Disheartened to see that, within 8 hours of uploading, a random 🐂💩 video about ogham garnered 4 times as many views on YouTube as the the OG(H)AM project's video (at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3sE...) did in one and a half years. The presenter tells the audience that ogham is an ancient... /1

Happy anniversary of this not happening

The Never Platner stance has really crumbled under scrutiny, yet it remains the shibboleth of this website. It reminds me of how Bluesky was overwhelmingly Biden dead-enders ca. Summer 2024...

everything about Hasan clicks into place when you realize that everyone in politics/media is a lifelong nerd, while Hasan looks, to them, like a big strong scary jock who might shove them into the lockers of their youth

The still-standing temples of Roman Gaul:

My daily horoscopes getting concerningly specific lately

Pompeii Study Confirms Roman 'Wine' Ritual Previously Known Only From Texts gizmodo.com/pompeii-stud...

Facing the reality that brutality and cruelty also have tradeoffs and are not a secret weapon that facilitates an easy victory, they are furious at being embarrassed by their lessers and seeing their theory of the world publicly discredited (not that they would ever acknowledge that)

Missed my chance to do laundry this weekend b/c I forgot today is Easter and the Laundromat is closed. I should've known staying tuned into all that Ishtar / Ostara discourse would have been good for something...

Wow, it must be super fucking hard when your employer and government don't host special services for the religion you belong to. I can't even imagine...

This country has gone to Hell in a handbasket, and the Liberals themselves voted to send it there.

Happy TDOV to all my trans sibs. Keep on trucking. Keep on holding each other up.

Sentenced to 2 years in jail for putting tomato soup on glass, which took 10 seconds to wipe off. Not in Iran, in the UK.

'EID[ibus] MAR[tiis]": 'Ides of March' with 'pileus' between two daggers. The (in)famous coin issued by the assassins of C. Iulius Caesar after their act of "liberation". The coin was pierced and worn as a charm in Antiquity. Photo: Geni CC-BY-SA 4.0 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ei...

oh this place is a ticking time bomb. I see

Medieval frescoes • Clare Island Abbey • Mayo The island's small Cistercian abbey church has some of Ireland's best surviving medieval paintings, depicting dragons and fantastical beasts. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Medieval #IrishHistory #Archaeology

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib. He thought he was going to die. Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.

Jefferies/Schumer: "Strong floor, no ceiling." Moulton/AOC: "Strong rope, no floor."

media trust fund brunchlords have finally cracked the case

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

All of this would stop in an instant if all the Americans who believe in nothing, stand for nothing, and pretend they know nothing, simply said, "Enough."

“Black people can’t be pagan” Actually, I can do whatever the fuck I want

we reached over 2 billion posts today. that's probably enough

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.

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

Ohara Koson, Japanese (1877-1945), Waxwings on Twig, 1911, woodblock, 34.3 x 18.7 cm, private collection

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

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.

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.

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"...

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…

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.

Thanks, I hate it. #heathensky #pagansky

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