Chump Change

Mostly reblogs, mostly text, mostly

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MANIPULATIONS

The answer is foretold, but few listen. The gate is narrow, because I didn't measure very well. Tear it down, and start again.

Measure twice, cut once.

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Time To Return

Just where is home? Where were you born, where do you live, where do you feel good? I write about time and place here. The time is now, the

Out on the road, seeing the past and the future in the present.

YOU WON'T WIN

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WIND-UP

off cycle griping about the unreality of reality. why do you think you are seeing what you are seeing when you see it. people are recording

kind of open ended rambling about trolling, unreality, and superficiality. just a matter of time.

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Did Washington Kneel in Prayer at Valley Forge? - Yale University Press

Thomas A. Tweed— Did George Washington kneel in prayer at Valley Forge, as this image suggests? Before and after this 1866 engraving was pri

“ So, to return to our question, did Washington kneel in prayer at Valley Forge? The short answer: probably not, as most historians suggest. But the long answer might be more interesting, and more helpful, for engaging friends or neighbors who disagree. Parson Weems, Washington’s early biographer, concocted that story—as well as the yarn about George and the cherry tree—to establish the moral character and personal piety of the first president and, thereby, advance a particular view of national belonging and church-state relations. There is some truth in the claim, and in the images. Washington did pray, though perhaps not the way Weems described, and he did attend church services, though not on Communion Sunday. Washington was not a conventional Christian, but he also wasn’t a church-hating atheist.“ -Thomas Tweed, Yale University Press

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George Washington Praying For The Return Of His Slaves

If you want to know about the Christian piety of George Washington, just ask an eyewitness who grew up in his house. Unlike Parson Weems, On

“George Washington sent slavecatchers and government officials after her to recapture his “stolen property,” but her neighbors in the free state of New Hampshire helped her elude those kidnappers. Bounties and rewards were offered for her capture and re-enslavement for years afterwards.” -Fred Clark via Patheos

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“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

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Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye Help Unearth Lost Album by The Cramps

Hardcore heroes Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye have helped unearth a never-before-released Alex Chilton-produced album by psychobilly legends

So looking forward to the entirety of the catalog and back catalog and unreleased songs being issued with care by people who know the material and adore the band.

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Stephen Miller’s Impossible America - The American Prospect

The ethnonationalist strategy for white replenishment won’t work.

Miller wants to have a new stock of white, poorly educated, and desperate poor people to stock the prisons of an incarcerable state. Slave labor in other words. The fever dreams of a malevolent personality. A stunted and malicious misanthropic ghoul. In a cesspool of defective and brutal personalities, Miller (and his wife) stand out. Awful.

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OH, I WISH YOU WOULD

Save your soul for later. Or, save your soul for now. Think of the child you once were. What good does it do to own the world, if you lose y

" You’re right, I’m just jealous. Just because I’m not a billionaire. That’s why I resent the existence of billionaires, that burning desire to bring down the successful in our society to my level of impoverishment. To destroy the hard earned gains of the super rich." - John O'Neil-YOU WON'T WIN!

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1928 "Mesanges" bracelet by Rene Lalique. From Frederick Sidney Cook, FB.

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And Then Suddenly, For No Reason

How the West built the Japanese war machine, rewarded it for fifty years, then deleted the receipts and called the result a mystery

Japan didn’t “suddenly” turn fascist in the 1930s. It ran the West’s exact imperial playbook flawlessly for fifty years, got rewarded at every step, and the rules only changed retroactively once a non-white player got good at the game. “Suddenly for no reason” is the cover story. Here’s what it’s covering.

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I Read It Somewhere

Trying not to be too loud. Seeing the world through a windshield. Connecting the past to the present, to make memories, to look around and f

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To An End Of Sorts

I continue my tour through the future past, sort some tools, and feel connected to my ancestral grounds. Part of a series of posts about whe

An Irish poet is a good thing to be.

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Journey To The Future’s Past

Gazing at the faces of the ancestors, some that you knew, and some you did not. But we all form a chain, and will it be broken? So many live

The Ancestors are who they were. Were they who they think we were?

“My interests are wide, and varied, but I hear echoes from the deep past, from people directly related to me, that lived different lives from the one I lived in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.”

YOU WONT WIN

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UNCEDED

Taken From You before you knew it. You didn’t have the chance to object. Nothing ceded, nothing gained. https://johnpauloneil.substack.com/1

“MORE LANES, MORE FREEDOM!”

“MORE LANES, MORE FREEDOM!”

“Where we gonna put all these people? Our people. Get your bulldozer running. We had to dig up the tree to plant it. We had to put a road through the graveyard, because life is for the living, and the road goes on forever. You’re not in traffic, you are traffic. If only those people weren’t in the way. “

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A small Oregon town faces financial peril. Can residents save Lakeview?

In a remote corner of rural southern Oregon, the town of Lakeview is drowning in debt. Its story is an extreme example of the challenges sta

Lakeview, and the politics of debt.