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he/him. don't go to your grave having dug it yourself.

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johnny @heracleion.bsky.social · Nov 13

me, constantly dizzy and slightly slurring my words: call me Baba Yaga the way this chick in my house

the girl I invited over: ...what?

my downstairs neighbor who recently started practicing alchemy: [through the floor] I NEED MORE POWDERS

johnny @heracleion.bsky.social · 1d

still hits

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Toy Machine - Welcome to Hell - Elissa Steamer's Part

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johnny @heracleion.bsky.social · 1d

ah yes, Elissa Tall Ship. I loved her part in that Toy Contraption video, "Welcome to Pandæmonium"

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 2d

elissa dot org is one of the rare sites still online and the Elissas even have reunions on a boat called the ELISSA!!! elissa.org/index.shtml

johnny @heracleion.bsky.social · 7d

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johnny @heracleion.bsky.social · Nov 30

well, here it is, my favorite post of every year for the last 9 years:

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johnny @heracleion.bsky.social · Sep 11

what an odious statement. he spread antisemitic & white supremacist conspiracy theories like "Cultural Marxism" and a "Great Replacement Theory". he welcomed school shootings. he cheered on genocidal slaughter in Palestine. he demonized transgender people until his literal final breath.

johnny @heracleion.bsky.social · Sep 11

history/historically-relevant books I started this year & really need to finish:
David Graeber, "Debt: The First 5,000 Years"
John Gurda, "The Making of Milwaukee"
George Orw*ll, "[Year I will avoid spelling out because I don't want a bunch of BlueWaveHashtagResistLibs in my mentions again]"
ok bye!

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · Sep 11

Hours before yesterday's shooting, the largest network in the country was actively calling for genocide and extermination live on air.

Watching one of the loudest voices that led us here get deified by every major network and publication is heartbreaking beyond words.

We're begging you. Wake up.

-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · Sep 10

"This is the excuse they'll use to _____!!!"

An anchor on the largest news network in the country was calling for mass "involuntary lethal injection" of mentally ill people *this morning*

If Kirk getting shot is the reason you're just now taking this seriously, that says a lot about you.

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johnny @heracleion.bsky.social · Sep 11

I think I'm gonna log off for a while & be better about reading more. I need to be a better student of history. so if you have any history book recs, hit me up

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johnny @heracleion.bsky.social · Sep 11

something I learned today: the term "Cultural Marxism" (the antisemitic conspiracy theory now common among right-wingers) is a direct descendant of a Nazi propaganda term, "Cultural Bolshevism".

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · Sep 9

mobile rendering of a post for a recipe for chocolate chip cookie dough cake where the author leads with "I want to start off this post with saying how saddening I was to learn of the bombing at the Boston Marathon."

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johnny @heracleion.bsky.social · Sep 7

TO THE DEPTHS WITH YE

a symbol showing a kid in a child seat with a full-sized boat anchor thrown over the back of the car seat.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 6

This is a great piece by @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social with helpful tips for addressing COVID misinformation.

As a science communicator, my experience is that the best way to win people over is with empathetic real world conversations and it's work we all need to do if we want to turn things around.

I inserted myself into a conversation at a bar about Covid and vaccines. Here’s what happened

What happened when a public health scientist overheard four men sharing misinformation about Covid — and decided to talk to them about it.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x

Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · Sep 6

Tapping the sign

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johnny @heracleion.bsky.social · Sep 7

just fell to my knees

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johnny @heracleion.bsky.social · Sep 6

the new TWIABP is a work of art that I wish didn't have to be made, but I'm glad someone did. so many vivid images from distant past, & even future, to throw the present in sharp relief.

"yell out loud as a weather god, a thunderstorm, an avalanche, an Anzu bird, a bull, a bomb inside a Cadillac" 🎶

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johnny @heracleion.bsky.social · Sep 5

*this* is how I found out they're making an I Am Legend 2

ApeOnHangglider @demilardner.bsky.social · Sep 1

THE LAST EPISODE!!!! im really really proud of this show. We filmed it in my house but we take a trip at the end of this ep with very permanent consequences.

Demi Lardner Dies in This Video * Real *

YouTube video by Grouse House

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · Sep 4

The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 4

Yes, COVID gave anti-vaxxers a convenient lane to build political power, but it's wrong to heap all the blame for this on the dedicated public health and medical professionals who sacrificed so much to save people's lives.

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johnny @heracleion.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sid the Sloth jumpscare? in my Alien?

johnny @heracleion.bsky.social · Sep 1

should probably throw a "melodic" in there somewhere

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Sep 1

Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay.

Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas.

Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art