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Young Beard
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Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky
The cover of Against His-Story! Against Leviathan by Fredy Perlman (1983) is red and white and shows a dragon-like monster wrapped around someone with their twisted head in its jaws. There are more monsters in the sea in the background and some flames and smoke.
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Book 43 of 2025: The Unreal & The Real, Selected Stories of Ursula K Le Guin Vol 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands. Always good shit with Le Guin. Reversal of the expected. A refusal to tell stories that we've heard before. Space travel into split realities. Women explorers. Animal perspectives. #booksky
The cover of the Unreal & The Real Selected Stories Vol. 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands by Ursula K Le Guin shows a large spiral feathery and spacey in composition that transitions from dark at the edges to bright white at the center which is offset up and right of the center of the book.
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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CW: Self-harm

Crab rave on the beach starts now! Alan Dershowitz has promised to off himself on live TV too. "Alexa cue up "Perfect Day" by Lou Reed."
A Mortal Kombat totem with Keith Richards passing Dick Cheney to face off with Jeff Bezos. Below Cheney is Henry Kissenger and Queen Elizabeth the Second.
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Book 42 of 2025: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1992) is the inspiration for the game Terraforming Mars and also seems to be something Melon Husk has skimmed at some point. It's pretty damn good though. 100 astronauts go to Mars to start a new world, tyranny and revolution follow. #booksky
The cover of Kim Stanley Robinson's 1992 sci-fi novel Red Mars shows a red landscape with tall bare cliffs and dusty brown canyons. The Daily Mail calls it "The ultimate in future history." The title and author's name are in large raised block letters with shading that makes them appear metallic and three dimensional.
October 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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The Dark Backward starring Bill Paxton is not the nightmare future I predicted we'd get but it was disgusting and there was trash everywhere.
A poster for Blump's Pork Juice: a fictional product from the movie The Dark Backward. The poster shows a 50s style American wife and son and a carton of pork juice decorated with a pig. It is described as farm fresh and has pulp. The boy looks excited and the wife looks proud of the full glass of juice.
October 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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When someone defends Israel's existence:
A meme that is pink at the top and fades to yellow at the bottom reads, "Shut up colonizer trash" in both shiny little colorful circles and cursive rainbow script.
October 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Book 41 of 2025: Enemy of The Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance Edited by Naseer Aburi and Edmund Ghareeb (1970; 2025). I had to read many of these five or more times in a row because they hit so hard and I need that right now. These will ignite the tender edges of your soul. #booksky #poetry
The 2025 reprinting of Enemy of The Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance Edited by Naseer Aruri and Edmund Ghareeb with a new Foreword by Greg Thomas is a light brown book with a line drawing on the right two-thirds of the cover of flowers around a sun with people standing below it with their arms stretched upwards and a large dove sitting atop the sun. A review of the book at the top left reads, "A gem that has been revived, not only to remind us of the decades-long resilience of the Palestinian people in the face of oppression, but also to light up our collective march towards liberation." - Mosab Abu Toha author of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems From Gaza.
October 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Alan Parsons spitting fire.
A photo of musician Alan Parsons next to a quote from anarchist lucy Parsons with the name obviously changed reads, "Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them all without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination." AZ Quotes is listed as the source on the bottom.
October 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Book 40 of 2025 is Society of The Spectacle by Guy Debord (1983). It feels shameful to post about a book wherein the author argues we now find status and value in images separated from reality rather than experiences on social media. He also thought workers' councils are the way forward. #booksky
The cover of Guy Debord's Society of The Spectacle shows a bunch of men in suits sitting in a movie theater wearing 3D glasses on the left side and has the title in white text on a black background on the right.
October 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Book 39 of 2025: Culture and Imperialism by Edward W Said (1993). A masterclass in tearing down the logic of blind patriotism and justifications for maintaining global hegemony in our age. Argued using prose, poetry, history, and aphorism (even opera at one point) from center and periphery. #booksky
The cover of Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said shows world leaders from the colonial era on a stage with flags above them. European leaders are front and center and some non-Europeans stand off to the left and back a ways. A figure in red robes and hat holds an olive branch and a blue shield and has a lion at its feet at the very front.
October 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Book 38 of 2025: The Killing Season: A History of The Indonesian Massacres 1965-66 by Geoffrey B. Robinson (2018). This is a really heavy and brutal account that takes a great number of factors into the consideration of its arguments and explains them cogently. Haunting, yet relevant today. #booksky
The cover of The Killing Season: A History of The Indonesian Massacres 1965-66 by Geoffrey B. Robinson (2018) has a white cover with the title in red and black at the top of the page and a photo of a soldier with a rifle walking behind four prisoners in civilian clothes who have their hands behind their heads. The word Killing is in red and their is a red shadow under the soldier as opposed to the black shadows under the prisoners.
October 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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What about long grapes? Or the teeny tiny ones?
long purple grapes on a table at a Thai market. A sign has the Thai word for witch and says 150
October 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Watched The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein yesterday after looking briefly for the new Frankenstein movie on a pirate site and it was so bad I couldn't help but imagine the MST3K crew making jokes through the whole thing. Sound track is free jazz and nature sounds, mostly. #filmsky
Box cover of a bluray reads, The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein". Pictured are a screaming woman's face and a naked man on spikes and a naked crying woman.
October 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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A black bumper sticker reads, "I read Alfredo M. Bonanno and I Don't Vote!!!" I don't vote is written in all capitalized letters and underlined and followed by a bomb two slashes and an anarchy symbol (circle A).
October 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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In Nationalism and Culture Rudolph Rocker told us that liberalism leads to fascism.
I cute dog in a hat with a shovel sits in a garden with a basket of eggplant and onion in front of it. A quote by Rudolph Rocker is overlain on the image in white text and reads, "Direct action encompasses every method of immediate warfare by the workers against their economic and political oppressors."
October 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Israeli Occupation Forces are murdering civilians in Gaza City right now.
A red neon sign of an equilateral triangle with the point facing downwards reads, "Fuck Israel".
October 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Most people would be happier if we just packed up our empire and went home, if we stopped waging wars and committing espionage to maintain the global hegemony of the US dollar, and dismantled our bases and left. But we have definitely bred a lot of resentment and the fostered desire for revenge too.
Image shows an angry North Korean man being interviewed. He is saying I dream of a great war of justice that will turn the American soil to ashes. A header reads, Every people on the planet desiring of self-determination and self-governance.
October 2, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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What's your sign?
A photo of a photo on the wall. It shows a group of 13 soldiers walking down the street away from the camera. It reads "No more dictatorship in Thailand." in red text at the top.
September 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Re: Palestine
A color drawing of eleven sticks of dynamite with their fuses twisted together reads "The rebellion of the exploited is never terrorism". It's a quote from Italian insurrectionary anarchist Alfredo M Bonanno.
September 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Currently reading: Red Mars, Caliban and the Witch, The Killing Season, Culture and Imperialism, The Ego and Its Own, and The Real and The Unreal Vol. 2: Selected Stories of Ursula K Le Guin
Books of 2025: 37. Moving Pictures by Terry Prachett (1990) 36. The Unreal and the Real Vol. 1 Selected Stories of Ursula K Le Guin (2012) 35. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) 34. Starting Somewhere: Community Organizing for Socially Awkward People Who've Had Enough by Roderick Douglass (2025) 33. Anarchists & War Between States: The Manifesto of The Sixteen & Its Discontents (2022) Essays by Numerous Anarchists regarding WW1 Written in 1914, 1916, and 1928 32. Darlingtonia by Alba Roja (2017) 31. Hermetica by Alan Lea (2021) 30. The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck (1942) 29. Now Wait For Last Year... by Philip K Dick (1966) 28. Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote (1958) 27. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930) 26: Behold The Man by Michael Moorcock (1969) 25: The Dragon in the Sword by Michael Moorcock (1986) 24. Confessions of a Crap Artist by Philip K Dick (1975) 23. Lavinia by Ursula K LeGuin (2008) 22. Liarmouth by John Waters (2022) 21. Ghassan Khanafani Selected Political Writings(2024)20. Blood in My Eye by George L Jackson (1972) 19. The Voices of Time by JG Ballard (1962) 18. Galactic Pot Healer by Philip K Dick (1969) 17. A Gun For Sale by Graham Green (1936) 16. Time Out of Joint by Philip K Dick (1959) 15. Phoenix in Obsidian by Michael Moorcock (1970) 14. Against His-Story! Against Leviathan An Essay by Perlman (1983) 13. The Fall by Albert Camus (1956) 12. The Penultimate Truth by Philip K Dick (1964) 11. The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons (1997) 10. The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg (1992) 9. The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett (1931) 8. Vol 4 of the Collected Stories of Philip K Dick Minority Report (1987) 7. The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov (1982) 6. Eric by Terry Pratchett (1990) 5. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (1989) 4. Vol. 1 of the Collected Stories of Philip K Dick: Beyond Lies the Wub (1988) 3. The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien (1977) 2. Endymion by Dan Simmons (1996) 1. The Fall of Hyperio…
September 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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What I'm wearing to the Rapture
September 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Book 37 of 2025 is Moving Pictures: A Discworld Novel by Terry Pratchett (1990). The tenth Discworld novel (yes I am reading them in order) the last one I donated to the school library. I read this mostly at work because work sucks and you shouldn't do it. If you must I suggest wasting time #booksky
The cover of Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett: A Discworld Novel (1990) shows a woman in a bikini and matching boots lounging on a troll with a small dog jumping up in front of her a small man with a big sword behind her a wizard with a megaphone and a small man filming everything. They are on a sand dune. There seem to be some dwarves in the background.
September 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Contact info for the prisoners' union in Indonesia. 2/2
Instagram: @serikattahanan Twitter: @serikattahanan Medium: @serikattahanan Email: serikattahanan@riseup.net The Serikat Tahanan (Prisoners' Union) is a collective of anti-authoritarian prisoners. We organize primarily inside, but also prisons throughout Indonesia, to reach out to fellow anti-authoritarian activists who have been imprisoned and to educate the public about prison conditions in Indonesia. This initiative, driven by prisoners, began as a simple act of solidarity among us-to nurture hope-so that we do not feel marginalized or leave prison as people more broken than before. By organizing, we are constantly reminded of why we began our struggle. DM @serikattahanan for more information.
September 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Solidarity with Indonesian political prisoners and those on hunger strike after from the recent uprising and subsequent wave of arrests! 1/2
A call for solidarity for the hunger strike of 16 political prisoners in Jakarta. Image of a white cat with snake in its claws and blood on its mouth. Cat is grinning maniacally and appears demonic. Background is black as in a photographic negative. Sixteen prisoners detained at the Jakarta Metropolitan Police Headquarters (Polda Metro Jaya) in connection with the revolt from August 25 to September 3, 2025, have been on hunger strike since Tuesday (September 16, 2025). The strike was initiated by Syahdan Husein, the administrator of the Instagram account Gejayan Memanggil (@GejayanMemanggil), who has been on hunger strike since September 11 in the Jakarta Metropolitan Police detention center. This is a form of protest against the arrests of all prisoners. He stated that he will go on hunger strike until all political prisoners are released. We, the undersigned, are on hunger strike starting Saeptember 16, 2025. We are all at the Jakarta Police Headquarters. We want freedom! We are fighters for democracy! Image shows a piece of paper with a declaration written in bahasa Indonesia signed by 16 names In response to the hunger strike, we call for support and solidarity from the entire anti-authoritarian movement network to campaign for the release of 16 political prisoners in Jakarta, 42 in Bandung, as well as in Samarinda, Pontianak, Makassar and other cities following the #disbandDPR demonstrations on August 25-September 3, 2025. There are hundreds of other prisoners in cities that have received less attention. Stand by them! No one is free until all are free!
September 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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I actually had almost everything on this game and accidentally lost about 6 months of saves and quit for several years. But I started again at work a week ago. When that little white bud is mature I'll have all the plants again...until I immediately sacrifice them all for an achievement.
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September 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM