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prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · Oct 19

Reintroduction thread:

Name: Nate

Pronouns: He/Him

Location: ancestral Potawatomi land/Michigan

Interests: music (comp/theory/musicology), mantra, tantra, jyotish, illustration, JRPGs, camp, cosmology, consciousness, being a rascal

Vocation: ministry & spiritual direction

a man in round glasses and a salmon shirt on a rooftop at night overlooking the DC skyline

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prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 2d

where I'll be for the next 8 days
#centeringprayer #silence

image of an orange upholstered conference center chair with zafu and prayer shawl on it, and an icon of Our Lady with the infant Christ on her lap on the wall behind the chair

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 2d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 2d

i forgot the most important piece, the
✅ Patagonia socks

prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 2d

the current Midwest Millennial White Dad with Five Kids uniform is
✅ bucc-ees shirt
✅ athleisure shorts (Lululemon or other similar make)
✅ hokas (with rainbow soles if you are an ally)

prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 2d

I didn't know it was pronounced like that until the Zinedine Zidane football fiasco a few years back lolol

prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 2d

I mean, every other name in that game is RIFE with layers of meaning so it follows that Zidane's should be the same

(my favorite, of course, is Vivi ("I lived!"))

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prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 2d

I was today years old when I learned the etymology of Zidane, thank u for this important context (that makes the name make so much more sense)

Garnish Alexandros @bhujerbah.bsky.social · 2d

I hate it when foreigners or western people call him “Zi-Daaaayyne” or “Zaai-Dayne”. Both incorrect ❌

It’s actually Zi-Daahn, or Zay-daahn both of these are correct ✅

Zidane is a male, Islamic given name meaning “Two Growths”, or “Two Abundances” in Arabic.

I’m Arab, I know.

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prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 2d

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Animystic 👾 @animystic.net · 2d

4am airport dropoff, a rite of romance

prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 2d

the current Midwest Millennial White Dad with Five Kids uniform is
✅ bucc-ees shirt
✅ athleisure shorts (Lululemon or other similar make)
✅ hokas (with rainbow soles if you are an ally)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity, you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad.

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prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 3d

this is one of my favorite stories to tell my jyotish students

bodhidave @bodhidave.bsky.social · 3d

I'm reminded that the Christian "Saint Josaphat" was a mis-representation of the story of Buddha's life, and the name "Josaphat" a mispronunciation of "bodhisattva." 🙂 🙏

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barlaam...

prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 4d

this is my gender

prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 4d

new profile picture dropped

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prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 4d

is there a German word for the way you feel when read cringily earnest entries from years-old journals?

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 14d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 15d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 4d

newest addition to my Way Of Being is a leisurely well-paced jog through the cross country trails in our neighborhood, who the fuck am i becoming right now

(i took a muscle relaxer last night and my pelvic girdle unlocked for the first time in ages and i feel like i'm learning to locomote again)

prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 4d

damn I feel uniquely well-equipped to write an analysis of FFT through the lens of astrological symbolism and to use the game as a teaching text.

Consider:

Virgo is Rāhu's office. If you know who the final boss is, you'll understand why this makes sense. What does Rāhu do when he goes to work?

prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 4d

I don't want to spoil it for any newcomers who haven't played it, but the episode on the castle roof is an extremely poignant reflection on the relationship between power and intention.

And with the Scorpio stone, no less!

♏

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prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 4d

FFT Ivalice Chronicles made me cry for the first time last night—the exchange with Rapha and Marach at the conclusion of chapter 3 was so well-acted I had to pause the game and collect myself.

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prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 6d

ughhhghghhg tuneyards was so good

prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 6d

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prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 6d

(I feel guilty when I do a photo text post and I don't bother to retype the whole thing for the alt text, I'm sorry, basically they nerfed Ramza's famous ass in Ivalice Chronicles)

prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 6d

this is also my principal criticism of Ivalice Chronicles

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prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 6d

uggghgh I have enough of a moral quandary dismissing all the extra chocobos I don't need lolol

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prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 6d

headed to see tuneyards (my favorite band!) tonight with @animystic.net 🥰

behold the fit:

Mirror selfie of the author and a fitted pink floral shirt, green jeans, white Chuck Taylors, and white handkerchief in left pocket

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prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥 @nrcraddock.com · 6d

damn I forgot about Steel entirely!

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