I honestly feel—and I can elaborate—that the U.S. Republican party is not only the world's premier terrorist organization and an apocalyptic death cult par excellence, but ALSO the GREATEST threat ever to humankind and to humanity's continued survival and capacity to flourish on this planet.

#Instagram [digitally] edited #photo / #selfie (captured/first edited 2020) upload—second[ary] #edit ('25)—from #post on 12.13.2023, feat. caption: ❝A fresh shave relieves a king of his crown of thorns, even if only for a little while. [2020.]❞ (Feat. #quotes by Emil #Cioran and Thomas #Ligotti.)

#Thelemic version—a personal interpretation—of the #Buddhist #FourImmeasurables: ◆ 1. May all accomplish their True Wills. ◆ 2. May all know true wisdom and perfect happiness. ◆ 3. May all obtain that Will which is free of error. ◆ 4. May all abide in one-pointedness, detachment, and peace therein.

"I am so angry with myself because I cannot do what I should like to do, and at such a moment one feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless." — Vincent van Gogh (in a letter to his brother Theo)

Unicursal CHRISTMAS GOOD WILL Propaganda from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information hermetic.com/informa... #propaganda #christmas #season #peace #GoodWill #only

「❝WEIRDOS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!❞」(video; heavy edit/shortened version (for YouTube + Bluesky upload); Jan., 2025) ～ a "PSA" by Vincent St. Clare (a.k.a.: #C∴I, #U_C, #VstC, [¿?‽¡]_♛, «Ves._[A']Inn'i'Mat._d'Sg. (🝯 𓇳♀⛥✫_⸘⓪🃏︎🩸☩𐃯)», &c.) [...] ◇ Made with...: VivaVideo (Android app) + other programs.

Old vid (clip): 「One-Handed Instrumentals at the New York Renaissance Fair[e] (2013)」 – Tuxedo (Tuxedo Park), NY (U.S.) ～ [via] Vincent St. Clare (TikTok: @dream_of_heliopolis ‖ YouTube: @StClare_ {1}; @MountAnalogue {2}) ▶ linktr.ee/vincent_st.clare | TheGrandTangent.WordPress.com <...> #video

I can't be the only human in history to sabotage their own life due to persistent quasi-phobias of commitments, routines, or anything that requires one to acknowledge the reality of decay and being stuck within time—how I can't just refuse to cooperate with the limits imposed by the cosmos itself.

Speed-running nothingness.

... P.S. (to idiots shrieking "punk/goth's gone woke!"): Countercultural rebellion isn't rebellion for its own sake—that'd be facile. Per anarchist ethos, rebellion is against structures of power, hierarchy, and domination that are unjustified and entrenched by coercion—for the sake of liberation.

{{ youtu.be/ppV5MQereOI?... }} ... Gotta hand it to the Infographics Show (on YT) for helping me keep my expectations wonderfully low for the future so that I'm never unpleasantly surprised when I'm reminded—for the umpteenth time in any given hour of any day of the week!—that we all live in #Hell!

{{ youtu.be/68ofXt3TJms?... }} For those of you interested in the "darker" side of—say, "*mad*"— #science, I cannot recommend more highly the brilliant Gabriel Torch ( #GabrielTorch) on YouTube. However, I'll warn you that her content can easily become part of an anxiety-spiking #doomscroll!

Yeah, hard to explain that... #TDS #ItsAcult #MAGAtNation

"Ideologies are ways of organizing... swaths of life and experience under... shared but unexamined assumptions. This... makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's exerting its hold... . A reigning ideology is... like the weather: all[-]pervasive and... inescapable." — M. #Pollan

Li'l transfer from ye olde ̶T̶w̶i̶t̶t̶e̶r̶/̶T̶w̶a̶t̶t̶e̶r̶/̶/̶w̶/̶e̶ (🐦/ 𝕏) [acct.] belonging to yours truly—gradually vanishing (gradually being stripped down and re-housed here (→🦋)) as it is—with accompanying screen-shot. (Tiny edit; see pic ALT text.) Shot's of "borrowed" meme I posted to 𝕏 alongside text—2.26.'24.

"Wrydin'N'bo📕ks got no place in rhetoric these days, muhguy. 2025, bro! Baseicklee erybudy only changes their views on stuff bc TikTok "snackable content"-type veedyuh essayz w/ d00dz yellin in2they🤳inside shitbox/Celica. FUK 『𝘈 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦'𝘴 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴』—ICE CREAM SO GOOD GANG GANG!"

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement. #NoWords 🤮

#BTW: I mentioned specifically Japanese forms of #Zen, but I'll note Zen in Japan is ultimately the #Japanese expression of the #Chinese #Chán school of #Mahāyāna #Buddhism, and Chán is known as #Seon /Sŏn in Korea and #Thiền in Vietnam. (Thiền is also the first form of Buddhism I directly studied!)

#Labels we apply to ourselves—terms of self-identification—are often, if not 𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺, to varying degrees, 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴, yet they're also informative—yet malleable—and so also 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 freeing—𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴, in their own ways. This applies as much to #socio-political #ideologies as spiritual ones... 〔1/7〕

Now "rediscovering" #Buddhism years since putting Buddhist studies mostly "on pause" to delve into #Thelema: I'd been so enraptured by #Zen especially—some years ago—but, having come back, and now, for the first time, into #Dzogchen and #Nyingthig, I see #Nuit–Hadit in #Samantabhadri–Samantabhadra!

⬌❝𝙉𝙖𝙝. 𝘼 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙪𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙄𝘾𝘽𝙈 𝙞𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧. 𝘼 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙣 𝙥𝙖𝙮𝙡𝙤𝙖𝙙 𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨 ~ 4.18 × 10^15 𝙟𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙮 𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙩.❞ — ⸘♛𓂀♕⸘ [/𝙫st𝙘/ᵐᵒᶦ [⁺ "ᴬ'ᶦóⁿⁿᵒᵐᶦⁿᵃᵇᶦᵐᵃᵗᵗᵒ..."]], ¹⁰.¹⁰.²⁰²⁴, ᶦⁿ ᵖᵒˢᵗ ᵒⁿ [ᵐᵘʰ] 𝕏 ᶠᵉᵃᵗ. ˢⁿᵃʳᵏʸ ʳᵉˢᵖᵒⁿˢᵉ ᵗᵒ ᵍ⁰⁰ᶠʸ ᵐᵉᵉᵐ ⁽ᵛᶦᵃ 'ʸᵒᵘ & ᴹᵉ' ~ ᶠᵃᶜᵉᵇᵒᵒᵏ ᵖᵃᵍᵉ⁾; ᵈᵉᵃˡᶦⁿ' ʷ/ ᴿᴱᴬᴸ ᶦˢˢᵘᵉˢ!

Recently came upon a video featuring an open question I've since had stuck swirling around in my head. Paraphrasing ...: ❝𝘼𝙣𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙖 𝙡𝙪𝙭𝙪𝙧𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 500 𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙛𝙛? ⁽... ˢˡᵃᵛᵉˢ?⁾❞

❝[C]apitalism would not [exist] without... private #property... . [T]o liberate ourselves from the... #capitalist #state... we must... [have] a... method... We practice [ #egocom][...] not [because]... it is... right... [, but because] it... benefits us,... [W]e [*]want[*] [it].❞ ~ #DZR 〔𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙚〕

< theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rowa... > ⇧⬆ D.Z. Rowan: 「A Brief Description of Egoist Communism」 (2017) at The Anarchist Library (@anarchistlibrary.bsky.social; TheAnarchistLibrary.org) 【IMG: 'Flag' representing "ego-communism", so-called, via u/Kasyade_Satana @ r/leftistvexillology on Reddit.】

#𝙷𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚢 #𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛 ( #𝘲𝘶𝘰𝘵𝘦 / #𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘦... 〔1/3〕)⤵⭏: ❝Through art... one finally establishes contact with reality ... . Here all is play and invention; there is no solid foothold from which to launch the projectiles which will pierce the miasma of folly, ignorance[,] and greed. [...] <𝘊𝘖𝘕𝘛. ... ⬇>

Can't stop chuckling to myself thinking of the—tongue-in-cheek—phrase "𝗴𝗮𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶'𝗮𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗬𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀" since I read it in a YouTube #comment earlier today. (What's crazy is that there are people who basically think that that's what #Mamdani is somehow genuinely about, though.)

Quentin Tarantino has been on a meth binge for the past two weeks. Don't pay attention to his BS. He's probably been jacking it for the last 14 hours straight to pics of Shrek's feet. Are you going to take such a person seriously?

All teachers, thinkers, philosophers, prophets, and other such individuals have always had, and will... Read more: https://longer.blue/posts/RzpM6hRyV9

some days you just have to laugh at how unbelievably stupid everything is

Over on the Facebook, you can bet that whether it's ICE brutalizing immigrant toddlers, or the US military mass-murdering civilians in international waters, every person cheering it on makes sure that you know they are a "Christian" in their profile. Every. Single. One.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life — We will always refute it & combat it" Unless you’re J6 insurrectionist who attacks the capitol — then you receive a pardon & get called a patriot…

For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed. Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system.

Layoffs have hit over 1.1M so far this year — the most since the pandemic. Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Morning.

"When a long train of abuses and usurpation, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security." - Declaration of Independence.

It's unbelievable how corrupt the Supreme Court is. It's insane that we are letting them get away with it. They are taking away all of our rights.

New in PN: A war criminal without a war "We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."

In a 2–1 ruling, Trump-appointed D.C. Circuit Court Judges greenlit his removal of Democratic members of the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board. In a scathing dissent, Judge Florence Pan warned it's a disastrous consolidation of executive power. trib.al/DCo8WqM

He's now crediting himself with ending wars that never happened! "The fact that we could do that, in India, Pakistan, so many different wars that we were able to end, in some cases, a little bit before they started, just right before they started … but we got them done," he said.

this shit is just beyond parody, man

" #A—Ω" —micro- #poem, writen c. '07 by Vincent St. Clare; '16 rec.: #V_St._C (voice) & #QT (percussion, mixing, editing); '24 #vid: #VstC ~ #audiovisualized (as displayed @ [my] YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, &c. [pages]). #Video ed./№. ❶ of ❷. 〔See ⤵️ for related info + vid ed./№. ❷ of ❷...〕

Gonna try something here: ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛⬛🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧⬛⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧⬛⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧⬛⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧⬛⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🏼🏼🏼🏼🏼🟧🟧⬛⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛🟧🟧🟧🟧🏼🏼⬜⬜🏼⬜🏼⬛⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛🟧🟧🏼🟧🏼⬜⬛⬛🏼⬛⬜⬛⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛🟧🟧🏼🟧🏼⬜⬛⬛🏼⬛⬜⬛⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜

Existential self-mutilation is underappreciated as a pastime.

Barbarism was chosen by our owners as the 21st century's operating system. If you're worth less than 100 million USD, you're prey. More than that, and you get to hunt down any semblance of happiness in the world and murder it for sport.

About time someone bust out a Super Soaker full of cat piss and ruin some suits on 5th Ave in Manhattan.

This Alex Karp psycho needs to be jettisoned into space. He's a threat to all of humanity.

Starting?