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Jack Thompson
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things, and pictures of things.

gender is a prison and I chewed through the bars.

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we're cooked.
a so-called "ai overview" of the search "underground bookstore wiki" (no quotes). It's pretty dire. "AI Overview There is no single "underground bookstore" wiki, as the term could refer to a specific store named Underground Books or to a general concept of bookstores operating "underground". Underground Books is a specific bookstore in Carrollton, GA, with both an online and a physical location that is open by appointment. The term can also describe a type of bookstore that is hidden, exclusive, or unconventional, like those built into unique structures such as gondolas and bathtubs, or a bookstore that specializes in a niche topic."
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Today in vibes delivered straight from 2007 to you via my mom's powerpoint slide archive.

(I don't know who needs to see this but someone definitely does.)

slide72.jpg
a clearly-from-from 2007 image from a slide deck of a stuffed bear (and a few warhol-esque color gradients of it) captioned: From this moment forward -- how do you want to live your life?
November 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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"S
"sparkling protein zero sugar" as the teenage mutant ninja turtles logo
November 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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a half assembled display crate with a few framed photos propped in it.
November 8, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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they're already stackable, just not interlocking in a stack, which I guess is good enough.

I promise this is cooler than it looks. I just need to print 3 more of them so, uh, tomorrow, sometime, I will have something neat, just you wait.

Might send out for a set printed from metal for lulz

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a retangular 3d printed part with seemingly no function (...yay)
November 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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The start screen of Astro Chicken, a videogame cabinet playable inside Space Quest 3.
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Randy Newman wrote a Faust rock opera in the 90s. The list of people he roped into it is pretty wild. James Taylor as a corrupt and cynical god?!
the cast of Randy Newman's Faust, including Randy Newman, James Taylor, Don Henley, Elton John, Linda Ronstadt, and Bonnie Raitt
November 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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one of the last great american megafauna sleeps.

#photography
#springfield
#massachusetts
#thebige
#yellow
a multiple story metal county fair slide in the off-season, very yellow but very cold.
November 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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NOTICE

#photography
#lowell
#massachusetts
#relic
#NOTICE
wooden boards attached to the outside of an abandoned brick building, through a chain link fence. it appears that a sign was at some point attached to them - there is a paint outline - but what, who knows.
November 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Huh!

I was thinking of this.

(from here: fsd.trekships.org/art/ds9.html )
archival preliminary sketches of DS9 with docking pylons that continued all the way around
October 31, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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the empty and still dairy aisle of a supermarket
October 31, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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SUN

#photography
#lowell
#massachusetts
#neon
#sun
a neon sign on top of a tall building - SUN, in green - as seen from halfway acorss a bridge at foot level.
October 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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SUN

#photography
#lowell
#massachusetts
#SUN
an unlit neon sign during the day that says SUN, wreathed by a flock of birds.
October 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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3d printers are the most irritating tools to maintain, but once you get that nobody is coming to save you and your choice is to buy another printer in shame or nerd up and unfuck your shit, the smug satisfaction at actually unfucking it could fry an egg.
a (still warm) bright orange Benchy.
October 25, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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he also didn't completely cover the original tattoo. You can still see the edges poking out, on the bottom.

if I, personally, knew the internet was going to be collectively zoom-and-enhancing my coverup tattoo to decide if I was a nazi or not, I would make absolutely certain to cover up all of it.
a close up of graham platner's coverup tattoo, where you can still see the edges of the original tattoo under it.
October 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Lowell City Councilor Vesna Nuon delivered an awesome (paraphrasing) "as someone from Cambodia, this shit is looking super familiar right now, so wise up" speech.
Lowell city councilor Vesna Nuon delivering a speech at the Lowell No Kings rally on 10/18/25.
October 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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seems like 800+ people in downtown Lowell rn for the #nokings rally.

#lowell
#lowellma
#massachusetts
#nokings
#fucktrump
a sign at a No Kings rally that reads "This episode of the Handmaid's Tale sucks!" A sign at a no kings rally that reads, "A republic, IF you can keep it." -Ben Franklin 1787 A sign at a No Kings rally with a picture of a frog on it that says, "together we ribbit, divided we croak" helium balloons at a No Kings rally - an orange, crying, baby Trump, and 2 hamburgers.
October 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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i dislike how that one is slightly out of focus but i’ll take it for the hiding sun.

this one’s cleaner.
a tree growing out of the top of a smokestack, backlit into shadow and framed by steel bridge beams.
October 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I submitted a picture to a thing and it didn't get picked, so here's one of the more interesting / stylized pictures from the same effort.

#photography
#lowell
#massachusetts
#happylittletrees
a backlit smokestack with a tree growing from its top, framed by iron bridge girders.
October 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Mood.
a caged red light mounted on a white wall at night (so there's nothing white about it)
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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46 in his wikipedia photo.

cigarettes, alcohol, leaded gas and salt.
46 year old joseph mccarthy in 1954. he looks significantly older by contemporary standards.
September 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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I wonder what was on the pallet.

#photography
#lowell
#massachusetts
#brick
A brick wall with two gouged holes, a forklift's width apart, at ground level.
September 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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"porque no los dos?" --the Lowell Sun, apparently
2 back to back headlines on the lowell sun rss feed: "Lowering the temperature: Tips for transcending our polarized politics" and "Are young people more likely to support political violence than older people?"
September 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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This show was so good. Came down for Bad Moves.

Slut Intent rocked.
The lead singer of Slut Intent on stage in DC, caught between a gap in the crowd.
September 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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...this recipe seems designed from the ground up to make the worst fried rice imaginable. It is literally backwards.
"Make rice according to package instructions and measure 1 1/2-cups. Reserve any remaining rice for another meal. Set aside. Mix soy sauce and 3 teaspoons oil together in a small bowl. Set aside. Add the remaining 1 teaspoon oil to a wok or large skillet and heat on high. When oil is smoking, add egg and scramble well for 10 seconds. Immediately add the rice and onion. Toss for 3 minutes. Add garlic, peas and steak. Toss 1 minute. Add cabbage, sugar, salt and pepper to taste. Toss all ingredients together. Move the ingredients to the sides of the wok or skillet leaving a hole in the middle. Pour the soy sauce mixture into the hole. Move the ingredients to the hole and toss to cover them with the sauce. Add the scallions. Toss well, about 1 minute. Divide in half and place on two dinner plates."
September 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM