Atomic Bum
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"The world owes all its onward impulse to [people] ill at ease. The happy [person] inevitably confines [themself] within ancient limits."
from: 'The House of the Seven Gables' by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
"The world owes all its onward impulse to [people] ill at ease. The happy [person] inevitably confines [themself] within ancient limits."
from: 'The House of the Seven Gables' by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
Pinned
Hyannis to Mar-a-Lago.
What a long, strange trip it's been.
What a long, strange trip it's been.
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Hyannis to Mar-a-Lago.
What a long, strange trip it's been.
What a long, strange trip it's been.
Reposted by Atomic Bum
Looks like at some point or another, probably sooner than later, we're all going to be given the opportunity to find out whether we have any courage to go with our convictions.
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Looks like at some point or another, probably sooner than later, we're all going to be given the opportunity to find out whether we have any courage to go with our convictions.
Buzz has the right stuff.
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Buzz has the right stuff.
"But in the twenty-first century, we’re waking up to a new kind of struggle for freedom, one far more intimate and far less obvious: the fight for freedom from manipulation. The right to an unscripted mind."
The Quiet Coup Against Autonomy
There is a great struggle ahead of us: a fight for freedom from manipulation. For sovereignty over our own attention.
nickknudsenus.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
"But in the twenty-first century, we’re waking up to a new kind of struggle for freedom, one far more intimate and far less obvious: the fight for freedom from manipulation. The right to an unscripted mind."
Multiple media well met.
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Multiple media well met.
Reposted by Atomic Bum
So there’s a website called Deer Of St Nicholas which posts Christmas wish letters from Ukrainian children who had their childhood stolen by the war, anyone can pick a child and get them their present and it’s that time of the year again to achingly scroll it for hours again
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
So there’s a website called Deer Of St Nicholas which posts Christmas wish letters from Ukrainian children who had their childhood stolen by the war, anyone can pick a child and get them their present and it’s that time of the year again to achingly scroll it for hours again
Here's some very inspiring news.
November 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Here's some very inspiring news.
Here's a work of art.
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Here's a work of art.
"If you prefer to use Olio on your PC or Mac, you can use the Android emulator BlueStack to run the app."
There is also neighborhood-based peer-to-peer sharing available. olioapp.com/en/
Olio - Your Local Sharing App
Olio is a local sharing app where you can pass on items you no longer need to people who live nearby. Reduce waste and help our planet!
olioapp.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"If you prefer to use Olio on your PC or Mac, you can use the Android emulator BlueStack to run the app."
Reposted by Atomic Bum
This. Always this.
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 AM
This. Always this.
Reposted by Atomic Bum
New York is a-changin'.
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
New York is a-changin'.
“With billions of dollars to spend on spyware, it’s extremely alarming to think how far ICE will go in surveilling social media. ICE is a lawless agency that will use AI-driven social media monitoring not only to terrorize immigrant families, but also to target activists fighting back...”
ICE is building a social media panopticon
ICE is ramping up efforts to monitor people online.
www.theverge.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
“With billions of dollars to spend on spyware, it’s extremely alarming to think how far ICE will go in surveilling social media. ICE is a lawless agency that will use AI-driven social media monitoring not only to terrorize immigrant families, but also to target activists fighting back...”
Probably needs some updating but here's the general idea.
ANTI-SURVEILLANCE MAKEUP TUTORIAL BY PUSSY RIOT / How to resist to the electronic police state?
YouTube video by Pussy Riot
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Probably needs some updating but here's the general idea.
A 1967 poem that is interesting to read in 2025:
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
by Richard Brautigan
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
by Richard Brautigan
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
The Long Now Foundation fosters long-term thinking. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.
longnow.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
A 1967 poem that is interesting to read in 2025:
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
by Richard Brautigan
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
by Richard Brautigan
Reposted by Atomic Bum
C.S. Lewis responding to a letter from an American schoolgirl asking him for some writing advice.
(Worth reading? ✅️)
(Worth reading? ✅️)
October 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
C.S. Lewis responding to a letter from an American schoolgirl asking him for some writing advice.
(Worth reading? ✅️)
(Worth reading? ✅️)
Here's the 1967 FBI "Rabble Rouser Index (subversive control)" entry on Stokely Carmichael, Hulon Mitchell Jr. and an unnamed third party. Recent reports of agents knocking on demonstrator's doors just "asking some questions" leads me to assume some form of Rabble Rouser Index is back in action.
October 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Here's the 1967 FBI "Rabble Rouser Index (subversive control)" entry on Stokely Carmichael, Hulon Mitchell Jr. and an unnamed third party. Recent reports of agents knocking on demonstrator's doors just "asking some questions" leads me to assume some form of Rabble Rouser Index is back in action.
Art? Magic? Both?
October 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Art? Magic? Both?
Just wanna help this citizen ventilate.
October 24, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Just wanna help this citizen ventilate.
A letter to his town's selectboard by a Viet Nam War Marine combat vet I know. He's really hurting.
(he'd be ripped about my redactions but I'm worried for him)
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(he'd be ripped about my redactions but I'm worried for him)
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October 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A letter to his town's selectboard by a Viet Nam War Marine combat vet I know. He's really hurting.
(he'd be ripped about my redactions but I'm worried for him)
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(he'd be ripped about my redactions but I'm worried for him)
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This one is very good.
October 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
This one is very good.
Reposted by Atomic Bum
A gold mine of ant-fascist tactical advice to be found in here.
d119vjm4apzmdm.cloudfront.net/open-access/...
d119vjm4apzmdm.cloudfront.net/open-access/...
October 19, 2025 at 3:22 AM
A gold mine of ant-fascist tactical advice to be found in here.
d119vjm4apzmdm.cloudfront.net/open-access/...
d119vjm4apzmdm.cloudfront.net/open-access/...