@ReaderJohn So many possibilities. I imagine the ICE machine will be cranked up substantially, with lots of opportunities to ignore legal restraints.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/100828951","date_published":"2026-11-10T13:31:36+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-10 13:31","date_timestamp":1794317496,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100800989","content_html":"@JohnBrady Fun localism: enter your location (I used my zip code) and Local Wikipedia finds Wikipedia articles about your immediate area.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/100800989","date_published":"2026-11-09T23:46:18+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-09 23:46","date_timestamp":1794267978,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100787799","content_html":"@bethanyh Very much looking forward to seeing it! I’ve been a stop-motion geek since about age 7 (Ray Harryhausen) and I’m glad to see that the method? medium? has not only survived but revived.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/100736969","date_published":"2026-11-08T19:40:27+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-08 19:40","date_timestamp":1794166827,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100681000","content_html":"@JohnBrady The epigraph to the Lamm book (see previous) is by Wendell Berry:
\n\n\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/100681000","date_published":"2026-11-07T15:30:27+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-07 15:30","date_timestamp":1794065427,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100680307","content_html":"To be fearful of the disease and yet unwilling to pay for the cure is not just to be hypocritical; it is to be doomed.
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@JohnBrady Reading: 1. August Lamm, You Don’t Need a Smartphone. Self-explanatory. 2. Sergei Chapnin, Religious Communities Under Pressure: Documenting religious persecution in Russia, 2022-2026. An ugly job, but it’s gotta be done. Very grateful to be practicing the Faith in this country. The ‘political’ superstructure of my Church is very ill.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/100640312","date_published":"2026-11-06T19:43:42+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-06 19:43","date_timestamp":1793994222,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100630293","content_html":"@JohnBrady Apparently today is Fountain Pen Day!! Who decides these things? I love my fountain pen but mostly use it for letters, and in these dark times there are few who regularly correspond by mail. So, step up!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/100630293","date_published":"2026-11-06T16:53:53+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-06 16:53","date_timestamp":1793984033,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100628083","content_html":"@jabel DeLorme publishes big, detailed atlases for (I think) every US state. We have them for NY and PA and use them often. Here’s one for IN. We also get state maps at welcome centers; within state I’m not sure how you get them. If you want to really nerd out, it used to be that counties published detailed road maps that you could get from the county engineer’s department. I haven’t looked into those for a few years and wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve gone online only :-(
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/100628083","date_published":"2026-11-06T16:14:26+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-06 16:14","date_timestamp":1793981666,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100626400","content_html":"@annahavron Paper maps! We use The Voice from the Phone only as a last resort when traveling. I have a whole little speech about how to get where you want to go without using TVftP, but I’ll keep it to myself for the moment.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/100626400","date_published":"2026-11-06T15:39:34+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-06 15:39","date_timestamp":1793979574,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100624877","content_html":"@tinyroofnail I loved it, probably learned about it from an earlier recommendation of yours.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/100624877","date_published":"2026-11-06T15:08:09+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-06 15:08","date_timestamp":1793977689,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100624818","content_html":"@ReaderJohn “Ultraprocessed world” is a phrase I’ll remember.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/100624818","date_published":"2026-11-06T15:06:31+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-06 15:06","date_timestamp":1793977591,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100623893","content_html":"@bradleyandroos Makes me wonder, What is money?
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/100623893","date_published":"2026-11-06T14:47:27+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-06 14:47","date_timestamp":1793976447,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100621274","content_html":"@JohnBrady Reading (again): Jane Austen, Persuasion. To my mind it’s in a class by itself among her novels. It was published posthumously, and I sometimes wonder what directions her writing would have taken if she’d lived longer.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/100621274","date_published":"2026-11-06T13:54:23+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-06 13:54","date_timestamp":1793973263,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100621039","content_html":"@jabel My hometown (Summit NJ) was a John Birch Society hub. They offered a recorded weekly message you could dial up to listen to on the phone (1960s media!) called “Let Freedom Ring.” It was produced and run by a Bircher bigwig who lived in our town. For a long stretch I thought this sort of thing was part of the dim past but now I suppose it’s just been updated into podcasts and so on.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JohnBrady/100621039","date_published":"2026-11-06T13:47:40+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-11-06 13:47","date_timestamp":1793972860,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"73179125","content_html":"Divna Ljubojević - Agni Parthene. I listen to this often.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://abbamoses.micro.blog/2025/09/02/divna-ljubojevi-agni-parthene-i.html","date_published":"2025-09-02T15:51:43+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-09-02 15:51","date_timestamp":1756828303,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"72249521","content_html":"I’m drifting toward being one of those “Workflowy for everything” cultists.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://abbamoses.micro.blog/2025/08/21/im-drifting-toward-being-one.html","date_published":"2025-08-21T20:17:16+00:00","author":{"name":"john brady","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F21%2F25456.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JohnBrady"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-08-21 20:17","date_timestamp":1755807436,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"69868116","content_html":"Bill Kauffman on artists spurning state sponsorship:
\n\n\n\n\nConscientious objectors who wish neither to wield nor submit to power are as impractical as unemployed poets, whiskey priests, and dandelions.
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The libertarian/anti-statist view has never had much of a constituency, but I’ve been thinking about how rapidly it seems to be losing ground these days.
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