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Get in Touch

Apr 19, 2025

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If you’re coming over from social media, and want to read political books, join my Reading Group contact list. If you want to send me an email landofziploc at gmail. I can give you my Signal and phone through email, but we should chat on Signal first. My Bluesky link is above. Often, I’ll post…

May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights

Apr 19, 2025

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in Action Feed

Join the Rosemead Tenants Union Contingent! Go to the rosemeadtu.org site and sign up for the group, and you’ll eventually get some info.

2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District

Apr 14, 2025

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Recently found photos about Boyle Heights and Arts District gentrification, and added them to this old post, also about the same topic.

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

Apr 8, 2025

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in Life Hacks

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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in History, Link Feed

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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in Micro Feature

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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in Micro Feature

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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in Link Feed, Politics

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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in History, Link Feed

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.