Doug Berch

@moishepipick.bsky.social

dulcimer maker, musician, humanoid

"Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth. ~Aldous Huxley

During the lonely hours of working her first day as a human billboard, Miranda considered that those bohemian weirdos at the coffeeshop she overheard talking about the time being ripe for a proletariat uprising might on to something.

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Waking up to a Carnyx 🐗📢 The talented Letty Stott playing a Carnyx last night alongside the sacred waters of Llyn Cerrig Bach votive lake, Ynys Mon/Anglesey 🎶😮 Have a great Sunday everyone 🍻 🎥 My own - volume up!

"Boy playing oil can guitar in the burned out ruins of his home during racial riot, Maseru, Lesotho" (1961) Ian Berry, Magnum Photos

Boy playing oil can guitar in the burned out ruins of his home, standing in front of the open door

When you get flamed by members of the MAGA cult, just respond with, "Thank you for your attention to this matter." They will not attack you after quoting from their sacred texts. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt is like administering medicine to the dead or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture." ~ Thomas Paine

"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt is like administering medicine to the dead or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture."


~ Thomas Paine

"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt is like administering medicine to the dead or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture." ~ Thomas Paine

Man eats them, man drinks them, man uses them; these are the Sparks that dwell in the things. Therefore, one should have mercy on his tools and all his possessions for the sake of the Sparks that are in them; one should have mercy on the Holy Sparks. - The Baal Shem Tov

“If I affirm myself as a Catholic merely by denying all that is Muslim, Jewish, Protestant, Hindu, Buddhist, etc., in the end I will find that there is not much left for me to affirm as a Catholic, and certainly no breath of the Spirit with which to affirm it.” – Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton

A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell white supremacy, antisemitism and patriarchy to angry young men.

The rise of the Jim Crow theobros

(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...

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When I rule the world, ICE agents will be required to work the jobs once held by the people they rounded up, with the same wages and working conditions those people had to live with.

Samaritans Report a 40% increase in calls from the Trans Community since April 2025. I telephoned the Samaritans n 1969, in 1971, in 1974, and in 1978 I am still here because of those calls. Call the Samaritans, anytime for free any, from any phone, on 116 123 www.samaritans.org/news/samarit...

Samaritans responds to EHRC guidance after 40% rise in calls following Supreme Court ruling

Samaritans responds to EHRC guidance after 40% rise in calls following Supreme Court ruling

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