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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 23h

factor I haven't seen mentioned yet: the millennial dancefloor as heterosexual mating ritual (which it shouldn't not be!) had some of the worst consent and safety standards I've ever seen

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 23h

Okay why do Charli XCX, Tinashe, Miley Cyrus and Harry Styles have songs right now about no one dancing, are the dance floors really that dead

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Seth Redd Commissions open! [ALSO WISHLIST/BUY OUR GAMES!] @saredd99.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Concept art I've made for our latest game

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

one thing Homestuck and Crow Cillers figured out that too little contemporary media has is that you need a semi-enclosed system of internal media & signifiers (including reappropriating existing media) to deal with the media environment without either compartmentalizing or being beholden to it

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

idk man to say nothing of the standard translation title of Kokoro being "Kokoro" and plenty of other examples, I'm an academic and whenever I read papers about Japanese or Chinese media I'll see meticulously spelled out transliterations of stuff that's written in English *in the original language*

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

think it'd be a good PR move for this site if we started calling it "bisky"

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Watcher who doesn't fuck humans but is a huge shipper for the ones who do

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I write words on anime girl pictures @kawaiibossbaby.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

just saved the world... you're welcome every body...

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it's really personally funny as someone who learned a lot about the far right before it became relevant again by getting into neofolk and industrial and black metal and then when it's ascendant the music I most associate with it is like, trap remixes of Somebody That I Used To Know

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

her name being James Lindsay backwards is such an incredible nominative twist from the most overdetermined timeline. THINK MIRROR

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the “libertarian in origin, authoritarian in endpoint” structure of conspiracy worldviews is also characteristic of a lot of online ideology in general

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

world where the anime church is the Salvation Army

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Dog with Glasses Plushie @dog.labeledrude.online · 24/09/2025

Im not fucking joking. Do it yesterday. this specific ester, cas 50-28-2, not those for injections cuz you can't brew them safely on a budget. Get more of the stuff stockpiled in your country NOW

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Nate P.M. @kbnet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The world needs a well-defined concept of helpful and unhelpful chuunibyou. I wouldn't know how to begin to make it a feature of the culture around me, but luckily, not knowing where to begin is a problem solved by a well-defined concept of helpful and unhelpful chuunibyou.

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Korean musical blackface: Hard as diamond grills, we rising up like slaves Shout out to my homies Kendrick and Drake We billionaires, got the club on fleek Japanese musical blackface: BOOYAH! I'm Shaft, da jungle vigilante From monkey town, it's time to get funky With my world peace beat *sax solo*

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you have a neurodivergent kid your number one priority absolutely has to be teaching them how to hear the words "no", "don't", "stop" or "can't" without the kid resorting to violence. Removing those words from your vocabulary instead as a misguided accomodation is going to end so, so badly.

TikTok screencap showing a hole in the wall

"I slipped and used the word "don't" when my AUDhD kiddo was writing in a library book with a sharpie.... that hole was then created with his foot."

TikTok screencap talking about how the user's son's trigger words are "no, don't, can't, stop" and she is trying to remove those words from her vocabulary.

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"if one genuinely believed this, the only ethical reaction would be" is unfortunately a failure mode common across the entire ideological spectrum now, which is one reason AI researchers can get away with it. and the worst thing is it's a defense that obfuscates what direction it's in

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Hermetic Library @hermetic.com · 09/09/2026

Greater Feast of Jacques Lacan, died September 9, 1981 at Paris, France hermetic.com/hermene... #calendar #historic #OTD #OnThisDay

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I do think a lot of normie anti-AI credulity re: water usage etc. is essentially correctly calibrated emotional response what the developers are actually saying, which simultaneously has to be disavowed to permit the Endless Everyday to continue

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

I really want to hear from the dozens of journalists who wrote glowing profiles of Alpha School in the last few years. Actually scratch that. I never want to hear from them again.

futurism.com

AI School Hooking Children Up to Heart Monitor in Front of Class While Playing Critiques of Their Work

The controversial AI-focused private school Alpha School is making its students do some unusual things before enrolling.

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Skia @rfskia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

this site not having privs is a major functionality gap from most of its competitors. prob accounts for how people are mostly either posting like journalists/marketers or completely unhinged on main

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

posting simulates the Writerly Utopia (self-selected audience, self-selected form, free production, universal distribution). it’s a simulacrum (the platform controls all those) but coping by fetishizing the constraints of form and institution is how you lose everyone in whom awen flows

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Andi @menschy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

he *still* doesn't really mean all the crazy shit he says, or else we'd be living in a planet sized crater already. he says exponentially more and crazier now, and acts consistently on about the same ratio. but people have dyscalculia for real numbers let alone craziness ratios

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the symmetrical asymmetry of "accepted but not done/done but not accepted"

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026

There's only one way out of this mess: the rapid disassembly of the American internet and the rapid creation of a post-American internet, one built on open, auditable, sovereign digital public goods, internationally built and maintained: pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3... 51/

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Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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shanley @shanley.com · 02/09/2026

Timestamp: 1916. Authorship: Lenin One wonders: How did Deutsche Bank escape the Nuremberg Trials to continue to be up to absolute fuckshit in the year of our lord 2026.

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

JD Vance is Vice President, every parent is a feminist tradwife and every child under 19 is on Life360. It's Amy Chua's world and you're just living in it

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

this is a thing I often see in online discourse where one group will have a shibboleth or concept, another group starts using it in a way that "owns" them "by their own logic", then newer/lower-info members only recognize this "subverted" version

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I just said “Crowley, Hubbard, Aella” and now my friends are mad at me

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Each day on [the history of all human societies] there is one main character. The goal is to never be it." - René Girard

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

(overheard at Pride, straight-presenting woman talking to straight-presenting man): “and you know, one of the things I miss about that time of my life was the discourse”

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

One thing we found recently in this regard that kinda surprised me is that, after All This, there are in fact more self-IDed "woke" than "anti-woke" Americans. But less surprising is that the largest bucket remains the "what the hell are you talking about" Americans yougov.com/en-us/articl...

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

every book morality discourse operates on the contradiction that *I'm* not influenced by the book's morality, I can correctly see it's bad regardless of its power, but *someone else* will be. people of course are AND aren't influenced by what they read, but this can only be expressed as this split

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The superhero is also a descendant of the costumed shaman or secret society member.

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dame @dame.is · 27/08/2026

between the state department beginning to criminalize technology use on the left and the left’s decision to stigmatize technology use within its own ranks, the far right is positioning itself to maintain an upper-hand unless we do something about it

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

places I get DFW level sweaty: in line at da airport

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"People certainly SAID they were "just Russian soldiers," but the OG LGM people like Strelkov, Motorola, Givi, Mozgovoy, Utkin, Prigozhin, none of those people were "just Russian soldiers" *More like "plausibly-deniable and expendable high-profile vigilante hell-raisers"

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BookTok took the indigenous Celtaboos of 90s-2000s YA & urban fantasy and replaced them with Mormon military wives

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