Melinda Gwin
@gwinsome.bsky.social
Queer, irreverent, classically educated. Thelemite. Witch and skeptic. Religion, philosophy, and psychology nerd.
Explained algospeak and why it's necessary to my partner last night.
He changed his mind from hating it to appreciating it as an act of prosocial rebellion against automated tyranny.
Also, my knowing about algospeak means I'm cool and hip, right? Not just chronically online?
He changed his mind from hating it to appreciating it as an act of prosocial rebellion against automated tyranny.
Also, my knowing about algospeak means I'm cool and hip, right? Not just chronically online?
December 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Explained algospeak and why it's necessary to my partner last night.
He changed his mind from hating it to appreciating it as an act of prosocial rebellion against automated tyranny.
Also, my knowing about algospeak means I'm cool and hip, right? Not just chronically online?
He changed his mind from hating it to appreciating it as an act of prosocial rebellion against automated tyranny.
Also, my knowing about algospeak means I'm cool and hip, right? Not just chronically online?
Okay, so I'm making Thelema ASMR.
December 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Okay, so I'm making Thelema ASMR.
I *definitely* like Chihuahuas now.
I've told people to avoid the breed because they're stubborn little psychos.
Meanwhile, our new addition is coming out of her shell and I'm like, "Yay! That's your stubborn psycho lineage coming out! More more!"
I've told people to avoid the breed because they're stubborn little psychos.
Meanwhile, our new addition is coming out of her shell and I'm like, "Yay! That's your stubborn psycho lineage coming out! More more!"
December 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I *definitely* like Chihuahuas now.
I've told people to avoid the breed because they're stubborn little psychos.
Meanwhile, our new addition is coming out of her shell and I'm like, "Yay! That's your stubborn psycho lineage coming out! More more!"
I've told people to avoid the breed because they're stubborn little psychos.
Meanwhile, our new addition is coming out of her shell and I'm like, "Yay! That's your stubborn psycho lineage coming out! More more!"
80% of whether I think someone is pretty is determined by the sound of their voice.
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 AM
80% of whether I think someone is pretty is determined by the sound of their voice.
Spent an entire trip with tunnel vision until I remembered I could listen to myself reading Crowley.
*That* calmed me down.
Need to work on uploading those Book of Lies readings.
Omnibus that contains the whole thing is not needed. Uploading poems as they're made is self-care.
*That* calmed me down.
Need to work on uploading those Book of Lies readings.
Omnibus that contains the whole thing is not needed. Uploading poems as they're made is self-care.
December 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Spent an entire trip with tunnel vision until I remembered I could listen to myself reading Crowley.
*That* calmed me down.
Need to work on uploading those Book of Lies readings.
Omnibus that contains the whole thing is not needed. Uploading poems as they're made is self-care.
*That* calmed me down.
Need to work on uploading those Book of Lies readings.
Omnibus that contains the whole thing is not needed. Uploading poems as they're made is self-care.
95% over my cold today. Was excited to get up and be productive now *that's* (mostly) gone.
Sat down at the computer and noticed my vision was occluded with flashing, pulsing, zigzag striations.
It's a migraine day. Cool cool.
Sat down at the computer and noticed my vision was occluded with flashing, pulsing, zigzag striations.
It's a migraine day. Cool cool.
December 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
95% over my cold today. Was excited to get up and be productive now *that's* (mostly) gone.
Sat down at the computer and noticed my vision was occluded with flashing, pulsing, zigzag striations.
It's a migraine day. Cool cool.
Sat down at the computer and noticed my vision was occluded with flashing, pulsing, zigzag striations.
It's a migraine day. Cool cool.
Trying to describe my symptoms this past month to my psychiatrist: "I just it feels I don't want not good word hard."
When capitalism's baked-in ableism comes up in the same appointment: "They want to extract as much as possible from the population they exploit for personal profit."
When capitalism's baked-in ableism comes up in the same appointment: "They want to extract as much as possible from the population they exploit for personal profit."
December 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Trying to describe my symptoms this past month to my psychiatrist: "I just it feels I don't want not good word hard."
When capitalism's baked-in ableism comes up in the same appointment: "They want to extract as much as possible from the population they exploit for personal profit."
When capitalism's baked-in ableism comes up in the same appointment: "They want to extract as much as possible from the population they exploit for personal profit."
The past few days YouTube has been throwing Thelemic music I didn't know existed at me.
And it's giving me flashbacks to all the music I loved and lost because few others loved it.
Thelema links everything I adore together.
Current example:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLhb...
And it's giving me flashbacks to all the music I loved and lost because few others loved it.
Thelema links everything I adore together.
Current example:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLhb...
Coph Nia - Our Lady of the Stars
YouTube video by RmanDC
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The past few days YouTube has been throwing Thelemic music I didn't know existed at me.
And it's giving me flashbacks to all the music I loved and lost because few others loved it.
Thelema links everything I adore together.
Current example:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLhb...
And it's giving me flashbacks to all the music I loved and lost because few others loved it.
Thelema links everything I adore together.
Current example:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLhb...
Reposted by Melinda Gwin
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"I think I like Chihuahuas now."
"You've liked Chihuahuas at least since you met Rosco."
"True. They're *a lot* but—"
"But that's your thing."
"You've liked Chihuahuas at least since you met Rosco."
"True. They're *a lot* but—"
"But that's your thing."
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
"I think I like Chihuahuas now."
"You've liked Chihuahuas at least since you met Rosco."
"True. They're *a lot* but—"
"But that's your thing."
"You've liked Chihuahuas at least since you met Rosco."
"True. They're *a lot* but—"
"But that's your thing."
H.G. Wells predicted the future way better than Orwell or Huxley.
November 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
H.G. Wells predicted the future way better than Orwell or Huxley.
Trump is talking jovially with a socialist about affordability.
My dehydrator gave up a piece of fruit leather 10x bigger and juicier than anything I've made before.
And my hair came together. And it's only noon!
I've been flirting with psychosis lately. Is this really real?
My dehydrator gave up a piece of fruit leather 10x bigger and juicier than anything I've made before.
And my hair came together. And it's only noon!
I've been flirting with psychosis lately. Is this really real?
November 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Trump is talking jovially with a socialist about affordability.
My dehydrator gave up a piece of fruit leather 10x bigger and juicier than anything I've made before.
And my hair came together. And it's only noon!
I've been flirting with psychosis lately. Is this really real?
My dehydrator gave up a piece of fruit leather 10x bigger and juicier than anything I've made before.
And my hair came together. And it's only noon!
I've been flirting with psychosis lately. Is this really real?
Three conjunctions in my Sagittarius/3 stellium today. One of them my sun meeting the returning sun.
Learned my magical name. Nice gift.
Learned my magical name. Nice gift.
November 22, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Three conjunctions in my Sagittarius/3 stellium today. One of them my sun meeting the returning sun.
Learned my magical name. Nice gift.
Learned my magical name. Nice gift.
Madness is the resistance that rises naturally in opposition to tyranny; it is the snake that coils while content but extends to grant visions and power when it tires of being stamped into the dust by Adam's foot.
November 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Madness is the resistance that rises naturally in opposition to tyranny; it is the snake that coils while content but extends to grant visions and power when it tires of being stamped into the dust by Adam's foot.
Have been learning more about nonverbal autism. Evidently, my son was nonverbal until he was eight and minimally verbal until he was sixteen.
And I didn't notice. Because I was the same.
(He talks now. At great length. But like me, only about his interests or needs.)
And I didn't notice. Because I was the same.
(He talks now. At great length. But like me, only about his interests or needs.)
November 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Have been learning more about nonverbal autism. Evidently, my son was nonverbal until he was eight and minimally verbal until he was sixteen.
And I didn't notice. Because I was the same.
(He talks now. At great length. But like me, only about his interests or needs.)
And I didn't notice. Because I was the same.
(He talks now. At great length. But like me, only about his interests or needs.)
This gets at the heart of what we've done wrong and what we need to do more of:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TfR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TfR...
Democrats (& The Left) Need To Copy The Black Panthers
YouTube video by Brenna Perez
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This gets at the heart of what we've done wrong and what we need to do more of:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TfR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TfR...
The soul is like a vulva. Much more attractive after penetrating.
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The soul is like a vulva. Much more attractive after penetrating.
I'm intimately familiar with religious psychosis, but is there also political psychosis?
I'm getting some really weird comments and they're *more* incomprehensible than a lot of psychotic spiritual comments I get. But with political subjects.
Is that a thing that happens?
I'm getting some really weird comments and they're *more* incomprehensible than a lot of psychotic spiritual comments I get. But with political subjects.
Is that a thing that happens?
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I'm intimately familiar with religious psychosis, but is there also political psychosis?
I'm getting some really weird comments and they're *more* incomprehensible than a lot of psychotic spiritual comments I get. But with political subjects.
Is that a thing that happens?
I'm getting some really weird comments and they're *more* incomprehensible than a lot of psychotic spiritual comments I get. But with political subjects.
Is that a thing that happens?
I have cataracts at the age of 40.
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome is awesome.
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome is awesome.
October 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I have cataracts at the age of 40.
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome is awesome.
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome is awesome.
Our terrier was terrified of storms. She shook & ran & hid.
Then came Bones. He snuggled her for storms, radiating peace and safety. He calmed her.
She passed yesterday.
Today it's storming; Bones is shaking in fear. The truth came out: He was always afraid; he hid it for her.
Noblest lie ever.
Then came Bones. He snuggled her for storms, radiating peace and safety. He calmed her.
She passed yesterday.
Today it's storming; Bones is shaking in fear. The truth came out: He was always afraid; he hid it for her.
Noblest lie ever.
October 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Our terrier was terrified of storms. She shook & ran & hid.
Then came Bones. He snuggled her for storms, radiating peace and safety. He calmed her.
She passed yesterday.
Today it's storming; Bones is shaking in fear. The truth came out: He was always afraid; he hid it for her.
Noblest lie ever.
Then came Bones. He snuggled her for storms, radiating peace and safety. He calmed her.
She passed yesterday.
Today it's storming; Bones is shaking in fear. The truth came out: He was always afraid; he hid it for her.
Noblest lie ever.
Really feeling Jeremiah 5 today.
October 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Really feeling Jeremiah 5 today.
My Luigi-pilling finished spreading through my system and finally, fin-a-lly cured the ailment it came to heal.
I'm nonpartisan.
I'm nonpartisan.
Optiganally Yours - NONPARTISAN
YouTube video by optigandotcom
youtu.be
September 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
My Luigi-pilling finished spreading through my system and finally, fin-a-lly cured the ailment it came to heal.
I'm nonpartisan.
I'm nonpartisan.
So, guns don't kill people, but words *do* kill people.
Fascinating.
Fascinating.
September 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
So, guns don't kill people, but words *do* kill people.
Fascinating.
Fascinating.
Beginning to think I 'lack empathy' according to allistics because I care too much about others and their wellbeing.
September 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Beginning to think I 'lack empathy' according to allistics because I care too much about others and their wellbeing.