Dr. Joe Ondrak
@theondrakguy.bsky.social
Cultural intelligence, OSINT & digital policy ¦ human-digital flows; digital narratology; semantic threats; cognitohazards; extremism ¦ PhD on horror; creepypasta; digital fictions & how they shape our collective online experience.
Pinned
Since I'm making an effort to post here a bit more, my PhD thesis - Digesting Creepypasta: An Analysis of Social Media Horror Narratives as Fourth Generation Digital Fiction - is available to read via Sheffield Hallam's library page.
shura.shu.ac.uk/32027/
shura.shu.ac.uk/32027/
What we are starting to reckon with, through our developing threat picture of NVE and now this, is the irreverence given to acts of extreme real-world violence when carried out as communicative acts for *being* online for certain communities....
September 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
What we are starting to reckon with, through our developing threat picture of NVE and now this, is the irreverence given to acts of extreme real-world violence when carried out as communicative acts for *being* online for certain communities....
Marc-André is doing the difficult but essential work here. A great thread and assessment.
Since the Annunciation shooting in Minneapolis, I have bee transcribing the attackers diary, I have transcribed 231 of 291 pages. The diary is handwritten with (mostly) Cyrillic letters to look “Russian” but are English words spelled phonetically.
August 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Marc-André is doing the difficult but essential work here. A great thread and assessment.
My 2p for the Satanist trainspotters pointing towards Order of Nine Angles: I'd argue this is a parody of O9A distilled through various online recombinations and iterations. Some of the language and symbols are there, but none of the intended meaning & certainly not the practice as developed by O9A.
August 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
My 2p for the Satanist trainspotters pointing towards Order of Nine Angles: I'd argue this is a parody of O9A distilled through various online recombinations and iterations. Some of the language and symbols are there, but none of the intended meaning & certainly not the practice as developed by O9A.
I don't post much any more, but for everyone poring over the manifesto, scrawlings, and footprint following the Minneapolis shooting, here's a timesaver.
The aim is to be remembered, discussed, to turn oneself into content that then becomes the next reference on a gun.
The aim is to be remembered, discussed, to turn oneself into content that then becomes the next reference on a gun.
August 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I don't post much any more, but for everyone poring over the manifesto, scrawlings, and footprint following the Minneapolis shooting, here's a timesaver.
The aim is to be remembered, discussed, to turn oneself into content that then becomes the next reference on a gun.
The aim is to be remembered, discussed, to turn oneself into content that then becomes the next reference on a gun.
Reposted by Dr. Joe Ondrak
Todays guest post was written by @theondrakguy.bsky.social who delves into the evolution of media fiction and its influence on participatory nihilistic violence. He explore the interplay between media narratives and real-world acts of violence.
www.maargentino.com/the-eleven-y...
www.maargentino.com/the-eleven-y...
The Eleven-Year History of the Media-Fiction Effects that Underpin Participatory Nihilistic Violence
www.maargentino.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Todays guest post was written by @theondrakguy.bsky.social who delves into the evolution of media fiction and its influence on participatory nihilistic violence. He explore the interplay between media narratives and real-world acts of violence.
www.maargentino.com/the-eleven-y...
www.maargentino.com/the-eleven-y...
Reposted by Dr. Joe Ondrak
currently pitching/booking guests for next set of @theloopcast.bsky.social shows - continuing w our series on lawful extremism and then taking it from there
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probably need to get a guest on @theloopcast.bsky.social to discuss united states vs wong kim ark - really an expansion on the conversation we had w @intelwire.bsky.social and @bdaviess.bsky.social re: the chinese exclusion act
open to suggestions!
open to suggestions!
published this conversation last month
@jamellebouie.net @machete.gay @intelwire.bsky.social might find this interesting as it relates to our current state of politics and law
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@jamellebouie.net @machete.gay @intelwire.bsky.social might find this interesting as it relates to our current state of politics and law
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January 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
currently pitching/booking guests for next set of @theloopcast.bsky.social shows - continuing w our series on lawful extremism and then taking it from there
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Since I'm making an effort to post here a bit more, my PhD thesis - Digesting Creepypasta: An Analysis of Social Media Horror Narratives as Fourth Generation Digital Fiction - is available to read via Sheffield Hallam's library page.
shura.shu.ac.uk/32027/
shura.shu.ac.uk/32027/
January 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Since I'm making an effort to post here a bit more, my PhD thesis - Digesting Creepypasta: An Analysis of Social Media Horror Narratives as Fourth Generation Digital Fiction - is available to read via Sheffield Hallam's library page.
shura.shu.ac.uk/32027/
shura.shu.ac.uk/32027/
Bit of a jump scare while window shopping for money pits on Facebook earlier.
January 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Bit of a jump scare while window shopping for money pits on Facebook earlier.
Intro time.
I'm a researcher and OSINT analyst.
Interested in human/medium interaction, digital narratology, tech-led cultural intelligence, and barking at policy types to read more McLuhan.
Currently working in CVE spaces focusing on composite threats, and analytical best practice for OSINT.
November 11, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Intro time.
I'm a researcher and OSINT analyst.
Interested in human/medium interaction, digital narratology, tech-led cultural intelligence, and barking at policy types to read more McLuhan.
Currently working in CVE spaces focusing on composite threats, and analytical best practice for OSINT.
I suppose I should endeavour to use this a bit more since there's a mass-migration (and an influx of followers, hi and thank you).
It'll be interesting to see how this shakes out in the next 4 years. Will Bluesky / X be the next Tumblr / 4chan?
It'll be interesting to see how this shakes out in the next 4 years. Will Bluesky / X be the next Tumblr / 4chan?
November 7, 2024 at 2:41 PM
I suppose I should endeavour to use this a bit more since there's a mass-migration (and an influx of followers, hi and thank you).
It'll be interesting to see how this shakes out in the next 4 years. Will Bluesky / X be the next Tumblr / 4chan?
It'll be interesting to see how this shakes out in the next 4 years. Will Bluesky / X be the next Tumblr / 4chan?