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Software engineer, Hermetic mage and mystic, Lukumí olorisha, geomancer extraordinaire, blogger, yidish-lerner, Roegadyn black mage, baby-eating dingo, antifascist, gay, Jewish https://digitalambler.com/

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · Oct 18

• Breathe • Beat • Pulse • Strike •

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 6h

The proper order of bathhouse pools: tepidarium, calidarium, frigidarium. Start in the warm bath, soak in the hot bath, then plunge in the cold bath—then relax and let your body stabilize, riding out the pleasant head rush.

Don't forget to shower before and after, too!

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 23h

It truly is a wonder of a read, good to read for *everyone*.

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 1d

*gently cooing at my cat while I get the hairbrush out* it's time for depilation, time for you to be depilated, we love to be depilated <3

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoy this old musing of mine about the Japanese art of incense, a Song-dynasty poem about the virtues of incense, and how this can inform our approach to spiritual practices, both to do good practices and how to become good at them:
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A Musing on Incense

Back when I was a child, my father (an officer in the US Navy) was stationed at one point in Sasebo, a city in the southwestern prefecture of Nagasaki in Japan. I had the good fortune to visit him…

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 4d

"is this a _" meme with the text about tension restraints

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 4d

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 6d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 6d

thank you <3

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 7d

still periodically caught off-guard by the insanely good branding that funyuns are just fun onions

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 7d

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 7d

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 8d

Give the dead what they're used to! I recite psalms and Jewish prayers for my Jewish dead, but for my orisha ancestors I sing Lucumí songs and give them their traditional offerings. The dead still have to meet you where you are, but giving them what they're used to is part of our work, too!

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 8d

My rule for doing that is that I give each tradition its time and space. I do orisha stuff at my orisha shrines, espiritismo at my boveda, Hermetic stuff at my Hermetic altar, &c. While they all inform me equally as a whole human being, they don't mix on their own! Good walls, good neighbors, &c.

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 8d

I think it's a natural human thing to do many things, especially in contexts where there are concurrent traditions available that inform us culturally and historically; I think of it as "doing religion" rather than "being of a religion", i.e. one isn't Buddhist so much as one "does Buddhism".

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 8d

I had the sound effect as my cell phone ring tone for a few years.

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 8d

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Angel Grapefruit Technique Hoahahohah

YouTube video by P3SHO V0DNOTO

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 8d

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 9d

I'm glad that my stuff can help in at least some small way! Spirituality is like medicine: it should make our lives better, but sometimes we need multiple approaches. Therapy, exercise, diet, medication, surgery, acupuncture—it's all medicine! Ditto for all sorts of spiritual traditions.

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 9d

And the last bit of testing for this version of my almanac software is complete! I'm sure there'll be bugs to find later on (when aren't there?), but at least for now, all I've left to do for TATA v3 is work on formatting a bit more until I'm satisfied with it.

Stay tuned!
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Almanac

The Adocentyn Temple Almanac (TATA) is a fine-tuned one-year almanac designed for mages, mystics, priests, pagans, and other spiritual workers containing celestial and calendrical information as a …

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 9d

When the Moon enters the first mansion, one of the prayer practices I like doing is this one, a sevenfold invocation of blessing and refuge. It's come in clutch a few times when things get rough, to boot, so I like keeping it up as a regular thing. Give it a whirl!
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Invocations of the Seven Temples

A series of seven prayers based on Islamic supplications and magical practices to be used as a meditation on holiness and the power of God, as well as to clear and sanctify an area through the powe…

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 9d

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Rokhl @rokhl.bsky.social · 10d

Spooky season class is here: Ashkenazi goths rejoice!

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Spooky Season Class - Sex, Death, and Demons

Spooky Season in Yiddish : October 15, 22, and 29th at 7:00 pm (EST) As September closes, a Yiddish goth's fancy turns to the strange ...

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Rokhl @rokhl.bsky.social · 10d

New installment of: Yeah, there's a Yiddish incantation for that

To learn more (and much more) join me for my new spooky season class, October 15, 22, & 29 at 7:00pm. ($100) email me to register: cjcrokhl @ gmail com

And please share with your friends! ✨😈

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 9d

Start telling people to fuck off. Cultivate it as a virtue. Practice saying "Oh, fuck off" and "Oh, kiss my ass" and "Buddy, if you don't shut the fuck up right now then we're gonna have us a goddamn problem" to yourself in the mirror until they feel natural.

Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 9d

The fact that it's considered indefensible to say things like "That doesn't make any goddamn sense" or "That's some fake shit you read on the internet and you're a jackass" in a professional setting is imo a major contributing factor in the current mess. We're Emperor's New Clothes-ing right to hell

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Natalie H. "The Cool Natalie" Ironside @natalieironside.bsky.social · 9d

Civility and decorum are cudgels crafted in order to make demonstrably bad ideas easier to defend

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