Donnodubus

"Conversion therapy" is false advertising. It is malpractice. It is abuse. It is discrimination. It is torture.

Everyone who enables it — from the parents, to the therapists, to the court justices — are groomers and abusers, period. This is a criminal court.

we reached over 2 billion posts today. that's probably enough

A People's Social Media is possible thanks to the Free Software movement, and programmers who have developed social media such as ActivityPub or ATproto under free licenses.

It's just a matter of actually organizing the resources needed to host and maintain it (which no one so far has wanted to do)

Although the CEO of Bsky had me fooled that she personally wasn't reactionary, we always knew this platform was only being kept afloat by Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

It is no surprise, therefore, that the Bsky team is appealing to them over its userbase, who are just here as guinea pigs.

It's just a commonplace now that right-wingers do assassination attempts on Democrats. But most of them will probably capitulate and continue to punch left (since that's safe).

Caused by an explosion, and there were children trapped inside. This country has become engulfed in pure evil.

Well, Bluesky was nice while it lasted (not really)

The thing I respect about Greta Thunberg is that she understands most people in the Western world don’t give a shit about atrocities until someone white is affected.

So she’s doing what needs to be done to keep up the pressure.

If more white folks followed that example, we’d all be fine.

Some people have been provided for and protected by The System their whole lives, so even when it obviously has turned against them they still foolishly believe it will reward them when they obey it, like it did in the past.

Large cup or jar, dark brown (it would have been glossy black when new) depicting a chariot race in barbotine decoration, which unsurprisingly looks a lot like cake icing details, because it's piped onto the cup in the same way, with a bag. The auriga - charioteer - wears long-sleeved jerkin and leggings, and a leather helmet. He holds a whip in his right hand, and the reins of the four horses in his left. Another chariot is fast on his heels. Found at Colchester, Essex. British Museum (1857,0806.1)

Same description as the first image. The cup rests on a very small, stumpy foot which flares up into a broad vase shape, slightly tapering at the top. This is taken on the adjacent side to the left of the other chariot, and this chariot is the one at his heels.

A perfect souvenir from a day at the chariot races! This pottery cup or jar has barbotine (liquid clay) decoration, piped on just like cake icing. It depicts four quadrigae (four-horse chariots) in an endless circular race. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 1/

Colchester, 2nd c. CE. 📸 me

But telling lies for the right wing b/c you're afraid of retaliation obviously doesn't "lower the temperature." It's just rolling over and accepting that they dictate what you get to say now.

Again... wtf do we have to do with this?

This “genius” has unveiled their sinister scheme.

you know things are bad if cops are complaining about other cops

Ohara Koson, Japanese (1877-1945), Waxwings on Twig, 1911, woodblock, 34.3 x 18.7 cm, private collection

No. This is not a plea for "approval." It is a demand for dominion over their rivals.

Also, professors are not "elites".

"One read on that might be that the right-wing outrage farmers seem to have some inauthentic support that makes them seem more influential than they actually are."

Ya don't say...

Pretty much the final domino for absolute far-right media control in this country.

A large boulder set in circular earthworks commanding wide upland viewd

The unusual & enigmatic circular Roman signal station at Careg y Bwci, alongside the Roman road nr Llanfair Clydogau in mid Wales, was built on top of an earlier summit-top Bronze Age barrow

The enormous boulder at its centre - 'the spook's/goblin's rock' - was clearly of sacred importance 🧙

📷 TD

Tech bros like Peter Thiel being really into eschatology is just a reflection of their deep narcissism and fear of mortality: they believe the end of the world will come during their lifetime because they literally cannot imagine the world continuing to exist without them.

A basic understanding of history blows this racist way of thinking out of the water, without even needing any of this cutting edge genetics research to disprove it.

Sadly, most people (and Pagans) still have ethnocentric thinking that assumes racial separation and purity.

Hate to break it to people, but there's no way to "unsubscribe" our way to healthcare, housing, and living wages...

Yep. It's just a firehose of bullshit, and it's like this everyday now. Responding to each and every story is like wrestling in the mud with pigs (we get dirty, they like it).

I address the issues with people IRL as they come up. Doesn't feel worth the energy and oxygen beyond that now.

What did we have to do with this again? 🙄

The way they just changed the caduceus into a spear and money bag into a head and went, "Mercury? Nah, this is Perseus!"

Full disclosure: I didn't read the whole book, just a free preview. But judging from the Table of Contents, I don't think I missed much...

Miles' treatment of "Pagan" as a religious movement is superficial and perfunctory. He eagerly moves on to ranting about Liberalism in general, almost forgetting to even connect the topics.

"Paganism" in his world is just The Devil — the vague, underlying cause of "everything Miles thinks is bad."

Back on Twitter, the Trad Cath / Orthodox weirdos were at least a little entertaining, b/c their crusade took Paganism seriously as a religious rival.

Unlike Miles' book, which still just uses the term "Pagan" as a shibboleth. He probably chose the word b/c people are sick of hearing about "woke".

*sigh* #WitchMadness #WitchSky the number of people still saying mabon is depressing. Happy Equinox everyone. #equinox #autumn #AutumnEquinox

I'm going to be honest, I don't feel we are particularly in danger for being Pagan, even now.

Anyone who is politically at odds with the regime, or who is non-Christian for any reason, or who is queer, is at risk more-or-less.

Those factors would apply to us whether we were Pagan or not.