Reposted by Katherine DeeR.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 05/09/2026i do miss that sound. must get and useboingboing.netExperience the joy of getting online with a dial-up modem56k.rip simulates the experience of trying to get online 35 years ago, right down to replicating a typical Windows 3.x desktop and requiring you to figure out what to click… 64611
Reposted by Katherine DeeAndy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 25/07/2026Very excited about Interface Studies by @mskayyali.com—videos explicating and discussing ideas and problems in user interface design. buff.ly/laz8yko (via @kevinlynagh.com—thanks!!)youtube.com"Save for Later" Has No LaterJoin "Interface Studies" to help make more videos. Your support keeps new content coming. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqv7gk4p_rB4nRz0j7B5yFA/join Almost every app today has a bookmark button.… 3435
Reposted by Katherine Deenick catucci @catucci.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Whatever happened to woke? A virtual roundtable featuring @kattenbarge.bsky.social, @parkermolloy.com, @defaultfriend.bsky.social, @scaachi.bsky.social, @audreyhorne.bsky.social, @mannyfidel.bsky.social, @maxtani.bsky.social, Josh Lora, and Sean Monahan riffpost.substack.com/p/is-speech-...riffpost.substack.comIs speech freer now, five years into the ‘vibe shift’?A virtual roundtable on wokeism, AI, Israel, and much more, featuring Parker Molloy, Sean Monahan, Katherine Dee, and six other outspoken voices in media. 1233
Reposted by Katherine Deejasonmehmel.bsky.social @jasonmehmel.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I think @defaultfriend.bsky.social has written a lot on the expansion of 'Fandom' beyond nerdy franchises, and how that framework of both gatekeeping and inclusion create a really powerful dynamic, often short-circuiting actual discourse into just talking past each other. 061
Reposted by Katherine DeeReturn of the Cmonmacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Sir, this is a Wendy’s… 1119329
Reposted by Katherine DeeA. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 27/06/2026@defaultfriend.bsky.social is back! "Freezing in Boca Raton, Florida: On astronauts, cold metal, and Florida Man." thedispatch.com/article/boca... #culture #america #floridathedispatch.comFreezing in Boca Raton, FloridaOn astronauts, cold metal, and Florida Man. 031
Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I thought Paul Singer and Peter Singer were the same guy until 2 minutes ago 050
Reposted by Katherine DeeAzure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I am a scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi as well as Professor of Marketing at Concordia University 1252
Reposted by Katherine DeeAzure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Great service, unpretentious food, unapologetic celebration of American music and culture. Ever wonder why they made you stop going here? 3343
Reposted by Katherine DeePhoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I now know that the author of this piece requested a galley of “The Last Straight Woman” in JANUARY. 382
Reposted by Katherine DeeErrai @errai.bsky.social · 03/04/2026(getting off at the wrong train stop) where the hell are we My buddy who's convinced he's a time traveler: not where... when My other buddy who's convinced he's a deer: let's cross that delightful highway 0397
Reposted by Katherine DeeBob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 23/05/2026Hard to read this @defaultfriend.bsky.social column (“We are Sliding Back Into the Middle Ages”) without thinking about Carl Sagan’s 1996 book “A Demon Haunted World” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o... Sagan: archive.org/details/demo... 2158
Reposted by Katherine DeeThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/05/2026In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The world we’re moving into will look more like the one before the modern era than like the one we grew up in,” Katya Ungerman writes. “It will be saturated with the supernatural. Everyone will believe in something. The question is in what.”nyti.msOpinion | Demon Attacks. Teleportation. Astrology. The Supernatural Is Back.One of the oldest and most durable features of human experience is re-emerging. 137420
Reposted by Katherine DeeA. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 17/05/2026@defaultfriend.bsky.social is in the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...nytimes.comOpinion | We Are Sliding Back Into the Middle Ages 021
Reposted by Katherine DeeMario Rustan @mariorustan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I'm not a subscriber of the NYT but if you do check this out. Also, get well soon, Kat. 031
Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I’m in the NY Times today on hospital reiki, teleporting to Waffle Houses, and “non-human biologics.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...nytimes.comOpinion | You Aren’t Crazy. The World Is Actually Getting Weirder. 0101
Reposted by Katherine DeeMario Rustan @mariorustan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Katherine @defaultfriend.bsky.social is on a roll this week, now in a defense of Bluesky at @unherd.com unherd.com/newsroom/col...unherd.comCole Allen wasn’t radicalised by BlueskyCole Allen appeared in court yesterday following his thwarted shooting at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night. As is so often the case now, the first thing uncovered about him after the incident w... 111
Reposted by Katherine DeeDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 28/04/2026Great @defaultfriend.bsky.social piece: "Plenty of what circulates on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube is funny and inventive, made by girls for other girls, surviving precisely because it doesn’t require a corporation’s approval" www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tw...wsj.comEssay | In Defense of Tween Screen TimeEvery generation panics about girlhood. The latest, over the negative consequences of social media for tweens, hides a bigger problem in girl world: They’ve got nothing else. 1133
Reposted by Katherine DeeA. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 27/04/2026The always interesting @defaultfriend.bsky.social, on The Incident: spectator.com/article/how-...spectator.comHow we all become numbHow should we feel about Cole Tomas Allen’s attempted assassination of administration officials? Social media makes that harder to answer 052
Reposted by Katherine DeeChristopher Cwynar @cwynar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026This 2024 piece from @defaultfriend.bsky.social does an excellent job of capturing the cultural shift we're experiencing right now as we move decisively from a cultural environment structured by the mass media to one structured by networked digital media.wisdomofcrowds.liveNo, Culture is Not StuckYou just can't see what it's become. 041
Reposted by Katherine DeeA. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 05/04/2026The always interesting @defaultfriend.bsky.social , on the shifting “Overton Window” for fringe beliefs. When a politician mentions “demons”, how do you react? (Personally, I do not believe in the supernatural. Not my upbringing.) unherd.com/newsroom/jd-...unherd.comJD Vance UFO claim reflects mainstreaming of alternative beliefsThis week, Vice President JD Vance appeared on the conservative podcast, The Benny Show, and professed that he believed aliens were demons. There are two easy reads here. The first is that Vance was j... 031
Reposted by Katherine DeeMario Rustan @mariorustan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026"Alt kids are the social fabric of the most economically depressed, culturally conservative corners of America and have been for a very long time...My son is now jumping on me, literally, so until next time, Deeists." No paywall, please read this study of South Florida over the last 30 years. 092
Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 21/03/2026This and rotisserie chicken would go so hard rn 140
Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 19/03/2026ya girl weighed in on dinergoths: default.blog/p/against-am...default.blogAgainst American Diner Gothicis america "weirding" or did we just come up with a new name for an old type? 042
Reposted by Katherine DeeThe Dispatch @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social · 12/03/2026We’re Underestimating Gavin Newsom: The California governor has the ‘it’ factor. And he knows it. | Katherine Dee thedispatch.com/article/gavin-newso…thedispatch.comWe’re Underestimating Gavin NewsomThe California governor has the ‘it’ factor. And he knows it. 031
Reposted by Katherine DeeMario Rustan @mariorustan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026"The term I want to propose is mediated murderer: a perpetrator who, without physical co-presence, uses networked communication as the primary instrument by which he establishes coercive control over a specific victim and drives that victim toward death." Tough read, FBI materials. 021
Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I had a theory over the weekend: default.blog/p/the-mediat...default.blogThe Mediated Murderertowards a new category of killer 001
Reposted by Katherine DeeRené Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 05/03/2026@defaultfriend.bsky.social last year wrote about psychological adaptions to online life which look like psychological disorders in offline line: "This is the internet: it demands a disposition that appears 'sick' in the physical world."comment.orgInternet Overexposure SyndromeWhat appear to be psychological disorders among those who spend much of their life online may in fact be rational responses to their environment. 031
Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Is AO3 *actually* a private space or are fans being a bunch of babies? I investigate: www.gq.com/story/heated...gq.comDo Normies Have a Right to Read ‘Heated Rivalry’ Fanfic?The culture that fandom built won, writes Katherine Dee. But the privacy and community that made fandoms possible is vanishing—and some fans are revolting. 111
Reposted by Katherine DeeA. R. Yngve @aryngve.bsky.social · 03/03/2026The always interesting @defaultfriend.bsky.social, on conspiracy thinking as culture: default.blog/p/candace-ow... #CandaceOwens #culturedefault.blogCandace Owens, Real Conspiracy Theorist, Not "Performance Artist"please excuse this 023
Reposted by Katherine Deebabs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 02/03/2026“…living within the digital archive disintegrates our basic, linear perception of time...every era is equally available, &all events are potentially happening at the same time, the chain of causality &influence breaks down completely.” intriguing read c/o @defaultfriend.bsky.social, esp paired w/ qtdefault.blogGen Z Lives in the ArchiveIs cultural time actually continuous? 15417
Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 06/02/2026The call-in show is live... Join us on Kick, where unlike OTHER platforms, we have zero viewers... The theme is vampires, but as always you're free to interpret that as you wish... kick.com/americandrea...kick.com 010
Reposted by Katherine DeeClaire Vaughan @pixieglas.bsky.social · 05/02/2026More context for the NY Times article on her substack default.blog/p/what-is-fa...default.blogWhat is Fairyland?a quick primer on why i think the internet is fairyland 041
Reposted by Katherine DeeClaire Vaughan @pixieglas.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Just discovering the writing of Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social. Consider me bewitched. 262
Reposted by Katherine DeeMario Rustan @mariorustan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Free access: @defaultfriend.bsky.social on how the manosphere copies 1960s Black masculinity, especially the pimp culture. Tate himself is a biracial man who grew up in Chicago and Indiana before moving with his English mother to Luton, an infamously rough town. open.substack.com/pub/defaultf...open.substack.comAndrew Tate Is the Loneliest Bastard on Earththought digest, 01.21.2026 231
Reposted by Katherine DeeJodi Ettenberg @legalnomads.com · 10/12/2025CAE 57 is now out, with the best things I read last month. This month's great pieces include: - @thelocal.to on a freelancer not being what she seemed - @rosalindadams.bsky.social on the godmother of weed in NY - @defaultfriend.bsky.social on how trad culture was never counterculture & more!jodiettenberg.substack.comThe Curious About Everything Newsletter #57The many interesting things I read in November 2025 151
Reposted by Katherine DeeLaura Routh @laurarouth.bsky.social · 28/11/2025“The otherworld rewards skilled navigators and destroys the careless: Treasures turn to leaves; fairy wives eventually disappear back home; hubris causes travelers to be lost forever, or worse, to wither and die.” @defaultfriend.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld. 093
Reposted by Katherine DeeNew York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 28/11/2025“Seeing the internet as a fairyland — an otherworld with its own logic — isn’t about mystifying technology. It’s about seeing it sharply, as the strange and powerful environment it really is,” Katya Ungerman writes.nyti.msOpinion | Why We Need Fairy Tales in the Digital AgeThe internet is a dangerous place. Folklore can teach us how to move through it. 144
Reposted by Katherine DeeJames Reeves @jamesreeves.co · 28/11/2025"With the internet, we cross a threshold into an otherworld. A.I. is like a creature from the otherworld who crosses into ours." I love this piece by @defaultfriend.bsky.social about the need for myth to survive the digital age.nytimes.comOpinion | Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld. 031
Reposted by Katherine DeeMario Rustan @mariorustan.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Hello from Australia @defaultfriend.bsky.social (video in reply) 011
Reposted by Katherine DeeMario Rustan @mariorustan.bsky.social · 21/11/2025"Finally, Featured Author @defaultfriend.bsky.social makes the case that unlike the “trad” movement, the next real counterculture will refuse spectacle." Among this week's Fairer Disputations highlights. www.gq.com/story/trad-m...gq.comThe Trad Movement Is Sputtering. Here’s What Comes NextFlaunting “traditional values” was a way to gin up attention online, but being “trad” was never a true countercultural movement, argues Katherine Dee. 011
Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 21/11/2025And we're LIVE! Psychedelia and Mormons. The theme is THE GREAT TRIP. open.substack.com/live-stream/...open.substack.comLIVE NOW: Call-in Show #29: The Great TripKatherine Dee on Substack 020
Reposted by Katherine DeeLeah (Prime) 🦊 @leahprime.bsky.social · 18/11/2025😈❤️🔥🔥❤️🔥😈 ❤️🥵😍🥵❤️ 🔥😍😏😍🔥 ❤️🥵😍🥵❤️ 😈❤️🔥🔥❤️🔥😈 031
