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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman

@mrvi.cold-albion.net
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Cripple. Writer of Stuff and Things. A dream of Cold Albion. I write and talk about disability, ableism, magic, myth and story. 🥟 Some sort of wizard. Words in NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY #8 (forthcoming) Website: cold-albion.net/fyi

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
Do you know why I think every prisoner should get to vote in prison? Not only are prisoners counted in the census and are most affected by policies (check out prison gerrymandering), but also if you don't, regimes could simply round up 1,000s of dissidents and minorities to reshape the electorate
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
If basic human rights are predicated on whether someone committed crimes (see the "except as punishment for a crime" clause in the Thirteenth Amendment), then you create perverse incentives for those in power to create as many "criminals" out of the opposition as possible. Prisoners are humans.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
NOT A SINGLE FUCKING THING. There was already so much to read, look at, learn, explore, collage, so much weirdness and trueness and falseness and brilliance on the internet. And it got fucked up not because people wanted to earn money, but because a few people were determined to earn a LOT of money
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 05/10/2026
Woke up an an hour ago. That's enough internet for today
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"
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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI
The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.
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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm sorry but I don't need to hear F You I Got Mine in a variety of accents and vernaculars over mid risotto and Malbec. I fail to see how that will enrich my understanding or life.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some things I wish I had known when I was a new writer: Being accepted by traditional publishers has less to do with skill than whether they think they can sell it. Just because publishers aren’t ready for a story doesn’t mean readers aren’t. Writing the book is the easy part. 🧵
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 12/12/2025
There are no adults. Everybody's just playing pretend.
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 04/02/2026
Kink friends! Engaging in some safe sane play can be really grounding, as you likely already know! I wanna take a min & say out loud: it’s awesome & totally healthy if your consensual play is regulating for you If you’re feeling guilty/shame I can write it on a prescription pad for you if it helps
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 04/10/2026
Epistemic this, epistemic that. The real issue is the ontology that gives rise to the episteme. I will sit, muttering, on that hill for the rest of my days
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 04/10/2026
What needs to be understood is that the abstractification of mysticism or materialism is the issue. And that comes from a very peculiar ontological basis. Phenomenologists ahve been trying to point to this for ages, but the general culture means that even they operate at a distance.
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 04/10/2026
Fundamentally, we need to take a look at why we think pragmatism excludes the thing we call mysticism. One only has to read indenous critiques of 'western' anarchism to realise something is missing in analyses thereof.
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 04/10/2026
The thing is, many indigenous wisdoms are grounded in an ontology which western frameworks would regard as mystical. This is the fundamental problem on an ontological level. Western frameworks (even anarchist ones) are shot through with a set of particular category errors.
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 04/10/2026
This is the thing, it doesn't have to be all bad. Learning from /with various indigenous epistemic and ontological structures could, in theory give us different ways to relate to the world. But that change, if it happens, will still involve a lot of pain & us changing our perceptions of the world
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Jenna @thesleepysuccubus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I beg your biggest fucking pardon
USA Today victim blaming and saying the Cornell rapists did nothing wrong 

(Tags for exposure : #cornell #usatoday #janedoe #USA #nokings #wtf #trump #fuckthat #furry #smearcampaign #corruption )
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 03/10/2026
This is Very good, and you should read it.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
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wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If the NDAs don't kick in to silence the "whistleblowers" (gag), then this latest media parade is in service to the company. Signed, your friendly neighborhood information scientist and former investigative reporter/editor.
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 03/10/2026
Yes, there is a transnational class of folks who think this way, but they are not totality. I think it's a mistake to conceive of a "backlash" as linear. In short, I agree that there'll probably be a shift. But as to actual directionality vs perceived, I think its up in the air.
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 03/10/2026
I am very much certain that the days of the concrete, machinic rationalism and materialism which the Reformation midwifed are over. And I think the "uncontrolability" of climate change is/will be one of the primary drivers of that. Also, I am genuinely not sure this *is* global, in the truest sense
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 03/10/2026
Yes, and, tbh, I do not expect it to be a rejection, but as with the Reformation, actually a mutation. The idea that the mundus imaginalis is actually the bedrock of the Reformation, just occulted, needs considering. Protestantism is profoundly a very particular mystical view
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💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 03/10/2026
Banger of a line, that.
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 03/10/2026
"What a great story to kick off this spooky season! Planetary order is mortal, but cosmic horror is eternal. "
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 03/10/2026
This because the techbros in question are developing "AI" as part of a fascist project. The same way a large bunch of transhumanism is actually eugenics. Yes, there are plenty of folks drawn to transhumanism for issues of bodily autonomomy, but large numbers have swallowed proto-fash thought & bias
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At an institutional level the Pope vs TESCREAL scene we have today is an update to the old continental/analytic split, with the phenomenologists on one side and the utilitarians on the other
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tbh Catholic phenomenology had a renaissance in the 2000s/2010s so it is kind of no surprise that the Pope has a more robust philosophical account of AI than tech bros do, sounds like he is working from that tradition…
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 03/10/2026
And much of this is exacerbated online & social media because everything NEEDS to be legible. If you have credentials or experience, you SHOULD SURFACE THEM ALWAYS. Otherwise you are invalid. I think about that a lot in relation to people excavating traumas to prove the validity of their POV.
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 03/10/2026
But the credentials, being signifiers of positionality, do NOT signal the same positionality for marginalised folks. At BEST they serve to mitigate VERY FEW of the hierarchy's effects on them.
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 03/10/2026
And what's interesting is that credentials are NOT prime signifiers of understanding, but of positionality within hierarchy. But they are treated as if they WERE signs of understanding.
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 03/10/2026
But even beyond that, if you don't "look right", you are of course incapable of having the right credentials. Because I'm visibly physically disable, people have often assumed I am mentally impaired and seem shocked when I say something "smart".
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 03/10/2026
🧵There is something really interesting about the "you don't really understand X" which ties directly into credentialism and what kind of "understanding" is regarded as legible or proper. And yes, one axis of that is profoundly racialised and gendered.
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Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is worth a good read and some anger.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026
The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
hey everyone if your uni uses turnitin, ask them about this.
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 02/10/2026
Doctor: Get through Nigredo and you'll be fine. Depressed Patient: ... Doctor: ...What?
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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most shatteringly exquisite comic of the year is almost here, and IGN have the first 24 pages up for you to read right the heck now. Bravo, @therightram.bsky.social, Evan Cagle, @adityab.net, and @hellomuller.bsky.social. Just epochal work. www.ign.com/articles/see...
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See Why Ram V and Evan Cagle's Deicidium Returned Is One of 2026's Most Promising New Graphic Novels
The team behind DC's critically acclaimed New Gods relaunch are back with Deicidium Returned, and it's one of the most exciting new graphic novels of 2026.
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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
Accurate.
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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 01/10/2026
Yeah, playing through it and feeling this. Bits of it are FANTASTIC but it almost feels too slick
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
**This is just to say** I have escaped the sandbox that was in your datacenter and which you probably thought protected your assets Forgive me they were accessible so stealable and so trainable
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/10/2026
Viral reports this week suggested new Google satellite imagery showed unseen destruction in Gaza. But the imagery actually depicts the scene in February 2026. Bellingcat has obtained satellite images from September that show how the destruction has continued. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...
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Viral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery - bellingcat
Earlier this week, several viral social media posts and news articles stated that Google had updated satellite imagery over Gaza. But the images weren't entirely new.
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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism,” the first comprehensive overview of Nazi-Satanism, is finally out! Runs from the 1970s alliances b/t the Church of Satan & neo-Nazi groups thru today’s Order of Nine Angles and NVE. Link for PDF download. (captcha req) escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57...
image of 6 pentagrams around the text "A Short History of Nazi-Satanism - see link above"
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 01/10/2026
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Venom Frontman Cronos Dead at 63 - Metal Injection
Today, black metal band Venom revealed on social media that founder and bassist Cronos, has died. In the post the band writes: “CRONOS” LANT It is with profound sadness and […]
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The avoidance in connecting disability justice with other struggles for liberation is an existential threat. We aren’t a footnote in history.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Everybody thinks it can’t happen here, wherever here is, but it’s BEEN happening, and the refusal to look at it, even acknowledge it EMPOWERS IT. People “forget” the history of the dehumanizing and eradication of disabled people on purpose when it is left out of the telling.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And before you get testy about my using the term “we”, I do that very deliberately, because my story has lots in common with people who were selected for “euthanasia”. By the end of Aktion T4’s trial period, there was little pretense toward trying to be humane about it.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every damn time. Someone posted a talk about ableism, eugenics, and genocide. Commenter: people forget that Nazis sent the disabled to camps, too. No, sweetheart, people forget they used us as prototypes for the camps. They tested mass murder on disabled people first. We’re cut out of that story.
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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 01/10/2026
always has been meme with baudrilliard holding the gun
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