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Bernard Frize (b.1949) - Margua. 2022. Acrylic and resin on canvas.

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the only true ally

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here is the quoted tweet:

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Turkish opera singer Semiha Berksoy and one of her paintings

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Someone was asking in a thread what kind of people could work for ICE right now.

I think it's a good time to remember that the image above are the people who put children into gas chambers.

When I was little, I asked what kind of person could work at a concentration camp.

The answer to both questions I think is "normal people who have accepted the dehumanization of another group of people."

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What would be the requirements for someone to be able to "do alchemy" again? Like, could a person or people raised in total isolation from modern culture and science "do alchemy"? Or would it require the resurrection of the ideas, beliefs, and circumstances that birthed Zosimos and Jabir?

Oh good question!

Short answer is probably not.

Alchemy isn't just a set of techniques, it's also a culture. Occidental alcemy was the result of dozens of different social factors at once. Egyptian temple metallurgists out of work because of costly Roman wars, Alexandrias unique situation as a center of trade and learning, the relative abundance of its mines, etc.

A person can't invent alchemy in the same way that a person could invent cartomancy. To do fortune telling with cards, all you need is a deck of cards. To invent alchemy, you need both a class of metallurgists and a class of religious scribes interacting in specific structured ways.

I don't know much about Eastern religions, but it's my understanding that "Chinese alchemy" developed under similar circumstances. There was an interaction between medicinal proto-chemists and the daoist scribal class that produced a new set of practical techniques with religious doctrines to match.

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the human body is the place of gathering

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wigan kebab. smack barm. pey wet. babby’s yed.

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𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐘 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐃 💫

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Mehmed the Conqueror x Constantine XI Palaiologos in the Hagia Sophia

by @celestial-fang

I've been saying this for years

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Just read a Chinese BL where a socialist dom hatefucks the rich capitalist CEO sub while forcing him to do things like assemble parts in a factory until he cried from the pain

“Your ass may hurt now, but it is nothing compared to the suffering you inflicted on the working class”

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and i’d like to give a special shoutout to bisexuals who are losers

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GIFTOBER 2023

DAY THIRTY-ONE: FREE CHOICE

A timeline of DONALD GLOVER and MILES MORAELS

Spider-Man 3 (2007) / The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) / Donald Glover: Weirdo (2012) / Community 2x01 "Anthropology 101" (2010) / Ultimate Fallout #4 (2011) / "Not Going Back" Live Performance (2011) / Ultimate Spider-Man 3x11 "The Spider-Verse: Part Three" (2015) / Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) / Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) / Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

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theres people on here fighting battles i cant even imagine

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I've been saying this for years