#Boston Invocation

[queersatanic]

Are we lawyers? No, we are not lawyers

But going to throw it out there that Matt Kezhaya talking to judges like this on behalf of himself and The Satanic Temple may better explain his repeated sanctions and admonitions than any judicial bias.

What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Maybe try less sauce, Matt?

District Judges Wright and Kelley are biased.

Just beyond parody.

Here are the two people who sanctioned Matt Kezhaya for misbehavior while representing The Satanic Temple

For Belle Plaine, it was Judge Wilhelmina Wright, an Obama appointee:

Judge Angel Kelley who sanctioned Matt Kezhaya in the Boston Invocation case?

She's a Biden appointee:

As we have said before, if you are saying that liberal judges appointed by the most recent Democratic administrations are so reactionary and biased they can't give you a fair shake in court, why are you assuring your supporters that they should give you money and promising them you are especially well-positioned to win?

So much more can be said for the gross miscarriage of justice in Belle Plaine.

Poor thing.

So unfortunate that The Satanic Temple can't find a court anywhere that doesn't come to the conclusion they are obnoxious, incompetent trolls.

Although it might help if TST's lawyers knew the law in the states they were practicing, met their filing deadlines, and didn't try to re-litigate losing motions of an ongoing case by filing an entirely new one.

Kezhaya is correct to point out that he is currently appealing this ruling, but the details of his behavior in Belle Plaine are not ideal.

So too in Boston.

"Biased! Biased! You're all biased!"

Indeed, the Biden judge is too corrupt to give Matt Kezhaya and The Satanic Temple a fair opportunity in Boston, apparently.

(In reality, the judge in the Boston Invocation case has been extraordinarily patient with the antics of The Satanic Temple and Matt Kezhaya so far, especially given what they have admitted on the record so far.)

From the second of three links above:

Plaintiff essentially seeks immediate appeal of an order that never issued. TST, through counsel, grossly misunderstands the Court’s recent order granting Defendant’s motion for protective order [Dkt. 47]. In doing so, and by this most recent motion for certificate of appealability, Plaintiff critically misstates both the ruling and effect of the Court’s granting of the protective order with regard to the deposition of Mayor Michelle Wu. In its April 6, 2022 Memorandum and Order [Dkt. 47], the Court issued a detailed discussion of Plaintiff’s “impermissible antics and abusive tactics” [id. at 15] with regard to its “admitted intent to depose Mayor Wu solely for political and publicity-related reasons” [id. at 12; see also Dkt. 38].1 The Court found that Plaintiff had not only violated its obligations under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure regarding discovery, but also that the violations were so egregious that the Court was compelled to impose sanctions in the form of attorneys’ fees, pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26 and 45, for the Defendant’s time spent on the litigation surrounding Mayor Wu’s deposition noticed for Election Day. [Dkt. 47 at 12]. In Plaintiff’s currently pending motion for certificate of appealability [Dkt. 50], it significantly misunderstands and misstates the Court’s recent ruling [Dkt. 47] on Defendant’s motion for protective order regarding the deposition of Mayor Wu [Dkt. 33]. Whether such misstatements arise from simple incompetence or a more pernicious desire to misstate the record is something the Court cannot know at this time.

Yikes.

The Satanic Temple is an abusive, incompetent religious organization

We have made a lot of detailed criticism about The Satanic Temple while providing copious sourcing so no one needs to have faith in us or our characterizations of this abusive, incompetent religious organization.

There is no real disputing what is verifiable or defending what is indefensible.

And yet: Many still seem to think that "at least The Satanic Temple is doing something" in the fight for abortion access and justify their donations and other support accordingly.

Well, let's look at what the Temple is doing in Texas with the federal abortion-access case TST has been pursuing since February 2021.

First some idea of scale.

With the help of overly credulous traditional media seeking clicks and the exploitation of desperate, vulnerable people looking for a reason to hope, TST raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations between the announcement of the Texas "'bounty bill" going into effect in September 2021 and the end of Roe v. Wade in June 2022.

But it's hard to track exactly how much TST is bringing in beyond what they announce themselves, whether programs like "Amazon Smile" are included or in-addition-to, and then of course all of the for-profit corporations and their revenue sources.

Stuff like membership cards people also buy because they think it provides abortion protections sends money to for-profit United Federation of Churches, LLC, dba "The Satanic Temple", for example, not tax-exempt church The Satanic Temple (Inc.).

All of that money pouring into TST's coffers, controlled by just two men, and to be spent on what — we don't know what.

But we can see some of the court cases and how they're going; in fact, most are not about abortion at all and are going quite poorly.

The Satanic Temple is very bad at court cases.

For The Satanic Temple, Inc. et al v. Hellerstedt et al ("Ann Doe I"), we can see that the case is currently paused because TST's lead counsel Matt Kezhaya, who is based out of Arkansas and Minnesota, is appearing as a guest in Texas (that is, "pro hac vice").

However, Kezhaya has behaved so badly in other courts across the country, he's been sanctioned at least twice since TST Inc. v Hellerstedt started.

The federal district court judge in Texas stopped everything till Kezhaya explained himself to the court.

This is that explanation:

[exitrowiron]

Our Son Got Married

Part 2

I was the officiant

I was honored when Brady and Cloe asked me to officiate their wedding. In the state of Maine you must be an ordained minister or a public official (ex. judge) to officiate a wedding. I paid $15 to American Marriage Ministries and was ordained a minister. (You may call me Reverend Mike if you wish).

I drafted a script for the ceremony and let Brady and Cloe choose which parts they wanted to do. For example, they chose to exchange vows, but didn't want the part where I ask the congregation if anyone objects. Likewise, they wanted to keep the ring exchange simple. There's really only one required portion of the ceremony, and that is the declaration... "Do you Brady take Cloe to be... etc., etc." Brady and Cloe wrote their own vows and to say they were inspiring and heartfelt is an understatement. Half the congregation was tearful when they finished.

The only real opportunity for creativity for me as the officiant is the invocation. I chose to use this time to welcome the guests, say a few words about Brady and Cloe and talk about marriage in general. I'm very proud of what I wrote; you can read it below the cut.

When friends heard that I'd be officiating, they suggested attempting to inject humor into the ceremony - perhaps by copying other funny wedding scenes like Mr. Bean's performance in Four Weddings and Funeral or the marriage scene in The Princess Bride. I played it straight however and the ceremony was flawless.

Mike's Invocation

Please be seated.

Thank you everyone for making the trip to this beautiful place. Speaking on behalf of Brady and Cloe as well my wife Beth and Cloe’s parents, Ken and Beth, we are honored by your presence. We are also mindful of loved ones who can’t be with us today; we know they would join us if they could.

As the officiant of this wedding, I have several official responsibilities. My most important responsibility, however, is to make sure that Brady and Cloe understand the commitment they are about to make and are prepared to keep that commitment.

I’ve studied their relationship closely and spoken to them individually and together and I’m pleased to report that they will make a great married couple. I say that with confidence because over the last 8 years they have passed with flying colors the Relationship Tests of Strength.

They have

Worked together. In fact, this is how they met; working together at the Indiana University Foundation and each secretly hoping for office hours which overlapped with the other.

Traveled together, including international travel to countries where they didn’t speak the language.

Moved to a city which was completely foreign to both of them (Boston) and have together moved from one apartment to another.

Supported each other through rigorous professional examinations (the CPA exam for Brady and the Bar exam for Cloe), which they both passed.

Tackled home improvement projects together, including relationship test, hanging wallpaper in a bathroom together.

Sheltered in place together; working demanding jobs from a small apartment during a global pandemic. They’ve even worked together to modify that arrangement at this wedding venue with just a few days’ notice.

And finally, with little or no discernable skills, experience, or appropriate equipment, they have gone camping together. Repeatedly.

As the married couples here will attest, surviving any one of these Relationship Tests of Strength is cause for celebration. And yet despite these tests Cloe, who claims that she liked Brady first, still describes him as thoughtful, patient, empathetic and curious. Brady, who thought that Cloe was just too cool and definitely out of his league, still describes her as compassionate, thoughtful and beautiful. Brady and Cloe are outstanding individuals, and they are about to become an even more outstanding married couple.

But enough about Brady and Cloe… let’s talk about all of us.

Each of our lives is composed of almost endless choices and possibilities. Some people like to think of doors opening and closing, but I envision myself walking a trail through life with paths before me – each decision holding the possibility of new paths and new destinations. Most decisions and events in our life don’t alter our direction very much if at all. What I chose to eat for breakfast this morning isn’t going to affect the course of my life.

Occasionally, however, a decision or event changes our course dramatically. These are the moments when I can literally feel the universe shift. That’s what it feels like to me. The universe shifts. Entire worlds of new possibilities suddenly appear while others just as suddenly evaporate. You know those moments… choosing what college you’re going to attend, starting a new job, moving to a new part of the world, the beginning or ending of a romantic relationship, the death of a loved one or the birth of a child. These are moments which are frozen in time and shine in our memory.

In my experience, the most extraordinary, universe-shifting decisions are the ones we choose to make together; those special moments when we choose to bend our paths to be nearer to one another. What we are about to witness in a few minutes isn’t just the universe shifting for Brady and Cloe; the universe is about to shift for all of us. Their decision, their commitment to love one another other alters the path for everyone here. Their paths will be forever entwined as will be the paths of all of us.

[sollucets]

nine people i'd like to get to know better

i've done this tag several times over the last (checks notes) couple years???? and i do appreciate how it basically is different every time hehe. tagged by dearest @icouldhyperfixatehim & @ranchthoughts.

3 ships

these days i am thinking often and fondly of wenzhou, fate couple (myungha/yeowoon.... it's so charming that their portmanteau name is a lil pun), and aylinluna. (and jwds. they are haunting the narrative where the narrative is like my hindbrain. sorry i needed four it is what it is)

First ship

very firmly contestshipping from pokemon. i think we should bring sillier ship names like that back frankly... back in MY day we had endless names of hundreds and hundreds of silly puns that barely anyone could remember and we LIKED it

Last song

i opened my spotify and it is on unknown by nct dream, which was on the playlist liz @hoppipolla made for me while i was in the er (consider this a tag if you like hehe 💜)

Currently reading

i am not reading any real books right now. shame shame yes i know. i'll use this space to recommend some things as usual

one ongoing fic -- "on darkness" by agrazza, an ongoing bg3 dark urge/astarion longfic about the underdark with lots of fun plot. it is fully 265k right now though so i recommend consuming it in bites (lol) as i have

one finished fic -- "goodbye forever (until next time)", written anon though i think their username is in the fic notes now, the boston/nick fic of all time. historically and notably made me cry about fisting. it is ao3 locked so you need an account

one poem -- "invocation" by w.s. merman. it's very short, so here's another; "the waiting" by stephen dunn (my body was an ache, a silence)

Last movie

i really don't watch many movies. i'm going to bend the rules and allow my rewatch of the 2019 danielle brooks much ado about nothing from a couple months ago count for this slot -- go forth and find it on dailymotion but you didnt hear that from me

Currently Craving

functional painkillers. augh sorry to be a downer i do also crave the embrace of the ocean. oh i did it again uh. i crave. i crave firstkhao series gmmtv part two where are you

i will tag in @philologique & liz (body of post. get doubletagged) & @markpakin if u all like. it's not nine people but i can only be So brave you understand 💜

[morlock-holmes]

I think I've finally thought of a way to put into words something I've been thinking about in conspiracy thinking.

Because there are, certainly, real conspiracies out there, but I'm more and more convinced that there is a kind of difference in mindset that characterizes what we call conspiracy thinking.

And that mindset is,

"Everyone believes the same things I do"

A completely batshit article by Rod Dreher crystalized this for me:

There's a Satanic convention -- SatanCon -- coming to Boston next month. Lucien Greaves, the founder of sponsor The Satanic Temple, is a master troller of liberalism. He tells the Boston Globe:

In 2016, TST requested to deliver an invocation before a Boston City Council meeting — a request that City Council denied. As a result, the dedication to Wu is an attempt to highlight what TST co-founder Lucien Greaves called “clear corruption on the part of the Boston City Council” for violating the religious freedoms of the Satanists. TST is also currently suing the City of Boston for denying their invocation request.

“The Supreme Court ruled in favor of such invocations of prayers being given so long as they are open and available to everybody,” Lucien said to the Globe. “They need to still respect pluralism and still respect people’s religious liberty and recognize that no government agency has the right to limit the civic capacities of any one viewpoint over another.”

He's right, isn't he? Isn't this what "religious liberty" means in a neutral public square? The Constitution doesn't say "but not Satanists," does it? That's because it never would have occurred to the Founding Fathers that this would be an issue. It probably wouldn't have occurred to anybody prior to the last few decades that it would be an issue. Now, the usual liberal suspects will tut-tut that Greaves is only trolling, and that this doesn't really mean that the most evil spirit of all is being honored and worshiped. I think this is nothing but liberal cope, the sort of thing right-thinking secularists tell themselves to calm themselves down when dark and freaky stuff is irrupting.

Emphasis mine.

Look, Satanism is not that new or that novel, you can read the Satanic Bible. You can read about their tenets on their website.

Rod knows everything that Satanists claim to believe is just a liberal cope; If they do things Dreher doesn't like it is not because they have a different set of beliefs which creates a different internal logic and thus a different set of behaviors than Dreher would prefer; the very idea is inconceivable and only a naïve fool could believe such a thing.

Instead, they actually believe the exact same things that he does. Therefore, if they do things Dreher doesn't like, it is out of a conscious desire to do bad things and to place Dreher and people like him in danger.

This is one of the main things that distinguishes this kind of thought from just believing in something crazy or weird.

[jcmarchi]

MLK Celebration Gala pays tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and his writings on “the goal of true education”

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MLK Celebration Gala pays tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and his writings on “the goal of true education”

After a week of festivities around campus, members of the MIT community gathered Saturday evening in the Boston Marriott Kendall Square ballroom to celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Marking 50 years of this annual celebration at MIT, the gala event’s program was loosely organized around a line in King’s essay, “The Purpose of Education,” which he penned as an undergraduate at Morehouse College:

“We must remember that intelligence is not enough,” King wrote. “Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.”

Senior Myles Noel was the master of ceremonies for the evening and welcomed one and all. Minister DiOnetta Jones Crayton, former director of the Office of Minority Education and associate dean of minority education, delivered the invocation, exhorting the audience to embrace “the fiery urgency of now.” Next, MIT President Sally Kornbluth shared her remarks.

She acknowledged that at many institutions, diversity and inclusion efforts are eroding. Kornbluth reiterated her commitment to these efforts, saying, “I want to be clear about how important I believe it is to keep such efforts strong — and to make them the best they can be. The truth is, by any measure, MIT has never been more diverse, and it has never been more excellent. And we intend to keep it that way.”

Kornbluth also recognized the late Paul Parravano, co-director of MIT’s Office of Government and Community Relations, who was a staff member at MIT for 33 years as well as the longest-serving member on the MLK Celebration Committee. Parravano’s “long and distinguished devotion to the values and goals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. inspires us all,” Kornbluth said, presenting his family with the 50th Anniversary Lifetime Achievement Award. 

Next, students and staff shared personal reflections. Zina Queen, office manager in the Department of Political Science, noted that her family has been a part of the MIT community for generations. Her grandmother, Rita, her mother, Wanda, and her daughter have all worked or are currently working at the Institute. Queen pointed out that her family epitomizes another of King’s oft-repeated quotes, “Every man is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth.”

Senior Tamea Cobb noted that MIT graduates have a particular power in the world that they must use strategically and with intention. “Education and service go hand and hand,” she said, adding that she intends “every one of my technical abilities will be used to pursue a career that is fulfilling, expansive, impactful, and good.”

Graduate student Austin K. Cole ’24 addressed the Israel-Hamas conflict and the MIT administration. As he spoke, some attendees left their seats to stand with Cole at the podium. Cole closed his remarks with a plea to resist state and structural violence, and instead focus on relationship and mutuality.

After dinner, incoming vice president for equity and inclusion Karl Reid ’84, SM ’85 honored Adjunct Professor Emeritus Clarence Williams for his distinguished service to the Institute. Williams was an assistant to three MIT presidents, served as director of the Office of Minority Education, taught in the Department of Urban Planning, initiated the MIT Black History Project, and mentored hundreds of students. Reid was one of those students, and he shared a few of his mentor’s oft repeated phrases:

“Do the work and let the talking take care of itself.”

“Bad ideas kill themselves; great ideas flourish.”

In closing, Reid exhorted the audience to create more leaders who, like Williams, embody excellence and mutual respect for others.

The keynote address was given by civil rights activist Janet Moses, a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s; a physician who worked for a time as a pediatrician at MIT Health; a longtime resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts; and a co-founder, with her husband, Robert Moses, of the Algebra Project, a pioneering program grounded in the belief “that in the 21st century every child has a civil right to secure math literacy — the ability to read, write, and reason with the symbol systems of mathematics.”

A striking image of a huge new building planned for New York City appeared on the screen behind Moses during her address. It was a rendering of a new jail being built at an estimated cost of $3 billion. Against this background, she described the trajectory of the “carceral state,” which began in 1771 with the Mansfield Judgement in England. At the time, “not even South Africa had a set of race laws as detailed as those in the U.S.,” Moses observed.

Today, the carceral state uses all levels of government to maintain a racial caste system that is deeply entrenched, Moses argued, drawing a connection between the purported need for a new prison complex and a statistic that Black people in New York state are three times more likely than whites to be convicted for a crime.

She referenced a McKinsey study that it will take Black people over three centuries to achieve a quality of life on parity with whites. Despite the enormity of this challenge, Moses encouraged the audience to “rock the boat and churn the waters of the status quo.” She also pointed out that “there is joy in the struggle.”

Symbols of joy were also on display at the Gala in the forms of original visual art and poetry, and a quilt whose squares were contributed by MIT staff, students, and alumni, hailing from across the Institute.

Quilts are a physical manifestation of the legacy of the enslaved in America and their descendants — the ability to take scraps and leftovers to create something both practical and beautiful. The 50th anniversary quilt also incorporated a line from King’s highly influential “I Have a Dream Speech”:

“One day, all God’s children will have the riches of freedom and the security of justice.”

[zooterchet]

Erin Go Bragh (Boston IRA)

Albert de Salvo: Induced into scat, with a dominatrix tie-up after World War 2.  Formerly, US Army Intelligence.  "No, not Eva Braun".

Ted Bundy: Raped by an obese woman during height of conflict in Vietnam.  Formerly, CIA Corporate Company.  "No, not a serial killer, not the gay".

Dave Charlebois: Fasted by a gay Rabbi on Ramadan at early stages of War on Terror.  Formerly, NSA HUMINT.  "Fags, white guys".

US Army Intelligence: Henry Kissinger's unit.

CIA Corporate Company: George W. Bush's unit.

NSA HUMINT: KyleRittenhouse's unit.

US Army Intelligence, is a lightly armed reconnaissance unit, attached to the US Army, for deliberate action of war crimes to support a maneuvers warfare unit in deployment under General, never Colonel or higher or lower or Naval.

When there needs to be a torture, a detainment, or a theft, US Army Intelligence is called upon through any officer ever held rank of General, impossible to remove, even in imprisonment or lawsuit of stature, never non-included or inclusive of anyone's rights but a one star Brigadier or higher, never a Marine or NCO of a Delta Platoon unit and opposition to Canada is mandatory, throughout service history, to avoid drafts, conscriptions, and commandeers by police empowered by any service; at pain of death, to those empowering commandeer, by any citizen, civilian, or foreign national.

US Army Intelligence operates through locks and removals of corrections institution wards, through auxiliary access, out of United Nations range; however, the UN is their doctrine body, as a local intelligence service, masquerading as foreign, to test those not authorized to make action or logic of any statehood given American body.

Assisted by informal irregulars, as informants, never to be placed, and never to be guided, at any cost, with potential pain of death given draft law's violation, under George Washington's prefixes and predilections, any fraud empowering civilians to break rules of suit, rights, and basic human prejudice, when a seizure of American state resources is present.

CIA Corporate, is an accountants venture trial program manager, to develop new programs and laws.

When a law needs to be broken, not disobeyed or ruled or enforced or set, the CIA is called in, for the common good of the people; always siding with the poor, never the affirmed or affirmative or any rights already offered or program already taken.

The CIA, takes down lawsuit abiding citizens, when invoking law.

The CIA's standard division, domestic intelligence, is a training quadrant, a CI division, of campus informants, assisting the uniforms, the defense attorneys practicing and training, in securing campus against threats of any police form, both local, state, federal, and foreign, of any nature, in any circumstance, without any single exception allowed, and with lethal quarantine powers otherwise; through National Guard, Air National, and State Police.

The Corporate Company, is a singular charitable function, for an act of politics, to breach laws informed in schools and police abbeys, to enrich and assist those oppressed, in any situation; any declaration of "pedophile", is an invocation of the ACLU to assist, the "pedophile" different from the "child molester"; a "child molester", has performed a sexual assault, from contact to force to restriction, however a "pedophile" has been cleared by CIA having been drafted to foreign or local or police or corporate or media circumstance, even on foreign ground with the assistance of Army Delta Force.

NSA HUMINT, is a national guardsman unit of informal irregular.

When a police vanguard is offered rights, if it's an uniform or authorized so by deputy of government, it's the NSA's job to ensure the rights of all civilians not authorized.

SIGINT, is your electronic relays; they don't spy, they just design the hardware.

However, HUMINT, is there as a courier, through psychologists, to act as couriers and reconnaisance; the point isn't to kill people, it's to make people act against a law that they have to follow, if they've breached the higher function of their police duties already authorized by government.

OP-INT, is darker; it's an experimental education unit, and if you get an undergrad degree, you get a gun; you're now a Cyber Command ops commander, moved into Echelon; the High North station, monitoring data traffic, with keywords from the Cabinet, to ensure that police don't interfere with phones, records, or computers.

[talenlee]

Story Pile: The Lighthouse

As with Knives Out, Breaking Bad, and Old Boy, there is some media where I am concerned that by having an opinion, my mere me-ness is very much part of how that opinion is (and should be) perceived. Simply put, there’s a canon of media that I think millenial white guys are a little too excited to talk about, like they’re markers on a talent tree. I feel like there’s an envelope of time, now stamped down into wikis and articles, where people spilled all their thoughts and their feelings and then everyone else who was feeling a bit of the same stepped into the same space and sought some way, any way, to capture that they were feeling the same way, that they were also tangled up inside about this thing and what it meant and they weren’t thinking about it, they were feeling about it, but feelings are hard, and pointing out the reference to Sascha Scheiber’s Hypnose is a fact that can be collected and cleaned and pinned and then…

The feeling has a place to go.

Not going to spoil anything about this movie beyond its broad genre and invocations. You should watch it on your own if you think you can handle two hours of grown men losing their minds in isolation. I’m not going to tell you about what’s in it, as much as I’m going to try and tell you about how I feel about it, and what I feel about what it’s not.

Sooo, uh, first of all: This movie fucks. Not ‘holy shit, this fucks, I want this on as my sex jam,’ but it’s rancid with sexuality, just steeped in the kind of horny of two people who definitely fuck, who want to fuck, who might even fuck each other but absolutely are not going to, haha, unless? There’s this artwork, by Barbara Kruger, called Untitled (You Construct Intricate Rituals), which has been picked up by the internet as a sort of graffiti tag to underscore the ways in which men – yes, men, always men, so often men – will devise nonsense reasons to touch one another in intimate ways. There’s a contrast in life between the joy of their smiles and the energy of their violence, and that is the way in which this movie fucks. It’s the nasty, musty, smelly kind of fucking, it’s the maft of a space where the default smell is the sea and the spaces of people are full of these intimate wet smells. It’s not a story that’s sexy — there’s so much work, I feel, to put effort into making this story high effort, highly tactile and experiential… and then to make that experience the smell of a pair of boxers someone’s been wearing for a week because they’re not going anywhere and have given the fuck up.

I guess given that it’s a story about a pair of dudes being isolated on a island in a lighthouse, I’d guess I was kinda expecting the feeling to be about deprivation, to be about not having enough of anything, and then the rawness that came from feeling empty. After watching it though, I feel the opposite is true — it’s a movie about being overfilled, about having too much, about being overwhelmed by something. There’s this constant indulgence, this excess to how they behave. Shots hang on these experiences longer, and even things I think of as jokes kinda hang on longer than I feel like they should.

Drip by drip, this movie fills, fills, fills, and I drown in it.

It’s not Lovecraftian, by the way. I mean, I don’t feel like this has anything of Lovecraft’s work to it, beyond the fact that he was also scared of the ocean. If nothing else, trust me on this: Lovecraft stories don’t fuck.

Without being glib, though, Lovecraft’s work is often tightly coiled around indifference. The world doesn’t care about you, your privilege is meaningless, your education, your value (as a white man from Boston) does not protect you, and that there are things in the universe that do not and will not ever care about you existing. You are a plaything not because you are hated and punished, but because you do not matter. The world of Lovecraft’s horror is full of things that do not realise they hurt you and they do not care.

I almost wish when I first brought this up to my friend Rachel, she hadn’t said it to me because it’s too perfect, but the feeling I get of the horror in The Lighthouse is more of that old time religion. If you grew up like I did in a Christian country, you probably learned about the Greek pantheon from a fundamentally Christian perspective – which usually means, Zeus first, he’s in charge, he does a bunch of stuff because he’s in charge, and then you fill out the pantheon around him. Eventually you get around to learning about his backstory and how he has a dad who sucks, and that’s all good and interesting enough, but it still means that typically, Greek Myth is presented as having a coherent structure that centralises around Zeus.

And it doesn’t.

The earliest stuff we know we can find seems to suggest that Poseidon predates Zeus – that while as much as we know ‘Greek’ as a thing, Zeus and Poseidon showed up together, but before that point, when Zeus was introduced to stories, Poseidon was already there. Poseidon, which we associate with the sea, seems to have been at a time, a god of earthquakes and the underworld — as if there was some seeming obvious connection between the place everyone lived and the old dark deep.

That’s the horror of the Lighthouse. It’s feeling unattached to the life that fills you up, and rather than finding peace, you find something else

waiting there

to fill you up.

There’s also something to be said for how violence expresses in The Lighthouse. It’s not easy, it’s not clean. A lot of media simplifies the violence of men fighting – usually to save time, sometimes to clean up stunts, and often just because: You don’t need to see what it takes to punch someone so many times they pass out from pain. A clock in the head and they go down and the story can continue and also, people come out of that experience, largely, fine.

It’s weird because yeah, people can take a few hits better than movies make you think but also they can’t take being knocked unconscious as easily as movies make you think.

Anyway, uh, the violence in The Lighthouse feels a lot more brutal and a lot more honest? Like when a guy punches someone a bunch and stops, there’s this thought in my mind that oh okay, so he knocked him out and he stopped. But nah…

Nah, then you see the other guy groaning and whimpering.

It was a choice to stop, which usually happens sometime around when you notice your breathing or your hand hurting.

I feel like the ending is also really intentional, but also deliberately vague. I could point out all sorts of things happening in it, but then it’d feel more like a list of ‘this movie about a loss of a grip on reality has deliberate breaks from reality!’ like I’m just arguing that the movie exists at all. It almost feels like it was deliberately chosen to make sure you can’t take it entirely literally.

And I guess that’s how I feel about this movie. I enjoyed the experience of being unsettled by it, I liked how it refused to answer me, and I felt impressed by what it was willing to overdo.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

[automatismoateo]

Satanic Temple’s ‘SatanCon’ in Boston set to be ‘largest satanic gathering in history’ | The event is dedicated to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu because “she denied the group from delivering a satanic invocation at City Hall and has used unconstitutional efforts to keep TST out of Boston's public spaces” via /r/atheism

Satanic Temple’s ‘SatanCon’ in Boston set to be ‘largest satanic gathering in history’ | The event is dedicated to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu because “she denied the group from delivering a satanic invocation at City Hall and has used unconstitutional efforts to keep TST out of Boston's public spaces” https://ift.tt/SDyEslq

Submitted April 25, 2023 at 02:05PM by mepper (From Reddit https://ift.tt/cy5nZiP)

[byneddiedingo]

Victor Sjöström, Maj-Britt Nilsson, and Stig Olin in To Joy (Ingmar Bergman, 1950) Cast: Stig Olin, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Victor Sjöström, Birger Malmsten, John Ekman, Margit Carlqvist. Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Cinematography: Gunnar Fischer. Production design: Nils Svenwall. Film editing: Oscar Rosander. Not long ago, while watching some YouTube videos of symphony orchestra performances, I was struck by how few women players were in the ranks of the great orchestras of Berlin and Vienna, especially in comparison to the numbers of women in the equivalent orchestras of New York, Boston, and Chicago. Even when the soloist was an Anne-Sophie Mutter or a Julia Fischer, the ranks of players behind her were almost exclusively male. It didn't take much Googling to learn that the fact hasn't escaped the notice of women musicians, especially in Europe. So I wasn't surprised when the crusty old conductor played by Victor Sjöström in Ingmar Bergman's To Joy introduced Marta Olsson (Maj-Britt Nilsson), a new member of his orchestra, by commenting that her talent was "against nature." Eventually, Marta gives up her profession to raise the children she and fellow musician Stig Eriksson (Stig Olin) produce, while (mostly) patiently suffering his ego and infidelity. He's the one who, though tormented by the fear that he's mediocre, tries to move from the orchestra into a concert soloist, suffering a crushing setback when his attempt at performing the Mendelssohn violin concerto ends in disaster. The film is a flashback to their marriage after she dies, and though he's softened a bit by her kindness and good nature, he retains his egotism and self-doubt in equal measures. It's easy enough to see Stig Eriksson as the director's self-portrait, coming as it does after the failure of his second marriage. "Joy" is not an emotion that we readily associate with Bergman, though in this film it's an allusion to the final choral movement of Beethoven's ninth symphony, an excerpt from which is performed at the end of the film. The Freude of Beethoven (and of the Schiller poem that he set to music) is an emanation of the divine, emerging after struggle and pain, and Bergman tries to embody it in Stig and Marta's young son, sitting alone in the concert hall as the orchestra rehearses the symphony. It's a conclusion that teeters on the edge of sentimentality, as Bergman's invocations of the innocence of childhood often do. Still, though a lot of things in the film don't work, such as a resort to a voiceover commentary on the marriage of Stig and Marta by the conductor Sönderby that feels jarringly out of place when it occurs, To Joy is a long early step toward the mastery of Bergman's later films.

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TST started two new lawsuits in in the most recent year, but they lost eight existing cases and seem to have completely abandoned two others.

Yet again, the legal performance of The Satanic Temple was disappointing and incompetent at best, but just as likely the worse conclusion is true: it was a needless waste of much-needed resources by attention-seeking malefactors.

The Temple often utilizes overly credulous liberal media outlets to advertise itself off of the possibility that their litigation might one day prove effective. But in 2023, the bill came due on many of those promises, and the result was failure upon failure.

TST lost two major abortion-ban challenges ("Ann Doe I", "Rokita"). TST lost an invocation challenge ("Boston"). TST lost a cluster of fruitless appeals for misbehavior in Belle Plaine ("Minnesota city monument case"). TST lost its Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation or "SLAPP" targeting former members ("Queer Satanic") and had its SLAPP against Newsweek whittled down to a single libel claim. A lawsuit against a billboard company ("Lamar II") concluded after the expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars, apparently on the same terms as if the lawsuit hadn't been filed at all. And two other lawsuits in Texas were seemingly abandoned with no further activity in more than a year ("Ann Doe II", "the Satanic Housewife").

Compare the below chart with the state of affairs in December 2022 to grasp at a glance just how badly 2023 went for The Satanic Temple in the most recent year. If it could go wrong, it did for TST in 2023.

The Satanic Temple is very bad at court cases (December 2023)

Changes from November include:

Confirmation both Travis County, Texas, lawsuits have not seen any new filings in more than one year.

Ninth Circuit granted TST partial victory in form of an additional opportunity to make defamation claims in federal district court against Johnson et al Defendants.

Full list on The.Satanic.Wiki

Full list on r/TheSatanicCirclejerk

Moreover, we’re still being sued by The Satanic Temple in federal appellate court and now King County Superior Court.

TST is also still suing Newsweek and its reporter (but maybe not her anymore!) for writing about us. In addition, The Satanic Temple is now suing a TikToker in Texas for talking about our case. Check the pinned post for more.

While it looks bad on its own, compare how things looked just one short year ago for The Satanic Temple and notice how so many of those "ongoing" cases turned out.

When it comes to The Satanic Temple, there's always more and it's always worse.

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Apesar de diversas tentativas de visibilidade ao longo do tempo, com muita resistência, foi a partir de 1969 com a Rebelião de Stonewall (marco inicial da linha do tempo) que o movimento se solidificou, iniciando os processos de conquistas sociais e políticas progressivos em busca da concretização de seus direitos e objetivos de luta.

1970 – Primeiras paradas do Orgulho Gay nos Estados Unidos

As primeiras paradas do Orgulho Gay que ocorreram nos Estados Unidos impulsionaram e se disseminaram pela Europa: em Londres, a primeira ocorreu em 1972, no aniversário de três anos do evento; em 30 de junho de 1979, aniversário de dez anos da revolta, foi a vez de Berlim.

Aos poucos, elas chegaram à América Latina, à Ásia e à África nos anos 90, ocorrendo mesmo em países onde ser gay ainda é ilegal. E assim junho se tornou o mês oficial do orgulho e da diversidade LGBTQI+.

1980 – O Primeiro Encontro Brasileiro de Homossexuais

O encontro em São Paulo dividiu o marco do ano com a ocorrência do primeiro protesto contra a “Operação Limpeza” promovida pelo delegado José Richetti no centro de São Paulo, onde a polícia passava pelas áreas frequentadas pela comunidade, espancando e prendendo sob acusação de vadiagem. Foi a primeira vez que se marchou contra a lgbtfobia no Brasil (muito antes de o termo existir).

O ano também se tornou um marco por ser o ano de fundação do Grupo Gay da Bahia, o primeiro grupo de luta contra a homofobia no país.

1983 – Revolta das Lésbicas Feministas

Protesto organizado pelo “Grupo de Ação Lésbica Feminista do Brasil” após serem expulsar de um bar devido a divulgação do jornal ativista “ChanacomChana” muito por conta de uma invisibilidade dentro da comunidade. A sigla L toma a voz e reivindica sua posição enquanto movimento no intuito de descaracterizar uma visão dentro da comunidade apenas do homem gay como detentor de representação.

1985 – A AIDS assolando o mundo e fundação da GAPA

A AIDS aliada ao preconceito e a falta de informação se tornam um entrave para o crescimento do movimento. Com isso o ano de 1985, marca o ponto de fundação do Grupo de Apoio à Prevenção à Aids (GAPA), primeira ONG da América Latina na luta contra o HIV — e é quando é criado o programa federal de controle da AIDS.

No mesmo ano surge também o grupo Triângulo Rosa, do Rio de Janeiro, que se junta aos outros, como o Grupo Gay da Bahia, no apoio às vítimas e às campanhas de esclarecimento — mas também numa luta pressionando o Conselho Federal de Medicina a retirar a homossexualidade da lista de doenças. Em plena epidemia, os gays brasileiros conseguem uma conquista inédita, anos antes de europeus e americanos. Do estigma nasceu a força necessária para continuar resistindo.

Como mais uma das conquistas que continuam a ser requisitadas mesmo tendo sido aparentemente já concluídas, em 2019 o governo interviu no programa brasileiro de combate à disseminação do vírus HIV, o qual, por décadas, foi referência internacional na luta contra a Aids. Por meio de um decreto assinado pelo presidente Jair Bolsonaro, pelo ministro da Economia Paulo Guedes e pelo ministro da Saúde, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, o nome do Departamento de Vigilância, Prevenção e Controle das Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis, do HIV/Aids e das Hepatites Virais foi alterado para Departamento de Doenças de Condições Crônicas e Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis, rebaixando a área de HIV/Aids a uma coordenação. Ou seja, o novo departamento agora também se ocupa de outros agravos como Hanseníase e Tuberculose, infecções que nada têm em comum com as IST e HV.

Essa modificação gera inúmeras consequências desastrosas uma vez que os investimentos, estudos e procedimentos adequados irão sofrer inúmeras mudanças. Sem contar que é uma medida com objetivo claro de inferiorizar os portadores, quase como querendo "pôr debaixo do tapete" e simplesmente tornar invisível um campo extremamente frutífera para a vida e que, mesmo com as baixas de orçamento e com o crescente descaso do atual governo, apresenta resultados positivos cada vez mais, mostrando a seriedade e a capacidade da ciência e dos profissionais brasileiros.

1990 – A OMS retira a homossexualidade da lista de doenças mentais

No dia 17 de Maio, a Organização Mundial da Saúde retira a homossexualidade da lista de distúrbios psiquiátricos de sua Classificação Estatística Internacional de Doenças (CID), espécie de bíblia utilizada como referência por médicos mundo afora.

Apesar de grande conquista, ainda se encontrava um objetivo em aberto visto que a transexualidade só deixou de ser doença para a OMS em junho de 2018. E, ainda hoje, segundo a Associação Internacional de Gays, Lésbicas, Bissexuais, Trans. e Intersexuais (ILGA), ser LGBTQI+ é crime em cerca de 70 países — tendo em alguns, a pena de morte aplicada como punição pelo “delito”. Mas ainda resta a pergunta: Qual é o crime? Amar alguém, querer ser livre, é errado por qual razão?

1992 – Fundação da Associação de Travestis e Liberados (ASTRAL)

Foi fundada pela idealizadora Jovanna Baby, que atuou de forma expressiva na comunidade nos projetos posteriores, a Associação de Travestis e Liberados (Astral), no Rio de Janeiro — primeira organização não governamental na América Latina voltada às pessoas trans dando início ao Movimento Nacional de Travestis e Transexuais, não só para visibilidade mas sim para dar voz na garantia de influência para lutar pelos direitos comuns as integrantes do movimento. No mesmo ano Katya Tapety foi a primeira travesti a conquistar um cargo eletivo no Brasil, o de vereadora no sertão do Piauí.

1996 – Protesto em prol da Visibilidade Intersexual

Durante o encontro anual da Sociedade Americana de Pediatria, em Boston, em 26 de Outubro de 1996, um grupo de ativistas intersexo protestou publicamente contra a “cirurgia cosmética” em bebês nascidos com uma anatomia sexual ou reprodutiva que não cabem à definição simples de masculino ou feminino.

Por se tratar de uma sigla que sofre com a ignorância devido ao completo desconhecimento, a comunidade Intersexual segue cercada de preconceito e invisibilidade. A partir dessa movimentação o dia 26 de Outubro é o Dia Mundial da Visibilidade Intersexual.

1997 – Parada do Orgulho Gay em São Paulo.

Em 1995, uma conferência no Rio de Janeiro foi seguida por uma marcha; em Curitiba, centenas se juntaram num pequeno ato. Mas foi em 1997, em São Paulo que ocorreu a primeira parada pensada e idealizada com a cara da comunidade LGBT no Brasil: Era o evento que misturava todos, com muita luta e muita celebração mostrando que o amor é livre e as pessoas também devem ser.

Hoje em dia, a Parada do Orgulho LGBT atrai mais de três milhões de pessoas e é uma das maiores paradas do mundo.

1999 – Proibição de Terapias de Reversão Sexual

O Conselho Federal de Psicologia proíbe os famosos “tratamentos” da homossexualidade, como por exemplo as “terapias de reversão sexual”.

Entretanto, em 2017 um grupo de psicólogos (denunciados pela prática desses tipos de tratamentos) conseguiu sentença favorável com alegação de “plena liberdade científica”. A luta persistiu e o caso chegou ao STF que proibiu de vez essas práticas em 2019.

A “cura gay” é uma luta a ser defendida eternamente visto que em muitos países como os Estados Unidos, esses tipos de tratamentos continuam ocorrendo, muitas vezes ligados a seitas religiosos.

2005 – Criação da Rede Afro LGBT

Por conta de uma série de embates acerca da diversidade presente dentro da comunidade, além dos marcadores de desigualdade ainda reproduzidos na sociedade, fez-se necessário a criação da Rede Afro LGBT. O grupo foi criado para dar um basta no sujeito LGBT universal idealizado, disputando as narrativas e apresentando a realidade da comunidade que se entrelaça sim com questões raciais e de identidade.

Os preconceitos e atentados contra os indivíduos LGBTQIA+ negros perpassam uma linha embora parecida mas com subjetividades, o que traz a tona a forma como é "tolerado" a homossexualidade desde que apresente um padrão orquestrado. Exatamente nesse contexto que a Rede Afro LGBT desenvolveu, abrindo espaço para englobar e alcancar mais pessoas.

De 2001 a 2011 – Legalização de união estável homoafetiva

O processo de legalização de união estável entre pessoas do mesmo sexo – bem como a adoção e o divórcio – segue sua própria cronologia a partir da aprovação nos países. Em 2001, a Holanda se tornou o primeiro país a legalizar o casamento entre pessoas do mesmo sexo – assim como o divórcio e a adoção. Em 2005 foi a vez do Canadá e da Espanha; em 2006 foi a África do Sul que legalizou; em 2010, a Argentina se tornou o primeiro país latino-americano.

No Brasil, a batalha foi mais longa, em 2011 o STF aprovou a união estável homoafetiva e só em 2013 que o Conselho Nacional de Justiça aprovou uma resolução que obriga os cartórios a realizarem o casamento homoafetivo. Contudo, ainda segue sendo um processo burocrático longo.

2018 – Registro civil do nome social

Em 2016, a presidente Dilma Rousseff decretou permissão para o uso do nome social de pessoas trans o que se configurou como uma grande vitória. Contudo, apenas em 2018 que o STF decidiu que transexuais e transgêneros podem mudar seus nomes de registro civil e a alteração não precisa de autorização judicial, laudo médico ou comprovação de cirurgia de redesignação sexual. Na decisão, a maioria dos ministros invocou o princípio da dignidade humana para assegurar o direito à adequação das informações de identificação civil à identidade autopercebida pelas pessoas trans.

Dessa maneira, pessoas transexuais que desejam alterar o nome e gênero de registro em sua documentação de nascimento pelo nome social podem procurar diretamente, sem a presença de advogado ou defensor público, qualquer cartório de Registro Civil de Pessoas Naturais (RCPN) do Brasil para fazer a mudança.

Durante a requisição os cartórios cobram valores diferentes para fazer a alteração do registro civil e a emissão dos documentos necessários em cada estado. Esses valores são determinados pela Corregedoria Geral da Justiça local.

No caso de indivíduos que não podem arcar com os custos, a gratuidade pode ser solicitada diretamente no cartório, basta a declaração de hipossuficiência. Nesse procedimento, não é necessária a assessoria por parte da Defensoria Pública. No entanto, em alguns casos, mesmo que não seja necessário, os cartórios exigem o ofício de gratuidade emitido pela Defensoria Pública como uma forma de comprovante. As demais informações devem ser acessadas de acordo aos sites judiciais de cada localidade.

2019 – A lei enquadrada contra a homofobia

A demora do Congresso no que tange as questões que envolvam os direitos LGBT deixou a cargo da Justiça (e, em última instância, do STF) a última palavra. Sendo assim, em 2019 o STF enquadrou a homofobia e a transfobia na lei de crimes de racismo.

Contudo a decisão não muda o preconceito e a burocracia das delegacias que ainda não estão preparadas para a lei que se tratam de LGBTQIA+ que fazem parte de um movimento político.

2020 – Doação de sangue

Após as conquistas tão vitais como casar com quem quiser ou usar o nome que quiser, doar sangue pode parecer uma conquista inferior e inexpressiva para o movimento. Afinal, a luta era para poder doar sangue, não para receber. Mas é justamente esse o embate: ser considerado tão digno quanto qualquer pessoa na hora de ajudar. Sendo assim, após anos de embates, o STF declarou inconstitucionais as normas do Ministério da Saúde que proibiam homossexuais masculinos de doar sangue.

Pela regra vigente até então, gays só poderiam fazê-lo após 12 meses sem transar com outro homem. A decisão ainda não tem sido automaticamente cumprida mas já é considerada um avanço em meio a todas as batalhas travadas pela comunidade no seu desenvolvimento na sociedade.

No mesmo ano, outro marco ocorreu: A Suprema Corte americana decidiu que um empregado não pode sofrer discriminação no trabalho por ser LGBT. 62 anos após a demissão de Frank Kameny, o astrônomo do Exército que foi demitido em 1958 por ser gay e lutou por direitos iguais por toda sua vida, sua luta se mostrou frutífera. O que prova que a manutenção da permanência na luta deve ser diária e que o caminho é longo, cheio de repressão, violência e preconceito.

Ainda há muito a ser conquistado, a luta não pode parar e a comunidade tem que ser apoiada, respeitada e auxiliada a bater de frente contra a sociedade que ainda é intolerante às diversidades.

Fontes do conteúdo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55j3JS2YhQI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4l7VuZ4u5c

https://agenciaaids.com.br/noticia/dia-da-visibilidade-trans-relembre-as-lutas-e-conquistas-do-movimento-trans-no-pais-que-mais-mata-travestis-e-transexuais/

https://www.lgbtpsb.org.br/2020/06/16/orgulho-lgbt-lutas-e-conquistas/#:~:text=Dentre%20as%20conquistas%20alcan%C3%A7adas%20por,direitos%20como%20a%20ado%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20de

https://gamarevista.uol.com.br/semana/orgulho-de-que/linha-do-tempo-direitos-lgbt-no-brasil-e-no-mundo/

https://www.modoparites.com.br/single-post/2020/05/21/a-luta-da-comunidade-lgbt-principais-conquistas-e-desafios

https://www.cnbsp.org.br/?url_amigavel=1&url_source=noticias&id_noticia=17389&lj=1280

https://www.andes.org.br/conteudos/noticia/governo-desmonta-programa-brasileiro-referencia-internacional-no-combate-ao-hIV-aids1

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Italy & Rome playlist

Pizza. Fiat. Centurions. Fulci. Argento. Morricone. It’s all here in this Roma - Italia playlist. If you love ancient Roman history and horror film soundtracks, this is the playlist for you! Hit play right here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC18JtHohAYmD7g1FGA8S-D2B

Nero would enjoy this playlist! But, if there is a song or band I forgot or even a horror film soundtrack, or Italian prog record I mighta missed, let me know! This is one of my favorite playlists. Grazie!

ITALIA & ROMA

001 Goblin - La caccia 002 High On Fire -  Romulus And Remus 003 Braens Machine - Flying 004 Piero Umiliani - Produzione 005 Fantomas - Page 1 [6 Frames] 006 Lucio Fulci's Zombie Theme(1979) 007 Tullio De Piscopo drum pattern - Samba Carnival 008 Quella Vecchia Locanda - Il Tempo Della Gioia 009 Sandro Brugnolini - Amofen 010 Ufomammut - Mars 011 Gerardo Iacoucci - Tradimento 012 Procol Harum - Conquistador   013 LA TERZA MADRE  - Main Theme by Claudio Simonetti 014 Fantomas -  The Godfather 015 Toto Cutugno - L'Italiano 016 CHILDREN OF TECHNOLOGY - Fear the mohawk reaper 017 Ennio Morricone -  Non Rimane Piu Nessuno 018 Mina - Non credere 019 Bölzer - Roman Acupuncture 020 Jerry Goldsmith The Omen OST - Ave Satani 021 Lou Monte - roman guitar 022 Tony Di Marti - L'Uccellino Della Comare   023 Paul Chain Violet Theatre - 17 day 024 Satyricon -  The Ghost of Rome 025 Ghost - Con Clavi Con Dio 026 Charles Aznavour - Com'a Triste Venezia 027 Jula de Palma - Tua (1959) versione originale 028 Dean Martin - That's Amore   029 FORGOTTEN TOMB - We Owe You Nothing 030 Mike Patton - Ti Offro Da Bere 031 Death SS - Heavy Demons 032 The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Sword of Machiavelli 033 Afterhours - Milano Circonvallazione Esterna 034 Fantomas -  Page 17 [14 Frames] 035 Gluttony -  The Rise Of Pompey 036 Sherpa - Kim (((o))) Tigris & Euphrates 037 Umberto Tozzi Gloria - Italian Version 038 Franco Bracardi & Giorgio Bracardi -  Lo Strangolatore Di Boston 039 Black Hole - Bells of Death 040 Tarantella Pugliese - La Rondinella 041 Pino Villa- A Mucca Pazza 042 Opera IX - Bela Lugosi's Dead 043 MARIO MOLINO - TRAFFICO CAOTICO 044 Lucio Battisti - La Collina Dei Ciliegi 045 Tenebre (Main Title) by Goblin 046 SYK - FONG 047 FUOCO FATUO - Sulphureous Hazes 048 Primordial -  As Rome Burns 049 Abysmal Grief - Crypt of Horror 050 Mike Patton/Mondo Cane - re D'Amore 051 The Man from U. N. C. L. E. Soundtrack - Jimmy Renda Se 052 Stelvio Cipriani - Papaya 053 Fantomas - Page 28 [20 Frames] 054 Carlo Maria Cordio - Rosso Sangue (Absurd) 055 Emma De Angelis - Trip 056 BRUNO NICOLAI-Red Cats (1975) 057 Duncan Dhu - La barra de este hotel 058 FROZEN CROWN - Neverending 059 Pavor na Cidade dos Zumbis (City of the Living Dead, 1980) Theme 060 Jarboe & Father Murphy - The Ferryman 061 Mudhoney - When In Rome 062 Fantomas - Page 21 [11 Frames] 063  Ancient Roman Music - Synaulia I 064 Behemoth - Rome 64 C.E. / Slaying the Prophets ov Isa 065 Clutch - Nero's Fiddle 066 Gluttony -  The Rise Of Sulla 067 Goblin - L'alba dei morti viventi 068 Elvis Presley - Heart Of Rome 069 Bulldozer - Insurrection Of The Living Damned 070 Peggy Lee - When In Rome (I Do as the Romans Do) 071 Osanna - Variazione I (To Plinius) 072 GIULIANO SORGINI - Ultima Caccia 073 Ennio Morricone - Metti una sera a cena 074 Sepultura -  The Vatican 075 Rome Soundtrack 02 The Forum 076 Fantomas -  Page 4 [11 Frames] 077 Gladiator - Theme Song 078 Avantasia - The Glory of Rome 079 Caligula (1979)-Opening Credits 080 Umberto -  Temple Room 081 SODOM - Caligula 082 Lacuna Coil -  Survive 083 Gigliola Cinquetti - Non ho leta 084 Lucio Battisti - Emozioni 085 Goblin -  Markos 086 MIke Patton -  Urlo Negro 087 Sandro Brugnolini -  Megattera 088 Fantomas -  Page 25 [34 Frames] 089 The Italian Job Soundtrack- Opening Titles 090 Fabio Frizzi - Un Gatto Nel Cervello 091 Heidevolk - Het verbond met Rome 092 Messiah - Nero 093 Julio Iglesias - Todo el amor que te hace falta 094 Calabria - Luna Calabrisi 095 Various Artists -  Iena Sequence 096 Fantomas -  Page 5 [7 Frames] 097 Perry Como Mandolins In The Moonlight 098 The Beyond Soundtrack - main theme 099 Mercyful Fate - Gypsy 100 Goblin -  Suspiria 101 Ufomammut - Empireum 102 Diaframma - Neogrigio 103 Umberto -  The Psychic 104 NecroDeath - Master Of Morphine 105 The Dirtiest - Cento shot 106 Fantomas -  Page 29 [39 Frames] 107 La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio - Ashes 108 Achille Togliani Fontana Di Trevi 109 MV & EE - Much obliged 110 Isis Synaulia - Musica dell'antica Roma 111 Sandro Brugnolini - Marsuino 112 Giobia - far behind 113 Darvaza - silver chalice   114 Fantomas -  Investigation Of A Citizen Above suspicion 115 Rome Soundtrack - Main Title Theme 116 Nebulae - Carbon 117 Beat Fuga - Shake 118 Gruppo folk naxos - Tarantella siciliana 119 Russian Circles - Milano 120 Kalidia - Circe's spell 121 Harlan Williams, Beneath the Iron Heel of Pagan Rome 122 Exhorder - Slaughter in the Vatican 123 Vatican - the 5th of metal 124 Extrema - Deep Infection 125 Rod Stewart - Italian Girls 126 Louis Prima - Buona Sera 127 Mike Patton/Mondo Cane - Che Notte! 128 Sinoath -  Saturnalia 129 Piero Piccioni - L'Italia Vista dal Cielo (Lombardia) 130 PIERO UMILIANI - Topless Party 131 Dean Martin - Arrivederci Roma 132 Fantomas -  Page 30 [2 Frames] 133 Sadist - Nadir 134 Hour of Penance - Rise and Oppress 135  Virgin Steele - The Burning of Rome (Cry for Pompeii) 136 FROZEN CROWN - Battles In The Night 137 The Monolith Deathcult - Demigod 138 PIG DESTROYER -  Machiavellian 139 Raw Power  - State oppresion 140 La luna ammenzu o mari - Folk Sicilia 141 Angels and Demons Soundtrack - Main Theme (Hans Zimmer) 142 Lou Monte - Bella notte 143 Fantomas - Page 7 [6 Frames] 144 Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi - Theme of ''Rome'' 145 INFERNO OST Dario Argento - MAIN THEME 146 Hombres G - Venezia 147 Rome Soundtracks - The Battle has began (Caesar's Theme) 148 NORA ORLANDI- Ossessione 149 Stelvio Cipriani - Orgasmo Nero 150 Goblin -  Profondo Rosso - Mad Puppet 151 Duatha - Maximinus Thrax 152 Sodom - City of God 153 Caronte - Invocation to Paimon 154 Demoni (Demons) Soundtrack by Claudio Simonetti  - Killing 155 PSYCHEDELIC WITCHCRAFT - Rising On The Edge 156 James Reyne - Fall Of Rome 157 Fantomas -  Vendetta 158  Rome Soundtrack - 16Th Death of Pompey 159 Alessandro Alessandroni & Sorgini Giuliano - Overcraft 160 The Man from U. N. C. L. E. OST - Che Vuole Questa Musica Stasera (Profumo Di Donna) 161 Clutch - Circus Maximus 162 Candlemass - Demons Gate 163 ROME - Uropia O Morte 164 Siouxsie And The Banshees - Cities In Dust (Extended 12 Version) 165 Tony Mottola - You And Only You 166 Musica dell'Antica Roma - Pavor 167 Fantomas - Page 6 [26 Frames] 168 Aborym -  II 169 Scorpions - The Sails Of Charon 170 Blind Guardian -  Lionheart 171 Septicflesh -  Dante's Inferno 172 MESSA - Leah 173 Mike Patton -  Senza Fine 174 Gary Numan - My Centurion 175 Frank Black and the Catholics - Back to Rome 176 Tonino Cavallo - Tarantella Siciliana 177 THE MELVINS - The Bloated Pope 178 Gluttony -  Lucullus In The East 179 Toto - Spanish Steps Of Rome 180 Fantomas -  Page 8 [9 Frames] 181 Mark Lanegan Band - Playing Nero 182 METRALLETA STEIN OST - Telemark 183 Luciano Pavarotti - Sole Mio 184 Jorja Chalmers - red light 185 Blood Ceremony -  Faunus 186 EKPYROSIS - Profound Death 187 Corleone  - Tutto diventerà rosso (feat. Mike Patton) 188 Primus -  The Storm 189 Museo Rosenbach - Superuomo 190 IVANO FOSSATI - MILANO 191 Lucio Dalla - Milano 192 Fantomas -  Page 9 [11 Frames] 193 Alessandro Allesendroni - Remember 194 Le Orme - Felona & Sorona - Return To Naught 195 Rome - The Spanish Drummer 196 Epitaph  -  Beyond the Mirror 197 Ephel Duath - The Passage 198 Three of You - New Life 199 Walter Rizzati I remember (Quella villa accanto al cimitero) 200 Lacuna Coil -  Heaven's A Lie 201 Judas Priest - Nostradamus 202 Triumvirat - Vesuvius 79 A.D. 203 Amedeo Tommasi - Exploration 204 Nero Kane † Lord Won't Come 205 FULCI - Eye Full Of Maggots 206 ULVER - Nemoralia 207 Voltumna  - Roma Delenda Est 208 Adorable - Sistine Chapel Ceiling 209 I Gres - Restless 210 Rita Pavone - Il Geghegè 211 Jahbulong - Under the influence of the fool 212 Theatres des Vampires -  Sangue 213 Antonio - High Voltage! 214 Fantomas -  Page 23 [17 Frames] 215 Sadist - Enslaver of Lies 216 Bunker 66 - (She's Got) Demon Eyes 217 GIULIANO SORGINI - Mad town 218 Zu -  Ostia 219 Moonraker - Miss Goodhead Meets Bond in Venice 220 Franco Micalizzi - I Due Volti Della Paura 221 John Zorn Naked City - The Sicilian Clan 222 Piero Umiliani - Nel Villaggio 223 Mike Patton/Mondo Cane - Cielo In Una Stanza 224 UFOMAMMUT - Warsheep 225 Fleshgod Apocalypse -  Elegy 226 SLASHER DAVE - Fulzzi 227 Panna Fredda - La Paura 228 Meads Of Asphodel - God Is Rome 229 Nora Orlandi - I Robot Original Version (Il dolce corpo di Deborah) 230 Caronte - Exctasy of Hecate 231 White Skull - Will of the Strong 232 Wotan - Thermopiles 233 Chromatics - Faded Now 234 Fantomas -  Page 2 [7 Frames] 235 Schizo - the main frame collapse 236 Ghost B.C. -  Per Aspera Ad Inferi 237 Dream Theater - The Count Of Tuscany 238 Satyricon -  Commando 239 Psico Galera - La Prima Volta 240 Scolopendra - Priest's blood soup 241 Theatres Des Vampires - 'Til the Last Drop of Blood 242 Victrola - Game of Despair 243 Blue Phantom - Diodo 244 Mortuary Drape - My Soul/primordial 245 Fantomas -  Page 11 [10 Frames] 246 Gianni Ferrio - Un dollaro bucato 247 Ataraxia - Canzona 248 Hexvessel - Phaedra 249 Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning 250 Mike Patton -  L'Uomo Che Non Sapeva Amare 251 Idiota Civilizzato - Uno E Nessuno 252 Ennio Morricone - Main Theme for Dario Argento's THE CAT O'NINE TAILS 253 Rhapsody - Ascending to Infinity 254 Monumentum - Battesimo: Nero Opaco 255 Opera IX - 1313 (Eradicate the False Idols) 256 Piedone lo sbirro OST - The Baron's death 257 Goblin - Deep red OST main theme 258 EKPYROSIS - Immolate the Denied 259 L'Impero delle Ombre - II Sabba 260 Monte Kristo - The Girl of Lucifer 261 Ghost - Lady Nite 262 Hallowed - Wake Up In The Night 263 Fantomas -  Page 27 [15 Frames] 264 Giuliano Sorgini - Lavoro cerebrale 265 Death SS - Vampire 266 VOLTURIAN - Broken 267 Cradle Of Filth - The 13th Caesar 268 Fulci - tropical sun 269 Alessandro Cortini - Perdere 270 Francesco Guccini - Bologna 271 Abysmal Grief  - Celebrate what they fear 272 Goblin - book of skulls 273 Tom Waits - In The Colosseum 274 Peggy Lee - Autumn In Rome 275 Ruins - Petit Portrait 276 Urna - Omnis Inifinita Mens Est Gremium Et Sepolcrum Universi 277 Nicolas Gaunin - Noa Noa Noa 278 Lacuna Coil - No Need to Explain 279 Theatres Des Vampires - Morgana Effect 280 Sepultura - City of Dis 281 Opera IX - The Oak 282 Rhapsody - Il cigno nero 283 Cripple Bastards  - Variante Alla Morte 284 Goblin - Witch (Susperia OST) 285 Death SS - revived 286 Henning Christiansen - L'essere Umano Errabando La Voca Errabando 287 Rolling Blackouts - The Second Of The First 288 Giuda - Overdrive 289 Hierophant  - Son of the new faith 290 Giorgio Faletti - Nati a Milano 291 Fabio Frizzi - A Cat in the Brain, Sequence 2 292 Dean Martin - On An Evening In Roma (Sott'er Celo De Roma) 293 FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE - Monnalisa 294 Valgrind - The Endless Circle 295 Oceana - Atlantidea Suite Part 1 296 Soda Stereo - Paseando Por Roma 297 Blasphemer - The Sixth Hour 298 Raw Power - Dreamer 299 Mike Patton/Mondo Cane - Deep down 300 Lacuna Coil - Swamped 301 Slalom OST by Ennio Morricone - Main theme 302 Stefano Marcucci - INFERNO 303 Lou Monte - Shaddap Ya Face 304 The Case of the Bloody Iris OST by Bruno Nicolai - Main theme 305 Mortuary Drape - Dreadful discovery 306 Antonio Riccardo Luciani - Cinque sottozero 307 Plateau Sigma -  Ouija and the Qvantvm 308 Piero Piccioni - Colpo rovente OST - main titles 309 Riz Ortolani - sette orchidee macchiate di rosso 310 Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse 311 Oliver Onions - Italian Girl 312 Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead 313 Metamorfosi - Spacciatore di Droga - Terremoto - Limbo 314 Body Count OST by Claudio Simonetti  - main theme 315 Symphony X - Underworld 316 Carlo Savina - Titoli di testa 317 Orchestra King Zerand - Night Song 318 Piero Umiliani - La schiava 319 CLAUDIO SIMONETTI'S GOBLIN - The Devil is back 320 Roman Holiday OST - Main title 666 Fabio Frizzi - Voci Dal Nulla

Perhaps not enough Morricone and needs more Goblin. The next update will have more, I am sure. Play it here:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC18JtHohAYmD7g1FGA8S-D2B

[zooterchet]

The Dindu Riddle (Cypher from the Matrix)

Never accepted willingly, always a retaliation against whomever has placed it, for all history; plus an expulsion of army soldier medics, as "Paki", to India, from the sponsor country.

Francis O'Neill: "Dr. Spock"; written to confuse German families, into raising their children, as "The Boston Strangler". Enemy: German homestead rule, "The Watchtower".

Alice Charlebois nee O'Neill: "Lead Zeppelin"; prison rule created to place invocation of Aleister Crowley, gay soldier, in prison, as Led Zeppelin reference. Enemy: First soldiers initiative, "Camp Lejeune".

Dave Charlebois: "Deadpool"; seven militant organizations created internationally, through five Bond films, the backer, and EON's financier, plus seven street plays to defeat the foes, and remove Muhammad's rule, Hitler/Soros, the hostels. Enemy: Scottish devolution, "Home Depot".

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[queersatanic]

You should know that the problems with The Satanic Temple's reactionary history is not just restricted to using Marc Randazza once in 2018; in fact, Randazza was working on their Boston invocation case until this year and has done other legal work for them, like with trademarks, in between.

But actual abortion-access orgs are some of the ones talking about the harm TST is doing by pushing misinformation regarding what it can accomplish, and then literally profiting off of it and otherwise not showing where at a minimum hundreds of of thousands of dollars in donation money ends up.

The Satanic Temple cannot help you get an abortion, and it does not deserve your support.

It's a hope grift, and the reason you got a backlash is that hundreds or thousands of people seem to believe being a member of The Satanic Temple grants them some sort of protections, and that is absolutely not true. Signing up for a newsletter does nothing, and buying a certificate is sending $35 to the for-profit corporation United Federation of Churches LLC d/b/a "The Satanic Temple" owned by a guy who spent seven years trying to start a cargo cult, and a guy who wanted to make "Might Is Right II" be TST's foundational text before the cargo cult one talked him down.

But people like to think Santa Claus is real, and the news of the real story doesn't travel nearly so fast or get so many headlines.

could you edit your abortion post to remove the part about the satanic temple? people in the comments have noted how TST won't help legally, don't need donations, and have an antisemitic history. I'd love to reblog an edited version if you'd consider it /gen

Hey! A few things:

1. IDK how familiar you are with Tumblr mechanics, but me editing the original on a post that's already got a kajillion reblogs is a bit like trying to shoe the horse after it's left the stable. There are plenty of reblogs disagreeing with that detail that you can choose from or - wonder of wonders - you can even add that bit yourself

2. The purpose of joining a group like TST is not to help you get an abortion (I referred to several other groups that can do that). If abortion is illegal in a state, they're not going to start up operations just because you claim an exemption. The point isn't even to defend you in court, really.

TST is functionally a group that creates test cases. The point of a test case is not to win in court but to lose on the grounds of existing law and slowly, over years, move up to higher courts of appeal until winning a case on the grounds of challenging the legality or constitutionality of the law itself. The case then serves as precedent for future legal action. That's what Roe v. Wade was in the first place: a test case brought forward through the courts through legal activism, and it lost every trial right up to the Supreme Court.

In terms of personal protection, then, how does membership in that sort of group protect you if you're prosecuted for obtaining an abortion, either out of state or through illegal means in your state? Well, it may make prosecuting you look like more trouble than it's worth. A conservative prosecutor might not want to tee up a test case like this. It's not a strong protection. It's basically a Hail Mary to keep in your back pocket.

3. As for the antisemitic history, that all stems back to one 2018 decision to hire a lawyer who had also represented antisemitic clients. It was massively controversial in TST, some chapters actually broke off on their own, and I'm not particularly happy about it. That said, it doesn't amount to the church actually promoting antisemitic beliefs.

4. I told people to consider joining, not to donate or participate in TST activities. You literally don't have to do anything to consider yourself a member - just join the email list or do something else that creates a paper trail by which you can claim affiliation. Someone else suggested the Church of Prismatic Light as an alternative. I don't know much about them, but sure, great. If they work as an alternative - by which I mean, if they have documented dogma that the act of getting an abortion is a religious practice and therefore interfering with it is interfering with the ability to practice one's religion and have a history of obnoxious litigation to support it - go for it. Otherwise, hey - you considered it, like I suggested, and decided against it. That's fine, now stop expending your energy on getting a stranger on the internet to use the words you want them to use and focus on the other actions you need to be taking to protect abortion in the real world.