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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 12h

thank you <3

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 15h

still periodically caught off-guard by the insanely good branding that funyuns are just fun onions

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 21h

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 22h

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 2d

Give the dead what they're used to! I recite psalms and Jewish prayers for my Jewish dead, but for my orisha ancestors I sing Lucumí songs and give them their traditional offerings. The dead still have to meet you where you are, but giving them what they're used to is part of our work, too!

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 2d

My rule for doing that is that I give each tradition its time and space. I do orisha stuff at my orisha shrines, espiritismo at my boveda, Hermetic stuff at my Hermetic altar, &c. While they all inform me equally as a whole human being, they don't mix on their own! Good walls, good neighbors, &c.

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's a natural human thing to do many things, especially in contexts where there are concurrent traditions available that inform us culturally and historically; I think of it as "doing religion" rather than "being of a religion", i.e. one isn't Buddhist so much as one "does Buddhism".

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 2d

hi

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 2d

I had the sound effect as my cell phone ring tone for a few years.

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 2d

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Angel Grapefruit Technique Hoahahohah

YouTube video by P3SHO V0DNOTO

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 2d

citrussy

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 2d

I'm glad that my stuff can help in at least some small way! Spirituality is like medicine: it should make our lives better, but sometimes we need multiple approaches. Therapy, exercise, diet, medication, surgery, acupuncture—it's all medicine! Ditto for all sorts of spiritual traditions.

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 2d

And the last bit of testing for this version of my almanac software is complete! I'm sure there'll be bugs to find later on (when aren't there?), but at least for now, all I've left to do for TATA v3 is work on formatting a bit more until I'm satisfied with it.

Stay tuned!
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Almanac

The Adocentyn Temple Almanac (TATA) is a fine-tuned one-year almanac designed for mages, mystics, priests, pagans, and other spiritual workers containing celestial and calendrical information as a …

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 2d

When the Moon enters the first mansion, one of the prayer practices I like doing is this one, a sevenfold invocation of blessing and refuge. It's come in clutch a few times when things get rough, to boot, so I like keeping it up as a regular thing. Give it a whirl!
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Invocations of the Seven Temples

A series of seven prayers based on Islamic supplications and magical practices to be used as a meditation on holiness and the power of God, as well as to clear and sanctify an area through the powe…

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 2d

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Rokhl @rokhl.bsky.social · 3d

Spooky season class is here: Ashkenazi goths rejoice!

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Spooky Season Class - Sex, Death, and Demons

Spooky Season in Yiddish : October 15, 22, and 29th at 7:00 pm (EST) As September closes, a Yiddish goth's fancy turns to the strange ...

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Rokhl @rokhl.bsky.social · 4d

New installment of: Yeah, there's a Yiddish incantation for that

To learn more (and much more) join me for my new spooky season class, October 15, 22, & 29 at 7:00pm. ($100) email me to register: cjcrokhl @ gmail com

And please share with your friends! ✨😈

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 3d

Start telling people to fuck off. Cultivate it as a virtue. Practice saying "Oh, fuck off" and "Oh, kiss my ass" and "Buddy, if you don't shut the fuck up right now then we're gonna have us a goddamn problem" to yourself in the mirror until they feel natural.

Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that it's considered indefensible to say things like "That doesn't make any goddamn sense" or "That's some fake shit you read on the internet and you're a jackass" in a professional setting is imo a major contributing factor in the current mess. We're Emperor's New Clothes-ing right to hell

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 3d

Civility and decorum are cudgels crafted in order to make demonstrably bad ideas easier to defend

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that it's considered indefensible to say things like "That doesn't make any goddamn sense" or "That's some fake shit you read on the internet and you're a jackass" in a professional setting is imo a major contributing factor in the current mess. We're Emperor's New Clothes-ing right to hell

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SpecialK-17 @magickalrod.bsky.social · 3d

Me, knowing Grey Sweatpants weather is almost here

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Hermetic Library @hermetic.com · 3d

Wake up, babe! Corollary to the Butlerian Jihad just dropped!

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 3d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · Aug 28

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

AI impoverishes us at every step of the process:
- data centers pollute our environment
- energy use drives up costs
- content theft robs creators of income
- the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages
- using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence
- the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape

All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 7d

We all enjoy a long day of good work, and the chance to get ourselves to a nice comfortable bed at the end of it.

A brown tabby cat is curled up sleeping on a brown blanket on a bed

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 7d

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 7d

.כ'האָב געדענקט אַז דו ביסט אַ פֿױגל

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