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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Peter Murphy's voice does cover a multitude of sins.

Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The rebbes also said that we should all live as though we might be one of the Righteous ourselves, and work toward the betterment of the world and its people, just in case. And Dolly damn sure did that, and is an example to us all.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

One group of my ancestors believed that there were always 36 righteous people in the world, and that their god continued to allow the world to exist for their sakes. If they were right, then today and for perhaps at least a little while, there are only 35.

An icon of some saint or another, altered to show Saint Dolly Parton.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I'd say most of, at least outside the very northern and southern bits, of Georgia likes Atlanta well enough...we just hate the traffic/driving in it. Especially these days, as both were terrible enough before the place got super popular.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Now that is just lovely.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Well, it is certainly your right to be, but considering you had bad random luck to find my little feed here, and I don't generally make a habit to argue about things on the Internet with strangers, I'll simply bid this and you both goodnight at this point. Auf wiedersehen.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I know that neither Le Guin nor Pratchett spent any of their earnings nor used their platforms to demean and seek to take away rights and a place in society of anyone else, regardless of any labels that might be attached to them, so in this case, I think it's pretty clear that neither of them did.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Where did I say how anybody else had to feel about it? I simply expressed my feelings about the books and their author, and offered what I felt were better options. And for the same reasons I don't watch Polanski films, or listen to NSBM...I find the art problematic, and its creators even moreso.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I can offer no higher praise for these books than to include them as one of three series that should they be the only volumes you ever read, you would have received pretty much everything you needed to become a good and upright person.* *The others being the Watch and Witches arcs of Discworld.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Let me be clear here....fuck Harry Potter. And double, nay triple fuck Joanne. You want books about a talented youngster from a humble background who goes to magic school (and actually grows and matures as a person)? Le Guin did it almost 30 years before Rowling and did it a damn sight better.

The cover of the 1975 Bantam Books edition for A Wizard of Earthsea. It shows an island covered in towers with a dragon wound through them, with gigantic ocean waves to either side.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Especially because in every story about the damned practice, it works out so well. Except maybe...and only just maybe...the Culture stores from Banks.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." -Frank Herbert , Dune, The Orange Catholic Bible.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

"Abolish" is one word for it.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Annual bday/proof of life selfie. Last year was pretty shit, but had some decent and even great moments. "All hock-tooie no costume Black hoodie you can set your watch to Tall drink, daps like an air raid Radically detach with purveyors of the hair-brain" -Aesop Rock, Carpet Food

My increasingly decrepit meat suit, in a black shirt and hoodie, and grey watch cap in front of some industrial ruins that are part of an old brickworks.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

We are community or we are less. We are engines of kindness and connectivity or we are less. When decency is framed as a radical position we must remain who we are. Our resistance is also in refusing to be less openhearted and filled with compassion.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Solidarity. Is. A. Weapon.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Makes think of the Artificial Inanity thing from Stephenson's Anathem. With the same results likely.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Due to my lovely, lovely parents...I now possess my holy grail of physical media (movie category): The Criterion 25 film box set of the Zatoichi series.

The disc holder, booklet and slip case for the Criterion 25 film series of Zatoichi, showing various scenes from the films in comic book art style.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Happy Christmas, god jul, happy Saturnalia, and/or a most excellent dies natalis Solis Invictus you lot. youtu.be/OR07r0ZMFb8?...

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RUN DMC - Christmas In Hollis (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by RUNDMCVEVO

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. We’re haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what it’s worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Day 24 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. We place miniature ceramic bee hive on the tree. Time to tell the sleeping bees all our news, tell them of the year. All its joyful arrivals, all its harrowings and sad exits. We sing them the land and ask for honeyed blessings.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I picked up a little for a trip there, just basic stuff...which I almost never got to use, since everyone in Norway spoke better English than I did.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Part of the beyond amazing mail gettings today from my inimitable SSO. (Not pictured, but also included: a 50 gram bag of Pu'erh, a sample of a green tea she likes [we'll see] and the traditional dark chocolate/orange shortbread 'coal' cookies)

My left hand holding a beautiful gaiwan and saucer set, with shades of blue and green in the glaze with the almost old ivory ceramic base also showing through.

My left hand holding a 100 gram bag of Da Hong Pao tea leaves.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

And this is my atheist, if not misotheist, ass saying this. I may have a problem with the various faiths/organizations folks may belong to, but this shit is ridiculous. Ol' Whisky Leaks is crazier than damn MacArthur if he thinks this shit is gonna fly.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Nah dawg...you don't fuck with the chaplains. Some of the best and most actually righteous folks I've ever met were part of the chaplain corp. Fucking blue falcon ass mother fucker.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Tell me that lie of the land sleeping all winter and I'll laugh in your face. Tell you of all the trees I've talked to this morning before the frost retreated from sun. Relay conversations with cold spirits, my communion with stretching shadows. – #EmilyCBanting #1982 #WitchSky

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

20+ years as a bouncer, I'll agree 100%. I worked a couple places where the local/state 1%ers and gang bangers were in regular attendance, and it was almost entirely calmer than your average college bar.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

Title: The street tom waits grew up on.
Image: a shabby, broken down old timey American street.
Caption:
Buildings (left to right): vern's all-nite pizza 'n' tattoo, accordion players' graveyard, abandoned clown-shoe factory, divorced salesmen's polka club, tomb of the unknown cabbie, bootleg ice-cream warehouse, saint frank's hobo orphanage, illegal umbrella incinerator.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Dammit...that'll teach me to watch shit without my specs on. But glad to know I can still hate on NYPD.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Never thought I'd be on the side of NYPD, but these are strange days...

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cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

A fascist will use every weapon available to them even if it destroys everything, because ultimately they’d rather have authority over a pile of bones than any lessening of their power.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I'll light another candle and talk to whatever gods are around.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I would watch the hell out of that.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

The Salvation Army is not a charity. They are an evangelical church that uses donated money to actively oppress gay rights. They've been especially cruel to trans people.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This stack (and a couple more) are all "not a bills" just showing how much the VA spent on me lately. Current total for the last two hospital visits is $47,940.98, which I very fortunately owe SFA of.

My left hand, holding up a stack of eleven full sized envelopes, each containing the "this is about a bill" statement from the Veteran's Administration/Community Care for my last two hospital visits and treatment.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Give me sunlight, a comfortable chair and a wall of books! This makes me declare myself a most satisfied soul. For the library is a territory of wonder. It is home to a thousand wise voices who know words that open gates to the imagination. – #CLNolan, BBC National Programme, 1934 #Libraries

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Wonderful rainy morning up in my mountains.

The view off my deck, up in the southern Appalachian Mountains, with three chair, a small table and pile of leaves...showing the rain coming down off the ridge into the hollow.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I was lucky enough to get .y first new mattress in 25-ish years this year...and to paraphrase the Librarian of the Unseen University: I will take it back from _your_ cold, dead hands.

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Whitney Merrill @wbm312.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion! 1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...

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Max Headroom 1987 Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident

YouTube video by andrew867

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iannlou.bsky.social @iannlou.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

Calvin & Hobbes walking along a tree trunk laid across a river as a bridge.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

While I understand completely, especially in the former case...the news out of Hookland and from one of my favorite jewelry/shirt makers this morning (also in Old Blighty) has me worried about my folks in the UK... This fucking world, I'm pretty sure we made it wrong.

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Geist @geist81.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human." -William Gibson, Count Zero

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