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Altin DeRenart

@altinfox.bsky.social
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He/Him • Fox/Foxs | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇹🇹 | 24 Smol Subversive Critter ΘΔ🦊 in Newark, DE Amateur Poet • Leading Philosofur & Metaphursician • Speculative Theologian • Guerrilla Policy Analyst Will periodically interact with mature accounts and employ mature poetics🔞.

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I am so tired.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The tvorog is drying, the bread is resting, the garlic is confiting… let’s get the borscht boiling!
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Had such a time finding the milk and buttermilk to make my tvorog. I had eaten or drank nothing all day… and I sat there waiting on the bus… I couldn’t help but unscrew the cap and drain off a half pint or more in one long draft. And no one gave a damn—because we were all there together.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Returning the north east has redeemed my feelings of animality. Walking nearly everywhere, enjoying transit.. resulting a diet heavy on fish and peasant staples… I am myself again. Fully human, fully fox, one Altin. At last, the freedom to again interface with environs on paw.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Young Me: I am afraid of dying alone. Older Me: I am afraid of losing myself by vanishing into another person’s being. Even Older Me: Comme ci, comme ça. Je suis le renard 🚬😺 Mwahahahahaha
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Since when did airports stop carrying nicorette? People with embarrassing chemical dependencies also contribute to the common good, dammit.
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Zaeryn @zaeryn22.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Fantastic Mr. Fox / Adventure Time crossover. He is me FR. 😭 #furry #anthro #furryart #adventuretime
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 26/02/2026
this is extremely fucking important, esp with what just happened in kansas. they are trying to criminalize every aspect of our existence. i try not to be alarmist about things but this is where we are and it is BAD bad
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails. it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Green flag—he falls asleep with NPR on (he donates)
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This State of the Union Address… is categorically evil. Watching the weaponization of hurt by the far right to fuel political animus in real time is like bearing witness to an unholy blood alchemy so unclean that its existence ought not be known even in pure theory. But, hey. What’s new.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/02/2026
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The fox is ill. The fox is denning. Lent came in like a lion; what can I say 😭?
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Have any practicing Hellenists out there attempted reconstructions of the Eleusinian rites yet? I know they were shrouded in secrecy—so as much is not easily attainable. But I am curious if anyone has given it a go.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We need a loose network of interlocking furred societies to essentially do what unions did at the bottom of the 20th century: Everything from legal defense to mutual aid to housing to skilled mentoring. We need autocephalous community leadership that effectively parallels state functions. Now.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Your daily reminder Evangelical Protestantism is the implicit (but increasingly explicit) American state faith Psyop-ed into existence by various oligarchs to actively prevent people from acting out mythos while reading themselves into a biblically grounded narrative of liberation.
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✺ 𝕸𝖔𝖙𝖍 ✺ @mothsprout.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
🦊 BAD FOX CLUB 🦊
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Doing coursework for my #philosophy masters is reminding me of how much ethics discourse straight up proceeds absent any metaphysical discourse. This has the effect of making you look “weird” when you produce a challenge to a theory by not agreeing to its (often implicit) metaphysical assumptions.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
HARK, my kits—it is at last come! Thank you, @artofmaquenda.bsky.social🦊 I may attach an attempted ekphrases/exegesis in another post below.
A small rabbit whose head is illuminated by gold foil narrowly escapes the jaws of a large wolf. A quote from Richard Adams’s Watership Down captions the work below, reading, “But first they must catch you”.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Everyone is taking about “Greenland” and “Trump.” Let’s call it what it is—American colonial aspirations threatening further indigenous erasure in the 21st century.
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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 17/01/2026
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
@icegov.bsky.social violates the civil liberties my ancestor fought to secure at Fort Pitt in the 1780s—the civil liberties my twice great grandfather defended in two world wars—the civil liberties my great grandfather defended serving under Patton.You stain the legacy of my blood! False patriots.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
An otherwise completely normal accounting firm, but the company bylaws require collars instead of neckties.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
If it is criminal to remark that state-sanctioned acts of terror violate the civil liberties my ancestor fought to secure in the American Revolution, then I meet my charge with honor. Neither global capital, nor the president it bought, have a genuine homeland—who are these to speak of patriotism?
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
If the public does nothing, they get brutalized for either being ‘illegal’ or ‘interfering w an investigation.’ But if they do something, they get brutalized for being insurrectionists? I don’t know what legitimate power looks like as a child of the 21st century—but it sure as hell ain’t this.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I’m sure it would only prompt further DHS deployments… but I wish state governments did more to actively oppose these weaponized ICE raids. Were I some governor, not merely would local law enforcement not cooperate, they would be tasked with essentially policing ICE and enforcing civil liberties.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
This old lithograph feels increasingly culturally relevant, though I cannot put my paw on why…
Famous print of the Boston Massacre from the 1700s—that one you may recall from US History in high school.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
ICE has shot and killed a community observer in Minneapolis. Sending all of my love to the people of Minneapolis and the folks defending their neighbors there. This is heinous, and I am so sorry. To everyone else: REMEMBER ICE LIES ABOUT EVERYTHING. THIS IS DOCUMENTED.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/01/2026
This is the video.
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Game Wolf Advance (2001) @ator.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
they hate us cause we’re free
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I am suddenly less fond of the existentialist tradition’s phenomenology. Husserl’s Principle of Principle gets it right, whether the transcendental ego exists or not. Heidegger, Sartre, and even Marion seem to be missing the point on this matter.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported? Noem: We have not deported military veterans. Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I celebrate this day a print by @houndsaint.bsky.social. As a red fox holothere, I felt myself acutely represented in this work. My interpretative musings are stashed in the alt-text’s second paragraph.
A feral canid stands below a sky of several burning (falling?) stars in an open plain in the dead of night. Their back is arched and their gaze is fixed upward toward the sky. Below them is a caption which reads “I AM THIRSTY & DYING; BUT GIVE ME A DRINK”. 

As an Episcopalian, I am given to think of the dying Christ’s request for a drink from a nearby Roman legionary. To my mind, then, that these words leave the mouth of an animal elevates the created world to the status of the divine, representing the deep-seated immanent presence of the One in all those which live in the created, enchanted world. Inasmuch as my interpretation reveals to my wits, I read here nothing short of an invitation for the anthropic gaze to perform a mitzvah for the created world as yet it lays dying. As a holothere, the pain of creation below the anthropic gazes sits with me near constantly and grates against my soul; its crises are mine. To that end, I feel seen in viewing this work, which goes above and beyond in capturing the Franciscan tradition’s emphasis on immanent Beauty within the individual created subject.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Everyone gangsta till it’s time to affirm a therian. That’s where most people draw the line—they feel their economy of thought has expanded far enough for the “other.” I am trivial, excluded to the ground of being a logical edge-case whose identity satiation is frivolous, and at best, a luxury.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
First, I celebrate this print by @sephive.bsky.social. On my view, its thesis elevates the act of visually externalizing the erotic to the status of the timeless, mystical act of Neoplatonic divine remembering, which characterizes all knowledge production and the realization of transcendent meaning.
A canid (perhaps not—they are in my heart tho) of subtly feminine form in fish-nets and black latex stockings holds their shoulder cape while the sun beats directly behind their head, perhaps like a saintly nimbus/halo. Behind them, a striped canid lays in a meadow at ease, I like to think, perhaps dreaming or engaged in the act incepting the artistic representation. Below is a caption reading “DEGENERATE ART [/] FROM INCEPTION • TO ETERNITY”. This is also a likely a clear reference to the prohibition of “Entartete Kunst” (art labeled ‘degenerate’ by the state) below the Third Reich. Here we see such work is celebrated, and to my mind, equated directly with the act of seeking, receiving, and reifying/instantiating meaning-as-form. There is also partial non-sexual nudity.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Prepare yourselves! I wish to spend a series of posts on all the art I had the good fortune of welcoming into my home after a careful perusing of works encountered at MFF!
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Me irl 😸 Thx @thegaypossum.bsky.social !!
A cartoonish marker drawing on cardboard of a sleepy fox smoking a cigarette.
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
How does #MFF not have a #therian meet?! At least, I didn’t see one scheduled—maybe I missed something or am low key mistaken 🦊
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Hello, all my moots! I’ll be at MFF, making it in tonight rather late! If you’d like to meet/hang etc. shoot me a DM. Since I refuse to give bsky my identity (the sick bastards), DM as a feature isn’t available to me Ohio, but I’ll see your messages when I make to Illinois!
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
That moment when you realize virtue ethics gets undeserved hate because it’s the only system that actually invites you to respond dynamically to the ethically real rather than listlessly applying a decision procedure…
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Sometimes I can’t help but wonder if the therianthropic call and persistent phenomenological homesickness is, in reality, a heightened sensitivity to the inherited memory of the pre-lingual relaxed field, where shared aisthesis and assumed being-for-other made the ‘clearing’ that disclosed play.
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outsidewolves 🔜 FC @outsidewolves.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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A scanned image of a sketchpage. The early life cycle of a wolf is depicted in drawings and text: "Take a wolf." [a quadrupedal wolf.] "Make him bipedal." [He is standing on two plantigrade legs.] "Dress him in clothes from the department store." [He wears pants and a rugby shirt, one leg propped up on a small box.] "Give him a 20 year long interdisciplinary education." [He is seen as a high school math student, looking at a wall clock while using a graphing calculator. As a college student, timing the movement of a film development can. As a graduate student, looking at mortarboards being tossed in the air.] "He is now ready to go outside!" [He is once again on all fours, albeit still in bidepal form, wearing kneepads and a harness which reads "MASTER'S DEGREE- OK TO PET."
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Heard the rapture’s coming… where’s the part where I get to yiff in hell??
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
When is science gonna give me injectable foxtradiol 😮‍💨
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I’m gonna buy one of those large dog beds… for my study.. for me!! Will update with pics
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A new poem!! Hope you like the dialects of water 🌊 [Here I explore the divine Eros, anagogē and katagogē, and unity of the One, all told through the immanentist allegory of water.] Please consider subscribing at no cost to support my practice and receive updates! open.substack.com/pub/derenart...
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One in Three in One
Returning turns, goes out and then returns, unto self again, He proceeds, receding—inviting by withdraw, As waves that lap and love the crags that lap and love and leave, To lap and love and lap again...
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HearthFox ΘΔ @hearthfox.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Happy Juneteenth!!
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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Epistemically, I am animalized under capital, so I share that with the rest of creation—but that isn’t species affirmation. I miss sleeping outdoors, enjoying the birds and squirrels work through the trees near my appartment. In English—Altin is blue. He doesn’t feel very fox-actualized of late.
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