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Talia Lavin

@swordsjew.bsky.social

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journalist, author, sword collector. haggard and unblest. newsletter: buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich buy my new book!! https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/ contact: [email protected]

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Nov 11

time to unleash The Grilled Cheese Essay (which personally made padma lakshmi cry) on the newskies

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 36m

Incredible reporting and writing from the CNN investigative team on the scammy world of crypto ATMs

Americans are losing millions to scammers at crypto ATMs. Here’s how companies profit

Companies often fail to refund money to victims and aggressively fight police to claw back scam money seized from machines.

www.cnn.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1h

the twink is still being tormented. this time i expected the Spanish Inquisition, and was not disappointed

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 23h

Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed.

Doctor says “great clown pagliacci is in town. Go see him. You’ll feel better”

Man says “but doctor, don’t you mean great magician clown *throws smoke bomb on floor and when it clears he is in full clown getup* PAGLIACCI!”

Doctor:

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 6h

melmoth the wanderer goes great with any season as long as youre into twink monks getting tied up in dungeons

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 8h

my burden is heavy but once ive read 10 to 15 more gothic novels i might have to write about how gay they are

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 8h

melmoth the twink tormentor tbh

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 8h

i cannot overemphasize how much these monks are tormenting this poor twink, bound and drenched with holy water for nefarious purposes

'The result was, that I remained half-naked, half-drowned, gasping, choaking, and delirious with rage, shame, and fear, when I was summoned to attend the Bishop, who, surrounded by the Superior and the community, awaited me in the church. This was the moment they had fixed on-I yielded myself to them. I said, stretching out my arms, 'Yes, drag me naked, mad-re-ligion and nature alike violated in my abused figure-before your Bishop. If he speaks truth,-if he feels conscience,-woe be to you, hypocritical, tyrannical wretches.
You have half-driven me mad!-half-murdered me, by the unnatural cruelties you have exercised on me!-and in this state you drag me before the Bishop! Be it so, I must follow you.' As I uttered these

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 13h

oH nO we will be ShAmED by too few sErvAnts

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 13h

rich people visiting each other's houses ass books

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 13h

i wouldnt base that conclusion on a fervently and quite openly anticatholic book myself

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 20d

You can read more about what antifa actually is in my book To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right, now available for preorder www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

To Catch a Fascist

A searing, provocative investigation into the rise of white nationalist and neo-Nazi movements in the United States, centered on the anti-fascist g...

www.simonandschuster.com

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 15h

apparently the younger monks' imaginations are "at once polluted and inflamed, by the idea of the infernal and impure orgies which the demon celebrates in your cell"
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 15h

probably not til after a few appointments but a hopefully not girl can dream

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 15h

you have an imprisoned twink in your house???

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 15h

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 15h

ooh now a sinister voice is murmuring to the Spaniard at night to tempt him into "the most unutterable impurities"

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