Mastodon posts

1. can anyone help me I.D. these pins found going through the everloving wife’s czech grandma’s jewelry

   1. Lenin, unsure what it says though

   2. kremlin, moscow?

   3. russian orthodox?

   4. no idea

   

   

   

   

   it turns out the Lenin pin is a Young Pioneers pin, neat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin_All-Union_Pioneer_Organization

   Young Pioneers (Soviet Union) - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

   picture unrelated

   

2. ice cold 1975 take the best character in The Illuminatus! Trilogy is The Midget, “and it’s not even close” as they say

   https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/robert-shea-and-robert-anton-wilson-the-illuminatus-trilogy

   The Illuminatus! TrilogyRobert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson The Illuminatus! Trilogy 1975The Anarchist Library

   i haven’t read that nonsense in 20 years and I still think about the signs he posted all the damned time

   NO SMOKING. NO SPITTING.

   THE MGT.

3. everloving wife sent me this with the caption “Palo Alto” lmao

   (fun fact! the “tall stick” palo alto is named after is a raised middle-finger)

   

4. dude in portland that sticks those horrible mylar letters onto a brick wall that everybody is tired of is at it again, only this time the letters spell out AUTHORITARIANISM in all red letters and he’s crying and shaking his head and holding one hand up wagging his finger at it

5. really liked station eleven!

   started it after someone posted about it just saying it was good, paused mid first episode thinking, no way ima watch this, read the synopsis, thought it was real familiar, found in the ol’ logs that I’d read the book when it came out, dove in again