"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.

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.

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.

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.

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? 🙄

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.

The reaction Disney fans are having makes think maybe the Harry Potter fans are just bigots who don’t care after all.

There is fundamentally no way for the Left to "persuade" elites, because it has nothing to offer them. It requires them to give up their special status, power, and wealth. The past year should have underlined for you that the only road out of this is to defeat "the elites"...

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Some of my creations. Gnå, Vidar, Auðumla, Mani

I have stopped recommending Bluesky altogether by now. Most users here are americans addicted to american politics. The bsky team constantly fucks up: promotes genAI, moderation issues, supporting transphobes, supporting a certain demographic that is not present here, enforc rules selectively…

How far into that Martin Niemöller poem are the Late Night TV hosts?

Boycotts worked when it was against something like the local bus line. They do *not* work against something like a media monopoly. That is in fact a key reason for consolidating monopolistic control in the first place...

It is odd how witches and heathens both featured prominently in current events lately, when the incident in question wasn't directly connected to either. Paganism is somehow both culturally pervasive and totally marginal at the same time.

This article gives a deep cut on how cult sites to Baal and Astarte* were established on the frontiers of Germania & Britannia by Syrian cohorts employed by the Roman military. *Romanized as Jupiter Dolichenus & Juno Caelestis #pagansky #heathensky #polytheism www.academia.edu/128758550/Re...

They're really out here witch hunting and doxxing any suspected trans persons, under the firm conviction that merely sharing living quarters with someone trans naturally turns red-blooded American boys into crazed gunmen, like the full moon does a werewolf.

We sternly warn the left not to politicize the tragedy caused by our politics.

Thanks, I hate it. #heathensky #pagansky

any outlet that reported the “pro-trans ideology on bullet casings” thing owes the public an apology and an explanation if you are serious about turning down the temperature, start by showing some shame and regret for your role in turning it up in the first place by allowing yourself to be played

it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient

That's the ironic thing — only conservatives paid close attention to the shit this guy was saying, and all the conservatives I know irl don't even care that he died b/c they hated him so much more than Liberals do lol Anyway, time to quit giving this non-event so much oxygen...

One of the most disappointing things is how many people are cowards.

Well yes, the oligarchs have consolidated control of the government and media, while "journalists" and the managerial class all obediently carry out their agenda. It feels like totalitarian power because it is.

Multiple prominent people have been banned off this site for showing insufficient fealty, shortly after Jay made her big display of support for the dead propagandist. It's not a coincidence. Bluesky is not immune to becoming like X.

Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened

Really enjoyed this - gorgeous finds, really good lighting, insights into treasure, Viking hoards that haven't been seen together & stupidly chunky Ysceifiog #torc which hasn't been previously displayed...!! Do go! 👇 www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/muse... #Archaeology 🏺 #Gold #Vikings #Torcs

Normie Dems have a suicidal fetish for courtesy and decorum.

Perhaps never seen a clearer litmus test of who not to trust (ever, under any circumstances)

(Person who destroyed homeless peoples belongings with a smile on their face) political violence is bad

It speaks volumes who the media and elites care about getting gunned down in this country. One single conservative white man, one singular media pundit, is evidently more valued than actual hundreds of innocent children, immigrants, queers. It's fucking sickening.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Icarus by Barry Windsor-Smith (1981). It was also the front cover of Epic Illustrated (Feb 1983)