ActivityPub Viewer

A small tool to view real-world ActivityPub objects as JSON! Enter a URL or username from Mastodon or a similar service below, and we'll send a request with the right Accept header to the server to view the underlying object.

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{ "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "OrderedCollectionPage", "orderedItems": [ { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1298468638633758728", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "content": "A song I made. Please listen and comment if you like it.<br /><br />Check this out on <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&amp;t=all&amp;q=BandLab\" title=\"#BandLab\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#BandLab</a> <a href=\"https://www.bandlab.com/post/32c0bc80-5a2e-ec11-981f-a04a5e798978\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.bandlab.com/post/32c0bc80-5a2e-ec11-981f-a04a5e798978</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1298468638633758728", "published": "2021-10-23T02:10:47+00:00", "source": { "content": "A song I made. Please listen and comment if you like it.\n\nCheck this out on #BandLab https://www.bandlab.com/post/32c0bc80-5a2e-ec11-981f-a04a5e798978", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1298468638633758728/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1298468292867919873", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "content": "A song I mixed on band lab. Meute - what else is there/Astrix - Dharma remix<br /><br /><br />Check this out on <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&amp;t=all&amp;q=BandLab\" title=\"#BandLab\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#BandLab</a> <a href=\"https://www.bandlab.com/post/ea3015fb-b232-ec11-981f-a04a5e798978\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.bandlab.com/post/ea3015fb-b232-ec11-981f-a04a5e798978</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1298468292867919873", "published": "2021-10-23T02:09:24+00:00", "source": { "content": "A song I mixed on band lab. Meute - what else is there/Astrix - Dharma remix\n\n\nCheck this out on #BandLab https://www.bandlab.com/post/ea3015fb-b232-ec11-981f-a04a5e798978", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1298468292867919873/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1298467542741815299", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "content": "A tribe called red - black snake", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1298467542741815299", "published": "2021-10-23T02:06:25+00:00", "source": { "content": "A tribe called red - black snake", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1298467542741815299/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1286229202885939216", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "content": "Join DiDi social app for free daily tokens. Shiba inu, Akita inu, xsr, usdt and many others. Also battle against other players in the many different dapps that allow you to wager tokens against others. Post daily news or read daily news and join or stsrt many different groups to chat about crypto or hobbies. Right now if you share with other you can gain a part of the 100,000 usdt. Come join,play and gain every day!!!", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1286229202885939216", "published": "2021-09-19T07:35:38+00:00", "source": { "content": "Join DiDi social app for free daily tokens. Shiba inu, Akita inu, xsr, usdt and many others. Also battle against other players in the many different dapps that allow you to wager tokens against others. Post daily news or read daily news and join or stsrt many different groups to chat about crypto or hobbies. Right now if you share with other you can gain a part of the 100,000 usdt. Come join,play and gain every day!!!", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1286229202885939216/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1192448771603320832", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "content": "<a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1192448771603320832\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1192448771603320832</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1192448771603320832", "published": "2021-01-03T12:45:40+00:00", "source": { "content": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1192448771603320832", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1192448771603320832/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1192059254656352256", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "content": "Too broke to have bought BTC in 2010 at 20 when I first learned about crypto wondering around the Seattle streets no place to go home to but luckily my charisma or my friendly nature was enough to find friends many of which I dont talk to anymore but nonetheless worthy of a mention for their hospitality and kindness. <br /><br />Using friends computers or going to the library to use the internet. Way too much freedom and not enough discipline led me to become a jack of all trades but the master of none. Sleeping on couches or wherever was warm if there was a possibilty. I kind of always just drifted around, residentally challenged as I used to say. Naive to any future, I honestly thought I would have died by now with how much alcohol I choose to drink.<br /><br />I found out about crypto through a wonderful website that has been taken down since called Stumbleupon it was a really glorious place that let you search into the deep dark crevices of the top layer of internet that pertained to any interest you had. I seen cryptography and clicked the check box cause password hashes and the like were of interest in those days as much as they are now.<br /><br />I have always been an anticapitalist, though now I capitalize through necessity and have lost much of the angst and hatred for it as I did in those days. Its not that I didn't enjoy working or making a living, it mainly stemmed from being in poverty as a child and meeting other children who had a typical middle class life free from much of the abuse that I went through physically but as I learned were not as free from mental abuse or both in some cases. <br /><br />I was just jealous of not having a family who was even considered a part of the growth of society. Instead I had a family who struggled on welfare in government houses when we weren't evicted from the atrocities my mother caused. I have no clue as to why I am choosing to reflect my past here but I have to document it somewhere for my son to read in the future. <br /><br />Nonetheless I am grateful to a part of this community I have been watching and believing in since day one. It has taken me nine years to get from the streets to being able to split rent with my girlfriend as sad as that sounds. I am not looking for any sympathy I just came to this realization of how far I have come and I finally feel like there is a future for me in cryptocurrencies.<br /><br /> Happy 2021 to all of you, I hope the future praises us for our hard work and dedication to the dreams and visions we have for our society. May they come to fruition to ripen our minds with there succulent knowledge. <br /><br />Here is a video of my son after he received the laptop I got from aliexpress I ordered for him with money I earned from crypto. I am basically broke minus what little I have staked but there are brighter days for me on the horizon. If I have made it this fa I know I can make it the rest of the way. Thank you for reading this and for following me while I grow and develop myself.", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1192059254656352256", "published": "2021-01-02T10:57:52+00:00", "source": { "content": "Too broke to have bought BTC in 2010 at 20 when I first learned about crypto wondering around the Seattle streets no place to go home to but luckily my charisma or my friendly nature was enough to find friends many of which I dont talk to anymore but nonetheless worthy of a mention for their hospitality and kindness. \n\nUsing friends computers or going to the library to use the internet. Way too much freedom and not enough discipline led me to become a jack of all trades but the master of none. Sleeping on couches or wherever was warm if there was a possibilty. I kind of always just drifted around, residentally challenged as I used to say. Naive to any future, I honestly thought I would have died by now with how much alcohol I choose to drink.\n\nI found out about crypto through a wonderful website that has been taken down since called Stumbleupon it was a really glorious place that let you search into the deep dark crevices of the top layer of internet that pertained to any interest you had. I seen cryptography and clicked the check box cause password hashes and the like were of interest in those days as much as they are now.\n\nI have always been an anticapitalist, though now I capitalize through necessity and have lost much of the angst and hatred for it as I did in those days. Its not that I didn't enjoy working or making a living, it mainly stemmed from being in poverty as a child and meeting other children who had a typical middle class life free from much of the abuse that I went through physically but as I learned were not as free from mental abuse or both in some cases. \n\nI was just jealous of not having a family who was even considered a part of the growth of society. Instead I had a family who struggled on welfare in government houses when we weren't evicted from the atrocities my mother caused. I have no clue as to why I am choosing to reflect my past here but I have to document it somewhere for my son to read in the future. \n\nNonetheless I am grateful to a part of this community I have been watching and believing in since day one. It has taken me nine years to get from the streets to being able to split rent with my girlfriend as sad as that sounds. I am not looking for any sympathy I just came to this realization of how far I have come and I finally feel like there is a future for me in cryptocurrencies.\n\n Happy 2021 to all of you, I hope the future praises us for our hard work and dedication to the dreams and visions we have for our society. May they come to fruition to ripen our minds with there succulent knowledge. \n\nHere is a video of my son after he received the laptop I got from aliexpress I ordered for him with money I earned from crypto. I am basically broke minus what little I have staked but there are brighter days for me on the horizon. If I have made it this fa I know I can make it the rest of the way. Thank you for reading this and for following me while I grow and develop myself.", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1192059254656352256/activity" }, { "type": "Announce", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/818775196629475342/entities/urn:activity:1184398760870838272", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/818775196629475342", "content": "Dear Citizens of the USA:<br /><br />If you are wondering where your next <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&amp;t=all&amp;q=COVID19\" title=\"#COVID19\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#COVID19</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&amp;t=all&amp;q=StimulusCheck\" title=\"#StimulusCheck\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#StimulusCheck</a> went, read the following quote, with the source linked in after it:&gt;<br /><br />\"From March 18 to May 14, 2020, more than 36 million US workers lost their jobs, while the wealth of US billionaires increased by more than $368 billion, an increase of 12.5 percent. \"<br /><br />Source:<br />An Emergency Wealth Tax to Confront Coronavirus Pandemic<br />The 22'nd out of the 25 Top Censored News Stories Of 2020<br />By Project Censored, December 1, 2020<br /><a href=\"https://www.projectcensored.org/22-an-emergency-wealth-tax-to-confront-coronavirus-pandemic/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.projectcensored.org/22-an-emergency-wealth-tax-to-confront-coronavirus-pandemic/</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/818775196629475342/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1184398760870838272", "published": "2020-12-12T07:37:48+00:00", "source": { "content": "Dear Citizens of the USA:\n\nIf you are wondering where your next #COVID19 #StimulusCheck went, read the following quote, with the source linked in after it:&gt;\n\n\"From March 18 to May 14, 2020, more than 36 million US workers lost their jobs, while the wealth of US billionaires increased by more than $368 billion, an increase of 12.5 percent. \"\n\nSource:\nAn Emergency Wealth Tax to Confront Coronavirus Pandemic\nThe 22'nd out of the 25 Top Censored News Stories Of 2020\nBy Project Censored, December 1, 2020\nhttps://www.projectcensored.org/22-an-emergency-wealth-tax-to-confront-coronavirus-pandemic/", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1185901662705565696/activity", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/818775196629475342", "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/followers" ] }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1185776623296516096", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "content": "Just some tunes that help me level myself, discipline my thoughts to rise above and be the change I want to see in the world. The horse only drinks when it learns to silence the doubt and realizes the true potential that the sip contains. For every action their is an equal and opposite action. Transfer your energy into your surrounding it will never die and your mark will flow through time transcending above our dimensions feeding the souls of eternity.<br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if5sW3mkpdQ\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if5sW3mkpdQ</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1185776623296516096", "published": "2020-12-16T02:52:57+00:00", "source": { "content": "Just some tunes that help me level myself, discipline my thoughts to rise above and be the change I want to see in the world. The horse only drinks when it learns to silence the doubt and realizes the true potential that the sip contains. For every action their is an equal and opposite action. Transfer your energy into your surrounding it will never die and your mark will flow through time transcending above our dimensions feeding the souls of eternity.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if5sW3mkpdQ", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1185776623296516096/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1185774993928556544", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "content": "I dont if any of you fine folk freely forming thoughts of your own have ever sat within yourself alone at the edge of your garden munchin on those shining red luminescent juice balls and seen your God right before that omnipotent singularity slipped down your throat. Just in time to see the beauty of it all.<br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrp39d9ZFtE\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrp39d9ZFtE</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1185774993928556544", "published": "2020-12-16T02:46:29+00:00", "source": { "content": "I dont if any of you fine folk freely forming thoughts of your own have ever sat within yourself alone at the edge of your garden munchin on those shining red luminescent juice balls and seen your God right before that omnipotent singularity slipped down your throat. Just in time to see the beauty of it all.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrp39d9ZFtE", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1185774993928556544/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1185663095883108352", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "content": "<a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1185663095883108352\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1185663095883108352</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1185663095883108352", "published": "2020-12-15T19:21:50+00:00", "source": { "content": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1185663095883108352", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1185663095883108352/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1184156470555963392", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "content": "A lot of stuff has been happening in my realm inside our collectively shared reality. Going to be producing some music soon, as well as a bunch of more artwork and NFTs. Been spending most my time on betfury trying to get those BFG tokens, they're like crack but the trap house has carnival games and you can actually leave with some money if you use good strategies on certain in house games. Sneak peak at some artwork I forced Googles neural network to dream. Trying to figure out more interactive ways to design and use NFTs. All I can think of is an augmented reality filter that animates a specific photo or real life item. Photos would be easier to get the code to see the object and start the animation but having a pendant that has a dragon burst out or creates some sort of psychedelic shield visible through an app would be cooler. If only Google glasses more widespread, I doubt it would truly catch on without such a market. ", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1184156470555963392", "published": "2020-12-11T15:35:02+00:00", "source": { "content": "A lot of stuff has been happening in my realm inside our collectively shared reality. Going to be producing some music soon, as well as a bunch of more artwork and NFTs. Been spending most my time on betfury trying to get those BFG tokens, they're like crack but the trap house has carnival games and you can actually leave with some money if you use good strategies on certain in house games. Sneak peak at some artwork I forced Googles neural network to dream. Trying to figure out more interactive ways to design and use NFTs. All I can think of is an augmented reality filter that animates a specific photo or real life item. Photos would be easier to get the code to see the object and start the animation but having a pendant that has a dragon burst out or creates some sort of psychedelic shield visible through an app would be cooler. If only Google glasses more widespread, I doubt it would truly catch on without such a market. ", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1184156470555963392/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1178377782665834496", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "content": "Been a minute since I posted update incoming later today. The market is going wild. These are amazing tines I hope you are all in good positions for the upcoming correction. $608 on eth in a short position. What your estimate on the correction before Ethereum goes to all time high. I heard 350 potentially but I think around $430-$450. I am usually wrong But I would rather not overshoot it and then lose money on the uptrend", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1178377782665834496", "published": "2020-11-25T16:52:36+00:00", "source": { "content": "Been a minute since I posted update incoming later today. The market is going wild. These are amazing tines I hope you are all in good positions for the upcoming correction. $608 on eth in a short position. What your estimate on the correction before Ethereum goes to all time high. I heard 350 potentially but I think around $430-$450. I am usually wrong But I would rather not overshoot it and then lose money on the uptrend", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1178377782665834496/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1174428409697665024", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043", "content": "An American folk legend who spent 40 years of his life playing music and touring the world with all of his heart and soul.<br /><br />The Grateful Dead were true pioneers of their age. A 1965 cover band from Palo Alto that launched Robert Hunter's lyrics in the billboard charts to be forever immortalized in Americana.<br /><br />They were the post beatnik generation and the forefront of the hippy culture that rocked the foundation of government and ended up bringing the most people together in history who were not at war at Woodstock just four years after and two years after they were the first and only band to ever play at the pyramids of giza.<br /><br />They were the in-house band who played at the acid tests with Ken Keasey and the Merry Pranksters they grew up around some of the most inspirational Americans in counterculture people like Neal Cassidy who drove the Further bus and was good friends with Jack Kerouac who journaled his exploits while traveling around the United States in the 1950s giving us insight into how the teenagers and young adults were in their rebellions against conservative suburbia. People like Allen Ginsberg who was part of the first groups of people that fought for our social justice in that era. These were not uneducated peoples they were genius stiffled by the republics choice to remain ignorant.<br /><br />They created the largest collection of live music in existence over 40 years of live shows almost every night of the year. They purposely played obscenely long songs to force their record label to pay for studio time so they can use the equipment to experiment. The forefront of wierd in that era and much of those stylings still exist and are used today for example layering tracks and acid style filmography. Even the oil paint and water style of art came from the groups of people Something Zane Keasey told me his father told him that happened when they pulled over the Further bus in the rain and some one started pouring paint into the puddles and they got the idea to start dipping different things into the designs. True inspirations that learned to stay disciplined and to always have fun.<br /><br />I hope my ramblings help you find some insight into the world just a few generations back. Stay inspired, always do what you love, and stay weird, don't change what you dont have to as long as you are happy because your smile is the ripple in the still waters of our minds that affects the hearts of others and changes the world.<br /><br />The love never fades away.<br /><br />Here are some snippets of lyrics that have helped me find solace in life. There is so much more history about the Grateful Dead, I could write for 40 years which might be the case but we are at a set break right now.<br /><br />\"Sometimes you get shone the light, in the strangest of places if you look at right.\" -Scarlett Begonias<br /><br />\"Ain't nobody messing with you but you, your friends are getting most concerned. Loose with the truth baby its your fire I hope you don't get burned. And when the smoke cleared she said, this is what she said to me \"gonna wanna bed to lay your head and a sympathy.\" \" -Althea<br /><br />\"If you get confused just listen to the music play.\" -Franklin's Tower<br /><br />\"There more than ashes when your dream comes true\" -Fire on the mountain", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1174428409697665024", "published": "2020-11-14T19:19:11+00:00", "source": { "content": "An American folk legend who spent 40 years of his life playing music and touring the world with all of his heart and soul.\n\nThe Grateful Dead were true pioneers of their age. A 1965 cover band from Palo Alto that launched Robert Hunter's lyrics in the billboard charts to be forever immortalized in Americana.\n\nThey were the post beatnik generation and the forefront of the hippy culture that rocked the foundation of government and ended up bringing the most people together in history who were not at war at Woodstock just four years after and two years after they were the first and only band to ever play at the pyramids of giza.\n\nThey were the in-house band who played at the acid tests with Ken Keasey and the Merry Pranksters they grew up around some of the most inspirational Americans in counterculture people like Neal Cassidy who drove the Further bus and was good friends with Jack Kerouac who journaled his exploits while traveling around the United States in the 1950s giving us insight into how the teenagers and young adults were in their rebellions against conservative suburbia. People like Allen Ginsberg who was part of the first groups of people that fought for our social justice in that era. These were not uneducated peoples they were genius stiffled by the republics choice to remain ignorant.\n\nThey created the largest collection of live music in existence over 40 years of live shows almost every night of the year. They purposely played obscenely long songs to force their record label to pay for studio time so they can use the equipment to experiment. The forefront of wierd in that era and much of those stylings still exist and are used today for example layering tracks and acid style filmography. Even the oil paint and water style of art came from the groups of people Something Zane Keasey told me his father told him that happened when they pulled over the Further bus in the rain and some one started pouring paint into the puddles and they got the idea to start dipping different things into the designs. True inspirations that learned to stay disciplined and to always have fun.\n\nI hope my ramblings help you find some insight into the world just a few generations back. Stay inspired, always do what you love, and stay weird, don't change what you dont have to as long as you are happy because your smile is the ripple in the still waters of our minds that affects the hearts of others and changes the world.\n\nThe love never fades away.\n\nHere are some snippets of lyrics that have helped me find solace in life. There is so much more history about the Grateful Dead, I could write for 40 years which might be the case but we are at a set break right now.\n\n\"Sometimes you get shone the light, in the strangest of places if you look at right.\" -Scarlett Begonias\n\n\"Ain't nobody messing with you but you, your friends are getting most concerned. Loose with the truth baby its your fire I hope you don't get burned. And when the smoke cleared she said, this is what she said to me \"gonna wanna bed to lay your head and a sympathy.\" \" -Althea\n\n\"If you get confused just listen to the music play.\" -Franklin's Tower\n\n\"There more than ashes when your dream comes true\" -Fire on the mountain", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/entities/urn:activity:1174428409697665024/activity" } ], "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/outbox", "partOf": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1145970435649708043/outboxoutbox" }