The Shockwave Rider
@shockwaverider.bsky.social
Trust your instincts.
Do the unexpected.
Find the others.
Do the unexpected.
Find the others.
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Some might say, hacking billboards is noble work. 😉
December 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Some might say, hacking billboards is noble work. 😉
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Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords
This is evil.
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November 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
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Can crowdsourced maps help save millions from climate disaster? | Grist grist.org/solutions/ca...
Can a crowdsourced map of the world help save millions of people from climate disaster?
Volunteer cartographers on the island of St. Lucia are turning local knowledge into life-saving maps in the face of rising seas and stronger storms.
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June 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Can crowdsourced maps help save millions from climate disaster? | Grist grist.org/solutions/ca...
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yet another prime example of convergent evolution
June 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
yet another prime example of convergent evolution
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Centuries of industrial and post-industrial commoditisation of the human psyche have stripped society down to a cold web of nameless transactions that has completely replaced a community of intimately connected beings.
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June 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Centuries of industrial and post-industrial commoditisation of the human psyche have stripped society down to a cold web of nameless transactions that has completely replaced a community of intimately connected beings.
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
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People who leave their dogs outside at night, barking and whimpering, should have their dogs taken off them. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
June 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
People who leave their dogs outside at night, barking and whimpering, should have their dogs taken off them. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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This deceptively stable system convinces us that we live in an abundant, magical world where nothing ever runs out, however much we consume.
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How Humans Invented Waste
Cakeconomics 101
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June 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This deceptively stable system convinces us that we live in an abundant, magical world where nothing ever runs out, however much we consume.
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“Scarcity is our natural mental state, but this all changed once industrial civilisation handed everything to us on a silver platter”
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The Happiness Trap: How Humans Became Terrified of Scarcity
Picture yourself at the top of a hill.
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May 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
“Scarcity is our natural mental state, but this all changed once industrial civilisation handed everything to us on a silver platter”
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Doing the hard work on a Sunday, taste testing brownies: on right with pistachio cream and on left without. Pray for me that I have the strength for this.
May 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Doing the hard work on a Sunday, taste testing brownies: on right with pistachio cream and on left without. Pray for me that I have the strength for this.
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Do you want to know what people with high levels of sociopathic traits can’t comprehend, anticipate sufficiently or ultimately defeat?
People taking action to protect each each other
Caring for each other deeply and above all as a prime motivator
People taking action to protect each each other
Caring for each other deeply and above all as a prime motivator
May 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Do you want to know what people with high levels of sociopathic traits can’t comprehend, anticipate sufficiently or ultimately defeat?
People taking action to protect each each other
Caring for each other deeply and above all as a prime motivator
People taking action to protect each each other
Caring for each other deeply and above all as a prime motivator
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"The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous, rather than cowardly."
Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson
May 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous, rather than cowardly."
Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson
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Family of evicted sharecroppers in a temporary camp. Butler County, Missouri. November 1939.
#WorldHistory #History
#WorldHistory #History
May 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Family of evicted sharecroppers in a temporary camp. Butler County, Missouri. November 1939.
#WorldHistory #History
#WorldHistory #History
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The entirety of humanity has become one big business, and each of us is, willingly or not, part of this ever-growing, destructive, polluting, utterly pointless corporation
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Laboured to Extinction: How We Became the Planet of the Working Zombies
As societies grew into increasingly complex economies, the need for specialised skills gave rise to specialised humans.
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May 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The entirety of humanity has become one big business, and each of us is, willingly or not, part of this ever-growing, destructive, polluting, utterly pointless corporation
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open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
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If manifesting really worked i’d be a billionaire, living on a cat ranch in the South of France. Grow up
May 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If manifesting really worked i’d be a billionaire, living on a cat ranch in the South of France. Grow up
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Hollywood is an imperialist psyop.
Don't buy into their propaganda or support it with ticket sales.
Don't buy into their propaganda or support it with ticket sales.
Ever flipped on a movie only to notice the subtext that the American military is the hero? Or that whomever Washington considers a rival at that moment is the villain? If the answer’s yes, don’t worry: Your mind’s not playing tricks on you.
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Deep Dive: The Pentagon Influence Behind the Silver Screen
A new study at Brown University's Costs of War project explores the Pentagon's role in war-themed Hollywood films.
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May 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Hollywood is an imperialist psyop.
Don't buy into their propaganda or support it with ticket sales.
Don't buy into their propaganda or support it with ticket sales.
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Book 22: @badancient.bsky.social delightful collection of snapshots of liminal places (from a classical civ POV) in the ancient world illustrating that the “edges” had rich, vibrant cultures that were often more intellectually curious and always more culturally flexible than the so-called centre.
May 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Book 22: @badancient.bsky.social delightful collection of snapshots of liminal places (from a classical civ POV) in the ancient world illustrating that the “edges” had rich, vibrant cultures that were often more intellectually curious and always more culturally flexible than the so-called centre.
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The Bully on the Playground Can't Find Love.
Paul nelson published a post on Ko-fi
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May 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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"Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters."
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
May 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters."
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
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LOLOLOLO the best meme found! 🤣
March 23, 2025 at 4:41 AM
LOLOLOLO the best meme found! 🤣