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Fandom contains, and will eventually surface, all knowledge
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
A drawing of an anthropomorphic cartoon gecko wearing a purple beanie, pink earmuffs, purple coat, black sweatpants with pink flames, and chunky high-top purple and pink boots
❄️ It Cold ❄️
Right where they've always been, Martin. Watching over my Institute.
(click thru for fun)
The term 'mysticism' is a difficult one to use in scholarly study of religion and the esoteric. It's important to clarify exactly which phenomena we mean, such as
autoerotic defoliation
This is murder. They keep doing this intentionally. People need to be prosecuted for this.
make sure to place two dog treats on the closed eyes of your deceased loved one, to ease their path in the afterlife
or the made up 2nd halves of popular sayings that make them mean the opposite
honestly the best accessible example of interacting with other stories in a distinctly christian way is that thing where it became popular online in the 2010s to claim that there was some totally unverifiable “original version” of various myths where things were more progressive
Hands pierce the gloom reaching up for a floating card Rare Tip Eat a tarot card to gain its powers
PSA for everyone, special hat tip to @forestwizard.bsky.social
I know some Norse nonbinary people have used -ven "friend" in place of -son or -dottir
so... amicus? hmm. don't know enough latin. what's latin for comrade
i also want to know who yassified lady liberty
Map of ice cream shops in massachusetts with 🍨 marking close-to-every ice cream shop. The icons are a little too big which is amusing. MapLibre/OpenFreeMap/OpenMapTiles and OpenStreetMap credits at the bottom.
Side project: finally extracted my MA Ice Cream Shop list (not just the review subset, the 512 entries for the "ice cream compass" project) as names and lat/lon, instead of google "cid" refs.
Thread, and also a reminder to go read/watch @shing.bsky.social’s “MAKE LITTLE GUYS: a (very brief) manifesto”.
www.patreon.com/posts/make-l...
I love when someone I'm a fan of is a fan of someone else I'm a fan of
little guys forever
In short, there is a *lot* of ruin in a country.
While a bloody nose can convince an imperial power to give up an imperial venture, it takes spectacular amounts of pressure to get a country to buckle if it things the state's entire existence is at risk.
Or you can invade. 🤷♂️
This is a good question to address, actually.
There's often an intuitive assumption that when a country runs out of money, its war effort will grind to a halt. That's how households and (sometimes) companies work.
But those assumptions are really frequently frustrated - countries can push on.
@profstorm.bsky.social just pounded a couple of your SHWEP appearances - DELICIOUS brain food
Seriously, this is a great episode and I'm going to liberally borrow -- with attribution! -- from it for the introductory lecture next time I teach History of Magic.
(Also, if you are not already listening to the Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast, you should be.)
"If you don't schedule preventive maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you." - engineer saying
🤝
"If you don't explicitly articulate values, values will show up in your work, without your intending them to." - @yrfatfriend.bsky.social
The bundle of specifically arrows is not a fascist symbol, afaict.
The fasces, a bundle of rods with an axe inserted in it, is literally the etymology of fascism: www.adl.org/resources/ha...
(ADL has been sucking for a while but their hate symbols DB is still pretty good)
"marxist-animist" is a GREAT phrase
Steam Review: Not Recommended, 1,624.9 hrs on record - this is roughly equivalent to 9 months at a full-time job
bro
YAY I CAN FINALLY SAY IT ahahahaha I namedropped @alasdairstuart.com in the announcement too like "IT WAS ESPECIALLY HARD NOT TO TELL ALASDAIR OH MY GOD"
AWOOGA AWOOGA
Oh SHIT 👀
A promo image. The background is a grey spiral on a black background. Text reads: “Enter the library, 27th October 2026. Pre-order now.” There is an image of a hardback book. On the cover there is text reading “From the Library of Jurgen Leitner”, “Premee Mohamed with Jonathan Sims”, and a green illustration of a falling man with wings strapped to his arms.
Just announced: FROM THE LIBRARY OF JURGEN LEITNER, an official Magnusverse novel by Premee Mohamed with Jonathan Sims, releasing October 27th and published by Random House Worlds. Pre-order now by visiting www.rustyquill.com/novel
lmao
