some books shown, Vellum/Ink is so worth a read!
September 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
ogmarx.bsky.social
In summary, Che Guevara is best understood as having held and promoted anti-queer beliefs, and was a part of a revolutionary regime that systematically persecuted queer individuals as part of its early social engineering campaigns it’s hard to face it when people you looked at once as heroes end up being just as deeply flawed as the average joe. what’s important is to keep moving forward with visions of what could be and the limits of human understanding and compassion peas and carrots
September 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
ogmarx.bsky.social
the season is the reason!
*something* has risen
hoist the mainsail
and unfurl the mizzen
it’s bread, not treason
A well baked loaf
September 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
ogmarx.bsky.social
woke as fuck
Perfectly brown rye loaf rising to the occasion
August 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
ogmarx.bsky.social
welcome to my aquarium

striped bass the size of yer arm
August 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
ogmarx.bsky.social
centrism is a measure of the brutality not a measure of middle ground (or middle class) values… if you support capitalism you support all the fuckery that orbits it
Venn diagram showing many (but not all) of the fuckery emanating from the central hub of capitalism Any former (or current) colony of the UK is suspect as fuck for going fascist. Capitalism was born under British jackbooted heels. It never unlearned that brutality. And centrism is the enabler through which it creeps.
August 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
ogmarx.bsky.social
doing it clean
keeping it lean
preserving what’s common
(and the space in between)
being is seeing a way to a means… seize the means
and give back Jack his phony magic beans!
picture of a lamppost with multiple stickers. Center shot reads: Make Out Not War codepink.org
August 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
ogmarx.bsky.social
but yes, sourdough is an act of sedition. share some with someone you love
pic of sourdough to keep thumbs happy
August 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
ogmarx.bsky.social
My friends at BBC missed an opportunity by not accepting my version of the headline: Bay Curious
photo of a flyer that reads: Curious About the Bay? Join a hands-on study exploring how different water monitoring tools shape the way people engage with their local environment. This summer, UMass Amherst researchers are studying how the tools used in citizen science affect participants' experiences, understanding, and connection to place. Take part and share your perspective! WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING? • Attend a hands-on workshop • Try out traditional and digital monitoring tools in a small-group setting • View and discuss real-time Buzzards Bay water quality data • Participate in a short follow-up interview NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED! You must be 18+ to participate WORKSHOP DETAILS ONSET BEACH, WAREHAM, MA OUTDOOR GROUP SESSION JULY - AUGUST 2-3 HOURS INTERVIEW DETAILS BY ZOOM OR PHONE ME POST-WORKSHOP ONE-ON-ONE CONVERSATION 20-60 MINUTES ANY QUESTIONS? Feel free to reach out to SIGN UP or learn more Scan the QR code to fill out a short interest form. For more information feel free to view the Study Information Sheet linked at the top of the interest form WaterVolunteerStudy@umass.edu https://combb.woodwellclimate.org/
August 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
ogmarx.bsky.social
silence is violence when you know damn well what they mean… black and brown skin is violent to their image of themselves as wardens of our future. it is not just code anymore, it’s on the surface. once again the US will codify its racist core
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...
Reactionary responses to the idea of violent crime often lead policymakers to categorically exclude from reforms people convicted of legally "violent" crimes. But almost half (47%) of people in prison and jail are there for offenses classified as "violent," so these carveouts end up gutting the impact of otherwise well-crafted policies. As we and many others have explained before, cutting incarceration rates to anything near international norms will be impossible without changing how we respond to violent crime. To start, we have to be clearer about what that loaded term really means.
July 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
ogmarx.bsky.social
in a fenced-in area owned by National Grid along the banks of the Taunton River in Fall River, MA, a family of foxes live amidst a copse of elm trees at the center of the property. i counted four kits plus a mum. there is a fallen tree over the fence where they crept in… cool af to watch from afar
An very blurry iphone shot of a kit fox out people watching. during the heat of the day they hide in the hedges but seem to come out when humans hold their cameras way out over the fence rails
July 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
ogmarx.bsky.social
Meme: NO MATTER WHO YOU VOTE FOR THE RICH STAY RICH, THE POOR STAY POOR [Last 5 POTUSes shown smiling] AND THE BOMBS NEVER STOP!
June 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
ogmarx.bsky.social
foolish monkey, you cannot move in to the sandcastles you build… we are stuck in one massive progress trap
from the book by Masanobu Fukuoka, One Straw Rebellion: People think that when they turn their eyes from the earth to the sky they see the heavens. They set the orange fruit apart from the green leaves and say they know the green of the leaves and the orange of the fruit. But from the instant one makes a distinction between green and orange, the true colors vanish. People think they understand things because they become familiar with them. This is only superficial knowledge. It is the knowledge of the astronomer who knows the names of the stars, the botanist who knows the classification of the leaves and flowers, the artist who knows the aesthetics of green and red. This is not to know nature itself-the earth and sky, green and red. Astronomer, botanist, and artist have done no more than grasp impressions and interpret them, each within the vault of his own mind. The more involved they become with the activity of the intel-lect, the more they set themselves apart and the more difficult it becomes to live naturally. The tragedy is that in their unfounded arrogance, people attempt to bend nature to their will. Human beings can destroy natural forms, but they cannot create them. Discrimination, a fragmented and incomplete understanding, always forms the starting point of human knowledge. Unable to know the whole of nature, people can do no better than to construct an incomplete model of it and then delude themselves into thinking that they have created something natural. All someone has to do to know nature is to realize that he does not really know anything, that he is unable to know anything. It can then be expected that he will lose interest in discriminating knowledge. When he abandons discriminating knowledge, non-discriminating knowledge of itself ariser within him” Cover art of said book
May 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM