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Gamma Donna
@gammamadonna.bsky.social
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Earthling, human, live-in Gamma of 3, retired music educator, domestic violence counselor, and tiny shard of the Cosmos. ✨

“We are here to help each other get through this thing…whatever it is.”
• Kurt Vonnegut

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How about a pocket full of posies? 🌸🦠🌸🦠🌸
Plague doctor monster with bird perched on its finger, an artist’s paint brush held in its mouth. Art by Christopher Lovell
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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My ex was Cleveland born & raised. He called it Clevesburg — “the mistake on the lake”.

There’s a beer too: Burning River Beer. I had one or two 20 years ago.
A can of Burning River Beer
November 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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“The list of suspected abusers around Epstein was not segregated by the left or the right … The common denominator was not politics or ideology, but that they were powerful and wealthy men.”

• Chris Hedges
American Satyricon
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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🖤
November 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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“The list of suspected abusers around Epstein was not segregated by the left or the right … The common denominator was not politics or ideology, but that they were powerful and wealthy men.”

• Chris Hedges
American Satyricon
“The list of suspected abusers around Epstein was not segregated by the left or the right. It included Republicans, like Trump, and Democrats such as Clinton. It included philanthropists such as Gates, the former prime minister of Israel, and Harvard academics. It included celebrities, such as David Copperfield, and the titans of finance and business. The common denominator was not politics or ideology, but that they were powerful and wealthy men.” • Chris Hedges American Satyricon https://consortiumnews.com/2021/12/07/chris-hedges-american-satyricon/
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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There is no statute of limitations on how long trauma from childhood (incl teens) can influence the decisions of an adult, although it’s very common for many people to think that none of that matters.
“For millennia it has been permissible and customary for children to be used to satisfy a wide variety of adult needs. They have provided a cheap source of labor, an ideal outlet for the discharge of stored-up affect, a receptacle for unwanted feelings, an object for the projection of conflicts and fear, compensation for feelings of inferiority, and an opportunity for exercising power and obtaining pleasure. Among all the different ways of misusing a child, sexual abuse is of particular significance, stemming as it does from the major role sexuality plays in our body and from the hypocrisy still surrounding it in our society.” • Alice Miller
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Psychopathic predators rise to the top of coercive hierarchies like helium balloons rise to the ceilings of rooms.

The phenomenon of psychopathy affects the lives of everyone on the planet.

Sadly, I think it’s too late for collective humankind to learn this & change how “leaders” are chosen.
November 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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“The list of suspected abusers around Epstein was not segregated by the left or the right … The common denominator was not politics or ideology, but that they were powerful and wealthy men.”

• Chris Hedges
American Satyricon
“The list of suspected abusers around Epstein was not segregated by the left or the right. It included Republicans, like Trump, and Democrats such as Clinton. It included philanthropists such as Gates, the former prime minister of Israel, and Harvard academics. It included celebrities, such as David Copperfield, and the titans of finance and business. The common denominator was not politics or ideology, but that they were powerful and wealthy men.” • Chris Hedges American Satyricon https://consortiumnews.com/2021/12/07/chris-hedges-american-satyricon/
November 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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“The list of suspected abusers around Epstein was not segregated by the left or the right … The common denominator was not politics or ideology, but that they were powerful and wealthy men.”

• Chris Hedges
American Satyricon
“A licentious, money-drenched, morally bankrupt and intellectually vacuous ruling class, accountable to no one and free to plunder and prey on the weak like human vultures, rises to power in societies in terminal decline. This class of parasites was savagely parodied in the first-century satirical novel “Satyricon” by Gaius Petronius, written during the reign of Nero.” • Chris Hedges American Satyricon “The list of suspected abusers around Epstein was not segregated by the left or the right. It included Republicans, like Trump, and Democrats such as Clinton. It included philanthropists such as Gates, the former prime minister of Israel, and Harvard academics. It included celebrities, such as David Copperfield, and the titans of finance and business. The common denominator was not politics or ideology, but that they were powerful and wealthy men.” • Chris Hedges American Satyricon https://consortiumnews.com/2021/12/07/chris-hedges-american-satyricon/
November 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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The Name-Caller-in-Chief has been doing so since before he was in the WH. Adult humans of the dominant society adore name-calling. Social media thrives on the ability to do it with impunity—perpetual recess on the school playground.

Why not? It’s easier to lean into name-calling than to think.😕
“… in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.” • Kurt Vonnegut
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Ooh. The ginormous faucet makes a encore appearance in his rotting persevering mind.
The Predator-in-Chief’s ginormous faucet that he commanded be turned back on.
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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“Smart people don’t like me.”
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Sometimes an arrested development phallic phase is just a phallic fixation.
Iconic 1921 photo of bearded Sigmund Freud, hand on hip, watch fob draped from button to vest pocket, lit cigar in his right hand,
November 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Such a shocker in a predatory regime, eh?
“Pathological leaders always attract other people with personality disorders, who seize the opportunity to gain influence. At the same time, remaining individuals who are moral, empathic and fair-minded gradually fall away.” • Andrzej Łobaczewski, 2006 Political *Ponerology: (*a science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes)
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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“I am in rapid wide-angle receptivity mode, — all senses on. I am watching the scaffolding of the last century of exploitation pixilate and melt. I am sad, mad, lost, sorry, and grateful. Ready to scream louder, touch softer, think harder, run faster, watch more carefully.”
• Nora Bateson
A favorite of mine from Sandra Boynton… two gnus in a red & white Classic looking convertible automobile with wide white sidewall tires… tire skid marks underneath the tires indicates braking. Text reads: Braking Gnus
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
The Bookends album – Simon & Garfunkel, 1968 Etched upon my DNA Bookends is a concept album that explores a life journey from childhood to old age. Side one of the album marks successive stages in life, the theme serving as bookends to the life cycle. Side two largely consists of previously released singles and of unused material for The Graduate soundtrack.
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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#SpeciesMadness
I’m not, none of us are, neurologically and psychologically built to withstand the daily “news” barrages about the march of predators devouring and destroying in order to remake the world for themselves. Immersion in it is crazy-making.
#Surrealism
Contemporary Surrealism by Shiori Matsumoto - a wrecked carousel, pieces of carousel horses strewn all about, a young girl stands amidst the wreckage wearing a white dress, holding a birdcage with a dead canary on the floor of the cage. “Very few people seem to have noticed that we are a species gone mad –it’s not part of our planetary dialogue– which itself is an expression of the extent of the collective insanity we have fallen into. Our madness has become normalized, as it is so pervasive we have become habituated to it.” * Paul Levy
November 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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A normal #Sunday_morning at our house includes basic instruction on #circular_breathing & a #Didgeridoo #Doodle duet.

🐾🔊🐾

❝Don’t worry about saving these songs! And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn’t matter. We have now fallen into the place where everything is
#music .❞

• #Rumi
November 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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I’m reminded about the near canonization of Liz (Neocon princess daughter of Darth) Cheney during the Jan. 6 committee hearings. My “No, People, NOOO!” could heard for blocks.
“In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.” • Robert G. Ingersoll
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Who are considered to be among 2025’s demimonde? You’ve piqued my curiosity.🧐

I love this Dumas:
“Though they have the same origin, the same appearance and the same prejudices as women of society, they do not belong in it: they constitute the demimonde or “half-world”, a veritable floating island on the ocean of Paris, which calls to itself, welcomes, accepts, everything that falls from the mainland — not to mention those who have been shipwrecked or who come from God knows where.” Alexandre Dumas, “Le Demi Monde”, 1855
November 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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#SoCalRains #Phö #Beatles

Rainy Saturday night family dinner tradition: Phö🍜😋

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Frog holding leaf umbrella with Beatles’ lyrics: “Rain…I don’t mind. Shine… the weather’s fine.”
November 16, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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#SoCalRains #Rain #Neruda #LangstonHughes
💧☔️🌧️💙

“In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?”
• Pablo Neruda
A young girl smile while looking through a rain-streaked window with a poem by Langston Hughes: “Let the rain kiss you Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops Let the rain sing you a lullaby The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk The rain makes running pools in the gutter The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.”
November 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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“A licentious, money-drenched, morally bankrupt and intellectually vacuous ruling class, accountable to no one and free to plunder and prey on the weak like human vultures, rises to power in societies in terminal decline …”

• Chris Hedges
American Satyricon
consortiumnews.com/2021/12/07/c...
“The list of suspected abusers around Epstein was not segregated by the left or the right. It included Republicans, like Trump, and Democrats such as Clinton. It included philanthropists such as Gates, the former prime minister of Israel, and Harvard academics. It included celebrities, such as David Copperfield, and the titans of finance and business. The common denominator was not politics or ideology, but that they were powerful and wealthy men.” • Chris Hedges American Satyricon https://consortiumnews.com/2021/12/07/chris-hedges-american-satyricon/
November 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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“The list of suspected abusers around Epstein was not segregated by the left or the right. … The common denominator was not politics or ideology, but that they were powerful and wealthy men.”

• Chris Hedges
American Satyricon
“The list of suspected abusers around Epstein was not segregated by the left or the right. It included Republicans, like Trump, and Democrats such as Clinton. It included philanthropists such as Gates, the former prime minister of Israel, and Harvard academics. It included celebrities, such as David Copperfield, and the titans of finance and business. The common denominator was not politics or ideology, but that they were powerful and wealthy men.” • Chris Hedges American Satyricon https://consortiumnews.com/2021/12/07/chris-hedges-american-satyricon/ “A licentious, money-drenched, morally bankrupt and intellectually vacuous ruling class, accountable to no one and free to plunder and prey on the weak like human vultures, rises to power in societies in terminal decline. This class of parasites was savagely parodied in the first-century satirical novel “Satyricon” by Gaius Petronius, written during the reign of Nero.” • Chris Hedges American Satyricon
November 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Simon’s been living under a rock. Is it time?🙄

It was time for the predator to go immediately following the Access Hollywood grab-em video, the on-stage mocking of a disabled journalist, and the menacing stalking of HRC on the debate stage — all of it BEFORE the November 2016 election.
The Extraction of the Stone of Madness or The Cure of Folly, an oil-on-panel painting, c.1494 by Hieronymus Bosch “If we understand a little bit of what we’re doing, maybe it will help us to find our way out of the maze of hallucinations that we have created around ourselves.” • Gregory Bateson
November 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM