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@arvinski.bsky.social
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Epistemological hairsplitter. Heretical autodidact. Cartographer of The Ineffable. Spell breaker. Synth freak. Spiritually Transformative Experience, 2008-09 (guess you had to be there). Not leading, not following and not getting out of the way.

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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 15h
IDENTITY is a •substitute• for Understanding - something to transcend, not become. To the extent one understands a thing, there is no need to identify with or as a subject. The seeming paradoxes of human behavior are often not paradoxical at all.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 07/10/2026
I am working on the courage to have this conversation more publicly, but I don't have it yet. So I wrote about it here. TW: SA, understanding perpetrators
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What do we do with people who've done SA? | Hilary Agro
I've been thinking through a lot since the Cornell news broke. I wrote this to post on Bluesky, as a working draft for a blog post, but the
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#GlobalFascism Billionaires function as autonomous corporeal nation-states, and the failure to treat them as such is nothing less than a forfeiture of national sovereignty.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 04/10/2026
Heatwaves killed over 8,000 people in France this year. Here are some of their stories
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Heatwaves killed over 8,000 people in France this year. Here are some of their stories
The French health authorities reported that 8,124 deaths were related to the extreme heatwaves between late May and late August in France. Le Monde spoke to the friends and families of 11 of the victims to find out about the lives behind those numbers.
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Tonalux @tonalux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pitch is not a single number. It has two independent dimensions, chroma and height and Roger Shepard's 1964 Bell Labs experiment proved it by creating a tone that rises forever without going anywhere.
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Shepard Tones: The Two-Dimensional Pitch Model Behind Film Music's Eternal Ascent
Pitch is not a single number. It has two independent dimensions, chroma and height and Roger Shepard's 1964 Bell Labs experiment proved it by creating a tone that rises forever without going anywhere.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Look here. I am telling you the tide is turning. Humanity is not going to give up without a fight. The poorly adjusted,self loathing,other-being hating dude bros don’t get to have the future.They just don’t.Man behind the curtain, Emperor’s clothes, pick your allegory. In any case, know the story.
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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This week, last year, I captured the newly discovered 2025 comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon. It last visited 1,400 years ago and outperformed initial brightness forecasts, surging to 400 times brighter than expected. 🤩 #astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #comet #eastcoastkin #photography
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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
By leaving deadwood in community spaces and woods, land managers & councils can provide homes for all sorts of insects, mosses, fungi & lichens, as well as vital bird & bat nesting sites. It's also easy #climateaction⁠, as deadwood locks up carbon for years! #wildlife #nature #biodiversity
A dead tree left to rot down slowly in parkland near to a river
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's officially pumpkin season, which happens to be a special treat for our ambassador wolves this time of year! 🎃🐺 Although wolves are classified as carnivores, they can sometimes have an omnivorous diet. Along with meat and eggs, wolves may also enjoy fruits like pumpkins. #wolffact
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WFMU @wfmu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WFMU’s Hellraiser fundraiser runs through October and gets us through the winter months, when the funds we raised in our spring Marathon are dwindling. There will be countless special programs throughout the month. Help us out with a donation and grab one of two new T-shirts. pledge.wfmu.org
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One reality. Infinite perspective.
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
PRESENCE > legacy
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
all escapes lead to illusion and misery the truth frees you cannot do anything about it ~krishnamurti
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Increasing numbers of people are starting to realize the term FAILED STATE has a meaning beyond demagoguery. It means "nothing works."
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Likely jammers," is a totally unreasonable assumption. The global public has very little knowledge of what spacefaring entities do in space. Belief to the contrary is a product of top-down cultural mythologization; a contrivance rapidly falling apart just like everything else that isn't true.🌐
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's difficult to convey to people who haven't been paying attention that every single thing they are reading about the immigrant concentration camps has been happening in U.S. jails and prisons since their origin. People were being waterboarded at Auburn prison in the 1850s.
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Prison Culture » Torture & Corporal Punishment in Early 20th Century American Penitentiaries…
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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I came across this huge moray eel during a night dive in Komodo, Indonesia. Eels, like many marine creatures, are nocturnal, so night dives are full of adventure. 🤿 #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #scuba #eastcoastkin #photography
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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My African Twig mantis would like to say hello. 🙂 #naturephotography #nature #macrophotography #macro #prayingmantis #mantis #insect #eastcoastkin #photography
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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
How do autocrats stay in power? Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Rejecting the "conspiracy theorist!” label never stopped critics from reflexively calling me one. Relating any experience or insight not sanctified by authority is all it takes. People have hard, inflexible ideas about what reality is, but it is Identity, not intellect, which binds us to error.🌐
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
9/5/80 John Cassavetes' Gloria, w/Gena Rowlands (+ great if incongruous Buck Henry) More Penny Folger/ @thefridacinema.org: thefridacinema.org/2023/11/21/j... @labuzamovies.com: avclub.com/guns-gangste... @jakecole.bsky.social: www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/gloria-bd/
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Oil tankers are attacked to achieve maximal environmental damage using the fewest resources. In light of dwindling armaments, it is imperative that global leaders & populations understand there is literally no place on Earth where the US Regime is unwillling to launch similar ecocidal attacks. 🌐☠️🌏🧬
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
War Crimes Are US!!!
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The farther our minds and hearts take us away from Mother Nature, the closer we are to the fatal consequences of our ignorance. There is no “away” from what we are: corporeal planetary expressions. The transhumanists’ dream of flying “away” to spoil an unspoiled planet does not change What Is. ♾️
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is euphemistically called “efficiency” by the politicians, lobbyists and global plutocracy whose wealth and power are derived *entirely* from planetary destruction.
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LEGAL VST @legalvst.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Anyone else knew that the navigation system on the USS Enterprise in Star Trek VI (1991) is literally just a vintage 1980s drum machine? #StarTrek #Oberheim #SynthGeek #MovieTrivia #SciFi
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
line out the door!
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...
A poster featuring the T-Rex at the cognitive natural sciences, which says save the Academy natural sciences, museum rally in front of the academy 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway, Tuesday, September 8 10 AM. The T-Rex is saying tell Drexel keep the museum open. There’s an RSVP QR code and then the logos of Philly Science Action Skype scientist In Philly on the bottom.
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Some recognized US “conservatism” as a literal death cult - and said as much - many years before The Regime demonstrated it. Loyalists were far too enmeshed in partisan identity, institutionalism and paint-by-numbers politics to read the times, much less listen or self-correct. Old habits die hard.
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Cliff W. Gilmore @cliffwgilmore.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The fascists are exposed, entrenched, & have everything to lose. They do not intend to cede power and will not go quietly. None of this will end soon or easy. (More) Hard(er) days comin’.
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Limnetic Villains @limneticvillains.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Haven't saved any Turtles today, yet. Go on, buy my music and save a Turtle!
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem, for me, was never the face of feminism. My mother, who worked her ass off in a factory job, was. She was also, for me, the face of labor solidarity and civil rights. Mom didn’t care who was leading what. She cared about the what, and the only thing she followed was her conscience.
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Global Fascism. 🌐 Money moves around freely. The people it exploits are captives.
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Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This student was kicked out of his school: www.givesendgo.com/help-devion-...
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Help Devion Continue His Education at JCSU | GiveSendGo
Devion Canty needs your support to continue his college education after being coerced by the administration into withdrawing from Texas State University just…
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Looking to speak to people who were fired or had their lives overturned in other ways for making comments in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death. Jessw39.01 or email Jessica.Washington@theintercept.com
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
FWIW this ain’t new. Under Biden sick folks got out of OADS really quick and then were released from the hospital , often without being processed
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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The more you learn about Fred Hampton, the more you grieve the world without him. Robbing history of this man was a devastating crime.
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Calls for ICE reform are a means of denying culpability & accountability for building, supporting and/or tolerating the official architecture of systematic human rights violations in exchange for political and financial capital. Only the scale has changed. Everything transpiring now is a reckoning.☯️
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
VALIDATION VINDICATION VICTORY 🌐 are what we want. Correction 🌏 is what we need.
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Behavioral research, as I recall, does not bode well for bunker-dwelling plutocrats. Poor risk assessment and worse interpersonal skills. It’s a build-your-own-tomb scheme.
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sound advice. When I say “Find out who you are,” people back toward the nearest exit. But I know that going in. Conflating the message with the messenger is a time-honored, albeit unwitting, tradition. Realizing who you are starts with abandoning the person you pretend to be, aka “False self.”
Statue of a robed Asian figure pointing upward in the direction of The Moon which is visible in a cloudy sky. The depiction is a symbolic illustration of a well-known Buddhist parable wherein Buddha points at The Moon but his folllowers are looking at his finger. This is a lesson demonstrating the conflicting relationship between Authority and Awareness.
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Now that Google has finally modeled the required level of fealty (100%, which is totally consistent with what Google is), the race is on to rename everything as soon as possible. Rivers. Mountains. Oceans. States. Cities. Universities. The Solar System. Fast food franchises. No parking lot is safe.
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
To the extent the face is a “thing we [sighted persons] all read,” profiency varies. Wildly. If you’ve ever felt vulnerable from a stranger’s gaze (or even a glance), you know this. Maybe our paths have crossed. Reading emotional states is one of my not-so-marketable natural traits. People hate it.
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
One of my "fantasy dinner” guests. Mary Shelley's work is inseparable from her deeply profound understanding of the human mind - a hallmark of Self-realization spanning time, place and culture.
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"The Good Old Days.” Neither good nor old. Just days. 🌏
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
As the Information Age unfolds, increasing numbers of individuals unaffiliated with specialties and institutions are certain to make discoveries missed by insiders. Critical inquiry, analyses and discovery are no longer restricted to esteemed authorities. Yesterday’s credentialism is today’s stasis.
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Self-expression is rarely difficult for me, but language is totally inadequate for expressing how I feel about the loss of life and all who lost loved ones in the Nepal-Tibet flood. The scale of suffering is unspeakable. The weight of bearing witness is only made bearable by bearing it.🕯️
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
but man, proud man dressed in a little brief authority most ignorant of what he's most assured his glassy essence like an angry ape plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven as makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal ~shakespeare
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ÄRVINSKI @arvinski.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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