doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc
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A wandering deer, building shrines along the way.
Joined Nov 2022
how come every american state except like 4 are complete dogshit at flagmaking?
@lauraehall theyre incredible omg 😍
i always talk to and feed the crows in my neighborhood, theyre such wonderful critters
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@xan 😭😍🥰 thats so wonderful omg
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@xan oh my gosh look at them!!! do they have a name?
i wanna find the good makers around my area and its not something i've really done before.
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It’s important to understand that people—not even Homo sapiens!—living at what must have been the subsistence margin, without states or written language or metal tools or electricity or antibiotics, managed to keep this person alive. They devoted resources to his care and survival. He lived for years, possibly decades, with a severe disability at a time when his community would have been doing things like fighting off literal cave bears.
Our society has inconceivably more material, social, and technological resources to bring to bear to help each other. We have no excuse.
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More pets go missing around the Fourth of July than any other time of year. If your cat is afraid of fireworks, keep them inside and STAY HOME. Make sure they have cozy places to hide. Play music to help cover the loud noises. Keep windows shut - cats can easily bust through screens if they are scared enough. Draw the curtains to block out flashes of light. Use a calming pheromone diffuser such as feliway if you have one. And if they are up for it, play with them for distraction!
its cool to get on the computer but dont let the computer get on you
philosophy; Agamben, Magic, Happiness, Names
@roundtit yeah! what you were talking about was just so directly relevant i couldn't help but but reblog em! they're so cool thank you for finding those sections!!
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i hate fireworks i hate fireworks i hate fireworks i hate fireworks i hate fireworks i hate fireworks i hate fireworks i hate fireworks i hate fireworks i hate fireworks i hate fireworks i hate fireworks
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The rate limiting incident in Twitter isn't really what pushed me over to use Mastodon more and more. Currently there is a hashtag on Twitter related to the French riots that's calling on the expulsion of all Muslim, African, and Arab immigrants from the entirety of Europe. The trending hashtag (at #2) is filled with images encouraging mass killings and lynchings of Arabs. There is no come back from this.
@ch4r10t_tv wait oh my god i completely misread your first post im such a dumbass
philosophy; Agamben, Magic, Happiness, Names
"If this is so, if there is no other happiness than feeling capable of magic, then Kafka's enigmatic definition of magic becomes clear. He writes that if we call life by its right name, it comes forth, because "that is the essence of magic, which does not create but summons." This definition agrees with the ancient tradition scrupulously followed by kabbalists and necromancers, according to which magic is essentially a science of secret names.
Each thing, each being, has in addition to its manifest name another, hidden name to which it cannot fail to respond. To be a magus means to know and evoke these archi-names. Hence the interminable discussions of names (diabolical or
angelic) through which the necromancer ensures his mastery over spiritual powers. For him, the secret name is only the seal of his power of life and death over the creature that bears it.
But according to another, more luminous tradition, the secret name is not so much the cipher of the thing's subservience to the magus's speech as, rather, the monogram that sanctions its liberation from language. The secret name was the name by which the creature was called in Eden. When it is pronounced, every manifest name - the entire Babel of names - is shattered. That is why, according to this doctrine, magic is a call to happiness. The secret name is the gesture that restores the creature to the unexpressed. In the final instance, magic is not a knowledge of names but a gesture, a breaking free from the name. That is why a child is never more content than when he invents a secret language. His sadness comes less from ignorance of magic names than from his own inability to free himself from the name that has been imposed on him. No sooner does he succeed, no sooner docs he invent a new name, than he holds in his hands the laissez-passel' that grants him happiness. To have a name is to be guilty. And justice, like magic, is nameless. Happy, and without a name, the creature knocks at the gates of the land of the magi, who speak in gestures alone."
-Agamben, Profanations, "Magic and Happiness"
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