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Kyle

@forgotten.bsky.social

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Photographer, photojournalist, amateur (wannabe) media historian. I take photos of old places and dig up old photos and media. Formerly @cityeyes. My website: cityeyesphoto.com

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Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · May 13

Big thread on the Morse Code house.

First off - to set the scene - this now demoed house was well known and well viewed - on one of the most traveled routes in the Indiana Dunes National park. Most locals knew about it, but didn't know much about the *why*, myself included. This got me curious. 1/7

The brightly-decorated facade of a one-story house with three windows, and a door. Geometric shapes are painted across the entire structure, and grass grows high around the entirety. Sunset-cast shadows of trees and plants dapple the extreme left of the building.

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Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 1d

It's not surprising, but it is pretty fucked up that MAGA is so unpopular that you have to get a high level position in the Trump administration to benefit from it at all because you're going to lose big unless you get into a position to exploit our failing democracy.

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Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 1d

And you KNOW these guys would get so annoyingly indignant if you accused them of racism before this text chain came out.

Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 1d

I'm doing my part to preserve (satire) print media!

Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 2d

I had a stupid little digital Rolodex that I kept all my numbers in as a kid. Yes, a tiny black square with calculator buttons and a calculator display that I painstakingly added my numbers to.

Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 3d

One of my favorite horror movies of all time. So beautiful and wild.

Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 5d

I've been saying "Dems aren't exciting, but if we vote, we will have a chance to fix this shit and get better."

I'm genuinely afraid we are past the point where we can fix this shit and get better.

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Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 5d

I think the suggestion was that this could've been stopped before it happened by voting. I was practically pleading on Reddit in 2016 for indifferent people to vote because, at that point, the next prez would appoint like two SC justices, and it ended up even worse than expected.

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Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 6d

I don't think they need to search much, considering he's sending troops to US cities based on fabricated unrest and his entire existence seems to revolve around fomenting division and hate.

Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, about as surprising a phenomenon as the "Marxists in favor of greatly strengthening copyright law" thing that's been happening.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 11d

"Fuck ICE" is a patriotic sentiment. Perhaps the most patriotic in this moment.

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Red On You 💀 @redonyou.bsky.social · 12d

No. Joe Bob is not exaggerating.

Horror is everyday life now, baby!!!

#MutantFam #thelastdrivein

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Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 12d

The metal fan one genuinely got a laugh from me.

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Jason Morisette @qmlhcb.bsky.social · 12d

Leave it to Joe Bob to find a silver lining to our current national nightmare

#MutantFam
#TheLastDriveIn

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Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah, so much weirder than a bunch of evangelical Christians speaking tongues while laying hands on, essentially, the most un-Jesuslike leader in the world, something I'm sure Walsh loved.

Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 16d

It sucks that they're all fucking cowards, these companies.

In the US, money is the last line of defense, and they're all bowing, over and over, in the face of lawsuits they could win to save a few dollars.

This is fucking democracy. Your bottom line shouldn't matter so much. Don't be evil.

Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 17d

It's crazy to me that after over twenty years I still have impostor syndrome in my career and art, but Trump appointees who are obviously in far over their head can waltz into these situations not knowing AT ALL what the fuck they're doing with total, unwarranted, confidence.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18d

Portland is not "war ravaged." This is delusional and dangerous.

Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer — it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos.

Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day.

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Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 20d

This is the superior way to watch horror. @wearewatcher.bsky.social

Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 20d

The people want to know which cowardly theater chains shut down their deal with you. The people being me.

Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 20d

I would be surprised if they weren't already involved, but is @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social in on this?! Seems like it'd play well there.

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Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 23d

That's not how any of this works, but I'm not surprised he's done it anyway.

Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 23d

Just wait. If someone is miraculously able to get the video, suddenly it'll be like "Yeah, he did it, but who cares and what are you gonna do about it?"

They've made it abundantly clear that corruption is built-in and allowed in the Trump administration.

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Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 24d

My wife once told me how upset she was as a kid when a priest at her cousin's funeral used it as an excuse to talk about how suicide is a mortal sin and she's now in hell.

Not at all new for awful people to co-opt tragedy, unfortunately.

Kyle @forgotten.bsky.social · 24d

Wikipedia and archive.org are, arguably, two of the most important sites on the modern internet. At least in my opinion.

People give crap to Wikipedia because it was people-built, but it gets more right than it gets wrong, and it's an incredible resource, even as just a "jumping off" point.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 25d

We’re just going to leave this here…

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