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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This reminds me of the david graeber quote about the seemingly "peaceful" cultures that existed in states of intense spiritual warfare

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Cultivating a very specific aesthetic in my wall art lately (Cc @djinnandtonic.bsky.social )

Reproduction of a 1915 poster encouraging American "dynamiters, machine gunners, and railroaders" to ride with Pancho Villa

1860s style newspaper declaration about Mamdani's victory in New York.

Folk art style posters with invocations for forward movement.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Telo is one of those compact ev truck startups, and their camper shell package is compelling.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I was going to post "RIP R Crumb, you would have loved lady powerlifting instagram" but thankfully he's still alive.

An image by R Crumb depicting himself being lifted by the single leg of a powerful woman, one of the underground artist's notable fixations.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

cyclops lookin like zack sabre jr

image of Zack Sabre Jr from new japan pro wrestling, wearing relatively high cut trunks.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It's the shot up P-38 of basketball charts:

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

We have gotten really into civil war history but this time as total partisans for the Union. (See the work of @djinnandtonic.bsky.social )

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Renaissance scholars used a "book wheel" to move between sources at hand.

Image from 1588’s "The Various and Ingenious Machines of Captain Agostino Ramelli" depicting a ferris wheel style contraption that used epicyclic gearing to keep all its lecterns pointed at the correct angle.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The bear living in the LA crawlspace must have been a wildshaped druid.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

They needed a stealth protestor so I burned my fingerprints off on the hibachi hot plate at Benihana. They WILL NOT find me.

An image from Dracula Flow, the popular meme series of absurd boasts by an old man in a dracula costume.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

My ADHD brain is now spinning up a mid 1600s setting where you're fighting this fuckin guy, like a literal kaiju manifestation of the divine right of kings, with Leonardo Da Vinci-esque giant mechs.

Frontispiece from Hobbes' LEVIATHAN, the 1600s book of political theory arguing for stern governance as an alternative to a state of nature consisting of "the warre of all against all" that leads to life being "nasty, brutish, and short." The titular Leviathan is a giant dude in a crown with a sword, made up of a horde of smaller dudes, looming over the land.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The god that Rilke writes about is one who delights in the universe exploring itself through the expression of one's gender.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Or back to Machiavelli. After the fall of the republic of Florence, our fellow Nic was arrested, tortured, and exiled to the countryside. That's the context where he wrote "The Prince." His famous letter to Vettori is held up for a lot of things, but i adore this passage on reading the ancients:

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I used to glaze over the middle part of the Declaration of Independence, but it's extremely relevant given the pretensions to tyranny we have going right now.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

There is a severe temptation towards, in the words of @jonathansmucker.bsky.social, the story of "the righteous few" where our distaste for injustice perpetrated within society leads us to want to establish a smaller Elect of awakened ones.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Abolitionists were so goddamn righteous that Karl Marx was 100% on their side.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

"Oh, child, it is a terrible omen. Such lights never burn, save for kings’ and heroes’ deaths.”

Painting by frederic edwin church of the Aurora borealis

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Thomas Nast had a lot of questionable output, but he was cooking with this one:

An 1876 illustration from Harpers Magazine regarding Reconstruction. A bayonet inscribed USA is stabbing through a serpent labeled "white league" and "ku klux klan"

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

They hit the Ecto Containment system?

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Jesus Chrysler these guys are gonna force me to read Lippmann and Burckhardt and then redraw some century old paths-not-taken.

Paperback edition of "Force and Freedom" by Jacob Burckhardt

Paperback edition of "US Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic" by Walter Lippmann

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

It's cool, we are communing with the spirits of dead abolitionists.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Plenty of lanes to find depending on your interests. For example, Gays and Theys? Give yourself a Walt Whitman phase. Walt, the grand bearded daddy of American poetic imagination, volunteered in the hospitals as a kind and empathetic presence. See others fully in their pain, and tend to them!

Whitman's "The Wound-Dresser:"
Thus in silence, in dream's projections,
Returning, resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals;

The hurt and the wounded I pacify with soothing hand,
I sit by the restless all the dark night — some are so young;
Some suffer so much — I recall the experience sweet and sad;
(Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have cross'd and rested,
Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.)

Cover of "Drum Taps," Whitman's 1865 volume of poems about the civil war.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Tony Khan is known to come out after pro wrestling shows he has organized, and talk to the crowd about how much he loves TimeCop.

Two wrestlers outside a door labeled "Tony Khan" in the graphic style of the film "Timecop"

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Seems like a shitpost but isn't: i feel like there's a lane worth exploring in terms of Jim Channon's concepts of the First Earth Battalion. A military ethos that is tuned into not just the nation state, but this superorganism we call a planet.

"The president needs a wider range of options to respond to the 1980s. Force as a concept has lost most of its legitimacy."

Slightly fantastical diagram of describing the connections between "earth battalions," "action brigades," "devotional divisions," and "conscience corps."

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

he does cite examples though they're not all in the vein you're pointing towards

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

and that's partly why I'm suggesting that revolt of the caring classes is a better text to think from. "most work isn’t making anything, it’s cleaning and polishing, and watching and tending to, helping and nurturing and fixing and otherwise taking care of things."

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I think I'm in agreement that maintaining and caring for things is real and meaningful labor. Where I'm pointing out the frustration of the duct-taper is more like being set up in a position where it's really pointless and unnecessary.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

If you see this, repost with models of positive masculinity. (Apparently my positive models are all named Bruce.)

Bruce "Utah" Philips (1935-2008) anarchist pacifist and folksinger carrying the stories and songs of hoboes and wobblies of early 20th century American west.

Bruce Springsteen, in a tender moment with his dear friend Clarence Clemmons during an early concert. Springsteen combined energetic live concerts with poetic lyrics celebrating the american working class.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

@bombsfall.bsky.social I got on an Art Young kick last night thanks to your old thread on Henry Dubb and the Poor Fish on the bad site. There are SO many bangers in the archives of Good Morning.

A satirical cartoon from 1919 featuring a caricature of a high society woman, Mrs Best-People. In the first panel, subtitled "one year ago" she is stabbing an image of a pacifist war resister, shouting "Coward! Sissy!" On the ground a newspaper reads "Pacifists are fools; force the only weapon"

In the second panel, subtitled "And Today" she is clutching a handkerchief and crying "isn't it terrible to think of workmen using force?" On the ground a newspaper reads "Nothing to be gained in using force; warning to labor."

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I'm thinking Wyeth right there.

Painting of "Christina's World" by Wyeth

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I'm in the undisclosed location with Saw Gerrera and Two-Tubes, huffin' that good rhydonium

image of Saw and Tubes from the television show Andor

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

New Japan Pro Wrestling runs shows there and it absolutely RULES

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Geodesic domes tho! DO IT FOR BUCKY FULLER

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I think about this guy every time I squeeze into a small car

The Very Tall Man squeezed in to a VW bug. "Do you find something comical about my appearance when I am driving my automobile?"

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The Bay area still has its arty weirdos (despite everything) and they're building props

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The only coordinated outfits I would support would be gundam

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Buckminster Fuller, the geodesic dome guy, also created a map projection that folds into a polyhedron

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I was probably too far up to be seen but this was the sign I brought to collision:

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

approximately one million rounds of ammunition were fired during the Battle of Blair Mountain, a minor civil war that started after a legally elected police chief got gunned down on the steps of a courthouse by some pinkerton-esque goons.

Two union coal miners sitting behind a machine gun at the Battle of Blair Mountain, 1921

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Classic mistake. You've got inside leverage and a height advantage on the rent-a-cop, so what you want to do is the classic swim move. Take a couple hard steps, grab his outside arm, and swing your inside arm over his head. It does require good footwork and leave you open for a second, though.

step by step diagram of the swim move, a pass rush technique for defensive linemen in american football used to evade and get by their opponents.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

In the streets trying to get my senators to do their job. The speakers need a better sound system. They should also watch more wrestling-- cutting a promo is an art.

Street protest in front of Senator Padilla's office in San Francisco

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Incredible cultural exchange going on over on Rednote.

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