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Ryan Frishkorn
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KC8RNV - Tech engineer and aesthetic nomad. Intolerant of fascism and nihilism. Listener of crows. Driven by literature, tangled in philosophy, and fractured by everything beautiful.
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Ryan Frishkorn @ryanfrishkorn.com · Jan 1
Nihilism has always been dead. In the darkest times, look deeply for something beautiful and it will appear, defying description, distilling the world into perfect meaning reborn. #nature #photography #animal #insect
Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly perched beside a cool, wooded stream in Summer 2024.
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The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights armed with a slew of commercial surveillance systems

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ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Safety and love
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November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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#reading #books #literature #theater #shakespeare
"He hath no friends but what are friends for fear, Which in his dearest need will fly from him." Richard III William Shakespeare
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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#reading #books #literature #shakespeare
But then I sigh and, with a piece of scripture; Tell them that God bids us do good for evil; And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n forth of Holy Writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. Richard III William Shakespeare
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Trump is an enemy of the Constitution and the People. The slimy cowards surrounding him are the only things enabling his destructive behavior.
chrismurphyct.bsky.social Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12d
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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US border patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers in a secretive program to identify & detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious

The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested.

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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

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CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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These men are as vile as they come. Jamal Ahmad Hamza Khashoggi had courage of which they are incapable.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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#reading #books #literature #fiction
“Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself. And when finally they set the structure to burn the books, using the, firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting or yelling with me, by then. Now, it's too late.” Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
November 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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What an amazingly beautiful film.
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Frankenstein (2025 film) - Wikipedia
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November 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Prosecute every single American who is responsible for this. Let a jury decide their fate, which is more than these people received.
peterbakernyt.bsky.social Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 23d
Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
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November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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From the Depths — William Balfour-Ker, 1906
B&W art. A fancy ballroom where men in white tie are reveling with women in evening gowns. The revelers have paused in their dancing and are looking down at the dance floor. A fist has punched through the floor. We see below the ball men and women hunched down in a cramped space holding up the revelers' gala. One of these people crammed down in the depths has punched through the dance floor from below.
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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The people who did this are not leaders. They are cruel demagogues who should be reviled by the public.
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 26d
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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This is the kind of country Trump wants, and these are the slimy cowards who make it possible, along with every other American who refuses to publicly condemn it. It’s time to raise your fucking voice!
royalpratt.bsky.social Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 27d
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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People I loved are now gone, and the treacherous men responsible have lived long, wealthy lives.
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20 years post-invasion, many Iraq veterans haven’t found peace — Harvard Gazette
Harvard doctor who directs Home Base health program details experiences treating “invisible wounds,” including efforts to keep patients from isolating.
news.harvard.edu
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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It’s archived because the government deleted it.
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Suicide Risk by Unit Component among Veterans Who Served in Iraq or Afghanistan
This study assessed the risk of suicide by time since separation from the military for US veterans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan. Suicide risk was assessed by comparing the number of suicides amon...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Terrible men should be remembered for who they are.

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Iraq Body Count project - Wikipedia
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November 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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#reading #books #fiction #literature #scifi
“Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. They did. Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were dishwater. No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said. But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic books survive. And the three-dimensional sex-magazines, of course. There you have it, Montag. It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade journals.” Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
November 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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#reading #books #literature #fiction
“Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself. And when finally they set the structure to burn the books, using the, firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting or yelling with me, by then. Now, it's too late.” Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
November 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.

➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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When the master of film is better read than almost everyone.

#Guillermo_del_Toro #reading #books #literature

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Guillermo Del Toro’s favourite books
YouTube video by Jack Edwards
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November 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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#reading #books #fiction #literature #scifi
It was a strange quiet meeting. The old man admitted to being a retired English professor who had been thrown out upon the world forty years ago when the last liberal arts college shut for lack of students and patronage. His name was Faber, and when he finally lost his fear of Montag, he talked in a cadenced voice, looking at the sky and the trees and the green park, and when an hour had passed he said something to Montag and Montag sensed it was a rhymeless poem. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
November 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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#reading #books #literature #fiction
“It's not just the woman that died,” said Montag. “Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before.” He got out of bed. “It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I came along in two minutes and boom! It's all over.” Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
November 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM