Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness

@tangledwilderness.bsky.social

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Producers of radical culture Podcasts: Live Like the World is Dying, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, The Spectacle https://www.tangledwilderness.org/ https://www.patreon.com/c/strangersinatangledwilderness/

A black and white photo portrait of author Upton Sinclair, with a caption reading "Why Does It Always Take Consumers Finding Out About Gross Stuff Getting Into Their Food to Make Them Care About the Working Conditions of the People Who Literally Feed Them? By Upton Sinclair"
The statue from the Haymarket martyrs memorial
Text reading "Bracha for flag burning on the 4th" followed by Hebrew text transliterated as "baruch atah HaShem Elokeinu Melech Ha'Olam Asher kidshanu b'mitzvotav, v'tzianu lahashmud elilim" followed by the English text "blessed are you the Lord our God, sovereign the universe who has sanctified is with your commandments, and commanded us to destroy idols. (It is also suggested you say the shechechiyanu blessing if this is your first flag burning of the day) Happy 4th!"
A black and white image of a boarded up window with a painted message saying "we homosexuals plead with our people to please help maintain peace and quiet conduct on the streets of the village - mattachine"
Kash Patel in some type of official photo stares at the camera like a man caught with his dick in a mailbox
The title card of a ds9 episode called All You Fascists Bound to Lose
A person sits on the ground crying. Two police officers squat beside them . The person says "I was murdered!"
Principal skinner wonders "am I out of touch?" Then decides "no, it's the humans who are wrong"
The meme from Community, on which a white woman says "I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at animal cruelty" and a Black woman replies "you can excuse racism?" Where "racism" is replaced with "ethnic cleansing" and "animal cruelty" with "bad architecture"
Tiny green sprouts in dark brown dirt
A gif or Rom, a Ferengi, reading from a pad, saying "workers of the world, unite '
A gif from Monty Python and the Meaning of Life in which an Anglican priest leads his congregation in telling God "ooh you are so big"
A Tom of Finland drawing of a pair of fetishized, muscular men in Navy uniform.
The cover of a zine, white on black. It is called "Hurrah for Anarchy, a history of Haymarket, May Day, and the Chicago Anarchists by Margaret Killjoy" and shows an image of the Haymarket Martyrs monument, a stone plinth with a hooded female figure in front of it, withal a recumbent bearded figure behind her. She holds a black flag with a white circle A
Three patches, all white on black. One shows a sinister three antlered deer above a pile of skulls, one shows a seated man over the text "let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards" and one, smaller than the other two, says "it's ok to hate fascists"
A screenshot of Duolingo, where the sentence "I am so tired that I have no more thoughts" has been translated from Yiddish to English
Gordon Ramsay says "delicious. Finally some good fucking news"
Black and white photo of celebrations of the proclamation of the Spanish Republic in Barcelona, 1931. People crowd the streets and both levels of a double decker trolley car.
Rom, a Ferengi, says "workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but their change."
Geordi LeForge looks sad and dismissive next up a panel reading "don't comply in advance." Underneath are the statements "bossy. Already a cliche. Implies permission to comply later. A second Geordie points approvingly at another panel. His eyes glow red. The panel reads "fuck you, make" above the statements "leads by example. Directs yelling at opposition instead of allies. Easy to chant at a protest or put in a banner "
A tweet by jk rowling, showing a photo of a female boxer, captioned "today's ruling by the ipc means a welcome return to fair sport for women and girls, but I'll never forget the scandal of Paris 2024, when people who consider themselves supreme virtuous and progressive publicly cheered on men punching women"
Emma Goldman's 1893 mugshot, a black and white photo showing a white woman in a white blouse and dark jacket, pince nez glasses, and a cute little hat
A truck with anti abortion billboards on it
One of those fake game ads with lines of multiplying soldiers
One of those game ads where you're supposed to solve a puzzle to save an endangered cartoon king
A post from Mayor Zohran Mamdani, saying "I've seen the videos of kids throwing snowballs at NYPD officers in Washington Square Park." The rest of the message has been whited out, and "lmao, get em" written in large bold letters in its place.
Three images from the Simpsons. Kirk Van Houten says to Homer "I sleep in a racing car. Do you?" Homer says "I sleep in a big bed with my wife." Kirk looks as though he is questioning his entire life.
a post by a user called Lu (blueheart) handle @ladyinred50.bsky.social saying "There is nothing wrong with white pride! What's wrong with white supremest is that they want to subjagate Black and Brown people in order to make their mediocre selves appear superior" and a post from a user named lmcd9480 saying "I have white pride, but I loved seeing representation from my fellow human beings. My brothers and sisters. There is only one race: human"
A black and white photo of Heydrich's car after Czech resistance fighters blew it up with a grenade
A meme of Chidi and Eleanor from the Good Place. Chidi, a Black man wearing a blue collared shirt and glasses, looks concerned, and tells Eleanor, a blonde woman wearing a pink shirt, with her back to the viewer, "well that's called fedposting and it's generally frowned upon"
A post from unraveled press, reading "I'm ICE, boys. I love crashing cars, getting divorced, crashing cars, bargain bin jeans, texting while driving, crashing cars, OLD GLORY, and let's not forget my one true passion in life- crashing cars"
White text on a black background reading "we want submissions for monthly feature zines!"
A person in an inflatable frog costume, surrounded by people in camo. The frog holds a sign saying "frogs together strong"
Woody Guthrie's New Years Resolutions for 1943, illustrated with charming doodles. List reads: 1. Work more and better 2. Work by a schedule 3. Wash teeth if any 4. Shave 5. Take bath 6. Eat good — fruit — vegetables — milk 7. Drink very scant if any 8. Write a song a day 9. Wear clean clothes — look good 10. Shine shoes 11. Change socks 12. Change bed cloths often 13. Read lots good books 14. Listen to radio a lot 15. Learn people better 16. Keep rancho clean 17. Dont get lonesome 18. Stay glad 19. Keep hoping machine running 20. Dream good 21. Bank all extra money 22. Save dough 23. Have company but dont waste time 24. Send Mary and kids money 25. Play and sing good 26. Dance better 27. Help win war — beat fascism 28. Love mama 29. Love papa 30. Love Pete 31. Love everybody 32. Make up your mind 33. Wake up and fight
Merry and Pippin from Lord of the rings, with the caption "we've had one seattle yes, what about second seattle"
An excerpt from Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, reading "'Yes! the sun would have risen just the same, yes?' NO 'Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact.' THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN...'Really, then what would have happened, pray?' A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD.'
Captain Kirk yells with all his might
Text reading "2026 catalog and Willem arondeus poster" over an image of the poster, a black silhouette style of image of Willem, a young man holding a flower, with the words "let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards"
The text "sign up for our zine of the month club on Patreon!" Over the Strangers logo, followed by the text "$10/month sign up by December 31st, get our giant sized January mailer which includes..."
An image of Chidi from the Good Place telling Eleanor "well, that's called fedposting and it's generally frowned upon"
A photo portrait of Peter Kropotkin, an elderly man in glasses with a white beard. Basically anarchist Santa.
A painting of a group of men wearing brown robes and tonsured hair
Zoomed in detail from Stephen Miller's kitchen; a cookie jar shaped like a person who looks haunted
The sabokitty, a black cat with arched back, hissing, again a red background
Cave art of the outline of a human hand