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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 8h

t.co/Ba28MweLYa

holy shit. This is rotten.

[the telegram chat shared between the state leaders of the Young Republicans organization leaked]

TW: explicit racism, references to r-pe, Nazis

A screenshot of the beginning of the Politico article about the Telegram chat shared between the national leaders of the Young Republicans. The article was published October 14th 2025.

The title reads "'I love Hitler': Leaked messages expose Young Republicans' racist chat"

A subtitle reads: "Thousands of private messages reveal Young GOP leaders talking about gas chambers, slavery and rape."

The attached header image shows a collage of Telegram messages, sent by different state leaders of the Young Republicans youth organization. Many of the messages are explicitly racist, and says things like "[you're] expecting the Jew to be honest" and "I'd go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkeys play ball" and "Great. I love Hitler".

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 9h

I may go home and watch the 72 high now

🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 9h

Sweeeeet

I enjoyed that one sober, seems like it'd be fun to watch high.

After seeing 72 I got the original book to read too. There's also a 1968 adaptation that I heard follows the books emphasis on studying the planet rather than more on the interpersonal relationships. That's on the list too

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 9h

Yoooooooo Solaris mentioned

The 1972 adaptation or the 2002 adaptation?

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY 🔥🔥

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8nN...

La Internacional en Nahuatl

YouTube video by 02 Premio Nacional Carlos Montemayor

www.youtube.com

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 16h

lyrics transcribed by me

I forgot to put the long a vowel on Náwatl btw

(also tsopalmeh would literally be something like "stainies" or "filthies" to English but it more means like the oppressed in this case; like the wretched of the Earth)

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Chris H. 🍄🌛 @sutexii.bsky.social · 20h

So my tablet let it's usbc port drift away overnight! And the replacement got lost in the mail due to an address typo on the sellers part that I noticed too late to fix without spending more 🫠

Could use a hand to recoup those costs and to order another one if needed 🙏

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

Ínín téwiltilo tlákewálmeh
Ín tlámiyó yáóyótlá
Má mó ihka áltepémeh
Ka ín Tlákákomekayótl

Má nochtín ti sentikán
Ín tlámiyó yáóyótia
Má mó ihka áltepémeh
Ka ín Tlákákomekayótl !

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

¡ Áko tsopalmeh ín Tláltikpak
Áko nochtín yáóchikawti
Ka tékitine ni Nawatl
Yankwik Tlátikpak ye yótia

Má nochtín ti teposkotónakán
Ín kólchíwa tlákotilo
Wán ákiné ye tépalchíchílo
Áxkáné yeskia ín Tláltikpak

(cont.)

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY 🔥🔥

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8nN...

La Internacional en Nahuatl

YouTube video by 02 Premio Nacional Carlos Montemayor

www.youtube.com

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

finally fucking around with arturia virtual lab, clip studio, and reading again

the end of the rumspringa is near 🙏

🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

not to even talk about how much the Rio Grande has shrunk to even being dry in parts....... you used to be able to take a steamboat up a good portion of it; mile and a half wide or so between what's now Rio Grande City and Brownsville

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

(most springs along the Balcones Escarpment that have faired better are also beginning to suffer this fate as well, the San Marcos River is shrinking because the eponymous springs are also shrinking. I hope one day water flows everywhere can be restored with good policy and shrewd stewardship)

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

The water table has also dropped here due to strain on the aquifer. Visiting San Pedro Springs today is nothing like just fifty years ago, let alone two hundred. The smaller springs are often dried up or tinkling water. Same for the San Antonio Springs sadly.

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so excited for winter I wish I could pocket a sizable amount of greenhouse gases and send them to the oort cloud so that we could have seasons again

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

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(it was actually San Antonio Springs which was described as having water shoot multiple feet in the air, not San Pedro Springs to correct that misidentification; though I'm sure San Pedro Springs bubbled mightily too in previous eras)

🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

Side note, the Comal Springs in what is now New Braunfels, Texas, are the largest springs in the Southwestern US; and I heard that San Pedro Springs in whats now San Antonio, at one time gushed so powerfully that it had a fountain like effect, where it would spurt into the air!

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

fun links to read with

www.edwardsaquifer.net/spspring.html

www.edwardsaquifer.net/saspring.html

www.edwardsaquifer.net/sanmarcos.html

www.edwardsaquifer.net/comal.html

www.edwardsaquifer.net/barton.html

(each include paintings Susan Dunis' 2014 series about Indigenous lives at the springs)

🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

There's a great website ran by a local SA scientist that talks all things Edwards Aquifer

www.edwardsaquifer.net/spspring.html

I love reading historical descriptions of the land I also live on now. I can only imagine what it looked like in previous eras (what it'll look like tomorrow)

A painted depiction of a spring at San Pedro Springs. It was made in 2014 by Susan Dunis as a series of paintings about a Native American family from the Lower Pecos on a sacred journey along the springs of the Edwards Aquifer. The actual painting depicts the family swimming in the water, fishing, and gathering chert for tools and wild grapes for eating. It's beautiful, it's lush and the spring is full.

A painted depiction of a spring at San Antonio Springs. This one was also part of the series painted by Susan Dunis in 2014 and depicts people trading with each other and cleaning themselves at the spring. It's beautiful, it's lush and the spring is bubbling with life.

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

bsky.app/profile/amul... winter era comeback jubilant

🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · Dec 19

Went to a local park for a bit earlier, t'was nice :3

Also, found out that the ashe junipers (mountain cedar) were in bloom so I nabbed some berries from them that I've been meaning to get :3

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

WINTER IS COMING (!!!! again)

may the fog consume the hill country for i am its largest horn

🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · Nov 27

These were taken on the way to Lost Maples SNA & Garner SP

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

Another side note, Bracken Cave is actually home to about 20 million bats a year (!), due to migratory patterns. I've heard it called the largest concentration of mammals (excluding Humans) in the world!

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

The Geological Society of America is hosting their annual conference in SA this year & because of that they're also hosting a bunch of fun field trips for interested nerds.

I'm excited to get a hands-on exploration of the Edwards Aquifer hydrology with experts, & its history with the building of SA

A screenshot of one of the tours being offered by GSA this month. It's titled "Building San Antonio: Geology, water and building resources in the historic 'Valley of the Missions'". Above the title is a day-time photo of Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo (usually just called Mission San Jose)

A screenshot of one of the tours the GSA is offering this month. It's titled "The Edwards Aquifer of South-Central Texas - An Aquifer Under Stress". Above the title is a day-time photo of typical Balcones Escarpment flora, with a creek running through a lush riparian area.

Side note, the Comal Springs in what is now New Braunfels, Texas, are the largest springs in the Southwestern US; and I heard that San Pedro Springs in whats now San Antonio, at one time gushed so powerfully that it had a fountain like effect, where it would spurt into the air.

A screenshot of one of the tours the GSA is offering this month. It's titled "The Flow of Sustainability: Inside the San Antonio Water System (Wednesday Afternoon)". Above the title is a day-time photo of the San Antonio Water System (or SAWS) headquarters building.

A screenshot of a tour being offered by the GSA this month. It's titled "Bracken Cave Bat Flight". Above the title is a photo of a bat (probably a Mexican Free-tailed (or Freetail) Bat) hanging upside-down from a rock, assumedly in a cave.

Side note, Bracken Cave is actually home to about 20 million bats a year (!), due to migratory patterns. I've heard it called the largest concentration of mammals (excluding Humans) in the world!

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck ass repair practices at this Sunbelt ended up damaging our equipment trailer trying to return the machine they should have fixed to them 🙏

The carpet cleaning machine from downtown SA Sunbelt Rentals cut grooves into the wooden door of our equipment trailer because the suction mechanism was broken and dragging (because of them)

Fuckass repair practices at this Sunbelt location just broke one of the hinges on our trailer door trying to get their machine to them 🙏

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

There's also research that's been pointing towards parts of the White Shaman Murals in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands depicting a sacred journey to the springs of Texas; and some of the murals there date back as far as 5000 years ago. Many people have shared the murals and many have shared the springs.

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

There's a great website ran by a local SA scientist that talks all things Edwards Aquifer

www.edwardsaquifer.net/spspring.html

I love reading historical descriptions of the land I also live on now. I can only imagine what it looked like in previous eras (what it'll look like tomorrow)

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah np! I love talking about this stuff!

I did make a dire mistake though, it was actually San Antonio Springs (like the area in/around Headwaters Sanctuary) that was described as gushing many feet in the air; though I'm sure San Pedro Springs also bubbled considerably in previous eras

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