In the glittering sky above Rubin Observatory shines the Pleiades, or M45: an open star cluster with at least a thousand stars!✨ You don't need to be under some of the clearest skies on Earth (like Rubin is) to see M45! It's visible from October through April from most latitudes. 🌎 🔭

Last week, EarthSky friend Jeremy Evans caught Sirius - the brightest star in the night sky - shining through a Joshua tree in Death Valley National Park, California, beneath the beloved constellation #Orion. Thank you, Jeremy! 🌟 See more stellar photos at ecp.earthsky.org.

Eclipse Magic & Taboos youtu.be/w8h8vdrzF1c?...

a LOT of people don't want liberation, they want privilege

Critical times require a critical lens.

I know my heart, I have gained power over my heart, I have gained power over my two hands and arms, I have gained power over my feet, I have gained the power to do what pleaseth my Ka. (BDB)

Happy #SuperbOwl🦉 Sunday! This is one of my favorite examples from ancient Egypt, the letter "M". Share your favorite Superb Owls.

How Michael Parenti helped clarify the class war With the death of Marxist thinker and anti-imperialist advocate Michael Parenti, many on the left have been reflecting on his life. For anyone committed to the working class struggle, Michael Parenti represented a strong voice against fascism and…

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1) Astronomy 2) African Cinema 3) Japanese Cinema 4) 16mm Film Production 5) Sanskrit

the sluts WILL save us.

The Hydra Cluster (Abell 1060) - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/Vym1ga

From ancient Mesopotamia to the present day, fears of the restless dead coming back to cause mayhem have abounded. 'Killing the Dead' explores the ways bodies were treated around the world to prevent them from coming back 💀 🆓 in our #NewBookChronicle doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

no dear employer I don't want to go to "ai bootcamp"

i’m fascinated by this new strategy wjere multiple ai company CEOs have been going on tears tours this year so far complaining about how anti ai sentiment has hurt their businesses

You may have heard of Enheduanna, the princess, priestess, and poet who is also the earliest named author in history. Well, a tiny broken artefact made of lapis lazuli preserves the name of Ilum-pālil, her hairdresser. It is a fragmentary cylinder seal, excavated from a tomb in the city of Ur.

It's a nationwide digital spotlight on ICE arrests and detention centers.

Does a “reform” further empower your enemies or take power and resources away from them? Some of you need to sit with this question.

ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained. Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk

!!!BOOK NEWS!!! Do you want a signed copy of *The Edge of Space-Time*? Do you want to support a queer/Black and Asian-owned bookstore? Through 30 March, if you preorder from @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, you are guaranteed a signed AND personalized copy: loyaltybookstores.com/preordersspa... 😻 📚💙

Today we continue reading 'The Arabic Hermes: From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science' by Kevin Van Bladel, picking up with Ch. 5.2 'Hermes the Lawgiver: Hermes as presented by al-Mubassir ibn Fattik' Time: 18.00 UTC or 19.00 CET / 1PM EDT / 10AM PDT (Check my Patreon or Discord for zoom link!)

Watching the replay of The People's Forum's class, The Battle for History: Why Trump wants to Erase the Past --first part of the series on the Hidden Histories of Rebellion in the U.S.: politicaleducation.peoplesforum.org/histrebellio...

Before he co-founded Brave, Brendan Eich was chased out of Mozilla for his history of supporting anti-gay causes and politicians. He was also a big "Fauci lies" guy in the height of the pandemic. I've found this is a thing that's not well known

I think we are all in need of some more witches in art. 'Medea the Sorceress', Valentine Cameron Prinsep, oil on canvas, 1880, Wikimedia Commons #WitchSky #Art #ArtHistory

Green Man, Snow Angel, my photos

Spent the last few days de-googling my workspace. I should've done this a couple years ago but here we are. Proton for email, drive, calendar, vpn. Brave browser. A friend in cyber security shared this guide for Cutting Google Out of Your Life for anyone who needs it: git.tycrek.com/archive/dego...

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

This is a very minor quibble in the grand scheme of things, but I've been percolating on it for over a year, so here goes. I don't think we are using "imperial boomerang" correctly. Controversial take, perhaps but here is why.

🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #FineJewellery BAT PENDANT, early 20th century Gold, enamel, diamonds and ruby

Getting into the meat of it: cosmonautmag.com/2023/02/karl....

On this day in 1870, more than 200 Blackfeet people-mostly children, women & elders-were massacred by the US Army at the Marias River in what is now Montana. Settler violence has been ongoing for centuries and is at the very core of the 'American project.' ictnews.org/archive/nati...

"The first general strike in the U.S. in 80 years” is a wild statement. No wonder things are the way they are in the U.S.

I'm Latinamerican. The US backed almost every military coup during the Cold War. They forced regimes that would be happy to give cheap resources to the US. Hundreds of thousands of latinamericans were slaughtered or made disappear because of the US. We don't see you as a force of good.

Colóquenme en el algoritmo anticapitalista marxista y lejos del dribble neoliberal, porfa.

Finally getting around to reading True to the Earth by @kadmusauthor.bsky.social

It took a bit more time than I’d expected, but Dorotheus’s nativities exemplifying success and failure as preserved in Māshāʾallāh’s surviving version are now available as the first installment of Rhetorius, Part V. www.patreon.com/posts/explan...

We all shine on, like the moon and Serapis and the sun. Oil lamp with image of the god Serapis between a crescent moon and a star or sun. Made in Ephesus, said to be Egyptian, about 100-150 CE. Currently held by British Museum 🏺 #AncientBluesky #Egyptology

It was such a pleasure to give and receive music as a gift. I hate streaming, it's just not the same experience as listening to a physical album. It's a big loss.

no new pictures where are you mentally?

ICE violence 'is the America Native people have known since the first Europeans arrived. We know what happens when dehumanization becomes policy and violence becomes procedure. Atrocities become not only possible, but inevitable.' nativenewsonline.net/opinion/nati...

Last week marked the 10 year anniversary of being initiated into the Vodun Hwendo mysteries as an adepte of Nayete (the Fon/Vodun equivalent of the Yoruba/Orisha Yemoja) along with other deities in my ancestral entourage🪽

This was my last year being understanding so good luck to everyone.

The wonderful Catherine Urban @astrocatherine1.bsky.social joined us to talk about the history of synastry and how we have come to apply it in our parent-child relationships and family dynamics, including experiences around adoption, family estrangement and cycle-breaking. youtu.be/ZeFs1UaUCRM?...

In 1975, after decades of illegally surveilling & sabotaging left-wing movements in the US (and assassinating people abroad) the Senate painstaking wrote out the government's playbook for destroying movements. In January, the first commercial and streamlined version of this report hits bookstores.

Antoinette of Pomegranate Astrology joined me last week to record a conversation on the New Moon in Libra. This is the first in a series of collabs with friends on the lunations, featuring astrologers who have their natal Moon in the same sign as the lunation☆ youtu.be/VLfl3XXtNSw?...

5 Ways the Natal Chart Reveals One's Purpose youtu.be/mMYRpiR3W7M?...

🖤 My Saturn’s Day Find 🖤 🖤 Corvus albus wing feather 🖤🐦‍⬛

My new book from Hadean Press is now available for presale! I am so excited. Check it out. More details below. Learning from Legendary Practitioners: A Necromantic Journey into History, Myth, and the Practice of Magic is a masterclass in the practice of spirit summoning and necromancy.