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Archivist promoting artistic works and free expression.
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History belongs to all of us. Those who take it away are robbing you personally and everyone you know.
November 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Its one of Whale's best and is in the public domain so we can all enjoy it. youtu.be/IHnbCXq6dy4
October 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Seen news that a new techniqye for repairing bones is being pioneered in the People's Republic of China. I hope it pans out, it should be an important step forward in health care. It also gives me an opportunity to discuss patents, another form of IP control.
September 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Very sad,
Time to start the countdown
vor-bokor.bsky.social Dr Artyom Trakhanov @vor-bokor.bsky.social · Sep 1
Rest in peace, Radna Sahaltuev (1935-2025), your art is forever in my DNA😭
September 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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The Marching Morons by C.M. Kornbluth
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The Marching Morons By C. M. Kornbluth
The Marching Morons By C. M. KORNBLUTH Illustrated by DON SIBLEY [Transcribe...
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August 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Common Sense Country a 19th Utopian short story by L.S. Bevington

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Common-Sense Country by L.S. Bevington
Credit to No Bonzo A short story demonstrating a possible Anarchist future, written sometime in the 1890s.   Common-Sense Country ...
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June 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Yes! We have no Bananas.

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August 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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"We noticed you at the bar, we like your vibe".
July 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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This must be Stephen King's favourite
July 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Nearly everyday is a day of discovery for me. For example #TIL that Illma Gore created a painting depicting a naked Donald Trump and released it into the public domain...

I refuse to suffer alone!
July 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Samara Meyer’s THE SITUATIONSHIP reimagines a 1920s silent film as a queer college romance. Read how it placed third in the 2025 #PublicDomainDay Remix Contest.

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Title card for "The Situationship" a short film by Samara Meyer, which won Third Place in the 2025 Public Domain Day Remix Contest. Frame of Clara Bow from "The Situationship" a short film by Samara Meyer, which won Third Place in the 2025 Public Domain Day Remix Contest. Frame from "The Situationship" a short film by Samara Meyer, which won Third Place in the 2025 Public Domain Day Remix Contest.
June 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Ross Scott, the founder of #StopKillingGames, released a video detailing his efforts spearheading the movement, as well as addressing detractors and what could be next for the future:
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We salute his efforts and those of all the volunteers who have pushed this movement forward! o7
The end of Stop Killing Games
YouTube video by Accursed Farms
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June 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Remember, we still have 5 and a half weeks in which we can still make a difference with #directdemocracy
Get friends and family to sign our Initiatives, and get influencers talking about the most important movement in gaming history!
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European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
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June 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Big news in the world of public domain. Godzilla will enter the public domain in Japan in 2031.
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Godzilla is coming for us all!
Soon, soon. Recently there's been an interesting development, a Japanese man from Osaka was arrested for selling bootleg DVDs. Okay, given...
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June 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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I'm mostly a movies and comicstrips guy but IP effects everything around us and its consequences can be literally hazardous to public health.
luckytran.com Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jun 18
Gilead has announced that lenacapavir, the game-changing HIV prevention drug just approved by the FDA will cost $28,218 USD per person per year.

Researchers say a generic version could be made for just $25 per person a year.

Capitalism kills.
Lenacapavir is already sold as a treatment for H.I.V. infections that are resistant to other medications, at roughly $42,000 per patient per year. (Few individuals pay the full cost.) Lenacapavir taken to prevent H.I.V. infection, a regimen called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, will be sold at a list price of $28,218, according to Gilead. Aids and HIV ‘HIV-ending’ drug could be made for just $25 per patient a year, say researchers As regulator prepares to approve lenacapavir in the US, campaigners are urging the manufacturer, Gilead, to make it ‘available and affordable for all who need it’
June 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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This may proof timely given current events. A U.S. Military demonstration on how to dismantle a Nuclear bomb.
June 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Common Sense Country a 19th Utopian short story by L.S. Bevington

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Common-Sense Country by L.S. Bevington
Credit to No Bonzo A short story demonstrating a possible Anarchist future, written sometime in the 1890s.   Common-Sense Country ...
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June 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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I'm very conflicted here, I'll have to flip a coin to decide who I hate more.
legal.reuters.com Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · Jun 11
Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.
Disney, Universal sue image creator Midjourney for copyright infringement
Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.
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June 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Canadian WWI poster circa 1917, but War Bonds.
Canadian soldier with a mustache and manic eyes pointing directly at you.
June 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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I enjoy some old US telly, but the constant breaks for a"short" word from the sponsors, usually tobacco and an appliance is extremely frustrating and jarring. Judgement at Nuremberg waa sponsor by a Gas Oven!
reddebrek.bsky.social La Kolera Doktoro @reddebrek.bsky.social · Jun 7
Don't forget the five minute interruption for words from Tobacco companies and petroleum sponsors.
June 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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I've been looking through collections of the satirical British magazine Punch to find a particular image from 1883. No luck yet but have found some well unique cartoons.
Cartoon documenting the Indian Mutiny. Or the Anglo-Indian mutiny as Punch magazine calls it. Depicts many men riding on an Elephant with a UK flag. Subtitle reads "A bad example for the Elephant. Cartoon depicting Otto von Bismarck dressed as a Roman centurion barring the gates of the temple of Janus. A knight on a horse leading an army waving a banner that says Conservative Party. Titled Disintegration. Punch's Fancy Portrait No. 132. Features Chief Superintendent Williamson as a ferret with a human face complete with bushy beard. Text references Bomb detection and Irish Fenianism.
May 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Presenting a Science Fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, 1944s The Morgue Ship

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The Morgue Ship by Ray Bradbury
Published in 1944 in Planet Stories Summer, copyright was not renewed in 1972.   Morgue Ship By RAY BRADBURY This was Burnett's last tr...
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May 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Wrote a short piece introducing the strange world of Drive-in cinema, as in movies produced on the cheap by regional movie tycoons outside the Hollywood system. Includes an American Kaiju flick and a bonkers time travelling Nazisploitation b-movie.
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Drive in Theatre
The 20th Century United States of America's requirement that works must be registered to gain the benefits of copyright created several l...
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May 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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#Nowplaying

English language version of the Polish revolutionary song Whirlwinds of Danger.

Dated 1925.
April 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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How ironic.
Screen shot from Ars Technica alledging the UK government stole the font it used for its famous and often ridiculed "You wouldn't steal a car" antipiracy advert.
April 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM