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tara "tara wrist" hillegeist. i dabble. (once, i moonlighted as a dragon golem vtuber for a time. one day i shall do so again.) if you're here you're here for 1 of 3 things: media criticism, dialectical materialism, or unhinged reposts of what i like.

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · Mar 18

ae/2501/maeth. do you know what the difference is between someone society treats as real and someone they treat as fictional? it's whether they experience consequences for how they use them. they can do anything they want to you if they know you don't really exist. so: do you know if you're real?

the doll's hand taken away: "2501". a place of safety, of certainty.

the doll's hand, pointing now, again: "maeth."

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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 51m

silly thing to remmber but I really like this story

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1h

Chills...

Already Michael was developing into the musical connoisseur that D'Angelo is today. His Uncle CC was a truck driver who moonlighted as a DJ, and he had a huge record collection. This was the beginning of what D now calls going to school"_ delving deep into jazz, soul, rock, and gospel history, from Mahalia Jackson to Band of Gypsys, from the Meters to Miles Davis to Donald Byrd, from Sam Cooke to Otis Redding, from Donny Hathaway to Curtis Mayfield to Sly Stone to Marvin Gaye. When Michael was 8, Gaye had just made a comeback with Sexual Healing and won two yY Grammys. "Everybody was talking about him, = Angelo recalls. "Everybody. So gy just after Sunday sermon on April Fool's Day 1984, when Michael learned Gaye was dead at 44-shot by his own father- he was crushed.

That night, D'Angelo had the first of many dreams about Gaye. It was in black and white and took place at Hitsville U.S.A., Motown's Detroit headquarters. was playing piano while a bunch of famous Motown stars milled about, waiting for Gaye. "When he finally showed up, he Was
young, very handsome, the thin Marvin, Clean-shaven. Very debonair," he told an interviewer back in 2000. "He came straight to me and shook my hand and looked me dead in the eyes, and he said, Very nice to meet you. He grabbed my hand and wouldn't let go."

After that, whenever Gaye's music came on the radio, Michael felt a chill. The opening bars to "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" made him get up and leave the room. It was as if the power in Gaye's music had been linked, somehow, to his tragic end. "I would be petrified," he says petrified that his mother took him to -sO a therapist. But the dreams of Gayc himself a preacher's son- didn't go away until Michael turned 19. That was the year he changed his name to a moniker inspired by Michelangelo. That was also the year that his demo tape found its way into the hands of Gary Harris, then an A&R ecutive at EMI Music.

The church warned D'Angelo against secular music. "I got that speech so many times," he says. " 'Don't go do the devil's music,' blah blah blah." But his grandmother encouraged him to use his gifts as he saw fit. Not long after Harris signed him, D_dreamed his last Marvin dream, this one in color. "I Was following him aS a grown man, he tells me. "He WasS a bit heavier, and he had the beard. He was naked, and all I could see was his back and that cap he used to wear all the time. And he got into this whirlpool Jacuzzi with his wife and his daughter and his little son, and that's when he turns around and looks at me. And-he-goes, 'T know you're wondering why-you keep dreaming about me.' And Iwoke up.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 55m

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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mcc @dryad.technology · 1h

"It's good our new PM is a banker because bankers are practical and technocratic. We'll get someone focused on making things work and working well— especially on the economic front."

Saleem @seemo.bsky.social · 2h

Shot | Chaser

Bluesky post: AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 1h

was not expecting to get hit by an irigaray mention wrt chainsawman even though it might be the only manga of its type where i could believe its author is actually familiar with irigaray bitching about the castrating shame-void that is the core patriarchal interaction with any essence of femaleness

👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · Aug 20

chainsaw man basically lends itself to a psychoanalysis reading of literally everything happening (freud, lacan, irigaray even) in both part 1 and 2 you could probably write the definitive literary analysis through but that is a job for when this monster of a work finishes

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Freyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 3h

It came along because the people who contribute most to all those problems on purpose made it. It's a straightforward continuation of their agenda.

Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 7d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 1h

understandingbthey could not outpace SLAVES and THE MUSLIMS, they opted to outrun the competition in inanity instead

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t get many PR emails any more but I’m excited to now know that there’s a band called CULTURE WARS who are - inevitably - 5 white guys and who say that they didn’t mean the name in a political way

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 3h

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 2h

At least 19 Palestinian doctors are still being held in Israeli detention without charge.

Free Dr. Abu Safiya: Calls Grow for Israel to Release Imprisoned Gaza Healthcare Workers

Pressure is mounting for Israel to release many more detainees as part of the U.S.-backed Gaza ceasefire deal, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, who has been he...

www.democracynow.org

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 3h

We recoil from taxing the rich, yet they tax us.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 2h

The Gemara asks if Moses was ever mistaken. Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus answers that Moses once supposed his noses was roses. What does this mean? Rabbi Yehoshua ben Ḥananya answers that when that happened, Moses supposed erroneously.

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 11h

falling in love with a girl who is so ophelia coded her ass is haunting *everyone's* narrative

st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 11h

well. i can't say the translation staff handling KAMEN RIDER ZEZTZ don't know exactly what audience they're expecting to tune into their efforts!

screencap of a subtitle reading "Seven's very good with his hands."

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Rumindo @rumindo.bsky.social · 18h

Day 13 - Lupo
#arktober2025 #Arknights

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 17h

I like to remind people about lifetime limits and the refusal of insurers to sell coverage to people with preexisting conditions.

The ACA has issues. But those 2 things alone make it worth saving and fixing.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 16h

Couple of thoughts:
(1) I miss Cora Harrington's presence, because she would have a thing or three to say about that header image
(2) Some of those historical illustrations of women with tiny corseted waists are actually fetish images

Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 17h

Oh dear, no thank you.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/s...

Plastic Surgery Comes for the Waist

www.nytimes.com

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 14h

currently idly imagining how funny it would be to wake up any day soon and have even the smallest of justifiable reasons to compose a quote post reading "kermit the frog ....... welcome to the resistance"

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

Taxpayers aren’t supposed to deduct losses from something that has no hope of being a profitable business.

But billionaire-owned operations that look like expensive hobbies, like race horses, rack up business deductions by the tens of millions of dollars.

(Published 2023)

Private Planes and Luxury Yachts Aren’t Just Toys for the Ultrawealthy. They’re Also Huge Tax Breaks.

What’s the only thing better than having your own Gulfstream jet? Why, getting to claim millions in tax deductions for it. All you have to do is make a case you’re using it for business, which turns o...

www.propublica.org

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 14h

Bruno!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

I've been told that this 2019 fundraiser for Miss Major started after her stroke is where anyone who might want to contribute to the expenses of her family in the immediate future should contribute: fundly.com/missmajor - It will stay open for the time being.

Click here to support Miss Major's Monthly Fundraising Circle by Friends of Miss Major

After Miss Major's 2019 stroke, donations go to continuing her rehab + her retirement fund, in addition to helping care for Asiah, the baby she and Beck ...

fundly.com

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 14h

it is vital, vital, for the health of our society, that peter thiel not be allowed to read berserk

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 14h

would he even have enough close personal friends left to sacrifice to the god hand in exchange for a wish, is the real pertinent question

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 14h

but assuming "this space left blank" to mean *male*? oh, *everybody* fucking does *that*. and nobody fucking blinks at their doing it, either! not once! not even half the time when they have lived a life where by all rights they should question it! because no one's ever put the question to them!

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 14h

to spell it out: to use "she" for the doctor is to know you're cutting against the social default of reading an aspiration towards *masculinity* into the performance of any sort of nonbinariness/agendering/"androgyny" on the part of especially a viewpoint protagonist. nobody takes that for granted.

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