Just came on to report that Bluesky banned Sarah Kendzior! What a joke. Those 1984 Vibes keep growing and growing. WTF @bsky.app ? Anyway I’m outa here. Maybe for good. substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

I won't be on the platform much. I have a reading group I'm hosting and creating content for. I still need to publish my book, which is likely in its last stage of editing. I also have research to do for my next book on Hekate. I might pop in now and then, but won't be posting. Thank you, everyone.

Shakira Law, Inshallah!

Sailing to Byzantium

Exhibit A

That'll be the day. They haven't even excommunicated Hitler.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but this shutdown isn't about policy. It's simply about fucking me and everyone else like me over. It's a cruel, mean-spirited, sadistic kick in the face with a jack boot. Basically: eat shit you peon, accept the whims of the rich, and die.

Judith and Holofernes, Giorgio da Castelfranco, 1504

The famous bronze Tree of Life statue in the heart of Matera, Italy's oldest city. Italy 🇮🇹

Max Ernst with Dorothea Tanning and his sculpture Capricorn’ What kind of stupid label will @bsky.app add to this?

Meat eater No. 5 by Carmen Maria Machado

lol

Totalitarianism will not be satisfied to assert, in the face of contrary facts, that unemployment does not exist; it will abolish unemployment benefits as part of its propaganda. - Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism, cp. 11, pp. 445-446

Memories Still vanish like salt

🙏 Once we were particles of Light. Now we are Beings of Light, radiating Love. Rumi

Poetry should surprise by a high excess, and not by singularity - it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. John Keats, from Letter to John Taylor

.. τῇ θεοθρέμμονι σιγῇ τῶν πατέρων ... ....in the god-nourishing silence of the Fathers. - Fragment 16, Chaldean Oracles; trns. Majercik

Untitled (Mysticism), Leonora Carrington, 1956

Les âmes au bord du Styx / Souls By the Styx (b.1871-1954) by Edgar Maxence

Slavic chthonic Hekate

Maduro likely already has purchased property in Dubai to retire to, he'll hand over oil rights/contracts to US resource corp oligarchs and billions to the Trump family laundered through 3rd parties. The threat of invasion is basically a shakedown to ensure he provides more loot.

post yourself from a different dimension

This isn't the easiest time to be Jewish in America. But now—and for a long time—it's been significantly harder to be Muslim. Barring Jews from government was one of the Nazis' signature moves. Every American Jew has an obligation to speak out against the new Nazis trying to do the same to Muslims.

is it possible anymore? ... It is

Fall of the Rebel Angels, carved out of a single piece of marble in 1740 by Italian sculptor Agostino Fasolato, it depicts 60 fallen angels.

Hilma af Klint at the Guggenheim

Mamdani doesn't hate Jews and some Jews don't rely on stereotype and hate him.

I am noble, I am a spirit, I am equipped; O all you gods and all you spirits, prepare a path for me. (BDF)

Hide your kids Hide your wife The Republicans are coming!

Hail St. Plato, god-like lover of wisdom We learn through his character Socrates about the search for a cosmic order that will make individual souls just and good. His works echo that eternal question all humans ask: what does it mean to be a good and virtuous person? substack.com/@theurgist/n...

Few people seem notice how America is turning into George Bailey's nightmare version of Bedford Falls. In every town a casino, rampant alcoholism, hard mean cruel MAGA ethos. What's odd is that the rural folks see it but blame it on the Liberals. Trump is your archetypal Mr. Potter.

Congrats Randall! I love I've read a few MacDonald things - long ago - and loved them. That whole Scottish-English fantasy tradition is beautiful. It's not to my taste and theologically we are worlds apart, but its universal message of a loving G-d is a message across all religions.

Your daily dose of Corvid - just because the Bluesky censorship of art requires calling out. It’s the stupidest piece of coding I’ve ever seen. And I work in Tech. Even X accepted the painting.

evil proceeds apace... the facade that hides reality deepens and expands... your children will never know the truth ... you will never know the truth

Is it dishonest to think we live in a vale of tears? Then, of course, I always come back to “reality.” I know the dreams are real, but the sensory apparatus thinks it’s a lie. substack.com/@theurgist/n...

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible. -Theodore Roethke The Philosophers - Dorothea Tanning

I don’t do a lot of Tarot, but I found this spread interesting: “For those who plan to stand up to or withstand their foes, this spread aims to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the parties involved, as well as advise on how to move forward in this situation.” Source link in Alt text

The Press is not your friend. The last time you might have been able to trust some of them in the US press was from Johnson to Clinton. Before and after that they were corporate shills. And here they are selling you on a new/came-to-god MTG, and you’re swallowing it hook line and sinker.

I remember reading Sam’s plays and coming across an egghead saying his work was not major. I found his work so strange, often baffling. I just loved its weirdness. So, here’s to Sam whose haunt and seat in El Farol I visited a few minutes!

Perform random acts of frivolity and senseless acts of nonchalance

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

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Today is Dichomenia, the day Theurgists celebrate heroes. One of my heroes is Simone Weil, whom Albert Camus called "the only great spirit of our time." substack.com/@theurgist/n...

you are missing incredible things on X

Strike

What accompany us are the very thoughts that sustain our perspectives.. Each thought, fleeting or devout, leaves its trace— Of how we move In their presence, the universe acquires form; in their absence, it dissolves into abstraction. An echo of what has lingered long enough to define our gaze.

A lot to consider here. While I think what Mamdani did is stupendous and almost miraculous, Sherrill and Spanberger light the way, given their ability to appeal to a broad swath of Americans. I’m not afraid of Mamdani, but I think too many others are. substack.com/@garrykaspar...