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Joel Bordeaux๐ŸŒนเฆœเง‹เงŸเง‡เฆฒ เฆฌเง‹เฆฐเงเฆฆเง‹

@joelbordeaux.bsky.social

Humanities / Social Sciences researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Views = eel wriggling. He/him/hisn.

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The bones of Santa have been leaking liquid for 1,700 years.

08.12.2025 03:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1195    ๐Ÿ” 311    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 96    ๐Ÿ“Œ 447

What do we want?

Butlerian Jihad!

When do we want it?

Before the thinking machines attack Salusa Secondus!

01.12.2025 16:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Environmental arguments for trains vs flying got nothing on the actual experience of flying these days ๐Ÿซ 

28.11.2025 10:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Shocked ๐Ÿซข

27.11.2025 18:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@dutchnewsnl.bsky.social why is it that everyone pontificating / prognosticating re: the coalition formatie seems to assume it MUST bend to the whims of VVD? Isnโ€™t something like this technically an option? bsky.app/profile/shak...

02.11.2025 08:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanksโ€” hereโ€™s hoping!

01.11.2025 05:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Witchcraft - The Comics Journal Aug Stone reviews Sole Otero's latest graphic novel, a collection of short stories, all involving a trio of sinister witches.

Just in time for Halloween, my review of Sole Otero's wonderful Witchcraft for The Comics Journal @comicsjournal.bsky.social
www.tcj.com/reviews/witc...

30.10.2025 15:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oooh this is what I was hoping to hear. Walk through the math real quick?

30.10.2025 14:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World - Bad Winter / Man Of Stated Age (Double Single Review) Ex-The Sludgelord Founder Now Doing A New Blog. Expect Reviews, News and Interviews from The Doom/Sludge/Stoner Metal World.

Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World - Bad Winter / Man Of Stated Age (Double Single Review)

outlawsofthesun.blogspot.com/2025/10/hidd...

27.10.2025 14:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Karen Pechilis ed., "A Cultural History of Hinduism: Volumes 1-6" (Bloomsbury, 2024) - New Books Network

newbooksnetwork.com/a-cultural-h... Fantastically conceived project (and Iโ€™d say so even if I hadnโ€™t got to contribute a chapter ๐Ÿค“)

09.10.2025 08:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World- King's College London - Department of History #skystorians ๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธwww.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...

27.09.2025 06:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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People Are Predicting Rapture Day Is Coming โ€” Hereโ€™s What It Means Several faithful Christians on TikTok are suggesting that Rapture Day is happening on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Hereโ€™s why they think itโ€™s happening.

www.distractify.com/p/tuesday-ra... Happy start / midpoint of the Great Tribulation to all my Darbyites โ˜๏ธ

23.09.2025 06:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Contrast is even more bizarre when you realize many actual monarchies (e.g. in Western Europe) are in practice significantly more democratic than ye olde Land of the Free.

24.08.2025 04:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ministry of Violence James Dobson is dead, leaving behind the legacy of poisoned politics he created, and countless children and adults who live with the pain of surviving the...

In recognition of James Dobson's all too delayed death, we republished an account of his legacy -- a three part series about evangelical child abuse, a culture Dobson disseminated and propagandized. buttondown.com/theswordandt...

22.08.2025 17:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 671    ๐Ÿ” 284    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 26

๐Ÿป

23.08.2025 20:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s not just enough for gAI companies to be funding and promoting fascism and are inserting their technology into every single industry and promising mass automation and suffering: individual AI pushers demand that we must all be nice to the machines and to them.
Lol, no.

10.08.2025 19:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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When Right-Wing Extremists Crashed the French Drone Festival Set among ruins that predate Stonehenge, You Origin festival reshaped the work of Sunn O)))โ€™s Stephen Oโ€™Malley, Kali Malone, and more around meditative surroundingsโ€”despite some unwanted guests.

What use is The Algorithm if it didn't know to send me this? Can confirm from my own experience in any event that it is dead easy to freak out church ladies with any kind of unfamiliar music at all. pitchfork.com/thepitch/whe...

14.07.2025 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah heโ€™s talking about brahminical traditions in the South, so perhaps less โ€˜hiddenโ€™ in a general sense than inaccessible to a 17th century Dutch missionary.

26.06.2025 06:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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HStFotW proudly endorse reading books๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿค“ #dronemetal #monolithicundertow #electricwizards #doomedtofail #booksky #musicjournalism #metalstudies #heavymusic

23.06.2025 05:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Archiving Heaviness - Lichting 2024 - Reinwardt Academy

Our research group has initiated a new project: Archiving Heaviness, music festivals as heritage communities. Case study: Roadburn!
www.reinwardt.ahk.nl/en/research-...

05.12.2024 12:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Book launch: The Open Door to Hidden Paganism. Abraham Rogeriusโ€™s Account of South Indian Hinduism (1651) www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

27.05.2025 10:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How to Opt Out of Instagram and Facebook Using Your Posts for AI Instagram and Facebook are using your photos and posts to train AI, and only European users can opt out.

NB 'Meta confirmed that there isn't an option for users outside of Europe to stop their posts and photos being used to train its AI models.' www.cnet.com/tech/service...

25.05.2025 06:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull, book reveals Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks

Are these ๐Ÿซด Kaฬ„paฬ„likas? www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

22.04.2025 08:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There is an even more metal episode: in _The White Lotus of Compassion_ ,A king leaves his kingdom to his sons, who promptly go to war with one another. In the ensuing famine, the ex-king vows to become a mountain of meat huge enough to feed everyone, and leaps off a mountain...

11.04.2025 15:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Is there a "new normal" for Durga Puja in Kolkata? Is Puja back with vengeance, after Covidian restrictions? Here are some answers! Check out the blog piece by Xenia Zeiler for CoronAsur.
ari.nus.edu.sg/20331-122/?f...

09.04.2025 15:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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3.4 Daemons, Tantra, and Cultural Exchange with David Gordon White

Daemons, Tantra, and Cultural Exchange
with David Gordon White blackberyl.substack.com/p/34-daemons...

29.03.2025 10:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
ลšaiva Rites of Fasting and the Gift of Cattle. A Study in Purฤแน‡ic and Tantric Appropriation | SHARE Libri

New #openaccess publication in the Studies on the History of Shaivism Series: A Critical Edition with Translation of ลšivadharmaล›ฤstra 10 www.fedoabooks.unina.it/index.php/fe...

20.02.2025 12:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The last indologist: ยปFortunately, there are still places in the world that havenโ€™t given up on historyยซ โ€” University Post The University of Copenhagen has an invaluable collection of ancient Indian manuscripts. But all the people who knew how to read them have been let go.

โ€˜The continued de-prioritization of the humanities has resulted in UCPH owning an important collection of Sanskrit manuscripts that could have had immense research potential, but that are now going to wasteโ€ฆโ€™ uniavisen.dk/en/the-last-...

26.01.2025 14:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sorting Fact From Fiction as Fear Engulfs Bangladeshโ€™s Hindus Reports of vandalism and mob violence are real, but wilder accusations emanating from India muddy the picture.

โ€˜Hindu residents confirmed episodes of vandalism and mob violence โ€ฆBut they also said that the cases of forged or exaggerated information had muddied the real threat to themโ€™ www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/w...

26.12.2024 08:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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14:00 GMT tomorrow at Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies

27.11.2024 12:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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