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Agatha Cakalogika

@acakalogika.bsky.social

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Old bird. Kindness matters. Yes, I care and work to try and make the world a better place irl but this is where I come to talk nonsense about things that make me happy. But also: Free Gaza. Trans Rights are Human Rights

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 6d

SPOILERS AHOY, if you have seen the Fate of Ophelia video yet….

Ok so, 🧵 because I’ve been obsessed with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood since the last 80s (1980s not 1880s), and I’m flappy hand excited again. Some of this you’ll know, but maybe some you don’t. So why am I showing the 2nd tableau?

A tableau from the Fate of Ophelia video. Taylor Swift in white medieval-style gown with huge bell sleeves, poses beside a table of her own baked sourdough bread, behind her is landscape that looks out of place, like a French or Flemish landscape, her hand is extended like a falconer, and a red dove lands on it

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 8h

The nerd in me is pointing at the necklace and shouting “Captain Marvel’s Star and Ms Marvel’s lightning bolt!”

Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 8h

Gosh yes

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 1d

Our job is not to throw 15 million people off health care and double insurance premiums for more than 20 million.

Our job is not to shutter community health centers, nursing homes and rural hospitals.

Our job is to fix a broken system and guarantee health care to all.

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luna @imlunahey.com · 8h

a gold fish with the text “good job. After hours of scroling you found the gold fish, he only appears every 2 years”

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 8h

This is AMAZING

Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 8h

I said on first viewing that there was something about Room 87 that made think of The Shining but I haven’t yet put my finger on it

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 8h

I gasped. It was, it is visceral. It’s haunting

Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 8h

This

Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 8h

I think about Madonna’s speech about how she was too threatening until she married Sean Penn and then she was ok because he’d taken her off then market

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 8h

You’ve put into words so beautifully, what I only managed an “oh my” and stomach churning feeling that hasn’t left me all week, her eyes looking right at us as she fails to escape the fate

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 16h

Somebody my mom knows only just now discovered via my mom that ICE isn't only arresting cartel members and drug dealers, and I don't know how other than one on one conversations we're supposed to break through a right wing propaganda ecosystem that keeps people completely disconnected from reality.

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 10h

Her little chin 🥹

Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 10h

It’s raining so heavily outside. Real Arizona monsoon rain. Thinking how incredibly lucky I am to have a roof over my head.

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 18h

Seeing as Kelly seems to turn up at the start of each season for a little cameo, and I think she’s said she wants to be on Loose Women, but also the clashes that were had been Farida and Kelly, I’m putting money on it being those two

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 1d

the art historical concept of 'vanitas'/'memento mori' and the showgirl era

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 1d

Add to this excellent thread the red dove in medieval Italian and Pre-Raphaelite art: bsky.app/profile/acak...

Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 6d

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 1d

And Nap is Hungarian for Sun ☀️

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 1d

Disorder continues to grow :-)

#Portland

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 2d

This is awesome.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so excited about getting my most expensive heart med free and that I’m going to be paid over $14,000 from the pharmaceutical company to take it

Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 1d

Caroline could learn from Cameron B on how to make an apology, he told Feyisola he was really sorry for what he did without her having to explain how it made her feel. He said he was wrong, not mortified that she was upset or repeatedly saying “was that wrong? I don’t know why I did that” #BBUK

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 1d

Using the word “barked” was wrong but I think that everyone needs to have a serious think about drawing attention to Cameron K and food. He’s made it clear it’s a delicate subject for him. I can see that her assuming he was going back for seconds would be very upsetting and he spoke while hurt #BBUK

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Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 1d

OMG the rod and the golden thread or rope of life (I have a whole deck on this), You are a GENIUS. 🧶

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 1d

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AygrH7/

What’d I miss?!

TikTok video by Tobin Mitnick

www.tiktok.com

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