Keenan Boscoe (Topo)
@paperpost.bsky.social
Owner of Topo Paper & Post - a stationery and design store in downtown Camden, Maine. Find me at www.paperpo.st
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I read a book on making money in ancient Athens recently (by Michael Leese, it's great), and the Greeks absolutely believed that the endless pursuit of wealth was a serious moral defect and personality issue no different than being a drunk or sexual deviant.
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I read a book on making money in ancient Athens recently (by Michael Leese, it's great), and the Greeks absolutely believed that the endless pursuit of wealth was a serious moral defect and personality issue no different than being a drunk or sexual deviant.
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Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
May 27, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
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I've lived in the suburbs for about five years now and I'm increasingly convinced that it's the most culturally pathological category of American life - full of addiction issues, white-collar crime, and above all, mediocrity masquerading as accomplishment and virtue. That last part is what I hate.
December 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I've lived in the suburbs for about five years now and I'm increasingly convinced that it's the most culturally pathological category of American life - full of addiction issues, white-collar crime, and above all, mediocrity masquerading as accomplishment and virtue. That last part is what I hate.
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Support small business. Break up monopolies.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Support small business. Break up monopolies.
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We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
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Mamdani went to a small college similar to the one where I work and majored in Africana Studies. From now on my answer to the microaggressive question of “what can one (even) do with a Black Studies degree from a liberal arts college?” is “You can run New York.”
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Mamdani went to a small college similar to the one where I work and majored in Africana Studies. From now on my answer to the microaggressive question of “what can one (even) do with a Black Studies degree from a liberal arts college?” is “You can run New York.”
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
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Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
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I've long been a fan of @michellegoldberg.bsky.social but especially appreciate her candidness about the evolution of her thinking on Graham Platner after coming to Maine and seeing what's happening on the ground. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
Opinion | I Thought Graham Platner Was Finished. What I Saw in Maine Changed My Mind.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I've long been a fan of @michellegoldberg.bsky.social but especially appreciate her candidness about the evolution of her thinking on Graham Platner after coming to Maine and seeing what's happening on the ground. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Thinking about this Deleuze meme as I measure my support for Graham Platner. I still think he the correct choice, because of what he can do - not because of his identity
October 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thinking about this Deleuze meme as I measure my support for Graham Platner. I still think he the correct choice, because of what he can do - not because of his identity
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NEW: Graham Platner Soldiers On
From my vantage on the ground here in Maine, rumors of Platner's demise have been greatly exaggerated. I've seen many campaigns implode in my 15 years covering national politics — none looked like this. www.midcoastvillager.com/news/politic...
From my vantage on the ground here in Maine, rumors of Platner's demise have been greatly exaggerated. I've seen many campaigns implode in my 15 years covering national politics — none looked like this. www.midcoastvillager.com/news/politic...
Graham Platner Soldiers On
Large crowds in the Midcoast suggest that rumors of the oyster farmer's political demise are exaggerated.
www.midcoastvillager.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
NEW: Graham Platner Soldiers On
From my vantage on the ground here in Maine, rumors of Platner's demise have been greatly exaggerated. I've seen many campaigns implode in my 15 years covering national politics — none looked like this. www.midcoastvillager.com/news/politic...
From my vantage on the ground here in Maine, rumors of Platner's demise have been greatly exaggerated. I've seen many campaigns implode in my 15 years covering national politics — none looked like this. www.midcoastvillager.com/news/politic...
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I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...
What Job Is A Guy With A Nazi Tattoo Qualified For? | Defector
The man that my wife and I found ourselves talking to at the bar of a restaurant in Rockland, Me. in the summer of 2019 had arrived in town as your fancier visitors do, which is by boat. He told us th...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...
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I reread this every so often and I'm struck every time by how great it is unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-...
The social ideology of the motorcar - Uneven Earth
by André Gorz The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and natur...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I reread this every so often and I'm struck every time by how great it is unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-...
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"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost
October 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost
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Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756
October 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756
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September 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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If you live in Maine, and even if you don’t, this was legitimately rousing.
Graham Platner feels like someone who actually gives a shit. (He was born in my town, so new to a Wikipedia page they’re sure what year yet, lol.) We have mutuals. Everybody vouches.
Graham Platner feels like someone who actually gives a shit. (He was born in my town, so new to a Wikipedia page they’re sure what year yet, lol.) We have mutuals. Everybody vouches.
Fighting Oligarchy in Portland, Maine
YouTube video by Bernie Sanders
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September 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If you live in Maine, and even if you don’t, this was legitimately rousing.
Graham Platner feels like someone who actually gives a shit. (He was born in my town, so new to a Wikipedia page they’re sure what year yet, lol.) We have mutuals. Everybody vouches.
Graham Platner feels like someone who actually gives a shit. (He was born in my town, so new to a Wikipedia page they’re sure what year yet, lol.) We have mutuals. Everybody vouches.
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#SciArtSeptember 1: Islet
Somewhere in the waves of Barents Sea, a rocky islet acts as a perch for seabirds. Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and skuas are still here, though threatened by heating oceans and spreading disease. With them sits a lonely ghost of a great auk that once roamed these seas.
Somewhere in the waves of Barents Sea, a rocky islet acts as a perch for seabirds. Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and skuas are still here, though threatened by heating oceans and spreading disease. With them sits a lonely ghost of a great auk that once roamed these seas.
September 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
#SciArtSeptember 1: Islet
Somewhere in the waves of Barents Sea, a rocky islet acts as a perch for seabirds. Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and skuas are still here, though threatened by heating oceans and spreading disease. With them sits a lonely ghost of a great auk that once roamed these seas.
Somewhere in the waves of Barents Sea, a rocky islet acts as a perch for seabirds. Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and skuas are still here, though threatened by heating oceans and spreading disease. With them sits a lonely ghost of a great auk that once roamed these seas.
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La Décapitation de saint Georges, Bernat Martorell, 1430
August 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
La Décapitation de saint Georges, Bernat Martorell, 1430