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ericoscott.bsky.social
Raised by Witches. Mostly writes about Paganism. Union thug, technically a doctor, editor at The Wild Hunt: https://wildhunt.org
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Addition to the list of RPG campaigns I'll never have time to run and thus will haunt me forever: "the day DOGE came for Delta Green"

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

Lots of North St. Louis is still in ruins and the Trump administration is directing the agency that should be helping rebuild to create concentration camps instead.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Again, from a hard-nosed, amoral position: what’s the point of supporting a client state if they just ignore you? What are we getting out of the relationship?

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

The US president issuing demands via social media to try and enforce an unstable ceasefire in the exact same all-caps tone as a frustrated teenage moderator in the chat room on a Counter-Strike server does at least rip the mask away from the absurdity that is modern international politics.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Election day in New York City is a reminder that in the age of Trump, Democrats in both houses of Congress probably shouldn’t be led by representatives of a state / city party machine that couldn’t close ranks against a notoriously corrupt, disgraced sex pest they all hate.

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

I have two or three advanced degrees in medieval literature, why do I spend so much time writing spreadsheets

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Pride Month has always felt bittersweet to me until now. I was jealous to the bone of those who could speak freely about their identities. I had to conceal mine, edit my words, make sure that I wouldn’t let it slip out. I was a watered-down version of myself. wildhunt.org/2025/06/witc... #pagan

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I am going to start drinking. It's a weird thing to start doing at 39, but like, it seems like a reasonable choice under the circumstances

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

This whole, "sexual assault and harassment is bad when Trump does it, but ok when our side does it," is sending a really clear message that the old guard of Democratic leadership only cares about women when it's politically advantageous. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 1 day ago • 155 comments

now seems like a good time to revisit @asherelbein.bsky.social's brilliant piece on magneto “They would kill us all if they could!” he says in an early issue, fleeing a nuke that he’s primed to destroy a small country he’s just tried to conquer. “We fight only in self defense!”

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Two contracts to go.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

My statement on the government's absurd and authoritarian proposal to proscribe Palestine Action.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

It turns out creating a situation where 25% of global petroleum liquids might go offline at any minute has an impact on oil prices, who would have guessed.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

When it comes to what motivates Trump, it almost always comes down to ratings or incarnating the anti-Obama. In the case of bombing Iran, the Venn overlap was a single circle.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is a kiddish hashem and honestly it feels nice to be able say that about a public performance of Judaism

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

TONIGHT

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really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency

submitted 2 days ago • 237 comments

incredible, they cop-tensed the possible beginning of the next world war

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No war but class war.

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I already linked to this piece by Spencer Ackerman, but I wanted to add one thing. Ackerman says that we should remember that this war started not today but in 1953. He's right. But I would be amazed if even 1% of the population knows what 1953 refers to in this context.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

not the immediate issue, but no country will ever negotiate a stop to their nuclear program again. not after libya, not after today.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

it should go without saying, but an impromptu war against Iran helmed by the dumbest person alive is a really bad idea

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The rational move for any country is to get nukes ASAP. Don't care for it.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

Our Midsummer altar. #witchcraft #wicca #pagan

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

with no plausible claim of self-defense, joining in a two-country effort obviously directed at regime change, this is not only a violation of art 2(4) of the UN Charter. it very much looks like aggressive war.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Well fuck

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

This is incredibly funny but, also, I hope everyone who is pro AI or a teacher that allows AI can see clear as day that the ultimate goal is to put the thumb on the scale of all of this shit. That's why they're forcing it on us. It's a joke.

submitted 3 days ago • 80 comments

You really should come fuck yourself.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Worked out pretty well for me.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The paradox of the three year old is that when you ask him what's the matter he just moans incoherently but when you ask him what he wants to watch on TV he can say 'michelinoceras.'

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.

submitted 3 days ago • 215 comments

Not me looking at Disney Cruise Line’s B- environmental rating and trying to convince myself that’s not so bad just because the idea of four days where somebody else makes plans and decisions on my behalf sounds very appealing.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Why, this is very midsummer madness.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Mommy, the Times is trying to make us go to war again

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

This, I suppose, is 39.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

'Burgeoning Nature is the work of the force known as Pan, expansive, ruthless, regarding only the natural forms and its own devotees ... Sensible men shunned Pan, finding his effect on their wives very strange indeed.' -- Ross Nichols, 'The Book of Druidry' (1975/1990) 🎨 Noël-Nicolas Coypel III

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"Party of the working class" thinks bosses dont have enough tax breaks and you have too many holidays

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Tune in to either of my parents’ Facebook pages for up to the minute coverage on my kid’s temperature.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The president of working people, folks.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

“It’s my policy that I am not subject to federal law” is a hell of a position to take

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments