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morgan
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// collection of diffuse identities inside an animal
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apethiui.bsky.social
The Henhouse Liberalism Built
A response to Matthew Yglesias. What he calls “postliberalism” is often liberalism’s own elite, anemic offspring.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Lost in the forest, I broke off a dark twig and lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips: maybe it was the voice of the rain crying, a cracked bell, or a torn heart. Something from far off: it seemed deep and secret to me, hidden by the earth, a shout muffled by huge autumns, by the moist half-open darkness of the leaves. Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent. - Pablo Neruda
November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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bildoperationen.bsky.social
«The point is not to decode these fragments into a coherent worldview. It is to see that confusion itself was the method. … Robinson’s casings were less about explanation than performance: designed to bait, to mislead, to invite interpretation while refusing resolution.»
ddzeeuw.bsky.social Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · Sep 14
Together with Marc Tuters and @robtoes.bsky.social I wrote an essay on the Charlie Kirk assassination, the Groypers - Nick Fuentes connection and the state of memetic political violence today oilab.eu/frozen-antag...
Frozen Antagonisms: Charlie Kirk, Groypers, and the Meme Politics of Violence – OILab
oilab.eu
September 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
witchcult.bsky.social
Got to visit my favorite brick-and-mortar occult bookshop today in Portland. Dark Star Magic.
June 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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euthyphro.bsky.social
A turtle I saw
A snapping turtle in the middle of the road.
June 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
witchcult.bsky.social
Visual guide for using the BlueSky muted word list.
June 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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photophrenic.bsky.social
I recently uploaded a new blog post touching on how we should think about incorporating affliction into our magical practices www.photophrenic.com/a-voice-in-t...
Banish Naught But All Re-Align — Photophrenic
The life of the witch can easily be consumed by the practice of magic, be that the visceral arena of spellwork or the marking of time in circle and sabbat. These are moments that we learn to encompass...
www.photophrenic.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
witchcult.bsky.social
I wonder at what point in studying Eastern religion that transliterations of Sanskrit terms and names stop bouncing off the "that's not a word" filter in my fore brains.

I'm honestly finding that an audiobook version of the text is much better at teaching the terminology.
May 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
The Instant of Obsession — Austin O. Spare, 1909-1911
In black and white a man being carried off he seems maybe to be standing on the shoulder of a woman with wings the wings are covering his lap and belly another figure with sort of a fishtail serpent tail and a feathered Bird's Crest on his head is grabbing his torso from above there's a kind of a rainbow Above This and a couple of spectral figures in the rainbow
May 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
witchcult.bsky.social
When the TikTok algorithm figures out you're Gardnerian...
Screenshot of a TikTok ad showing "gifts for girl." The first item is a product titled "Shibari for Beginners: A Step by Step Approach," featuring an image of two hands bound with red rope. The product is on flash sale for $10.99, marked down from $20.99.
May 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
witchcult.bsky.social
I'm seeing more Jesus than 420 on my timeline. Mistakes have been made.
April 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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chowleen.bsky.social
I lived in the first century of world wars.
Most mornings I would be more or less insane
The newspapers would arrive with their careless stories
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Slowly I would get to pen and paper,
Make my poems for others unseen and unborn.

-Muriel Rukeyser
#everynightapoem

[Carel Willink, Bad Tidings, 1932]
[Carel Willink, Bad Tidings, 1932 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam] Tempera on linen. A man in suit and hat in right foreground, walking away; a woman in white blouse and brown skirt, running up the street to reach him. Stately pink mansion and tree-lined street form the picture, ominous dark clouds overhead. I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane, The newspapers would arrive with their careless stories, The news would pour out of various devices Interrupted by attempts to sell products to the unseen. I would call my friends on other devices; They would be more or less mad for similar reasons. Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be reminded of those men and women, Brave, setting up signals across vast distances, Considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values. As the lights darkened, as the lights of night brightened, We would try to imagine them, try to find each other, To construct peace, to make love, to reconcile Waking with sleeping, ourselves with each other, Ourselves with ourselves. We would try by any means To reach the limits of ourselves, to reach beyond ourselves, To let go the means, to wake. I lived in the first century of these wars. -Muriel Rukeyser, “I lived in the first century of world wars”
March 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
witchcult.bsky.social
Drop some HORNS😈📯🦄🖤

Art by Jenna Barton / @dappermouth.bsky.social / dappermouth.storenvy.com
A dark, surreal illustration of a humanoid figure with the head of a black deer and glowing eyes. The figure wears a long, black cloak with a high collar, and its left hand is raised in a delicate gesture, contrasting with its animalistic head. The deer has multiple branching antlers, which are reddish-brown and stand out against the misty, muted forest background. A barbed wire fence runs along both sides, framing the figure in a haunting, fog-filled landscape. The initials "JB" appear in the bottom right corner. Art by Jenna Barton / @dappermouth.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
witchcult.bsky.social
Drop some HORNS😈📯🦄🖤
A highly detailed graphite drawing of Eliphas Levi's Baphomet symbolic figure seated on a large globe. The central figure has the body of a nude woman with cloven hooves, goat-like features including a horned head, and large bat wings. They also have 4 arms. Smoke billows from a torch between their horns. One hand rests on a large sword, another is raised in a gesture of 2 fingers pointing up, a third has the fingers pointing downward, a fourth rests on the globe, a fifth holds open a cupped palm, and the sixth rests in benediction upon the hood of a monk-like figure that squats behind the globe hiding his face in his hand as if in grief. A serpent-girt caduceus upon a scaled plate conceals the lower abdomen, and there are runic or occult symbols upon 2 of the figures arms. Art by Burney Illustration - @batdog on Instagram
April 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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arayaart.bsky.social
The Magician - Ink, collage and acrylic on wood.

My tribute to H.R. Giger, and a re-interpretation of the tarot card of the same name.

Prints available!
April 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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eudaimoniae.bsky.social
Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

- Austin Osman Spare
April 6, 2025 at 3:34 AM
witchcult.bsky.social
Standing outside chanting "white rabbit white rabbit white rabbit" as smoke from the 6,000+ acre forest fire in the neighboring county blankets everything.
March 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
witchcult.bsky.social
Author & artist Daniel Yates (@photophrenic.bsky.social) has new items for sale on his site. Notable is a bundle relating to Daniel Schulke's 'Green Mysteries' that includes the Vierling 'Arcana Viridia' folio of prints of which only 100 were produced. & more as well.

www.photophrenic.com/bookstore
Title page for the Arcana Viridia portfolio of images by Ben Vierling.
March 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
witchcult.bsky.social
"we have yet to reckon both totally and personally with the fact that the smarphone is an anti-social instrument of control, surveillance, and self-annihilation."

Thoughtful article by Kate Wagner that spans political action & personal, emotional wellbeing.

www.late-review.com/p/the-eterna...
the eternal present
or: we need to destroy phone
www.late-review.com
March 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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vaginamuseum.bsky.social
The Vagina Museum is just one month away from closing. Forever. A perfect storm of circumstances means that we may have to close our doors permanently and cease all digital activities. But we're not going to go down without a fight. Save the Vagina Museum. www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
Donate to Save The Vagina Museum, organized by Vagina Museum
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March 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
witchcult.bsky.social
Who’s your ultimate dinner party? Six people, living or dead. You just get to watch. Or participate. Whatever.

Gregory Bateson
Anne Carson
Hannah Arendt
Austin Osman Spare
bell hooks
Michel Foucault
argenteumastrum.bsky.social Astrum Argenteum @argenteumastrum.bsky.social · Mar 14
Aleister Crowley
Abhinavagupta
Padmasambhava
Margurite Porete
Ida Craddock
Andrew Chumbley
stinasdemons.com ⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · Mar 11
Who’s your ultimate dinner party? Six people, living or dead. You just get to watch. Or participate. Whatever.

Anais Nin
Leonard Cohen
David Lynch
Tori Amos
David Bowie
Guillermo del Toro
March 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
witchcult.bsky.social
The old oak in the woods behind my Father's house, where I played as a child. Probably a holdout from when the land was pasture and fields, before it was carved into residential parcels in the middle of the last century. It seems little changed, while we move on rapidly.
A tall oak with long, thick limbs stands in a dry winter wood of smaller trees. A thin, sickly cedar stands to the left. The sky is brilliant blue.
March 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
witchcult.bsky.social
I'm also naturally skeptical or doubtful. I am drawn to models that allow for belief as a temporary, at-need state. I like the idea of "enthusiasm" in its Greek roots - being filled by god(dess) in concert with the English sense of the word. The ability to suspend skepticism comes with inspiration.
corvusofthewica.bsky.social Corvus @corvusofthewica.bsky.social · Mar 11
#Witchmadness Day 11: How do you handle skepticism from others?

Unfortunately, I’m usually the skeptic in the room. My favorite thing is hearing the gasps from other pagans & witches when I explain I don’t believe in ghosts or spirits or that anything happens after we die.

#witchsky
March 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
witchcult.bsky.social
Getting tired of posting book covers without context or comment. Feels exclusionary and capitalistic for no particularly good reason. I like to know why people find a book valuable, and I like to be invited into new ways of thinking or experiencing that don't rely on my Googling to 'get it' or not.
March 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM