John
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John
@johnn3000.bsky.social
I Likes what I likes & I Shares what I shares

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"Ur-Fascism is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes. It would be so much easier, for us, if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying, “I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Black Shirts to parade again in the Italian squares.” Life is not that simple." - Umberto Eco.

#booksky
Ur-Fascism
Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism June 22, 1995
theanarchistlibrary.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"There was an old owl liv'd in an oak,
The more he heard, the less he spoke;
The less he spoke, the more he heard,
O, if men were all like that wise bird!"

#Lichen #moss #cemetery #owl #statue #crucifix #cross
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Reparations for the African diaspora, write off debt for nations left burdened by colonialism & exploitation, repatriation assistance for those who wish to return to the motherland, Psychological Rehabilitation, full, official and unambiguous apologies...

#musicsky #roots #reggae #caricom #slavery
12'' Bunny Wailer - Rise & Shine (& Dub)
YouTube video by RasDashanSound
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November 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Fascism is inherently anti-science as it rejects truths that contradict its ideology, eg. climate change, and restricts science to serve the state. Such as using it in a distorted way to promote racialism or serve military objectives.

#musicsky #roots #reggae

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Sharon Little - Don't Mash Up Creation
YouTube video by Mystic Revelation
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November 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Nature Provides - Hugh Mundell
(14/06/62-14/10/83)

#Reggae #Musicsky #Roots

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Nature provides
YouTube video by Hugh Mundell - Topic
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November 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
A nice looking mushroom
Bay Bolete (Boletus Badius) Edible

#Mushrooms #Fungifriends #Foraging
November 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
"If our eye could penetrate the earth and see its interior from pole to pole, from where we stand to the antipodes, we would glimpse with horror a mass terrifyingly riddled with fissures and caverns." —Thomas Burnet, Telluris Theoria Sacra, Amsterdam, Wolters, 1694, p. 38
Underground 'supercave' stretches nearly 16.5 miles, with a 3,000-foot vertical drop
Explorers connected two deep caves and discover a 16.5 miles "supercave system" that could double in size.
www.earth.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
More lovely books arrived. Just finished Super-Frog in around 30 minutes. Beautifully illustrated, Kafkaesque surrealism. So glad I've discovered Murakami. Strange pictures is for my daughter but I'm not sure I can wait until after Xmas to nab it and read it for myself. 🤤
#Booksky #Japanesefiction
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Received this today, it's packed with photographs & information on mushrooms and other fungi, might have to buy Grasses Ferns Mosses & Lichens next, also by Roger Phillips.

#booksky #mushrooms #FungiFriends
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Spent the early hours of the morning searching up Japanese fiction to buy for my Daughter as a Christmas present as she has an affinity for Japan, found myself intrigued and ended up downloading a load for kindle & ordering 2 Haruki Murakami books for myself. I did get her a couple though. 😂
November 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Modern stress hits us nonstop, unlike rare ancestral dangers. Our sympathetic nervous system stays switched on, while the parasympathetic struggles to calm us. Practices like forest bathing/meditation help restore balance no need to think of it as spiritual woo, to treat it as relaxation is enough.
Humans are evolved for nature, not cities, say anthropologists
A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that...
phys.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
What you might envision an alien landscape to look like. - Old decaying tree stump teeming with life.

#lichen #moss #nature
November 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Just finished the final episode of Empire with David Olusoga, a solid, eye opening & human documentary on the British Empire’s rise and fall, showing both the achievements and the brutal realities of the history that a hell of a lot of us share. Essential viewing.

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BBC Two - Empire with David Olusoga
David Olusoga explores the history and legacy of the British Empire.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
🎵 "They call me mellow yellow" 🎵

"Yellow Brain" (Tremella mesenterica)
a parasitic jelly fungus that feeds on fungi that feed on dead wood. Either that or it's lookalike Golden Ear (Tremella aurantia) which is also parasitic so I am reading. Can't see any evidence of what it is feeding on.
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Spent way too much time staring at this log that lichen, moss and fungi have made home.

#lichen #moss #fungi
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Accidental shot taken as I was lying on the ground trying to snap a mushroom with my phone (which I missed completely somehow) but it made for a nice picture of the trees.

#Nature #Woodland #Sequoia #Trees
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Really like the look of this Mushroom with it's spikes and fibre-like cap. I think it's "Old Man Of The Woods" but can't find any similar photos online with this tan shade so please correct me if wrong.
#Mushroom #Fungi #Fungus #FungiFriends #Nature #Photography
#Nature #Woodland #Forest #Mycology
November 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Shivas wedding must have been a blast! Ghouls, ghosts, demons, social outcasts, as well as Brahma, Vishnu, the Devas and sages. Absolute inclusivity. Parvati's folks needed to just chill.

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Shiva's Wedding 1: Demonic Procession
YouTube video by Puranic Films
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November 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Shakti & Shiva told through the medium of Hip Hop by Illuminati Congo
#Shakti #Shiva #DivineUnion

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Shakti Shiva
YouTube video by illuminaticongo
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November 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"Where Aruna becomes Achala is Arunachala. Aruna is another name for Shakti. Shakti means the Manifest Reality. Where does manifestation (moving) become unmoving or still? In Unmanifest Absolute Reality. That is Arunachala, the Unmanifest absolute, which is the Supreme Self of all."

#ArunachalaSiva
Arunachala Chant (Arunachala Siva) Ramana Maharshi
YouTube video by Spirit View
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November 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"The ego falls crestfallen when one enquires "who am I?" and enters the heart"

#SriRamanaMaharshi #Jnana #SelfRealisation #Bhagavan

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RAMANA MAHARSHI - ARUNACHALA SHIVA
YouTube video by Atman Nityananda 🕉 Truth & Freedom
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November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
If you are of a certain age and used to watch saturday morning kids TV then to this very day there is a song that plays somewhere in the deep, dark canyons of of your mind whenever Amoebas are mentioned and this is it.

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Life with the Amoebas FULL EPISODE
YouTube video by Joseph Kotrie Monson
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November 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
So strange, it looks like a gloop of solidified liquid metal stuck to a tree.
This is the most unusual Slime Mold I have ever came across. I needed assistance in identifying it and the verdict was it is a False Puffball Slime Mold. The color is so shiny and unnatural I actually smelled it to make sure it wasn't painted. #Hedgewatch #slimemold #fungi
November 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Large orange coloured fungi with white outer edge (possibly Fomitopsis pinicola)

#mushroom #fungi #woodland #fungus #Shrooms #FungiFriends
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM