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Respectability has also played a large role in racism, both historically and in the present.

«The point is not to decode these fragments into a coherent worldview. It is to see that confusion itself was the method. … Robinson’s casings were less about explanation than performance: designed to bait, to mislead, to invite interpretation while refusing resolution.»

Ah Portland.

You have described the medium of podcasting.

Huh. Hadn't thought of it that way. I always saw whyt people shit as something created by Black folks as both humor and part of the "this not that" of racial identity. But I definitely see your point.

Happy to be a degenerate Luddite yokel addict.

This was the letters column of magazines and newsletters. I miss it. Mostly. People were still idiots.

Frater Memento Uxoris Loth

I'd settle for kids who are passably literate without algo-fried brains.

I also discovered Hedgerow Herb Co. next door, which is one of the best magical apothecaries I've seen. Highly recommend!

Got to visit my favorite brick-and-mortar occult bookshop today in Portland. Dark Star Magic.

The scientific name of this variety of turtle is "you can find your own way off the road because I don't like being bit."

A turtle I saw

Exactly.

Visual guide for using the BlueSky muted word list.

I mostly turn mine into belly flubber.

Nope. This one was *chef's kiss*

The DC universe needs Qanon.

Seeing dark as "good" is still dualism, so not what I mean. The trads I'm thinking of mostly go back many centuries. While they sometimes advocate transgression of social norms, this has often been what modern society would think of as "good," such as questioning slavery and caste.

Seems like different understandings of what "enlightenment" entails, probably from differing understandings of reality? A non-dual perspective would understand ultimate reality as good and also bad. But many trads like that also emphasize compassion as the result of the realization of oneness.

"Union" is such a positive way to describe being devoured.

Very '80s to '90s Boomer pop pagan vibe.

Quick! To the Warburg!

'The image shows an advertisement inside a London Underground train. The ad reads "Stop Hiring Humans" in bold white text, with the subheading "The Era of AI Employees Is Here" in smaller text, where "AI Employees" is highlighted in pink. To the right is an image of a woman with an artificial, digitally enhanced appearance, set against a futuristic purple and black background. The ad is for a company called Artisan, with the website artisan.co displayed. Above the ad is a portion of the London Tube map, showing stations on the Victoria Line.'

Like this?

(Photo yoinked from @sathnam.bsky.social )

I agree that it was a boon to many - myself included. But I don't think that even the long form text internet was as generative in terms of forming communities that produced unique or original traditions. At least, there are none that I can point to. Maybe Usenet Chaos or The Baptist's Head.

I think there was a lot going on in the late twentieth century as well - Chaos Magic, the Typhonian and Sabbatic currents. Wicca and popular paganism saw a huge flowering in the '90s.

What changed was the introduction of the internet, followed by social media. The homogenization of global culture.

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You're about to be responsible for me picking it up again.

Interesting shitpost. It reveals one of the assumptions that old Twitter baked into online discourse - the idea that "the mayor" (people with power) will see your shit. That was only briefly true and only on Twitter (never on X). That people continue to post with that in mind is maddening.

I wonder at what point in studying Eastern religion that transliterations of Sanskrit terms and names stop bouncing off the "that's not a word" filter in my fore brains.

I'm honestly finding that an audiobook version of the text is much better at teaching the terminology.