Bryn
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Finally watched Bugonia and still trying to make my mind up about whether it was a good movie or not. The ending makes it all just feel misanthropic and, by extension, ultimately caught up in the very proto-fascism of online extraterrestrial-race-science conspiracy shit I thought it was critiquing
February 11, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Finally watched Bugonia and still trying to make my mind up about whether it was a good movie or not. The ending makes it all just feel misanthropic and, by extension, ultimately caught up in the very proto-fascism of online extraterrestrial-race-science conspiracy shit I thought it was critiquing
Bugonia was the most overt and on-the-nose iteration of this but I’ve seen others in the past year, some that I can recall rn and others that I can’t. Every time it feels weird and forced and also fetishy—like do they actually believe these are the two avatars of the “National Divorce” or whatever?
I feel like there’s this weird 2020’s Hollywood meta-trope where movies keep staging a confrontation between 2 characters: one who represents girlboss c-suite PB/PMC narcissism and one who represents the Alex-Jones-listening conspiracy theorist paranoid white male murder-suicidaire
February 11, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Bugonia was the most overt and on-the-nose iteration of this but I’ve seen others in the past year, some that I can recall rn and others that I can’t. Every time it feels weird and forced and also fetishy—like do they actually believe these are the two avatars of the “National Divorce” or whatever?
I feel like there’s this weird 2020’s Hollywood meta-trope where movies keep staging a confrontation between 2 characters: one who represents girlboss c-suite PB/PMC narcissism and one who represents the Alex-Jones-listening conspiracy theorist paranoid white male murder-suicidaire
February 11, 2026 at 4:30 AM
I feel like there’s this weird 2020’s Hollywood meta-trope where movies keep staging a confrontation between 2 characters: one who represents girlboss c-suite PB/PMC narcissism and one who represents the Alex-Jones-listening conspiracy theorist paranoid white male murder-suicidaire
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We stand on two legs because four legged things have hearts that beat in time with their running. We don't have to be fast. We don't even need to catch. Just surround. Our food's heart races until it gives out. We are odd hunters. Sometimes we don't know that we're hunting.
February 10, 2026 at 10:32 PM
We stand on two legs because four legged things have hearts that beat in time with their running. We don't have to be fast. We don't even need to catch. Just surround. Our food's heart races until it gives out. We are odd hunters. Sometimes we don't know that we're hunting.
It went fine. Remains to be seen if anything actually comes of this. Tired bc I min-maxed to expend several days’ energy reserves on Being Charismatic and Normal for two hours in the middle of what’s probably a low energy/mood slump
Have a Thing tomorrow and I’m feeling either duly or unduly anxious about it. Who can say.
February 10, 2026 at 8:17 PM
It went fine. Remains to be seen if anything actually comes of this. Tired bc I min-maxed to expend several days’ energy reserves on Being Charismatic and Normal for two hours in the middle of what’s probably a low energy/mood slump
Beside the point but why does he lumber up to the porch like Quasimodo? I guess he’s probably trying to minimize the amount his face gets on any cameras but then he snaps upright after stepping through the brick arch that he was nowhere near too tall for right into the camera’s cone of vision. Weird
New images from Nancy Guthrie’s porch the night she went missing. Anyone with information, please contact 1-800-CALL-FBI or visit tips.fbi.gov
February 10, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Beside the point but why does he lumber up to the porch like Quasimodo? I guess he’s probably trying to minimize the amount his face gets on any cameras but then he snaps upright after stepping through the brick arch that he was nowhere near too tall for right into the camera’s cone of vision. Weird
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Omg I didn’t realize Ulster had a mural that serves as a spiritual counterpart to the (now removed) Nashville statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest (or was it Forrest’s monster? I can never remember which is which)
February 10, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Omg I didn’t realize Ulster had a mural that serves as a spiritual counterpart to the (now removed) Nashville statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest (or was it Forrest’s monster? I can never remember which is which)
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I feel like there’s been such a shift toward a sort of mindless optimization fetish in the past 5-10 years: productivity influencers, side hustle grindset influencers—where meaning and purpose seem scarce, compulsive optimization slop will suffice, or rather what I’m tempted to call Sloptimization
But a lot of that need* for meaning and purpose finds secular avenues: the cultivation of a hyperreal image of the body and self and lifestyle as a form of social capital mediated by capitalist social media
*needs can be both manufactured and very real, for our purposes I don’t think it matters
*needs can be both manufactured and very real, for our purposes I don’t think it matters
February 10, 2026 at 3:40 AM
I feel like there’s been such a shift toward a sort of mindless optimization fetish in the past 5-10 years: productivity influencers, side hustle grindset influencers—where meaning and purpose seem scarce, compulsive optimization slop will suffice, or rather what I’m tempted to call Sloptimization
I guess this generally at least cast as a crisis of Meaning—the christofascist right loves to prattle on about purpose and meaning, usually with lazy gestures toward whichever set of biodestined teleological roles just so happen to coincide with the ones the regime is having trouble recruiting for
I think there’s some sense in which mid-20th century libidinal economy written by world-weary French intellectuals was completely unprepared for the crisis of desire that seems to manifest in a sort of culture-wide anhedonia and the foreclosure of any real sense of futurity that’s not half-assed
February 10, 2026 at 3:28 AM
I guess this generally at least cast as a crisis of Meaning—the christofascist right loves to prattle on about purpose and meaning, usually with lazy gestures toward whichever set of biodestined teleological roles just so happen to coincide with the ones the regime is having trouble recruiting for
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The Lord Buddha warned us of deprivation and self-mortification as means of attaining quiescence. Only honesty and Truth can set you free. Delusions cannot be coped with by projecting them onto everything but the bitter pill of Truth. Hold the L or become a malignant narcissist, or worse—a hypocrite
What if we combined the asceticism of the monastery with the restless paranoiac neuroticism of capitalist subjectivity? What if we made a big show out of rejecting the fleeting pleasures of the excremental material world so we could work even harder on developing my chatbot named Otis or some shit
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 AM
The Lord Buddha warned us of deprivation and self-mortification as means of attaining quiescence. Only honesty and Truth can set you free. Delusions cannot be coped with by projecting them onto everything but the bitter pill of Truth. Hold the L or become a malignant narcissist, or worse—a hypocrite
What if we combined the asceticism of the monastery with the restless paranoiac neuroticism of capitalist subjectivity? What if we made a big show out of rejecting the fleeting pleasures of the excremental material world so we could work even harder on developing my chatbot named Otis or some shit
!["The current vibe is no drinking, no drugs, 9-9-6 [working from gam to 9pm, six days a week], lift heavy, run far, marry early, track sleep, eat steak and eggs," Daksh Gupta, the
23-year-old co-founder of an AI start-up, told the San Francisco Standard recently.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jg3hlyjpcn4n5sbryi3qhyiv/bafkreie3mnljvdgs35wyhbggriqo7zk5djhtfuc4e6kcfbyxg37n2nllva@jpeg)
February 10, 2026 at 2:54 AM
What if we combined the asceticism of the monastery with the restless paranoiac neuroticism of capitalist subjectivity? What if we made a big show out of rejecting the fleeting pleasures of the excremental material world so we could work even harder on developing my chatbot named Otis or some shit
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starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
Went to the gym about it and then poasted weird about it; feeling marginally more normal thank you denizens of the digital void that I periodically scream into to blow off steam
February 10, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Went to the gym about it and then poasted weird about it; feeling marginally more normal thank you denizens of the digital void that I periodically scream into to blow off steam
“Jane Remover?? But I hardly kn-“
*fizzles out of the ontic plane after accidentally hitting the secret Rate Limit for really really dumb jokes made by one Entity*
*fizzles out of the ontic plane after accidentally hitting the secret Rate Limit for really really dumb jokes made by one Entity*
Anomalies will be Purged, in Post.
Not the sterile muddy shit CG artifacts though, that’s just The Style
Not the sterile muddy shit CG artifacts though, that’s just The Style
February 10, 2026 at 1:51 AM
“Jane Remover?? But I hardly kn-“
*fizzles out of the ontic plane after accidentally hitting the secret Rate Limit for really really dumb jokes made by one Entity*
*fizzles out of the ontic plane after accidentally hitting the secret Rate Limit for really really dumb jokes made by one Entity*
Spoilers maybe if you give a shit about that sort of a thing but also I don’t know what I’m talking about bc I’m gleaning this secondhan and I’m Not Watching That Shit but
Did Stranger Things Finale basically just steal the Madoka Experiments Lain ending? Bc if so, lmao ?
Did Stranger Things Finale basically just steal the Madoka Experiments Lain ending? Bc if so, lmao ?
February 10, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Spoilers maybe if you give a shit about that sort of a thing but also I don’t know what I’m talking about bc I’m gleaning this secondhan and I’m Not Watching That Shit but
Did Stranger Things Finale basically just steal the Madoka Experiments Lain ending? Bc if so, lmao ?
Did Stranger Things Finale basically just steal the Madoka Experiments Lain ending? Bc if so, lmao ?
I Think this is what Chained saw Man is about, but I can’t re-member with certainty
I have a ravenous bottom-up inductive tentacular bodymind operating system and I’ve grafted onto it a ruthless top-down deductive overcoming in an attempt to curb the worst excesses of the latter. They meet in the middle over Truthiness, or they separate and leave things at a stalemate
February 10, 2026 at 1:32 AM
I Think this is what Chained saw Man is about, but I can’t re-member with certainty
I’ve been thinking a Lot, about how much I rely on a feeling of ‘truthiness’ to determine what’s objectively true and what’s just a feeling. What terrifies me is the realization is that ‘truthiness’ is also just a feeling
How do you learn how to want things that you don’t desire, or to choose things that you don’t Want, or whatever it is that adult humans are supposed to be able to do. I think I lost the instruction manual before I learned to read. I think my map is drawn Wrong. As a joke.
February 10, 2026 at 1:21 AM
I’ve been thinking a Lot, about how much I rely on a feeling of ‘truthiness’ to determine what’s objectively true and what’s just a feeling. What terrifies me is the realization is that ‘truthiness’ is also just a feeling
My enfleshed spirit has been so small and so weary and so fearful for longer than I’ve been properly alive.
February 10, 2026 at 1:02 AM
My enfleshed spirit has been so small and so weary and so fearful for longer than I’ve been properly alive.
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You're toast, kid. You've completely lost sight of the motivations and objectives that no longer serve you. You're never going to climb that mountain that had nothing of value at its summit.
November 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
You're toast, kid. You've completely lost sight of the motivations and objectives that no longer serve you. You're never going to climb that mountain that had nothing of value at its summit.
It’s wild to me that Anthropic ran with the name “Claude” when the American pronunciation of that name naturally lends itself to people mocking your product (“more like CLOD amirite?” etc)
February 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
It’s wild to me that Anthropic ran with the name “Claude” when the American pronunciation of that name naturally lends itself to people mocking your product (“more like CLOD amirite?” etc)
It’s over once they invent Agential AI for Nonbinary
The two genders, according to tech bro advertisers:
Men: my intellect is so vast, so unusually large, that I use a robot to think for me instead of wasting my time with trivial matters
Women: my brain is so tiny and fuzzy that I use a robot to think for me and now I don't get headaches anymore!
Men: my intellect is so vast, so unusually large, that I use a robot to think for me instead of wasting my time with trivial matters
Women: my brain is so tiny and fuzzy that I use a robot to think for me and now I don't get headaches anymore!
I'm getting a lot of ads with women saying "wow ai seemed confusing but now that my little lady brain understands it it is great!!"
February 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM
It’s over once they invent Agential AI for Nonbinary