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Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter

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Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 13d

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Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 1m

Lover of a political loser accuses others of loving to lose for having different politics, a sadly common condition.

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 4m

The prevalence of sexualized, genital related violence by older relatives of sub-adolescents was a horrifically common thing guys would have to get off their chest at some point because it has been eating at them.

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 17m

Deeply alarming how many men I've known over the years who were sexually abused by adult women in their youth and often much earlier in life than that. I think there is a real misandry aimed at the young, who adults do have structural power over, enough so that I think it's an appropriate term.

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 2h

I've had to tell a psychiatrist the symptoms of schizophrenia once. Not my symptoms specifically, the basic criteria for diagnosis.

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 2h

These people quite frankly deserve discussions about the legitimacy of their practices until, I don't know, maybe a solid 1/4 of them demonstrate the ability to practice anything competently.

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 2h

You know what happens when they mess up like? You foot the bill. I have never met a less professional profession. There are more consummate door to door knife salesmen. There are magazine scams with more gracious refund policies.

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 2h

Sadness over. I am angry. My honest advice is don't go to therapy. The science may be real, the industry is a fraud. Most psychologists I've tried are so bad at taking notes and remembering patients I've had to repeat the first session admin and inventories multiple times. As in three or four times

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 15h

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 2h

Medical bill payment platforms that charge you a premium to be able to pay your bills is some real heinous nonsense I'm sorry, but if you're in medicine and not seriously pushing back on this stuff, quit and go take a long walk off a short pier in whichever order you prefer.

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 15h

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 15h

Hot, fly infested November. I'm not loving it.

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of hate, ironically.

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Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 1d

I want to kill history, a little bit.

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Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 1d

Actually it's a coverup. They want you to forget what he got up to in Guatemala in '54.

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 1d

You are an invertebrate.

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 1d

You're only allowed to call it "the white part of Chinatown" now. It's driven them to madness. Lol.

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 2d

Quickly, adventurer, drink this melted caul fat to gain the intestines of a pig!

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 2d

The spirits, they call to me. They're saying "don't make this post into a pun about alcoholism."

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 2d

Shoji Tabuchi has heisted my most precious fiddles for the last time.

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like, with people being in higher spirits than usual, it's a good time to reveal I've been Weekend at Bernie-ing the corpse of Bob Avakian for the past twelve years. It may have gotten a little out of hand and over my head a few times.

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't been able to engineer a neutral grain spirit that's good for you, but I have succeeded in making a multivitamin that will make you profoundly ill.

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 2d

He's finally making sense.

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 2d

The truth? Let's just say that depends on how prestigious of a distributor we can foist this horrendous turd onto.

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 2d

Spook you? That's the tagline for my horror movie about a 1950s saleswomen driven to madness by a repressive society. That all her victims are attractive women has led critics to claim it's a poorly disguised bondage-y fetish film. I maintain it's about internalized misogyny and personal repression.

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 2d

Avon Calling...For Blood!

Cass Andra. Part-Time Ghost, Seasonal Specter @recreationalhaunt.bsky.social · 2d

Groucho Marx's most deadbeat uncle rolling out of bed at three in the afternoon after a disastrous night out on the town, reassuringly slurring to his reflection that "I don't want to sleep with any woman that will accept my member."