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YouTube video by Luke Humphris Myths. Mausoleums. Media.

Myths. Mausoleums. Media.

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A man with glasses turned to the camera with a half smile in a red t shirt.

Got the haircut 💇‍♂️

Are you mentoring? Are you creating a community? Are you nourishing the fields you’ve eaten from?

A single card #tarotreading using Michelle Sellars’ #dharmatarot deck. This is a favorite of mine for Buddhist-centered readings or focusing on larger concepts for the week ahead. #buddhism #buddhist ... TikTok video by Red Lotus Erik

Posted a weekly single-card tarot reading from Michelle Sellars’ The Dharma Tarot Deck 🙏 www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hWuRfm/

Read news, op-eds, and analysis, not AI summaries. Create your own art (even if it's messy) or hire an artist to do it. Do your own homework. Talk to people, not chatbots. Keep your thinking and skills sharp and cherish our messy humanity. That's the new punk rock.

Tashi Deleg from Kurukulla for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s birthday

Photo of an abra giving a bulbasaur a bath on a grassy field

abra gives bulbasaur a bath

F in the chat, I just got laid off again.

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is now here calling for the release of Lander (his fellow mayoral candidate)

🎶 And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free 🎶

We’re reporting from outside of 26 Federal Plaza where comptroller Brad Lander was taken into custody by masked federal agents. His wife, who was with him, has spoken about the arrest the immigrant Lander was accompanying when federal agents moved in.

Man smiling at camera with the background of a mountain vista

Mountain with echo lake in front of it

Climbed a mountain the other day.

Selfie of man smiling in blue framed rectangular glasses

Selfie of man smiling in ombré black and clear rectangular glasses

I’m bespectacled now 🤓

Skills for Revolutionary Survival: 1. Trauma Medical Gear by Eepa We have seen over the past few months of the Black-led uprising against police violence that we will all be met with extreme violence at the hands of police, national guard, military contra…

Here are the skills and guides you need for the moment. Feel free to share other resources in the comments. Give 'em hell and stay safe! #Resist #Protest #Antifascism

A dome-shaped helmet constructed from rows of boar tusks, arranged in overlapping curved segments across three horizontal tiers. Bands separate each layer. Their surfaces show natural aging, with visible cracks. The helmet is dramatically lit against a dark background.

A helmet made of the tusks of wild boars. From Mycenae, 16th century BC.
Hunting wild boars was dangerous, but popular with the Mycenaean elite. The helmet served as trophy and testified to bravery.

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology

On the anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first of a series of increasingly stringent exclusion laws that not only banned the Chinese but also became a blueprint for racially-charged US immigration policy that persists to this day - sharing a poem from Angel Island.

Takashi Ito (1894-1982)
Spring snow at Kamikochi
#japanese #woodblock

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

Selfie of man smiling in blue framed rectangular glasses

Selfie of man smiling in ombré black and clear rectangular glasses

I’m bespectacled now 🤓

The conclave is now longer than Conclave

The Amida triad of statues of Amitabha Buddha, Samantabhdra to our left on an elephant, and manjusti to the right on a lion. There are four bowls of fruit in front of them and a central incense burner for offerings. On a yellow table in the foreground there are two statues of the baby Buddha holding his finger to the sky in dishes of sweet tea

And altar with Chinese writing above, a statue of Ksitigharba bodhisattva seated, surrounded by offerings, with a painting of the Buddha on the wall behind

A statue of Guanyin seated with fruit and incense in front, and a painting of the Buddha framed behind

Visited Dharma Drum Mountain to celebrate the birth of Shakyamuni Buddha 🙏🙏🙏

Back to the temple Or, on a missing rice paddle

I started a substack by the way :) 🙏☸️ open.substack.com/pub/redlotus...

Your semi-calm moment for today...

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! There are more than 1,600 stores participating (and @bookshop.org too, of course) and it’s a great day to discover a new favorite author.

YouTube video by Luke Humphris Inter-C-Zones #10 - Central Station

Inter-C-Zones #10 - Central Station

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A green and mauve floral graphic reading MY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 and the cover of YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN by Andrew Joseph White.

The same graphic reading: “You Weren't Meant to Be Human. Adult horror; Sept 9, 2025.” Then, in bullet points that are flies: “An autistic trans man is pregnant and doesn't want to be. Tackles pregnancy & childbirth as body horror/anti-transmasculine violence. Mute protagonist!!. The literary equivalent of scream-sobbing in anger.”

The same graphic reading: “WHY is it my most anticipated? BECAUSE I WROTE IT. And I need to inflict it upon you EXPEDITIOUSLY. Also I feel like a book about a disabled trans man dealing w/ lack of abortion access is kind of relevant right now or whatever.”

y’all should preorder my very very transgender and very very autistic book btw

They need to bring the ancient aliens hair guy in to really sell this to the history channel crowd.

I don't understand how some folks are unable to see that the illegal disappearing of people is a class issue. The wealthy and well-connected get due process. The rest of us don't. This is part of the oligarchy, not a distraction from it.