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Mary 🌙🌔
@profoundish.bsky.social
Christian magician, writer, grad student (theology/biblical studies); wrangling my psyche and thinking about stuff, writing some of it down. (She/they)
Hello everybody checking blue sky today because twitter was down for a while 👋
March 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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there is nothing that has happened that may not yet be turned to good
February 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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as always the best initial move is a consultation with your deities about what would be the most effective, given our goals. “Show me the route that will liberate people in my lifetime.”
February 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 19
A Man's Battle
Introjection
February 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Botany valentine. Another from years past. New one on Monday!
February 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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I believe u mean
February 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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"this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become.” -james baldwin's letter on american racism to his teen nephew.
February 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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i personally the literal translation as a methodology, because it forces me as a translator to see what i am doing at every point, ask why i am doing it this way, to confront where i am interpreting instead of moving mechanically, to make me subordinate myself to the text. i am not the author.
February 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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it's true that "literal translations" are difficult to read. this isn't a negative. it's an entirely neutral fact of how we engage with a text. it's simply a requirement for a different way of reading, and one that opens up new aesthetic and empathetic possibilities for the reader.
February 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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January 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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being a christian and a magician isn't that hard

it's easy to reconcile biblical text with a magical practice

you'd think reconciling biblical text with OTHER people's practices would be trickier (idolaters and whatnot)

but nah the answer is compassion

usually is
January 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Is anybody else's touch-response on the mobile app just completely borked? Logged on today, I can't get it to scroll at all sometimes, or it goes left/right when I'm really clearly going up/down, it just feels Wrong
January 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
God to the bricklayers at Babel:
else.social Else @else.social · Jan 20
Your blood was meant for an altar, not filthy asphalt.
January 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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We really shouldn't let the distastefulness of AI business models negatively polarise us into forgetting that stealing from academic publishers via libgen is a moral good.
January 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Idk I guess my tepid take is “if modernity renders your curriculum pointless and dull, change the curriculum” don’t handwring about how children won’t submit to boring tasks they could avoid.
We give kids easy versions of work because they lack the cognitive capacity to manage large amounts of info
January 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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here come old laptop
he come
bootin up slowly
he got
broken touchpad
he need
one more update
he got
no space
on this pc

one thing i can tell you
its got no warranty
December 28, 2024 at 2:24 AM
The upward spiral is a lot slower than I'd like, but it sure as shit seems to be working.
November 29, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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The only way to maintain any kind of sanity as a public figure is to actively avoid places where you and your work are being discussed. Human beings were not made for the volume of feedback the internet is capable of providing.
if anyone ever makes fun of me in a discord chat, please do not show it to me, I prefer to live in my bimbo bliss and I think it’s okay for people to not like me because I am annoying
June 21, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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I just wrote 80% of a blog post. Might write the remaining 20% at some point in the next few years.
June 15, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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June 13, 2024 at 9:53 PM