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Patrick Duffy
Bay Area artist, photographer, geographer-w/o-portfolio ~ Berkeley boy, town & gown, now gone upriver to Nisenan territory by the banks of the
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"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future, but sometimes to prevent it."
-Frank Herbert
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Last rays of the wintery sun with @druid, looking towards Goldcliff and looking for hag stones on the flint beach at Lyme Regis.
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Rice University has begun the process of removing the statue of slave-owning university founder William Marsh Rice to another part of campus. The move is part of a planned redesign of the Academic Quadrangle.
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"In case of climate change, break capitalism"
Sticker seen in Sydney
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Nikola Tesla’s historic Wardenclyffe lab site at risk after devastating fire
The crowdfunded Tesla Science Center has launched a new fundraiser to repair the damage.
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Bottom of Indian Path, Ohlone Territory...
#morningwalk #Berkeley #ohloneterritory
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Anyway, Ellis Ace is open til the end of the year, selling off everything that's left from 77 years of operation, down to the shelving, at steep discounts. Stop by and wish Paul and Barbara a happy retirement!
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The store opened in 1946. Paul and Barbara Eames took it over from their father in 1985.
Since the 70s, it's been an old-timey counter-service operation: you tell them what you need, they run in between the towering shelves of inventory and fetch it for you. (Or, you vaguely describe what problem you need to solve, and they tell you how to solve it, because they know everything).
@bedwardstiek My favorite Oakland hardware store! That's a sad reminder of changing times and the old Temescal pace of life
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It's amazing to think of everything the store's seen change. It opened in a neighborhood that was predominantly Italian-American, fronting a street car line to downtown Oakland.
In a couple short decades white families had moved en masse to new suburbs, North Oakland had become a hotbed of radical black organizing (Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale was a customer) and Grove Street (now MLK) was being torn up for elevated BART track that drove out most of the other local businesses. https://oaklandlibrary.org/content/bart-and-black-communities/
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"The Story Wheel by Joy Harjo
I leave you to your ceremony of grieving Which is also of celebration Given when an honored humbled one Leaves behind a trail of happiness In the dark of human tribulation. None of us is above the other In this story of forever. Though we follow that red road home, one behind another. There is a light breaking through the storm And it is buffalo hunting weather. There you can see your mother. She is busy as she was ever— She holds up a new jingle dress, for her youngest beloved daughter. And for her special son, a set of finely beaded gear. All for that welcome home dance, The most favorite of all— when everyone finds their way back together to dance, eat and celebrate. And tell story after story of how they fought and played in the story wheel and how no one was ever really lost at all."
— Joy Harjo: An American Sunrise, p. 28
#JoyHarjo #IndigenousPoetry #PoetLaureate #Poetry #TodaysPoem
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@ai6yr Mantis Love.
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Alright, I'm kinda high right now, but how cool is it, that we just drink 4.5 billion year old water every day, like it ain't a damn thing? Well, it is a damn thing.
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(If you are in the #US or have a VPN)
Award-winning #documentary
20 Days in Mariupol (full documentary)
(94 Minute) YouTube📽️ 🔗
https://youtu.be/gvAyykRvPBo?si=gYIEqQhxn-jlMab4
Ukrainian journalist Mstyslav Chernov and his colleagues risk their lives to document russia's siege of #Mariupol
The Guardian calls it "a brave, visceral, merciless masterpiece.” The New York Times says, “Essential. A relentless and truly important documentary”
#Ukraine 🇺🇦
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To quote the great Eugene Debs:
"Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
I really fucking believe that.
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