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reminder that visibly religious people belong at pride. that person wearing a hijab is not a threat to you. that person wearing tzitzit and a kippah is not a threat to you. someone simply wearing an item that is culturally or religiously important to them is not a threat to you. however, your aggression upon seeing a religious person at pride is a threat to them.

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I am my cat's spare human

Shout out to all the spare humans

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Zoozve, my beloved

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Recently I've been doing a deep dive into red flags that one may run into while in occult spaces. It's best to be educated so that in the instance you come across one of these red flags, you know when take the information you're receiving with a grain of salt. The following is a list of some red flags I've come across in my time as a Pagan. Some are pretty obvious, others not so much.

• Claiming St. Peter's cross is Satanic, or that Ankh is Christian

• Thelema, Aleister Crowley, or Magic with a K

• "Qabala" rather than actual Kabbalah

• Talking about Atlantis as if it's real

• Saying "real Satanists" don't believe in Satan or refusing to acknowledge the difference between theist and non-theist Satanists

•Claiming a crystal, incense, oil, herb or whatever else can be used in place of medicine

• The use of lightning bolt symbols, the Black Sun, etc

• Saying aliens built the Egyptian pyramids or that humans bred with aliens

• Saying the Illuminati controls everything or talks of a "New World Order"

• Weird fear-mongering or out-there conspiracies about Freemasonry

• Vaguely alluding to an all-powerful group that's only ever referred to as "the elites" or "they"

• Doing closed practices they aren't apart of

• Refusing to cite sources, or if they do cite sources, it's a TikTok or something

• Referring to ANYTHING the Nazis did

• Tribal tattoos from a tribe one isn't apart of

• Claiming they'll provide you forbidden knowledge or that if you follow their way of life you'll reach God or whatever

• Any mention of Aryans or some superior race in a non-critical/historical explanatory context

• Joy of Satan or The Order of Nine Angels

• Claiming "you were meant to see this video!" when it's a video that is showed to hundreds (or thousands) of people based on an algorithm

• Gatekeeping practices, worship, tools, etc, from a sex. IE, "only women can do this spell!"

• Recommending any work from scammers (ex: Joe Dispenza)

• Discouraging learning the history of a practice

• Claiming deities from different pantheons are the exact same. (Ex: Aphrodite and Venus)

• Using AI in place of real art, imagery, people, etc. (Seriously, I've seen shops on Etsy try to sell me tarot readings with a photo of an AI generated old lady claiming to do the readings, marketing it as if it's a real person.)

If you have ANYTHING else to add, please feel free to do so.

* I'd also like to add that these bullet points are not ranked at all and in no way am I comparing any of the things on this list. It is just a list. + Many of the things on this list are nuanced. And everything has exceptions.

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 All rights reserved  by Tony Xu

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hey don’t cry. trees grow out of the ground.

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As an Appalachian who has family that worked or still works in those godforsaken mines, this brings me a strange comfort.

Harlan County, U.S.A., 1976

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As an Appalachian who has family that worked or still works in those godforsaken mines, this brings me a strange comfort.

Harlan County, U.S.A., 1976

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"No More Hotels"

Graffiti seen around Aruba in the Caribbean, denouncing the overconstruction of hotels and the extreme land loss the Indigenous people of the Island are facing.

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So here's how my day is going.

Overslept, no time for a shower, have a meltdown about your bestie not messaging you back, eat breakfast, take meds with Mountain Dew because no time to make coffee

Go to work, get yelled at by the doctor I work for for something that wasn't my fault. Got yelled at again by a patient for something that wasn't my fault. Cry in the bathroom for 20 minutes. Consider a change of career fields.

Get a Microsoft Teams message from my manager saying I have to cover my coworker's workload, which includes Family Medical Leave Act forms for patients, patient disability forms, and arranging follow up appointments for pacemaker procedures, because she is on vacation as of yesterday and won't be back until Wednesday. Consider becoming an OnlyFans model because that seems more fun than this shit, only to realize I have too many picking scars to be attractive to anyone but my spouse.

Lunch. Which I have to order delivery and put on my credit card because my friend's bachelorette party and my car insurance payment overdrafted my checking account. Pray my podcast takes off.

A coworker who I once respected (and gave me a dining set for my new house as a gift) turned out to be both ableist, homophobic and transphobic, including using slurs, making everyone uncomfortable, including my autistic ass, my other coworker who has a gay son and the nurse who walked in the room with a trans niece. Consider burning said dining set because my spouse is nonbinary.

Get bombarded with phone calls, faxes, messages, and emergencies until 5:49 PM (I was supposed to be off at 5) only to realize I have nothing planned for dinner. Wish I could afford to order pizza.

Come home to "what's for dinner?" Told my spouse "order something from next door. I don't care what." Stromboli from the pizza place it is. They're paying.

Spouse goes upstairs to do an online table read for their first paid voice acting role, and leaves me with our neurotic cat. I miss my dog.

Go upstairs to use the bathroom, toilet gets clogged. Just moved in, no plunger in the house. Go out to the car to go out to buy a plunger, low tire and airbag sensor are both going off. It's high pollen and I'm out of wiper fluid and my wiper blades are fucked from the last snowstorm literally a week ago. Think about terraforming Mars.

Go back inside, call my dad for help, he says "I'll ask your mother." She says "I don't know what to do. You figure it out." Argument between parents while I'm still on the phone. I bring up how my mom took my EZPass (an electronic badge thing you attach to your dashboard and load money into online so you don't have to pay highway tolls in exact change cash) out of my car a month ago when I told her my spouse and I bought a house, my mom denies she ever did that. My dad says he'll come by and swap cars and take mine to the mechanic on Monday. It's Friday and auto mechanics are closed on weekends unless you're going to a quick lube/car wash. Consider finally buying a motorcycle.

Am currently waiting, still in my scrubs, for my parents to arrive with a toilet plunger.

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*covered in blood* i will.... *trembling* CHOOSE TO BE KIND... *in pain* i will be... NICE to others... *wanting to kill* i will see good in EVERYONE *yelding a knife* i will NOT be like those who hurt me... *screaming* i will be BETTER than who i was...

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Vincent Price and Boris Karloff wizard duel to the death

The Raven (1963) dir. Roger Corman

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Love between knights and women in pre-raphaelism.