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in muskoka, ontario. posting about land back, caves of qud, music, palestine, and anishinaabemowin names of native plants. joking about how computers bad. punching hard but only up. freelance prophet, unsigned for the 2026 season.

One page of the alchemy manual from Tower of Souls. The author writes about eating a mushroom then trails off dead style with their pen making a line off the edge of the page
photo of open pages of the book "the magnetic ghost of shadow island". it seems to be instructions for typing in a large block of BASIC code involving PEEKs and POKEs before turning to another page of story, choose-your-own-adventure style.
combine eight pieces of UNCLE TECH SCRAP to create one random UNCLE DEVICE screenshot of https://www.tumblr.com/blemgoid/816732287748177920/combine-eight-pieces-of-uncle-tech-scrap-to-create
photo of a lady using an ear trumpet (looks like a tobacco pipe stuck in ear)
News article screenshot: "The Wayland session restore protocol has finally been merged after six years in development, and KWin already has a draft implementation. What this means for KDE users is apps will be able to restore their windows to their last known positions and sizes, right down to the correct monitor and virtual desktop. This will eventually provide benefits for users of tiling window managers. Before the completion of the protocol, KDE used a workaround that simply kept a list of all the apps that are running and relaunched them at the next login. The result was often a mess, with all your windows losing their placement and getting dumped onto one desktop."
picutre of leon looking nice and angular
rorschach from watchmen saying "none of you seem to understand I'm not locked in" but only that part
front cover of Changing Planes by Ursula. a woman seen from behind is some sort of corn centaur, her lower body a cob of corn. she is growing with other corn in a field.
photo of a sign in untouched snow. the top of the sign reads "DO NOT" and the rest is buried in the snow. there are shadowed evergreens in the background behind a large area of the deep snow.
a paperback copy of The System of the World by Neal Stephenson clocking in at 775g on a kitchen scale
same photo by someone else day before
cute grey and white cat laying on its back swatting the camera
a photo of my cat looking grumpy in a heart frame on my work truck dashboard (old)
photo of a survey plan for appropriating lands to straighten the course of the don river in toronto in 1886, courtesy of city of toronto archives
black and white portrait photo of Sir John Gielgud in stage costume looking pensive and sad. he is staring into the distance.
the jacket art of Wiz Biz 2, clearly some sort of fantasy novel, sans text. a well dressed magician type sits at an ornate desk with a keyboard, mouse and some sort of bigass hovering golden display of glowing magic lookin' runes. he's typing nobly and looking at the runes. a well dressed lady magician type with a very expensive staff stands behind the other magician with her hand on his shoulder. she is looking at the runes. by his knee sits an orange dragon the size of a dog. it is looking at the computer mouse. fantasy castle spires are visible through an arched stone window in the background, behind heavy drapes.
the Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone
new pope leo xiv with some cardinals. he has mac address 00:50:c2:8f:fc:03 and a disappointed cardinal has 70:9a:0b:8c:3f:16
Famous IBM quote: A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
large handmade roadside sign reading "EGG For Sale"
teenage mutant ninja title: worker-led nonprofit newsroom
a painted turtle, dry and dusty from hatching, enters the water for the first time anishinaabemowin
In a court filing earlier this week, the Trump administration conceded that Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father of three, was deported “because of an administrative error.” That filing appeared to be the first time the administration has admitted an error related to its recent deportation flights to El Salvador, which are now at the center of a fraught legal battle.
The only other uniformed CMC member who did not show up was Adm. Miao Hua, who was suspended under investigation in November for “serious violations of discipline” – a common euphemism for corruption and disloyalty.
Reading the “tree leaves” In the opaque world of Chinese politics, observers have long leaned on arcane signals of Communist Party traditions and protocol to interpret what is going on behind the scenes. The discipline, known as “tea-leaf reading,” has become more relevant than ever in Xi’s era as he centralizes power into his own hands and makes the decision-making process even more obscure. And now, some experts are scouring this week’s events for clues on the fate of one of Xi’s top generals.
It is now unclear what has happened to He, who also sits on the Communist Party’s 24-member Politburo. Three weeks out of the public eye is not unheard of for a top general without a public-facing role and there is always a chance he resurfaces. But his no-show at a well-choreographed annual propaganda event stands out in a political system deeply attuned to the importance of symbolism.
3d render of CRYPTOLAND island
i told all of the trees about what you did. good luck next time when you're in the forest
a vial of BURBERRY GODDESS perfume that looks like one o' those vape carts ya find on the side o' the road
huge cargo van with HRT written on the side
the end of a 5-pin MIDI cord
Translation of "United States of America" as gichi-mookomaanakiing ("big knife land") in Pocket Anishinaabemowin by Patricia M. Ningewance
Quote from "On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge" by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Software as Ideology As I’ve argued elsewhere, software is a functional analog to ideology. In a formal sense computers understood as comprising software and hardware are ideology machines. They fulfill almost every formal definition of ideology we have, from ideology as false consciousness (as portrayed in The Matrix) to Louis Althusser’s definition of ideol- ogy as “a ‘representation’ of the imaginary relation of individuals to their real conditions of existence.” Software, or perhaps more pre- cisely operating systems, offer us an imaginary relationship to our hardware: they do not represent transistors but rather desktops and recycling bins. Software produces “users.” Without OS there would be no access to hardware; without OS no actions, no practices, and thus no user. Each OS, through its advertisements, interpellates a “user”: calls it and offers it a name or image with which to identify. So Mac users “think different” and identify with Martin Luther King and Albert Einstein; Linux users are open-source power geeks, drawn to the image of a fat, sated penguin; and Windows users are main- stream, functionalist types perhaps comforted, as Eben Moglen argues, by their regularly crashing computers. Importantly, the “choices” operating systems offer limit the visible and the invisible, the imag- inable and the unimaginable. You are not, however, aware of soft- ware’s constant constriction and interpellation (also known as its “user-friendliness”), unless you find yourself frustrated with its defaults (which are remarkably referred to as your preferences) or you use multiple operating systems or competing software packages.
Facebook screenshot of comment in all caps "ALICE, YOU MAY THINK IM YELLING BUT IM NOT. I HAVE GLAUCOMA. AND THIS IS THE ONLY WAY I CAN USE THE INTERNET. THANK YOU FOR ASKING." 19 hours ago 42 likes
rear end of a Cecropia moth caterpillar showing a smiley face.
zoomed out image of Border Village, the first level in the classic side scrolling platformer Commander Keen in Goodbye Galaxy (1991)
The cover of the book The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer. A bird takes a serviceberry in its mouth and flaps its wings.
screenshot of ancient tweet Ashley Rae @communism_kills This is bad. Everything in my apartment is so cold from the heat being out that my blankets are too cold for me to use. LENIN_LOVER69 @PissPigGrandad .@Communism_Kills Ashley I'm in a communist compound right now it's warm as hell we got stoves and like fifty blankets you fuckin loser
Screenshot of "The Power of Your Crow Army", a subheading of a MSN article: https://www.msn.com/en-us/pets-and-animals/birds/how-to-befriend-crows-and-turn-them-against-your-enemies/ar-AA1umxwz
Discord screenshot 1:26 AM natalie is yosposter of the day: but no I'm not actually shitting on prog rock at all, it and jazz fusion are two sides of the same coin, except the prog side is square
a bottle of Sprite, regular $2.49 on sale for $2.99 or $5.50 for 2
a cat looking at a reflection of itself in a spoon. the cat looks normal but the reflection looks kind of like a Bingus.
Reddit post screenshot from /r/AmIOverreacting by Bubbly_Teaching_1991: AIO, my (20M) female friend thought I was gay? 👥 friendship I don't know what to say atp, I'm so mad. Is she joking with me? I have never once said I'm gay. Embedded screenshot of text convo: Him: Girll, I can't believe he would say thatt Her: Bitchhh, ik it's crazyy Him: Men rolling eyes emoji Him: Girly we should go on a date soon Her: Yesss nail painting emoji that'd be so nice Her: When are u thinking? Him: Fridayyyyyy Him: I've had a crush on u for a long time Her: I thought u were gay??? Her: Is this a joke lol? Him: sweat grin emoji
meme photo: the mystery wagon from scooby doo, the car from ghostbusters, and some other ghost hunting car I should probably know, side by side in a parking lot meme caption: "ooohhhh so this place is like HAUNTED HAUNTED"
photo of a rabbit sitting in front of a clothes washer. the rabbit looks oddly square because of how it is sitting.
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Excerpt from page 218 of Anatomy of Fascism: What Is Fascism? The moment has come to give fascism a usable short handle, even though we know that it encompasses its subject no better than a snapshot encompasses a person. Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
waldo from where's waldo (where's wally)
same picture but the sword says "weed"
photo of a bent quarter inch connector
A photograph. A Mario sits jauntily on an otherwise empty stage in some sort of play. They are wearing a yellow hat with a purple "M" on it, a yellow shirt, purple overalls, white gloves, and green crocs. The stage is decorated like a cave in the Mushroom Kingdom. There is a title across the bottom of the image that reads: Monostatos | "The Magic Flute" by Mozart
Screenshot of the text: However, current high-performance scintillators are almost exclusively limited to ceramic and perovskite materials, which face issues such as complex manufacturing processes, environmental toxicity, self-absorption and stability problems.
a peeled rutabaga resembling Meridia's Beacon
tumblr post by user play-now-my-lord on Jul 24th, 2023 7-11 CLERK: lovely day outside, isn't it ME: uhhh ME INTERNALLY: shit. I didn't notice. How do I continue this conversation MY INNER MONOLOGUE: Service workers love it when you tell them the things mortal men were not meant to know, when you speak to them of principalities and powers upon the earth ME: In the sun a wheel, in the wheel another wheel. Do you see? 7-11 CLERK: Yes, I see! ME: For each turn of the outer wheel, one thousandth a turn of the inner wheel. And within the inner wheel a point of perfect darkness 7-11 CLERK: Right, growing, devouring. The death of all light ME: Wanes the light - right - wanes the light and waxes the solar eye. Wanes the day of flesh and blood and waxes the night of crawling beasts. Chewing and swallowing. The name of the night to come is khoshek ha-gibbor 7-11 CLERK: Is that hot dog a quarter pound big bite or a spicy bite. They're priced different ME: Which one is cheaper https://evilwizard.tumblr.com/post/723712403170328578
A screenshot of "President Bush's Kids Connection" page on whitehousekids.gov, from the Internet Archive, 2004. Articles include "Second Grade Heroes Poem", "A Great Little Guy", and "Children's Questions". The caption of the largest image is: "AirForce One stands at the ready for President George W. Bush as a crowd cheers while the aircraft's chief passenger speaks during the Arkansas Welcome at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport, Monday, Nov. 4." From https://web.archive.org/web/20041101074319/http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/connection/
Screenshot of a post by writing-is-a-martial-art from https://asteroidtroglodyte.tumblr.com/post/769507354539655168/embed truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.
A worker in the 1970s or 1980s using giant monochrome terminals and a three ring binder.
Footnote 35: ... don’t kinkshame me. Footnote 36: I am assuming that said gender would reach the oscillation frequency necessary for fission before reaching the point at which hadronization occurs. If hadronization were to occur, a narrow jet of gender particles would be ejected—in other words, the gender flu-
a contraption-style tool made from parts of other tools welded together. a pipe wrench has a hammer head and screwdriver tip welded to one end, and a socket handle welded to the other end.