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Raphael Hythloday

@eshuelegbara.bsky.social

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Abyss-gazer, monster-fighter, part-time bartender. Full-time movies, philosophy, books, chess, and baseball. when i'm not skeeting into the abyss, I write here: https://substack.com/@eshuelegbara

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Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · Aug 28

A Quick Intro (for anyone curious)

Here’s how I’m using each platform:

🌀 Blue Sky — quick hits, personal thoughts, jokes, politics, music, media, and the occasional chaos. If it touches my brain and doesn’t need a whole essay, it lands here.

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Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 12h

Crazy what happens when you tell the truth.

onion person @junlper.beer · 12h

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 12h

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Athens” - sign up now to join me!

NO KINGS Athens · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. B...

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Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you for the inspiration

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Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 17h

Red man, white man — won’t you stop it, please?
Red man, all the devil did was blanket you with disease.
He stole your crops, he took your women,
Your kids? They taught them in houses of pinon.
And besides, you have your homes, cordoned off —
Isn’t that all you wanted, in deals with a Luftwaffe?

A painted elk hide by Cadzi Cody depicting a ceremonial and battle scene. Plains warriors on horseback, adorned with feathered headdresses and spears, ride among buffalo and vividly painted horses. Yellow tipis stand near the center, surrounded by animals in black, red, yellow, blue, and pink. The hide’s irregular edges recall its living source — a canvas of endurance, ceremony, and memory.

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 17h

A poem below for the stolen, the silenced, and the surviving — for the nations that still sing beneath the noise of empire.

Elk Hide Painting by Cadzi Cody (Wind River Reservation, Shoshone, ca. 1880–1900). Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain.

a poster that says invasion is not discovery celebrate indigenous peoples day

ALT: a poster that says invasion is not discovery celebrate indigenous peoples day

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Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 21h

May as well just go with Leif, but I'm a sucker for Irish myth.

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 21h

Hoot, hoot, here I am
As I am wise and strong
Do you question wrong?
Just and proud, forever
Broken, humbled, whatever
Athens had it first
Carolina to a second
Where I go?
It gets reckoned.

Rosehr Photography @rosehrphotography.bsky.social · 1d

Sentinel of the Substation: An Owl Watches Over Daisy Hil

#photography Hans-Joachim Rosehr
#Australia #street #art #painting

A strikingly lifelike owl painted on a utility pole in Daisy Hill, Queensland, gazes out with piercing yellow eyes. Its feathers, rendered in soft grays and whites, evoke twilight stillness. The pole’s background fades into lush greens and blues, echoing the surrounding foliage and sky. This street art transforms infrastructure into a perch for nature’s wisdom, blending urban grit with wild serenity.

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 21h

✝️ Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist (10/13)

Jeremiah’s warning. Jonah’s surrender. Proverbs’ patience.

One reflection on the fall of nations and the return of faith.

🌑 Available 5 PM ET → open.substack.com/pub/wittgens...

#BlindFaith #Faith #Prophecy #Tao #Jeremiah #Jonah #Proverbs

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 22h

⚡ Daily Tao Reflection 36 — “The Expansion Before the Shrink”

Zeno’s paradox. The Big Crunch.
Hendrix, Lao Tzu, and the Tao breathing through history.

🌄 Live at 10 AM ET → open.substack.com/pub/wittgens...

#DailyTao #Philosophy #Cosmos #Hendrix

⚡️ Daily Tao Reflection 36

The Expansion Before the Shrink

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Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 1d

Follow for the series.

#PiratesOfTheCaribbean #Burke #Foucault #FilmAnalysis #LawAndPower

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 1d

Part I sets the stage. Part II: Burke (pastiche → prophecy). Part III: Foucault. Part IV: synthesis. Part V: design.

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 1d

Burke: no natural bond; we stitch with law. Foucault: schools/barracks/clinics do the stitching. If it’s engineered, we can re-engineer.

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 1d

Parley → even thieves have a code. The Brethren’s Code = counter-constitution. Barbossa: “guidelines.” That’s the regime.

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 1d

Will = talent in chains. Elizabeth = grace in a cage. Hierarchy throttles both.

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 1d

Pirates is a parable: codes pretend to be “nature.” Barbossa enforces; Jack exploits. Same game.

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 1d

New tomorrow: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Natural Society of the Sea — how “guidelines, not rules” exposes law as power.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Natural Society of the Sea

How “guidelines, not rules” exposes law as power

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Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 1d

“We scarcely ever had a Parliament… that knew, when it attempted to set limits to the royal authority, how to set limits to its own.”

Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 1d

tired of blather from public intellectuals that haven't understood the political moment at any point in the last ten years

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 1d

The day which makes a man a slave, takes away half his worth.

Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 2d

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 1d

5. From 10-15, I was bullied by my peers in school and church because I was a know-it-all kid who played the flute and so I learned what the previous 4 things get you.

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 1d

4. At 8, my parents took me to England for an international teaching conference they attended. They had to stop giving me money because I kept giving it to random unhoused persons.

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 1d

3. My parents took me to their doctoral classes when they couldn't get a babysitter. There was a book club on Thursdays and my name was drawn twice to pick what to read that month. I chose The Giver and Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix.

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 1d

2. Also at 5, I was at the YMCA and was playing teetherball with N.H. I actually won the match and he threw the ball at my head and hit me. Later that day, I gave him a Charizard card because I thought he was sad. He became a key friend in childhood from that day on.

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood

1. When I was 5, I had to learn consent because I had a crush on a girl in my class, M.H., and thought that during nap time it was normal for "the prince" to wake up "the princess" with a kiss.

Jim Burke @barcajim3.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood
Miner's Strike (first one)
IRA campaign on mainland
Kenny Dalglish signing for Liverpool
Argentina in fucking cunting '78
Thatcher

Philip @blumphy.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?
1976 FA Cup Final
1977 FA Cup Final
Being kidnapped in 1979
Linda 1980
Thatcher

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 1d

And people call me bombastic.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

Raphael Hythloday @eshuelegbara.bsky.social · 1d

In vain you tell me that artificial government is good… The thing! the thing itself is the abuse… and how shall we be defended against the governors?

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.