Crafting the Witch

Freddie: ”All right gang! Let’s see who’s behind this harmful idea!”
*Pulls off mask*
All: “Old Man John Calvin!!!”
Velma: “Jeepers!”
Shaggy: “Like, Zoinks!”
Scooby: “Ruh-Roh”
Vemla: *loud bangs as she casually double taps him*
All: :O
Velma: “Seriously, fuck that guy.”

I think about this a lot

It holds for all kinds of bigotry, too. Like it’s literally easier to just not be an asshole. Not to say you won’t screw up out of ignorance and marinating in toxic cultural sludge your entire life, but even so

Hegseth has made clear that he thinks he’s on a modern day crusade.

After blaming a (non-existent) staffer for the Obamas-as-apes video, this is quite a remarkable statement by Leavitt.

you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”

Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything."

And.

Yup.

This is the last thing you have to do before you finish your degree in physics.

Erev laissez les bon temps rouler sameach

This thread is the we are going to win thread, is the kids are alright thread, is the STOP ICE thread, is the civil society rising thread; read it through.

That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. Jason CO @jasonc_nc. 2/8/25 I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist. • 24 L7 1.8K 15K Ill 399K ... Max Dubler @maxdubler True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

Kendzior HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) four pages of text on Trump, Epstein, Michael Cohen, death threats to rape victims

Kendzior HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) four pages of text on Trump, Epstein, Michael Cohen, death threats to rape victims

Kendzior HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) four pages of text on Trump, Epstein, Michael Cohen, death threats to rape victims

Kendzior HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) four pages of text on Trump, Epstein, Michael Cohen, death threats to rape victims

On Trump, Epstein, and their social circle of pedophiles. From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, written in 2019, before Epstein was indicted.

"The story of Jeffrey Epstein is one that will define our era..."

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

If you don’t get migraines and ever wondered what they feel like, this is pretty close.

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.

Image of Christopher Mathias, a white man with light eyes and salt and pepper, hair and beard. An image of his book “to catch a fascist” is placed next to him. Text Reads: Oregon justice resource center presents journalist and author Christopher Matthias in conversation with Leah Sotile. Thursday, February 26, 2026 7 PM at Clinton St., Theatre in partnership with western state Center. $25 tickets $45 with a signed book $15 student tickets scholarships available.

To Catch a Fascist by Chris Mathias takes readers inside the underground fight against rising fascism in the U.S. where anti-fascists infiltrate far-right groups to expose white supremacists hiding in plain sight. Hear more at our event Feb 26 at Clinton Street Theater.
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misspoke: For 3,000 KYR cards (3 varieties, multilingual etc) we paid $320. By this math, and a slightly better discount for volume, we need ~$1000 to print another 10,000.

Comment “KCIF” for the funds to go to our KC ICE FREE campaign.

We have demand from over 30 different schools in the KC metro

I regret to inform you that I have gone further down the terrible rabbit hole that is Elsie the Cow.

If you squint at enough eBay listings trying to read the words, you find a saga of a marriage gone mad.

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Just watched the Biggs Cut with my wife. Deeply satisfying. I completely get why 80% of Biggs was cut from the final film, BUT if you don't care about pacing and are just interested in character development, SO MUCH ABOUT LUKE ONLY MAKES SENSE IF YOU KNOW ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH BIGGS

1/x 🧵

I keep saying lawyers are going into battle on the front lines every damn day and it matters, it matters so much. Here's a thread from one who never wanted to do immigration law but is doing it anyway under the worst circumstances.

Editorial: Pagan Is Not a Synonym for Barbarism - Editorial, News, Opinion, Paganism, Perspectives, Religion, The Wild Hunt, U.S., Witchcraft Witchcraft & Pagan News - "When contemporary commentators describe authoritarian politics as 'pagan,'" writes Manny Moreno, "they risk reinforcing an exclusionary narrative: that Christianity civilize...

Yeah so that NYT piece about DJT as a pagan king is ripe for a multitude of takedowns. Here's one of them.

"I am not really impressed by someone who can turn the floor into the ceiling, or fire into water. A real miracle is if someone can liberate just one negative emotion." —Terton Lerab Lingpa

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Messenger: [throwing message into the bushes] your excellency we would very much like to not be shot

What’s Greek about 26.2? Actually basically nothing. #classicsbluesky #running

There’s also the tree my mother and grandmother referred to as The Headless One, which managed to withstand multiple lightning strikes and a few different attempts at removal over the decades; woodchipper trucks would break down en route; chainsaws would refuse to start.

IT’S PROBABLY NOTHING.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad