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Rev. Alcyone Daze
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3 aeons in a trenchcoat. Accused of the Devil's work & praised for the LORD's work with roughly equal frequency; for legal & safety reasons it's just me on the business cards. Hedge priest, raconteur, bioethicist, part-time psychopomp. 🔞. (Ey/em/eir)
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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · Nov 14
For nearly the past 30 years I've been haunted by an—as far as I can tell—specific-to-me cryptid, and I figure since I'm new to bsky I've never told this story on this platform.

I want to talk about the Pigeon Man.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 6h
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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 9h
For October 16th's #DIYandDie, a meditation from Humanist Rabbi Sherwin Wine.
[Background is a brass lamp with fairy lights overhead, with an ombre of dark blue] TEXT: Death needs courage. It is so overwhelmingly final that it fills our lives with dread and anxious fear. When it arrives at the end of a long and happy life it is never welcome, yet not deeply resented. But when it comes too soon, invading young lives, disrupting hopes and dreams, it adds anger to our fear. We cry out at the injustice of destiny and wait for answers that never seem to come. Courage is the power to confront a world that is not always fair. It is the refusal to beg for what will never be given. It is the willingness to accept what cannot be changed. Courage is loving life even in the face of death. It is sharing our strength with others even when we feel weak. It is embracing our family and friends even when we fear to lose them. It is opening ourselves to love, even for the last time. Courage is self-esteem. It prefers quiet determination to whining. It prefers doing to waiting. It affirms that exits, like entrances, have their own dignity. —Humanist Rabbi Sherwin Wine
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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 9h
For October 16th's #DIYandDie, a meditation from Humanist Rabbi Sherwin Wine.
[Background is a brass lamp with fairy lights overhead, with an ombre of dark blue] TEXT: Death needs courage. It is so overwhelmingly final that it fills our lives with dread and anxious fear. When it arrives at the end of a long and happy life it is never welcome, yet not deeply resented. But when it comes too soon, invading young lives, disrupting hopes and dreams, it adds anger to our fear. We cry out at the injustice of destiny and wait for answers that never seem to come. Courage is the power to confront a world that is not always fair. It is the refusal to beg for what will never be given. It is the willingness to accept what cannot be changed. Courage is loving life even in the face of death. It is sharing our strength with others even when we feel weak. It is embracing our family and friends even when we fear to lose them. It is opening ourselves to love, even for the last time. Courage is self-esteem. It prefers quiet determination to whining. It prefers doing to waiting. It affirms that exits, like entrances, have their own dignity. —Humanist Rabbi Sherwin Wine
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 20h
OH: how come sandwich sounds fine but sand wizard and sand warlock sound like slurs
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 1d
‘Cause it might be too late for young, clean, or pretty
Don’t let it be too late to die being *you.*
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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 1d
And Death said to me once “don’t mix business and pleasure,” and I said “You’re the boss; I’ll stop flirting with You,”

So I picked up Her scythe and I picked up Her lantern and set out to find ways to help others die *true*
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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 1d
I’m too late to die young, when my flame burned its brightest
And that 27 club? I’m 9 years past my chance.
And I think dying pretty’s a matter of opinion, or of luck, or of timing, or just sheer happenstance.
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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 1d
(3/3) If you're reading this and are curious about creation of rituals/sacred space in instances where someone *can't* be brought home for their last days, I highly recommend checking out Megory Anderson's "Sacred Dying."
OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS When would you like to have this vigil? Before death, after death, or both? (Specify when you would like this vigil to begin and end.) How will the room be arranged? What will be present in the room to create a sense of sacred space? Where is the ideal location for the bed for your view and ease of visitors? How will people enter this space? GOOD SENSE What do you want to be able to see? (e.g. orienting the bed to have a view of nature, if possible.) What will the lighting be like? Do you want the windows open during the day or keep the space dimly lit? What about at night? Will there be music? What kind? How long do you want it played? Do you want recordings of specific nature sounds? What helps you rest? Are there scents you would like to have there? Are there any you don’t like? How would you like to be touched? Do you want your loved ones to wash your body during the vigil or following your death? CROWD CONTROL Who will be sitting vigil? Who do you want to attend? Who don’t you want to attend? (Is there anyone willing to be the bouncer for your sacred space?) Who will alert your family and friends that the active dying process has begun? (Does that person have all of the needed names and phone numbers?) Ideally, multiple people will take turns sitting vigil. Who are those people? How will they be contacted? How will their shifts be decided? Who may want to come visit to say their goodbyes? Will FaceTime or Zoom be used for loved ones who can’t be there in person? (Who will handle those arrangements?) CEREMONY Will there be a ceremonial element to the vigil? What will that ceremony consist of? (For instance, would you like visitors to read passages from a favorite book? Share life stories? Share their memories with you? Bring an item to an altar?) Do you want specific clergy in attendance?
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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 1d
(2/3) This resource is parallel to but distinct from, Go Wish cards (which I'll also post about this month.) Shiva's approach is more maximalist, in the "assume you'll get everything you ask for if you ask for it early enough" way, while Go Wish is more "choose just five things from this deck."
How do I want to feel in this space? How could this space embody those qualities? What would bring me peace & comfort? DEATHBED DÉCOR Are there spiritually significant items I would like to include in the space? Are there personal mementos, photos, or other treasured possessions I would like to have there? Are there favorite books I’d like to have read to me? Movies I’d like to watch together? Is there favorite music (or other sounds) I’d like to be able to listen to? Are there specific colors or favorite flowers I’d want in this space? Are there scents that would make me feel relaxed and comforted? (Note: depending on location, you may be limited in your ability to light candles or incense; be aware you may have to improvise.) DESIGNATING A DEATH SPACE Being able to control where the sacred space is located isn’t always within our power—you may be able to designate an entire room in your own home, or you may have to work within the limits of a hospital or hospice room. In all of these cases, establishing a sacred space is a matter of figuring out how to set it apart from its surroundings. This could be as simple as putting a sign on a door to demonstrate your intentions to visitors. Vigils can be performed in the days preceding death, directly after death, and (in the case of home funerals) a few days after death has occurred. It’s a time for loved ones to gather and spend the remaining moments of life with the dying and can also be a ritual of observance and mourning for the newly deceased. In either case, if you (or a dying friend) intend to have a vigil, communicate that intention to your loved ones as soon as you can so that they’re prepared to offer their support. (Visit www.mydeathwishes.org to see Shiva’s vigil template.)
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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 1d
October 15th's #DIYandDie is me marveling that I've made it through a post a day for half a month. Today's is a three-part post adapted from Shiva Honey's "The Devil's Death" and it focuses on design considerations when creating a sacred space to hold a dying person. (1/3)
[The images throughout this presentation are black and gold tarot cards scattered over a range of deep purple, charcoal grey, and gold backgrounds. The text is more important than the images, so that's what I'm focusing on for the rest of the alt text.] TEXT: Creating a Sacred Space for Dying (Adapted from "The Devil's Death," by Shiva Honey, by A. Daze for DIYandDie, 2025) PURPOSE Creating a space that feels grounding and serene can help reduce anxiety and fear around the dying provess and bring comfort to the dying and their loved ones. Completion of at least one exercise like this is standard “homework” in a lot of death doula training programs, both to ease comfort with helping other folks create a sacred space and to befriend your own mortality. In other words: what would you want done for yourself, when your own time comes? PUTTING ON YOUR OWN MASK FIRST Answering these questions for yourself before you are in your last days gives you the opportunity to share your wishes with friends, family, death workers, and health professionals. Write your answers down, and know there are no right or wrong answers. WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY What does “sacred” mean to me? How would I want a sacred space to serve me at the end of my life? Do I want it to be a place of contemplation? Rest? Would I want to hold a vigil and invite others inside? Is this space only for me, or would I allow loved ones inside? What about medical professionals? Other visitors? At what point in the dying process would I want this space created?
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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 1d
(3/3) If you're reading this and are curious about creation of rituals/sacred space in instances where someone *can't* be brought home for their last days, I highly recommend checking out Megory Anderson's "Sacred Dying."
OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS When would you like to have this vigil? Before death, after death, or both? (Specify when you would like this vigil to begin and end.) How will the room be arranged? What will be present in the room to create a sense of sacred space? Where is the ideal location for the bed for your view and ease of visitors? How will people enter this space? GOOD SENSE What do you want to be able to see? (e.g. orienting the bed to have a view of nature, if possible.) What will the lighting be like? Do you want the windows open during the day or keep the space dimly lit? What about at night? Will there be music? What kind? How long do you want it played? Do you want recordings of specific nature sounds? What helps you rest? Are there scents you would like to have there? Are there any you don’t like? How would you like to be touched? Do you want your loved ones to wash your body during the vigil or following your death? CROWD CONTROL Who will be sitting vigil? Who do you want to attend? Who don’t you want to attend? (Is there anyone willing to be the bouncer for your sacred space?) Who will alert your family and friends that the active dying process has begun? (Does that person have all of the needed names and phone numbers?) Ideally, multiple people will take turns sitting vigil. Who are those people? How will they be contacted? How will their shifts be decided? Who may want to come visit to say their goodbyes? Will FaceTime or Zoom be used for loved ones who can’t be there in person? (Who will handle those arrangements?) CEREMONY Will there be a ceremonial element to the vigil? What will that ceremony consist of? (For instance, would you like visitors to read passages from a favorite book? Share life stories? Share their memories with you? Bring an item to an altar?) Do you want specific clergy in attendance?
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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 1d
(2/3) This resource is parallel to but distinct from, Go Wish cards (which I'll also post about this month.) Shiva's approach is more maximalist, in the "assume you'll get everything you ask for if you ask for it early enough" way, while Go Wish is more "choose just five things from this deck."
How do I want to feel in this space? How could this space embody those qualities? What would bring me peace & comfort? DEATHBED DÉCOR Are there spiritually significant items I would like to include in the space? Are there personal mementos, photos, or other treasured possessions I would like to have there? Are there favorite books I’d like to have read to me? Movies I’d like to watch together? Is there favorite music (or other sounds) I’d like to be able to listen to? Are there specific colors or favorite flowers I’d want in this space? Are there scents that would make me feel relaxed and comforted? (Note: depending on location, you may be limited in your ability to light candles or incense; be aware you may have to improvise.) DESIGNATING A DEATH SPACE Being able to control where the sacred space is located isn’t always within our power—you may be able to designate an entire room in your own home, or you may have to work within the limits of a hospital or hospice room. In all of these cases, establishing a sacred space is a matter of figuring out how to set it apart from its surroundings. This could be as simple as putting a sign on a door to demonstrate your intentions to visitors. Vigils can be performed in the days preceding death, directly after death, and (in the case of home funerals) a few days after death has occurred. It’s a time for loved ones to gather and spend the remaining moments of life with the dying and can also be a ritual of observance and mourning for the newly deceased. In either case, if you (or a dying friend) intend to have a vigil, communicate that intention to your loved ones as soon as you can so that they’re prepared to offer their support. (Visit www.mydeathwishes.org to see Shiva’s vigil template.)
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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 1d
October 15th's #DIYandDie is me marveling that I've made it through a post a day for half a month. Today's is a three-part post adapted from Shiva Honey's "The Devil's Death" and it focuses on design considerations when creating a sacred space to hold a dying person. (1/3)
[The images throughout this presentation are black and gold tarot cards scattered over a range of deep purple, charcoal grey, and gold backgrounds. The text is more important than the images, so that's what I'm focusing on for the rest of the alt text.] TEXT: Creating a Sacred Space for Dying (Adapted from "The Devil's Death," by Shiva Honey, by A. Daze for DIYandDie, 2025) PURPOSE Creating a space that feels grounding and serene can help reduce anxiety and fear around the dying provess and bring comfort to the dying and their loved ones. Completion of at least one exercise like this is standard “homework” in a lot of death doula training programs, both to ease comfort with helping other folks create a sacred space and to befriend your own mortality. In other words: what would you want done for yourself, when your own time comes? PUTTING ON YOUR OWN MASK FIRST Answering these questions for yourself before you are in your last days gives you the opportunity to share your wishes with friends, family, death workers, and health professionals. Write your answers down, and know there are no right or wrong answers. WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY What does “sacred” mean to me? How would I want a sacred space to serve me at the end of my life? Do I want it to be a place of contemplation? Rest? Would I want to hold a vigil and invite others inside? Is this space only for me, or would I allow loved ones inside? What about medical professionals? Other visitors? At what point in the dying process would I want this space created?
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1-900-HOTDOG @1900hotdog.bsky.social · 1d
@seemoreevil.bsky.social has done it. He's found the Christian superhero team with the largest body to head ratio possible. Congratulations are in order. 1900hotdog.com/2025/10/nerd...
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Aidan Wachter @aidanwachter.bsky.social · 1d
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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Beast of Booorbon 👻 @jenleepa.bsky.social · 2d
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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 2d
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.
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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 2d
October 14th's #DIYandDie isn't so much "practical advice" so much as "some favorite quotes I've come across."
[Background is a Miyazaki-esque city street at night, with telephone poles going into the horizon and lights on inside homes.] Text reads: We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred? [This quote is, unfortunately, by Richard Dawkins. Insert muttering about broken clocks.] [Image is a pseudowoodcut of a winged skeleton holding an hourglass in one raised hand, perched jauntily atop a headstone, less harbinger than "hey gurl."] The text on the headstone reads: Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods but unjust, then you should not want to worship them If there are no gods, then you will be gone but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. —Marcus Aurelius [Image is another Miyazaki-esque seaside town at night, with lights on in the homes as we face downhill looking at the water.] Text reads: We accept our life as all and enough, distinguishing things as they are from things as we might wish or imagine them to be. We welcome the challenges of the future, and are drawn to and undaunted by the yet to be known. —excerpt from The Humanist Manifesto III [Image is a woman walking alone down a street filled with neon signs featuring blurry Chinese characters. Her back is to the camera.] Text reads: I had thought I had looked at death before. I had seen her dance with the ones I loved who had died. I had suffered my own flirtations. This time, though, death is gazing back. Not just a glance, but a full, seductive stare. As if we are in a bar, and I am dressed in black leather, ready for adventure tinged with danger. How alluring to be chosen. This is what she whispers: I can follow her with grace and dignity, or I can resist and it can get ugly. Either way, she will win, she promises me. That is her story. If she writes my story, I will be brave, beautiful, and dignified. The word “struggle” will be used, but with no incidents of sweating or cursing or thrashing. In her story, it will be as if i have fallen into a deep sleep. As long as I am still able to write, this is my story: I resist the lure of dignity; I refuse to be graceful, beautiful, and beloved. I am not going to sleep with her. I am going home alone. —Ruthann Robson, "Notes on My Dying" —Ruthann robson “notes on my dying”
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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 2d
October 14th's #DIYandDie isn't so much "practical advice" so much as "some favorite quotes I've come across."
[Background is a Miyazaki-esque city street at night, with telephone poles going into the horizon and lights on inside homes.] Text reads: We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred? [This quote is, unfortunately, by Richard Dawkins. Insert muttering about broken clocks.] [Image is a pseudowoodcut of a winged skeleton holding an hourglass in one raised hand, perched jauntily atop a headstone, less harbinger than "hey gurl."] The text on the headstone reads: Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods but unjust, then you should not want to worship them If there are no gods, then you will be gone but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. —Marcus Aurelius [Image is another Miyazaki-esque seaside town at night, with lights on in the homes as we face downhill looking at the water.] Text reads: We accept our life as all and enough, distinguishing things as they are from things as we might wish or imagine them to be. We welcome the challenges of the future, and are drawn to and undaunted by the yet to be known. —excerpt from The Humanist Manifesto III [Image is a woman walking alone down a street filled with neon signs featuring blurry Chinese characters. Her back is to the camera.] Text reads: I had thought I had looked at death before. I had seen her dance with the ones I loved who had died. I had suffered my own flirtations. This time, though, death is gazing back. Not just a glance, but a full, seductive stare. As if we are in a bar, and I am dressed in black leather, ready for adventure tinged with danger. How alluring to be chosen. This is what she whispers: I can follow her with grace and dignity, or I can resist and it can get ugly. Either way, she will win, she promises me. That is her story. If she writes my story, I will be brave, beautiful, and dignified. The word “struggle” will be used, but with no incidents of sweating or cursing or thrashing. In her story, it will be as if i have fallen into a deep sleep. As long as I am still able to write, this is my story: I resist the lure of dignity; I refuse to be graceful, beautiful, and beloved. I am not going to sleep with her. I am going home alone. —Ruthann Robson, "Notes on My Dying" —Ruthann robson “notes on my dying”
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 3d
1-in-100 year rainfall rate in Oakland this afternoon as 0.53 inches fell between 4:25 and 4:35 p.m. at San Leandro Creek near the airport. NOAA estimates 10-minute precipitation rate of 0.52” to be a 1-in-100 year event.
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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 3d
books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 2d
Awh <3
I hope y’all both have wonderful evenings (and you look great!)
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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 2d
Is Good Kat also dressed as Good Kat?
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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 3d
"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔
One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet. I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.
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