This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so

I'm pleased to announce that my short fantasy story, "Leaden Prayers" is live at Abyss & Apex.

www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/02/lead...

That moment trying to script a BlueSky Social feed for your Blogger site (to replace the Twitter feed that broke ages ago) when Qntal's version of "Ozymandias" queues up.

The ear and the eye are different audiences. I like the precision of intent the written word has, and find a better flow when I speak spells/ritual litany.

The narthex is in the west, which means the altar is in the east and that the congregation is facing the sunrise during pre-dawn masses. Dawn -> Rebirth -> Resurrection.

Actually had a Episcopal priest once comment that Pagan altars faced west because their religion lead to night and darkness.

Might save a life.

Blurry and overexposed photo of the moon, Aldebaran, and the Pleiades.

That moment when the mount threads in your real camera pull out, so you can’t use a tripod to take a photo of the moon near Aldebaran and the Pleiades, and you have to use your mobile instead.

Just read “The Matador and the Labyrinth” by C.C. Finlay, at Diabolical Plots www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1... Very cool imagery!

Wyden to skip Trump’s first speech to Congress, hold town hall instead Democratic Oregon U.S. Sen/ Ron Wyden has announced he will be skipping President Trump’s first first speech to Congress in his second term to hold an online town hall.

Hope to see you there

Seems like a pretty important detail

The Great Invocation For Our Age A Simple Way To Call for Justice and Liberation

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Meant to type "tattoos" and typed "tattoes" instead. Now I’m wondering if the words LOVE and HATE inked on one’s metatarsals counts as a tattoe.

North Dakota GOP advances resolution calling for end to nationwide marriage equality The measure, passed in the North Dakota House and pending in the Senate, doesn't have the force of law and merely advises the Supreme Court, but it shows what Republicans are thinking.

North Dakota legislators are advancing a resolution calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 ruling that established marriage equality nationwide.

When Odysseus has his men tie him to the ship's mast so he can hear the song of the Sirens.

If you didn't want fixes.... I hear you; it's really hard to not feel wretched during all of this damn "shock and awe."

Doing the guy thing and offering fixes: Doom-scrolling is not your friend; pick a news aggregator or source and look at it for X minutes (or maybe 3 rounds of Y minutes) in the morning. Stay away from news past 3 PM; you'll (probably) sleep better. Schedule Z minutes doing an action of resistance.

That New Moon Moment when it dawns on you that you’ve reached A Certain Age where one becomes a Crone—but A) you’re a gay man, B) the Maiden/Mother/Crone construct is from Graves (and Frazer), and C) the King/Warrior/Magician/Lover doesn’t map well, either.

?Do I have to be come a Bitter Queen ?

That moment when you and your husband are going shopping at a warehouse discount store and he says to “butch it up” to blend in, but during your banter on the way you realize that “bitch it up” more accurately describes your matching jean jackets and demeanor.

Blah! No fun. Wishing you a speedy return to health.

Video snippet courtesy of Belfast legend David Holmes on Instagram...

That moment when a sibling notices both your pierced ears, which leads to the 1980’s earring code, which leads to the question, “what’s a pink triangle mean?”, which launches a concentration-camps-silence-equals-death-whirlwind gay history lesson—and now I need to start wearing labyrs pendants.

Group of protestors in a street with a long banner saying 'March for science.'

You might be interested … Science.org’s Trump Tracker.

Science.org is maintaining a page of #news related to the ongoing #chaos in U.S. #science. It’s #TrumpTracker is updated daily, or more often:
https://buff.ly/3Qpbahs

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Direct air capture of CO2 for solar fuel production in flow - Nature Energy Photocatalytic conversion of CO2 typically uses concentrated feeds, hindering the direct conversion of ambient CO2 to value-added products. Kar et al. report a flow reactor that produces syngas (a mix...

Here's something cool : "Direct air capture of CO2 for solar fuel production in flow" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sorry... I must have been having a personal Mercury-retrograde moment. Hutton wrote "Triumph of the Moon;" Margot Adler wrote "Drawing Down the Moon."

The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory - Cynthia Eller. Wildly sarcastic; addresses some unspoken core feminist values embedded in American Wicca.

Madame Blavatsky's Baboon - Peter Washington. A sometimes comic review of the doings of Blavatsky, Besant, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, and Krishnamurti.

Some other book recommendations:

"Drawing Down the Moon," by Margot Adler. A 1980's overview of the Neo-Pagan movement in the United States

"The New Encyclopedia of the Occult," and "The Druidry Handbook," by John Micheal Greer. Both seem well-researched and down to earth.

In response to Trump’s assertion, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” we say:

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

While it's not queer-centered, I would recommend Ronald Hutton's "Triumph of the Moon" for the (mostly English) historical and social roots of Wicca. I find it useful for examining claims of tradition and pedigree.

Ronald Hutton's "Drawing Down the Moon." It doesn't speak to queerness directly, but it does trace the historical and social roots of Wicca, which I find useful for examining claims of pedigree.

Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.

More details on this shockingly sloppy episode.