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Miss Epiphany

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Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · Jul 15

Am I taking sessions? Yes. Is email/contact form on my website the best way to contact me? Yes. Am I answering emails in a timely fashion? No. You just gotta be patient

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Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · 9h

Happy to try out amateur gender affirming surgery 😋

Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · 9h

Idk I’m not a hairdresser OR a gardener I don’t know what they use

Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · 1d

It’s my birthday this weekend! If you want to help me celebrate, buy some porn and be a pervert please! I’ve got so many sites in my link in bio if you want to peruse 😋

Miss Epiphany mirror selfie, wearing black lingerie, thigh highs, and high heels. A filter is added to the picture making it look like a glitch, with several red and teal iterations of the image overlayed, somewhat blurring the image. Two green boxes have text reading the same as the caption

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Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · 1d

Not a hairdresser or a gardener, but I can tell when you need a snip.
Photographer @kingstropharia.bsky.social ✂️

Miss Epiphany is standing in a garden next to a wheelbarrow. The sun has nearly gone down, so the shadows are dramatic. She wears a pink latex leotard with white trim and opera length white latex gloves, and holds a large pair of garden shears. Her wet hair is pulled back but trails over her shoulder and she looks intensely at the viewer.

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acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 4d

minnesota is kind of like the middle east in that the united states is trying to destabilize it

👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 5d

you fucking dunce; it’s the MIDWEST

Alexander Duncan &
@AlexDuncanTX
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If you live in Minnesota, you're essentially living in the Middle East now.

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Odette Engle @mistressodette.bsky.social · Apr 7

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Photos by @venerakate.bsky.social

Odette in a transparent nurse outfit and long gloves, indicates the prostate with a pointer

Odette in a transparent nurse outfit and long gloves, indicates the rectum with a pointer

Odette in a transparent nurse outfit and long gloves, holds a huge syringe. The background is a medfet dungeon

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Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · 5d

Username checks out

Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · 5d

Even when I order glasses from the “cheap” websites they’re still pretty expensive 😭

Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · 5d

I wish my special eyes weren’t quite so special so that I could have fun shaped prescription glasses but nooo the lenses are too complicated for that

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muhr-eerie @marie.likes.earth · 8d

almost just spelled if like i'f

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Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · 8d

It’s true 🙃

Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you for your patience! I’ve had some time to grieve and process and am coming back into the world, planning to answer all emails and inquiries soon

Selfie of Miss Epiphany looking down at you, wearing a light pink lacy top, her cleavage pushes together for emphasis. Her red hair tumbles towards you on one side and is pushed behind her shoulder in the other side. A blur filter is applied to the picture, with less blur on her face and more everywhere else. Black text on white background reads the same as caption

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Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · 11d

Ughhh

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Charlie Bird 🔞 @cliterary.bsky.social · Apr 29

—— 9. Redux (original from March 2024)

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Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · 14d

I mentioned some sad news a few days ago; one of my friends passed away. I’m still really struggling with grief and waiting to see if there will be a funeral or other celebration of life

Photo of a large beautiful flower with red and yellow petals against a blue sky. White text on black background below the flower reads the same as post.

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Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · 17d

After a time period of bad news, I have received some very sad news in my personal life. I may or may not be online as much, though queued posts will still go out on LF

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Spicymancer @spicymancer.bsky.social · 18d

❤️🔧

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Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · 18d

Photographer is @kingstropharia.bsky.social !!!

Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · 18d

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Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · 18d

You don’t always need a hoe to garden 🪏😘

Miss Epiphany stands outside next to a wheelbarrow, one arm resting on the side of the wheelbarrow and the other holding a shovel that is wedged into the dirt in the wheelbarrow. She wears long, past the elbow white latex gloves, a pink latex leotard with white trim, and a pink choker necklace with lace and spikes. On the ground in the shadows and plants, one white high heel platform pleaser boot is visible. Her long red hair is wet and pulled back into a high ponytail, and she looks saucily right at you.

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Boneshaker Books @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social · 18d

The rumors are true: Boneshaker is headed to a new location! We need your help to dig up our bones and move on over to 26th and Lyndale. We're hoping to raise $15,000 total, $6k of that by 10/17. Learn more at bit.ly/boneshakermove and thank you for helping Boneshaker thrive!

Why move? While we love a lot about our current location, we’ve struggled with dwindling foot traffic, low sales, and expensive maintenance issues.

We believe our new space will offer resources that will allow us to exist more sustainably as a community organization for the long haul.

How can I help? Our goal is to raise $15,000 total to fund the move, make some improvements to the new space, and build out our inventory.

Ultimately, we need at least $6,000 by October 17th so we can reopen in our new space at 708 W 26th St. by around November 1st.

Donate and find out more about the move (and the cool perks you can get for donating!) via the QR code or URL below.
Thank you for helping Boneshaker thrive!
bit.ly/boneshakermove

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Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · 23d

A sweaty, farty session? Sure thing 💨

Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · 25d

Looks like October is nearly fully booked! I think there’s a few days open still 😊

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Sep 18

I wrote something about respectability in dress over on Twitter. The topic is nuanced for me, so unfortunately the post had to be long. Since Bluesky (reasonably) has character limits, I can't easily import the text here. So I'm including screenshots, if you would like to read it.

ON RESPECTABILITY IN DRESS

Every once in a while, people here will get mad at me. And it often involves the same issue: respectability in dress. Or its related cousin: dress codes.

Judging someone's deeper, more important qualities based on attire often feels so natural; people get upset when I refuse to engage in the same judgment. To them, it feels as though I'm denying something so obvious, I'm dishonest.

I've written about dress respectability no fewer than half a dozen times in my 15 years of writing about menswear, but never so thoroughly and comprehensively on Twitter. This post will be long, but I hope it is engaging. And I hope you stay with me because I find this sentiment to be so noxious — so antithetical to any notion of "good," whether religious or secular — that I hope I can convince a few people to resist such temptations.

What is respectability in dress? It's the idea that you can show respect through clothes, such as wearing a suit to a wedding. Or the idea that people in certain clothes are more deserving of respect, such as a man in a suit versus another man in a hoodie. I will address each in turn.

I believe dress is a form of social language. And thus, you can signal certain things through clothes. For instance, if I were to attend a wedding, I would wear a suit as an outward expression of a sentiment in my heart (e.g., "I'm happy for my hosts and wish to honor them on this day"). The suit is simply a representation of my sentiment, which already exists, even if I was in jeans.

However, if I arrived at a wedding and saw someone not wearing a suit, I would not judge the person's more important qualities based on their attire. Perhaps they didn't have time to buy a suit. Perhaps clothes shopping gives them great anxiety. Perhaps they can't afford a suit that fits. If I wanted to know whether that person is of good character, I would judge this off their more direct actions, such as how they treat the people around them. Are they genial to g…

In 1852, Cardinal John Henry Newman penned an essay, initially delivered as a university lecture, titled "Definition of a Gentleman." A gentleman, he says, is someone gentle and kind, considerate of others, humble in social relations, and respectful of boundaries. He compares a gentleman to "an easy chair or a good fire, which do their part in dispelling cold and fatigue." He writes:

"The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast — all clashing of opinion, or collision of feeling, all restraint, or suspicion, or gloom, or resentment; his great concern being to make every one at his ease and at home. He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions, or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome. He makes light of favors while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring."

There is notably nothing in his essay about clothes.

It's impossible to judge a person's deeper, more important qualities based on clothes because people are often just following social conventions. To go back to the wedding example, many people wear a suit not because they hold a particular sentiment in their heart, but simply because a suit is protocol. A friend who works as a wedding photographer revels in telling me stories about suited guests getting into fistfights—certainly not a way to honor your hosts. The irony of dress codes is that the stronger the enforcement, the less you can tell about someone's character based on dress.

Let's now turn to the idea that people in certain clothes are more deserving of respect. The sharpest, most pointed counterargument for this is Pierre Bourdieu, who in his 1979 book Distinction, pointed out that our notions of "Good Taste" are often nothing more than the habits and preferences of the ruling class.

Edward Carpenter, a gay British reformer in the late 19th century, understood this a century earlier. He hated suits. In an essay about the "simple life," he compared suits to coffins, as they have "stiff layers upon layers of buckram," which he believed prevented people from getting enough sunlight and air. But more importantly, he hated suits because he recognized that Victorian dress codes weren't about dress codes at all — they were about status signaling and social hierarchy.

In May 1889, Carpenter wrote a letter to The Sheffield Independent about how 100,000 of the city's residents were struggling to find sunlight and air, enduring miserable lives, and dying of illnesses because of the thick, black cloud of smog arising out of factories like smoke from Judgement Day. Meanwhile, as Melton-clad plutocrats nattered on about proper dress codes, they concealed their cruelty and vulgarity under refined manners. They weren't concerned with virtue, but rather with showing their supposed higher moral status. And then those socially under them aped those manners to seem higher class. (A dynamic that German sociologist Georg Simmel recognized in his 1902 essay "On Fashion.)

Our judgements of dress are often more about the person underneath the clothes, rather than the clothes themselves. We see this with the pre-war British Guardsmen, who dropped their Edwardian-inspired fashions as soon as they were adopted by the "ruffians" known as Teddy Boys (and some Teddy Gals). Or how the slacker hoodie became a symbol of meritocracy in the New Economy when (white) coders wore it in the early 2000s, but it symbolizes criminality when worn by black teens.

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I'm fundamentally opposed to any notion of respectability in dress, as I find it antithetical to a fundamental moral principle: you should treat everyone with respect unless they behave in a manner that suggests otherwise. And so, if John Fetterman lumbers through the halls of Congress in hoodies and shorts, you should object to him based on his politics, not his dress. If a student shows up at Oxford Union in sweats, you should consider his ideas, not his pants. I am perfectly fine with saying certain outfits are ugly. I'm deeply uncomfortable when people make moral judgments based on clothes. A person is not more or less deserving of respect based on dress; they can only do so based on more meaningful behavior.

My guess is that you know this in your heart. As you travel through the world, look around you. Are your poorly dressed cousins and uncles bad people? Do shabbily dressed teachers or nurses on the train not actually serve society in positive ways? Do suited politicians not occasionally commit crimes? The idea that appearance doesn't always match character can be found more melodically in Fela Kuti's 1973 album "Gentleman."

If you are already interacting with someone on a meaningful basis, you've hopefully already gotten enough information about them to form a judgement and thus can ignore dress. If you haven't interacted with them in meaningful ways, you can simply withhold judgement.

I will end with an excerpt from Stuart Hall, a Jamaican-born British cultural theorist. In an essay about pluralism, he made a distinction between "common culture" and "common society," encouraging us to embrace differences.

"It should not be necessary to look, walk, feel, think, speak exactly like a paid-up member of the buttoned-up, stiff-upper-lipped, fully corseted and free-born Englishman, culturally to be accorded either the informal courtesy and respect of civil social intercourse or the rights of entitlement and citizenship. Since cultural diversity is, increasi…

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Miss Epiphany @missepiphany.bsky.social · Sep 18

This is especially true for anything controversial, like non-mainstream journalism, any political reporting, anything related to health/vaccines/spreadable diseases including but not limited to respiratory illnesses and STIs, anything deemed explicit ranging from vaguely queer all the way to porn

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 18

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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