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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

'Autofac' is a short story predicting where we'd find ourselves today written over 70 years ago by Phillip K. Dick. Been thinking about it ever since I read it long before the "tech revolution" began. Story starts on page 70. The ads belong in a museum. ia801904.us.archive.org/28/items/gal...

Drawing of people beating a robot to a pulp.

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Perhaps inspired by this poster? polishposter.com/0464-land-of...

The Land of One Hundred and Fifth Secret, Polish Theatre Poster, Stasys Eidrigevicius, 1988

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.” Henry David Thoreau

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hold on just a sec, was that cop recording her???

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Here's a library discard saved from AI shredding thanks to a used book dealer, but one of uncounted millions on bookshelves. I've seen some commenters here claim that these books were fated for destruction anyway (often made by a self described "former librarian" lol). It's absolute and utter BS.

a library discard saved from AI shredding thanks to a used book dealer, but one of many on my bookshelves. The claim by some commenters here that these books were fated for destruction anyway (often made by a self described "former librarian" lol) is absolute and utter BS.

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We may never get flying cars but we now have these, thanks to Mark.

Old magazine ad for "x-ray specs", aimed at adolescent males.

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Seeing your video brought the powerful book 'Young Men and Fire' to mind. Incredible piece of literature.

Cover of the book 'Young Men and Fire' by Norman Maclean showing a group of firefighters.

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Still think your photo may well show the original, and the cat in the doorway looks like a type of local I'd expect to see there. Do you recall where you found the photo? Here's what's there now, no side office, just a standalone structure, no character. Sad.

Photo of a free book shed at a town transfer station.

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

TV-B-Gone is the waiting room captive audience's best friend. As seen on TV!

An advertisement for TV-B-Gone universal remote.

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

One of those earlier activists almost became president, John Kerry. Something to think about.

Newspaper photo of John Kerry participating in a Viet Nam Veterans Against the War protest C.1970

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Mine all pretty much ran on baling wire, band aids and this here book, one of human civilization's greatest of works of literature.

Cover of the book "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot"

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Grand Wizards sure clean up nice these days.

REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo of John Roberts

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

"Paul Lafargue's masterpiece, The Right To Be Lazy, at once funny and serious, witty and profound, elegant and forceful, is a logical expansion of The Right to the Pursuit of Happiness announced by Thomas Jefferson." “If he is a Marxist, then I am clearly not”. Karl Marx, Lafargue's father-in-law

Cover of a library book titled "The Right to be Lazy" by Paul Lafargue.

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Demasduit (c. 1796 – January 8, 1820) was a Beothuk woman, one of the last of her people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demasduit

Demasduit (c. 1796 – January 8, 1820) was a Beothuk woman, one of the last of her people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demasduit

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Today I learned that bobcats do it too.

Bobcat in snow, examining its nether parts.

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A remote learning institution. truthschool.org/what-we-do/

Photograph of people in a lecture space at The Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership.

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Here're two books about one of history's most interesting people, Gudrid The Far Travelled (Thorbjarnardottir). Leif Erikson's sister in law, she co-lead a Norse Greenlander settlement somewhere in North America C. 1010. She birthed a son there, Snorri, before traveling to the Vatican later in life.

Cover of the book "The Sea Road", by Margaret Elphinstone.

Cover of the book "The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman", by Nancy Marie Brown.

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

"Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru" - El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega - 1609

Cover of the book "Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru" by El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega - 1609

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Why is this post flagged as spam?

Screengrab of a post marked by Bluesky moderators as "spam" which reads: "This year brought only sorrow and loss. I lost friends, my home, and was forced to live in tents and rubble.
We faced famine, sickness, and constant danger.I survived, but nightmares and fear haunt me still.
I hope 2026 brings safety and my city’s return, a place to finally feel secure."

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Hyannis to Mar-a-Lago. What a long, strange trip it's been.

Photo juxtaposition of JFK and family in Hyannis and Trump alone in gilded Mar-a-lago.

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Here's the 1967 FBI "Rabble Rouser Index (subversive control)" entry on Stokely Carmichael, Hulon Mitchell Jr. and an unnamed third party. Recent reports of agents knocking on demonstrator's doors just "asking some questions" leads me to assume some form of Rabble Rouser Index is back in action.

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

A letter to his town's selectboard by a Viet Nam War Marine combat vet I know. He's really hurting. (he'd be ripped about my redactions but I'm worried for him) .

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

A gold mine of ant-fascist tactical advice to be found in here. d119vjm4apzmdm.cloudfront.net/open-access/...

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Abbie would've loved the frogs. "A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station. Once you get the right image the details aren't that important. Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less." Abbie Hoffman

A photo of Abbie Hoffman laughing while holding an open copy of his book"Steal This Book".

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

'How I Became A Socialist' (1905) is one of Jack London's best short pieces of writing, imo. www.online-literature.com/london/3875/

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Factory worker Freddie Reed, 14 years old, October 1910. Photograph taken by Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940) while working on behalf of the National Child Labor Committee.

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Was just thinking the same about those "antifa" stickers etc. - "aktion/action" being the essential part of the message.

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

My friend took this bird's eye photo of her beer.

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Bet this newspaper article is on display there.

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