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Tom Richardson
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The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe …
—James Baldwin

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That’s the bike I road around on during the filming of the freeway sequence of The Matrix Reloaded
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A friend suggested I work on a coloring book to avoid spending the day reading about politics. So what to do, well I have thousands of pix of Tokyo and Taipei so that’s the plan. Here’s one I did a drawing from. #Tokyo #Asakusa
A small red Tori gate between two buildings in Asakusa, Tokyo
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Stills from On the Waterfront, Marlon Brandi’s character says, “I could have had class! I could have been a contender. I could have been somebody..
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Occupant of the Oval Office has brought bread lines to make us great
Pix of people lining up for food from the NYTimes, first caption reads “NEW YORK Volunteers distributing groceries in Manhattan. The latest order in the feud over food stamp benefits came from the Agriculture Department on Saturday.” Other pix are Leonia, NJ, Tulsa, OK, and San Snyonio, TX
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Don’t see anything wrong with this quote
From the SFChtonicle, ‘On Monday, Pelosi described Trump to CNN as "just a vile creature," then added. that he was "the worst thing on the face of the Earth.’
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Good morning
Skeleton with a clown mask sitting in a garden, in the foreground two hands emerge from the soil, there’s a chain
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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We did a painting session the other day #halloween #pumpkin
Painting of a skull, sunflowers, an old book and a pumpkin carved with a surprised expression against a black background
October 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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A Google data center in Chile consumes an acre foot of water every 3 days.

Lake Perris in Southern California holds about as many acre feet of water as the data center consumes in a year
Image of a reservoir from the air it dwarfs the nearby town.
October 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Family Circus cover featuring “Not Me” the ghostly figure who catches all the blame for stuff the kids did Text reads: “FAMILY CIRCUS AT ITS BEST-INVISIBLE GREMLINS AND ALL!”
October 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Ok, how about some stuff I’ve dug up in the yard?
Slightly green bent glass thing photographed against a white surface
October 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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ANTIFA
Campaign button for Eisenhower, reads Peace and Prosperity with Eisenhower
October 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Traffic is stopped on Powell Street and hundreds of people behind ropes in fancy clothes drinking champagne out of little plastic glasses are looking at this guy on a chrome Buffalo
Guy riding a chrome bison outside the St. Francis hotel in SF wearing rock n roll. Cowboy type clothes, who knows?
October 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Maybe I’ve been looking at too many Mad Magazines lately but doesn’t Barrasso look like he’s lifted straight from the pages
Senate Whip John Barrasso with characteristic glum expression
October 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Reporting from the battle zone of San Francisco
Union Square San Francisco on a bright sunny day with dozens of people out eating, playing games, and enjoying the weather
September 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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What character permanently altered your brain chemistry?

Welp…
First page of the Mickey Rodent story in Mad Magazine in November 1955 The header reads: ANIMATION DEPT.: HERE IS A THOUGHT! WHO AMONGST YOU HAVE SEEN THE SIGHT OF MAN TURNED BEAST? A HAPLESS FEW, WE TRUST... AND YET... THOUGH WE ARE REPELLED AT THE SIGHT OF MAN TURNED BEAST... WE REVEL TO SEE BEAST TURNED MAN! WHEN YOU PASS ALONG THIS THOUGHT... REMEMBER YOU SAW IT IN MAD!. MICKEY RODENT!
September 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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It’s happening
Photo of a pile of clothes on a traffic island in the middle of a crosswalk across a four lane road with traffic passing by
September 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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The people are moved by the stirring words of Liberté, “A distributed public-private form of speech policing can actually feel as oppressive as any FCC warning!”
La Liberté guidant le peuple - Eugène Delacroix - Musée du Louvre with a speech balloon of La Liberté quoting Douthat
September 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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#streetphotography #Taiwan #Taipei #街頭攝影 #台灣 #台北
In a sidewalk arcade in Taipei, posters on the left wall, rolling doors closed on the right (it’s early morning, which means pretty much anytime before noon for commerce) at the end in the distance a bunch of graffiti on a dark wall
September 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Mad figured it out in 1966
MAD'S "SHARE THE WEALTH" INCOME TAX FORM Mad had it figured out a long time ago, distribute the taxes to artists, teachers, writers, poets, photographers, fortune tellers, as well as the tax collector. TEN-FORTY OR FIGHT DEPT. The other day, as our Accountant was filling out our Income Tax Return, we (No, idiot, we at MAD don't send in a Joint Return-that's the Editorial "we"!) got to thinking. The United States Government is not supposed to favor any one particular class or group, and yet that is exactly what is happening when it comes to Accountants. Because of the impossibly complicated Income Tax Forms, hundreds of thousands of Accountants are employed to fill out Returns, while hundreds of thousands of others are kept busy examining them in the Internal Revenue Service. And this, we feel, is unfair! It is unfair to guarantee the members of one profession an income, when there are so many other occupations and professions who are in much greater need. With this in mind, we offer:
September 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Looking at old Mad Magazines for reasons, this was on December 1957
Old Mad Magazine hat illustration, text reads,”The Trash Can Tam Garbage can lid balancing would develop air of great poise, and be useful during heavy hailstorms.”
September 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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The bots are about
September 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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#streetphotography #Taiwan #Taipei #街頭攝影 #台灣 #台北
Street scene in Taipei, bike, plants, air conditioners, graffiti, electrical conduits…
September 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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I worked on some pickup shots and met him
Robert Redford and a horse in The Horse Whisperer movie
September 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky
A power pole with a chunk of a destroyed power pole sort of hanging onto it supported only by the telephone and fiber cables silhouetted against the evening sky
September 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Sunny day in union Square San Francisco
September 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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NYTimes kicker
"It was just so surreal," he said. Mr. Kirk, he said, was a unique person in politics. He said he liked watching Mr. Kirk's videos and would sometimes put them on in the background when he did his homework. "I like that he's willing to say things that a lot of people think, but are not willing to say out loud, he said. "He promotes the idea of understanding truth and really believing what you say you believe."
September 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM