Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

David Graeber Institute @DGI@graeber.social

12/4/2025, 1:43:00 AM

Public

David Graeber once wrote an important piece about the power of protest and the police. This is an extract.

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/on-the-phenomenology-of-giant-puppets-broken-windows-imaginary-jars-of-urine-and-the-cosmological-role-of-the-police-in-american-culture/

"Direct action is a form of resistance
which, in its structure, is meant to
prefigure the genuinely free society
one wishes to create. Revolutionary
action is not a form of self-sacrifice,
a grim dedication to doing whatever
it takes to achieve a future world of
freedom. It is the defiant insistence
on acting as if one is already free."
.
- David Graeber

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