Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I’m not a vegetarian, but I am highly suspicious of all the blatant pro-carnivore propaganda I’ve been seeing in my social media feeds. Who is behind all these voices saying meat is the bestest and healthiest food you could eat, and everything else is a poison? 010
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026It feels weird that I keep backing crowdfunding game projects. It’s like gambling that we will still have a functional economy a year from now. 010
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 27/03/2026When I was in college, I studied the origins of life, specifically RNA self-assembly. A grad student in my lab demonstrated that cooperative hypercycles were more successful than selfish or opportunistic assemblies. Even at the molecular scale, reaction dynamics favor mutual aid. 070
Reposted by OrinRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 27/03/2026i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1... 38189342319
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 03/03/2026I live in the Pacific Northwest, of course the clouds roll in just in time for the eclipse. 030
Reposted by OrinTrung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 26/02/2026I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving. 2382303697
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I tried reading David Icke. His naked antisemitism made me stop. 300
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026The rationalist Age of Enlightenment is ending, as we enter into a new age of superstition and digitally enhanced fever dreams. 020
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I used to believe in the promise of the internet and that instant access to all the world’s information would bring about our sci-fi future: flying cars, orbital cities, ever increasing lifespans. Anymore, the future seems a mistake. 120
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026AI hallucinations, misinformation campaigns, algorithmically induced echo chambers.. there is no consensus reality anymore. Everyone has their own set of facts. Our world is becoming “informationally opaque.” Nothing is as it seems, and finding the truth about anything is increasingly difficult. 110
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026“As the world becomes more and more informationally opaque…” Ever since hearing this phrase about a year ago in a random video essay, it has echoed in my thoughts. A simple metaphor, crystallizing many of the problems with our contemporary world. 120
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I’ve been listening to so much Russian music that YouTube just served me ads in Russian. 010
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I got to do my favorite task at work today: speciation of psilocybin mushrooms by qPCR. Not a lot of demand for this test, so it doesn’t come up much, but it makes me happy my life’s path brought me here. 030
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Post a banger not in English youtu.be/zf99kdFw9b8?...youtu.beIC3PEAK - Грустная СукаYouTube video by IC3PEAK 010
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Hi, I don’t know you, but I saw your post so my ladyfriend and I stopped by the art show tonight. Thank you! 110
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026My struggle is that I’m cynical enough to make this observation, but not cynical enough to profit from it. 010
Reposted by OrinBilly Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 09/01/2026@prisonculture.bsky.social has made an amazing list she keeps available here. And “Blueprint for Revolution“ by Srđa Popović. He was one of the leaders involved in overthrowing Milosevic. The book is full of stories of effective actions taken against other regimes. It’s good for mindsetting.docs.google.comCopy of (reformatted) Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or VotingSome Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting A list adapted from & inspired by Frontline Medics. Here was their original list of 25 actions. I’ve added a lot of things and edited other things. [Not... 115863
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026I woke up with a feeling of dread and hopelessness about the state of the world. Took a walk, made some coffee. Found a short video essay that gave me a bit of hope. Thanks @damiengwalter.com youtu.be/Y8bj8XLZ0ZI?...youtu.beThe Future...of life, the universe and this channelYouTube video by Science Fiction with Damien Walter 071
Reposted by OrinSerdar Güneş @serdarguenes.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Why are right wing grifters all like Batman villains? | Fuentes, Candace, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones via @damiengwalter.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVMX...youtube.comWhy are right wing grifters all like Batman villains? | Fuentes, Candace, Tucker Carlson, Alex JonesYouTube video by Science Fiction with Damien Walter 073
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025“Under late capitalism, state power is a hot potato—and now Trump is holding it.” 010
Reposted by OrinGil Durán @gilduran.com · 13/12/2025In all the stories—in the Bible, in Lord of the Rings, science fiction—there's a good side and there's a bad side of the same energy. So let's understand the power, the force, of “hyperstition,” and let's start putting it to use sooner rather than later. 511617
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025We should have listened to the Anti-Federalists, they saw this problem 250 years ago. youtu.be/444ve4KLSgo?...youtu.beHas Trump Transformed the Presidency? Nope. And the Anti-Federalists Told Us WhyYouTube video by Tad Stoermer 010
Reposted by OrinGil Durán @gilduran.com · 07/12/2025Tech fascists believe they are going to merge with AI, live forever and colonize the universe as a species of self-replicating machines that eat the energy of the stars. We can think big, too. Anything is possible. Don't let billionaires monopolize the power of radical imagination. 16339121
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025I was visiting with a friend tonight and she said she’s in a good place with her poly relationship, because when her partner has date night with his girlfriend that means she gets the house to herself. 000
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025I’ve enjoyed some Ashnikko already. I should listen to more. 020
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025A friend described my recent musical tastes as “women who want to f@€$ you, or kill you, or both” and she’s not entirely wrong. Got any recommendations that fit that genre? #musicsky 130
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I remember getting chills the first time I saw this picture. 040
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025I won Biggest Bestest Bust, since we stuffed my bra with all the socks we could. 010
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Apparently, most people did not attend parties as a teenager, where the girls would draw the boys names out of a hat to pair off and dress them in drag, before holding a drag queen beauty pageant. 130
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025This reminds me of the work of Wilhelm Reich. The Mass Psychology of Fascism probably addresses it most directly, but that’s one I haven’t read. 120
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025It’s like watching a loved one with paranoid schizophrenia, convinced there are sinister forces working against them, when the enemy is their own mind. Except the them is us, hurting ourselves. 010
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025In the absence of any credible external threat, America’s conspiratorial nature has turned inward and we’ve declared war on ourselves. 120
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 01/10/2025I love Alice Glass. I used to be a fan of Crystal Castles as well, but after learning about why she left... now I always skip those songs when they come up. 000
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 28/09/2025“We’ve both see war ravaged cities. Sure, you did a tour in Afghanistan, but me, I’m from Portland.” 010
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about my former technological optimism, and what happened over the years to sour those visions. Reading this opens another perspective on that time, and shows that not everyone was hoodwinked by the sales pitch. 000
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025I must confess, I was a Raver type, technolibertarian cyberhippie utopian. Please forgive me, I was a teenager in 90s Silicon Valley. Some of us grew out of it. 110
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Excellent thread, providing a peek into how we arrived at our present moment of tech billionaire capture of society. 030
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Loved Magister Ludi, even tho it took me about a year and a half to read it. I’d read a section, then have to put the book down for a month or two to digest what I’d consumed. When I finished it, I felt like I had lived two or three complete lifetimes. 010
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Pure THCV is weird. A lot of cannabinoid isolates (CBD, CBG, CBN) are just a white powder. THCV is more of a purple tinted glass. 120
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Excellent analysis of fascisised monarchist hyper neo-liberalism and its convergent rise across the western world. 000
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025I kinda wish I was subscribed to Disney+ just so I could cancel my subscription 000
Reposted by Oringhost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 18/09/2025they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them. 3088192872
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025So great to rediscover a band you haven’t thought of in 20 years or so. Blasting Switchblade Symphony tonight! 010
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 16/09/2025We attempted to create pseudo-fossil mimics by deploying abiotic vesicles (supplied by David Deamer) into a mineralizing hot spring. I took some lovely photos of the products with an optical microscope. 000
Orin @plethorin.bsky.social · 16/09/2025ALH84001 loomed large over my undergraduate research project. “Morphology is not a sufficient indicator of biogenicity,” was the sentence drilled into me by my professor. 110
Reposted by OrinMike Tice @ticeonmars.bsky.social · 16/09/2025I've been asked a few times over the last few days what I think the chances are that the "leopard spots and poppy seeds" on Mars will turn out to be actual evidence of life. People are naturally skeptical given the history of possible signs of life on other planets. Strap in: long thread ahead... 111251