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Aidan Wachter @aidanwachter.bsky.social · 23h

… Rest assured, your cadre of angels will grow ever smaller, as one by one each of you is cast out for failing to meet some standard or another.” open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

Each of Us Imperfect Comrades

or: An Army of Fuckups Cannot Lose

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Aidan Wachter @aidanwachter.bsky.social · 23h

This, from @margaret.bsky.social, needs to be internalized, be we anarchists, witches, or whatever: "We can try to build a better society with a dwindling cadre of angels, of perfect anarchists who have harmed no one who did not deserve it, or we can have an army of fuckups….

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Aidan Wachter @aidanwachter.bsky.social · 23h

I am totally stoked to be a part of this!

Ivo Dominguez Jr @ivod.bsky.social · 1d

Between The Worlds
Feb. 19-22, 2026 • College Park, MD
A Joint Conference With The Sacred Space Foundation

I hope to see you there. An amazing lineup at this joint conference.
www.between-the-worlds.com/presenters/

Presenters

www.between-the-worlds.com

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 1d

this week's post is something i've been thinking about for a long time. it's called "all of us imperfect comrades: or, an army of fuckups cannot lose"

margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 8d

“[AI is] not a good knockoff. The ultimate goal is never to be as good as the art — the goal is to be good enough to get on the page, get the consumer to use it, and get rid of the worker.” —Molly Crabapple, artist

Can Artists Stop the AI Slop Machine?

A recent workshop in Manhattan's Lower East Side challenged the notion that the takeover of machine learning is inevitable.

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Author. Witch. Dowser. 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇷🇻🇪 @elhoimleafar.bsky.social · 4d

Also, the expanded 10 years reissue of my 1st #BookOfSpells rising to the Top10 on all booklists of AMZN in USA, and appearing in physical bookstores, without any publishing support, was not in my bingo, but feels pretty good 😊🥰

eBook : amzn.to/430UVh4
Paperback: amzn.to/4gTYVWr

#witchybooks

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Aidan Wachter @aidanwachter.bsky.social · 4d

Some nights this is all I need. youtu.be/rLiDBEYE5LY

Bloodstains (Darkness Version)

YouTube video by Agent Orange - Topic

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Aidan Wachter @aidanwachter.bsky.social · 4d

Hell yes! Congratulations!

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ikckckcabod unban AJLink 🎃 @katecrane.bsky.social · 11d

I wonder if the people objecting to "eugenics against AI" also object to eugenics. The extreme vulnerability of disabled and elderly and low-income Americans. The threats to Medicaid, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine efforts and attempts to pathologize autistic people.

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Author. Witch. Dowser. 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇷🇻🇪 @elhoimleafar.bsky.social · 13d

Hey #witches 🐈‍⬛ my #bookofspells Bloom & Shadow (published 10 years ago as 'Wicca! Love & Soul') is OUT NOW 💐
The eBook is available in the link below 👇🏼 and paperback coming later today, now I gonna sleep 😴 I'll maybe do some cute promoting in the weekend 😪

Kindle / eBook 🔗 amzn.to/430UVh4
#witchsky

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Author. Witch. Dowser. 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇷🇻🇪 @elhoimleafar.bsky.social · 13d

The paperback it's here, and it's alive✨

👉🏼 Later this month in other platforms and selected bookstores.
👉🏼 Previously published as 'Wicca! Love & Soul' in 2015.
👉🏼 Include a Foreword by Judy Ann Nock. Author of the Modern Witchcraft series.

🔗 eBook : amzn.to/430UVh4
🔗 Paperback: amzn.to/4gTYVWr

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Author. Witch. Dowser. 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇷🇻🇪 @elhoimleafar.bsky.social · 13d

Baaabeeees, if trans people just looking for ways to live their lives, and hard-working immigrants paying taxes, bother you more than p*dophiles and Nazis.

You need to Reevaluate certain beliefs of yours 👀

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Aidan Wachter @aidanwachter.bsky.social · 12d

Love the shirt I just got in the mail from www.wyldheartandwright.co.uk/category/all...

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Aidan Wachter @aidanwachter.bsky.social · 12d

I made it outside to the woods & waters, finally feels like home!

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Aidan Wachter @aidanwachter.bsky.social · 13d

I also really enjoy Gemma Gary. This is piece I made for myself a lomg time ago, based on an image in one of her books.

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Aidan Wachter @aidanwachter.bsky.social · 14d

It’s good to be back in the book after a summer off. Rainy days, grey skies, lots of words. I love Autumn.

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 14d

wishing the safest of travels to the great Jane Goodall 🙏

young Jane Goodall with a camera remains calm while a small chimpanzee grooms the back of her hair

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 14d

i got to talk about anarchist santa

not actually a biography, but instead talking about how this guy did a lot of cool science and changed the way we understand competition and cooperation in evolutionary biology

Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 14d

New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 🐕

Margaret continues talking to Katie Goldin about the anarchist prince who laid the foundations for understanding cooperation in the wild.

@margaret.bsky.social @katiegoldin.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

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Aidan Wachter @aidanwachter.bsky.social · 15d

Interesting!
Samuel Jackson learned for Black Snake Moan and still plays every day.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.