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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Went to a birthday party for one of my kids' classmates. There were a dozen white dads all in Carrhartts, hoodies, trucker caps and the same beard, and there was me, regretting my shirt with buttons and pants with stripes. An gathering of Amish or Orthodox Jewish men would have had more variety.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This year I'm all about celebrating Columbus Day, in honor of an incompetent, delusional, racist, narcissistic pedophile who thought everything should be named after him but wound up going to prison. #ColumbusDay

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You try and you try But you can't read the label On the jar you're in. #haiku #betrayedephemera

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I kinda miss "conspiracy theories." Now that our ruler openly tells his minions to "cheat like hell" and his whole cabinet and the billionaire oligarchs openly commit felonies daily, there's just no sense of mystery or subtlety in paying attention to power and politics anymore.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

on.soundcloud.com/8tDcvq2FXOfy... A little seasonal something Brett and I threw together years ago when I was Manko Eponymous. His music, my lyrics and vocals.

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Gotha Nova (Black Noel)

A fusion of goth rock and some subtle bossa nova influence -- "Gotha Nova". Manko Eponymous did the vocals on this track.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

David Graeber on a free society.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

David Graeber points out that the "People can't be left to their own devices because they misbehave sometimes" argument behind all policing and surveillance becomes ludicrous when you hear the "solution" is to give SOME people a license to kill, assault, snoop, kidnap and steal with impunity.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Out of surgery, he gets to nap...I get a folding chair and the song of an annoying chirping biomonitor.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They just wheeled my baby boy back for his first surgery and anaesthesia. He's fine and giggling, but where's MY squirt of liquid Ativan???

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Which leaves liberals whinging, "Sure it's not perfect, but it's better than monarchy, the extreme alternative in one direction! So it's our only alternative!" Except, of course, for the alternative in the opposite direction: the way humans organised themselves for nearly all of our history.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It could be argued that the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Constitution address these basic problems...but the history of the USA, especially recently, demonstrates that the ostensible "rule of law" really just means rule by lawyers and judges. And if they don't feel like playing by the rules...

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Who would have come up with the idea of majority rule as the definition of fairness? I don't know, but I'm pretty sure who didn't: minorities.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In this way we can view democracy and majority rule not as a methodology for peace, but as war deferred, possibly at a steep interest rate.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Graeber points out that this makes perfect sense (only) in pirate crews or other scenarios where citizens are armed and dangerous; voting is really just counting your potential enemies in the violence that may ensue from the failure to achieve consensus.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Democracy is the belief that for one person to rule over nine is tyranny, but for three to rule over seven is paradise, if five don't vote, perhaps because they were persuaded, prevented or just disenfranchised.

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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 · 01/10/2026

... ready to freeze and then freeze-dry. Unfortunately I seem to have picked about 1000 Tuesday. And we don't have room in our freezer for more right now.

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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 · 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.

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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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