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Happy Labor Day. I wrote a Wikipedia article about the gay, anarchist, anti-profit publishing collective Come!Unity Press after stumbling across a poster they printed in 1971.

Serendipitously, while researching this article I came across a March 2024 talk about “Survival By Sharing” by Paul Soulellis, which features a photograph of a Community Memory terminal.

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Gay is angry

A poster that reads “gay is angry” above a collage of a timepiece with a burning fuse, surrounded by butterflies, emerging from a collage containing no parking signs, logos for companies including GE and Kodak, and pieces of magazine text. Between the collage and the text, in 90˚ rotated handwriting, is “gay revolution networker”. The whole poster is printed in multicolor ink creating a rainbow gradient.

Today’s archive spelunking led me down a rabbit hole trying to learn more about the “Gay Revolution Networker” mentioned in this poster from 1971 (full size). The “Gay is Angry” poster is from the Library of Congress’s Yanker Poster Collection, but the LOC provides no further information on the GRN.

Some research by Langdon Manor Books into a flyer in their catalog suggests that the Gay Revolution Networker was a New York City-based gay collective, which held meetings at locations including the Washington Square Church and the Come!Unity Press, a gay anarchist collective and print shop in New York City that I want to learn more about.

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Ryan Salame has withdrawn his petition from a week ago, in which he claimed the government had reneged on a promise not to continue their campaign finance investigation into his partner, Michelle Bond.

Bond was indicted on August 22 on campaign finance charges in connection to her unsuccessful 2022 campaign for a House seat in New York. Salame says he's withdrawing his petition now that the indictment has come down "to allow the facts to be developed by Ms. Bond, and a ruling to be made, in her case".

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Pen and ink drawing of a floating airship supported by a balloon reading "Cures d'air". "Pension Bellevue" is written on the side of the ship, which is boxy and features several balconies. It is airborne above mountains

Drawing shows an airship "Cures d'air" supporting the "Pension Bellevue" for individuals requiring medical care and floating above a mountainous region. One of the artist's conceptions for his book on life in the upcoming twentieth century.

Published in: Le vingtième siècle / Albert Robida. Paris : G. Decaux, 1883, facing p. 353. Via the Library of Congress.

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eyeballed the tail length for a 100+ stitch long-tail cast-on and ended up with a perfect 6" tail... wondering if i should go buy a lottery ticket now

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