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Joost Vervoort (portal goblin)

@joostvervoort.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination, Utrecht University. Connecting serious action with deep playfulness. Futures, politics, video games, art, activism. Working on ALL WILL RISE. Singer in Terzij de Horde. Insta: @joost.vervoort_artwork .. more

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Joost Vervoort (portal goblin) @joostvervoort.bsky.social · Nov 28

Thread: stuff I'm passionate about/thinking about/working on. Top of mind for me is 'Infrastructures of Mystery' - how do we create societies where people can more easily commune with the depth and mystery of life - whatever that means for them? anticiplay.medium.com/infrastructu...

Infrastructures of mystery — scaffolding the wonder of existence

What if society would recognize and support the value of connecting to life’s mystery?

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Joost Vervoort (portal goblin) @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 4h

ITS HERE LET'S FUCKING GO!!! FURY AND GRIEF AND DISAPPOINTMENT AT ALL OF THE FUCKING COWARDLY UGLINESS OF THIS CURSED TIME, IN A TORRENT OF BLACK METAL. GET TO IT!

Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky @terzijdehorde.bsky.social · 5h

OUR BREATH IS NOT OURS ALONE is here! We have poured everything into this album. The world is so profoundly fucked that this could not have been anything but a torrent of fury and grief. There is such an urgent need for people to wake up. album.link/s/3DAFXkSP8R...

Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone by Terzij de Horde

Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

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Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky @terzijdehorde.bsky.social · 5h

OUR BREATH IS NOT OURS ALONE is here! We have poured everything into this album. The world is so profoundly fucked that this could not have been anything but a torrent of fury and grief. There is such an urgent need for people to wake up. album.link/s/3DAFXkSP8R...

Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone by Terzij de Horde

Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

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Formulas Peter to the Ploeg @pvdp.bsky.social · 9h

Eefje de Visser, Terzij de Horde, Carminho, Raul Refree, Roufaida.. wat een releasedag ♥️

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Timothy™️ @posttim.bsky.social · 1d

Y’all know what Friday is, right?!? New Terzij de Horde—and all indications say it’s going to be absolutely killer. Make sure it’s on your list and give them a follow if you haven’t: @terzijdehorde.bsky.social .

Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone, by Terzij de Horde

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Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky @terzijdehorde.bsky.social · 2d

"The heart-on-the-sleeve black metal here is based on the premise that screamo's energy can be reconstituted into tremolo riffs. That the urgency and conviction of hardcore punk can uplift black metal." www.invisibleoranges.com/upcoming-met...

Upcoming Metal Releases: 10/5/25 - 10/11/25

Here are all the new releases for October 5th to 11th—Spin (or skip) new music from Testament, Sanguisugabogg, Terzij de Horde, and more.

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Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky @terzijdehorde.bsky.social · 2d

"This is a genre that’s so clearly defined as music and sound, and yet its context and themes can wholly transform it. You’ve heard this music before, yes, but not quite like this."

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Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky @terzijdehorde.bsky.social · 2d

"Like many of us, Terzij de Horde struggle and so they’ve immortalized this struggle through the iterative berating of black metal’s sonic maul."

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Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky @terzijdehorde.bsky.social · 2d

"Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone is as much a call to action as it is a supremely bold statement in a genre marred by ugliness over the decades [...] a massive album by a massive band, capable of moving the stars at will to tell a story as complicated as our own." everythingisnoise.net/reviews/terz...

Terzij de Horde - "Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone" - Everything Is Noise

"Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone" is as much a call to action as it is a supremely bold statement in a genre marred by ugliness over the decades.

everythingisnoise.net

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent stuff, as always from Joost. Makes me think of a recent article by @cibled.bsky.social as well: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Joost Vervoort (portal goblin) @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 3d

I was interviewed for @decorrespondent.nl by @bregjehofstede.bsky.social about awakening experiences and nonstandard states of consciousness in the context of larger societal change. Super cool conversation: decorrespondent.nl/16399/joost-...

Joost opende met meditatie de deur naar een duizelingwekkend multi-bewustzijn

Soms word je als mens overvallen door een allesoverheersend gevoel. Tijdens een wandeltocht in de natuur, het kijken naar kunst, het luisteren naar muziek: ineens klopt alles. Het is overweldigend, re...

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Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky @terzijdehorde.bsky.social · 3d

Here's a video of Joost fighting 'defiled' Johan with a copy of his own arm. Basically an every day occurrence on tour: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvGH...

Bloodborne™ Amygdala arm vs Defiled Amygdala

YouTube video by Joost Vervoort

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Hera, Plague Doctor 🎃 @herasalander.bsky.social · 3d

Now I am going to feel bad every time I beat up Johan (formerly known as Amygdala)

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Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky @terzijdehorde.bsky.social · 3d

We're still proud that @johanvanhattum.bsky.social guested in Bloodborne.

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Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky @terzijdehorde.bsky.social · 3d

If you have enough points in Insight, you can see the Amygdalas everywhere on the buildings in Yharnam

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Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky @terzijdehorde.bsky.social · 3d

Our SOULCRUSHER show is one of two very special shows happening this weekend:

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Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky @terzijdehorde.bsky.social · 3d

Very excited to announce that we will be joined on stage by the amazing Charlotte Wessels this Friday at SOULCRUSHER for a unique rendition of DISCARDING ALL ADORNMENTS, the final epic off our album that is released this Friday. See you there!

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Brian Meat Mead Metal @666brian666.bsky.social · 6d

PICK OF THE WEEK: @terzijdehorde.bsky.social "Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone" @fiadh.bsky.social /Church Road/Tartarus

PICK OF THE WEEK: Terzij de Horde light torches with black metal fury on ‘Our Breath Is Not Ours…’

Photo by Voidrevelations It’s easy to hide when the tides get too strong, when it feels like they’ll crash down on us and bury our voices forever. And make no mistake, there are plenty …

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Joost Vervoort (portal goblin) @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 6d

Love it. Hilversum vibes

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Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky @terzijdehorde.bsky.social · 8d

@johanvanhattum.bsky.social and @joostvervoort.bsky.social guested at the 6 Losse Tanden podcast! Fun times with @pvdp.bsky.social and the crew: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVdW...

Met Terzij de Horde! | Zes Losse Tanden Aflevering 9.02

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Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky @terzijdehorde.bsky.social · 11d

Things are shifting around the response to the genocide in Gaza. Join your protests, union strikes and other actions. If you're in the Netherlands, there is another hopefully massive protest happening next week: www.amnesty.nl/actueel/zond...

Rode Lijn demonstratie op 5 oktober in Amsterdam

Het overgrote deel van Nederland wil dat onze regering concrete sancties neemt tegen Israël. Massaal trekken we op 5 oktober opnieuw de rode lijn.

Joost Vervoort (portal goblin) @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 11d

Come to the Amsterdam Red Line protest agains the genocide in Gaza. Find connection in collective anger, grief and care. www.amnesty.nl/actueel/zond...

Joost Vervoort (portal goblin) @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks @liandak.bsky.social!

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Lianda @liandak.bsky.social · 13d

Interesting post on how we are messed with on a deeper level and where to find hope. Thank you @joostvervoort.bsky.social anticiplay.medium.com/spiritual-di...

Spiritual disease as a bio-weapon

Why it’s useful to understand the rise of fascism as political-spiritual warfare

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Joost Vervoort (portal goblin) @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 13d

And then feeling, or listening, to something in you that responds to that corruption and degradation. What does it say?

Joost Vervoort (portal goblin) @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 13d

And maybe this fire is already lit in you. But if you feel half asleep to what I’m talking about, but curious about being more activated, it can be worth taking a moment to really feel how the reality of fascism is creeping into your soul, your energy and your being.

Joost Vervoort (portal goblin) @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 13d

Or maybe it’s just a wordless fire.

Joost Vervoort (portal goblin) @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 13d

Perhaps it lights the flame of truly wanting a better future. Maybe it’s humor at the profound smallness of fascism. Maybe it’s all of this.

Joost Vervoort (portal goblin) @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 13d

Or the response can be a flood of love and deep care for everything and everything that is so deeply, deeply beautiful and vulnerable in this world.

Joost Vervoort (portal goblin) @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 13d

Where I feel hope is that being aware of how deeply we are being messed with can create a response in our individual and collective systems. It can light a fire in us that says ENOUGH or FUCK NO.

Joost Vervoort (portal goblin) @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 13d

So far, so very fucking depressing. But what I’m hoping to point out is that you are being fucked with in a very deep way as part of a spiritual-political war, and the metaphor of spiritual disease is the best fit for this.