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Gamma Donna

@gammamadonna.bsky.social
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Earthling, human, live-in Gamma of 3, music educator, domestic violence counselor. Tiny shard of the Cosmos. How you do anything is how you do everything. “We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.” Kurt Vonnegut No DMs

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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 8h
““Remember that every time a man commits a violent act it only takes one or two steps to figure out how it’s a woman’s fault, and that these dance steps are widely known and practiced and quite a bit of fun …” (Full quote in ALT)
Remember that every time a man commits a violent act it only takes one or two steps to figure out how it’s a woman’s fault, and that these dance steps are widely known and practiced and quite a bit of fun. There are things men do that are the fault of women who are too sexy, and other things men do that are the fault of women who are not sexy enough, but women only come in those two flavors: not enough, and too much, and it is the fate of heterosexual men to endure this affliction.”

   • Rebecca Solnit
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 9h
Max Dashu: “For too long the study of patriarchy and colonialism have been treated as competing, even antagonistic fields of research. In reality the various forms of domination cannot be separated,…” oldwitch.substack.com/p/secret-his...
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Secret History of the Witches
Contents of the 16-Volume Series by Max Dashu (preview)
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 10h
“The sexual double standard was of long standing, millennia-old. Society scapegoated women, trafficked or no, and let men do as they liked … An entire class of baby girls who were exposed to die … commonly scooped up to be “farmed,” for sale into prostitution. oldwitch.substack.com/p/origins-of...
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Origins of the word "brothel"
The word “brothel” went through changes.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 13h
To our society, our institutions, to men in positions of power, women don't fucking matter. After millenia of fighting, we are still just chattel.
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 13h
“If it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes a village to raise a rapist,” Jackson Katz says. “Perpetrators aren’t individual monsters; they are people reflecting a system. We need to address that system.”
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Power wielded without conscience is savagery. (Full quote in ALT)
“Except for the psychopathic monsters we sometimes see on television, whose actions are too horrific to explain away, conscienceless people are nearly always invisible to us. We are keenly interested in how smart we are, and in the intelligence level of other people. The smallest child can tell the difference between a girl and a boy. We fight wars over race. But as to what is possibly the single most meaningful characteristic that divides the human species — the presence or absence of conscience — we remain effectively oblivious.”
 • Martha Stout
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I have learned a hard truth. One that will make some men uncomfortable.This is good.Discomfort is the beginning of accountability. Women are not safe around men. Period. This is not a generalization born of bias … But a legally and empirically supported fact…” www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-...
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Women Are Not Safe Around Men
This is a fact. The data is unambiguous and the solutions exist. The only thing missing is the will to act.
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes. Sometimes the noise of fully knowing is louder than at other times, like the nasty hum overhead lights fluorescent lights. Sometimes it’s deafening. "The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world." • Joanna Macy
Art by Catrin Welz-Stein

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"Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity – a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal."

"Refusing to feel, becoming incapable of feeling the pain, refusal to suffer makes us stupid, & half alive. It causes us to become blind to see what is really out there. We have a sense of something being wrong-we find another target & project our anxiety onto the nearest thing handy."

• Joanna Macy
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Former South Park writer creates ‘Cornell 7’ website to expose alleged gang rapists, issues chilling warning: ‘Accountability is coming’ nypost.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Former South Park writer creates ‘Cornell 7’ website to expose alleged gang rapists, issues chilling warning: ‘Accountability is coming’
A former South Park writer has created a website to expose the alleged Cornell gang rapists and those in the Ivy League institution who gave them “a break.”
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Cat Hughes @celticqueen13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Robert Jensen “More Than An Ally” Part 1: substack.com/@deaddogma/n... Part 2: substack.com/@deaddogma/n... Part 3: substack.com/@deaddogma/n... Part 4: substack.com/@deaddogma/n...
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Not just an ally
Radical feminism for men (Part 1)
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For yrs his schtick has been that he’s the oracle of progress, humanity’s deliverer, promising space colonies, electric utopias, digital enlightenment & more. So of course, the Dark Tetrad Ketamine Kid & his enthralled cult-worshipping tech bros don’t want anyone to watch this: youtu.be/eY_8SyndC10
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s a good news — bad news thing, dear hearts. The good news: it’s all psychological. The bad news: it’s all psychological. “My Head Is Full of Children”, by Kiki Suarez, art I have adored for decades. I wore out a t-shirt with this treasured work on it long ago.
“My Head Is Full of Children”
by Kiki Suarez, 1988

Pop surrealism a harlequin headed humanoid with circle cheeks, a green ruffled collar on a dark green dress. Wild tall hair on the head with happy children of all sizes, shapes and colors stand around the head in the hair.“Caring for the emotional needs of our children means more than giving them a happy childhood. It means to enable the brains of the future adults to function in a healthy, rational way, free from perversion and madness. Being forced to learn in childhood that hitting children is a blessing for them is a most absurd, confusing lesson, one with the most dangerous consequences: This lesson as such, together with being cut off from the true emotions, creates the roots of violence.”

 • Alice Miller
For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
©️1980
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thinking of Alice, my mom, who was born 96 years ago today. 💖 9/25, 1930 — 4/24, 2007 I had my arm around her shoulder as she took her last breath. It was the most sacred moment of my life. I wish everyone could have known her. Middle Sister & I sang at her memorial. youtu.be/TZ0pXUb5jVU?...
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At Costco now for my Nuvaxovid and influenza vaccines - masked too. 🖤🦠💉😷🖤
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Lavonne @loveon9.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
THE BEST HARVEST MOON IN FIVE YEARS: There's something special about this weekend's full Moon. It's a Harvest Moon--closer to the autumnal equinox than any other full Moon of the past 5 years. The equinox gives the Harvest Moon a special power...
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes.
White text on black: 
“If he dies in the middle of the night, would you like someone to wake you up?
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#Whimsy is a playful, creative approach to seeing the world, marked by lightness, curiosity, and a sense of wonder. It helps us to question assumptions and view situations with fresh, imaginative eyes. Whimsy makes joy. 🥰
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Cat Hughes @celticqueen13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Artist: Maggie Vandewalle
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today even reading from the sane ones doesn’t ease my anxious and teary grieving for us. Music that I love does.
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Still apropos. Such a shocker, yeah? Still time for the likes of Bertolt Brecht, who understood. “When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!””
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Everything’s everywhere. It’s way too much and it’s all the time, including the deafening roar of social media.
Some rocks at the water’s edge of the Pacific Ocean in Crystal Cove, California. Photo by me in June 2019

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I refuse to make peace with normalized madness.
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
When I’m reminded again, for days on end — weeks, months, as I’ve known from childhood — that there’s something terribly off about human civilization, that only #music, #Bach and more, can ease the deep sadness and grief and loneliness of the knowing. youtu.be/Rx_IibJH4rA?...
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Yo-Yo Ma - Nature at Play: J.S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 (Live from the Great Smoky Mountains)
YouTube video by YoYoMaVEVO
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today our goofy Doodle girl is 5 yrs old! 🐾🥳🐾 She came to stay when she was 2 months old. Her sire & dam standard multigenerational labradoodles. She’s tall, 62 lbs, curly, w/many standard poodle traits. We adore her. Princess Buttercup, called Buttercup, Butters, Big Galoot! /1
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Forcing our brains to ignore the evidence of our eyes, to ignore a conflict between what we see and know to be true, and what we are expected to say, affects us.” - Barra Kerr
Stroll Effect illustration with the names of colorsThe Stroop Effect: Incongruent words make your brain work much harder; not just when you are using them, but when you are receiving them as information. You are working constantly to keep that story straight in your head.
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I ❤️ Sandra Boynton… forgot to post this yesterday. Whimsy helps us to question assumptions and view situations with fresh, imaginative eyes. Whimsy makes joy, as does Sandra Boynton’s art.
Sandra Boynton Earth tilted in its hemispherical equinoxes
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy Autumnal Equinox 🍁🤎🧡🍂🧡🤎🍁 “Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me … “ • Emily Bronté
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Language foundationally shapes the way we perceive and conceive the world. Words have power, including the power to harm, and to incite others to harm.
Art by Catherine Chauloux

"Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic. They are swallowed unnoticed, appear to have no effect, and then after a little time the toxic reaction sets in after all."

   • Victor Klemperer
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#Needful_Things #Laughter is carbonated holiness. • Anne Lamott youtu.be/d6SPV4GZp-U?...
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The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
El Niño does not heat up the planet. It transfers already existing heat from the Pacific Ocean to Earth’s atmosphere. Headline writers could use a basic course in logic: Post hoc ergo propter hoc If A then B ≠ B therefore A. Logic and language, dear hearts…
“Language is the medium of knowing. And if we are unclear about how language affects what we know, and therefore what we think and relate to as real, we are lost."

• Jeff Carrera
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#Sane_Making #Music A mind’s ear gift 🖤 #Sondheim & #Streisand He wrote new lyrics for her recording of this song: youtu.be/E7RNcioWnW0?... “What do you leave to your child when you're dead? Only whatever you put in its head Things that your mother and father had said Which were left to them too”
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Children Will Listen
YouTube video by BARBRA STREISAND - Topic
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
At last some people remembered who has all the actual power, and who doesn’t; and it’s not the temporal nobody whose destiny it is to die universally reviled. (Paraphrasing David James, “A Dream of Death”) I’m an advocate of hopeful defiance. thehill.com/homenews/med...
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Networks pull out of White House TV pool in solidarity with CNN
Major TV networks that rotate covering the president for wider media distribution say they will not do so moving forward after President Trump banned three media outlets from the White House last w…
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
✨🌟✨ “If we pause and breathe in and out, then we can have the experience of timeless presence, of the inexpressible wisdom and goodness of our own minds. We can look out at the world with fresh eyes and hear things with fresh ears.” • Pema Chödrön
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“…for each of us this is our brief moment on this wonderful planet. We are spinning through the cosmos with each other. This is our time to love, fearlessly …
Two frames
Left: Earth as we call our home, a planet spinning through the Cosmos

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“We are mammals, doing our best. We need cuddles. We get tired, we get sad, we get sick. We fight, and we hurt. People we love pass away. Hours, days, years fly by. We procrastinate and we doubt ourselves. We desperately need community. We are community animals. We can only survive through community, and we can only fight back through community.”

  • Peter Kalmus
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I accept that I know very little compared to what’s knowable. This 🧵 delights me. 🖤
“You want fantasy? Here's one... 

There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that'd suck the air right out of them.

They live in a brief geological period between ice ages, when giant asteroids have temporarily stopped smacking into the surface. As far as they can tell, there's nowhere else in the universe where they could stay alive for ten seconds.

And what do they call their fragile little slice of space and time? They call it real life. In a universe where it is known that whole galaxies can explode, they think there's things like 'natural justice' and 'destiny’. Some of them even believe in democracy...

I'm a fantasy writer, and even I find it all a bit hard to believe."

  • Terry Pratchett
Whose Fantasy Are You?
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
20 years ago I spent months learning Adobe Illustrator, and valiantly learning a smidge of Quark in order to do pre-print work for a monthly 4-color glossy print newsletter. THIS makes my heart laugh! Sing along, fontophiles! 🎵😆🎵
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🚨 🧵 About Greenland, Folks… the US has had a military presence in Greenland – by treaty – since 1951. There’s no new agreement. He can, like a pissing scavenger, mark the entire planet as his, but his thinking and saying doesn’t make it so.
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
😆😆😆 Hell, yeah. ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lovely, magical words. 🖤 Words matter. They change things for better and for worse. Language influences thinking. The way people think of the world is influenced directly by the language they use to talk about it.
“Language is the medium of knowing. And if we are unclear about how language affects what we know, and therefore what we think and relate to as real, we are lost."

• Jeff Carrera
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today is my Susie’s birthday, 15 months my junior, we were often taken for twins through our teen years. Hippo birdie two ewe! 💞🦛🦤🐑🐑🥳💞 "When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.” •Alice Hoffman “The Story Sisters”
Sister Susie sitting in a tree in our backyardCollage of my sister Susie and us with our Pepper .Me, left — Susie, Right … one of my favorite photos of Little us.A collage of us, with the Susie in a tree photo.
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Patriarchy Capitalism White Supremacy All “isms” live under the big systemic umbrella of patriarchy. “liberalism … shifts the moral failing onto the individual and away from society as a whole, so systemic inequality can continue to exist as long as we crucify the occasional bigot for show”
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yep. Always.
At top, b & w image of a shoreline beach, with surf ebbing and flowing, one person is there by the foam.

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“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that.  The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”

   • Pema Chödrön
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#Vaccines I just scheduled to receive my Nuvaxovid (CoVID) vaccine and influenza vaccine for this coming Monday at Costco… I do it for me, my family, my community & my world. For more info on Nuvaxovid (formerly Novavax) which I’ve received 3X before, here: www.nuvaxovid.com/about-nuvaxo...
A favorite artwork by Mary Engelbreit – a girl in dark glasses, redshirt and wide-brimmed hat sitting, resting her head on one hand, another on the surface in front of her, surrounded by cartoon microbes and a demon.
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yes. RFK was on Joseph McCarthy’s staff. Cohn was McCarthy’s chief counsel. RFK clashed with Cohn & quit McCarthy. Cohn developed a fierce enmity w/Bobby that oozed into JFK & the family. Cohn was tRump’s beloved mentor. His actions against the JFK memorialization are revenge for Cohn.
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Jake, Eywa has heard you.” 🖤🐘🐘🦏🐘🐘🖤 youtu.be/iSWHZBrbzLo?...
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Eywa has heard
YouTube video by Reed Brummitt
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“It’s a proud tradition in our family, making things shitty.” 😆😆😆😆😆😆 Brilliant! youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...
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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is one of the funniest tales of life on the patriarchal necrocapitalist planet EVER. Perfection. 😆😆😆😆😆
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It makes sense. They have their own belief system, their own religion that’s an amalgamation of SF futuristic ecstasies and necrocapitalism. They’re a zealous clergy w/its own scripture and litany. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” • Arthur C. Clark
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