Retroactive Beatnik
@retroactivebeatnik.bsky.social
Resisting biopolitical idiocracy through the pursuit of creative arts, personal insights, and political documentation.
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Interventions against hegemony include telling stories that bear witness not only in terms of personal experience but also when it comes to documenting the malfeasance and antihuman infractions of the state and power structures. Please, keep writing, keep videoing, keep talking, keep fighting.
A nice Winter Solstice poem I found online. Author unknown.
December 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A nice Winter Solstice poem I found online. Author unknown.
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We need your help! So far, we’ve raised $16,000 from 164 donors, which tells us that a lot of people understand the importance of this work. We train incarcerated writers and publish their stories. Our goal is to raise $50,000 by Dec. 31. Can you support our work?
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December 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
We need your help! So far, we’ve raised $16,000 from 164 donors, which tells us that a lot of people understand the importance of this work. We train incarcerated writers and publish their stories. Our goal is to raise $50,000 by Dec. 31. Can you support our work?
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To post each Christmas card this year 1st Class post will cost £1.70.
You can:
Stuff lots of Christmas cards in the postbox again this year.
Or stuff the cost of those stamps and cards into a donation to Orangutan Land Trust, and send e-cards instead!
www.dontsendmeacard.com/ecards/chari...
You can:
Stuff lots of Christmas cards in the postbox again this year.
Or stuff the cost of those stamps and cards into a donation to Orangutan Land Trust, and send e-cards instead!
www.dontsendmeacard.com/ecards/chari...
December 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
To post each Christmas card this year 1st Class post will cost £1.70.
You can:
Stuff lots of Christmas cards in the postbox again this year.
Or stuff the cost of those stamps and cards into a donation to Orangutan Land Trust, and send e-cards instead!
www.dontsendmeacard.com/ecards/chari...
You can:
Stuff lots of Christmas cards in the postbox again this year.
Or stuff the cost of those stamps and cards into a donation to Orangutan Land Trust, and send e-cards instead!
www.dontsendmeacard.com/ecards/chari...
This xmas, don’t feed the oligarchs, adopt an orangutan instead! www.orangutan.or.id/adopt #holidaygiftideas #environmentalactivism #loveanimals
Adopt Now
Become a conservation champion by adopting one of the jungle school students and help them on their journey back to the wild!
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November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This xmas, don’t feed the oligarchs, adopt an orangutan instead! www.orangutan.or.id/adopt #holidaygiftideas #environmentalactivism #loveanimals
I extend immense gratitude to LMNL Arts in New Orleans for giving me the opportunity to share my punchy and intense poetry on stage last night. 💛
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I extend immense gratitude to LMNL Arts in New Orleans for giving me the opportunity to share my punchy and intense poetry on stage last night. 💛
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NEW: Last night, a federal judge issued a permanent block on the Trump administration's deployment of National Guard troops to Oregon.
This is a win for the rule of law. No troops on our streets – anywhere.
This is a win for the rule of law. No troops on our streets – anywhere.
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
NEW: Last night, a federal judge issued a permanent block on the Trump administration's deployment of National Guard troops to Oregon.
This is a win for the rule of law. No troops on our streets – anywhere.
This is a win for the rule of law. No troops on our streets – anywhere.
Paranoiac thought of the morning… I am going back to paper. Writers: Print your archives, because eventually search-engine AI is going to lie about everything you did if the oligarchs get their wish to rewrite history.
October 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Paranoiac thought of the morning… I am going back to paper. Writers: Print your archives, because eventually search-engine AI is going to lie about everything you did if the oligarchs get their wish to rewrite history.
Sometimes music is the only way to slog out the day. music.apple.com/us/album/my-...
My Mind by AceMo on Apple Music
Song · 2024 · Duration 5:53
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October 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Sometimes music is the only way to slog out the day. music.apple.com/us/album/my-...
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A Message To Mumia
YouTube video by Mumia Abu-Jamal - Topic
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September 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The world has lost a great mind, a compassionate soul, and a leader of resistance. May Assata Shakur rest in peace, power, and prominence. May her words be remembered, may her story be more visible than ever, and may we all learn from her wisdom.
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
www.whatimreading.net
September 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The world has lost a great mind, a compassionate soul, and a leader of resistance. May Assata Shakur rest in peace, power, and prominence. May her words be remembered, may her story be more visible than ever, and may we all learn from her wisdom.
September 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Sad but true
"Who would have predicted this?"
- Black women did.
- Trans people did.
- The *entire* disability community did.
- The anarchists did.
- Post-Evangelicals did.
"Well why didn't I hear them."
You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.
- Black women did.
- Trans people did.
- The *entire* disability community did.
- The anarchists did.
- Post-Evangelicals did.
"Well why didn't I hear them."
You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.
September 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Sad but true
Interventions against hegemony include telling stories that bear witness not only in terms of personal experience but also when it comes to documenting the malfeasance and antihuman infractions of the state and power structures. Please, keep writing, keep videoing, keep talking, keep fighting.
September 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Interventions against hegemony include telling stories that bear witness not only in terms of personal experience but also when it comes to documenting the malfeasance and antihuman infractions of the state and power structures. Please, keep writing, keep videoing, keep talking, keep fighting.
It’s getting worse again in the dis-united states. IDK that it will ever get better. Some people say it WAS better before, but I’m unconvinced of that, too. #USPOL #AmericanMyth #disunitedstates
September 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
It’s getting worse again in the dis-united states. IDK that it will ever get better. Some people say it WAS better before, but I’m unconvinced of that, too. #USPOL #AmericanMyth #disunitedstates
In case you missed it…
Achieving a sense of harmony in daily life has felt near impossible as our global and national societies fall deeper into polarized conflict. How can I stay true to my humanitarian values while protecting civil rights and pushing against oppressive forces? Read more: lotusbudo.com/2025/08/10/5...
5 Peaceful Community-Building Resistance Practices
Cultivating harmony under authoritarian pressures through satyagraha, musubi, irimi nage, tantric confrontation, and beginning anew.
lotusbudo.com
August 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
In case you missed it…
Achieving a sense of harmony in daily life has felt near impossible as our global and national societies fall deeper into polarized conflict. How can I stay true to my humanitarian values while protecting civil rights and pushing against oppressive forces? Read more: lotusbudo.com/2025/08/10/5...
5 Peaceful Community-Building Resistance Practices
Cultivating harmony under authoritarian pressures through satyagraha, musubi, irimi nage, tantric confrontation, and beginning anew.
lotusbudo.com
August 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Achieving a sense of harmony in daily life has felt near impossible as our global and national societies fall deeper into polarized conflict. How can I stay true to my humanitarian values while protecting civil rights and pushing against oppressive forces? Read more: lotusbudo.com/2025/08/10/5...
What does the #WritingCommunity think about writing for resistance? I think it can be overtly political and also merely the act of writing when we are all so exhausted.
July 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
What does the #WritingCommunity think about writing for resistance? I think it can be overtly political and also merely the act of writing when we are all so exhausted.
#WritingCommunity: thoughts on this discussion? lithub.com/against-ai-a...
Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers
To Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America: We are standing on a precipice. At its simplest level, our job as …
lithub.com
July 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
#WritingCommunity: thoughts on this discussion? lithub.com/against-ai-a...
I am trying desperately to leave Meta entirely, but so many of my friends and fam are on there and so few people actually interact on here. Does anyone have any tips?
July 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I am trying desperately to leave Meta entirely, but so many of my friends and fam are on there and so few people actually interact on here. Does anyone have any tips?
A timed #collage I made at Kolaj Fest in New Orleans to the prompt: What does a #creative community look like? We were given a pile of images, scissors and glue sticks, and off we went! I like that there was no time to belabor composition or selection. Compiling imagery was based on pure #instinct.
July 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I refuse to live in fear.
June 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I refuse to live in fear.
Art = resistance. Find me on Cara: cara.app/retroactive-...
Jaime Dunkle (@retroactive-beatnik) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform
(she/they)
A writer trying to art more again.
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June 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Art = resistance. Find me on Cara: cara.app/retroactive-...
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It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.
June 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.
I am so tired of hypocrisy. I hope with all of my being that somehow justice will always prevail.
June 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I am so tired of hypocrisy. I hope with all of my being that somehow justice will always prevail.
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The President invoking the Insurrection Act — and deploying the military on U.S. city streets — is as serious as it gets.
This is what I’ve spent seven years warning about. Trump called these his “magical powers.”
American democracy might not be ready for what’s next.
This is what I’ve spent seven years warning about. Trump called these his “magical powers.”
American democracy might not be ready for what’s next.
June 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The President invoking the Insurrection Act — and deploying the military on U.S. city streets — is as serious as it gets.
This is what I’ve spent seven years warning about. Trump called these his “magical powers.”
American democracy might not be ready for what’s next.
This is what I’ve spent seven years warning about. Trump called these his “magical powers.”
American democracy might not be ready for what’s next.