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Wilkiemon
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Amature artist & writer. Professional wage slave. Walker of walks. Dreamer of dreams. Foe of fascism. #ROC
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Tonight's feed: a new miracle diet pill immediately followed by man-made starvation in Gaza...
August 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Ozzie and Randy are together again. There's going to be one heck of a jam tonight on the other side!
An iconic photo of Ozzie Osborne hoisting Randy Rhodes in the air while he plays a pokadot flying-V guitar.
July 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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A quote from Tricycle's Daily Dharma newsletter that speaks to things I have been dealing with.
Screenshot of a quote from the 13 July 2025 Daily Dharma newsletter from Tricycle. Title: What Is Happiness Quote: The search for happiness is not about looking at life through rose-colored glasses or blinding oneself to the pain and imperfections of the world. Nor is happiness a state of exaltation to be perpetuated at all costs; it is the purging of mental toxins such as hatred and obsession that literally poison the mind. Source: Matthieu Ricard, “A Way of Being”
July 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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I am feeling particularly vitriolic right now about oligarchy, corporate rule, and fascism. This is a reminder to myself that I do not know as much as I think I do. I should not believe everything I think, but be curious.
The question "Is that so?" is in a script font placed inside an enso.
July 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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A mourning dove and a juvenile bunny were foraging among the mulberries on our driveway this morning.

They weren't eating the messy mulberries, mind you. They were finding other tasty things amidst the darn mulberries. 🤷‍♂️
In the foreground, a mourning dove stands on a cement driveway littered with mulberries. Behind, a juvenile rabbit looks back over its shoulder towards the mourning dove. The rabbit is sitting at the edge of the driveway in front of some green foliage.
July 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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I grew up in the 70's watching Schoolhouse Rock interspersed with the Saturday morning cartoons. I believed the propaganda. It's hard to take that red pill when you grow up.
A scene from the Schoolhouse Rock cartoon about how a bill becomes a law. The picture shows a bill as an anthropomorphized rolled-up document sitting on the steps of Capitol Hill.
July 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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"Perhaps the most radical act of resistance in the face of adversity is to live joyfully."
~ Ari Honarvar

From the Grateful Living newsletter, 3 July 2025.
"Perhaps the most radical act of resistance in the face of adversity is to live joyfully." - Ari Honarvar - From the Grateful Living newsletter, 3 July 2025.
July 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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This bunny is happy I haven't mowed my lawn recently.
A wild rabbit munching on a tall weed growing in my front yard. A portion of our driveway and street is in the background.
July 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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It's been a blue pill kind of day. I'd kinda like to go back to living a comfortable illusion.
The red pill and blue pill are metaphors representing a choice between learning an unsettling or life-changing truth by taking the red pill or remaining in the unquestioned experience of an illusion appearing as ordinary reality with the blue pill. The pills were used as props in the 1999 film The Matrix.
June 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Hint: we're an oligarchy.
A common meme of several older white men in suits laughing over drinks. "They think the U.S. is a Democracy"
June 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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I keep waiting for this to happen with 🌮
(The Azgoths poet Grunthos's) own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. ~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
June 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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My wife and I watched Jaws last night. Having also seen Sharknado, I have to say these guys were amateurs. They didn't bring a chainsaw!
A still from the movie Jaws showing Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss), Quint (Robert Shaw), and Brody (Roy Scheider) at sea while hunting the great white shark.
June 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Do something subversive: read!
A meme with a photo of several books open on top of one another and the text "Do something subversive: read!"
June 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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I recently read this excellent history of Tulsa's Greenwood District, where the massacre took place. Such a terrible night. No wonder we've tried to whitewash it from history.

"Built from the Fire: The epic story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street" by Victor Luckerson.
Cover of the book "Built from the Fire: The epic story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street" by Victor Luckerson.
June 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Wow, what a story! This lives up to everything I've heard about it.

"This is how you lose the time war" by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

#booksky
June 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Two statues in the garden behind the Rochester Zen Center.
An abstract Buddha statue, made to look like it is composed of large stones, sits beneath the red leaves of a Japanese Maple to the right of the frame. In the lower left are splashes of white and pink from small Mountain Laurels. The ground is covered in Vinca. A verdant green tree, possibly a Japanese Stewartia, fills the rest of the frame. A small sculpture of a standing Buddha, with hands palm to palm in gassho, rests on a plinth beneath a Kousa Dogwood with striking white blooms. The statue is made of a concrete-like material, and is covered with a mossy patina. A chocolate brown wood fence and building form the background.
June 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Enter Sarah Connor
Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
May 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Apostrophe cat.
A Siamese cat sleeping on top of the back of a sofa, loosely curled up like an apostrophe.
May 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Found among some old papers. "Eschew obfuscation: One cannot fabricate the veracity of said events and occurrences."

Pre-Trumpian fiddle-faddle‼️

One needs only prevaricate loudly and repeatedly. I was so naive back then. 🙄
A document with "Eschew obfuscation" for the title and a footnote reading, "One cannot fabricate the veracity of said events and occurrences." The title is large and uses two fancy fonts. The body of the document is two columns of Ipsum Lorem nonsense text.
May 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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My view while feeding the cats.
Red clouds at sunrise framed by trees in silhouette.
May 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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For this week's shot, I have chosen to zoom out and show the bed in which the Buddha statue is placed. Rochester Zen Center #ROC #RochesterNY
A landscape bed with a Buddha sculpture, several shrubs, a small tree with red leaves, and vinca ground cover. A curved brick walkway defines the front of the bed, and there is a brick building behind. In the foreground is a grass hillock and the leafy branches of trees out of frame to the left and right. The photo was taken through light rain.
May 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Seems I'm not the only one...
May 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Another Sunday, another picture of the Buddha. This time in dappled sunlight on a gorgeous spring day. Rochester Zen Center #RochesterNY #ROC
A large Buddha statue under a tree on a sunny spring day. The tree has red leaves. The leaves create patches of light and shadow on the statue and surrounding vinca.
May 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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The cats took turns "helping" my wife pin the backing to the baby quilt she's making for grandbaby 3, due almost any time now.
Harley's turn Merlin's turn
May 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Happy Cinco y medio de Mayo! (That’s Cinco de Mayo with a 10% tariff)
May 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM