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Racket @racketmn.com · 3h

It's not often you hear a room cheer for the return of chicken pox, let alone measles. Welcome to Freedom Summit 2025.

What I Saw at This Weekend’s Minnesota MAHA Fest Scared the Hell out of Me - Racket

Over 1,000 Christian opponents of modern medicine descended on Alexandria, MN, to testify that drugs, doctors, and Satan were making us all sick at the 7th annual Freedom Summit.

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BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 14h

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rene Belloq presents as a worldly sophisticate, but he also forced Marion Ravenwood to wear a frilly white dress while he held her captive.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17h

i am going to wake up as a sentient lighthouse

Double Fine @doublefine.com · 19h

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BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the protest where the famous “putting daisies in rifle barrels” action occurred, after an organizer’s plan to drop daisies on the pentagon from a plane fell through (because of course it did) and left him with 200 pounds of daisies, which he handed out to protesters.

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BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 1d

The upcoming No Kings protest falls almost on the anniversary 1967 “Pentagon Rising” protest, where a hundred thousand people marched to the Pentagon to levitate it 30 feet and turn it orange. Or maybe exorcise it? Different organizers wanted different things.

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BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 20h

“Drink… and live!”

jason grinblat @jfg.land · 1d

Imagine, you are buzzing after the last sip of your third Kim Crawford sauvignon blanc. You just met a lovely retiree whose daughter-in-law is going to phone you about the condo in Hallandale. You walk up to my tent, I smile at you. I have Golgotha loaded up in Classic.

Cold email from marketer:
"Good morning Jason, are you or Brian Bucklew the right person to speak with about influencer partnerships?

We recently signed on as the exclusive influencer partner for the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, activating creators across 35 of their events."

BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 22h

5 round stickers depicting Garfield the cat. Written in black around the edge of the sticker is the repeating word “DIET”

Garfield is thinking, “Oh NO!”

BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re curious about how you could ever levitate the Pentagon (or maybe just exorcise it), well, they wrote it down. I don’t know how long the list of Historically Significant American Magical Rites is, but this is probably on it.

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a magic rite to exorcize
the Spirits of murder, violence & creephoad
from the Pentagon.

1 purification rites for participants. cleansing of eye-heart-minds with Hittite Spell
2 Prayer for the soldiers & their violent karma in vietnam
3 consecration of the four directions
4 creation of magic circle for the protection of the rites. Pouring of corn-meal trail about the pentagon & invocation of Powers + Spirits of exorcism
6 placing of love articles & clothing onto the pentagon: beads, feathers, rock a roll reords, books & the sacred Grope Relic.
7 ceremony of exorcism:
EARTH -- physical contact with the pentagon
AIR---conjuring of Malevolent Creep Powers
WATER--cleansing by liquid
7 FIRE ----Destruction by fire & the rising of the pentagon
9 The EXORGASM !
Banishment of the evil spirit.
Singing + shrieking!
10 peace mantra.

This is the purification spell :
a-ri-la-ad-da-lies Dim-an-za sar-ri ka-si-i gu-u-e-bu-u-1-ia tap-pa-as-sa-it Sariri
ti-ia-mi hu-i-hu-i-ia

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BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 1d

This oral history from the planners, written in 2004, is great for capturing just how much disagreement there was about the goals, methods, and evaluation of the protest. The Vietnam War continued for another seven years. arthurmag.com/2011/04/13/o...

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BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 1d

Smithsonian Magazine has a pretty good recap of how the protest came together, and what happened. www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

Fifty Years Ago, a Rag-Tag Group of Acid-Dropping Activists Tried to "Levitate" the Pentagon

The March on the Pentagon to end the Vietnam War began a turning point in public opinion, but some in the crowd were hoping for a miracle

www.smithsonianmag.com

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BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 1d

If that resonates with the recent inflatable costume activity to you, I’d agree. But organizers later noted that ‘67 was early days for this kind of big anti-war action, and the daisy thing would have gotten people beaten if they’d tried it at the Chicago ‘68 DNC protests.

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BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the protest where the famous “putting daisies in rifle barrels” action occurred, after an organizer’s plan to drop daisies on the pentagon from a plane fell through (because of course it did) and left him with 200 pounds of daisies, which he handed out to protesters.

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BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 1d

The upcoming No Kings protest falls almost on the anniversary 1967 “Pentagon Rising” protest, where a hundred thousand people marched to the Pentagon to levitate it 30 feet and turn it orange. Or maybe exorcise it? Different organizers wanted different things.

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BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I think about how all this will get presented in high school history classes one day, but my own high school experience of learning about the Yippies’ campaign for a pig to be Vice President suggests “dryly” and “without context.”

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 1d

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BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 1d

Exciting to see the latest development from Jaak at Kinotone Audio, the SpoOoOky resonator pedal/synth/secret third thing, GHOSTS youtu.be/5nMrVc0Yzpw?...

Introducing Ghosts

YouTube video by Kinotone

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jenny @qdork.bsky.social · 1d

i’m manifesting the house i will live in once Consume Me sells one million copies #gaming #indiegames #videogames #gamedev #indiedev

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BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 1d

First big downpour of the rainy season in Oakland!

BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 2d

The exhausting irony of Trump reasserting a holiday that was created to celebrate what was at the time a heavily disfavored non-assimilationist immigrant community.

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BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 2d

Whether Garibaldi is here depicted as drawing or sheathing his sword is left to the viewer and the moment.

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BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 2d

Giuseppe Garibaldi, “The Hero of Two Worlds,” involved in Italian unification, as well as revolutionary movements in Brazil and Uruguay. Briefly a resident of New York City, and memorialized with a community-funded statue now in Washington Square Park.

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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 2d

this week for @coyotemedia.org: I went to war-ravaged Portland to find out whether it’s still possible to get a decent macchiato there www.coyotemedia.org/portland-a-w...

Portland, a ‘war zone?’ OK, sure. So how’s the food?

COYOTE’s war correspondent grabs brunch.

www.coyotemedia.org

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BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, did somebody modernize Chicago-Chicago?

BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 2d

This morning I was looking up the origins of “cakewalk” because I remembered it as a kind of like musical chairs without the chairs. But it turns out to be an 1870’s version of voguing, with black slaves mocking white plantation owners Ministry of Silly Walks style. www.npr.org/sections/cod...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 3d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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