Eric O. Scott
@ericoscott.bsky.social
Raised by Witches. Mostly writes about Paganism. Union thug, technically a doctor, editor at The Wild Hunt: https://wildhunt.org
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Eric O. Scott
@ericoscott.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hey there, I’m Eric O. Scott. I grew up in a Wiccan coven and have been writing about contemporary Paganism for most of my adult life. I’m the weekend editor at @thewildhunt.bsky.social and my novella, The Lives of the Apostates, was published by Moon Books. I’m also a union organizer in Illinois.
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"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
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Eventually all seek the wisdom of the Khan abc7chicago.com/post/new-yor...
NYC mayor-elect Mamdani calls IL Gov. Pritzker for advice on issues, dealing with Trump: Sources
Mamdani and Pritzker discussed how to approach Trump, Pritzker's experience with the president's effort to send troops into Chicago and how to prepare should a similar incursion happen in New York Cit...
abc7chicago.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Eventually all seek the wisdom of the Khan abc7chicago.com/post/new-yor...
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I got through this knit so fast I didn't have time for progress pics:
Westside Woolie hat by Gudrun Johnston + the World's Simplest Mittens by tincanknits (with tweaks to accommodate the colorwork charts from the hat). Yarn is Cascade Pure Alpaca in Mahogany, Fall Foliage, and Monterey Bay.
Westside Woolie hat by Gudrun Johnston + the World's Simplest Mittens by tincanknits (with tweaks to accommodate the colorwork charts from the hat). Yarn is Cascade Pure Alpaca in Mahogany, Fall Foliage, and Monterey Bay.
November 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I got through this knit so fast I didn't have time for progress pics:
Westside Woolie hat by Gudrun Johnston + the World's Simplest Mittens by tincanknits (with tweaks to accommodate the colorwork charts from the hat). Yarn is Cascade Pure Alpaca in Mahogany, Fall Foliage, and Monterey Bay.
Westside Woolie hat by Gudrun Johnston + the World's Simplest Mittens by tincanknits (with tweaks to accommodate the colorwork charts from the hat). Yarn is Cascade Pure Alpaca in Mahogany, Fall Foliage, and Monterey Bay.
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Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
Read the new issue of THE POWER FANTASY over my lunch break, and let it never be said that @casparw.bsky.social and @kierongillen.bsky.social aren’t willing to take big swings.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Read the new issue of THE POWER FANTASY over my lunch break, and let it never be said that @casparw.bsky.social and @kierongillen.bsky.social aren’t willing to take big swings.
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You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
That Atlantic article about D&D, Tolkien, and racism is good, but it has a couple of errors about the history of D&D and its rules and I am doing my best not to jump up and WELL ACTUALLY about them.
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
That Atlantic article about D&D, Tolkien, and racism is good, but it has a couple of errors about the history of D&D and its rules and I am doing my best not to jump up and WELL ACTUALLY about them.
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While @sbworkersunited.org baristas are on strike, our job is simple: DON’T SHOP AT STARBUCKS!
Starbucks baristas are striking for a fair contract — and we’re standing with them. Show the billionaires that our solidarity is stronger than their greed. #NoContractNoCoffee
Starbucks baristas are striking for a fair contract — and we’re standing with them. Show the billionaires that our solidarity is stronger than their greed. #NoContractNoCoffee
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
While @sbworkersunited.org baristas are on strike, our job is simple: DON’T SHOP AT STARBUCKS!
Starbucks baristas are striking for a fair contract — and we’re standing with them. Show the billionaires that our solidarity is stronger than their greed. #NoContractNoCoffee
Starbucks baristas are striking for a fair contract — and we’re standing with them. Show the billionaires that our solidarity is stronger than their greed. #NoContractNoCoffee
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Pagan parenting problems.
My kid grabbed Thor off of the altar, brought him over to the dinner table, and attempted to bury him inside a big piece of crusty bread and dunk him into a bowl of stew.
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Pagan parenting problems.
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“Life-giver,” he said and leaned forward, kissing her breast and mouth.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
“Life-giver,” he said and leaned forward, kissing her breast and mouth.
My kid grabbed Thor off of the altar, brought him over to the dinner table, and attempted to bury him inside a big piece of crusty bread and dunk him into a bowl of stew.
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
My kid grabbed Thor off of the altar, brought him over to the dinner table, and attempted to bury him inside a big piece of crusty bread and dunk him into a bowl of stew.
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Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
I realize this is entirely beside the point, but: why do all of the monstrous rich fucks that run the world refuse to write complete sentences in their emails?
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I realize this is entirely beside the point, but: why do all of the monstrous rich fucks that run the world refuse to write complete sentences in their emails?
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1) I'm absolutely certain the number is far lower than he's claiming it is
2) Once again, I would like the Folkish to take a long, hard look at their political "allies" & to really ask themselves if they see any future linked with people who see them as firewood
3) We'll take the free PR I guess
2) Once again, I would like the Folkish to take a long, hard look at their political "allies" & to really ask themselves if they see any future linked with people who see them as firewood
3) We'll take the free PR I guess
Hegseth: "We don't need to be a military of beardos anymore. Do you know how many troops claim to be Nordic Pagan? No, suddenly it's become this real fake religious affiliation inside the Pentagon where troops came to be Nordic Pagan so they can grow a beard and nobody challenges them on it."
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
1) I'm absolutely certain the number is far lower than he's claiming it is
2) Once again, I would like the Folkish to take a long, hard look at their political "allies" & to really ask themselves if they see any future linked with people who see them as firewood
3) We'll take the free PR I guess
2) Once again, I would like the Folkish to take a long, hard look at their political "allies" & to really ask themselves if they see any future linked with people who see them as firewood
3) We'll take the free PR I guess
My religion is not fake, you jackass.
Hegseth: "We don't need to be a military of beardos anymore. Do you know how many troops claim to be Nordic Pagan? No, suddenly it's become this real fake religious affiliation inside the Pentagon where troops came to be Nordic Pagan so they can grow a beard and nobody challenges them on it."
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
My religion is not fake, you jackass.
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No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
“Standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She asks ‘What’s the point of standards?’
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
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Jupiter says trans rights
🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Jupiter says trans rights
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Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...
www.senate.illinois.edu
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...
post you from a different era
Me (white guy, right) as Feste the Clown in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, when I was 16, 2003. (The other person in the picture was playing Viola/Cesario.)
Me (white guy, right) as Feste the Clown in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, when I was 16, 2003. (The other person in the picture was playing Viola/Cesario.)
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
post you from a different era
Me (white guy, right) as Feste the Clown in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, when I was 16, 2003. (The other person in the picture was playing Viola/Cesario.)
Me (white guy, right) as Feste the Clown in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, when I was 16, 2003. (The other person in the picture was playing Viola/Cesario.)
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Come for the call-out of the NYT, stay for the drubbing of a whitepaper as an "unscholarly corporate-sponsored piece of risible chaff."
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Come for the call-out of the NYT, stay for the drubbing of a whitepaper as an "unscholarly corporate-sponsored piece of risible chaff."
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Pan was a pastoral god, but he was also a god of the hunt. He is sometimes depicted wielding the lagobolon, a club used to hunt hares and rabbits, as in this Roman bronze from the 1st century.
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Pan was a pastoral god, but he was also a god of the hunt. He is sometimes depicted wielding the lagobolon, a club used to hunt hares and rabbits, as in this Roman bronze from the 1st century.
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is there any clearer indication that Schumer was actually fine with the defections than the party whip breaking ranks
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
is there any clearer indication that Schumer was actually fine with the defections than the party whip breaking ranks
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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[whispers] it's legal to sign up with both Indivisible and DSA. you don't even have to decide who you're doing entryism on until later.
Alternatively if that's not your cup of tea and you're more center left or whatnot like go sign up with Indivisible or some local group or whatever
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
[whispers] it's legal to sign up with both Indivisible and DSA. you don't even have to decide who you're doing entryism on until later.