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Call me Esther, Aesthr, or Æ if you want to be extra. she/her Artist, writer, photographer, luddite, witch, lesbian, and future psychologist in Berlin Art: https://www.aesthr.com Writing: https://www.selfawaresoup.com There are four lights!

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Æ. @aesthr.com · Jan 19

And, I mean …

Full body photo of me in front of a black backdrop, wearing loose fitting black pajama pants and a black tank top, Keeping my hands in my pockets

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 6h

Mostly just running about

MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 7h

Tag yourself.
(I'm 'fifty-two years an imbecile')

Work, Work, Work

On about this date in 1801, Britain's first census was begun. In a subsequent survey conducted in 1881, residents were asked to furnish their "rank, profession, or occupation." Some of the more puzzling responses, as preserved by the London Genealogical Society, included:

Colourist of artificial fish

Knight of the Thimble

Disinfector of railways

Examiner of underclothing

Invisible net maker

Electric bath attendant

Proprietor of midgets

Fifty-two years an imbecile

Knocker-up of workpeople

Maker of sand views

Gymnast to house painter

Turnip shepherd

Emasculator

Sampler of drugs

Fatuous pauper

Drowner

Count as female

Fish-bender

Goldfish-catcher

Cow-banger

Running about

Grape-dryer

Beef twister

Random waller

Æ. @aesthr.com · 6h

This framing would ignore that gender is socially constructed as it’s kind of backwards.

I would say that as embodied and social beings we find ourselves in a socially constructed framework that we have to integrate somehow, even if we reject it. Therefore our bodies become subject to it as well.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 6h

Also really good trebuchets in this movie towards the end.

This is one for the trebuchet appreciators.

Æ. @aesthr.com · 7h

I mean the same is true for Tron: Legacy

Although I haven't seen Ares yet and I expect it to be much worse

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 7h

I'm not sure I've ever seen a movie where the soundtrack was preferable to the script before but Tron Ares is IT, man

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🕸👻🕷Adam K Samhain🕷👻 🕸 @adamcadmon1.bsky.social · 7h

Abandon Spotify. Abandon it now.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 7h

It's basically a different movie and so much better

Æ. @aesthr.com · 7h

Did you know that Kingdom of Heaven reuses music from The 13th Warrior?

It's a really strange choice, especially since Kingdom has plenty of original score.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 7h

One reason why I like the Dawn/Rise version more. They give a reason for the rapid evolution of the apes and only skip forward a few years or decades so it makes sense that humans are still just present day humans.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 7h

I completely forgot about that one. it was awful

Æ. @aesthr.com · 7h

Kind of a shame that out of his big roles Orlando Bloom is probably 1st known for Legolas in LotR where he does next to zero acting with a character of no depth, 2nd for Will Turner in Pirates of the Carribean which is fine but unremarkable, and not for Kingdom of Heaven, his best performance.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 7h

This isn't even unhinged. This is basic writing advice. Recognize a hopeless draft when you see one, especially when it's your own.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 7h

You should publish far less than you write

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 17h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 7h

I'm reminded of all the video essays that go on and on about how Annihilation was about whether the aliens fuck.

Æ. @aesthr.com · 7h

Sure, people's metaphysical beliefs can be all sorts of things, and that isn't mutually exclusive with empirical perspectives, if one can tolerate that tension.

I do however think that entertaining this kind of philosophy of mind in a vacuum without including empirical findings is kind of pointless

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 8h

But I think I need to pull these apart a bit into multiple articles because getting them all into one piece while maintaining clarity and focus seems overly ambitious.

Tbh, if I had time to write a book, this would probably be it. But I don't.

Æ. @aesthr.com · 8h

I have an entangled blob of thoughts in my head about gender, psychology (specifically inter-subjectivity and inter-embodiment), "AI", capitalism, and witchcraft.

Trust me, it all makes sense. No, really.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 8h

what does nihilism have to do with psychological embodiment?

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 8h

that's one interpretation, but by far not the only one. I would not say anything about this is "established".

Also, doesn't really have much to do with what I said.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 8h

one more for the blocklist then

Æ. @aesthr.com · 8h

(I have started to read the literature for our psychoanalysis and gender seminar, so expect more of this)

Æ. @aesthr.com · 8h

One of my main objections to the gender/sex distinction is that it also implies a distinction between body and mind.

But modern psychology has largely (with strong empirical support) settled on our minds not being separable from our bodies and that embodiment is an important part of who we are.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 8h

Also some good and subtle Nihilism (in the actual philosophical meaning of the word) in this movie.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 8h

I do carry two guns

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 8h

Or just avoiding the more difficult problems of their protocol design

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 8h

Me trying to cut: Damn, this is kinda hard

Me trying to bulk: Damn, this is kinds hard too