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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 5d

its like the ring

Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 5d

I feel entitled to compensation after hearing the lyric "He ah-matized me and opened my eyes, Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see, His love was the key that opened my thighs"

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 5d

This was the first time I thought the Gaylors might be onto something because what do you mean his redwood tree opened your thighs

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 6d

I'm sure people will be normal and good faith about this post

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 6d

I think we owe Andrea Dworkin a bit of an apology tbh

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

Paramount is about to pay $150 million for this

New article from The Free Press

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human

“Not everyone is happy about this gorgeous innovation,” writes Tyler Cowen.

Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.
By Tyler Cowen
10.02.25

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 7d

Happy first day of Halloween! If you want to support indie horror this October, check out my movie The Woods.

We shot this baby for under 100k, in less than two weeks, and I had never directed anything before! This was real indie cinema and I'm so proud of our team

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4QA...

THE WOODS | Official Horror Trailer

YouTube video by Terror Films Trailers

www.youtube.com

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 7d

Links to watch on Tubi and elsewhere here:
thewoodsfilm.straw.page

thewoodsfilm's strawpage

thewoodsfilm.straw.page

Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 7d

Happy first day of Halloween! If you want to support indie horror this October, check out my movie The Woods.

We shot this baby for under 100k, in less than two weeks, and I had never directed anything before! This was real indie cinema and I'm so proud of our team

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4QA...

THE WOODS | Official Horror Trailer

YouTube video by Terror Films Trailers

www.youtube.com

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 8d

Really never been a big fan of standup comedy, video games, or YouTube "debate" porn, and boy what a time for my passive instincts to be right.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 9d

When the Roman Empire fell it became a church.
When the British Empire fell it became a bank.
When the American Empire falls it will become a casino.

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Perfect little soup boy @pedroluggage.bsky.social · 16d

This is really really good

Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 16d

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...

Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual

The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

open.substack.com

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 16d

Not enough gay bars hosting Rapture parties

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Maren @paarsec.com · 16d

I’ve been thinking about this piece all day. An incredible reflection on sensorial pleasure and our digital lives:

Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 16d

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...

Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual

The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

open.substack.com

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Larisa @thelolrus.bsky.social · 16d

I think this is why I feel most at peace with my hands in the dirt.

It also aligns with something that’s been very helpful for me: If you’re trying to stop doing something, don’t just take it away. *Replace* it with something that fills the same need, but hopefully better.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16d

This was fantastic. We say “touch grass” like a curse on someone, when really the digital realm has become a place to separate us from the sensual (and I’d argue the emotional) connection we have with the world around us and those closest to us

What emerges is something like an upside down Gnosticism, a world designed to remove you from the sensual, and thereby rob you of community, autonomy, or self-knowledge. As Audre Lorde writes in her essential essay Uses of the Erotic:
"When we live outside ourselves, and by that I mean on external directives only rather than from our internal knowledge and needs, when we live away from those erotic guides from within ourselves, then our lives are limited by external and alien forms, and we conform to the needs of a structure that is not based on human
need, let alone an individual's...in touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept powerlessness, or those other supplied states of being which are not native to me, such as resignation, despair, self-effacement, depression, self-denial."
What people want to replace you with is what they think you already are. If companies, bosses, and boyfriends want to replace you with a robot or an AI model, that's because they already see you and what you do as simply the workings of a machine with far too many bugs. When we buy into this framing, we lose half the battle. The way out is through the senses.

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Sean Redlitz @theredlitz.bsky.social · 16d

“What people want to replace you with is what they think you already are. If [they] want to replace you with a robot or an AI model, that’s because they already see you and what you do as simply the workings of a machine with far too many bugs.”

Another banger from @citymystic.bsky.social.

Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 16d

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...

Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual

The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

open.substack.com

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 16d

I'm particularly proud of this line

Text reads: "What people want to replace you with is what they think you already are. If companies, bosses, and boyfriends want to replace you with a robot or an AI model, that’s because they already see you and what you do as simply the workings of a machine with far too many bugs. When we buy into this framing, we lose half the battle. The way out is through the senses."

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 16d

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...

Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual

The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

open.substack.com

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 18d

If you believe in compromising on abortion you don't think women are really people. Hope that helps!!!

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 18d

Kirk funeral happening the same day as an eclipse...interesting!

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18d

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 19d

When you've been on the go a lot and thus haven't really cooked for yourself in awhile, the first meal you make upon your return is always a humiliation ritual.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 19d

love cannot be stopped it is the inertia of existence itself

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