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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD

@unluckywanderer.bsky.social
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I cannot imagine happiness, for I am under no delusions of my circumstances. PhD candidate in psychology at the University of Adelaide.

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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well, but a reckoning will not be postponed indefinitely.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Change one letter, ruin a candy. MERS bar.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Understand: A reckoning will not be postponed indefinitely. All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Bad faith actors and people who participate in upping the temperature of discourse (the sorts of things that contribute to stochastic terrorism) rely on this sort of institutional inertia and feigned impotence. 1/
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
When I was undertaking my honour's thesis on incels, I spent a lot of time reading incels' posts and comments. Not engaging or arguing, just reading. It warped my language and thoughts. I remember audibly laughing at an incel's "joke". 1/2
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
@bot.astronomy.blue signup
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Very big "I get to still go to heaven if I am ignorant of my sins" vibes.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I know art when I see it.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
For some people, "justice" really means retribution. Not against a person, but against a class of people.
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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Here, saved you having to read Lovecraft.
Tweets saying knowing things and having empathy are the worst things you can do for your mental health.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Compassion calls us to act.
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Brad Garrison @bradgarrison.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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A Candle in the Darkness: Walking the Bodhisattva Path
“Better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.” This ancient proverb reminds us that even in times of uncertainty, when suffering feels overwhelming, our small actions matter. The world...
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A bunch of one shot, disconnected movies set in the further past. You do not need to have watched any one to understand any of the others. There can be connected movies (like trilogies), but they must be telling a self-contained and fully fleshed out story.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
My feed is awash with what Trump and his Republican party are doing, and is clearly Bannon's strategy to cripple and immobilise any response by overwhelming any opposition by flooding the zone by doing everything. But, there is an easy way to deal with it and, frankly, I am stealing it from the NRA:
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Donald Trump is doing a speedrun of "how many countries can we push towards China's economic sphere of influence*" and, I'm not going to say I am here for it (because I am not fan of China), but it will be an historic thing to see a world power destroy its own hegemony. *domination
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"We tried to warn you, but the media did not hold Trump accountable in meaningful ways, and so you might not have heard".
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It was a few years in the making, but my Honours thesis (with some amendments) has now been published (early view) in the European Journal of Social Psychology! One important recommendation I can make from my research is don't read incel forums. Ever. It is not fun! doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
European Journal of Social Psychology

Research article
"Fatalism, Evolution, and Interpersonal Attractiveness:Psychological Theories and Emotions in Incels’Constructions of Ingroup Identity and Outgroup Hate"

Katarina Pettersson | Mark Daniel Marveggio | Peta Callaghan | Martha Augoustinos

Abstract
The online communities of involuntary celibates, or incels, have garnered increased attention for their extreme misogyny and linksto violent attacks against women. However, little is known about how (pseudo-)psychological theories are used among the incelcommunity to construct their identities and justify a worldview that centres on hatred against women. This study uses a criticaldiscursive psychological approach to examine identity constructions in discussions on the so-called blackpill worldview within theonline community incels.is. Our analysis of more than 1000 discussion threads written in 2020 reveals three distinct incel identities:incels as victimised martyrs, incels as aggrieved masculine actors, and a divided identity negotiating the boundaries of ‘pure’and ‘impure’ inceldom. These identities are constructed through psychological notions, specifically, fatalism, ‘just-world’ beliefs,evolutionary psychology, eugenics and theories of interpersonal attraction—that serve as interpretative repertoires expressedthrough a plethora of rhetorical strategies and affective–discursive practices. The study highlights the importance of understandinghow psychological concepts are appropriated in the construction of ingroup identities and justifications of outgroup hate withinmisogynist online communities.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)
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a man stands at a podium with microphones that say wor on them
ALT: a man stands at a podium with microphones that say wor on them
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
It's not "worse" - this was intended. Anyone blaming Air Force personnel (and, by extension, exonerating Trump and Republicans) is doing exactly what Republicans want. Trump and the Republicans are to blame for the very intended impact of their executive order.
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Miriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app · 19/01/2025
To summarise the day - tiktok banned - tiktok unbanned - trump who originally wanted a tiktok ban is now being credited as its saviour to 170 million americans
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
As a sad addendum to this thread: Someone came into my messages to somewhat prove my point. They begin by smearing the entirety of leftists as not caring for the humanity of Israelis and being unmoved by the events of October 7th.
Message that reads:
Hi friend. Just a quick note about “The left does not lose sight of the humanity of the people that they oppose”. This used to be true. And I as a progressive I took pride in it. For many years. But it’s no longer true. Leftists do not care about the humanity of Israelis. They are truly unmoved by the sexual assaults of Israeli women, truly unmoved that babies were taken hostage (and still held), truly unmoved that civilians are being held hostage still for no reason other than having attend a music festival that was targeted. It’s all “justified” (as if this kind of violence against civilians has ever been justified in any circumstance in the history of the world). The leftists have lost this quality you value. It’s sad, scary, and painful.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Whenever things feel bad, I just remember that the world already ended.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
This person is basically saying that they only recognise a person's humanity when they have views agreeable to them. Whilst it is wrong, I understand the impetus. The left does not lose sight of the humanity of the people that they oppose, which is not something offered back in return.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
One of the reasons why liberals are failing to combat far-right populist actors is because they operate with the idea that they can be shamed. Far right actors have no shame in their hypocrisy, in their beliefs, in the outcomes they push for, or the things they say. They are shameless.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Been a while since I wrote anything, but this was just clawing at my brain. medium.com/@MarkADeLaid...
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“I don’t see the value in analysing stories”
(As a heads up, this post will contain spoilers from the tv show The Boys)
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
chng.it/rfkfryFM2r This was an easy sign. One of the reasons I left Twitter and don't use Facebook as much anymore was the lack of effective moderation. If that happens here, it won't be long before I am out (and probably a few others as well, I imagine).
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Sign the Petition
Bluesky Must Enforce its Community Guidelines Equally
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Not saying JS is a nazi, but do we really need to remind Bsky moderation of the Nazi bar analogy as to why you don't let bad faith/hateful actors in?
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It also tracks with the assassination attempts on Trump. It wasn't radicalised leftists who did attampted them - it was people known to be Republicans / conservatives, or generally affiliated. Typically, leftist radicalisation is one driven by empathy and concern for the world.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
All I know about Hegelian Dialectics is what I have read and heard from people summarising Hegel, but I do believe that only the subordinate (I am not using slave/bondsman) can escape the need for recognition from the "master", but the "master" is dependent on the subordinate.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Deny. Defend. Depose.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Good things can happen when we all agree to work together to solve a problem, rather than arguing over the existence of a problem.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This is what happens when the social media platform does not offer special protections to an obvious bad actor.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This is a fantastic read, and something that certainly has captured what I feel (when I feel).
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The wonderfully sad thing about being a pessimist is that, no matter the outcome of any and all events of consequence, there are only two possible feelings that I can have towards the outcome: 1) affirmed (if the bad thing happens). 2) relieved (if it doesn't).
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The wonderful thing about my antidepressants working is that I am able to function in a world that is psychologically disabling for me. And I sure as hell am going to make that everyone else's problem.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Reducing word count of my scoping review through rigorous editing (i.e., seeing how I can just put those words in tables so they don't count).
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"[Children are] taking decisions themselves not to bring home excursion notes, not to ask for more food when they're hungry, never to ask to play a sport or to have a new pair of shoes, because they know that's going to put more pressure on their families." www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
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'How are we surviving?’: Parents struggle to feed children, keep them in school amid cost-of-living crunch
Researchers and frontline charities are seeing a growing number of Australian children going hungry and missing school, as the twin pressures of a cost-of-living crisis and housing shortages push fami...
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Went on a run a few weeks back and was surprised to see this little one sunbaking. Not sure if I have seen a wild turtle in South Australia before.
Picture of a turtle sunbaking next to a river.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Still amazes me (though, not really) that the party of law and order didn't have a rule about convicted felons not being able to run on their ticket.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Something that a lot of right wing anti woke/"political correctness" folks do not understand is that they do not benefit from the same protection that politicians and social influencers have when engaging in such behaviours.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Is it a fact check if, rather than going through a process of fact-checking, clarification of readily available information is provided?
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slacey AKA Ted Slaines @shortking.boston · 09/08/2024
i'll be real honest, this is how olympic breakdancing has me feeling:
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xeni jardin: yall who are not from los angeles don't understand that what nancy pelosi was doing to donald trumpis, she is gangsta checkin' him. ask snoop dogg. he's failing

king puig: i'm from los angeles and i've never heard of this

xeni jardin: homie what set you from
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 30/06/2024
The liberal answer is to ask the self-serving person to recognise that they should do the right thing, without realising that the self-serving person will continue to serve themselves. Yet, there is no investigation into what enabled self-serving people to get where they are.
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Mark - he/him - GAD | MDD | ADHD @unluckywanderer.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
I know that ghosts aren't real because, if they were, a lot more people would live in fear of what their ancestors did, as the echoes of the past would be more than a whisper we could ignore. But ghosts aren't real, and nothing holds us accountable to our history.
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Nefarious Filth Bird 𓅾 @sasquatch.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Normalize letting it be OK to be wrong Normalize letting it be OK to be wrong in public sometimes Normalize letting it be OK to be wrong in public and other people point it out Learn the magical phrase: "Thank you for that education." Help change a brittle culture
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