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Vindicate

“I have seen entire civilizations rise and fall. You mortals are but dust to me.” —Sorin Markov

Artist: Karla Ortiz TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Invigorating Hot Spring

Artist: Gabor Szikszai TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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THE GRIFTER LIFE CYCLE:

Grifter Nebula - Grifter is young, plucky, full of Idealogical zeal and original ideas. They understand the modern media landscape, and see a gap. This is Steven Crowder in his "change my mind" era.

Grifter Star - Grifter successfully gathers enough social capital to form a self-sustaining media presence. They no longer need to scrounge for listeners/followers/readers. They've found a niche and they can stick to it, but there's work to be done. They make enough money to be comfortable, but not enough that their decisions are entirely driven by profit. This is 99% of conservative YouTubers. Jordan Peterson is here.

Grifter Giant - A breakthrough. The grifter successfully enters the mainstream. Viral success, a radio show, a pastorship at a church, a memeable interview on FOX has brought a massive, massive audience to the grifter. The grifter now has real social power. The things the grifter says have a real chance of influencing actual political policy. The realm of Andrew Tate, Candice Owens post daily wire, and Alex Jones just post 9/11.

Grifter Planetary Nebula - A rare stage, not every grifter achieves this state. Most skip directly to the break point. Here, the grifter IS the discourse. This is Rush Limbaugh at the height of his career, Elon Musk during his time in the white house, every preacher at the height of the satanic panic. Politicians pray at your altar. They come to YOU, not the other way around. Not just the fringe weirdos either. Actual, respectable people have to factor you in. Ends when the grifter dies of lung cancer at 75.

BREAK POINT - CHOSE A PATH:

Grifter Black Hole - After years of dominating the grifting narrative, copycats emerge. The grifter begins to drown in a media landscape chock full of modern impressions of their schtick. The grifter loses relevance among the sleek, exciting, copycats, and is forced to say increasingly insane shit to stay relevant. Or is frankly seen as an embarrassing relic of a previous age, Associating with the grifter at this point COSTS social capital, and usually isn't worth it. This is Elon Musk post white House, Milo Yianopolus post defending pedophilia.

Grifter White Dwarf - Grifter quietly fades into obscurity. She took everything in the divorce, and your expenses are pretty modest. The grifter can get by on the core audience they built up over the years, slowly drinking themselves to death as they podcast from the Florida suburbs. You are crashing on Andrew Tates couch, but he doesn't put you in videos.

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Owl trinket raffle for Palestine and Sudan!

What's your favorite bird? Owls are mine! 🦉

For just $5 and a bit of compassion, all 3 of these trinkets can be yours. I'm raffling them off to fundraise for Palestine and Sudan, so please donate if you can and enter the raffle if you want!

It's really important that we keep donating to people who need it, as so many people are still suffering horribly and still need our help. This raffle may be cute and inexpensive, but the violence is unimaginable. I've noticed that donations are dropping off significantly lately, so I urge you to donate as much as you can and to continue doing whatever you can to help keep people alive.

Raffle details:

Each entry costs $5 usd (or equivalent)

Submit your entries using this form

Last day to enter will be July 7 2025, and I'll draw the winner on July 8

US only shipping (sorry)

If you win, you'll have to be comfortable giving me a shipping address and name

Trinket details:

Pouch is roughly 5 x 4.5in or 12.5 x 10.5cm

Ornament is roughly 2.5 x 2.5 x 2in with 4.5in plastic loop or 6.5 x 6.5 x 5cm with 11cm plastic loop. Made of both faux fur and real feathers and designed to be hung from something (such as a curtain rod). Keep away from pets

Ring is roughly 1.5 x 1 x 1in or 4 x 2.5 x 2.5cm, roughly size 8 I think but adjustable

Fundraisers:

Anything from el-shab-hussein and nabulsi's list

Anything from Gazavetters' list

Anything from Operation Olive Branch's list

Anything from Gazafunds

Anything from Sudanfunds

The Sameer Project

Mona's initiative

Khartoum Aid Kitchen

One Million Sustainable Pads

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The Grand and Terrible Tendency of All Things, or, a Charter of the Progress Towards Understanding

a Praxische view of the Saltreave

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RIP kings

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This is an update to a previous post. tl;dr on the previous post: My roommate/fiance and I (intersex, trans respectively, both disabled) need to flee to a safer state because of increasing fascism in our state. We have a place waiting, more affordable, more consistent work, food we will be helping to grow and preserve, etc. Long-established farm of a friend situation, not some overly ambitious and inexperienced project. It's a move that could very much save our lives. This is where I answered an anon asking about the situation.

In the past week, we have found out that our roommate, who intends to stay here for a variety of reasons, will probably need cancer treatment after all-- its been a lot of flip-flopping on the issue from her doctors. We are waiting for more information, but the general idea of "the cancer is for sure there, a problem, and will need something done about it" is clear. I am having to devote a significant amount of time to helping with the advocacy side of her situation. We are currently unsure what her future in regards to moving or, frankly, anything else might look like.

Because of that whole situation may need to raise our goal, but as it is now, we aren't really on track to move before winter as we'd hoped. That being said, the goal below is a monthly goal with getting moved by winter being the end and total goal. Progress has slowed immensely since the first week or so.

Dm me for proof or more details, or send me an ask ig. I am also vetted by @kyra45-helping-others, who does scam busting on here, and @milkweedtussocktubers has vouched for us on previous posts as an instrumental ally in this move. I have an artblog @theartistrans and a kofi where I run a casually educational newsletter and other such stuff in the tiers if you'd like a different way to support. Examples of the stuff I do on my artblog are below the cut.

PP V $C kofi GFM

$2,136/$3,000

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Eclipse of the Sun in Venice in July 8, 1842 by Ippolito Caffi.

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baby amaro deserves more outfits. the little sun hat has been my favorite to add to minions :)

helio / xma

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This scientist crafts stunning visual art through chemistry.

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couldn't put my finger on what it even is, but there's absolutely some kind of unifying factor in the japanese names and words which appeal to guys running crypto schemes, entirely distinct from the ones every single other category of weeb tends to pick up, that immediately and reliably sets off alarm bells when you see it in games, on clothing brands, etc

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I wanted to share something i realized in therapy which is that everything i like actually fits together into a coherent category of good things while everything i dislike and think is bad also shares the same coherency, as if there are two superimposed worlds of good things and bad things, each fluently interconnected within its respective moral alignment, but never intersecting, such that each remains pure. for some reason only me and my friends able to discern between them but it will be okay as long as everyone instantly accepts everything i say as true. by the way i wanted to ask that no one tag this as a fictional character or public figure that they are psychosexually fascinated with as it is my unique subjective experience and very personal to me so saying it's like someone from a tv show or podcast or something attacks my basic sense of self and reality and it very often sends me into a paranoid spiral when i see these comments. Ok thanks

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was looking to see if anyone had pointed out how funny it is that gus hired an upstart chemist named gale boetticher, but instead I found one of my new favourite baitposts

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customer service is cooking my brain, man