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Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower

Apr 8, 2025

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This was a minor pain in the ass, and I’ll go into some detail about the problems I had. I’m complaining a lot in this post.

Inventing Black and White

Apr 4, 2025

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Original post on Nov 8, 2024 Inventing Black and White – Learn how Bacon’s Rebellion became a turning point for the way the laws of colonial Virginia distinguished people of different races. (Note that the two classes – poor vs. indentured/slaves – united, but it was to continue the expansion of the colonies into indigenous…

Getting Off of Big Tech

Mar 30, 2025

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Messaging Signal and Signal Groups johnk’s haha, a meme and humor group – https://signal.group/#CjQKICj66MMGy-SZzQAflDFLUvPTZex7Hih49TtaEjbq8_5lEhBpaXvFlKR2DFKDw-ph7Thn Signal – a messaging app similar to Messenger, WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram, Line, KakaoTalk. Nonprofit based in the US. Telegram – business based in Russia. Others Matrix / Element – similar to Slack or Discord, but not as smooth. Alternatives to Google…

Crossword Puzzle Tool

Mar 27, 2025

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The world was just too depressing for a while, so I didn’t have time to curate the stories I was reading. I just posted a bunch to my bluesky account, @johnkawakami. Instead, I messed around with this crossword puzzle tool. Other Ones Black Reconstruction Racism

Civil Comment about the Civil War

Feb 27, 2025

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I made this TikTok about Thomas Nast cartoons about white immigrant opposition to Chinese immigration, and part of it discussed the Draft Riots, which were part of the composition in a cartoon. user6041026417578 wrote: I made a long video, but it was boring and I wasn’t certain my interpretation was correct, so I am going…

Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization

Feb 25, 2025

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How Japanese curry (kare) intersected with a right wing anti-Western, anti-imperialist movement.

The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism

Feb 24, 2025

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This is a revised and updated repost of an older post about US support for Nazis during the 1930s. Now it’s a closely related post about the rise of the 1920s KKK. This post needs some rewriting, and more detail.

Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust

Feb 18, 2025

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I don’t know if this is Homeland Security, but the video says it is. Is it ICE? This happened in Rosemead on Encintas and Mission up in the north side. The cops broke the surveillance camera before breaking in. (If the creator needs to reach me, my tiktok is @johnisveryboring.) My sentiments exactly. This is…

Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models

Feb 13, 2025

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During the WGA strike of 2023, I was shitposting saying the WGA should have their own AI, because studios were threatening to use AI to eliminate writer jobs. Though I was a newbie with Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots, and I’d only read cursory descriptions about how they worked, it was pretty obvious that they…

Fantasy Vernacular Architecture

Feb 9, 2025

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in Image Generators, Micro Feature

Exploring fantasy buildings made of cinder blocks or earth, in a pyramid-inspired shape. Meta Imagine. Some of the images look like adobe/Southwestern indigenous architecture, Mexican architecture, or Southeast Asian architecture.