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@minthestyx.bsky.social
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The river Cocytus ("wailing") is one of the rivers, including the Styx, surrounding the Ancient Greek Underworld. Plants. #snakeplant #sansevieria #DracaenaTrifasciata #succulents #pavementplants euphorbia trigona Stygian doomer. No DM.

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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 11h
Once saw a documentary about Elvis Presley, in section on his childhood in Great Depression, an old guy said - "in those days, you ate anything that didn't eat you".
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 11h
Never understood this "grow food" thing - like ALL the CC, extreme weather, loss of biodiversity stuff is going to magically come to a halt at your garden gate? "Grow food" is only for the beginning, then it'll be protect your food and then if it's remotely eatable, you'll eat it.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 12h
So, a lot of ex-parrots, then.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 12h
Totally preventable if only the species that needed to do the the preventing hadn't been Homo sapiens.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 12h
Suggestion - it stayed with you because you apprehended social collapse ain't gonna be pretty.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 12h
This "war-time emergency" mode thing re. adaptation - people do realise that CC and ecological/biodiversity catasthrophe are on a level that there is no real equivalence to WW2, don't they?
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 13h
Continuing bird vein, doomer metaphor for no hope - "This is an ex-parrot" ...
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 13h
Not sure - East Siberian Artic Sea? os.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
os.copernicus.org
Observed bottom warming in the East Siberian Sea driven by the intensified vertical mixing
Abstract. The East Siberian Sea (ESS) features the broadest continental shelf on Earth and contains nearly 80 % of the world's subsea permafrost. A persistently cold bottom layer, with temperatures at...
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🥇
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Are you already making the placards and bumper stickers - "Nuclear War Now - Save The Planet"? Where sell? Gotta to be a black-hat doomer must-have.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
www.quaker.org.uk
quaker.org.uk
Quakers in Britain
Quakers are a faith group committed to working for equality and peace. We try to live in truth, peace, simplicity, and equality, finding God in ourselves and those around us. Our meetings offer a welc...
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Christian-based but now (esp. in UK) broad movement, officially 'The Society of Friends'. Started 1650s in England. Have no clergy, sacraments, rituals. No catechism, just "testimonies" to equality, truth, peace, simplicity. Silent meetings but indiv's can witness if moved by spirit.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
👍to bacteria then.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Fellow murderers, we've already created Death World with our sprog-popping and the mouths of the animals we want in our mouths. Populate and consume - no different from bacteria on agar in a petri dish.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Read the thread to this post 🧵 Thanks to @nonviolence.bsky.social & @janherder.bsky.social
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"No blemishes on the apples" - that would make a great poem!
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hela (or Hel) is the name of the ruler of Hel, one of the realms of the dead in Norse mythology. The poem below is written by a devotee. I thought some contemplation of shedding and seeking not to be afraid of that process was appropriate in the face of coming collapse.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
historyforatheists.com/2018/12/jesu...
historyforatheists.com
Jesus the Apocalyptic Prophet - History for Atheists
The idea that the historical Jesus was a Jewish apocalyptic prophet remains the most likely interpretation of the evidence about who and what he was.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Makes me think of the Quakers - the inner light. NB. Do not be offended but fishing is not feasible in the cold, ever-wailing river Cocytus. I found this interpretation of Jesus interesting in the light of collapse -
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I am truly glad it was helpful for you. It was presumptious of me to critique the book straight off but the river Cocytus is always ready to wail 😉. I did check whether my lending library has it (no) because I agree re facing collapse for as individuals - so much to shed and what to grasp?
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Paris, June, 2026. This substack article is a potent view of a particular time and an introduction to the future - sarahwilson.substack.com/p/notes-from...
sarahwilson.substack.com
Notes from a burning Paris
wondering what collapse looks like?
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No, I am not.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
and more "self-healing" and "self-development" is the thing - these seem to me to be upcycling elements of the world-view that is being hollowed out as its material and structural foundations collapse.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Don't know about love, I just feel that as collapse rips us, shred by shred, from the culture/world-view we have known some of us (I don't presume all) will need to find something else. Perhaps space for penitence relates to love. IDK. I just don't think that greater secular knowledge
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm an ignorant Brit but is that Soldier Field, Chicago, 1933? How extraordinary!
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Knowledge: to navigate and live in light, to expand and conquer. Yet where does the iron path, 'though all the flowers are Latinised, lead? To Death. So journey must fray and step sink and darkness consume. And knowledge shrink to the unmappable void.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A couple of thoughts that came from a recommendation of the book, 'I Eat the Stars', Sarah Wilson -
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
and focus on penitence? Let us have the equivalent of a trillion Ave Marias.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Very different to someone living in a food desert, struggling to make ends meet, dealing with climate change, political change, impending AI change..." (excerpt, Goodreads review). Wail - are there no books that get away from the modern-individualist culture of some sort of self-development
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thank you (sincerely). But before the inevitable crossing of the Styx, the river Cocytus is cold and full of wailing ... Wail - "It did make me think about privilege though, her moving to Paris and living that life while considering the collapse of civilisation.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So ... the balm of hope or the fire of fear? @climatecasino.net
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Moloch - sacrifice your children, sacrifice the seed of all living creation ... Moloch scene from 'Metropolis', made *1927* (hmmmm...) youtu.be/g2kgZiPr6RM?...
youtu.be
Fritz Lang - Metropolis (1927) - Moloch Scene
YouTube video by Sophieeee
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trying to prep? Prep emotionally and psychologically for greater and more frequent death events.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fellow murderers. Don't be fooled by the survival of Macaroni penguins while Chinstrap are desimated. We have created Death World: it will creep to all corners like a miasma. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
World's largest penguin colony hit by climate-driven decline
Climate change is blamed for dramatic decline of chinstrap penguins living on a remote volcanic island.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Much thanks.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
youtu.be/cXptdLvv0vc?...
youtu.be
Sol Invictus - Long Live Death
YouTube video by Prophecy Productions
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He will always checkmate.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Agree with that.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
All it ever was, was a matter of scale. The fault lies in ourselves, not our stars,
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Eff me, someone who gets that our species has been at it for millennia, not just since Industrial Revolution and capitalism! What else do people think a species like us would be doing apart from interfering, exterminating and exploiting to our advantage.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You mean like a petri dish. Yes.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What? Does anybody still take COP seriously? I thought we all knew it was satire. Kinda like Imperial Rome says "Welease Bwian!"
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
OK. But my point still stands. Placing the "bad" bit in a certain period, or in certain people, etc, overlooks that that "bad" is in us as a species and just chance and circumstance enabled it to go max.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Petty comment - USAmericans, you do know Fahrenheit is a foreign language to most of the rest of the world.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Important point - all public weather forecasts everywhere should include humidity and wet bulb as a matter of course as well as heat. In UK, you still have to select humidity on Met Office website forecast. Got no idea if there is facility to get wet bulb.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If doomers don't have potential pandemics on their bingo cards, they ain't real, deep in the Stygian dark, doomers.
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes, airborne. Worse than bubonic plague. Septiceamic plague not much fun either - "Septicemic plague is the least common of the three forms, with an untreated mortality rate near 100%." (Wiki)
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Reaper Grim Reaper
ALT: Reaper Grim Reaper
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River Cocytus @minthestyx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
get rid of us with very highly transmissable, 100% death rate, novel virus. We are moving into a Pandemicene. Learn from Covid pandemic, if concerned. Mask as much as possible, avoid crowds as much as possible, wash and sanitise hands. Or accept that this guy is on his way back big-time -
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