You’ll never guess who started the popular digital drawing pad company, Wacom. I’ve known since the 90s, when a certain religious cult I grew up in mentioned it. So, crazy story… #wacom #moonies #cult #cults #unificationchurch

Excerpts from my interview in the Cultimatum podcast, Episode 129. I performed at stand up comedy open mics for a time, and couldn’t not talk about my cult story in it. #cults #cultsurvivor #cultimatumpodcast #moonies #exmoonie

Did the Moonies, AKA FFWPU or Unification Church, snitch Scientology’s concept of body thetans? Maybe there’s like a cult-to-cult licensing deal, idk… #cults #scientology #moonies #bodythetan #cheongpyeong

Advice on handling someone falling into a cult, from a cult survivor. My recovery journey has been one of related books, therapy, ex-cult community, media activism, & conferences. Here’s what I learned around cult intervention. #cults #cultintervention #psychology #leavingacult #cultsurvivor

“Why do people vote against policies they’ll benefit from?” This is familiar territory for me. Here’s what I see happening. #politics #purityculture #conservatives #cultsurvivor #christians

Kahr Firearms, founded by Justin Moon, son of Unification Church/"Moonie" far right cult leader/ billionaire Sun Myung Moon, makes guns like this for Trump.

The host realized he was in a cult from seeing my episode on A&E’s Cults and Extreme Belief (on Hulu, Episode 5). My interview on The Truth That Heals podcast. We talk about that experience & I also highlight an emotional moment later in the episode. #cultsurvivor #cults #excult #exmoonie #moonies

Growing up in a conservative home that blurred the line between religion & politics, Christianity acted as a “safe space” from any real world complex problems. So I wanted to poke holes in that attitude by unpacking how Christianity comes from Zoroastrianism. www.instagram.com/reel/DaSqhOC...

Happy Pride from NYC 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

My hot take on hateful people, as someone raised in a far right cult. #propaganda #farright #maga #cultsurvivor #politics

Pursuing a creative career as a cult kid came w/ both the joy of finding a creative community & feeling personally and financially like an imposter compared to my art school classmates. Clarity of direction is something I have to periodically revisit, as a multimedia designer. teddyhose.tv

Caught the Knicks win at Herbert Von King Park in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn 🙌

I don't know about you other cult survivors out there, but after growing up under a billionaire cult leader's far right cult, seeing how a trillionaire has been achieved today makes it hard to focus on anything right now. This guy. WTF have we done?

Years after leaving the cult I was born into, some ex-members reached out who were the adults I looked up to then. Being that they were like surrogate family, it helped bring some closure. TW: Brief mention of s*icide #excult #cultsurvivor #cultrecovery #exmoonie #moonies

A tribute to my dad, David Hose, who lived a long life with some hard plot twists from a young age. His perseverance as a working artist and cult survivor, keeping a family afloat, was worth commemorating. #ripdad #davidhose #workingartist #cultsurvivor #monroewa

Shelley Wolfe from Love on the Spectrum has a gothy merch shop. Just when I thought I couldn't love them more 🖤 wolfee.shop

We’re somehow not better than this 🙃 #trump #iranwar #politics #gasprices #thebiglebowski

Happy World Goth Day! 🖤 You'll see here the OG goths, in high school & college in the 80s, still go out for the occasional dance party. From about a month ago at DROM in NYC, where they played the Golden Triangle (Depeche Mode + The Cure + The Smiths), something I'm always very FOMO about.

I don't know about you but I feel pretty cool about Nielsen (randomly) selecting me to rate TV and radio 🥹 Couldn't pick one favorite TV show for that question but I put Silicon Valley. That reminds me, I might have to get AMC+ to stream The Audacity. Tech industry satire will save our democracy 🔥

Part of cult indoctrination is isolating new guests from access to potentially critical voices outside of it. In larger society, that process can happen in more nuanced, but likewise aggressive, ways. #cults #psychology #sociology #politics #propaganda

Therapy can help turn shame into superpower. Alma, Headway, and Psychology Today are great sites to search for a therapist. Photo source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ha... #therapy #mentalhealth #trauma #cultsurvivor #excult

13-year Unification Church/FFWPU/"Moonie" cult member labor trafficking scheme busted! Hyung Ki Kim of NJ was arrested on 4/15 for inviting foreign, young members on fraudulent visas, to work for next to nothing & pocketing the income. Really, the cult has been doing this for 70 years. #moonies

13 Year Labor Trafficking Scheme Busted! A Unification Church member in NJ, Hyung Ki Kim, was recently arrested for inviting foreign, young church members on fraudulent visas, to work on a high-demand schedule for next to nothing & pocketing the income, called the ILTP. #cults #moonies #truecrime

After leaving a cult, the social hierarchy from it may tend to echo in ex-members to a harmful degree. This comes from about a decade of ongoing therapy, research, & discussion w/ fellow ex-cult members, after a childhood in the “Moonies” cult. tiktok.com/@2dhose/video/7628588267247537421 #cults

I don't know how it could possibly be any more clear. This man is drunk with power. There is no plan.

Already saw one MAGA in denial that this wasn't fake, so I replied with this screenshot from Claude. I wonder how many other MAGA are in denial (I mean they're all in denial, but you know).

And here we have the face women made in a time when men took themselves way too f*cking seriously. Seems to be trending again. Medieval art from the Met Cloisters last weekend.

Joy was treated as a prize to be won instead of the fuel that gets you there, in the cult I was born into that groomed us for an arranged marriage. This played into my career assumptions until it didn't, which led to work w/ a world famous designer. Full video on TikTok: tiktok.com/@2dhose/vide...

The far right cult I grew up in (the "Moonies") uses "peace" a lot for their corrupt lobbying groups: Family Federation for World Peace & Unification Generation Peace Academy Universal Peace Federation Global Peace Foundation Family Peace Association World Peace & Unification Sanctuary (AR-15 cult)

Thank you SCAD student group MOMELove for having me at “The world’s largest student-led motion graphics conference“ CoMotion 2026 in Savannah. A nice reminder of the kinship art school can help develop. The level of talent made it hard to critique their work. Cont'd: www.instagram.com/p/DVrR61XCStS