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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This description of millenarian sects, highlighted from The Nerd Reich, quoting Norman Cohn … brings to mind techno-optimist thought re AI/AGI/ASI

From The Nerd Reich, a passage describing millenarian sects: "Millenarian sects or movements always picture salvation as a) collective, in the sense that it is to be enjoyed by the faithful as a collectivity; b) terrestrial, in the sense that it is to be realized on this earth and not in some other-worldly heaven; c) imminent, in the sense that it is to come both soon and suddenly; d) total, in the sense that it is to utterly transform life on earth, so that the new dispensation will be no mere improvement on the present but perfection itself; e) miraculous, in the sense that it is to be accomplished by, or with the help of, supernatural agencies”

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Another sign for my poster board collection! #NoKings

Photo of a 20x30 inch poster board, yellow background. “No Kings” in large res letters in the middle. Around the border, “Yes Healthcare Yes Freedom Yes Clean Air” in green.

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Join me in supporting MIT's D-Lab on March 12! MIT D-Lab is where students connect their technical strengths with real world needs identified by communities. Your gift helps move ideas from classroom concepts to field tested solutions for impoverished communities around the world.

MIT D-Lab, MIT 24-hour challenge
Save the date! Thurs March 12
Help us design for a more equitable world during the MIT 24-hour challenge. If 125 people donate to D-Lab on that day, D-Lab "unlocks" $21500 in challenge funds!
giving.mit.edu/24hc-dlab

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I blame this post for today's impulse buy 😂

Christmas tree ornament - Santa figure with a decorated, light-up tree hat.

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

awesome, time to find stuff to throw out. 😬 Found some ground thyme that appears to have been best by Aug 22, 2008. Also these disgusting red hots that have melted together

Underside of small jar of ground thyme with almost illegible best by date of Aug 22, 2008 (I assume, says Aug2208) Also some red hots that I am not going to taste test!

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

When am I going to learn not to taste test ancient food sitting around in my house? Even when pretty??? These are *nasty* now.

Plastic container with a few sprinkles for decorating cakes, gingerbread, etc. No best by date but whatever it was, it is past. These taste like plastic

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Wish I had been willing to bid higher on Seasons II from this artist: www.freyesart.com/work#/minibl...

Screenshot of abstract artwork formed by colorful cutouts from different paper (handmade, I think) layered over each other and filling the frame. Cheerful, repetition. Artist is Fernando Reyes

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This is bad advice. When I see bad advice such as this, I question: 1) whether the account is posting in good faith 2) anything else they say Have fun tomorrow! Throw a good party! #NoKings

Post from account named She Guevara, @sheg7.bsky.social

Text reads:
Actual advice for (US) No Kings:

No names, no phones, black clothes you've never worn before, masks, gloves, good shoes, eye protection, water...
Utilise the military guys in your ranks. Give them radios that connect with people flying drones above the rally. Co-ordinate movements accordingly.

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Reading (still) “Waging Nonviolent Struggle” and came across this section, ‘Openness and secrecy in nonviolent struggle.’ Some good points here

Openness and secrecy in nonviolent struggle

Secrecy, deception, and underground conspiracy pose difficult problems for a movement using nonviolent struggle. If operating under a political dictatorship, secrecy will be required at times.
Elsewhere, secrecy can pose a serious danger.
Arguments are often made in favor of secrecy in nonviolent struggles in order to surprise the opponents and to catch them unprepared to counter the resistance actions. This is of dubious validity. First, there is a long and successful use of spies and informers within resistance organizations. Also, modern communications technology makes secrecy very difficult to maintain.
Second, advance knowledge by the opponents of planned demon-strations, for example, will give the opponents time to consider how to respond. This may reduce the chances of massive brutali-

ries and killings by police and troops who have not received specific instructions on how to act. …

An additional danger of practicing secrecy is the reason for its use. Secrecy is often used out of fear, and therefore contributes to
fear-which must be abandoned or controlled for nonviolent struggle to operate effectively.
The following discussion assumes that the struggle is occurring within a political system that permits significant civil liberties.
Where this is not the case, careful attention is required to determine what knowledge and activities should be secret or revealed.
Nonviolent struggle is based on bravery and discipline. Openness-that is, being truthful with the opponents and the public concerning intentions and plans-may be a corollary of the requirements of fearlessness and nonviolent discipline. Openness leads to liberation from the fear of arrest, disclosure of secrets, break up of resistance organizations, and imprisonment. A mass movement needs to be open. Masses of people cannot participate in a secret resistance movement because secrecy demands that knowledge of plans be held by only a trusted few. Additionally, nonviolent discipline is best achieved in the light of day rather than clandestinely. Secrecy contributes to a smaller movement and can lead to a resort to violence within the resistance movement in order to silence persons suspected of revealing secrets to the opponents.
Secrecy also contributes to paranoia within the movement, a paranoia that tends to increase over time. It often leads to disastrous consequences when internal differences surface under the guise of alleged violations of secrecy. Perhaps one faction may accuse the leader of another faction of being a spy. A paranoid movement cannot function effectively as a resistance movement.
In the struggle to attain freedom, it is necessary to behave like free people.

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

This tool, which I usually forget I have, inspired me to do something with the meh leftover ear of corn in my fridge. And it was good! 👩‍🍳

Yellow plastic cylinder with metal cylinder inside that has a serrated edge in one end.

Bowl of sautéed corn kernels and onion strips

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Short @nilc.org guide to identifying DC occupiers www.instagram.com/p/DNgZV7Yu-p...

One of the slides, reads:
ICE, FBI, HSI and Other Federal Law Enforcement
* May be dressed in plain clothes or wear either (a) green or gray tactical-looking jumpsuits or shirts/pants; or (b) camouflage fatigues
* May wear patches reading "ICE", "HSI," "FBI," "US MARSHAL," or "POLICE"
* May wear badge-shaped insignia
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* will not wear chest patches with their names
* will not wear rank insignia
* will not wear chest patches reading "US Army"
* will not wear shoulder patches with a capitol dome insignia

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Morning hike - Hawk family at 1 mile was getting fed (I think) on my way up, having flying lessons when I saw them again on the way down. Another young hawk awkwardly crossing my path ❤️ with noisy encouragement. The hawk at 2 miles was back in his tree, awaiting unwary 🐇 I guess.

Bunny at the side of a fire road. Silly rabbit, it let me walk right by without running into the brush.

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

as a counter to everything dismaying, maybe I should dwell more on what I love There are two sets of fledgling hawks on my ritual-hike. They are awkward and floofy and I love them. This one flapped across the trail then sat watching me. I expect they will soon explore further away.

A hawk (red shouldered? red tailed?) on a branch among greenery close beside a trail. Just prior to this, it flapped across the trail a few feet in front of me, gained this branch and then sat there while I walked past & stopped to take photos. July 22

A hawk (likely same one) high in a dead tree beside the trail, watching me go by. July 29 It's hanging out in same area that I saw it a week ago and a few days ago, as is the other set of hawks a mile away.

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

😂 Fun stuff mamdanitimes.com

Fake NYTimes headline: Mamdani Accepted iTunes Terms and Conditions Without Reading

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Think maybe we’ll have an Anti-Singularity this century. Where everything gets infinitely dumber.

Quote from Kurzweil included in Becker’s book, “More Everything Forever” Kurzweil says, “We won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century - it will be more like 20,000 years of progress.”

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

San Diego Union Tribune front page this morning. #NoKings

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

The only invasion going on is by government-sanctioned thugs

Supposed immigration officers looking like warrior cops in the wrong place. Caption: Immigration officers in the Triplex parking lot in downtown Great Barrington Tuesday morning arrested two men from the Barrington House apartments. The arrests drew a crowd that videotaped and questioned the officers. (Ben Elliot video capture)

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

First banana slug of spring 😂 on my hike this morning. But also, the lupine is looking fine ❤️

Banana slug on a rocky trail. The slug is quite large, pretty close to banana size. Color looks more like an overripe banana, unfortunately!

Fire road going uphill, left side is all lupine plants in bloom with the sun hitting them. Blue sky, wispy clouds, trail in shade

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Think this was my favorite #HandsOff sign today. Good crowd in San Jose!

Picture of a large poster that says Hands Off, and has little colorful clouds extending from the main rectangle, listing multitude of things that hands should be kept off of. Eye-catching and readable

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Made these delicious things last week to cheer myself up. (And bring to dinner.) Meringue layers with very rich choc frosting. Might need to make more 😋

Several mini meringue and chocolate cakes - 2 layers each, frosting between and on top, not sides. Individual sized - could easily eat 2. And some just one layer, because

A bunch of meringue cookies made with 2 meringue flats stuck together with a chocolate frosting middle

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

pretty bad day in too many ways, enjoy my profile-cat being squished by his sister. Also, blep

Black and white cat in a round black and white cat bed, but all you can see is his head, neck and one paw because his very large tabby sister is lying on top of him and the bed, despite not fitting into it AT ALL. Tabby has a small bit of pink tongue showing. No one is upset, they stayed this way for hours even though it doesn't look comfortable.

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Two events to go to today!

Two posterboards. One says “Women’s rights are human rights.” The other says “No Kings, No Musk” and has Musk and a crown crossed out.

Other side of same two posterboards. One says “Freedom, Equality and Justice for all” the other says “Unplug Musk” and also has an attempt at a Ukrainian flag and a heart.

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

View from the top of today’s morning walk (sort of). Great weather, great snow, would love more of it.

View from one snowy (but not as snowy as we’d like) peak looking at others. Forested area below. In the foreground, animal prints in the snow

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

at least the Cedar Waxwings are happy today

Two Cedar Waxwings in a berry-covered cotoneaster tree. They are part of a large flock (>15) feasting there today.

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

totally stressed out, already called legislators, need to deal with taxes ($$ that *I'm sure* 🙃will be well spent) so trying to de-stress looking at pics from last summer

view along a long, weathered boardwalk over ferns out to a bay. Lighthouse near end of boardwalk, tall trees on either side of the cleared/fern-y alley

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Bobcat supervision of the trail today! #Morningwalk today, saw this one cross ahead of me so I was looking for it. Of course I found it in the most cat place available - top of a sunny rock with a good view.

Rocky outcropping on side of trail, scrub chaparral around it, bobcat sitting at the top keeping an eye on me. Shortly after this we both heard more hikers approaching and he hid in the brush. But! Saw him (or another similar size) later on hike when coming down.

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K Morrell @morrellk.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Disaster threatens the band

Tableau on shelf: ceramic geese threaten a group of small figures (ancient ornaments of festive music players)

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