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relevantusername.bsky.social @relevantusername.bsky.social · Sep 17
ICYMI: Sometimes - often, I think - what is delusionally (on the part of "professionals" and "authorities") considered a mental health problem is a normal, sane reaction to untenable circumstance

#MentalHealth #Oppression #Socioeconomics

#r/raisedbynarcissists

www.madinamerica.com/2025/07/trea...
Treat Systems, Not Symptoms: Defending the Sanity of the Oppressed
Pathologizing distress benefits psychiatry, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies, but dampens responses that could dismantle oppression.
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Silversun Pickups - The Royal We (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Dangerbird Records
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December 26, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Proven methods for teaching dyslexic students have been known for decades. Why is it so hard for American schools to implement them? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Dyslexia and the Reading Wars
Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?
www.newyorker.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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How To See The Great Wall Of China Near Fleet Street
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How To See The Great Wall Of China Near Fleet Street
Asian wonder in an unlikely place.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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December 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Rare footage from trial of Chinese general who defied Tiananmen crackdown order leaked online
Rare footage from trial of Chinese general who defied Tiananmen crackdown order leaked online
Video shows Gen Xu Qinxian explaining why he refused to deploy troops to crush 1989 student-led demonstrations Rare footage of a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) general who defied orders to lead his troops into Tiananmen Square and crush the 1989 student protesters has been leaked online, offering a highly unusual glimpse into the upper echelons of the military at one of the most fraught moments in modern Chinese history. General Xu Qinxian’s refusal to take his troops from the PLA’s prestigious 38th Group Army, a unit based on the outskirts of Beijing, into the capital has been the stuff of Tiananmen lore for decades. Continue reading...
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December 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Did you know the chocolate chip cookie that we know and love is less than 100 years old? The Library of Congress has a copy of the book in which the very first chocolate chip cookie recipe appeared, "Ruth Wakefield's Toll House Tried and True Recipes." blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams...
December 24, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Pole Vault Pole

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Comic. [Person running on a giant round toward a pole vaulting crossbar; a long pole bent in an arch from the ground, over the crossbar, to the ground again, with person climbing it upside down over the crossbar; person runs to catch up with a long poll rolled into a circle and tied that is rolling toward the crossbar, jumps to catch it, hanging off as it spins, and then is flung over the crossbar when it approaches.] [caption] Fun fact: There are no limits on the length or diameter of the pole in pole vault.
December 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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On Journalism 2050, @antelava.bsky.social tells why life in in Silicon Valley felt like living in the heart of the Roman Empire, with hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin. Listen or watch wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
December 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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We occupy a very specific niche when it comes to the public discussion of history, and that niche is serious answers to the question of how bamboozled Hitler would have been by big chungus memes.

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December 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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The historians are alright.
askhistorians.bsky.social AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 8d
We occupy a very specific niche when it comes to the public discussion of history, and that niche is serious answers to the question of how bamboozled Hitler would have been by big chungus memes.

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December 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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We believe in digitization for global access to our collection, and will continually add to our Online Archive.

But here are some great reasons why very little of the world’s archival material is digitized.

And: some things need to be seen in person. It can be transformative!
December 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
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December 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
relevantusername.bsky.social
Have I mentioned I love juxtaposition?
It is a perfect word. All killer no filler.
Style & substance. Form & function.
relevantusername.bsky.social relevantusername.bsky.social @relevantusername.bsky.social · Sep 21
2020: what if we make them pay for things they can screenshot

2025: screenshots are a form of art, actually

the future isn't predicted or predictable, it's created

predictions are only limitations in disguise.
i would've provided a link with proper attribution but i don't have enough money to buy google
December 22, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Happy Solstice | Tattooed Sun, 1994, stonecut by Kenojuak Ashevak | Baffin Fine Arts
The 1994 stonecut by Kenojuak Ashevak titled 'tattooed Sun,' in bold black and red with a tattooed face.
December 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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🎅 Santa has looked much the same on the page for generations. Preserving periodical covers like this one helps connect how the season ❄️ was pictured then with how we recognize it now.

See more vintage images in our Holiday 2025 Periodical Art collection ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias...

#HolidayArt
Santa Claus embraces a young child while carrying a large sack of toys on the December 26, 1925 cover of The Saturday Evening Post. Art by J. C. Leyendecker.
December 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Cancelled US comedian Jimmy Kimmel to deliver Christmas message to UK
Cancelled US comedian Jimmy Kimmel to deliver Christmas message to UK
TV host who came under pressure from Trump government will say: ‘From a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year’ The US comedian whose late-night show was briefly cancelled after pressure from Donald Trump’s government is to urge UK audiences to stand up for free speech. In a defiant alternative Christmas message on Channel 4, Jimmy Kimmel will liken the first year of Trump’s second administration to the rise of fascism. Continue reading...
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December 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Did You Know: Stars are believed to be holes in Mundus torn by the fleeing Magna Ge? The light pouring out of them is the light of Aetherius itself, also allowing magic through. The largest hole was torn by Magnus himself, providing daylight.
December 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Definitions & etymological origins are immensely important

#juxtaposition

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Alternative forms juxta-position Etymology From French juxtaposition, from Latin iuxtā (“near”) (from Latin iungō (“to join”)) + French position (“position”) (from Latin pōnō (“to place”)). Noun juxtaposition (countable and uncountable, plural juxtapositions) The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter. 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend: It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces. (grammar) An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together. Example: mother father instead of mother and father (mathematics) An absence of operators in an expression. 2007, Lawrence Moss, Hans-Jörg Tiede, “Applications of Modal Logic in Linguistics”, in P. Blackburn et al., editors, Handbook of Modal Logic, Elsevier, page 1054: A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition.The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together. There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above. (art) Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect. The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional. Her mother favored a multiyear project: obscenities carved in intricate and clever juxtapositions, descending every finger, curling in lettered whorls across the palm, fanning in offensive rays across the opisthenar, which is the name for the back of the hand, a word that Leilani knew because she had studied the structure of the human hand in detail, the better to understand her difference. (rhetoric) The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist. Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.
December 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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25 years of debate, discussion, and understanding. Consensus isn’t easy, but it’s human. Donate now ➡️ donate.wikipedia25.org

#Wikipedia25
December 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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It isn’t just President Donald J. Trump who fears and loathes the press. A large chunk of the voting public has discounted the so-called mainstream media to the point of presuming its entire output is partisan propaganda.

Read more at the link in our bio.

#fourthestate #walterlippman #journalism
September 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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🧵1️⃣ How do you visualize & explore millions of archived web pages?

@InternetArchive.EU partnered with software engineers & the Internet Archive to make a navigable mosaic you can explore with a joystick, buttons, or voice.

Learn more ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/12/16/f...
Screenshot from the Websites of the Netherlands Xmas Edition, with a small Internet Archive Europe logo at the top of a dense photomosaic composed of millions of tiny Dutch website captures. On-screen interface includes a reset button, a Zoom in for more indicator, and a Search field/
December 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Celebrate the Public Domain with the Internet Archive in 2026!

#PublicDomainDay is nearly here. Works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will soon be open to reuse.

Enter our film contest & join our events! All the details ⤵️
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#PublicDomain #event #contest
Colorful montage of works entering the public domain in 2026, including vintage posters, book covers, comic panels, and film stills. Prominent titles shown include All Quiet on the Western Front, Animal Crackers, As I Lay Dying, The Little Engine That Could, The Secret of the Old Clock, King of Jazz, The Maltese Falcon, The Cat Who Went to Heaven, Morocco, and Murder at the Vicarage. Music titles such as Georgia on My Mind, I Got Rhythm, and Dream a Little Dream of Me appear, along with early cartoon images of characters who would later become Betty Boop and Disney’s Pluto. The collage highlights iconic literature, films, music, and comics transitioning into the public domain. Poster for the Internet Archive's 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest, featuring the "Lockette," a cartoon character with an open lock, seated in a director's chair, legs crossed, and holding a megaphone. Projected on a screen to her right is a frame from the 1930 film "King of Jazz". Illustrated by Freya Morgan. A noir-style illustrated poster titled “The Case of the Disappearing Copyright.” The Lockette—a cartoon character whose body is an open yellow padlock—cautiously steps out of an open vault marked with a copyright symbol. A strong beam of light shines from outside the frame, casting a large copyright symbol onto the floor. Floating eyes and a magnifying glass with a question mark evoke a detective mystery. Red footprints lead toward the open vault door. Text reads: “Public Domain Day 2026” and “Jan 21st @10am PT: Virtual.” Illustrated by Freya Morgan.
December 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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It's a big milestone for free knowledge! 🎉

The Wikimedia Foundation spoke at the UN General Assembly Hall, representing Wikipedia’s volunteer community.

We showed that the future of the internet and sustainable development depend on protecting public spaces online and the people who build them.
Jan Gerlach, Public Policy Director at the Wikimedia Foundation, talks to the audience from the stage at the General Assembly hall. Text says: Our first time speaking at the United Nations General Assembly hall. In a landmark moment, the Wikimedia Foundation was invited to discuss digital governance and internet policy.
December 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Nature will work it out eventually if people don't

Nobody wants to be a statistic

Reiteration: pretending Mangione or the Menendez brothers are "insane" is a useful excuse

People make stories known so someone somewhen somewhere understands

Lies die, truth is eternal.

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October 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Contrary to what is said about who "controls reality" - past, future, victors, what ever - nah

Lies may go on for a long time and people die yet a thorny lie may persist - but sooner or later, truth is eternal

Universal arc, whatever you call it
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM