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Kris Dreemurr of the Pnictogen Wing (at Large) Profile picture
@KrisAtLarge
Jan 24, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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all the Fate/ sturm und drang means it's time for some Unlimited Man Pain—I mean, #UnlimitedBladeWorks.

kick his butt, Arturia!

~Chara Image
this isn't #HeavensFeel so Matou Shinji, unfortunately, survives this one ~Chara Image
we love you Medea! we stan a queen!! Image
no, Medea...Shirou *really* isn't that clever...

...in some alternate Universe, Shirou expires right here, and then the rest of #UBW is compelled to become something far more inventive than what we actually get ~Chara ImageImage
YES

YES, Shirou! Rin and Arturia work better together!! (in UBW anyway)

~Chara Image
you know...

...WE want to learn magic. the Pnictogen Wing does. Kris, our host, has a long standing interest. but there's always been a feeling of necessity about it. like, it's either that or be crushed under the wheels of a hostile Universe

and we don't even know if it's real ImageImage

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Kris Dreemurr of the Pnictogen Wing (at Large) Profile picture
Mar 8, 2023
I owe @KaylinEvergreen and Dionysos, one of my absolute _favorite_ Hellenic deities, a bit of attention. so here it is!

Dionysos, or "Bacchus" as he's been called in Greece and Rome, is an unusual addition to the Hellenic pantheon—a late addition, thought to be imported.

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his own mythology seems to reflect the likelihood that the worship of Dionysos came in from the East: the general story is that he was born in Thrace, had a long period of wandering abroad, then returned to Greece—triumphantly drunk off his arse.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus

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for Dionysos was a god of drunken revels and *ecstasy*.

that's how I first learned about him from Euripedes's stark play "The Bacchae", which describes how the king of Thebes, Pentheus, falls foul of Dionysos by attempting to forbid his worship.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bacch…

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Mar 8, 2023
there's a *lie* that #CSLewis told about himself in public, frequently. there were a lot of lies that he told about himself in public—not _malicious_ lies, but still lies.

this is something that Western society has trouble with: grasping that lies need not be malicious.

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if you say something factually incorrect, you're a *liar*, even if you believe the lies to be truths. @MattWalshBlog or @realchrisrufo BELIEVE their propaganda lies about trans people, and they double and treble and quadruple down on believing them, when challenged, but...

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...that's exactly why they're fanatics, and why their lies ought not to be taken at face value: @MattWalshBlog &c. aren't able to withstand criticism of their propaganda. if they're called out for telling lies, they tell more of them, and more loudly. this is *fanaticism*.

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Mar 8, 2023
the Pnictogen Wing has a hypothesis about @elonmusk's decision to ruin the public @Twitter API—it's not a hypothesis we've too much confidence in, but still we offer it: we think ONE of the purposes of doing this was to make Musk's own Twitter activities harder to analyze.

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yes, there's lots of other reasons that the @elonmusk / @mtaibbi / @GOP #Twitter fash gang would have for destroying the ability of outsiders to write Twitter applications. the fash crowd themselves make heavy use of bots, sock-puppet accounts, and other Twitter trickery.

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and of course there's also the fact that @elonmusk's been destroying @Twitter's ability to make money, long-term. he's in "vulture capitalist" mode—squeezing as much short-term money as he can from his own cultish #Twitter fandom before he finally auctions off the corpse.

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Mar 8, 2023
there's a very vague idea for a thread I've been chasing around my head all day. let me see if I can tease it out. I'll tell you the starting point: the writing of Mr. William Gibson (@GreatDismal) and his oft-quoted sentiment that the very rich aren't remotely human.

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that quote still *bothers* me. I've admitted this before (to Mr. @GreatDismal, even)—I have an immense inward aversion to thinking about anyone like that. even Elon Musk, grotesque as he is...I've tried over and over to find some trace of healthful human emotions in him.

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it's taken me a long time to come to grips with what separates someone like @elonmusk (and this maybe goes for his fanclub too—@mtaibbi, @bariweiss, @ShellenbergerMD, whoever) from someone like me. and it's not the *money* and *privilege* and *success* I'm thinking about.

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Mar 8, 2023
one thing that right-wing people (like @NateSilver538) don't quite get about being "right wing": whatever these people *call* themselves, however they choose to label themselves, in reality they're as *right wing* as their most extreme right-wing beliefs, firmly held.

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@NateSilver538 endorses the racist conspiracy approach to the #COVID19 crisis, i.e. "permit millions to die while blaming it all on China", and that's a *far right wing* belief. it doesn't matter what ELSE Nate Silver thinks he believes—it's not likely he even quite knows.

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(sadly, one can't assume that someone like @NateSilver538 is ever in possession of very much self-awareness. he lies to everyone, *especially* himself.)

even if Nate Silver has some vaguely liberal or leftist ideas, they're bound to wither and disappear over time.

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Mar 8, 2023
#purity.

purity is the obsession of bigots, who define themselves as perfect and hence demand perfection in others.

one sees that arrogance constantly in the behavior of bigots like @NateSilver538 and @Cernovich. they act like nothing matters more than their approval.

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Christians habitually have been obsessed with purity and perfection, which they only ever find in things they can't really see. there's a kind of diffuse Gnostic fallacy that pervades Christianity—a belief that there's something intrinsically sinful about *matter itself*.

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I value many of the insights of Gnostic Christians but I don't agree with that one—I can't make myself think of the physics and chemistry of the Cosmos as somehow *broken*. if the Gnostics are right, and the work of the Demiurge is flawed...I don't blame the *materials*.

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