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Sepaníos | Solitary Gaulish Polytheist | Post-Modern Neo-Paganism | He/him

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Thanks, I hate it.

#heathensky #pagansky
Video of Kash Patel on X captioned, "BREAKING: Kash Patel to Charlie Kirk: 'Rest now brother, we have the watch, and I'll see you in Valhalla.'" dane @buckadeath quote posted, "A Hindu Gujarati Indian guy using Scandinavian pagan heaven to honor a Midwestern Protestant Christian".
September 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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This is Bluesky's trending topics right now. And some say "the echo chamber" would be solved by adding *more* politicos (just the reactionary kind this time)
Screenshot of Bluesky trending topics: 1. Bari Weiss politics 2. Ted Cruz politics 3. Harvard politics 4. Epstein politics 5. Eric Adams politics
September 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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More for consideration:
Chicken tikka masala row grows as Indian chefs reprimand Scottish MPs over culinary origins India's top chefs have warned Scottish MPs to keep their hands off the rights to chicken tikka masala. By Dean Nelson and Jalees Andrabi in New Delhi 04 August 2009 • 6:40pm The MPs, led by Mohammed Sarwar, claim the dish was invented in Glasgow in the early 1970s and now want official European Union recognition through a "Protected Designation of Origin". It would put Glasgow's chicken tikka masala on a par with Parma's Parmesan cheese or French 'Champagne'. But his claim has been dismissed as "preposterous" by Delhi's leading food historians, although its exact origin remains unclear. Zaeemuddin Ahmad, a chef at Delhi's Karim Hotel, which was established by the last chef of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, said the recipe had been passed down through the generations in his family. "Chicken tikka masala is an authentic Mughlai recipe prepared by our forefathers who were royal chefs in the Mughal period. Mughals were avid trekkers and used to spend months altogether in jungles and far off places. They liked roasted form of chickens with spices," he said.
September 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Why did I feel like the Bluesky discourse was not really giving all points of view on this matter
Screenshot of Reddit post from r/ABCDesis - 5 years ago 476 upvotes British people claiming curry VENT Anybody else get really annoyed with non-Desi British people saying curry is a British dish? We all know that curry to them is just a generalization of all Desi food. Everytime there’s Desi food on like Reddit or other social media places, I always see white people saying “It’s not Indian, it’s British”. Especially with things like chicken tikka masala and butter chicken. It doesn’t matter where it was invented. It was desi people that made that shit. Like you can’t colonize people for 200 years and then try to take credit for their food. Reddit replies: British Bangladeshi Don't think white Brits claim curry. All Brits know the root of the nations favourite meal 47 upvotes The funniest part is that if Americans were to claim tacos or chow mein or something, British """people""" on the internet would probably never shut up about how Americans were stupid and ignorant for claiming those dishes as their own The arrogance of the British is simply astounding 222 upvotes "Anybody else get really annoyed with non-Desi British people saying curry is a British dish?" In the decades I've lived here, I have never once heard that. If you mean 'favourite dish' then maybe. I wouldn't call the curries you get at pubs anything close to the dishes we make at home though because that's an insult. 50 upvotes Same like I've never heard anyone claim curry is British lmao. Only heard chicken tikka masala was made by a Bangladeshi chef in UK. 24 upvotes Lol the Germans do this with donner. the french think pho comes from pot au feu, which is essentially boiled meant and veg, don’t think the french were the first to boil meat in a pot of water that’s like one of the most basic cooking methods. Anyway I hate it when they say chicken tikka masala is British, like legit none of the ingredients were used in British cooking when the dish came to the UK in the 60s and all the cooking techniques are desi. Secondly the reason why most people in India might not eat chicken tikka masala is because India has like 30 different ethnic cuisines which are then further divided into regional cuisines. The dish is a punjabi/Delhi dish and most people in India don’t eat it cause it’s not a dish from their ethnic cuisine, only like 5% of the pop would class it as part of their cuisine. The other thing most British Indians who might not eat it are Gujarat so it’s not traditional Gujarati food. Now British Pakistani do eat it as 70-80% of the population is punjabi/Kashmiri and its a staple on most British Pakistani houses. The main difference is the name though, we just call it chicken masala. Though just like in India it’s only eat mostly by Punjabis in Pakistan as food is also very regional. 32 upvotes
September 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
donnodubus.bsky.social
“Mars be with us, and let loose from its helmet your shining hair.”

Mars, ades, et nitidas casside solve comas.

— Ovid, Fasti liber III
An old black and white photo of the Ares Borghese in the Louvre. It shows a Greek marble statue that almost glows white out of the darkness of the room it stands in. The statue is a muscular, nude young man standing in contrapposto, looking downwards. He wears a helmet with his left hand upheld as if it once held a spear.
August 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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And yet he and Mary Austin chose to be just friends for the rest of their lives, while he went on to have relationships with several men, and considered Jim Hutton to be his "husband."

Many of his friends referred to him as "gay," and the same obituary you're referring to says this:
Freddie, the outrageous showman, had three real loves in his life - sex, music and ONE special woman. The sex was mostly one-night stands with a string of gay men all over the globe.
July 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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In case you were wondering whether these old, white liberals were only pretending to support black women in office as a way to cynically punch Left:
Old tweets from the same guy that say: AIPAC was not in the voting booth. Cori Bush lost on her own bad record and her own bad behavior towards the party and constituents. Do, you continue to be as anti-semitic as her. Sanders is an independent and NOT "always." He becomes Dem just to hypocritically use their infrastructure to mount campaigns. The rest are ACTUAL tests screenshot from the source, and us actual Dems want these anti-semitic, do nothing chaos agents OUT of our party. See: Bowman and Cori Bush.
July 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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James Franco at the gallows with a noose around his neck smiling down at the person next to him saying, "First time?"
June 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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And we'll fuckin' do it again
Goofy "and I'll fuckin' do it again" meme
June 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
donnodubus.bsky.social
So there is still beauty in the world...
A clear water creek winding through the woods. Dappled sunlight filters through the spring-green leaves of the maple trees. Closeup of a bright blue robin's egg on the ground, with a hole punched through the middle where the chick hatched.
May 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
donnodubus.bsky.social
Meanwhile, now the other side is trying to claim MAGA is "Pagan"...

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
If there is one word to define Trump’s atmosphere, it is “pagan.” The pagan values of ancient Rome celebrated power, manliness, conquest, ego, fame, competitiveness and prowess, and it is those values that have always been at the core of Trump’s being — from his real estate grandiosity to his love of pro wrestling to his king-of-the-jungle version of American greatness. The pagan ethos has always appealed to grandiose male narcissists because it gives them permission to grab whatever they want. This ethos encourages egotists to puff themselves up and boast in a way they find urgently satisfying; self-love is the only form of love they know.
May 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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At least the old smoke-filled rooms were classy. Silicon Valley nerds have no juice. They can't get anything right...
Scene of the Syndicate from X-Files. Shadowy men in suits stand around a posh study, silhouetted against a dramatically lit window with smoke hanging in the air.
April 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Which is horrifying, considering:
Tom Holland travels to Thetford, the ancient capital of East Anglia, to hear evidence that the Iceni were speaking a form of English in the years before the Romans arrived.
April 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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It's so on brand that Americans are already frothing at the mouth to invade other countries FOR WHAT WE DID
Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social I'm not kidding that any Dem who wants to run in 2028 should get out ahead of this and loudly say if El Salvador puts American citizens in Trump's gulag we'll fucking invade.
April 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
donnodubus.bsky.social
Dear God they want this so they can use humans as lab rats for that PayPal guy who's obsessed with looking younger. Silicon Valley Lady Bathory.
One company that stands to benefit from the rise of freedom cities is Minicircle, a longevity biotech company focused on developing gene therapies to extend human lifespans. The company’s seed funding came from Thiel and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and it currently has offices in both Austin, Texas, and Próspera. Minicircle cofounder Mac Davis is also working with the Frontier Foundation.
March 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
donnodubus.bsky.social
Oh yeah, let's totally do this here
However, many Honduran citizens opposed Próspera, arguing that it has increased poverty and worsened biodiversity in the area. The Honduran Congress passed a law in 2022 repealing the allowance of SEZs, and Próspera sued the Honduran government shortly after. The lawsuit is ongoing.
March 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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I was surprised to see Brezhnev demonized on here since he's the only Soviet leader I've heard normal Russians speak fondly of.

So I looked him up on Wikipedia, which goes on and on about how his economy was super bad and in decline, until I found this nugget:
When the USSR's economic growth stalled in the 1970s, the standard of living and housing quality improved significantly. Instead of paying more attention to the economy, the Soviet leadership under Brezhnev tried to improve the living standard in the Soviet Union by extending social benefits.
March 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Jesus Christ
March 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
donnodubus.bsky.social
As a note, Lucian did *not* equate Ogmios with Hermes. His whole point was to explain the Gaulish peculiarity of depicting Ogmios as an elderly Heracles, Whom they attributed eloquence to instead.

Dürer's illustration is at odds with both its source text and other artists' representations of it:
I had stood for a long time, looking, wondering, puzzling and fuming, when a Celt at my elbow, not uncultured from our standpoint, as he showed by his accurate use of Greek, and no doubt a scholar from the native standpoint, said: “I will read you the riddle of the picture, stranger, as you seem to be very much disturbed about it. We Celts do not agree with you Greeks in thinking that Hermes is Eloquence: we identify Heracles with it, because he is far more powerful than Hermes. And don’t be surprised that he is represented as an old man, for eloquence and eloquence alone is wont to show its full vigour in old age, if your poets are. right in saying ‘A young man hath a wandering wit and ‘Old age has wiser words to say than youth.’ That is why your Nestor’s tongue distils honey,’ and why the Trojan counsellors have a voice like flowers (the flowers mentioned are lilies, if my memory serves). This being so, if old Heracles here drags men after him who are tethered by the ears to his tongue, don’t be surprised at that, either: you know the kinship between ears and tongue. Nor is it a slight upon him that his tongue is pierced. Indeed,” said he, “I call to mind a line or two of comedy which I learned in your country : the talkative have, one and all, their tongues pierced at the tip. In general, we consider that the real Heracles was a wise man who achieved everything by eloquence and applied persuasion as his principal force. His arrows represent words, I suppose, keen, sure and swift, which make their wounds in souls. In fact, you yourselves admit that words are winged.”
March 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Every once in a while you stumble on some oddly specific category of Wikimedia you didn't know you needed:

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...
A dramatic woodcut of a skull and bones, with long hair and a crown that says "Hispania," pierced by a dagger that says "reaccio". Crows swoop down from the dark sky while a barren tree stands crooked and scraggled in the background.
March 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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I know it's supposed to be #MosaicMonday and not #FrescoFriday, but I am in search of assistance from people in-the-know:

Does anyone recognize this Pompeiian fresco of Mercury (Hermes-Thoth?) or know where I can find out more about it? My digging has turned up nothing:
A damaged off-white wall with a fresco of Mercury. Details such as His face are gone. He is tan and nude, standing contrapposto, holding His money bag, caduceus, and chlamys. White wings sprout out of His air and ankles, and there is perhaps a tortoise at His feet. He may be representing Hermes-Thoth, as there is a spike rising from the center of His head, and His caduceus is unusually ornate and curly. His chlamys appears purple with a blue trim, and His money bag is white with some thin purple stripes. The bag has three large, tied knots at the bottom and one at the top (as if it is formed by two square pieces of cloth tied at the corners).
February 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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That's false. The caption does not reference homosexuality.

This was not a homosexual gesture. It was a political one that represented the political relationship which brought about the wall's existence:
Black and white photo of Brezhnev and Honecker doing the socialist fraternal kiss.
February 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Moleman meme: I was blaming them for causing this crisis
February 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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I believe I have found his Montfaucon source, which is what speaks to the Montmorillon "temple." It is in a chapter titled "Temples des Gaulois," in the supplement to L'Antiquité expliquée (1719-1724):
Drawing of the so-call Montmorillon temple, in profil and cross-section. It appears to be an octagonal chapel with a vaulted ceiling.
January 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I did some searching and found an instance that's much older, from 1852. It refers to octagonal structures in France, so seems like it may have already had its current meaning even back then:
The curious figures were, I believe, first remarked and commented upon by Montfaucon in his description of the remarkable octangular buildings at Montmorillon, which he has learnedly and plausibly argued to have been an ancient Romano-Celtic temple. From Bell, William. (1852). "Shakespeare's Puck, and His Folkslore: Illustrated from the Superstitions of All Nations, But More Especially from the Earliest Religion and Rites of Northern Europe and the Wends." United Kingdom.
January 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM