Apethiui
@apethiui.bsky.social
Archaeologist, historian, esoteric enthusiast.
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I coedited a collection titled "Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice" with Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, and David M. Higgins. It's forthcoming from MIT Press, and you can preorder at a discount here.
Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice|Paperback
The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination and political practice.Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible ...
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December 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I coedited a collection titled "Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice" with Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, and David M. Higgins. It's forthcoming from MIT Press, and you can preorder at a discount here.
Set out a butter lamp for a real one.
December 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Set out a butter lamp for a real one.
I’ve been told by Very Serious Liberal Thinkers that it is a metaphysical impossibility to have a Democratic Party without Yglesism-Stancilism as its foundational ideology and that we must serve these philosophical titans hand and foot.
The perfect Yglesias post: declaring “billionaires are good, actually,” as if it was some bold, counterintuitive take.
December 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I’ve been told by Very Serious Liberal Thinkers that it is a metaphysical impossibility to have a Democratic Party without Yglesism-Stancilism as its foundational ideology and that we must serve these philosophical titans hand and foot.
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Watch my 30 second short contribution to Adult Swims Off the Air tomorrow. Its called “Asclepius”
December 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Watch my 30 second short contribution to Adult Swims Off the Air tomorrow. Its called “Asclepius”
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the solution to the "male loneliness epidemic" is homoerotic cannibalism
December 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
the solution to the "male loneliness epidemic" is homoerotic cannibalism
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Morning Bluesky.
December 28, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Morning Bluesky.
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infodumping a bunch of chiptune bullshit cos I like to yap about this one specific thing
December 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
infodumping a bunch of chiptune bullshit cos I like to yap about this one specific thing
Every time I see some liberal establishment huckster weep and rend their garments about some impropriety happening at the intellectual vanguard known as Harvard I remember Vermeule saying that Native genocide didn’t happen but would have been good if it did.
I wanna beat Adrian Vermule with a sock filled with moldy oranges
December 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Every time I see some liberal establishment huckster weep and rend their garments about some impropriety happening at the intellectual vanguard known as Harvard I remember Vermeule saying that Native genocide didn’t happen but would have been good if it did.
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Cat
December 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Cat
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What on earth does Hillary get out of pretending to be in a relationship with this man… girl break up with him
December 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
What on earth does Hillary get out of pretending to be in a relationship with this man… girl break up with him
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Finally, practicing absolute bodhicitta,
Realize that whatever arises is the display of dharmakaya,
The primordial nature, unbroken simplicity.
Without clinging, whatever arises is naturally freed.
In the great equal taste without rejecting or accepting,
Continue on.
~ Shechen Rabjam
Realize that whatever arises is the display of dharmakaya,
The primordial nature, unbroken simplicity.
Without clinging, whatever arises is naturally freed.
In the great equal taste without rejecting or accepting,
Continue on.
~ Shechen Rabjam
December 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Finally, practicing absolute bodhicitta,
Realize that whatever arises is the display of dharmakaya,
The primordial nature, unbroken simplicity.
Without clinging, whatever arises is naturally freed.
In the great equal taste without rejecting or accepting,
Continue on.
~ Shechen Rabjam
Realize that whatever arises is the display of dharmakaya,
The primordial nature, unbroken simplicity.
Without clinging, whatever arises is naturally freed.
In the great equal taste without rejecting or accepting,
Continue on.
~ Shechen Rabjam
Me: "Is the pope catholic?"
The sedevacantist I've been doing coke with for the last 90 minutes:
The sedevacantist I've been doing coke with for the last 90 minutes:
December 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Me: "Is the pope catholic?"
The sedevacantist I've been doing coke with for the last 90 minutes:
The sedevacantist I've been doing coke with for the last 90 minutes:
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If I were a billionaire I’d self terminate before I found myself Posting Through It on Christmas Eve about why socialized medicine is impossible on a niche microblogging app.
December 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
If I were a billionaire I’d self terminate before I found myself Posting Through It on Christmas Eve about why socialized medicine is impossible on a niche microblogging app.
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And to all a good night and enjoy the fish.
December 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
And to all a good night and enjoy the fish.
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Not only an “only the rich model“ but also “only the white people“ model
watching the state defunding of UCs and CSUs accompany the expanding diversification of their undergrad populations has been 👀
watching the state defunding of UCs and CSUs accompany the expanding diversification of their undergrad populations has been 👀
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
December 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Not only an “only the rich model“ but also “only the white people“ model
watching the state defunding of UCs and CSUs accompany the expanding diversification of their undergrad populations has been 👀
watching the state defunding of UCs and CSUs accompany the expanding diversification of their undergrad populations has been 👀
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I'm begging for scientologists to add an ounce of ADHD to their politics.
December 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I'm begging for scientologists to add an ounce of ADHD to their politics.
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For #Hillfortswednesday the enigmatic Eelde Waterburcht, showing many concentric ramparts. Transport in mediaval times along the low lying areas around the North Sea and Wadden islands was mainly over water, so its topographic position might be relevant.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For #Hillfortswednesday the enigmatic Eelde Waterburcht, showing many concentric ramparts. Transport in mediaval times along the low lying areas around the North Sea and Wadden islands was mainly over water, so its topographic position might be relevant.
www.academia.edu/attachments/...
www.academia.edu/attachments/...
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Rory Blank, at 2 shirts, makes up almost half my shirt wardrobe now
December 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Rory Blank, at 2 shirts, makes up almost half my shirt wardrobe now
🥺 Heartwarming: Schutzstaffel cadres wear festive holiday Santa hats while handing out candy between helping blackbag families extrajudicially and send them to industrial overseas torture camps.
December 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🥺 Heartwarming: Schutzstaffel cadres wear festive holiday Santa hats while handing out candy between helping blackbag families extrajudicially and send them to industrial overseas torture camps.