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hello, Ash. goodbye, Ash. 

this is as close as we’ll ever get. 

#ash astaroth #multiplicity #blackspace #satanic panic #jack says hi

[grandmotherweb]

godspeed

#fun #snow #true heroes

[grandmotherweb]

the AI models that make this type of classification possible are the same ones that make generative art possible.

"every tool is a weapon / if you hold it right" - Ani DiFranco

#AI #classification #machine learning #blackspace #art #skynet apocalypse

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fuck Israel. the only reason they're getting away with this is because they buy their weapons from us.

makes me sick to my stomach.

In 40 days, 1 in every 200 people in Gaza has been killed. In 40 days, 1 in every 100 people in Gaza has been injured. In 40 days, 1 in 2 people in Gaza have become homeless.

Via Almezan Centre

#genocide #zionism

[grandmotherweb]

Now is an excellent time to tell your Democratic Congress Critters trans Healthcare is important

If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at [phone] and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

#Republicans #gender affirming healthcare #satanic panic #Nazi scum

[grandmotherweb]

Had a real fun time educating people today about The Satanic Temple (“Scientology For Mall Goths”) today at PrideFest on CapHill in Seattle.

Thanks to the friends who came out to support the four Queer Satanic Heretics 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 Temple is now suing a TikToker in Texas for talking about our case. Check the pinned post for more.

#the satanic temple #grey faction #satanic panic #lucien greaves #fuck the satanic temple #abort that shit

[grandmotherweb]

Via @korvys​ (Twitter)

#art #boop the snoot

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Lucien Greaves on "The View" and "Network [N-words]"

On Sept. 11, 2003, future co-owner of The Satanic Temple Doug "Lucien Greaves" Misicko, his friend and collaborator Shane Bugbee, and Shane Bugbee's wife Amy Stocky hosted a 24-hour Internet radio stream with guests and callers to mark the release of their new edition of the proto-fascist manifesto Might Is Right. The following year, Doug Misicko continued to appear on Internet radio streams with Shane and Amy. "The ABCs of the Alphabet" was one such program. This is an excerpt from one of those recordings.

CW: anti-Black slurs, antisemitism, racism

Full transcript in lieu of captions:

#The Satanic Temple #Lucien Greaves #grey faction #fuck the satanic temple #Satanic panic

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Israelis have formed a pogrom to eradicate the Palestinians of Huwara. This is in no way an exaggeration. February 26th 2023.

I am only linking to one of MANY videos of this which are found on the account being linked.

[grandmotherweb]

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

The Satanic Temple uses people—uses them up and discards them (or worse).

If you think you're different, look at what happened to those who came before.

TST will use any weakness you give them and hurt you with it later: your housing, mental health, even the death of your pet.

Some of you may even remember this Vice article from a few years back:

Ash Astaroth was then the director of the Temple's headquarters in Salem, and he was still assistant chapter head of the NYC chapter he had helped found.

So in 2016, The Satanic Temple found Astaroth useful for public propaganda, as in that Vice article, even though it wasn't necessarily representative of the organization as a whole. How could it be given who started TST (and who still owned it)?

Satanic Trump-supporter Brian Werner's sign speaks for itself, but Werner also believed abortion was "killing a child". Werner apparently found the death of Trayvon Martin very funny, or at least wanted to be edgy selling clothing about it.

TST owner Doug Misicko a.k.a. "Lucien Greaves" a.k.a. "Doug Mesner" reaching out to Shane Bugbee also says plenty, and we've covered that relationship elsewhere. Short version: "One drop of Jew blood means you ain't breakin' bread with me, motherfucker" is something Bugbee once said in the middle of a 24-hour stream with Misicko.

But Zach Black may be less familiar to most.

From The Village Voice in 2014:

Zach Black is a 38-year-old sushi chef in Northern California and a longtime Satanist. He started the Satanic International Network, the largest — though not the only — social media site for Satanists. He was a card-carrying member of the Church of Satan for nearly a decade, from 1994 to 2002. For the first few years after he joined, Anton LaVey was still alive. That made all the difference, Black says, and the church was much more “proactive.” Black is one of a group of disaffected ex-Church of Satan members who believe Gilmore was never supposed to become the church’s next leader. LaVey wanted to pass the torch to a man named Boyd Rice, an artist and writer who was a close friend, Black says. “But he turned it down. He didn’t want to do it. I’m not sure why.” ... Rice, meanwhile, went in a different direction. For nearly two decades, he was part of Death in June, a British neo-folk band that anti-racist groups have accused of supporting white nationalism. Rice has repeatedly denied being a racist or a Nazi sympathizer, a claim that was not bolstered in 2008, when an old video surfaced of him on a public-access TV show, describing Death in June as a proud “racialist” band.

In other words, Zach Black thought it was a shame this guy didn't take over Church of Satan, and therefore Black joined The Satanic Temple to get it going.

Proactive.

So, back to that Vice article, the message was "We're not like those other Satanists", the Church of Satan, sure, but also Brian Werner, Shane Bugbee, and Zach Black who got TST off the ground in 2013-2014.

This distinction, which also involved throwing those men under the bus and pretending they weren't relevant, was made explicit in that interview with Astaroth.

In 2014, as [Astaroth] prepared for a life explaining away his Lucifer tattoos with a spiel about liking the literary archetype, he discovered the Satanic Temple, an unrelated though similarly-named group. It was actually an anti-Satanic Temple rant that drew him to the organization, posted to YouTube by Brian Werner, a former death metal vocalist in the band Vital Remains. "It's become a very liberal, compassionate, borderline hippie-like outlook on politics and societal issues," said Werner. "If this guy is leaving the Satanic Temple for those reasons," Astaroth recalls thinking. "That's exactly where I need to be."

Those who were there during this era would remember Ash Astaroth because he was central to The Satanic Temple's operations, first in New York City, then in the headquarters in Salem as an employee of 64 Bridge LLC, or the "Salem Art Gallery".

In this capacity, Ash comes up in the Belle Plaine lawsuit depositions:

The Satanic Temple's owners "helped" Ash Astaroth by letting him move into Salem Art Gallery / TST's physical headquarters.

This sounds kind, but remember, they weren't just letting him stay as a friend: they worked him. They really worked him.

Read those depositions and email evidence from 2017, or just run a find for "Astaroth" to count how many times he's involved in a national campaign over TST's veterans' memorial. It is extensive.

Ash's housing was directly controlled by his employer.

When you are an organization that targets vulnerable populations for "help" and "opportunities" but you control their continued access to resources, no amount of smiles or love bombing or kind words will ever change the inherent threat of what's going on. Look no further than how this level of control can go to extremely dark places than recent events with the Black Hammer cult in Atlanta.

That's the context of the article that Ash Astaroth wrote after being "excommunicated" from The Satanic Temple in 2018, coinciding with the "Great Schism" where many chapters left the national Temple org over TST's owners' priorities and histories coming to light.

In the next post, we're going to reproduce Astaroth's article largely without commentary but with some content warnings where relevant. Then, at the end, we'll say a little more.

But as a general warning, watch out for self-harm and sui references, mental illness, abuse, and pet death.

#the satanic temple #grey faction #satanic panic #tst #cult #fraud #slapp #ash astaroth

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Do Not Give The Satanic Temple Money For Any Reason Especially Abortion

[ZINE] The Satanic Temple cannot help you get an abortion

(and it does not deserve your support)

[Zine with pages in order]

[Zine ordered for two per page, print front and back, flip on short edge]

[Jezebel article]

[Riverfront Times article]

[Sources roundup]

When members of The Satanic Temple see criticism of them and their failed efforts in the name of abortion rights, they often say, “Well, at least they’re doing something.”

Yes, what they’re doing is actively making things worse and making money off of it.

“The Satanic Temple is not going to save you.”

#the satanic temple #grey faction #slapp #fraud #cult

[grandmotherweb]

@QueerSatanic end-of-year legal defense fundraiser

The Satanic Temple may have missed another deadline in their ongoing lawsuit against us, but they still made us spend quite a lot of money dealing with another round of their bullshit.

That means more fundraising, and more slap stickers (SLAPP stickers?) for everyone who wants to support us.

$394/$500 (12/21/22)

[Links]

We also just got someone who has committed to matching all our donations up to the first $500.

Update: Capital Area Satanists are now also matching all donations up thru the first $500, so we are at $2 (two dollars) matching for every $1 (one dollar) donated.

Update: A third supporter is now also matching all donations up thru the first $500, so we are at $3 (two dollars) matching for every $1 (one dollar) donated.

Please help us maintain our ability to defend ourselves from a frivolous lawsuit by an abusive religious/business organization that has lasted for more than two and a half years.

In case that image is not clear, we're looking to raise at least $500 to roll out five more glossy sticker designs, 2x2" in size

How many you personally get mailed to you is dependent on how much you donate

=In return for donation (from within the USA)=

$5 = 5 stickers ($1 per sticker- 1 of each design)

$10 = 10 stickers ($1 per - 2 each)

$25 = 40 stickers ($0.62 per - 8 each)

$50 = 100 stickers ($0.50 per - 20 each)

$100 = 400 stickers ($0.25 per - 80 each)

(If you live outside of the USA, it's going to get a bit more complicated because we need to do more than break even; it's still possible, but maybe DM us about it if you want to do more than just donate?)

=Ways to donate=

PayPal @QueerSatanic: https://paypal.com/paypalme/queersatanic

CashApp $QueerSatanic: https://cash.app/$QueerSatanic

GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund-for-victims-of-satanic-temple1

You can use [email protected] to send addresses to us + proof of donation like a screenshot; but basically, just make sure you find some way to get your mail address to us.

For other merch and designs, check our Redbubble store:

The margins on this aren't great, but we don't have any extra labor to do, and if you're outside the USA, this may be the easiest way to physically get something in your hands.

#The Satanic Temple #SLAPP #satanic panic #cult #TST #Doug misicko is a craven coward #grey faction

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I need you guys to listen so bad, but I’m at least glad people on Twitter are starting to talk about this. The government of Canada is expanding Medically Assisted Death to cull the poor and disabled, and now suicidal and mentally ill (these are usually interchangeable of course here). It is EUGENICS and every single disabled rights organization is against it.

Disability payments are $1,200 a month. The average one bedroom apartment rent in the Greater Toronto Area (greatest pop. area by far here) is $2,000 a month. People with mental illnesses are on months long waitlists to get even a single publicly funded session. Weeks to get privately funded care which costs at least $200 a session. There is no housing here for disabled people. We are in one of the worst housing crises in the world right now.

Doctors are now offering MAiD unprompted to young suicidal people. This woman is 21, a health practitioner literally suggested she kill herself.

This is one of the worst Disability Rights Violations we’ve ever seen in Canada. The government is killing us because it is cheaper than funding healthcare, cheaper than giving people housing and food and basic human rights.

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Someone in r/exchristian made the observation that viral, anti-Halloween sign doesn't seem to make sense given that Christmas is "handouts" on a much bigger scale

but that actually points to a key element of understanding "generosity" within American slaver Christianity

The sign:

[Handwritten note behind a mesh window. Some of the words are underlined and/or all caps for emphasis. " *Attention Satanic Socialists*!!! This is the home of a *Patriotic Christian Family*! We *work hard* and *pay taxes*! We *do not* celebrate *Satan's Day* We *do not give away free candy to lazy entitled freeloaders! *No Handouts*! Welcome to *America*!! If you want candy, **Get A Job**!! and *Find Jesus*!!!!]

The reason why giving out the pittance of Halloween candy is more offensive to these people than buying extravagant Christmas gifts is that, traditionally, you can't control who shows up at your door.

If trick-or-treaters knock, you are obliged to provide candy.

A white evangelical can be generous, of course. A Christian business owner might give out a bonus on Christmas, for example. An extravagant bonus, even.

But they’d rather shut down than let a union take hold, let alone a co-op.

So long as those Christians retain the power in the gifts they extend, they can always recall their gifts.

They may be willing to be extremely charitable in lots of things—but never power.

Because if told to obliterate earthly hierarchies—exactly as their most radical, inerrant scriptures call for explicitly—you’ll see slaver Christians become vicious and cruel beyond imagination preserving their wealth, racial privilege, patriarchy, etc.

Slaver Christians don’t hate socialism because it makes anything worse or anyone worse off.

No, they hate socialism because they and those they deem deserving of power would lose some ability to control others they regard as undeserving.

The end of these Christians' ability to control, coerce, and dominate others is terrifying and repugnant to them b/c they can only ever imagine being a slaver or enslaved; if they don't have the whip, they assume they're the slave

They can't imagine everyone equal and free.

Moreover, we’re still being sued by The Satanic Temple in federal court. TST is now *also* suing Newsweek for writing about us and that case. Check the pinned post for more.

[grandmotherweb]

Be Gay | Do Crime | Hail Satan

lawyers are expensive!

but these flags are very rad, and as a thank you to people helping us pay for our lawyers this month, we have some flags to give out as part of our give boxes

Remember to email to include the username or email you used to donate. Then send a name or pseudonym, the screenshot, and your shipping address to: [email protected] so we can make sure to get stickers to you, with five people getting their own flag and gift box.

#Queer Satanic #The Satanic Temple #Fuck The Satanic Temple #be gay do crime hail satan #satanic panic

[grandmotherweb]

I worked on Labor Day. it was non-stop busy

Love the way retail/food/any customer service workers still have to work on labor day while everyone else with """real""" jobs, or jobs that are taken seriously, get the day off. As if society doesn't fucking depend on retail and food service workers on a daily basis. Like who makes the CEO's coffee he gets every morning on his way to work in his 2022 self driving car. Who has to deal with over a hundred customers in under an hour and get every order accurate and made in under 3 minutes or else they get yelled at by the customer who is insistent that waiting for more than 5 minutes for their food will eat into their hour lunch break. Even though the person making the food for them will only get a single 30 minute break. Who do you think stocks the shelves at the store at the weirdest fucking hours ever so the boss of some fancy company can run in and get 300$ worth of wine to wind down after his shift of sitting in an office for 5 hours which was oh so stressful. Literally customer service workers deserve labor day off otherwise what's the point.

#blackspace #labor day #workers of the world