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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴

@piperfuriosa.bsky.social

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∙Post-Doom ∙Anti-Fascist ∙Anti-Oppression ∙Eco-Anarchist Feminist ∙Satanic Witch ∙Land Back ∙Queer RiotGrrl∙ Goth ∙AuADHD Writer/Poet

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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · Jan 26

I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to hospice communities of people through decline and collapse. Sometimes, that means fighting fascists so we can die as individuals and a species, literally and metaphorically, with as much dignity and equanimity as possible.

Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · Jan 26

Years of being a Satanist have taught me that if people want to call you something as a negative, leaning into it is one of the most powerful things you can do. Want to call my "diabolical" for how I live my life as a queer anarchist? Ok. Now I'm a Satanic priestess who devil-pills others.

Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · Jan 26

Fascists introducing legislation to brandish anti-fascists as terrorists.

We are entering some very dangerous territory.

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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 3h

As one of the videos says: "No shade to the glory hole fans. We love that for them."

Racket @racketmn.com · 14h

“You couldn’t even teach this at marketing school, because it’s just, like, a one-off phenomenon,” one staffer says of the shop's series of incredibly viral glory hole videos. And while there are probably a few other reasons you couldn’t teach it in marketing school, the point stands!

No Hole, Just Glory: Smitten Kitten Turn Sexy Rumor Into Joyful Viral Moment - Racket

The Lyn-Lake sex shop is all about giving the people what they want. And what they want is glory hole cornhole.

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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you kindly, Ken. :) It's definitely not a perfect comparison, but I think the hubris of it all is spot on.

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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 11h

poets.org/poem/nothing...

"Nothing Wants to Suffer"
By Danusha Laméris

"(after Linda Hogan)

Nothing wants to suffer. Not the wind
as it scrapes itself against the cliff. Not the cliff

being eaten, slowly, by the sea. The earth does not want
to suffer the rough tread of those who do not notice it.

The trees do not want to suffer the axe, nor see
their sisters felled by root rot, mildew, rust.

The coyote in its den. The puma stalking its prey.
These, too, want ease and a tender animal in the mouth

to take their hunger. An offering, one hopes,
made quickly, and without much suffering.

The chair mourns an angry sitter. The lamp, a scalded moth.
A table, the weight of years of argument.

We know this, though we forget.

Not the shark nor the tiger, fanged as they are.
Nor the worm, content in its windowless world

of soil and stone. Not the stone, resting in its riverbed.
The riverbed, gazing up at the stars.

Least of all, the stars, ensconced in their canopy,
looking down at all of us— their offspring—

scattered so far beyond reach."

Copyright © 2021 by Danusha Laméris. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on April 9, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.

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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 11h

I think that's one of the best ways to cope, as one is able.

Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 11h

6. I feel everything and nothing about all of this, simultaneously. I've always felt everything from the sublime to the grotesque deeply, anyway, dark Romantic that I am, but everything is magnified by our heightened times.

Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 11h

I joke about the "euthenasia rollercoaster" idea that a bunch of artists thought up a while back, but I fear that's actually quite peaceful and pleasant compared to what lies ahead.

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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 11h

I wish I had something as epic to respond with, but this will just make me plot my musical revenge!

This is not quite as good, but good: youtu.be/WPJoge1wDs4?...

Cult Of Luna - "In Awe Of"

YouTube video by DensityRecords

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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 11h

Soon, I sincerely hope. :)

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 12h

Psychological warfare is a downpour.
Continue to swim upstream.
Don't let their broken hearts break yours too.
Fight loss with love and joy.

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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 12h

We in modern society are like mountain-sick climbers on Everest, too addled by hypoxemia to realize that our ascent spells our Doom.

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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 12h

We in modern society are like mountain-sick climbers on Everest, too addled by hypoxemia to realize that our ascent spells our Doom.

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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 12h

The fact that we don't understand that nature is red of tooth and claw shows the terminal extreme of our disconnect from our own wild natures.

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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 12h

I'm picturing him and Bowie high off their tits in the "Dancing in the Streets" video. 😜
youtu.be/opRRax4ph3E?...

David Bowie & Mick Jagger - Dancing In The Street (Official 4K Video)

YouTube video by David Bowie

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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 12h

The fact that we don't understand that nature is red of tooth and claw shows the terminal extreme of our disconnect from our own wild natures.

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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 12h

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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 12h

My heart beats for you, so you definitely get first dibs on when it stops. ;)

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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 12h

That truth is one of the great comforts I take when my very primate morality fears rear their heads.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · May 21

I haven't been paying attention to the news because I've been too busy watching this. 🪶 🐣

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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 22h

You are kind to say so, Kelly. :)

Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 1d

Such a relatable feeling! @collapseaphorisms.bsky.social & I were just talking about some of the climate "tipping points" that have already been crossed, and this was our mood:
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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 1d

Something about the way The Prof phrased it reminded me of Poe. Of course, everything has a thick patina of The Uncanny and the "weird" (in the literary sense) right now. The world as the most disturbing piece of horror ever written, etc.

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 1d

Earth Energy Imbalance

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Piper Furiosa (she/they) 🇵🇸🏴 @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 1d

"Fashist an di attack
Den wi countah-attack
Fashist an di attack
Den wi drive dem back

We gonna smash their brains in
Cause they ain't got no fink in 'em
We gonna smash their brains in
Cause they ain't got no fink in 'em"
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