Reposted by IronwortShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe 13139961090
Reposted by IronwortHrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This review I published when I was EIC by Dexter Thomas, was the article that made it clear that Kusama anti-Blackness permeated her work, and even more disturbing, the art market was trying to cover it up in all sorts of ways.hyperallergic.comWhat the Art World Doesn't Want You to Know About Yayoi KusamaA new publication tries hard to reinvent Kusama as a champion of racial equity despite her troubling record of anti-Black statements. 12803363
Reposted by IronwortJulia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 19/08/2026[SPOILERS] before I knew where this was going, I thought it might be an "ROGD" metaphor: "it seems like regular ol' gender dysphoria, but it's isn't. it's completely different! scientists don't understand it! normal treatments don't work! & it spreads like a virus! & IT ESPECIALLY AFFECTS CHILDREN!" 27915
Ironwort @ironwort.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I'm not a huge romance reader, but when it comes to media with sex/relationships in it, yeah, this. Anything from zero heat to actual erotica as long as the characters/relationship have thoughts and motivations that are comprehensible to me. Sexual and romantic attraction on their own are not. 052
Reposted by IronwortFive / #2137 @five.yiff.ie · 02/08/2026this and also don't make my mistake of. of fucking playing nethack for twenty years and never checking out anything else. did you know ADOM is fuckin amazing and so is angband? and don't even get me STARTED on caves of qud 1142
Reposted by IronwortTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 20/07/2026And yet none of you will ever hate or abhor or ridicule straight men even half as much as you hate queers and trannies, even while claiming to bear no ill-will towards us. It makes me fucking nauseous. 4100095
Reposted by IronwortTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 20/07/2026Look the rotted carcass of manhood in its bloated, pustulent eye, and see that this is what you all have put on a pedestal and worshipped for all this time. Hating women, raping women---this is what men encourage each other to do, what men excuse, what men build their culture on. 11030124
Reposted by IronwortTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 20/07/2026Under a regime where trans women have been made the sin-eaters for men's violence, where our rights and dignity and healthcare have been stripped from us due to fearmongering about the supposed threat we pose to women, our allies call bog-standard straight men secret gays and trannies. Fuck off. 41275182
Reposted by IronwortTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 20/07/2026People don't recognize that they're doing this, but that excuse only goes so far. If your first instinct is to say that men who do the things "real men" do all the time aren't real men when they're facing consequences for the patriarchal violence they commit, examine why you feel that way. 61348124
Reposted by IronwortTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 20/07/2026It's not "too woke" to say that straight men who rape women should be reviled for being rapists, not tarred as secretly queer. To imply they're gay, or that they wear dresses, to distance them from manhood, is to insist that their violence is "deviant" rather than utterly banal and normative. 224285911
Reposted by IronwortLeigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Cops being useless is a best case scenario. 0343
Reposted by IronwortLeigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026He also told a story about preventing a man from being sexually assaulted as a joke. Again, this was the absolute BEST they could bring. The guy who took all the trainings about how to handle sexual assault and was chosen to go teach a bunch of people, who let's be real, were mostly survivors. 17010
Reposted by IronwortLeigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I volunteered on a rape crisis line awhile back and in the mandatory 40 hour training, a cop came to talk at us. He told three stories about cases he'd worked and he victim blamed all three victims at least once. That's how they talk when they are hand selected, prepped, and in front of an audience. 221763
Reposted by IronwortJustin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Many have already said this, but once again, birthright citizenship applies to Americans that didn’t have to go through the naturalization process, not just the folks you deemed as otherwise foreign. 🙃 320733
Reposted by IronwortBruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 25/05/2026EXT. Early 2010s - DAY Our PROTAGONIST sees a NERDY-SCENE girl texting on a FLIP PHONE. She wears a t-shirt that reads "EMO BAND". PROTAGONIST I absolutely hate your shoelaces by the way. Dogshit. Did you get this garbage from the president? 2429
Reposted by IronwortHelm von Savigny @helm-fkvonsavigny.eurosky.social · 29/06/2026Y por eso es importante que todas las personas se puedan casar y que se llame “matrimonio”, como cualquier otro. Para que sus derechos no dependan de un capricho del funcionario de turno. 041
Reposted by IronwortDavid J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Your cute little Pluto-including orbital distance mnemonic ought to be AT LEAST seventeen words long, and good fucking luck with the Q! 210112
Reposted by IronwortDavid J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026It's fine to disagree with the IAU about the definition of "planet"; however, if your definition includes Pluto but not Ceres, Orcus, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris or Sedna, you don't actually care what a planet is – you just want the exact nine planets you learned in primary school back. 1323852
Reposted by Ironwortc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This viral video clip captured by Dean Boshoff of a desert rain frog (Breviceps macrops) highlights one aspect of their behavior: Their terrifying WAR CRY or alarm cry. (sound on) Let's learn a bit more about this African frog that lives along the sandy desert coast along Namibia & South Africa. 35561179
Reposted by IronwortKatie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 20/05/2026The whole thread is great but this bit especially. Portraits. Aren't. Polaroids. 03511
Reposted by IronwortDr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 30/04/2026A fascinating article on what may be Europe's fastest growing new religion, Uatsdin in Ossetia 1324
Reposted by IronwortLinotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Oh my god, and this was kind of what I wanted to say here, which just arrived in a different context at the top of my TL. Talking to a bot / talking to a human have DIFFERENT PREMISES. And if we treat them the same, that's a major problem. bsky.app/profile/fern... 153
Reposted by IronwortBrendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 09/04/2026Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it; those who do study history are doomed to imagine future students of history getting to their period and going “oh ho ho ho fuck yeah” 234637
Reposted by IronwortThe Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Happy Independence Day my fellow Greeks! It's 25th of March and traditionally we eat salt cod and skordalia, aka garlic mash! listen this episode to find out why! open.spotify.com/episode/0INR...open.spotify.comGreece's Salt Cod History and the Basque Connection 0209
Reposted by IronwortMel but personal @melandtea.bsky.social · 24/03/2026 Japan 🤝 Latam Rice and Beans™ can fix it 021
Reposted by IronwortSemi-Charismatic Minifauna @sarenraesaves.bsky.social · 22/03/2026I think a lot of people (especially Americans who don't realize how *old* Christianity is in some parts of Europe) conflate "folk culture" and "pagan customs." Some rituals and festivals can date back to late antiquity and still have emerged in a solidly culturally-Christian setting. 1244
Reposted by IronwortIain Coleman @iaincoleman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026It began as Protestant propaganda against Catholicism, before turning into Pagan propaganda against Christianity. 021
Reposted by Ironwort👻 Lassiter. Der härteste Account seiner Zeit.🤠 @fandorin.eurosky.social · 22/03/2026Aren't these supposedly pagan-rooted inks from some misty antiquity just another bit of Romanticist stage magic spun by people still imagining themselves engaged in some noble struggle against Christian oppression? If so, it’s irritating that this hocus-pocus dresses as historical fact. 212
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Not a clue, personally. But it's a far more compelling 'pagan Easter tradition' than all that erroneous guff about eggs and bunnies. 1813
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Is there maybe some deep-seated and authentically pagan tradition behind the custom of burning Easter effigies, perhaps connected to the ceremonial destruction of the 'witch of Winter'? Was Jack O'Lent just a recent example of that instinct to incarnate want, hunger & scarcity in burnable form? 1673
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026The ritual burning of effigies is more associated with Guy Fawkes than with Easter, at least in the UK. But it wasn't always so. They were 'burning Judas' at Easter in Liverpool in the 20th century. www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/co...bbc.co.uk 3554
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026This article about Jack is excellent: traditionalcustomsandceremonies.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/c...traditionalcustomsandceremonies.wordpress.comCustom demised: Jack O’ Lent“you little Jack-a-Lent, have you been true to us;” Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor Aside the obvious Christian observation of the day, Ash Wednesday, is little else noted. However certainly fro… 1653
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026So, who was the herring riding bloke several posts ago? That's 'Jack O'Lent'. He's associated with herrings because people had to eat fish instead of meat during Lent. They expressed their relief at Lent's end by making a straw effigy - Jack - and beating & burning him. 3945
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026The motivation behind treating components as 'symbols' is plain as day. Components can be baffling, but symbols can be interpreted. Most importantly, they can be interpreted by learned people, who can tell you what your customs and traditions 'really mean'. 28410
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026It would be daft to claim that a birthday cake is 'symbolic of the richness of life' or 'symbolic of wisdom' or any such bollocks. The point of the cake is not symbolism. The point of the cake is that you and your friends get to eat the cake. 21109
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026A birthday cake can be used as a symbol of 'birthday', e.g. a little cake icon appearing next to your name when it's your birthday, or a picture of a birthday cake on a birthday card, but it is only usable as a symbol because it was a component first. 1775
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Consider a similar tradition: the Tooth Fairy leaving money under the pillow in exchange for teeth. Nobody ever claims that the fairy or the money 'symbolise' anything. 1944
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026It's a curious point that focus on 'symbolism' is always grafted on long after the fact. People will insist that Easter eggs and the Easter bunny are 'pagan symbols of rebirth' when there is no evidence of anyone pagan actually using them in this way. 11077
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026yep, definitely pagan fertility symbols. massive bells flying through the sky, bringing eggs. yep. 421917
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026All the above sourced from 'An Egg at Easter', Venetia Newall, 1971. Special mention goes to 'the rooster of Schleswig-Holstein' which 'lays red eggs on Easter morning'. 51617
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Who brings the Easter eggs? At various times & places these have been: - hare - rabbit - fox - cuckoo - stork - flying church bells - crane - lark - 'heavenly hen' - 'the red-egg bird' - Paschalia the Easter Spirit - flying old man - St Nicholas - God 626243
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026I have no issues with paganism per se, ancient or modern. I am one after all But the problem with interpreting everything folksy or arcane about seasonal celebrations as some kind of pagan survival is how *reductive* it is. Everything gets given the same story. 428942
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Nobody looks at the Easter Fox, the Easter Tansy or the Easter Effigies and asks whether *they* might have any pagan connections, because they've never bloody heard of these traditions 226320
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026The problem is that people assume that the Easter traditions they see today have been there since the start, so they focus on 'eggs and bunnies' and think 'ooh must be surviving pagan fertility symbols' instead of tracing the actual history of the customs involved 228033
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026what do you mean you've never heard of an Easter Tansy? why, as recently as 1754 it was described as 'essential' to Easter, as much so as mince pies are to Christmas www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wha...atlasobscura.comRemembering the Tansy, the Forgotten Easter Pancake of Centuries PastGreen, herbal, and slightly toxic. 423919
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Eggs were relevant to Easter because they were banned during Lent. This is why you use them all up making pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, and then make a big deal of them when Lent ends, e.g. decorating them, hiding them for kids to find, and of course making your traditional Easter Tansy 435351
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026The Easter Hare was written about for decades as a specifically German curiosity, rather than being the ubiquitous Easter symbol he is today. For example in 1864, the Scotsman newspaper declared 'I heard them say in the Saxon mountains, the Easter hare brings the Easter eggs'. 122414
Reposted by IronwortAdrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026The Easter Hare was only one of a remarkable collection of egg-bringing entities including the Easter Fox, the Easter Stork, the Easter Cuckoo, the Flying Church Bells, and the Old Belgian Man Who Flew To Rome To Get Eggs From The Pope. He didn't even become a rabbit until he was exported to America 430135
