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Chris Lemoine

Beautiful #neon seen in West #Seattle today, where a waterfront neighborhood is called "Alki", which apparently means "by and by" in the First People's language from 1861, when settlers landed here and felt the town they were starting would be like New York City "by and by." According to #history or #tradition, that landing happened on a bitter, soaking November day and the women in the group were weeping and imploring their men to change course.

A square neon panel with a blue, rounded edge illustrates blue waves, white clouds, and the rising or sinking face of the sun. Underneath, in white-outlined and orange letters, you read "by and by."
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it's kat! 🇵🇸✊

#art #history: imagine being such a gifted author that one of  your most radical & inventive novels was mainly a product of automatic writing? best known, perhaps, for providing the screenplay  that would become alain resnais' 'hiroshima mon amour' - which is not a  bad place to start if you've not yet become acquainted with marguerite duras (born #otd in 1914) - she largely escaped acclaim  outside of france. this is regrettable. (threadish)
#margueriteDuras #literature #illustration #france

digital pencil & ink sketch of french author, marguerite duras, in her younger days. she looks towards the ground to her left, a slight smile on her lips. hair is beautifully swept back & piled atop her head. colours are pale turquoise, pale rose, black, off-white & crimson.
digital black & (off) white pencil & ink sketch of french author, marguerite duras, in her younger days. she looks towards the ground to her left, a slight smile on her lips. hair is beautifully swept back & piled atop her head.
digital pencil & ink sketch of french author, marguerite duras, in her younger days. she looks towards the ground to her left, a slight smile on her lips. hair is beautifully swept back & piled atop her head. there's a block of mid-turquoise behind her & it's decorated with yellow & coral triangles.
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jan
“…life is open-ended and subject to change. The future is not something that is “out there,” something we can reach out and touch like an apple on a table. It is a self-emerging dance with an uncountable number of variables. And yet, these variables have a momentum and a trajectory. There is so much momentum behind the forces of history and our deeply entrenched cultural patterns that perhaps what I was seeing was not the future but a probable future. Perhaps I was tuning into the open-ended flow of historical currents, and yet currents that at this point in time have a high degree of inevitability.”
—Christopher Bache, Are deep psychedelic experiences trustable? An exchange between Ken Ring and Chris Bache
#history #culture #future
#future
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Steam Powered Frisbee 🥏

In the US, we are taught the Cuban Missile Crisis was probably the closest humanity came to nuclear war: the infamous "Thirteen Days." Against the advice of his more aggressive military advisors, JFK ordered a naval blockade of Cuba and (quietly) agreed to withdraw American warheads from Turkey. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev added the condition that we never invade Castro's Cuba. Deal done. 🤝

That story is broadly accurate, but would the Soviets have gone to war for Cuba? Was there a panic on the streets of Moscow? Did they even consider it a "crisis"?

Khrushchev's son gave a very interesting interview in 2012 on these questions:
news.usni.org/2012/10/24/sovie

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Map showing the range of Soviet missiles that were in Cuba in 1962. Most of the mainland United States was within their range
#history#ushistory#coldwar
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Storka Nisch

REMEMBER 2020, 1968, 1878, 1791 — WE CAN WIN

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#Insurrection #Rebellion #Uprising #History #Inspiration

@burnitdown @AstroMancer5G @prolrage @Lorax @Geoffberner

REMEMBER 2020, 1968, 1878, 1791 — WE CAN WIN Thousands of years of kings, queens, emperors, presidents, & ministers demanding obedience. 500 years of crackers enslaving & colonizing this planet. 250 years of anglo/yankee domination. Trump this, Musk that. Democrats, Republicans, Zionists, Confederates, Fascists, Conservatives, Liberals, Progressives. So many flavors of the same expired bullshit. 2020: Cops executed George Floyd. A police station was burnt down. For a brief moment, the world opened up. 1968: White power executed MLK. Black communities erupted into rebellion. For a brief moment, the world opened up. 1878: Indigenous peoples in the South Pacific rose up in arms against european colonizers attempting to exterminate their communities & hijack their homelands. For a moment, the world opened up. 1791: Enslaved Africans & their descendants began an uprising in the Caribbean, destroying property, profit, & slavery. For a long moment, the world opened up. Whether a handful of friends or a massive crowd, we know that the footsoldiers of every regime can be defeated. The secret is to begin. « In Memory Of Our Fallen; Let us turn their cities into funeral pyres. In Memory Of Our Fighters; Let us honor your names with fire and gunpowder. Peace By Piece (A) » NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE! ¡QUEREMOS UN MUNDO DONDE QUEPAN MUCHOS MUNDOS!
Look for those pushing and help them push harder. Move together. Be water. They can control a march of 10,000 — they can’t control 10 marches of 1000. De-arrest. Don’t let people get grabbed. If they do, don’t let their cars or busses leave. They only care about money, so causing monetary losses is your only vote. On the inside, the demonstration is an organism of care and support. On the outside, it is ferocious and uncontrollable. Without their toys they are powerless. No one is coming to save us. Everything is at stake. www.notrace.how
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Unmarked graves a hidden challenge in cemeteries running out of space
By Gillian Aeria

The discovery of 67 possible unmarked graves at a western Victorian cemetery heightens calls for more funding to map graveyards to avoid accidentally digging into occupied plots.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-05/unm

ABC News · Push for more funding to find unmarked graves in cemeteriesBy Gillian Aeria
#DeathandDying#LocalGovernment#History
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