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auryn (trust the fungus)🎃

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auryn (trust the fungus)🎃 @blightedkudzu.bsky.social · Feb 18

Leonard Cohen - The Book Of Mercy (1984)

"Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church who calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation—none of these lands are yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.

Who will say it? Will America say We have stolen it, or will France step down? Will Russia confess, or will Poland say, We have sinned? All bloated on their scraps of destiny, all swaggering in the immunity of superstition. Ishmael, who was saved in the wilderness, and given shade in the desert, and a deadly treasure under you: has Mercy made you wise?

Will Ishmael declare, We are in debt forever? Therefore the lands belong to none of you, the borders do not hold, the Law will never serve the lawless.

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself. The Covenant is broken, the condition is dishonored, have you not noticed that the world has been taken away? You have no place, you will wander through yourselves from generation to generation without a thread.

Therefore you rule over chaos, you hoist your flags with no authority, and the heart that is still alive hates you, and the remnant of Mercy is ashamed to look at you.

You decompose behind your flimsy armor, your stench alarms you, your panic strikes at love.

The land is not yours, the land has been taken back, your shrines fall through empty air, your tablets are quickly revised, and you bow down to hell beside your hired torturers, and still you count your battalions and crank out your marching songs.

Your righteous enemy is listening. He hears your anthems full of blood and vanity, and your children singing to themselves. He has overturned the vehicle of nationhood, he has spilled the precious cargo, and every nation he has taken back.

Because you are swollen with your little time. Because you do not wrestle with your angel. Because you dare to live without God. Because your cowardice has led you to believe that the victor does not limp.

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auryn (trust the fungus)🎃 @blightedkudzu.bsky.social · 6h

Penda's Fen (Alan Clarke, 1974)

Screenshot of the show Penda's Fen, a bloody hand is on a boys head and it reads "child, be strange"

Screenshot of the show Penda's Fen, a bloody hand rests on a boy's head, it reads "dark, true, impure and dissonant."

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auryn (trust the fungus)🎃 @blightedkudzu.bsky.social · 23h

Rest In Power Miss Major

Black and white photograph of Miss Major driving a needle exchange van during the HIV/AIDS Crisis 1980s

auryn (trust the fungus)🎃 @blightedkudzu.bsky.social · 1d

i am not intrested in living in a society of universal hand washing after taking a shit and neither are most people. this ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 1d

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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Karl Keyton @karlkeyton.bsky.social · 1d

White people get unreasonably childish at expectations of social hygiene, does this ever stop or do all y'all just love living in perpetual adolescence

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 1d

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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auryn (trust the fungus)🎃 @blightedkudzu.bsky.social · 1d

A picture of Bill and Ted with the caption "they are leaving Samsara for sure."

auryn (trust the fungus)🎃 @blightedkudzu.bsky.social · 1d

how?

auryn (trust the fungus)🎃 @blightedkudzu.bsky.social · 1d

do you also think it is silly or unnecessary to wash your hands after using the bathroom or covering your mouth when you cough/sneeze?

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 4d

Skeletons shouldn't play each other as instruments

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erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · 6d

you're not weirding me out, you're weirding me in keep going

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DaddyJew @daddyjew.bsky.social · 6d

have you tried jumping in a big pile of leaves about it?

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 6d

Can someone put me in a headlock and whisper numbers in my ear until I calm down

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auryn (trust the fungus)🎃 @blightedkudzu.bsky.social · 6d

Screenshot from the game Baroque, it reads "there lies the insane god of creation and preservation. Purify it. That is the way to heal your sin, that is the way to save the world"

auryn (trust the fungus)🎃 @blightedkudzu.bsky.social · 6d

Baroque, 1998

Screenshot of the horror game Baroque, it reads "are you suffering because you dont know who you are? Just accept that you are nobody. You'll feel better, so don't come back."

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auryn (trust the fungus)🎃 @blightedkudzu.bsky.social · 9d

also special shout out to this guy in the torture dungeon with the most intense stare ever. my very first slightly concerning "hear me out."

auryn (trust the fungus)🎃 @blightedkudzu.bsky.social · 9d

The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T (1953)

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auryn (trust the fungus)🎃 @blightedkudzu.bsky.social · 10d

i'm sorry you're having such a rough day

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auryn (trust the fungus)🎃 @blightedkudzu.bsky.social · 12d

Tumblr screenshot from deactivated user Popokko, it reads "i could glow pink in my room if i wanted to. if i felt like it."

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 12d

Sweet on you

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 21d

Concept art by Leonid Shvartsman for the Cheburashka and Gena the Crocodile series (1969–1983), dir. Roman Kachanov, Soyuzmultfilm

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 20d

Engraving two bullets with "this bullet only lies" and "this bullet only tells the truth" to really stump the FBI

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Jillianne Hamilton 🦇 @jilly.ca · 21d

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement.

YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 21d

Hello everyone! I have around 421 (plus !) Illustrations on my patreon, where I upload 4-5 new artwork every cycle. Its only a dollar per month, too! I would absolutely love a boost ♡🧵
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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 21d

A young, beardless Jim Henson with a car trunk full of Muppets

Henson was BOTD in 1936

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furby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · 22d

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

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auryn (trust the fungus)🎃 @blightedkudzu.bsky.social · 21d

Shirley Jackson - The Haunting Of Hill House

Excerpt from Shirley Jackson's the haunting of hill house. It reads "no live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, but some, to dream."