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Chris Carter
@wanderinchild.bsky.social
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Reborn amidst smoke and salt.

An observer, and occasional participant, in the cross-pollination of thoughts and words that is Bluesky.

Still (at)wanderinchild on Twitter and Instagram.
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@housetrotter waahhhh i'm an american and i can't do anything about imperialism!! all i can do is eat my corn pop crispies and crispy corn cob pops and popcorn pops and corn syrup crisps and crispy syrupy corn cob crisps and corn cob crispy syrup bombs
January 4, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Dusk, by Chūya Nakahara
Dusk On the pond’s troubled, murky face, gathered lotus leaves tremble, As the lotus leaves are coy, they hardly make a sound above a whisper. When they make a sound my heart trembles, my eyes trace the dim horizon... the dark, dark mountains merely loom. — Once lost, things never return. Nothing could be as sad as this; the grass roots’ smell wafts gently to my nostrils, the field’s earth and stones together looking at me. — In the end, I’m not willing to plough! Standing absent-minded in the dusk; somehow, when Father’s image sticks in my mind, I only advance a step or two. by Chūya Nakahara translated from the Japanese by Paul Mackintosh and Maki Sugiyama from The Poems of Nakahara Chūya, published in 1993 by Gracewing Books
November 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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No time for the appetizer.
August 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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August 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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A photo of a pilot and his incredibly small airplane, painted to resemble a bumblebee.
July 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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‘There Is an Outcry in the Streets for Lack of Wine’ by Frank X. Gaspar
There Is an Outcry in the Streets for Lack of Wine You can accuse me of putting bitter for sweet, but I'll defend myself and say that I put sweet for bitter also. I put sweet for bitter whenever I can, and I can say it has covered my sorrows when there was not a single other way out, no other way to lift myself and stand again, and I have to stand again, even though I get weary and I stumble, even though the arrows of the world are sharp. I understand the danger of speaking directly, but I believe I am still within all the conventions: I've read your verses, Isaiah, and I find a certain quality of mind in them, a certain passion—I'm being obvious but I'm trying to get to know you, your face for instance, or your work habits, or your mental health. And your lines! How they cheer in all the wrong ways! There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine! Or, the wine mourns, the vine languishes! Where is the feint? Where is the subterfuge? Nowhere. I don't know whether to believe you mourned and languished, but then, why not? Who hasn't? And yet, there you are, teaching me a certain hardness, a certain way of standing so that I can't be rocked by a punch, so that I can't be thrown. It doesn't matter that I'm twenty-seven hundred years too late, that I have a different slant on things. So let me say sweet for bitter: I can't speak like you, beyond the sacred halls of all those thousand ruined choirs, but I say sweet in the morning over coffee and in the evening and in the deep night when you and I stare at one another across all the difficulties. Of course I'm dismayed. Of course I'm confounded. I know the grass withers and the flower fades. But I can measure the sweetness. Like that sound in your lines, so brutal, so tender, so ready to be misunderstood: I can hold it tonight like wild honey on the back of my tongue. by Frank X. Gaspar
June 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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This one came across Reddit a couple of days ago and I'm rather taken with it. ‘I Go My Way’ by Max Ehrmann
I Go My Way All round is haste, confusion, noise. For power and wealth men stretch the day From dawn till dusk. But quietly I go my way. For glitter, show, to taunt the crowd, Desire-tossed in wild dismay, Men sell their souls. But quietly I go my way. The green of all the fields is mine, The stars, the night, the wind at play, A peaceful heart, while quietly I go my way. by Max Ehrmann
June 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Categorizing the silent divorce trend as a Life Hack is certainly something you can do.
A text/image link to an article from Essence magazine. The image shows a couple in bed, facing away from each other. Headline-- Here, but Not Really Here: Inside the Silent Divorce Trend Sub-header-- In this trend, couples stay legally married but no longer connect emotionally, mentally, and sometimes... Category-- Life Hacks
June 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Bigotry.
A screenshot of a tweet posted by @Ericangelo_ms on June 8, 2025, which states: ‘Read Pitfalls of Liberalism by Kwame Ture ‘“The liberal is so preoccupied with stopping confrontation that he usually finds himself defending and calling for law and order, the law and order of the oppressor. Confrontation would disrupt the smooth functioning of the society and so the politics of the liberal leads him into a position where he finds himself politically aligned with the oppressor rather than with the oppressed.”’ Followed by a reply posted the same day by @andieiamwhoiam which states: ‘You animals could leave. You could do that.’ (The word ‘animals’ is highlighted.) A screenshot of the Twitter profile of @andieiamwhoiam, which features a banner image of an overcast sky and a Christian cross. The profile text reads: ‘Happy wife. Home school mom. Nationalist. Animal rescue.‘ (The phrase ‘Animal rescue’ is highlighted.) Includes her pinned tweet from May 12, 2025, which states: ‘Just hear me out. Move all the Somalis South Africa and all the Afrikaners to Minnesota.’
June 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Hunting for the Golden Wrapper?
May 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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h/t @scarletred.bsky.social

I would submit that if one found the ongoing genocide of Palestinians an acceptable issue to abandon in favor of voting for Kamala Harris in the 2024 Presidential election, you've already abandoned every other progressive left ideological goal, but don't know it yet.
A post by @tonygoldmark.bsky.social made on May 6, 2025 stating, "At the risk of being labeled a "shitlib" or a "genocidal fascist" I kinda feel like it wasn't a very good idea to completely abandon literally every ideological goal the progressive left has ever had, quite possibly forever, and get absolutely nothing in return." Includes an image of a headline, "Israel Votes to Capture All of Gaza and Occupy It Indefinitely" which in turn includes an image of Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.
May 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Everything you need to know about the shittier side of Star Wars fandom can be understood by reading this one tweet from a grift-tuber, wherein one word starting with R gets modified for safe posting and another word starting with R does not.
A tweet by @thatstarwarsgrl made April 24, 2025 showing a screen capture from an episode of Star Wars: Andor (season 2, episode 3). The image shows Bix Caleen (played by Adria Arjona) at the door of her home, shouting out to an Imperial soldier, (subtitles included) "He tried to rape me." The text of the tweet says, "Watched Andor season 2 & yep it’s real. An imperial officer tries to grape Bix. Using the power dynamic that she’s an illegal & he can deport her. It’s beyond fucking retarded & doesn’t belong in Star Wars" The words 'grape' and 'retarded' are highlighted for effect.
April 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Came across this shortly after watching your video:
An Instagram post by the Emily Dickinson Museum (emilydickinson.museum) from April 16, 2025: On April 9, the Emily Dickinson Museum received notice that a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency, had been terminated the preceding day. In 2023, the Museum was awarded a grant of $117,000 by IMLS to digitize records related to its newly catalogued collection and to locate related information in other repositories with Dickinson family materials. The notice states, “IMLS has determined that your grant is unfortunately no longer consistent with the agency’s priorities and no longer serves the interest of the United States and the IMLS Program.” Our work to amplify Emily Dickinson’s revolutionary poetic voice – by opening her family homes to visitors, by interpretive and educational use of her family’s material legacy, by holding up her enduring poetry – continues with support from the Museum’s friends and our unending gratitude.
April 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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This evergreen clip from: examinedlife.typepad.com/johnbelle/20...
“The great, overwhelming fact of a capitalist economy is risk. Everyone is at constant risk of the loss of his job, or of the destruction of his business by a competitor, or of the crash of his investment portfolio. Risk makes people circumspect. It disciplines them and teaches them self-control. Without a safety net, people won’t try to vault across the big top. Social security, student loans, and other government programs make it far less catastrophic than it used to be for middle-class people to dissolve their families. Without welfare and food stamps, poor people would cling harder to working-class respectability than they do not.” The thing that makes capitalism good, apparently, is not that it generates wealth more efficiently than other known economic engines. No, the thing that makes capitalism good is that, by forcing people to live precarious lives, it causes them to live in fear of losing everything and therefore to adopt – as fearful people will – a cowed and subservient posture: in a word, they behave ‘conservatively’. Of course, crouching to protect themselves and their loved ones from the eternal lash of risk precisely won’t preserve these workers from risk. But the point isn’t to induce a society-wide conformist crouch by way of making the workers safe and happy. The point is to induce a society-wide conformist crouch. Period. A solid foundation is hereby laid for a desirable social order.
April 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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This seems timely. www.instagram.com/p/DICOQJiyl1G/
A parody book cover from the Instagram account ‘paperbackparadise’ featuring a photo of the profile of the head of a horse (with bit and bridle) and the text, “SICK OF THIS HORSE SHIT / Riding, walking, all that shit: fuck it / by Maneson the Horse”
April 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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A short poem by Karim Wafa Al-Hussaini, recently posted to Twitter by Kyrie Irving:
they ignore the suffering of millions saying they do not understand it but i ask them: in what language does a child cry? —Karim Wafa Al-Hussaini
March 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Had to get new glasses as the old pair broke. Hence my new “senior citizen Paul Dano as The Riddler” look. A bit more from this round of enlensination on my Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DHH8zc8pSrU/
Yours truly, wearing my new glasses from Ray-Ban: classic horn-rims made with clear plastic.
March 13, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Mohammed Ali Jinnah
A tweet from Haroon Ullah @haroonullah posted June 1, 2014, containing a quote from Mohammed Ali Jinnah: "No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs."
March 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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'Warmth of Blood' by Ali al-Sharqawi
Warmth of Blood You said: Prison cells are cold I shall send you a woollen garment Wrap yourself up I said: The chill is warmed by songs of comrades, memories of love rising in the branches of embrace. And it is warm when you appear in my dreams. Your longing voice, stoked and radiant fire . . . I wrap myself in your words like an ember that says: Freedom. I clasp my vision, reined in by the mind curb my flowing sorrow. Do not send me a woollen garment. only come to me with the dream. by Ali al-Sharqawi translated from the Arabic by Lena Jayyusi and Naomi Shihab Nye
February 19, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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BREAKING: A new Euphemism for Male Muskerbation™ has dropped.

"honing product" is a brilliant follow-up to "work the chisel".
Two tweets by Elon Musk @elonmusk posted Feb. 15, 2025. First tweet: "Grok 3 release with live demo on Monday night at 8pm PT. Smartest AI on Earth." Second tweet, a reply to the first: "Will be honing product with the team all weekend, so offline until then"
February 16, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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I'm under the impression that IOF values supercede (dare I say, trump?) international law, as the description of their behavior indicates.
A tweet from account @ha_makom (an Israeli independent journalism company) posted Feb. 15, 2025. The tweet is in Hebrew: קצין בכיר בחטיבת הנח״ל קשר קשיש עזתי ברצועת נפץ, ואילץ אותו לטהר בתים ממולכדים בשכונת זייתון. במשך שמונה שעות שימש הפלסטיני בשנות ה-80 לחייו כמגן אנושי עד שהחיילים ציוו עליו ועל אשתו לעזוב את השכונה. מספר דקות לאחר מכן שניהם נורו למוות. דובר צה״ל: צה”ל פועל בהתאם לדין הבינלאומי ולערכי צה”ל. הסיפור המלא בכתבה של אילי פארי >> /https://ha-makom.co.il/1057919-2 The tweet as translated by Google: "A senior officer in the Nahal Brigade tied an elderly Gazan man to an explosive belt and forced him to clear booby-trapped houses in the Zeitoun neighborhood. For eight hours, the Palestinian in his 80s served as a human shield until soldiers ordered him and his wife to leave the neighborhood. A few minutes later, they were both shot dead. IDF Spokesperson: The IDF acts in accordance with international law and IDF values. The full story is in the article by Eli Pari >> https://ha-makom.co.il/1057919-2/" The statement: "The IDF acts in accordance with international law and IDF values." is highlighted.
February 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Tweet of the day...
A tweet from @smod4real posted Feb. 9, 2025, stating, "Never realized how much the Chiefs depended on funding from USAID"
February 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Black Mask just wants to be understood.
February 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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HAHAHAHAHAHA...
A screenshot of a YouTube video from Steve Shives. Both the thumbnail and title state, "Democrats Need to Be Fearless"
February 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM