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pat @pat.northsky.social · 12/06/2026

It's called learning to play the drums 🤙

pat @pat.northsky.social · 10/06/2026

If anyone took Kill Your Rapist seriously there'd be a Cultural Revolution scale purge of parents by their children. This is the context that the "Parent's Rights" movement exists within:

According to the Child Maltreatment report of 2015 by the US Department of Health, about 10% of the general population experiences one or more forms of maltreatment or abuse in childhood, in most cases (over 80%) perpetrated by parents or relatives (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2017). A meta-analysis (Stoltenborgh et al., 2011) focused on child sexual abuse of 9,911,748 individuals showed that the overall prevalence of this kind of childhood trauma was around 18% for women and 7.6% for men. For other types of childhood trauma, prevalence rates of 22.6 and 36.3% were, respectively, reported for physical abuse (Stoltenborgh et al., 2013b) and emotional abuse (Stoltenborgh et al., 2012). Finally, regarding physical and emotional neglect, a comprehensive meta-analysis (Stoltenborgh et al., 2013a) on 13 independent samples with a total of 59,406 participants reported an overall estimated prevalence of 16.3 and 18.4%, respectively, for physical neglect and emotional neglect, with no significant gender differences.

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 24/05/2026

It's pretty unbelievable how much smoking weed is just like putting points into inland empire in disco elysium

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 16/05/2026

You've all gotta get on Theurgic Platonism

that gods are too spiritual to be engaged in material rites is a belief that empties our world of divinity:

This doctrine [lamblichus says] spells the ruin of all holy ritual and theurgic communion between gods and men, since it places the presence of superior beings outside the earth. It amounts to saying that the divine is at a distance from the earth and cannot mingle with men, and that this lower region is a desert, without gods.

In direct contrast to this bleak vision, lamblichean theurgy aims to sustain the continuity of the gods with our physical world this lower region—by recognizing their presence in material existence: in animals, plants, and even in stones, and further, that human beings have the capacity to engage this presence by ritually embodying the divine activity, the theurgy, through which it is revealed.

For a Platonist and Pythagorean the cosmos is theophany, and theurgy is the praxis through which human beings enter and embody the divine revelation that is the cosmos and natural world. Iamblichus thus avoided the temptation, so prevalent in his age, to escape from material reality and split the world in two. For lambli-chus the highest is in the lowest. The ineffable One beyond being is present in the densest material reality. The ineffable unities, the henadic gods, are not isolated in some exalted "place" but are revealed symbolically in unifying activities seen, felt, and encountered in our mundane world.? In lamblichus's cosmology, the powers emanating from the One are received and orchestrated by a noetic activity personified by Plato as a Demiurge who weaves these divine powers into a living cosmos. Thus, the highest and most

hidden spiritual principles unfold and are revealed through our evanescent and material reality—including all the passions of the human condition—and theurgy is the art of learning how to receive this procession in a way that mimics—no, even more-that incarnates the demiurgy that continually creates and sustains our world.
To ignore and disparage material reality would thus ignore its divinity and, inevitably, our own. It would make the world, as lamblichus feared, "a desert, without gods." Yet we live in that desert and have lived in it for a very long time, so it is difficult for us to recover the non-dual vision of lamblichean theurgy, difficult to rediscover life-giving water hidden in our desert.

Neoplatonic theurgy was imagined within a polytheistic and plural. istic cosmos: the varieties of culture and geography corresponding to the diversity of theurgic societies. This was also consistent with lamblichus's metaphysics where the utterly ineffable One can only be "known" in the Many, the henophany of each culture both veil. ing and revealing its ineffable source. To privilege any one of these henophanies over the others, to proclaim that it alone is true, is an assertion that would have been treated with contempt by theurgic Neoplatonists. For such a claim betrays the very principle of theurgy understood as cosmogonic activity rooted in an ineffable source, one that necessarily expresses itself in multiple forms of demiurgic generosity. Theurgists would find claims to an exclusive possession of truth equivalent to the deranged assertion that the sun shines only in my backyard. These are delicate matters, but it needs to be explored in what sense Christian theology remains divergent from Neoplatonic theurgy, and I believe we may find clues in that most theurgic and Neoplatonic of Christians, Dionysius the Areopagite.
It is now well-known that Dionysius appropriated theurgy to shape his understanding of the sacraments. Indeed, in the writings of the Areopagite we find some of the richest evidence for theurgic worship, and since lamblichus gives few concrete examples one could find no more striking evidence of how theurgic rites were performed than in the liturgical writings of Dionysius. Yet there is an almost imperceptible shift in Dionysius away from the cosmocentric roots of Platonic myth. For example in Divine Names Dionysius uses the term para phusin (opposed to nature) synonymously with huper phusin (above/before nature) to describe the miracle of the Incarnation.13 For lamblichus, the term "supernatural" (huper phues)—

which he coined—could never be opposed to nature (para ten phusin). To be para phusin was to be opposed to phusis, to nature, and thus, to theophany.!4 Huper phues is not in any way opposed to nature nor did it refer to a separate "supernatural world" as it has come to be conceived; rather, it refers to divine powers that are continually revealed through nature. For Pythagoreans like lamblichus, numbers, like gods, are also supernatural: they are anterior principles that unfold into the physical world. With Dionysius the sensitivity to phusis as theophany is diminished, if not lost, and we see a shift away from Platonic cosmocentricism. The ecclesia assumes the divine status that had previously been ascribed to the material cosmos in Neoplatonic theurgy.

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 02/05/2026

Learning a lot about traps...

6.26.5.2 Trap Interface

The capabilities provided by hooks are great, but hooks alone rarely correspond to what users want to do.

For example, if a user wants to break when and if control reaches a certain source location, how do you lo it? If you install a "next" hook, you get unacceptable overhead for the execution of the entire program. It would be possible to install an "apply" hook, then if the procedure encompasses those ource locations, install a "next" hook, but already you're talking about one concept that might be mplemented by a varying number of lower-level concepts

It's best to be clear about things and define one abstraction for all such conditions: the trap.

Considering the myriad capabilities offered by the hooks though, there is only a minimum of functionality shared by all traps. Guile's current take is to reduce this to the absolute minimum, and have the only standard interface of a trap be "turn yourself on" or "turn yourself off".

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 28/04/2026

They're making cumstack pills now..

WHAT'S INSIDE?

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Enhances blood flow
& stamina

LECITHIN
Semen quality & Sperm motility

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ZINC
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PYGEUM
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pat @pat.northsky.social · 16/04/2026

I'm really more addicted to weed if anything

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 15/04/2026

When I'm in a "collapsing the subject-object distinction" competition and my opponent is—hey where'd they go?

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 10/04/2026

*explaining the present day to someone from before the 20th century* yeah so we started doing math on language and everyone talks fucked up as a result

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 09/04/2026

Fuck I missed the roadmap 069 Coq rename 😔

On October 11, 2023, the development team announced that Coq would be renamed The Rocq Prover in coming months, and began updating the code base, website, and related tools. The official renaming happened with the release of Rocq 9.0 in March 2025. The new name refers to Inria Rocquencourt, where the system was developed first, and is related to the mythical bird Roc, which allows keeping the bird references from the prior name.

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 09/04/2026

It is my firm belief that the content of someone's sexual fantasies has no moral significance and only the way a kink is practiced does. People generally find this pretty agreeable until I actually apply it consistently instead of giving special carve-outs to their pet hated/loved kinks

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 05/04/2026

The term "Homomorphism", coming from the greek "homo"—meaning gay—and "morpho"—meaning transformation—was commonly used by the itinerant transsexual doggirl class of the Late Amerikkkan Empire to describe the divine force that pervaded their lives and shaped their culture

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 31/03/2026

Living in a society is supposed to be a constant mediation of potentially-incompatible desires. A society that shortcuts that mediation with the logic of "might makes right" is a rape society to the core. Fascists only care about winning

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 30/03/2026

I would say that a major issue with our society is that it has never meaningfully integrated the desires of women but really you can substitute any marginalized group for women there

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 30/03/2026

Many people want to deny to the end of the earth that women experience sexual desire and pleasure. If your feminism can only exist by denying that women want and enjoy sex it is simply not worth a damn. The idea that heterosexual sex is "for men" and necessarily at the expense of women is misogyny

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 19/03/2026

Did anyone else watch the CPC propaganda marx biography anime?

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 28/02/2026

Funny pranks to play on your friends

After the gods, in their councils, had often considered what could be done to curb Agdistis, Liber (the Roman Dionysus), taking the task upon himself, caused Agdistis to become drunk and fall fast asleep. With a snare Liber tied Agdistis's foot to his genitals. When Agdistis finally woke up and stood, he tore his own genitals off.

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 27/02/2026

"I don't know how you can smoke all the time, weed makes me so anxious and paranoid" It's called building distress tolerance and it's actually a radical act of antifascist resistance, idiot 🙄

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 26/02/2026

Me: hm I should probably watch revolutionary girl utena to find out why my gf is obsessed with it Me, 5 minutes into the first episode: ah, I see

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 18/02/2026

I only really started using bluesky in earnest years ago to be a traumawhore on main and talk to other people about my personal feelings and political views of that. Have a lot of people have since come around about it, or am I just more aware of people who agree now? Feels strange

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 17/02/2026

I think I need to fall in love again. Not necessarily romantically

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 15/02/2026

The Land Where the Blues Began — Alan Lomax

Although this has been called the age of anxiety, it might better be termed the century of the blues, after the moody song style that was born sometime around 1900 in the Mississippi Delta. The blues has always been a state of being as well as a way of singing. Leadbelly once told me, "When you lie down at night, turning from side to side, and you can't be satisfied no way you do, Old Man Blues got you." A hundred years ago only blacks in the Deep South were seized by the blues. Now the whole world begins to know them.
In order to hear the blues, when I was very young, my girlfriend and I slipped into the black ghetto of my Southern hometown under the cover of darkness. If we'd been caught there, we would probably have been expelled from the university. Nowadays everyone sings and dances to bluesy music, and the mighty river of the blues uncoils in the ear of the planet. Indeed, the blues may have become the best-known tune humans have ever sung. At the same time, all of us are beginning to experience the melancholy dissatisfaction that weighed upon the hearts of the black people of the Mississippi Delta, the land where the blues began. Feelings of anomie and alienation, of orphaning and rootlessness-the sense of being a commodity rather than a person; the loss of love and of family and of place this modern syndrome was the norm for the cotton farmers and the transient laborers of the Deep South a hundred years ago.

I'm a poor boy and a long old ways from home...

This song arose in a period much like our own. Our species has never been more powerful and wealthy, nor more ill at ease. Homeless and desperate people in America and all over the world live in the shadow of undreamed-of productivity and luxury. So it was in the Mississippi Delta in the early years of this century. Boom times in cotton gave a handful of planters easy riches, while the black majority who produced the cotton lived in sordid shanties or roamed from job to job. Some blacks attempted to become free enterprisers, but were so hemmed in by caste barriers that very few succeeded in rising in the world. The rebellious were kept in their place by gun and lynch laws, ruthlessly administered by the propertied.
Our times today are similarly out of joint, similarly terrorized. Technology has made the species rich and resourceful as never before, but the wealth and the resources rest with a few individuals, corporations, and favored nations. Most earthlings, most nations, are distanced from technological luxury, and that imbalance is presided over by armed forces capable of destroying the planet itself. Rage and anxiety pervade the emotions and the actions of both the haves and the have-nots. And the sound of the the worried blues of the old Delta is heard in back alleys and palaces, alike.
In such threatening situations most people grow careful about speaking out. The fate of whistle blowers and nonconformists is well known. Those most favored by fortune become the most reticent about the inequities that profit them. The poor eat humble pie and only smile when their masters are present. Everyone learns to remain silent in the face of monstrous ironies. In the South I grew up in, for example, almost everyone had convinced themselves that blacks were happy. In fact, they were excluded from public facilities, were poorly paid, badly housed, constantly insulted and bullied, and were without equal rights before the law. Nevertheless, everybody, especially the oppresse…

Every one of the the world-renowned black American genres from ragtime to rap bears the mark of this "folk" heritage. Clearly also it provided the resources employed by the Delta blacks in manifold adaptations to their harsh destiny as an uprooted and exploited people. Gradually, I saw how, through every trial, Delta blacks had been buoyed up and propelled forward by the nourishing river of black cultural practice, maintained in the isolation of the Southern ghetto. Like cunning Br'er Rabbit, the African-American creative tradition was "bred and born in the briar patch" created by Jim Crow.
A flood tide of supportive African sociability, eroticism, and life-giving laughter, welling up in black family and community life, endowed black life with a certain invulnerability in the face of sharp adversity. Our studies established solid connections between the modes of every day and the characteristics of song and dance styles. For example, these wider investigations showed that the ability to sing in good concert, and to dramatize strong feelings in dance, were present wherever cultural conditions constantly brought black people together for sociable activities. The large extended families, the neighborhood self-help groups, and the community-led religious services of the blacks provided such sociable occasions and fostered ease in morale-building group performances.
Therefore, it could be argued that the new song styles of the Delta symbolized the dynamic continuance of African social and creative process as a technique of adaptation. Moreover, the birth of the blues and the struggles of its progenitors could be seen as a creative deployment of African style in an American setting, the operation of African temperament in new surroundings.
In a sense, African-American singers and dancers made an aesthetic conquest of their environment in the New World. Their productions transfixed audiences, and white performers rushed to imitate and parody them in the minstrel show, buck…

outcaste people, who were unfairly denied the rewards of an economy they had helped to build. One black response to this ironic fact was to create the blues—the first satirical song form in the English language—mounted on cadences that have now seduced the world. It is heartening to realize that both the style and the inner content of this new genre are bold symbols of an independent and irrepressible culture.
The experience of Southern working-class blacks, who created the blues in the postslavery period, was in some ways more bitter than slavery itself. Promised equal rights and opportunities, blacks were, by and large, denied both. They put their hand to the plow, to the railroad hammer, to the lines of the mule team and, in effect, built the South—for subsistence wages.
Faulkner's decadent planter class knew how to exploit them and, when they felt it necessary, resorted to the most savage exemplary violence to keep these vigorous and ambitious people in line. As always, such cynical violence imposed from the top led to violence within the exploited group—a very ugly emotional safety valve.
These conditions—described in the following pages—continued, especially in the Deep South, with little change until World War II, and, even after the Johnson political reforms and the inspiring successes of the integration movement, have not entirely disappeared. Thus they form the immediate background for our present. The Delta scene was, perhaps, more savage than that in some other parts of the South because it was a sort of industrial frontier.
Yet it is fair to say that the grandparents, even the parents, of the majority of American blacks were painfully acquainted with the lifestyle described in these pages. Now that people everywhere begin to taste the bitterness of the postindustrial period, the Delta blues have found a world audience.

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 11/02/2026

Reminds me of the time I was telling my former therapist that at our previous session I had dissociated so hard I felt like I was sitting next to my own body and could see myself out of the corner of my eye and he (a zen buddhist convert) just said "Woah that's some mystical stuff"

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 31/01/2026

When I was younger about a half dozen different music teachers drilled into me that constructive criticism was the most valuable thing a person could give you. Hard to overstate how impactful this has been on my personal development

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

youtu.be

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 28/01/2026

Back when I read Hacker News regularly I had a rule for myself that whenever someone corrected another commenter's metaphor I would collapse the whole comment tree because nothing of value ever happened after that point

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 22/01/2026

We are all sidemen to the music

There was no intention to be a working band. But if you find the right guys and the magic happens, then, well: Let's play a gig. Not in a concert hall, but in a club, because "All The Things You Are" in a concert seems wrong. But maybe the magic deepens so you try a small hall in Japan, then finally major halls everywhere. And you feel freer and freer within this context. If you decide to be like peanut butter and spread yourself all over the place, you might never have the experience of what happens next with those same guys. In 30 years we never had an argument about music. We never had a dispute of any major consequence. We just show up and play. One of the concepts, if not the basic concept, is that we are all sidemen to the music.

What do we mean when we speak of rhythm in Nature, Art, and in Music? We mean some intrinsic quality common to all three, a quality that can be instinctively felt, but which is practically indefinable. It is not Time. Time is only the duration of rhythm. It is not Metre. Metre is only its measurement. Rhythm is that ceaseless, ever-varying movement of an intangible force interwoven with all that can be comprised in the word 'LIFE'
In it is contained the flux and reflux, and the make and break of things; but if this were all, then the effort of earth in the ebb and flow of seasons and other rhythmic functions would be the labour of Sisyphus, only undoing what it has done. Even machines are not used merely to show that they can move to and fro, for, on the material plane alone, they have a purpose. The beat of the machine is not the sole reason for its existence. From its shuttle-beat wonders of creation emerge, shaped from a chaos of threads into a patterned texture, useful or beautiful in the service of humanity.
So rhythm is no mere pendulum to fall back under momentum to its original place.
Rhythm stretches out like an incoming wave of the sea, and after its fierce force is spent it falls back again into the great limbo of waters, as if it had never been; but, in the meantime, there has been a moment of fruition and of arrestation. It has paused to fulfil its purpose and has borne on its high crest a treasure that now lies safely on the shore. As with the machine, this is not achieved with one pulsation. But, laboriously and eventually, atom by atom, thread by thread, layer by layer, the garment of beauty is woven; the pearl of great price is matured.
Thus rhythm is threefold in its sequence of effort, fruition, rest.
But we can begin to understand something about rhythm only by studying its inherent laws, their attributes and manifestations.
Let us go back to the source of rhythm which exists in nature, and to that part of its physical expression which galvanizes…

The body is a living and vital organism, rhythmic in its laws, and moving in time and space in a world which itself has a vast and cosmic rhythm. Illness and disease come to individuals when their rhythms have been deranged, and wars, famines, earthquakes, and pestilences result from the disturbance of the wider system of rhythms governing the world. If we begin to study the natural rhythms of the body, we find that each is based on a movement of contraction, followed and balanced by a movement of relaxation. Many of the rhythms of the body work continuously and recurrently without our volition. Instances of these are the digestive processes, the systole and diastole of the heart's action, and the inhalation and exhalation that together make breathing.
In contrast to these, all dynamic bodily movements of the voluntary kind can be observed, felt, and controlled. A simple instance is the action of walking, in which the weight of the body is transferred trom one foot to the other, making each alternately heavy and light, as contraction and relaxation occur.
Let us study actual movements in which we can see the laws of rhythm in action. Labourers, athletes, craftsmen, and acrobats master and use the force of rhythm for their specialized purposes. Their mastery of rhythm results in movements graceful and beautiful in their economy of ettort, while full, also, of purpose and technical skill.
Rhythm seems to galvanize all according to their peculiarity, manifesting itself chameleon-like, giving the power to take colour, and to make movement wherever it finds a resting-place.
It would follow that it makes for individuality, bringing out the intrinsic differences of all growths and individuals in whom it rests.
It is these intrinsic differences and shades of differences which alone can give variety to life, for, without them, we should be a monotonous regiment as dull and deadened in expression as if ordered by a drill-sergeant.
A nation of such sheep would be unlikely to a…

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[LVL 36]Alsvid Wotansdottir🧿 @alsvid.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Once again reminding everyone that my mother used to tell me when I was small: If someone does bad to others, they'll probably do it to you eventually!!!

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 18/01/2026

At some point maybe we will all grow up enough to realize that when a trans woman victimizes another trans woman the perpetrator's identity is not actually salient. Being a trans woman doesn't make you nice, it makes you vulnerable

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 18/01/2026

I'm beginning to suspect that existing as a person in the world is actually all performance

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 17/01/2026

I feel like a lot of people fail to appreciate the degree to which our entire society is structured to make the stupidest thoughts of evil powerful people into reality. They don't need to be competent and that's by design

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 16/01/2026

Hm everything sucks and my life is a mess... the perfect time to start writing a prolog interpreter that no one will ever use for no particular reason

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 09/01/2026

Hard to tell if "woke is back" is more wishcasting or denialism. I think mostly people have internalized fascist propaganda so much they don't really know what woke even looks like

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 07/01/2026

Logging onto bluesky for the first time in days

Community meme of Troy bringing pizza back to the apartment only to find it on fire. Big Tiddy Isabelle is standing in the middle of the flames

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 27/12/2025

Who's a good girl? Who's a good girl?? You are!! YES YOU ARE !!! Such a good doggie 🫳🐕 ^_^

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 18/12/2025

Notably the latter was the dynamic in basically every lesbian-feminist community that banned trans women. Outright TERFs were always a minority but almost always got what they wanted because apathetic cisfem bystanders reliably broke with them when pressed

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[LVL 36]Alsvid Wotansdottir🧿 @alsvid.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I don't care that Musk does drugs. I care that he gets to have a life, a career, not have to piss in cup, not have to worry about the police breaking his bones or ending his life while saying "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DO DRUG" to bystanders, have a family, have good publicity, and be respected

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 17/12/2025

The crusty linux men can be pretty shitty sometimes but people are often just mad they got "RTFM" as their troubleshooting advice (it's good advice, sorry)

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 13/12/2025

When I was 3 years old I figured out how to use the VCR just so that I could watch Yellow Submarine on VHS. Having rewatched it (the VHS cut specifically) recently I found it really striking what a beautiful work of art that whole movie is

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 16/11/2025

Desire is self-justifying. Make peace with what you want

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pat @pat.northsky.social · 16/11/2025

Oh so this has been a known thing for at least 6 years 🙂

r/CPTSD 6y ago
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PSA: Wikipedia page on "Repressed
Memory"

Is it just me, or does the Wikipedia page on "Repressed Memory" seem to be extremely biased?
I realize the subject is controversial, and that it might be appropriate for the content to lean to the more conservative side, but I can't help but feel a lot of new research is left out.
I do realize anyone can edit this page, and when I am in a better place I will do that. But since this issue affects a lot of us, and since some of you may have a better handle on all the research, I thought it was worth mentioning.
Honestly, I feel like a lot of people probably go to that page looking for help, but probably end up disappointing because the bias leads it to be about as invalidating as it possibly could be!

hermit_dragon 6y ago
The FMS Foundation is pure evil and thier propaganda gets everywhere it's sooooo upsetting : (

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