iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20h

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

332534451

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 23h

My view pretty much is that table stakes for the next Admin MENA policy is banning settler trade, suspending aid, and pulling our unconditional support at the UN.

318610

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 21h

no shade to OP but they're actually really easy to understand once you cancel out the double-negatives in "opposition to combating antisemitism"

0267

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

anyway. all young people should be taught about consent and about what grooming is and about how they might be targeted, because all young people need to know how to identify bad behavior, in themselves and in others.

2436

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 29/09/2026

This one is even funnier

Erick Erickson

Donald Trump built a multiracial America First coalition and the White Right wants to blow it all up investing in the idea that in Trump/Vance's America with the GOP in control of Congress and most states, white dudes are victims and oppressed and society must be rearranged to accommodate them. The White Right will do to the GOP what the downwardly mobile kids in the DSA are doing to the Democrats.

2275

Delusive Eye Stalk @krietzsche.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The bad place is reacting as you'd expect

030

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?

581747231

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My issue is never with criticism. People on here love to pretend that it is. But no, the reality is that I hate bad criticism, which often comes from a childish fantasy of how the Presidency works. The U.S. has done a lot of horrible shit. Lying to yourself about why just keeps you stupid.

1559

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026

MC
@burntbulb.bsky.social

okay you can't keep taking every one of my posts and photoshopping it
onto sephiroth
2:52 PM - Sep 28, 2026

+ Follow back

422785482

Delusive Eye Stalk @krietzsche.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every time I see Liberal, KS it’s a jumpscare

010

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

Ann Pierce
@itsannpierce
20h
I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

20643151105

Delusive Eye Stalk @krietzsche.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Idk how Goodberry doesn’t have a job with like ESPN yet

100

Delusive Eye Stalk @krietzsche.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Okay I think times are changing Nancy Mace dressing like catwoman to make youtube videos about AES' relationship with Hasan feels like seeing buds on the trees again

000

Delusive Eye Stalk @krietzsche.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Incels would have a way better reputation if they were all Skee-Lo

100

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

But I cannot stress enough: we have spent decades de-prioritizing and defunding the humanities broadly in secondary and post-secondary education and then we're all surprised-Pikachu-face when we are suffering from systematic leadership failures in exactly those skills and knowledge domains.

1055976

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

you know what, challenge accepted. quotes that express ideas that are challenged or recontextualized by LLMs 🧵 "When I think in words, I don’t have ‘meanings’ in my mind in addition to the verbal expressions; rather, language itself is the vehicle of thought" -- Wittgenstein

2132432

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

All you really have to do is roll back the bill deregulating supplements that Orrin Hatch got passed in 1994. I have a distinct memory of employees at the health food store where my mom would buy the ingredients for granola encouraging everyone to sign a petition supporting that bill.

417447

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Hoosier Homer is reading With Zeal & With Bayonet Only by Spring @hoosierhomer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Do not be fooled this is intellectual warfare as much if not more than cultural war. guess what's not in the teen or kids sections? Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler, Ian Toll, Robert Leckie, Robert Massie, Dante, Anne Applebaum, a single book on the eastern front, Rick Aktinson, Mary Beard, Among other!

88725

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

jstor is cutting their monthly free article limit from 100 to TEN??? ten articles??? per month? I'm lucky that I have a real job now so I can just request permission to expense the extra $200 per year this change is going to cost me, but that's not the case for everyone who wants to learn!!!

481379192

Delusive Eye Stalk @krietzsche.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There's no bigger tell about the state of your social life than "people used to do things" nostalgia posting.

000

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Tolkien gave up on writing a sequel to the Lord of the Rings because he imagined the youth of Gondor forming 'orc-cults' who would imitate Mordor and found it too depressing; a remarkable feat of imagination when it came to predicting people who still worship the Soviet or Nazi empires today.

341798303

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

NEW: Victor Marx's campaign won't say where supporters' money goes when they buy campaign merch or $1300 meetings with Marx himself. Our investigation linked the online shop to an out-of-state company with hidden owners. Then we found a document revealing the owner: Victor Marx.

741468465

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton wrote movingly about her childhood deprivation and put her fame and fortune into the action to uplift children. Her passing is another loss in the link to living memory of a world of mass material deprivation in the United States that is literally inconceivable to people now.

015643

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/08/2026

it is my understanding from history that specifically persecuting educated professionals and making it much harder for college graduates to find jobs that will allow them to become professionals is a perfectly safe thing to do that never ends unpredictably

977380

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Happened across this unhinged Wittgenstein line

We speak of birds singing. When I was a boy I was bothered in listening to birds, because it obviously isn't singing. Finally someone said to me, "All right, don't call it singing, call it something else"
'. And soon I could listen to birds and enjoy it.

1635281

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Unless you're advocating for massive infrastructure spending to bury power lines--which is a thing I think needs to happen a lot more nationwide--getting power back on after windstorms requires massive manpower, none of which is related to the existence of data centers whatsoever.

41007

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My big brain plan for someone finding out I Liked some horrible statement I only half-read is "Oh, Fuck, you're right, that was not what I thought it was, I only half-read it." Some of our experiences have trained us that we can't be honest about fuck-ups, and that's Bad, Actually.

033

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

James Felix Black @tft.io · 14/08/2026

I think that there is developing an argument for a property right over your information, and torts to enforce it

4472

Delusive Eye Stalk @krietzsche.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Gerard way wasn't kidding when he said teenagers scare the living shit out of me

000

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists

One of those 'STOP DOING X' memes, ripping into archaeology. It has images of soil stratum, a trowel, and a flint shard. The text mocks archaeologists for digging for pottery sherds and saying everything has a 'ritual purpose'.

1302278558

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

And to be super duper blunt about it, the way to do that is to send Ukraine weapons. That *is* what diplomacy looks like.

684951

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

barging into the editor's office to DEMAND the newspaper say i got mad

21557

Delusive Eye Stalk @krietzsche.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

When you think about it elections are just coups by other means

000

Delusive Eye Stalk @krietzsche.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I am already so tired of the vague pivot into “Mamdani is a good example of this”

100

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 07/08/2026

I don’t see any evidence of that As far as I can tell US federalism - the thing leftists hate more than anything - is why it’s not as illegal to be trans here as it is in Britain It looks to me like libertarians have been 100% proved right. The only thing keeping us safe is limits on government

111

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Snowden St. @snowden.st · 04/08/2026

Your vote is good, you know what else is valuable? Your time, your voice, your actions, your volunteering. I think folks would be better off devaluing their own vote-- just throw it in and keep it moving, you distinguish by doing more than vote, not by giving Your Precious Vote the royal polish.

0152

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

mrsomerton @mrsomerton.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

presenting, without further comment, this actual campaign ad from Washington State:

9285

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"The people who work on farms often don't own them" is something that would have been completely intuitive to 99% of people for 99% of human history but is completely unintelligible to the people who make US public policy.

251597322

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 31/07/2026

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

24886642484

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 31/07/2026

What I am hearing about from folks in uniform is a new secret vetting process where people in the Department of Defense are looking at someone’s social media history. Looking at whether they attended a Pride event or posted something on their personal Facebook page about Martin Luther King Day.

1842192

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I was raised as a conservative, by conservatives. Right wing politics are nothing but a rhetorical game. Played to its end, that game leads to the destruction of organized human life on earth.

81903197

Delusive Eye Stalk @krietzsche.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Trump is America’s Hindenburg send skeet

000

Delusive Eye Stalk @krietzsche.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

No one understands Nick Fuentes and it's extremely evident anytime anyone tries to interview him He is looking for space, on his show he has all of it so he says what he wants to; in public he says what will garner him the most sympathy, laundering what he says on his show

000

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

Snowden St. @snowden.st · 24/07/2026

he’s right to say it

1131

Reposted by Delusive Eye Stalk

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/07/2026

literal dred scott logic

421805292

Delusive Eye Stalk @krietzsche.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Hey just in case anyone doesn't know, the Trump admin is looking to destroy cultural preservation of historic and tribal sites next week: www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

msn.com

MSN

000