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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 01/10/2026

It doesn't take much to make the UK look like Mordor.

$Mordor. Or Scotland. Black silhouette of a gothic landmark (I can't remember which one) and I shot this photo so many times, but the clouds refracted no matter which angle I shot from and this is the best I got.$

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 01/10/2026

TWA Hotel, y'all. It's expensive, you're a captive to all of its craziness, and I had the time of my life there for the 16 or so hours I was there. IT WAS BONKERS.

THE EYE OF TWA STARES AT YOU AND FINDS YOU WANTING.

Saarinen's design is AMAZING.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 01/10/2026

Also: I might have to make a whole This American Life episode about my visit to the TWA Hotel. Right now, I cannot do justice to how crackers the experience was. But LOOK AT THIS HALLWAY.

Um. What.

Hallway in TWA Hotel at JFK airport, an absolutely amazing experience that I'm not sure if I can recommend because I think my timing happened to be like lightning striking: once in a lifetime.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 01/10/2026

They gave this horse Face-Boobs, and I'm unclear why.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 01/10/2026

This codpiece is AMAZING on his armor's schlubby final form. Okay, Hank. Compensating for something?

King Henry the Eighth's final armor's...

...codpiece.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 01/10/2026

Not only is it a little urban oasis, but it's run with immigrant communities to grow food that benefits them. Plus they have this glorious pig.

Holmes (I think) the gentleman pig of Spitalfields Urban Farm.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 01/10/2026

I'll figure out which one it was, but I leave you with this photo. It's like the entirety of natural history stuck in ONE ROOM. It's NUTS.

All of life on earth in one small space! Edinburgh RULES.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 26/09/2026

Tower Bridge at sunset! It was a delightful sight.

Tower Bridge in London looking pretty fabulous as the sun goes down, its struts being lit up and the sky turning orange.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 26/09/2026

The view of Barad Dur (Orthanc? Maybe it's a crossover tower called "Barthanc") is pretty great from our flat.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 26/09/2026

"In a pattern seen across Gen Z uprisings in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bulgaria, Madagascar's youth forced regime change, but were excluded from shaping the political transition that followed."

Luis Tato
Spain, Agence France-Presse
Madagascar's Gen Z
Protests
In September 2025, students began protesting across Madagascar over failing public services, corruption, and economic hardship. When President Andry Rajoelina dissolved his government but refused to resign, demonstrations intensified.
On 11 October, the CAPSAT military unit defected to join the protesters, the same force that had installed Rajoelina in a 2009 coup. Days later, the military seized power, promising elections within two years. In a pattern seen across Gen Z uprisings in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bulgaria, Madagascar's youth forced regime change, but were excluded from shaping the political transition that followed.
From left to right, top to bottom:
1. A student holds the flag adopted by Gen Z protesters globally. The symbol comes from the Japanese manga One Piece, in which pirates stand up to corrupt rulers. 9 October 2025
2. Members of the CAPSAT military unit ride a pickup truck as protesters celebrate their arrival, following clashes between demonstrators and security forces. 11 October 2025
3. Protesters cheer and wave flags outside City Hall as members of the CAPSAT military unit ride on an armored vehicle. 11 October 2025
4. Members of the Malagasy Gendarmerie drag a severely beaten protester during clashes that killed at least 22 people and injured more than 100 others. 9 October 2025
All photos taken in Antananarivo, Madagascar
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 26/09/2026

The takeaway from the winner and this finalist is that the United States and Israel are the worst perpetrators of cruelty in 2025, in a crowded field of bad actors. Bravo. Great work, everyone.

Saber Nuraldin
Palestine, EPA Images
Aid Emergency in Gaza
Palestinians climb onto an aid truck as it enters the Gaza Strip via the Zikim Crossing in an attempt to get flour, during what the Israeli military called a "tactical suspension" in operations to allow humanitarian aid through. 27 July 2025
In 2025, famine took hold amid what a UN Commission has concluded is a genocide in Gaza, which Israel disputes. Israeli authorities imposed a complete aid blockade in March, a tactic described by humanitarian organizations as the weaponization of starvation. The UN reports that between 27 May and 31 July at least 1,373 Palestinians seeking food were killed at or near aid distribution sites. Despite a ceasefire agreement in October, more than 75% of the population still face hunger and malnutrition. The photographer was born in Gaza and has documented life there since 1997.
AGROTOXICS
ENFER MAN GRAVE A NUESTROS G
Finalist for the World Press Photo of the Year
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 26/09/2026

Asked to pick a photo or a section that stood out: "All of it." Which is true. But once we had a little time to sit and think, #Gaza during Ramadam was the stand out. "Even when everything around me told me to stop, I couldn't - silence would mean surrender."

Saher Alghorra
Palestine,
for The New York Times
Witnessing Gaza
In 2025, civilians in Gaza endured starvation, famine, and relentless bombardment as the death toll surpassed 75,000 and Israeli authorities severely restricted the flow of humanitarian aid. A ceasefire agreement in October has yet to bring meaningful relief. Palestinian journalists - living through the reality they document - are the world's few witnesses to what a UN Commission has concluded is a genocide. Israel disputes this. The photographer worked under immense danger, driven by a refusal to let the world turn away. "Even when everything around me told me to stop, I couldn't
- silence would mean surrender."
1. Tamer Hassan al-Shafei and his family break their Ramadan fast in the remains of their home. Food shortages meant only basics were served instead of the usual spread.
Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip, 4 March 2025
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 26/09/2026

Portland made the cut too. My kid noted Minneapolis would have been better, but amazingly, that hadn't happened yet (January, 2026). I'd guess it will dominate the N. American section next year. The disaster of Move Fast and Break Things is awful.

From the description at the World Press Photo Awards exhibition.

Jan Sonnenmair
United States
Portland Protests ICE

Officers from the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies clash with demonstrators outside an ICE processing center. The intense summer protests centered on opposing the administration's escalating mass-deportation agenda.
Portland, Oregon, United States,
24 June 2025

In 2025, the Trump administration shifted its immigration enforcement from the border to the US interior, aiming for 3,000 arrests per day and abandoning protections for schools, hospitals, courthouses, and places of worship. In response, Portland, a
"sanctuary city" that prohibits its own state and local law forces to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, became a flashpoint for resistance. During the nationwide

"No Kings" demonstrations in June, localized protests escalated into nightly clashes outside the city's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 26/09/2026

The amount of grief visited upon women in these stories is breathtaking. It's often passive but extreme violence, like these Afghan women who have lost access to midwives and medical care, because @altusaid.altgov.info was cut. Alt Text from the exhibit in second frame.

Four panels of photos of Afghan women now facing childbirth alone because US AID was cut by the Trump administration.

Elise Blanchard
France, for Time
"I'm Afraid": Afghan
Women Face US Aid Cuts

In Afghanistan's remote Daikundi province, US aid cuts have left pregnant women without access to care, forcing many to give birth at home in a country with one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates. The cuts have led to the suspension or closure of 422 health facilities nationwide, including small community clinics staffed by a single midwife, many of whom are now working without salary or supplies.
This crisis compounds an already critical situation under Taliban rule;
girls are banned from education beyond primary school, preventing a new generation from training as health workers.

From left to right, top to bottom:

1. Gulshaman visits Fatemah, whose daughter Yasmin was born the previous day. Waras, Shahristan district, 27 July 2025

2. Women wait to see Gulshaman, the only midwife at the Waras Family Health House, working without a salary since US aid cuts ended the clinic's funding. Shahristan district,
20 July 2025

3. Atifa assists in what she says will be her last delivery, having run out of medication and the means to continue, at the Malmastok Family Health House. Shahristan district,
22 July 2025

4. Zahira walks back from visiting a pregnant woman who is worried she might have to give birth without a midwife. Dahan-e-Tokhomak, Miramor district, 24 July 2025
All photos taken in Daikundi province,
Afghanistan
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 26/09/2026

This is the winner - from a series of photos in immigration court in NYC. Journalist statement in next post.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 25/09/2026

I'm running low on pulp novels in the ol' Shaggin' Wagon and I saw this little sucker on Ebay.

High-Voltage sex and spying by the author of "The Man from O.r.g.y."

"I WAS A TEENY-BOPPER FOR THE CIA"

Pulp novel cover of absolute stunning perfection: Partying red-head with her mini skirt revealing her underoos, as you do when you are a teeny-bopper for the CIA.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 19/09/2026

In a disturbing dystopia, this is even more grotesque because Converse are such a symbol for so many - myself included - of counterculture resistance. Fuck them forever.

Converse pulls ad over KKK imagery, sitting alongside "Stephen Miller pushes migrant child removals" in the trending Bsky panel.

Fuck all of this.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 19/09/2026

Saw this very-nice-not-very-ominous rabbit at Spitalfields City Farm smack in the middle of densest London and it's just a lovely oasis.

Either Spring or Winter the Rabbit. Not ominous at all, unlike myself.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 19/09/2026

So everything is actually deeply not-fine, do I have that right.

Trending

1. Ratcliffe, asshole, says he lost confidence in UK with his millions of bazillions of monies offshore somewhere
2. Dictators gonna dictate and ban the press
3. Iran war paying dividends for legitimately no one but Cheetolini
4. ????
5. AI "actor" Tilly Norwood shorts out because IT'S NOT A FUCKING ACTOR, AND THIS IS ALL TERRIBLE. WHAT THE FUCK.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 19/09/2026

I call this one “How we spent our vacation in London.”

First aid kit, thermometer, multiple aches and pains remedies, and vitamin C.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 12/09/2026

The drop-down menus are at least era appropriate. And each thumbnail is... a thumbnail. (no alt text because I just can't even. It's so bad.)

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 12/09/2026

This photo is incredibly heavy. But we watched this, near and far, everywhere, live on television. It was harrowing then, it's harrowing now.

September 11 Retrospective

NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 11: (PUERTO RICO OUT) (SEPTEMBER 11 RETROSPECTIVE) People hang from the windows of the North Tower of the World Trade Center after a hijacked airliner hit the building September 11, 2001 in New York City. (Photo by Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images)

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 12/09/2026

It was real, and I - Portlander - was profoundly, permanently affected by that event in ways I'm still paying for. I can't imagine the lives of people far closer to the event.

FBI Releases 9/11 photos At The Pentagon

ARLINGTON, VA - UNDATED: In this handout provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), first responders pour water on the fire on scene following an attack at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 in Arlington, Virginia in this undated image. American Airlines Flight 77 was hijacked by al Qaeda terrorists who flew it in to the building killing 184 people. (Photo by Federal Bureau of Investigation via Getty Images)

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 12/09/2026

I'm not sharing these to make us miserable. I'm sharing them because they're real, and often memorials become jingoistic nightmares. These were real people dying and living through absolutely appalling terror. It does no one any good to memory hole 9/11 as a real event.

Rescue Workers In The World Trade Center Plaza

A view of rescue workers as they clear debris in the World Trade Center plaza (formally the Austin J Tobin Plaza) at Ground Zero, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, New York, New York, September 11, 2001. (Photo by Peter Turnley/Getty Images)

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 12/09/2026

Absolute madness. It looked like Pompeii.

World Trade Center 1 At Ground Zero

The shell of World Trade Center 1 at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks on The World Trade Center, New York City, USA, 29th September 2001. (Photograph by Steve Pyke/Getty Images)

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 12/09/2026

I was listening to analysis of the recently released toxicity reports today. Almost ten thousand people have since died of illnesses caused by 9/11, and many are just realizing now that their diseases are from just being in Lower Manhattan too soon.

Rescuers search the rubble of the World Trade Center in 2001

New York, N.Y.: Rescuers searching for survivors at ground zero in Manhattan on Sept 13, 2001. (Photo by Viorel Florescu/Newsday RM via Getty Images)

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 12/09/2026

Two enormous buildings rendered to this. (so many buildings, but yeah)

Rescue Workers On Church Street Near World Trade Center Plaza

Nighttime view, looking south on Church Street, of rescue workers, including police officers, at Ground Zero, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, New York, New York, September 11, 2001. (Photo by Aaron Lee Fineman/Getty Images)

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 12/09/2026

This photo captures some of the alienation of paying witness to that horrible day: Each one of us alone, watching the unfathomable unfold.

Smoke From The World Trade Center On September 11

View of smoke from the collapse of the World Trade Center's South Tower, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, as seen from Exchange Place, Jersey City, New Jersey, September 11, 2001. (Photo by Mike Powell/Getty Images)

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 12/09/2026

It was shocking in so many ways. Walls and walls filled with missing persons signs.

People At A Wall Of Missing Persons Posters

View of passersby as they look at a wall of posters showing of people missing as a result of the September 11 terrorist attacks, New York, New York, September 20, 2001. (Photo by Peter Turnley/Getty Images)

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 12/09/2026

My husband and I both studied the Middle East region, especially its conflicts, so we were horrified on two fronts: what happened here, and what was going to happen there. We're still paying all these prices.

New York Bush Headline After 9/11

A week after the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, the headline on the front page of the USA Today newspaper runs a quote from President George W Bush - 'The Hour is Coming' - a message of imminent reprisals against al Qaeda terrorists and the followers in Afghanistan of the Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, on 21st September 2001, New York, USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images)

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 08/09/2026

The rage. Endless rage. apple.news/ANwU3avbVSmm...

For a long time, the science on Alzheimer’s disease felt stuck. Now it’s moving. There’s only one thing that could stop it, according to experts: the Trump administration’s anti-science agenda.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 08/09/2026

💡Insider tip: Ensure you have a fully charged 📱phone. Make sure your 📜 is ⚖️legal ⚖️ and up to 📆 before you stay here.

Helluva review and a good Insider Tip:

This hotel is a safety violation. The door lock was broken and it was impossible to open from the inside. event of an emergency fire, I would've been unable to get out of the room and have burned alive.
To ensure the hazards faced by guests the in room phone was disconnected from the wall, with bare wires hanging loose. You would have been unable to call for help — while you waited on hold on your cellphone.
Insider tip: Ensure you have a fully charged phone. Make sure your will is legal and up to date before you stay here.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 06/09/2026

September 10, 2018. To see Slenderman kowtowing to Putin is disgusting.

And the oligarchs don't give a shit about countries. They give a shit about themselves and resources. The new Axis Powers is growing right in front of us, and it's in the NORTH.

Archived from September 10, 2018, 10:04 pm.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 06/09/2026

There are a lot of male mannequin asses being slapped with paint, so there's a lot of extremely obvious... um. This is the worst anthropological journey I've ever self-inflicted upon myself.

And ass with blue paint on it. Screen grab from DudeWipes. I don't know, guys.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 06/09/2026

I highly recommend you do not follow me down this benighted rabbit hole. [See what I did there.]

Dude Wipes has lots of products, including, I'm sorry to say: Poopsicle.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 04/09/2026

HAHAHAHAHA I wrote them an email because I am stuck in a Kafkaesque circle-jerk, and they form-lettered me. So, I can't talk to anyone on the phone, and I can't get the records because I don't have the records. HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHH💀

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 04/09/2026

One of those coastal elite libtards, I see.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 04/09/2026

My map looked like I was mostly Californian until I hit "roly poly." Nailed it. I am in fact from Colorado.

Dialect map Q: What do you call the little gray creature (that looks like an insect but is actually a crustacean) that rolls up into a ball when you touch it?

Answer: Roly Poly

You talk most like someone from Colorado — about 49% of your answers match a typical resident.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 04/09/2026

This is some amazing fancy dancing. www.cleveland.com/politics/202...

"I have not talked to Leader McConnell. I've talked to his staff, many of whom are from my district originally. And they have all said it's their goal for Senator McConnell to be here when the Senate comes in," Comer told reporters.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 29/08/2026

I was hopeful that the FBI hiring rule was allowing former prostitutes to serve in the FBI. Alas, it seems that the Patriarchy is allowed to thrive no matter what and the workers are left out of yet another hiring stream.

1. Boring movie summary game
2. FBI eases prostitution hiring rule
etc.

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