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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The Right Wing is good at making people feel good about all their worst impulses; the Left Wing is good at making people feel bad about all their best." - Starhawk

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey, bird lovers - if you've been worried about bald eagles, fear less; we see 'em all the time around here, and golden eagles too now and then. The other day we even saw a bald eagle getting mobbed by our holler's crows, and a second bald eagle came to join the fracas.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Her logic and conclusions may have been highly questionable and debatable, but she herself was neither.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Then you wake to see You are not your privilege Only your choices. #haiku #beteayedephemera

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Made it home again To nights of open windows Crickets and thunder #haiku #betrayedephemera

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you dated a woman and it didn't go great, you're not yet qualified to say, "I tried dating women. It's not for me." If you tried therapy with one therapist from one style of therapy and it didn't help, you're not yet qualified to say, "I tried therapy. It's not for me."

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The things I'm good at And the things I'm good for Seldom overlap #haiku #betrayedephemera

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's one of those mornings in #Appalachia when you grab your sunglasses 'cuz the sky's cloudless...then you head out and everything down in town is socked in fogbound 'cuz around here we wake up with our heads not just literally in the clouds but quite often up above them.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

How much of what I think of as my identity is just these stories and songs and crap I carry around in my skull waiting for the day when someone outside my skull might actually give a fuck about them? What would it be like to just let them go?

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Seek, recognise and Seize your opportunities To do the next thing. #haiku #betrayedephemera

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Coming back to bed Her arm is still reaching out In my direction #haiku #betrayedephemera

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I used to kinda aspire to being recognised as someone who wasn't always staring at his phone...now I understand that people who are always staring at their phones don't notice who isn't staring at a phone.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Okay, I'm king now: All black t-shirts must come with Perforated sleeves. #haiku #betrayedephemera

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not dawn yet, but I'm Already tired of today Here we fucking go #haiku #betrayedephemera

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yes, the Mad King is a disaster. But for this morning I choose to live in the world where young Nell made a beautiful album of Nick Cave covers with her friends the Flaming Lips and old Elizabeth Cotten made guitar history with her friends the Seegers. THESE MACHINES KILL FASCISM.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yes, America's Fucked. But it's nothing we can't Fix in the remix. #haiku #betrayedephemera

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.

epi.org

U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance

Key takeaways Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Pretending to fall Off the wagon is falling Off a different one #haiku #betrayedephemera

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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Not Koru. The Good Ship Payola. Sailing the Sea of Enshittification in which sellers cling to debris.

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Mark Foden @markfoden.com · 05/09/2026

Amazon, awful @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/c...

Amazon's payola isn't about radio play – it's about search. When you search Amazon, the top results do not represent Amazon's best guess about what product will best match your query: rather, Amazon auctions off those top results to its platform sellers. Amazon's search results reflect who paid the biggest bribe, not who has the best product.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026

Rome wasn't overthrown in a day. Oligarchies are stubborn, and by the time they've established and entrenched themselves, they have resources, power blocs and even mercenaries they can deploy to repel would-be dethroners.

A woodcut engraving of a courtroom scene in which the divorcee has thrown herself into the arms of one of the lawyers and they are about to kiss. The image has been altered: the heads of the judge, the court clerk and both lawyers have been replaced by green Android 'droid' mascots in judicial powdered wigs. The judge's bench sports a pixelated, 1998-era 'I'm feeling lucky' Google button.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wanna know how robber baron billionaires, corporate monopolies, and fascists stole our nation? Go watch the parade that ain't happening in your town this long weekend the unions bought for you. Once they broke our unions, they knew they could do anything to us.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We break the silence And break the spell that conceals Possibilities. #haiku #betrayedephemera

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

radioparadise.com/episode/step... Holy crap y'all I just spent an hour absolutely glued to E&H radio listening to this deep dive into mutual aid networks and time banks and WOW! Queue it up for your next podcast or long drive, and prepare to be inspired and excited! So weird to enjoy radio again!

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Mutual Aid with Stephanie Rearick

Stephanie Rearick shares her journey and insights into building community-driven economic models. Growing up in the 70s, she witnessed the changing corporate culture, which influenced her…

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The practice of anarchist calisthenics raises another interesting question...what other infrequent yet important scenarios, challenges and opportunities do you want to be really ready for, and how should you be preparing yourself for them?

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Systemic problems Will not respond to any Solitary acts. #haiku #betrayedephemera

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As a side effect, my new reigning Gibson quote is: "That's a Babylon ting." Which I believe accompanied a shotgun blast.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Still on a Cory Doctorow nonfiction audiobook binge, even though it's as emotionally traumatic as it is intellectually satisfying. Synopsis: we are all so very royally fucked by monopoly capitalism and technofeudalism... and if you already knew that, well, it's probably much worse than you knew.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Everywhere I've been today, Dolly was being mourned, although weirdly enough some locals didn't understand that people outside rural Appalachia love her too. When the best person in the USA dies... ...all the rest of us move up a notch. Time to level up.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Damn. There's folks dyin' who ain't never died before. And not the right ones.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The day Lennon died, my friend Laura Shannon (now healing the broken world through dance and song) saw my long face in the hallway at school and said, "Just imagine...how many people were born today!"

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Wife calls from work, sobbing, to give me the news. There shall be lamentation throughout the holler, throughout all the hollers, from Appalachia to Lesotho. And the whole world really was her holler. And now the rest of us need to be...better.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

From: A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse davidgraeber.org/articles/a-p...

"Neoliberalism has always been wracked by a central paradox.
It declares that economic imperatives are to take priority over all others. Politics itself is just a matter of creating the conditions for growing the economy by allowing the magic of the marketplace to do its work.

All other hopes and dreams—of equality, of security—are to be sacrificed for the primary goal of economic productivity. But global economic performance over the last few decades has been decidedly mediocre.

With one or two spectacular exceptions (notably China, which significantly ignored most neoliberal prescriptions), growth rates have been far below what they were in the days of the old-fashioned, state-directed, welfare-state-oriented capitalism of the 50s, 60s & even 70s."

— David Graeber

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Hurray, my stupid cheap Harley Benton banjo came today! I'm trying to relearn all I used to know about those goofy tunings Ry Cooder taught Keith Richards, so "Honky Tonk Women" was one of the first songs I figured out on banjo, followed of course by "Rainbow Connection." +50 hillbilly points!

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

One unexpected side effect of devouring @doctorow.pluralistic.net 's superb "Enshittification" is an appreciation for the benefits of living in backward rural Appalachia, where many of the best and worst aspects of 21st century life have not yet taken root.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One fun aspect of life in post Walmartpocalypse Trumpistan is treating every local business as a pop-up or a traveling carnival. Didja try that new diner? Oops, too late, they're gone again. Let's see who's next in that now empty space...in a few years...or maybe never...

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The difference between owning someone else's home and owning someone else is only a matter of degree.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The reason we don't really incarcerate the rich is that the real continuum of society isn't "rich---poor," it's more like "prison/enslavement---noncarceral poverty---non-carceral nonpoverty under constant threat of poverty and enslavement/prison." The rich live outside this continuum.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Finished @Cory Doctorow's newest book, "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI." Read this! Not just full of timely insights; also rich with his usual combo of deep knowledge and skill explaining complex stuff. I felt smarter after every chapter, and wanted to share many. #ReverseCentaur

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