heresiarch
@heresiarch.bsky.social
nature is just what we call the parts of ourself that we cannot control
opinions sustainably sourced from organically harvested social theorists
No Nazis, No Kings.
@heresiarch on the previous site & @[email protected]
opinions sustainably sourced from organically harvested social theorists
No Nazis, No Kings.
@heresiarch on the previous site & @[email protected]
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@heresiarch.bsky.social
· Nov 5
“average person eats 3 spoonfuls of peanut butter straight from the jar a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spoons from jar per year. Peanutbutters Heresiarc, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Huh so you’re telling me the substances’ different psychological effects might be related to how they interact with areas of the brain? Well I’ll be darned
Psychedelic treatments show promise for OCD while cannabis doesn’t, review finds
Psychiatry professor theorizes that the difference is related to how the substances interact with areas of the brain
Hannah Harris Green
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Psychiatry professor theorizes that the difference is related to how the substances interact with areas of the brain
Hannah Harris Green
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Psychedelic treatments show promise for OCD while cannabis doesn’t, review finds
Psychiatry professor theorizes that the difference is related to how the substances interact with areas of the brain
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Huh so you’re telling me the substances’ different psychological effects might be related to how they interact with areas of the brain? Well I’ll be darned
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Important reminder
Again, if this thread is upsetting you and you'd rather it not pop up on your timeline, go to the top post in the thread, click/tap on the three dots at lower right, and choose "Hide this post for me"
December 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Important reminder
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Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
December 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
I agree with all this. If you have a persistent pseudonym, you have made a conscious choice about how to present yourself that people using their real name online have not. You can’t assume context; your words *are* you.
In part because it's not "me" responding, but 'pecunium'. I am not anonymous, I am (weakly) pseudononymous. But it's a persistent pseudonym. On a BBS I belonged to I was only known by one name; ambiguous as to being a "first" or "last"
And I never let anyone, even in person, use any other.
And I never let anyone, even in person, use any other.
December 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I agree with all this. If you have a persistent pseudonym, you have made a conscious choice about how to present yourself that people using their real name online have not. You can’t assume context; your words *are* you.
You’re drawing conclusions from an insufficient sample size. Clearly what we need to do here is take the money from a robust, demographically representative sample* of billionaires and air drop them all into random foreign countries**
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
You’re drawing conclusions from an insufficient sample size. Clearly what we need to do here is take the money from a robust, demographically representative sample* of billionaires and air drop them all into random foreign countries**
Seeing Cloverfield in the theatre with zero knowledge of what it was about. Not a good movie, but the perfect way to see that movie
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Seeing Cloverfield in the theatre with zero knowledge of what it was about. Not a good movie, but the perfect way to see that movie
Shit posters: in our memes we coined the term the galaxy brain as a cutting insult
Tech bros: at long last we have created the Galaxy Brain, from the classic internet meme
Tech bros: at long last we have created the Galaxy Brain, from the classic internet meme
The scramble to launch data centers into space is heating up
The scramble to launch data centers into space is heating up
A solar startup announced plans to launch its ‘Galactic Brain.’
buff.ly
December 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Shit posters: in our memes we coined the term the galaxy brain as a cutting insult
Tech bros: at long last we have created the Galaxy Brain, from the classic internet meme
Tech bros: at long last we have created the Galaxy Brain, from the classic internet meme
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I’m going to keep saying it: both the “male loneliness epidemic” and the techbro obsession with AI are, at their core, about a complete lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of relating to other people and a terror of vulnerability/interdependence.
we talk a lot about the weirdo techbro obsession with immortality these AI necromancy projects embody, but I'm arguably even MORE fascinated by the terror of allowing yourself to experience deep, complex emotions they so obviously reveal
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
December 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I’m going to keep saying it: both the “male loneliness epidemic” and the techbro obsession with AI are, at their core, about a complete lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of relating to other people and a terror of vulnerability/interdependence.
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Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.
Fox News will applaud this but can you imagine their coverage if President Biden hatched a secret plan to take over Fox News and revamp its programming to be nicer to him
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.
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I can't believe I have to say this, but if you have COVID don't go to public gatherings/events.
December 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I can't believe I have to say this, but if you have COVID don't go to public gatherings/events.
I already limit myself to one (pair) per page and that’s as far as I’m willing to go
My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
December 10, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I already limit myself to one (pair) per page and that’s as far as I’m willing to go
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My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
This post implicitly questions the premise that sitting in a comfortable chair with a warm drink might have deeper mysteries which yield only to sustained practice cultivated over generations, and I for one aim to prove them wrong
every 2 years the Guardian publishes an article about some Scandinavian concept called "Pÿegu" and its like "sitting in a comfortable chair with a warm drink is enjoyable"
December 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This post implicitly questions the premise that sitting in a comfortable chair with a warm drink might have deeper mysteries which yield only to sustained practice cultivated over generations, and I for one aim to prove them wrong
Begging for a “show same post only
once in feed” toggle
once in feed” toggle
December 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Begging for a “show same post only
once in feed” toggle
once in feed” toggle
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pals you gotta quit spotify
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
pals you gotta quit spotify
![Big lebowski meme: “say what you want about the tenets of [bush era neocons] Dude. At least it’s an ethos,”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lf67ibjtgdis7zvcqk6pcofq/bafkreiesjnavyv2yay3uajl62vkioyoax65i5zuslilzqi3fqmmokvulqq@jpeg)
What, I ask, is “dazed compunction”? How does one look back with it
Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."
December 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
What, I ask, is “dazed compunction”? How does one look back with it
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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Okay, this is a fascinating case of social media priming.
So, this creator, Sarah Velush, basically has a channel devoted to deadpan lifestyle humour (a la Chef Tova).
But because a progressive account takes it literally and says... this? Hundreds of comments assuming she's an evil tradwife.
So, this creator, Sarah Velush, basically has a channel devoted to deadpan lifestyle humour (a la Chef Tova).
But because a progressive account takes it literally and says... this? Hundreds of comments assuming she's an evil tradwife.
December 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Okay, this is a fascinating case of social media priming.
So, this creator, Sarah Velush, basically has a channel devoted to deadpan lifestyle humour (a la Chef Tova).
But because a progressive account takes it literally and says... this? Hundreds of comments assuming she's an evil tradwife.
So, this creator, Sarah Velush, basically has a channel devoted to deadpan lifestyle humour (a la Chef Tova).
But because a progressive account takes it literally and says... this? Hundreds of comments assuming she's an evil tradwife.
Espresso is so funny because maximising extraction by forcing high pressure water through compressed grounds is exactly the sort of thing you’d come up with when you’ve had too much coffee
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Espresso is so funny because maximising extraction by forcing high pressure water through compressed grounds is exactly the sort of thing you’d come up with when you’ve had too much coffee
Very funny how these evangelical adjacent GOP pols can’t even spin a convincing come-to-Jesus story
LESLEY STAHL: You contributed to the toxic culture. You were out there pounding, insulting people
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: You've contributed to it as well
STAHL: I want you to respond to what you have done in terms of insulting people
MTG: I'd like for you to respond to that
December 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Very funny how these evangelical adjacent GOP pols can’t even spin a convincing come-to-Jesus story
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They get off to violating the consent of others. Not more complicated than that.
Anyone have a theory on the administration's sudden obsession with Franklin the turtle?
December 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
They get off to violating the consent of others. Not more complicated than that.
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
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Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.