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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 5h

Getting late in the day. Guess it's time to build the storage shelves in the basement while listening to Mercyful Fate

n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 11h

Steady autumnal drizzle with a power outage. Tummy full of pancakes & coffee. Morning prayers chanted. Now trying to get everyone to agree on a group activity, which is basically impossible

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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 22h

🙏❤️

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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 23h

There are those songs you here a million times at the wrong time so they end up having no impact or meaning. Then, you don't hear it for years, maybe decades, & you hear it fresh & it both takes you back but holds you in the present at the same time. Right now, "Stars" by Hum is that song

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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 1d

It's definitely unfortunate. Thank you

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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 1d

A legit concern but there are also programs that help provide funds for uninsured, low-income, etc. So make sure to explore options if / when the time comes

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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 1d

Appreciate you

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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 1d

Men, get colonscopies. If you don't feel well, see a doctor, go to urgent care, etc. Don't tough your way through it or ignore symptoms out of fear. Yes, I know lack of resources can be a problem but so can the idea of not asking for help or even trying

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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 1d

Coworker was feeling ill a little over a month ago & missed work for a week or 2. We were about to the point of trying to force him to go to the hospital (as friends, not bosses) but he went. Diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer & liver cancer. Was given 3 years but is dead a month later.

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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 1d

No demand to end the genocides of indegous ppl domestically & internationally. No demand to stop cop cities. No demand to even limit ICE. No demand for healthcare. No demand for more equitable distribution of wealth. No demands for environmental protections. No demands regarding cop accountability

n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 1d

I have nothing against ppl attending the No Kings so please don't think I'm judging. But what type of escalations have they been increasing over the months? You make a demand then escalate pressure towards the satisfaction of that demand. There have been no demands so no worthwhile escalation

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 1d

The Ohio State-Wisconsin game starts a half hour before the downtown Columbus No Kings protest today. I guarantee that there will be more violence committed by people gathering to watch the game, at home and in person, than will happen at the protest.

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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 1d

It's a good feeling when the one comrade & organizer you have the most respect for supoorts your ideas & knowledge. Probably helps that he's been one of the biggest influences on my ideological development

n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 2d

This is awesome news. I'll definitely be pushing this on friends & strangers. Congrats, Eric!

Eric Shonkwiler @ericshonkwiler.bsky.social · 2d

I am thrilled to bring you this book, mad that it's necessary, and humbled to be in the company of so many incredible writers and activists @plutopress.bsky.social.

A screenshot of a Publishers Marketplace listing for When/If: Building Collective Resilience in an Age of Collapse, my new book of essays about preparedness from an anarchist perspective

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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 3d

You're telling me they severely beat ppl, sent some to the hospital in handcuffs & are targeting ppl at their places of employment & their homes. Man, what a waste of tax payers' money

n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 3d

I loathe when ppl invoke "waste of tax payers' dollars" when addressing state oppression by police. Nevermind the intentional terror tactics against the population & the overt violence. The true crime is the waste of tax payers' dollars

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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 3d

Happened upon this little memorial on the south end of campus. Thought it was going to be for Ta'Shawn Davis, Columbus pigs most recent murder, but initials are different

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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 4d

You're a dead Christo-fascist bigot? Works for me

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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 5d

Noticed a police presence at the federal building in cbus. A pig on a balcony & an obvious undercover pretending to casually hang out on the front sidewalk. I wonder they're expecting

n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 7d

You mean Biden? No one's afraid of that pos

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 7d

Sarah Vaughan at Café Society (Downtown), New York
📷 William P. Gottlieb, August 1946

"Again & again, he catches the precise moment when the musician's face is suffused with effort & emotion & beauty: the music is there."
- Whitney Balliett

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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 7d

I need a bumper sticker for the lawnmower that says "I brake for bugs"

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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 8d

And none of them are anti-fascists

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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 8d

It may be temping to pick a team when seeing police stand off against marines or national guard stand off against ICE

But they're all agents of western white supremacist colonialism. Yes, even the ones who aren't white

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n0mad @abolitionorbust.bsky.social · 29d

U.S soldiers in WWII weren't antifascists. They were anti German fascism.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Sep 18

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

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