Paul
@paulanomaly.bsky.social
Writer, musician, teacher, Daddy. Starting a new chapter of my life in rural Appalachia, looking for a life more vivid and authentic with enough time for my family. And looking to connect without generating content and profit for huge, evil corporations.
Updated view from studio window
January 31, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Updated view from studio window
View from studio window
January 31, 2026 at 2:25 PM
View from studio window
Good news, everyone! As I do my 4 AM "drag my ancient ass out of bed to put more logs in the stove" routine, I see that the temps outside have dropped low enough for the leak in the studio ceiling to stop dripping in! #Appalachia #morenewsfromnowhere
January 31, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Good news, everyone! As I do my 4 AM "drag my ancient ass out of bed to put more logs in the stove" routine, I see that the temps outside have dropped low enough for the leak in the studio ceiling to stop dripping in! #Appalachia #morenewsfromnowhere
And as the snow piles higher and the studio ceiling starts dripping water because the wood stove chimney heats that section of roof, my wife commences converting pork into pressed loaves of minimally processed lunch meat because our boy loves ham (yes, like Ponyo) and she can do anything.
January 31, 2026 at 3:11 AM
And as the snow piles higher and the studio ceiling starts dripping water because the wood stove chimney heats that section of roof, my wife commences converting pork into pressed loaves of minimally processed lunch meat because our boy loves ham (yes, like Ponyo) and she can do anything.
Bringing in loads of firewood, filling the solar batteries, filling the water jugs, gasoline for generator to keep chickens warm, watching snow fall on week-old ice, trying not to think about how this storm pretty much wrecks any lingering hope of recording this album before autumn.
January 30, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Bringing in loads of firewood, filling the solar batteries, filling the water jugs, gasoline for generator to keep chickens warm, watching snow fall on week-old ice, trying not to think about how this storm pretty much wrecks any lingering hope of recording this album before autumn.
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The @interruptcrim Block It! Don’t Build It! Don’t Fill It! Don’t Fuel It! toolkit is also a great source of actions you can take and organizing you can join or be inspired by to throw sand in ICE’s gears even if you can’t be in the streets
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
January 30, 2026 at 1:15 PM
The @interruptcrim Block It! Don’t Build It! Don’t Fill It! Don’t Fuel It! toolkit is also a great source of actions you can take and organizing you can join or be inspired by to throw sand in ICE’s gears even if you can’t be in the streets
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
It's great seeing my kids scale down their dreams to, say, someday being a waitress or a volunteer firefighter or trash collector. Right now my boy is using a duplos kit originally meant to form Elsa's ice palace to make a Sonic drive-in stall.
#Appalachia
#Appalachia
January 30, 2026 at 1:30 PM
It's great seeing my kids scale down their dreams to, say, someday being a waitress or a volunteer firefighter or trash collector. Right now my boy is using a duplos kit originally meant to form Elsa's ice palace to make a Sonic drive-in stall.
#Appalachia
#Appalachia
Habit is not agency. Habit is programming.
Choosing to build or break a habit is agency.
Choosing to build or break a habit is agency.
January 30, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Habit is not agency. Habit is programming.
Choosing to build or break a habit is agency.
Choosing to build or break a habit is agency.
Coming soon on vinyl, already out on digital - the Amphetamine Library album, myself providing guitar, vocals, songs. Sometimes dark, sometimes psychedelic. Guitars, drums, dreams, and thou beside me in the wilderness, watching a small murder of crows take flight for other trees, better branches.
January 28, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Coming soon on vinyl, already out on digital - the Amphetamine Library album, myself providing guitar, vocals, songs. Sometimes dark, sometimes psychedelic. Guitars, drums, dreams, and thou beside me in the wilderness, watching a small murder of crows take flight for other trees, better branches.
Ahhhhhh no Sly Dunbar has left us.
Your work shall echo through all humanity's heartbeats, sir, and anchor the dreams of countless drummers. Rest now, and headline tonight in Valhalla, reunited at last with Robbie.
Thank you.
Your work shall echo through all humanity's heartbeats, sir, and anchor the dreams of countless drummers. Rest now, and headline tonight in Valhalla, reunited at last with Robbie.
Thank you.
January 28, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Ahhhhhh no Sly Dunbar has left us.
Your work shall echo through all humanity's heartbeats, sir, and anchor the dreams of countless drummers. Rest now, and headline tonight in Valhalla, reunited at last with Robbie.
Thank you.
Your work shall echo through all humanity's heartbeats, sir, and anchor the dreams of countless drummers. Rest now, and headline tonight in Valhalla, reunited at last with Robbie.
Thank you.
PS - linemen are the neurosurgeons of our infrastructure, except surgeons seldom work all night outdoors in ice storms. I'll rank 'em up there with teachers, nurses, MSF, and harm reduction workers when we list our world's true heroes.
January 28, 2026 at 3:10 AM
PS - linemen are the neurosurgeons of our infrastructure, except surgeons seldom work all night outdoors in ice storms. I'll rank 'em up there with teachers, nurses, MSF, and harm reduction workers when we list our world's true heroes.
Relieved to have power back after two nights of single-digit temps without. We found a working gas station and got our generator running heat lamps for the chicken coops, stockpiled and rationed grey and drinking water, cooked on and fed the wood stove. Not having a phone for a day was kinda nice.
January 28, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Relieved to have power back after two nights of single-digit temps without. We found a working gas station and got our generator running heat lamps for the chicken coops, stockpiled and rationed grey and drinking water, cooked on and fed the wood stove. Not having a phone for a day was kinda nice.
Hurray, ApPow has changed our outage status from "we're assessing it" to "we're working on it." We're watching the batteries drain and planning on going up to brush snow from the solar panels. Cooking breakfast on wood stove - IHOP meets LHOtP.
January 26, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Hurray, ApPow has changed our outage status from "we're assessing it" to "we're working on it." We're watching the batteries drain and planning on going up to brush snow from the solar panels. Cooking breakfast on wood stove - IHOP meets LHOtP.
Oops - Appalachian Power just went from "We should have it fixed by 11 tonight" to "We should have it fixed by 11 two days hence." So... we gotta figure out how to, top priority, have enough electricity to keep the chickens safe.
January 26, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Oops - Appalachian Power just went from "We should have it fixed by 11 tonight" to "We should have it fixed by 11 two days hence." So... we gotta figure out how to, top priority, have enough electricity to keep the chickens safe.
Smug cozy #solarpunk evening: ice storm knocks out the power lines but we have plenty of firewood from slaughtering Bradford pears, and our batteries were fully charged and should keep us just fine until things are fixed.
January 25, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Smug cozy #solarpunk evening: ice storm knocks out the power lines but we have plenty of firewood from slaughtering Bradford pears, and our batteries were fully charged and should keep us just fine until things are fixed.
I mean seriously, BILLIONS of people "are dead after...incident involving..." But one was murdered today in public by a civil servant, not the first this month and probably not the last.
Are we waiting for the American Tianemman Square?
Are we waiting for the American Tianemman Square?
January 24, 2026 at 6:56 PM
I mean seriously, BILLIONS of people "are dead after...incident involving..." But one was murdered today in public by a civil servant, not the first this month and probably not the last.
Are we waiting for the American Tianemman Square?
Are we waiting for the American Tianemman Square?
"a person is dead after a shooting involving federal immigration agents" - FUCK any journalist and all their editors who use hyper passive grammar to make murderers disappear in syntax. I hope an incident involving rabid weasels culminates in their unaliving and reformatting as an ugly red puddle.
January 24, 2026 at 6:53 PM
"a person is dead after a shooting involving federal immigration agents" - FUCK any journalist and all their editors who use hyper passive grammar to make murderers disappear in syntax. I hope an incident involving rabid weasels culminates in their unaliving and reformatting as an ugly red puddle.
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January 24, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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Oh, and years of teaching History changed my definition of "civilization" to "an elaborate system to help a few people rape and rob and exploit everyone else and rationalize their crimes."
"We're civilized" usually means "we get to take your stuff and rape and enslave your people."
Count me out.
"We're civilized" usually means "we get to take your stuff and rape and enslave your people."
Count me out.
January 24, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Oh, and years of teaching History changed my definition of "civilization" to "an elaborate system to help a few people rape and rob and exploit everyone else and rationalize their crimes."
"We're civilized" usually means "we get to take your stuff and rape and enslave your people."
Count me out.
"We're civilized" usually means "we get to take your stuff and rape and enslave your people."
Count me out.
I used to define "civilization" as a place with Thai and hopefully Ethiopian food.
Now I live on the outskirts of a village (fifteen minutes from the village proper) with no restaurants or bars, half an hour outside a town with a few very white restaurants and no pool table.
Now I live on the outskirts of a village (fifteen minutes from the village proper) with no restaurants or bars, half an hour outside a town with a few very white restaurants and no pool table.
January 24, 2026 at 1:11 PM
I used to define "civilization" as a place with Thai and hopefully Ethiopian food.
Now I live on the outskirts of a village (fifteen minutes from the village proper) with no restaurants or bars, half an hour outside a town with a few very white restaurants and no pool table.
Now I live on the outskirts of a village (fifteen minutes from the village proper) with no restaurants or bars, half an hour outside a town with a few very white restaurants and no pool table.
It's dawning on me that I'm probably depressed, it's just that being depressed in Appalachia is like being depressed in prison, or cold in Antarctica, or drunk at Mardi Gras...ubiquitous, therefore irrelevant.
Maybe not depression, just chronic legit sadness. Gotta fix the despair conditioning.
Maybe not depression, just chronic legit sadness. Gotta fix the despair conditioning.
January 24, 2026 at 2:54 AM
It's dawning on me that I'm probably depressed, it's just that being depressed in Appalachia is like being depressed in prison, or cold in Antarctica, or drunk at Mardi Gras...ubiquitous, therefore irrelevant.
Maybe not depression, just chronic legit sadness. Gotta fix the despair conditioning.
Maybe not depression, just chronic legit sadness. Gotta fix the despair conditioning.
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NEW: Trump is floating a $1.5 trillion war budget.
$1.5 trillion could fund Medicaid, the child tax credit, SNAP, the Department of Education, national highway repair, the NIH, school breakfast & lunch, FEMA, the FAA, the EPA, and federal overdose prevention COMBINED.
War costs us a better world.
$1.5 trillion could fund Medicaid, the child tax credit, SNAP, the Department of Education, national highway repair, the NIH, school breakfast & lunch, FEMA, the FAA, the EPA, and federal overdose prevention COMBINED.
War costs us a better world.
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
NEW: Trump is floating a $1.5 trillion war budget.
$1.5 trillion could fund Medicaid, the child tax credit, SNAP, the Department of Education, national highway repair, the NIH, school breakfast & lunch, FEMA, the FAA, the EPA, and federal overdose prevention COMBINED.
War costs us a better world.
$1.5 trillion could fund Medicaid, the child tax credit, SNAP, the Department of Education, national highway repair, the NIH, school breakfast & lunch, FEMA, the FAA, the EPA, and federal overdose prevention COMBINED.
War costs us a better world.
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Essentially, what stops abductions is when crowds outnumber the masked kidnappers. When people aggressively follow ICE with whistles and horns, crowds are ready to show up. If they show up fast enough, ICE leaves and a family is not broken. (People here understand the stakes).
January 23, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Essentially, what stops abductions is when crowds outnumber the masked kidnappers. When people aggressively follow ICE with whistles and horns, crowds are ready to show up. If they show up fast enough, ICE leaves and a family is not broken. (People here understand the stakes).