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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 14h

ended up befriending him in the last few months of his tenure on the birdsite, nice guy and good for him for getting off of twitter. i bitterly hated him at one point but it all seems so small in hindsight

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 1d

Hughes was a better poet than Plath

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Haneke's Home Alone

🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 Femininomicon ex Mortis @ofvick.bsky.social · 1d

Jane Schoenbrun's Dog Day Afternoon

Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 1d

Guillermo Del Toro's Forrest Gump.

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 1d

gotta say my man Leo is being so much more low-key than JPII, like he's just telling our Bishops to stand with immigrants and our unions to not fall for nationalist divisionism while JPII was funneling dark money to Solidarnosc and plugging into global anticommunist networks

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 1d

amerikkkan klantholikkk$$ when the Pope intervenes in the political situation of Eastern Europe: woooo yeahhh

amerikkkan klantholikkk$$ when the Pope intervenes in the political situation of the Unknighted SSnake$: what the fuck??!

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 2d

despondent Trump picking up the phone in the deepest ass crack of winter darkness just past midnight, moist w sweat and wild eyed, dialing a number and when the voice on the other side asks who he's speaking to, he starts, "Professor Hart, I've heard you can help guys like me..."

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 5d

*seeing the pink light from Dick's VALIS and being thrust into an apocalyptic vision beyond my ken* i wonder what Rod Dreher thinks of this

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 5d

Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 6d

okay big man, you earned it, thanks for writing Melancholy of Resistance for me that summer my foreman had me staying the nights at the moving warehouse and my body hurt so much that all i could do was read and cry

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 7d

used to have a bucket hat w this design...

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Circumcision Centrist @circumcentrist.bsky.social · 8d

I'm thinking about ditching this whole queer thing and becoming cajun

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 8d

if you see someone w a 🎗️emoji in their screenname, it means they like watersports. i don't want to kinkshame, it's perfectly sanitary, but these people like to get pissed on and drink the piss

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 8d

my apologies to the indigenous Siberians that had gefilte fish inflicted on them cuz of Stalin's nationalities policy

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 8d

obviously consider population transfers to be deeply immoral and never justified but can't help but imagine how funny it musta been to be the first Uzbek shepherd to get Korean BBQ cuz Stalin didn't understand east asian political relations

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · Jun 21

i think contrapoints is really important as a creator cuz i think a lot of young transwomen feel an unconscious pressure to be world historical geniuses to justify their already perfectly legitimate existences, but Contra shows you can be a beautiful woman even if ur dumber than dogshit and racist

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 22d

ur welcome, theres a really sad Cat Power song about all these kids w horrible life stories she once knew and she wonders where they are now and if id written the song itd be about the girls i played soccer with at ulpan

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 22d

Happy New Year to the Jewish homies, friend reminded me and it sent me into a bit of a reverie about the last days i spent in Occupied Quds. may we fondly hope for the end of the Zionist Entity and the restoration of free and full Palestine

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 22d

i think Deleuze somewhere argues that it was Spinoza's republican (in the classical sense) sympathies that got him cherem'd rather than his avowed "atheism" (probably something more complicated than what we mean by the term). the tall poppy gets cut down

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 23d

yeah i think that's it

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 23d

i hate to say this about Pittsburgh, the Paris of Appalachia, but we should try to be a little more like Philly wrt robots

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 23d

saw one of these moving thru a parking lot of a development adjoining a park in Northside behind a fence looking thru to the public playground. i have never seen this before. im calling it the noncebot

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · 27d

saw people commenting that the Vatican drone lightshow was evidence of the kitschy hand of an american Pope, but truthfully early Francis and even Benedict did stuff like that, the thing i don't think a non-american Pope would have ever done was invite Jellyroll to the Vatican

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · Sep 14

Catholic Answers is probably mostly for the types of guys who use the phrase "marital act" but id love to go on those forums and ask some freak shit like "how many souls do/es conjoined twins have and can you justify your answer with reference to the Summa?"

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · Sep 13

we can see the Church's tendency to twin canonize saints to appeal to the two broad political wings of the Universal Body in their recent decision to canonize both St Frassati, an Italian antifascist Third Order Dominican, and St Acutis, a gamer

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Pale King Mighty in Sorrow @avakianspontex.bsky.social · Sep 13

you reckon that in a Planet of the Apes situation there would be some subset of apes equivalent to the human concept of furries who would dress up as humans, hold conventions based on a shared love of dressing up as humans, make human inflation porn, etc? perhaps called fleshies?

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