Michael M. Hughes ☿
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Writer (novels + nonfiction), speaker, magical thinker • Copy Editor at The Baltimore Banner • Tarot courses + more:
Baltimore, MD, USA
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My latest for The Baltimore Banner: A trip across a bridge now lost in time.
WATCH: Take a drive over the Key Bridge in this poignant short student film from 1987 - The Baltimore Banner
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1. So weird, after decades of promoting the benefits of psychedelics, I now spend my time cautioning people against their hype as magical panaceas by techbros. Psychedelics are NOT for everyone. They aren’t magical cure-alls for mental illness.
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We're seeing today the very real and deep danger of bullshit conspiracy theories. Which is why I refuse to be silent about them when they circulate in my shared online communities.
Don't be silent, either.
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@MMFlint
And when the bar is lowered so far it's buried in the dirt. He read a speech. He tried to seem non-monstrous. Still a monster.
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Do not be daunted
by the enormity
of the world’s grief.
Do justly, now.
Love mercy, now.
Walk humbly, now.
You are not obligated
to complete the work,
but neither are you free
to abandon it.
—The Talmud
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Unpopular opinion: the best magical sigils have no recognizable elements. They should be completely abstract — no stylized eyes, dollar signs, astrological or alchemical symbols, etc. They should look alien. Abstraction is vital. I will die on this hill.
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THREAD: So much bullshit in the
#Tarot
world.
The Romani do not own tarot as a "closed system." Tarot originated as a game in 15th century Italy. The myth of Roma as transmitters of tarot is based on bogus 18th cent. history claiming "gypsies" brought tarot from ancient Egypt.
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@TwitterSupport
While you’re at it, can you please get rid of the horrible auto scroll?
Thanks!
Sincerely,
Every Twitter User
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FLY ON PENCE’S HEAD
WHICH OF YOU WITCHES DID THIS
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@veganfitnessric
Why must everything be so viciously policed? If someone says they eat vegan 90% of the time, I cheer them on. Dietary transition is a spectrum for many people (me included). I don’t claim to be vegan, but I say I eat vegan, more so all the time. I welcome everyone on the journey.
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@GlenAlanBurris
@The_Lady_Red
@MichaelJStern1
Trump Tower was very likely a money-laundering operation, and it had plenty of wealthy Russian tenants. Lots of ways to get paid by Putin.
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Interesting image, not posting for any particular reason.
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Just a note: if someone puts their work out for public viewing and consumption, it is absolutely reasonable to expect criticism. Criticizing public work—even vociferously—is not “cancel culture.” It’s simply culture.
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All of my weird, niche hobbies and fascinations have gone mainstream and become monetized, dumbed-down, and boring. UFOs, tarot, psychedelics, occultism, forteana, RPGs.
Maybe it’s time to take up stamp collecting again. Life was more fun when weird was, well… weird.
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1/11. There is a reason Nazis have infiltrated UFO/paranormal/alternative health/new age communities—because they are full of credulous people who can be nudged, little by little, toward their malignant ideology.
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Gordon White, host of the Rune Soup podcast, discussed taking part in civil unrest against public health restrictions and murdering people who take COVID-19 seriously ("scolds") in his paid, private, members-only group. Text is below.
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@fawfulfan
Both reject urbanism for a mythical pastoral ideal of the past. Both reject feminism. Both are anti-LGBTQ. Both are deeply racist and anti-Semitic.
Fascism is always the same at its core, it just changes its stylings.
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Wandering through the Met and felt a pull. Ended up at a display case of magical items.
Mesopotamian Incantation bowls with demon in center surrounded by Aramaic script. 6-7th century.
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In light of our current Christofascist nightmare, I again offer this to the magical community.
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Friends, meet the newest resident at Casa Hughes. 10-month-old, formerly (and unfortunately) named Velveeta (!) by the shelter folks, and currently named (and kid-approved) Samwise Gamgee. His sister arrives next week.
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Think I'm gonna invent "tactical tarot" cards and corner the male tarot market.
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Not a fan of people belittling Christianity with “zombie Jesus” and other sarcastic takes. All religions (with a few exceptions, like Scientology) have profound depth and metaphorical beauty beneath the surface literality and dogma.
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WE DID IT!
OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER!
THANK YOU WITCHES AND MAGICAL PEOPLE! I LOVE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU!
#BindTrump
#MagicResistance
#WitchHunt
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Found this on my computer, posting for no real reason. Feel free to copy, share, whatever, also for no reason.
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Sorry, new age "lightworkers" and assorted "be nice!" milquetoasters and civically challenged bothsidesers. When fascists take control, the only option is to be loud, angry, and fight back. Fascists will stomp your nice face into the pavement.
Speak up, fight hard.
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You'd think a talking dog helping to raise a child with Chris Evans would be a bigger story, but 🤷♂️
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Took my mom to get her vaccine and they had an extra. I have now had my first dose of Pfizer!
Eat shit, SARS-CoV-2! 🦠
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@GetTheFabulous
Plenty of “successful” people lead miserable lives and die young.
<hits snooze alarm for third time>
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Putting together a goddam tent for the first time
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Do other people sometimes read back and forth between 10 nonfiction books at a time?
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Blocked by another psilocybin entrepreneur who can't tell the difference between milligrams of psilocybin and milligram content of dried mushrooms. And people are trusting their mental health to this dude's company? This is everything wrong with psychedelic capitalism.
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I know where I won't be looking for reviews of occult books.
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@bessbell
I spent hours on my costume and gruesome monster makeup for a Halloween contest in high school, only to lose to a guy in a store-bought rubber mask and costume.
That was the day I understood life is not fair.
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I’ve always had luck with this weird form of divination(?) where I meditate in front of a fire and then take a few snapshots of the flames. I was thinking of Pan a few minutes ago and voila—see the goat on the left?
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@TSR_games
I don’t think those who commented about Ernie’s transphobic comments came to “fight” on your timeline, just to point out that what he said was awful.
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Copy editing is not a job for the fainthearted. You catch and fix hundreds of typos and grammatical mistakes every week, but miss one thing and a reader fires off a caustic email. Strange profession: Your great work is entirely invisible and only your mistakes are apparent.
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If I could teach people one thing in 2022, it's the difference between "altar" and "alter."
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Was listening to my local NPR station and heard an ad for an AI company bragging that its product was “hallucination-free.” We are living in a Philip K. Dick novel.
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Get 'em, witches! 🇺🇦🌻
Russian soldiers continue to get a warm welcome in Ukraine: “Do you know where you are?! It’s Konotop. Here every second woman is a witch. Tomorrow you’ll no longer be able to get your d*ck to stand”
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@jason_m_heller
Only if you pay for my family's insurance and buy our groceries.
I'm not upset at you, I just think what you're saying reeks of privilege. I am following my dreams, but I work a day job and write at night to keep my bills paid. Like most writers today.
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So those getting pissy about white people using tarot as "cultural appropriation" from the Romani are, in fact, perpetuating a racist myth. The irony is off the charts.
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Really unfortunate that The Unbinding, a well-produced and innovative paranormal documentary I enjoyed watching, is bringing a lot of attention to a really unsavory Slavic/Ukrainian white supremacist neopagan religious group, RUNvira.
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Today I was interviewed by a writer from Oprah Magazine about tarot's rising popularity during the pandemic. That was fun. 😊
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If you carry a giant gun around in public you’re an asshole.
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RIP Toby Turnipseed. A good boy and the best writing companion ever.
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Normalize not assuming that the Waite-Smith is the only tarot deck
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@NMamatas
My wife, who only exists as a muse and support system for my art and our telekinetic toddler, stands in the doorway secretly watching me fail to write while biting her pretty lip and sighing.
I love her, but suspect I may kill her.
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Having a tough time deciding between hexing aluminum or the letter D today.
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Always had a gut feeling that new age* spirituality was going to end up in a bad place, but that it ended up embracing fascism and turning people against vaccines is so much worse than I could have imagined.
*rhymes with "sewage"
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It's finally here! MAGIC FOR THE RESISTANCE: RITUALS AND SPELLS FOR CHANGE is on store shelves and shipping from online retailers. Ask for it at your local bookseller or order online:
#BindTrump
#MagicResistance
#WitchHunt
#M4TR
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Weird, I’ve actually gained, not lost, followers. I guess not spreading bullshit conspiracies and insurrection has its benefits after all!
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Apparently I am part of the intolerant left/woke cancel culture for suggesting potential podcast guests avoid appearances on shows that spread COVID denial and other conspiracy garbage.
I am so ashamed.
/notashamed
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Tarot originated as a game in 15th century Italy. There was nothing Kabbalistic, alchemical, astrological, or Hermetic about the cards until a bunch of esoteric Freemasons decided there was in the 18th century.
Pictured: La Luna (Ancient Italian Tarot, Lo Scarabeo)
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Crazy idea I know but what if we took all the energy and research going into making cars driverless and put it into making clean, safe, sustainable public transportation?
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TAROT CARDS COME FROM ANCIENT EGYPT THE GYPSIES PUT THEM ON PLAYING CARDS TO HIDE ANCIENT WISDOM THEY ALSO ARE CABALISTIC BECAUSE 22 MAJORS AND 22 HEBREW LETTERS AND ASTROLOGICAL BECAUSE WITCHES ARE THE CARRIERS OF THE GODDESS TRADITION & YOU MUST BE GIFTED UR FIRST DECK FROM A W
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I don’t think a lot of y’all realize that we were a hair’s width from a literal violent fascist takeover.
Like, I was expecting to see our representatives zip-tied and executed on live TV.
Fuck anyone who downplays 1/6.
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Would be nice to go one day without being reminded that magic and occultism are rife with fascists. Really makes me wonder if I would have been better off getting into stamp collecting or model trains.
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My first novel was published by Random House when I was 40. Don’t listen to ageist idiots.
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Well,
@realDonaldTrump
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#WitchHunt
tweet makes this a propitious time for my cover reveal!
Coming this fall from
@LlewellynBooks
: MAGIC FOR THE RESISTANCE: RITUALS AND SPELLS FOR CHANGE.
#BindTrump
#MagicResistance
#WitchHunt
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Hey you guys, you know how sometimes after a really powerful ritual you feel compelled to do a divination?
Of course you do.
I pulled out my major arcana, shuffled, asking “What will be the result of our magic against Donald Trump?”
Guess which card I drew 😮
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Found this on my computer, posting for no real reason. Feel free to copy, share, etc. for no real reason.
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This strain is bad. Far worse than my previous 2 infections. Be careful out there!
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No more excuses. If you link to, or post excerpts from, or otherwise draw attention or clicks to fascist and white supremacist T*cker C*rlson "because UFOs are important and bigger than politics," then you are aiding a fascist.
Just stop.
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And some people thought I was being alarmist when I made this a year ago.
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We're doing the
#HexPutin
ritual again Saturday night at 7:33pm EST. Please join us and RT to spread the word!
Also, many people are doing this as a "rolling" hex throughout the day. Do it any time—Ukraine needs you.
🇺🇦🌻🔥
иди нахуй, Путин
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Lost my wallet last night. Was about to give up and start canceling cards etc. when the doorbell rang. A woman had been running and found it and drove over to drop it off. I tried to give her the $40 that was in it and she refused.
There are still good people out there.
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Shamans and folk healers have known this for millennia. Many will use magic tricks to get their clients in the proper state of mind for the real magic to work. Jodorowsky calls this the “sacred trap.”
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Listening to myself on a podcast and cringing at how many “you knows” are coming out of my mouth. Ugh. I think I need a “you know” jar instead of a curse jar.
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I remember when I thought a global pandemic might encourage us to consider radical changes to how we live, work, govern, and care for each other.
Damn I was naive.
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Here's the deal, and it's really very simple:
Whatever GOP/Q/Wingnuts are accusing their enemies of doing—pedophilia, sex trafficking, grift, corruption of all sorts—is what they're guilty of doing.
Trust me, it never fails.
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@GeorgeTakei
Please don’t leave out the honorable Elijah Cummings! I’ve had his candle burning for months!
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1. Couple thoughts on this.
First, being criticized for some unfortunate stuff you said in a public podcast is not a "witch hunt." FFS, you should know better than that. You sound like Donald Trump.
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Sure, our nation needs healing. But ignoring grave assaults on democracy does not promote healing. It leaves a festering wound, ripe for further infection.
Justice brings healing.
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I know I’ve said this thousands of times, but goddamn Donald Trump is a malignant, vile, cretinous, quisling piece of shit.
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Nothing—and I mean nothing—will make you a misanthrope faster than spending 5 minutes on Nextdoor. For all the (rightful) criticism this bird site gets for being a hate-powered hellscape, it's a preschool show-and-tell compared to that rage-fueled nightmare.
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I’m old enough to remember when being into UFOs was fun.
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I’m thankful for people who buy the work of authors and artists despite it being ridiculously easy to steal.
I love you guys.
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