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Agatha Cakalogika

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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 · 5d

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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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 18h

Disorder continues to grow :-)

#Portland

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 21h

This is awesome.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 14h

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

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 12h

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 · 12h

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 · 17h

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 · 13h

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 · 16h

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 · 16h

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AygrH7/

What’d I miss?!

TikTok video by Tobin Mitnick

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 16h

Oh my 😁

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Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 17h

Fate as in the three Fates 🧶

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 17h

youtu.be/ckzswPV30RA?...

Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion - The Doctor wants to press the big red button

YouTube video by Doctor Whovians

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 18h

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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Alex 🩻🩵💚❤️‍🔥 @artsyastronaut.bsky.social · 17h

You saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia
How dare you think it's romantic leaving me safe and stranded?
And if you leave me high and dry I'd cry my eyes violet
Is it romantic how my elegies eulogize me?
It's actually romantic all the effort you put in
All I wanted was sweet nothing

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Alex 🩻🩵💚❤️‍🔥 @artsyastronaut.bsky.social · 19h

This is kinda what I was thinking. Like It's really hard to break a cycle when it's all you know. But also the word fatal has the same roots as fate and we can't really avoid that fate. No matter how hard we try to avoid it we all die eventually. It's just a matter of when and how

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angie @bigcityhopes.bsky.social · 18h

This discussion always takes me back to this:

Orestes: This was always going to happen
She's been dead since the beginning

screenshot of a tumblr post:

[image description: three text excerpts.

image 1 is a quote attributed to John Darnielle, which reads, “This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.”

image 2 is an excerpt from a script. the first sentence is highlighted. Orestes says, “This was always going to happen. She’s been dead since the beginning.”

image 3 is text which reads, “Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”

/end ID]

#fav#parallels

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 19h

Oooh I like this

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 19h

There’s a black eyed Susan front middle a bit squished in, on the right is a chrysanthemum, the very front in a carnation, and I’m still not totally sure on the bendy stalked, the stalks look like poppies, but the flowers have too many leaves for California, I used to grow Iceland ones but not sure

Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 19h

The chips/fries reminds me of when Taylor saw Griff after the Brits, she gave her a big bunch of flowers and they ate chips together

Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 19h

That’s interesting, this is a totally different case of flowers, back left you have a rose, the 2 large blooms in the centre are dahlias, the names of the flowers with the bendy, hollowish stalks escape me for now.

Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 19h

I’d need to see closer but I think this is a bunch of different orange flowers, at the back they look like freesia, in the middle I think there might be a rose, left front because of the pedicel (I think, my floral knowledge is ancient) is a carnation and right front is a California poppy

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

And now Bernice King is having to tell people to stop making videos of her father

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 19h

My reading of the video (which could be totally wrong) is that she came full circle and despite everything she still drowns. She’s like Oedipus or Macbeth that she can’t escape her fate

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 19h

I saw 3, it was a very interesting window to look in

Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 20h

It matches the videos of people screaming with joy, ripping the cardigans out of the boxes and putting them on and leaving the CDs untouched

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 20h

This is fab

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