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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

I take this to suppress my foxboy wonder so I can walk around in my cosplay as a brooding metaphysician 😌

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Now would be a good time to note that Harvey by Her’s is somehow one of my favorite songs

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Tired, worn thin, and a little marginal. I heard small conversations in more than one language ensue… and felt a stillness wash over me. I… am finally somwhere I can comprehend the logic of the space. Homecoming, so I have learned, is in small things—features of the quotidian, if you like.

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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

To add to your thought… Why is it that 2D ‘has’ to be relegated, as it were, by a swifter competing technology? Or, rather, why has this been the framing! In a word, why is there a narrative of successive progress, when really all that happened was just the mere addition of another medium?

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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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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Ah.. so now the war machine can be morally AND physically sick! Nice 😎 if they didn’t like just war theory, just wait until they get a taste of privation theory.

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Funny to see this. I was talking about it with my mom earlier. Even when medicated, it’s annoying because you’re fluctuating thru the micro states… and it’s just like.. dammit can I have synchrony rn? Also some parasympathetic nervous system activation?? It’s time to write/read/plan/problem solve 🥲

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I am (somehow) a methanol poisoning survivor. It sucks 🤭 Took em nearly four bags of fluid before the dehydration eased up.

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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 · 09/04/2026

The logicians of the both the low and high medieval period deserve acknowledgement. It would seem all we do now is reinvent their work absent a reference. We have lost continuity with distant conversations that are useable to us in one modality or another.

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We need medieval history now than ever. I am sick of the so-called enlightenment serving as the mythic world historic beginning of useable “western” thought. Like… no liberal theorists, I am not going to pay homage to your thirty years war veteran pseudo-intellectuals.

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

We are presumed to be stupid things—a bit of raw breath, tissue, and passion. And this assumption is the genuine insult the “conservatives” implicitly author. I tire of it.

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

It is true that some forms lend themselves more to the pornographic gaze than others, but in truth, it is the comportment of the viewer in the end that determines what is seen and to what end it is seen, and that is an intelligence few are willing to predicate of the viewer.

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

A theologically mature society realizes that it is perhaps less the image which is pornographic, and more the gaze of the viewer itself which is pornographic.

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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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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

And to suggest that making distinctions between what constitutes rational belief grounded in a dual dialectic with both present circumstance and the long expanse of the tradition and what is harmful and thereby outside of orthopraxis is not a “no true Scotsman” argument.

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

There is an obviously right and wrong way. One affirms the nameless, formless, timeless Good, whose predicates are many. The other is a flat, reductive, violent, and metaphysically challenged cosplay. I’ll call the hateful bigots *appropriating* my tradition’s theology fakers if I feel like it.

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Who I’ve been trying to be in 2026 lowk tho

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

So we can critically challenge authority and tradition and economic structure, without spurning the Beautiful in the crossfire of our analyses.

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Anyhow, this is why people dislike progressivism. The assumption is that the Beautiful is associated with antiquated power structures/the aesthetic preferences that hold them up, but this is only half true. People want to make beautiful things, and will do so according to resources, no matter what.

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Also, it’s only illegible for two reasons: Many times and places, our society simply can’t read it point blank, which means personal variations on script make it increasingly illegible. Or, the instruction was poor (which is true in most cases).

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Irrespective, we should be rearing people capable of making themselves legible across contexts—I am imagining a gentle Aurelian cosmopolitanism here… to that end, cursive genuinely helps. And let’s not forget that learning, verbal processing, and tactility go hand in hand.

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I mean to say… a cursive note or letter is taken very seriously. As a skill, it can help one subvert power dynamics. It suggests one has more “form” or “completion” or “aesthetic cohesion.” Anyhow…. Coherency is not where human value begins or ends. Not by a long shot.

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I am very young, twenty three. I was among the last generations to get the education. I then refined it by self teaching Spencerian. It makes a major difference in work settings where leaving notes matters and is part of intergenerational communication. It aesthetically conveys being “formed.”

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Honestly this is an American take. The rest of world using the Latin alphabet still teaches it. It’s a matter of teaching aesthetic discipline really, more than anything else. Imagine one’s written meaning were hermeneutically layered: Words, coherent meaning, then the beauty of flowing script.

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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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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This cell shaped the Eros of three different generations 😭 For all those who grew up on the decaying the suburban plateau eating frozen food on a matted carpet, staring into the Zenith’s bubble screen while your grandparents’ smoke hung in lazy layers overhead… this cell is why you turned out cool 🤭

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Woahhhhhhhh yes use a credit card if necessary 😭

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Ahh. I see. Still cool. I ask cause back in the day they (the Irish) used to have two separate tanks. One was super gased and all foam, the other a little flat—it would take two pulls for one draft. Anyhow, your foamy pints reminded me of the way Guinness used to be 😅

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I see two kegs? Are you doing this in the old style where one is only lightly nitrogenated and the other is all foam?

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Like… Put the buckwheat groats in the milk. Boil for 20 min. In the last two minutes, add: nutmeg, cinnamon, brown sugar, butter, & a dash of vanilla extract. Boom—healthy, protein rich, peasant breakfast. Added benefit: You don’t have to look like a douche bag while savoring it. #BringBackPottage

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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

By the time of the book’s composition, all three traditions were occupying different strata in the same Mediterranean polities; there would have been cross pollination. Nevertheless, Judaism beats everyone to the punch by centuries, articulating a God named Wisdom, among other transcendentals.

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

It’s a complex “yeah most likely” but, it was less a merger and more an organic fit/syncretism? The Jewish tradition’s wisdom literature, which antedates both Platonism and Christianity, is replete with named emanations of God, though these transcendentals are not named systematically. It’s poetic.

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Anyhow, the current system of transcendentals doesn’t get… a lot of acknowledgement, unless your sect of Christian belief is really quite eastern and Neo-Platonic. An educated Catholic, Orthodox, or Sufi could look at this text and immediately see its a statement on the unity-from-diversity of God.

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The Greek system of transcendentals were integrated into Christian thought. The One, the Good, the Just, The Nous, Beauty, Truth, Justice, the virtues, the All.. became commonplace in the metaphysics of the Christian high Middle Ages—the set of transcendentals became viewed as angels proper.

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Of course, the tradition itself will have significances for the letters that transcend their status as signifiers. We perhaps then might consider them “iconic.” Anyhow, Christianity did not have a singularly unique Divine naming tradition (beyond the Trinity) even though Judaism did. But then…..

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Altin DeRenart @altinfox.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

(1/a few) Ah, yes. So it does mesh, but in an *extremely* round about way. What you are are looking at is a kind of encoding that maps transcendentals (that is, forms/emanations of God) onto particular letters and their sounds—if I had to guess, for the purpose of memorization.

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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 · 13/02/2026

I could be the little guy they are “torturing” to keep society running 😸 sure, why knot 🦊🦊

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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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