#occultist — Public Fediverse posts

@cloudskater wrote:

Some instances are run by bad people. Hell, a few projects like Lemmy and Matrix are DEVELOPED by assholes, but the FLOSS and federated nature of these platforms allows us to bypass/fork them and create healthy spaces outside their reach.

Nope, that is actually what is killing the fediverse. I just explained here:

The issue is the divergence in semantic interpretation that emerges at the interpretation layer. ActivityPub standardizes message delivery and defines common activity types. However, it leaves extension semantics and application-layer policy decisions to individual implementations. Servers may introduce custom JSON-LD namespaces and enforce local behaviors, such as reply restrictions, while remaining protocol-compliant. But, the noise created by divergences are problematic, because it creates unexpected, unintended, and unpredictable behavior.

Divergence appears when implementations rely on non-normative metadata and assume reciprocal handling to preserve a consistent user experience. Behavioral alignment then varies. Syntactic exchange succeeds, but behavioral consistency is not guaranteed. Though instances continue to federate at the transport level, policy semantics and processing logic differ across deployments. Those differences produce inconsistent experiences and results between implementations.

That leads to fragmentation, specifically semantic or behavioral fragmentation and an inconsistent user experiences. ActivityPub ensures syntactic interoperability, but semantic interoperability (everyone interprets and enforces rules the same way) varies. This creates a system that is federated at the transport level yet fragmented in behavior and expectations across implementations. It is funny how the thing that the fediverse touted has made the entire thing very brittle. ActivityPub technically federates correctly, but semantically falls apart once servers start adding their own behavioral rules.

https://neon-blue-demon-wyrm.x10.network/archives/16932

FYI, I’m not doing culture wars or political debates. I’m just saying this idea of “forking away” from them is literally breaking the fediverse’s distributed network and creating all kinds of issues with semantic interoperability. Yes, federation is still happening at the delivery level, but the semantic issues are out of fucking control. You are a federation by the very sheer skin of your teeth.

The reason why developers are leaving the fediverse is because you folks don’t take criticism. You respond to criticism with — I’m being so serious right now — political manifestos and harassing developers. ActivityPub developers and authors oversold you folks on the capabilities of ActivityStreams. They flat-out lied to y’all.

↬bark.lgbt/@cloudskater/116080965694723006

ActivityPub Server’s Custom Reply‑Control Extensions Undermine Federation

It seems like Activitbypub developers are extending ActivityPub with optional metadata to fix a lot of its issues, but that is still problematic. Trying to add moderation tools and user control to threads seems to be the ongoing battle. I am fascinated by dumpster fires, so I’ve started looking at the ActivityPub protocol in detail. I tend to become fascinated with things that are going down in flames.

As a brief recap of the problem:

So, one of the very popular features on Bluesky—also popular on Twitter—is the ability to select who can reply to a post. A major issue in the Fediverse is the inability to decide who can reply, and once you block someone, their harassing reply is still there. I honestly thought it was simply a case of them choosing not to add or address it for cultural reasons. What is clear from that thread is that they were always aware that the ActivityPub protocol and most Fediverse implementations don’t provide a universal way to control reply visibility or enforce blocks across instances.

An ActivityPub server that has reply control is GoToSocial. ActivityPub, as defined by the W3C specification, standardizes how servers federate activities. It defines actors, inboxes, outboxes, and activity types (Create, Follow, Like, Announce, etc.) expressed using ActivityStreams 2.0. It also specifies delivery mechanics (including how a Create activity reaches another server’s inbox) and how collections behave.

The specification does not include interaction policy semantics such as “only followers may reply” or “replies require manual approval.” There is no field in the normative vocabulary requiring conforming servers to enforce reply permissions. That category of rule is outside the protocol’s defined contract.

GoToSocial implements reply controls through what it calls interaction policies. These appear as additional properties on ActivityStreams objects using a custom JSON-LD namespace controlled by the GoToSocial project.

JSON-LD permits additional namespaced terms. This means the document remains structurally valid ActivityStreams and federates normally. The meaning of those custom fields, however, comes from GoToSocial’s own documentation and implementation. Other servers can ignore them without violating ActivityPub because they are not part of the interoperable core vocabulary.

Enforcement occurs locally. When a remote server sends a reply—a Create activity whose object references another via inReplyTo—ActivityPub governs delivery, not acceptance criteria. Whether the receiving server checks a reply policy, rejects the activity, queues it, or displays it is determined in the server’s inbox-processing code. The decision to accept, display, or require approval happens after successful protocol-level delivery. This behavior belongs to the application layer.

These are server-side features layered on top of ActivityPub’s transport and data model that are not actually part of ActivityPub. The protocol ensures standardized delivery of activities; however, the server implementation defines additional constraints and user-facing behavior. Two GoToSocial instances may both recognize and act on the same extension fields. However, a different implementation, such as Mastodon, has no obligation under the specification to interpret or enforce GoToSocial’s interactionPolicy properties. These fields function as extension metadata rather than protocol requirements.

The semantics of GoToSocial are not part of the specification’s defined vocabulary and processing rules for ActivityPub. They no longer operate purely at the protocol layer; it has become an application-layer contract implemented by specific servers.

Let’s use the AT Protocol as an example. Bluesky’s direct messages (DMs) are not currently part of the AT Protocol (ATProto). The AT Protocol has nothing that specifies anything for DMs, so DMs are not part of the AT Protocol. The AT Protocol was designed to handle public social interactions, but it does not define private or encrypted messaging. Bluesky implemented DMs at the application level, outside of the core protocol. DMs are centralized and stored on Bluesky’s servers. What is happening with servers like GoToSocial is sort of like that. The difference is that the AT Protocol was designed for different app views; ActivityPub was not.

The issue is the divergence in semantic interpretation that emerges at the interpretation layer. ActivityPub standardizes message delivery and defines common activity types. However, it leaves extension semantics and application-layer policy decisions to individual implementations. Servers may introduce custom JSON-LD namespaces and enforce local behaviors, such as reply restrictions, while remaining protocol-compliant. But, the noise created by divergences are problematic, because it creates unexpected, unintended, and unpredictable behavior.

Divergence appears when implementations rely on non-normative metadata and assume reciprocal handling to preserve a consistent user experience. Behavioral alignment then varies. Syntactic exchange succeeds, but behavioral consistency is not guaranteed. Though instances continue to federate at the transport level, policy semantics and processing logic differ across deployments. Those differences produce inconsistent experiences and results between implementations.

That leads to fragmentation, specifically semantic or behavioral fragmentation and an inconsistent user experiences. ActivityPub ensures syntactic interoperability, but semantic interoperability (everyone interprets and enforces rules the same way) varies. This creates a system that is federated at the transport level yet fragmented in behavior and expectations across implementations. It is funny how the thing that the fediverse touted has made the entire thing very brittle. ActivityPub technically federates correctly, but semantically falls apart once servers start adding their own behavioral rules.

FEP-171b: Conversation Containers Won’t Work

So, I took a look at this:

This document specifies a model for managing conversations in ActivityPub network. It is based on the implementation of Conversation Containers in Streams.

In this model conversations are represented as collections controlled by a single actor. Such conversations take place within a specific audience and may be moderated.

FEP-171b: Conversation Containers

https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/171b/

TL;DR: It won’t work.

The proposal introduces authoritative conversation control to ActivityPub by modeling threads as owner-managed OrderedCollection containers. The conversation owner curates replies and redistributes approved activities via Add. Participants are expected to reject unapproved content. The abstraction is internally coherent. The friction appears when this model is placed inside ActivityPub’s federated design.

Here is the problem. ActivityPub does not define enforcement semantics. Servers operate autonomously and apply local policy. A specification can say that implementations “SHOULD reject” unapproved replies. Yet nothing in the protocol requires that outcome. A server that declines to participate can still accept Create(Note) activities directly. It can reconstruct threads from inReplyTo and ignore the container model. In that environment, thread authority exists only where it is voluntarily recognized.

The delivery path changes as well. Under typical federation, actors deliver activities directly to recipients’ inboxes. Here, replies flow to the conversation owner first. Only approved entries are redistributed. Each thread effectively runs through a single coordinating node. Availability now depends on the owner’s server. If it is offline or slow to redistribute, the conversation stalls. Different redistribution behavior across instances can also produce divergent views of the same thread. This is a structural shift in how information propagates.

Ordering and consistency are less defined than the container model implies. ActivityPub does not specify global ordering or conflict resolution rules. An OrderedCollection provides sequencing, but not append-only guarantees or convergence constraints. Order might reflect author timestamps, owner receipt time, or redistribution time. The owner can reorder, omit, or later insert activities. Other servers may cache earlier states. Without cryptographic sequencing or a log structure that constrains mutation, synchronization relies on local policy rather than shared verification.

Moderation authority also changes. The conversation owner decides which activities become part of the visible thread. That may reduce unwanted replies in cooperative environments. It also concentrates control over inclusion and historical presentation. Because the container remains mutable, integrity depends on trust in the owner. It also depends on how other servers interpret updates.

The harassment issue is not actually solved. A non-adopting instance can continue storing and rendering replies it receives directly. Some servers will display only curated entries. Others will not. Over time, different thread views can coexist without converging.

Compatibility with existing implementations raises practical concerns. Most current systems build conversation views from inReplyTo chains and local storage. Introducing container-centric validation, authenticated Add wrapping, and modified inbox handling would require substantial changes. Partial adoption would produce mixed behavior across the network.

The proposal acknowledges risks such as forged or poisoned embedded updates. It also suggests validation steps. Even with those measures, the container remains mutable shared state interpreted by independent systems. ActivityPub standardizes vocabulary and delivery, but not global state enforcement. This design can improve reply gating among cooperating servers. It does not, by itself, establish authoritative thread state across a federation built on autonomous peers.

The issue with the fediverse is that they want their cake and they want to eat it, too. They like to emphasize that they are truly decentralized and use that as a way to sweep any critiques against them in relation to the AT protocol away. But being truly decentralized is the issue.

The core issue is the federated and decentralized nature of ActivityPub. The problem is that the protocol is built around autonomous servers that don’t have to obey a central authority. Each server applies its own rules and policies. Even if a specification says servers “should” reject unapproved replies, they can still accept and display them. The authority is voluntary and not enforceable. The major limitation is that state is not globally enforced. There is no mechanism to ensure that all servers see the same thread order or content. A container can sequence posts. Other servers can reorder, omit, or cache different versions. Without cryptographic or append-only logs that every node verifies, synchronization relies entirely on local trust rather than any shared enforcement.

Partial adoption makes it even more of a clusterfuck. Some servers might implement the new authoritative-thread model, while others won’t. So threads will diverge across the network, and harassment or unwanted content can still appear on servers that do not participate. The decentralized and federated design fundamentally limits any attempt to impose global authority.

No, I am not joining in on the thread, because ActivityPub devs are especially nasty. That is why no one wants to fucking work with them. That is why it’s so fucking underdeveloped.

I was going to put this into this post, but I realized it would get too long:

https://neon-blue-demon-wyrm.x10.network/archives/16790

This is a really bad situation. I have been working with the AT protocol for roughly a year, so I haven’t been keeping track of what’s been going on here. Basically, the only way to fix it is to pretty much change the expected behavior so much it is no longer recognizable. Yikes!

So, I’m a developer. I am following along with and reading this thread:

https://oisaur.com/@renchap/116056634129526611

All I can think while reading this is: Well, that’s unfortunate.

So, one of the very popular features on Bluesky—also popular on Twitter—is the ability to select who can reply to a post. A major issue in the Fediverse is the inability to decide who can reply, and once you block someone, their harassing reply is still there. I honestly thought it was simply a case of them choosing not to add or address it for cultural reasons. What is clear from that thread is that they were always aware that the ActivityPub protocol and most Fediverse implementations don’t provide a universal way to control reply visibility or enforce blocks across instances. They were hedging and hiding behind cultural norms this whole time instead of working to fix it, because they were too busy waging political culture wars instead of doing their damn jobs.

That realization sunk my hopes. It basically means that the social media ecosystem with the most moderation tools is Bluesky and the ATmosphere, albeit Bluesky isn’t fully using all of them and is using the moderation tools in ways that selectively moderate according to their enigmatic interests. That does not make me feel good. Honestly, that makes me feel fucking awful about the future of the Internet.

ActivityStreams/ActivityPub was formalized around 2018, and platforms like Mastodon (which implement the ActivityPub protocol) have had years to work on federation and moderation tooling. Instead, many of those years were spent debating culture and writing manifestos. The most disturbing thing about all of this is that it had so much potential. But yeah, I think the Fediverse is going to be relegated to a legacy platform like Usenet or IRC. It’s not fixable, and the folks over at the Fediverse have alienated so many developers that no one really wants to work on fixing it.

The co-authors of ActivityPub are working on other social media projects that have nothing to do with the fediverse. Meanwhile, Mastodon’s founder, Eugen Rochko, stepped down as CEO in November 2025 as part of Mastodon’s transition to a nonprofit governance structure. The restructuring was intended to formalize governance and reduce reliance on a single individual. Rochko transferred control of Mastodon’s core assets and trademark to the nonprofit organization and remains involved in a strategic and advisory capacity. Day-to-day operations are now overseen by an executive director under a board-governed structure. I believe how badly Eugen fucked Mastodon is a large reason why he stepped down, albeit they are all doing the virtue signaling thing.

For the most part, I have pretty much pulled away from microblogging platforms as a whole. I was never a heavy user of anything but forums, and I was part of the occult niche. Since that is pretty much gone, there really isn’t a reason for me to be on social media, which is why I mostly blog. It really sucks because I wanted to believe in ActivityPub and the fediverse.

It pretty much comes down to the fact that the ActivityPub protocol is flawed at the protocol level when it comes to protecting people from harassment. While Bluesky’s app view is choosing to apply its tools selectively to address this, it is more capable of protecting people. Honestly, that really sucks, because that spells the death of this protocol. ActivityPub’s decentralized design doesn’t provide built-in, enforceable protections against harassment. This makes moderation and harassment mitigation practically impossible.

Renaud Chaput so much as admits it here:

“So we need to consider if we want to switch to a “thread context”-based approval model, there the author of the root of the thread controls all the tree of replies. Which would be a big change for Mastodon (and similar implementations), but might be more aligned with what user want, and solve other issues as well (replies federation).
But that would be a huge undertaking, with lot of problems related to backward compatibility (for example)”

What I noticed was this phrase by Renaud Chaput:

“First step for us is probably staying alive and continuing having a team that is focused on building a better product, which is our focus right now. We are very well aware of this topic (as I keep repeating each time you mention me 😉 ).”

They are saying the quiet part out loud: We are having issues staying relevant.

ActivityPub is built on the ActivityStreams 2.0 vocabulary. Three core components define it: Actor, Object, and Activity. It provides a Client-to-Server (C2S) API that lets an Actor submit Activities to an outbox. It also provides a Server-to-Server (S2S) federation protocol. This protocol delivers those Activities to other servers’ inboxes.

Replies are created by setting the inReplyTo property on an Object. Servers may expose a replies Collection. However, that collection is optional and not globally authoritative. The specification describes how Activities are serialized and delivered. It does not introduce a canonical container for conversations. It does not define a required global index or binding enforcement rules for moderation. A Block Activity is defined as a type of Activity. However, remote servers are not obligated to remove or hide content beyond their own policies. Each server maintains its own inboxes, outboxes, collections, and storage model. It interprets incoming Activities according to local implementation choices.

This facilitates interoperability at the transport and vocabulary level. It does not do so at the level of governance. Servers do not have to construct identical conversation graphs from inReplyTo chains. Nothing in the protocol allows an Actor to assert authoritative control over all descendant replies. This is the main problem. Federation operates peer to peer among autonomous servers. Moderation decisions, including defederation, filtering, and suspensions, remain local. The specification does not define a global control layer.

The AT Protocol approaches the problem differently. Users are identified through Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs). They publish signed records stored in repositories. These repositories are usually hosted on a Personal Data Server (PDS). They are append-only and cryptographically verifiable. Records follow schemas defined in Lexicon. Lexicon describes types, fields, and RPC interfaces in machine-readable form. Updates propagate through relays. These relays aggregate repository changes into a network-wide event stream, often called the firehose. Higher-level services, including AppViews, subscribe to this stream. They may also query indexes derived from it. The AT Protocol defines message delivery, identity, storage, and synchronization.

Within the AT Protocol, moderation operates across the same repository data. Labeling and visibility controls are expressed as structured records. Clients or AppViews can apply them deterministically if they choose to consume them. Content exists as signed records keyed by DIDs. It is distributed through relays. Moderation services therefore work against a consistent dataset rather than isolated server copies. Identity portability follows from this structure. Users can move between hosting providers without losing their DID, repository history, or social graph.

ActivityPub standardizes how Activities move between servers and how they are described. It leaves indexing, thread authority, and enforcement to individual implementations. The AT Protocol defines repository structure, identity binding, record schemas, and synchronization across the network. ActivityPub centers on federated message exchange with local policy control. No participant has protocol-level authority over the shape or visibility of a conversation once it federates. The AT Protocol centers on a shared record system with portable identity and network-wide data propagation. Moderation and visibility decisions can attach to the same canonical records seen across the network.

In ActivityPub’s model, moderation is local. If someone replies to you in a harassing way, your server can hide it, block it, or defederate from the offending server. Other servers may still store, display, and propagate those replies according to their own policies. There is no protocol-level mechanism that lets you assert binding control over how replies to your post are indexed or rendered elsewhere. Harassment mitigation is fragmented. Harassment can persist in parallel contexts even after you act against it locally.

In the AT Protocol model, content exists as signed records in repositories keyed to portable identities. It is distributed through a shared data propagation layer. Because of this, moderation services can operate against a consistent dataset. Labels, visibility controls, or account-level actions can attach to the same canonical records that other services consume. While it does not eliminate harassment, it makes it technically possible for moderation decisions to propagate more coherently across applications that choose to honor them.

So the difference for harassment is this: in ActivityPub, protection is inherently piecemeal and server-scoped. In the AT Protocol, protection can be structurally network-aware. Identity, storage, and moderation signals live in the same shared data model.

Basically, the fediverse has no means to keep vulnerable, marginalized people safe. The AT Protocol does, albeit the Bluesky app view chooses not to use it. The point is that it has the potential. The last time I tried to explain all of this, I was harassed by a person who operates multiple servers and accounts on here:

@FediThing @FediTips @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] and @[email protected]

The protocol is fundamentally flawed, and they do not know how to fix it. These people are incapable of good-faith conversations, so I am avoiding tagging them or attaching this response.to the thread, because their response is basically to stall, hedge, and gas light.

I’m not a fan of Bluesky — not at all. I really wanted to love ActivityPub, but I think Eugene pretty much killed it within the last three years. They had a very narrow, myopic culture and vision in mind, where they completely ignored all criticisms. Now, there is really no way to fix this mess, which is why they stick to gaslighting their users and literally harassing any developer who criticizes them. Social media has normalized lying to its users, so am I surprised?

Edit:

What a surprise. An anti-black reaction that pulls the it is okay to ignore you because you are an angry black person. Yes, black people are angry, and that you do not understand why is the problem.

I’m not going to go back and forth with a racist, nor am I going to quote them because of my stance on spreading misinformation and vitriol. A person who was implicated in the anti-Black behavior of the fediverse tried to discredit me as a Black person by claiming that I am not on Blacksky, have not worked on Blacksky, and am not happy or positive enough to be included in the Black folks who have been harmed by anti-Blackness.

Yes, they said that with a straight face. Blacksky exists because Black people were angry at being mistreated by the fediverse. Ergo, since I am not happy about being mistreated, I can’t be part of that demographic of Black folks. They are tacitly expecting trustworthy Black people to respond to abuse by being happy. What kind of Jim Crow shit is this? Therefore, it is acceptable to dismiss my experiences as a Black person because I don’t conform to the stereotype of what a Black person in America is.

In other words, they are saying I am a hostile angry black person, and we can disregard what I have to say because I am an angry Black person in Donald Trump’s America.

What kills me is that these folks have no insight into their own racism. This is all the attention they get, because I believe racists should be isolated among other things. They truly believe they are the good guys and that the savior complex is an imperialistic colonial archetype flies over their heads I don’t think white racists can ever change, so I will not be addressing them. That’s all I will say about that.

Edit again:

Welp, after seeing the first edit, the hit racist dog deleted the top level of the thread about me. That is what is called a consciousness of guilt, because if they had genuine good intentions and truly believed what they said was right, they would have said it with their whole chest and would not have deleted the top thread reply. Also, the little group of Fediverse racists explicitly rushed to report me. Report me to who—myself? It’s my instance. I have not explicitly violated any rules of this person’s home instance, but they feel entitled to try and have me removed from the Fediverse because I did not respond to their triangulation, brigading, and harassment by being nice. I did not take the mistreatment with a smile and a nod. Racist white people can fuck all the way off.

The Virulent Infection of BlueSky by Extremely Online, Brain-Rotten Zombies from X Continues

So, it appears a new migration from Twitter to Bluesky is underway. It appears to be some of the most virulent former 4chan users possible. Yep, I got off Bluesky just in time, lol. I’ve been keeping tabs on a particularly virulent and toxic subgraph on Twitter for years. It pretty much stayed off Bluesky because they couldn’t act like abusive dumpster fires there. Welp, looks like they’re becoming more active on Bluesky. It’s not looking good over there.

That they are on the move says something. It’s sort of like how the US is suddenly a place that is hospitable to measles. It was all but eradicated here.

My husband likes to say that you can tell where not to be by where I am looking from somewhere else. I like fires. So if I am observing your platform or community from a distance, you probably don’t want to be there.

Edit:

I had originally posted the above on a now-defunct federated blog. It got blasted to Mastodon. Someone replied and asked what I think is causing this. I debated actually answering, then decided that I’ve had enough of the dumpster fire that is social media. I decided not to wade through social media tech discourse into what will mostly likely be an Internet argument with a complete stranger. I am a techie dragon, and I engage with things to learn how they work so I can tinker with them. I only engaged with tech discourse to get my hands on how the tech works. There’s nothing in it for me to be part of larger conversations. Arguing with random strangers on social media is not an epistemically useful format. I do think I should answer, though. Just on my blog.

I treat social media like I do an addictive substance. I do not believe in abstinence, but I do believe in harm-reduction paradigms, so when I see everyone overdosing on social media, I pull back and shut down a lot of accounts. The Fediverse instance where the first part of this blog post was posted has been taken down, moved to this blog, and this section appended to it.

I often use the word weeb pejoratively. Here, I am using it categorically. There really isn’t an “official” name outside of otaku or weeb culture. I am at the fringes and intersections of it as a furry. My husband is a millennial weeb. With that being said—

The migration is in large part because Bluesky is capturing the otaku/weeb niche of X. X hosted networks that were ecosystems of “anime fans.” These included anime and manga artists, doujin and hentai artists, VTuber fans, NSFW illustrators, fandom shitposters, niche fetish communities, and other chronically and extremely online content creators and influencers. That culture relied heavily on timelines, informal networks, and discovery through reposts, replies, and algorithmic amplification.

Elon Musk pretty much destabilized X’s ecosystems and social networks from multiple directions at once. Algorithm changes made reach inconsistent. Moderation created anxiety and uncertainty about what would get suppressed or unintentionally “viral”. Bots, engagement farming, and blue-check reply spam actively poisoned fandom conversations.

Bluesky is the memetic and cultural progeny of early imageboard cultures. I conducted a phylogenetic analysis of the memetics, which you can check out here:

Bluesky is a competitor of X for otaku and fandom communities. Bluesky has a lot of the aspects of old Twitter dynamics around which fandom culture evolved. Recently, Bluesky introduced something big in those communities: going live. Since X is no longer habitable for weebs, they are moving to Bluesky.

For example, the AT protocol already has PinkSea:

https://pinksea.art

And, of course, there is WAFRN:

https://app.wafrn.net

I cope and deal with issues via personal, private sublimation and not so much exhibitionism of my art or consumption of art. So, while I do make comic books and do a shit ton of weeby art, it’s for the purpose of sublimation, so I’m not too interested in being a part of a community. That’s a large reason I am not active in those spaces. I’m quite cynical, in general, so I am suspicious of any community — and I mean any community, at all. Honestly, I am mildly contemptuous of mass participation or any sense of belonging. So, my art stays private, because it is created for me – and just me.

Can We Stop With The Dadaist Memes, Please?

Spamming Dadaist cut-up techniques into memes doesn’t make you look edgy at 50. It just makes you look like someone who never outgrew 4chan. I’m browsing through a Bluesky network of chaotes going through a 50-year-old crisis, and it’s pretty much nothing but cut-up Dadaist-style memes, shitposts, and chan-style board posts—in the year of our lord 2026.

I kid you not, I just read a long thread about someone lamenting the death of bulletin boards except for 4chan. This is why. 4chan culture is able to survive because it keeps getting spread memetically. You can’t, on one hand, curse 4chan culture and then, on the other, participate in it.

Who Gets to Speak On Discord, Who Gets Banned, and Why That’s Always Political in Spaces with No Politics Rules

So, a thing I find very interesting about the fragility of the esteem among chronic Discord users is that it’s common for admins and moderators to ban or make fun of people who leave. Essentially, they’re responding to being rejected or not chosen, so they think it’s reasonable to retaliate

A Discord server I am lurking in has a “no politics” rule and is a religious, esoteric, and philosophical server. What I find very funny about this is that politics is:

“Politics is who gets what, when, and how.”

— Harold D. Lasswell, Politics: Who Gets What, When, How (1936)

I find it very funny that the most minimal form of being “not political” in a virtual community is a Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ). I was part of an IRC chaos magick channel when I was a teenager, and I submitted to a zine under my old handle (which is not Rayn) when I was 20. No, I’m not going to reveal the name I wrote under, which was published in chaos magick zines back in the day, because I’ve had a bucket of crazies following me around since 2008, with the insane network of anarchists circa 2020 being the latest instance.

ChanServ was a bot used on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) networks to manage channel operations such as bans, who got voiced, and permissions. Think of it as an early, early moderation bot. In an IRC TAZ, everyone who entered got all the permissions from Chanserv, so anyone could ban, voice, unban, deop, or op anyone else. No one had more power than anyone else, so there was minimal negotiation over channel resources. A TAZ is still an inherently political construct; however, it is a minimal political construct because there is minimal negotiation of resources and an equal, random, and chaotic authority structure. That’s not Discord, though.

Discord inherently has a hierarchical system defined by roles, a TOS, and members are expected to abide by the rules of that server. So, when you say there is a no-politics rule on Discord, you are inherently contradicting yourself because Discord is structurally political in how you, as a moderator, interact with others. How people negotiate conversations and interact with each other to access the resources of your Discord server is inherently political.

Discord’s structure makes any “no-politics” rule itself a political act. Moderators exercise power by granting, restricting, or revoking permissions, and that distribution of power is the very politics the rule tries to avoid. So while the intention is to keep discussions “apolitical,” it creates local Discord politics by determining who gets to speak and who gets silenced (e.g., banned, timed out, kicked, or limited to certain channels). A “no politics” rule shifts political dynamics into moderation decisions rather than eliminating them.

What prompted this was me observing a typical pragmatic versus moral realism argument that you’d see in any philosophy course or forum. I’m an academic and a computational scientist, but I don’t try to shut down any arguments with that, because that’s an explicit fallacy and a dishonest, bad-faith tactic.

Technically, I am a biologist. Yes, I have a biology degree and a biotech degree. I also have philosophy, mathematics, and computer science and engineering degrees under my belt. I have to work with people like this on a daily basis, and I find them insufferable, so the last thing I want to do in my free time after looking at stacks of dumbass papers is argue with people on Reddit or Discord when I could be fucking, getting fucked, or spending time with my husband. But, alas, they have no life. Keep in mind, as a computational biologist that reviews a lot of shit, I get paid to argue. These idiots are arguing on the Internet for free! The reason why Redditors, Reddit moderators, and Discord moderators get shat on so much is that all of their labor is unpaid! People with lives don’t take it that seriously!

On to the convo:

A new person in the community defined morals as: morals = {a, b, c} exhaustively. An established member of that community responded that, for them, morals are either {x, y, z…}, non-exhaustive and polymorphic, or not inherently defined by the tradition itself but supplied externally by the individual. The new person replied, effectively, “According to my definition of a, b, c, that still constitutes a moral framework.” An established member who is also a scientist pushed back as if no definition of morals had been proposed at all, when in actuality they were disagreeing with the scope and applicability of the given definition, not the act of defining itself.

By the way, the symbolic way I’m defining this is ambiguous. You have no clue what anything is; however, it is ontologically defined, and the logic makes sense. That is the problem. An ontological definition was given, so arguing that no definition was proposed—simply because they disagreed with it—is in bad faith. Personally, I am a constructivist, poststructuralist, pragmatist, instrumentalist, and anti-realist, so I don’t care too much about the realism of the ontological propositions and expressions. I am pointing out logical mistakes.

This is especially egregious when individuals rely on their authority in a domain where their degree is not pertinent. A well-known issue with scientists is that their curiosity can outstrip their morality. Essentially, an ethics board composed mostly of scientists without degrees in ethics, law, or philosophy will make poor decisions and saturate the political sphere they occupy with advocates and lobbyists to bend laws to their interests. Therefore, a board with no philosophers is pretty sinister.

Morals and ethics are philosophical problems. To my knowledge, many people who sit on ethics boards that seriously address ethical issues have philosophy, and not just astronomy, degrees. Relevant degrees include psychology, sociology, theology, philosophy, etc. For example, I have a philosophy degree, so I am technically qualified and credentialed by a university to have these discussions. An astronomy degree alone does not make someone qualified to discuss ethics—maybe if they also had a theology degree?

The thing I find really funny about this group is that they avoid dilemmas. Morals and ethics are developed through ethical dilemmas. Their response to any type of dilemma is to exert their local authority and exclude, deny, or shut down conversations.

The difference between science and philosophy is that science is a little less messy and more defined. We can all see something and agree on what we see, right? The difference with philosophical questions and moral dilemmas is that they are relatively open-ended and ambiguous. It’s really amusing to me how those who try to argue philosophy are uncomfortable with indefinite answers that are open to interpretation.

It’s just funny how they tacitly assume that they are the only academics in their field in existence and that their opinion on things is the consensus, especially on metaphysical issues where there is no consensus. No human knows what the right thing to do is all the time. It’s great to know that they have somehow achieved a level of inhuman perfection.

Nags quick start reading list for the #secular #occultist

I'm Nagaram and I'm an #Atheist Occultist. I believe there is power in all sorts of magic, but its more practical than super natural.

Magic, gods, and the occult is a good psychological tool to help us navigate life both in a material and mental way.

The basis for my understanding of Secular Occultism is with

"Atomic Habits" -James Clear

This is the foundational text in my pseudo religion because it explains the psychological aspect of habit building and how this let's us slowly build to a better self. Importantly I'm tying the concept of affirmations to the magical conception of it and even intentions. I'm also looking at Habit Catalysts as Magic Rituals in that ritual magic helps us stay on task with our grander plans by being an easy habit we can build into a proper habit stack that ultimately culminates in our magic working.

From here I see the reading list as a choose your own adventure. So long as you understand that nearly all magic you will ever learn about is simply an affirmation with an aesthetic, there really isn't a wrong choice.

But for me I know what influenced me down this path.

"Pathways to Bliss" -The Joseph Campbell foundation

Another secular read. This book was about myth and legends as tools for self help. Characters to emulate and foils to avoid. It helps me maintain the mindset that truth in myth is less important than moral lessons. We can still use these stories from ancient oral traditions to the new testament, to the flying spaghetti monster as our new gods. As long as they symbolize something important to you then you can and should use them in your practice.

"Grimoire for the apprentice wizard" -Oberon Zell-Ravenheart

Oberon is a character, but important. I said earlier that secular occultism is affirmations with an aesthetic. Oberon is a wealth of aesthetic and easily approachable rituals with which you should try (other than the invisibility spell. I'm pretty sure he says you can use that to be naked in public and I don't recommend that.)

I'm liking my feed so far but ngl I need more occult/esoteric/witchy accounts to follow. Feel free to give me @ suggestions in the replies or boost if you post stuff like that!

#occult #occultism #occultist #esoteric #esotericsm #witch #witchcraft #witchy #magic #magick #druid #druids #spells #mystic #mysticism #astrology #astrologycommunity #tarot #TarotCards #TarotReading #oracle #oraclecards #medium #mediumship #spirit #spirituality #spiritual #spirits #spiritualgrowth #spiritualawakening #occulture #modernwitch

Hail Freya! Here's my 89th #FridayPaganPoll!

I consider there to be 4 broad categories of Pagans:

*Witch- Eclectic, Wicca, Wheel of the Year, folk magick, god-worship is optional.
*Polytheist- Devotional, religious studies, deity and pantheon worship, prayers and offerings, magick is optional.
*Occultist- Thelema, alchemy, ceremonial magick, trances, summonings, experiments.
*Animist- Nature-worship, seasonal celebration, meditation, spending time outdoors, minimal magick or god-worship.

For this poll, I'm asking, which do you lean most towards? I know, I know, it's difficult, but if you had to pick just one?

#Pagan #Witch #Polytheist #Occultist #Animist

redoing my #introduction, spring cleaning my profile

i am a total shitposter. i work in infosec (blue team), but don't follow me for good infosec information. just don't.

i like weird people... the communists and anarchists. the black sheep. the loners, outcasts, wallflowers, bizarros, rejects, outsiders, odd ducks, and the eccentric ones.

the broken. the lost. the lonely. the people who look in the mirror and can't see a beautiful person looking back.

the freaks, geeks, weirdos, goths, emos, punks, lovers with aching hearts, poets who don't know it, the elder gods/goddesses/others/cubes, nerds who love assembly, nerds who love obscure CSS, people who used to be carnies, people who want to be carnies, clown school dropouts, quiet librarians, midnight philosophers, chaotic good bartenders, D&D forever-DMs, speedrunners of life, cursed doll collectors, people who unironically love dial-up sounds, cassette tape hoarders, writers of unsent letters, DIY necromancers, time travelers stuck in the wrong timeline, indie game devs with imposter syndrome, hopeless romantics with a cynical streak, travelers of the astral plane, meme historians, collectors of lost media, aesthetic hoarders, souls lost in liminal spaces, thrift store treasure hunters, broken synthesizer enthusiasts, conspiracy theorists who know too much, introverts who overshare online, VHS romantics, late-night train station wanderers, noise music aficionados, digital ghost hunters, hopeless maximalists, cursed artifact restorers, wandering bards, and rogue rouge enthusiasts (people who dabble in makeup with chaotic flair, applying blush with the reckless abandon of a true artist).

And not least, the people who never quite fit in anywhere, but somehow fit in everywhere.

...you know, my people. 🖤

i'm looking for people that are cool with sharing misery most of the time, but do rarely dabble in the dark art of being fun. follow me if that's the case, or you know, don't.

you do you.

i do usually follow active accounts back, but if you don't post original posts... i don't typically follow. give me content plz.

#InfoSec #Nerd 🕵 (SIEM-SOAR-IR-RE)
#AnCom :ancom:
#Luciferian / #Satanist zealot (Not CoS or TST) 🜏
#LeftHandPath #ChaosWitch #Occultist ⛧
#HRT DIYer (EEn) 💉
#BDSM freak :blacker_heart_outline:​
#LGBT 🏳️‍🌈 / #Trans militant 🏳️‍⚧️
#BLM always ✊🏿
#Accessibility is key ​♿
#Manjaro fanatic :manjaro:
#KDE nut :kde:
#Python lover :python:
#Piracy hoarder 🏴‍☠️​
#Cyberpunk crank :lain: :heart_cyber:​
#Music of many stripes, mostly #Techno and #HeavyMetal 🎶

re-re-doing my #introduction, for..... uh... reasons

i am a total shitposter, i work in #infosec, and am generally family focused when i'm not working or online.

i blue team, i love the SIEM space, love the automation space, and deal with the IR space.

don't follow me for good infosec information. just don't. my socmedia is more to blow off steam, scream at the cloud, and be chill.

i am a good listener, deeply atheistic #satanist (then contradicting myself as a #ChaosWitch), a dirtbag anarcho #socialist, gun nut who can't own guns (curious kids), and fanatically #LGBTQIA+

looking for people that are cool with sharing misery most of the time, but sometimes (rarely) i dabble in the dark art of being fun.

follow me if that's the case, or you know, don't. you do you.

i do usually follow active accounts back, but if you don't post original posts... i don't typically follow. give me content ;)

#InfoSec #Nerd 🕵 (SIEM-SOAR-IR-RE)
#AnCom :ancom:
#Luciferian / #Satanist zealot (Not CoS or TST) 🜏
#LeftHandPath #ChaosWitch #Occultist ⛧
#HRT DIYer (EEn) 💉
#BDSM freak :blacker_heart_outline:​
#LGBT 🏳️‍🌈 / #Trans militant 🏳️‍⚧️
#BLM always ✊🏿
#Accessibility is key ​♿
#Manjaro fanatic :manjaro:
#KDE nut :kde:
#Python lover :python:
#Piracy hoarder 🏴‍☠️​
#Cyberpunk crank :lain: :heart_cyber:​
#Music of many stripes, mostly #Techno and #HeavyMetal 🎶

I’m seeking an expert in geomancy, ley lines, and occult practices involving the land to speak at an online event on 15 June. Anyone you’d suggest? Can be skeptic or believer, as long as they can explain the concept! It’s a paid gig, and the audience is mainly writers.

It's for my next Writing the Occult, which is about connections to the land - so if you have other suggestions that fit that theme, I’d also love to hear them.

#occult #folklore #occultpractices #occultist #leylines #geomancy

Yes, yes, my previous post was about this blog being defunct; however, I don’t want to post or talk about this stuff from my main blog, so here we go.

I have issues with tarot cards. To be completely honest, my issues are exacerbated by people doubting my authenticity because I am not obsessed with occult symbols or talk endlessly about things like tarot cards, astrology, or grimoires. I wish I were kidding, but I’ve had little cabals, guilds, and cliques of people following me around the Internet for over 16 years at this point trying to prove I’m not legitimate. From what I can tell, it is because I refuse to join any occult cults or use systems that came from cult leaders. They find the idea of magic without an occult or religious system absolutely threatening or harmful to their self-esteem. I think it’s a weird manifestation of the sunk cost fallacy in that many of them have spent a lot of money, at the very least, if not large portions of their lives on these things. But, I digress.

One, tarot cards are overly complex and superfluous for no reason. Two, people who use them aren’t actually interested in whether the predictions are true. You can implement something like tarot cards without tarot cards. Personally, I like playing cards over tarot cards, and I’ve known some people to use Magic The Gathering Cards. In any case, we can treat denotations of magical paradigms as ontologies and ontological statements or expressions. As such, we can regard them as languages. A way to think about it is that I can store demons, angels, tarot cards, correspondences, etc. into a database, such as the MySQL database of this site. What does that imply? That implies that we can model magical entities as a mathematical set of tuples, i.e., an alphabet. The ability to store entities from a grimoire in a database.

Keep in mind that this site is powered by PHP and MySQL. If a person were to create a table in their database schema for demons, your ability to see that on the site would be an empirical case for the ability to do encode that information as tuples. The point is that we can treat the properties of these entities and the entity itself as an alphabet and words, respectively. That means that magical entities and correspondences are components of a tuple joined by operators to create relationships and rules. We can call that a language. As such, expressions and statements – such as the magical entity itself, can be expressed via a base 2 system, i.e., binary. An empirical case for this is the ability to store magical entities in a database, on a high level, which is digitally encoded as bytes sent across the Internet which you read through a CMS powered by SQL.

An example of a base 2 system is an ensemble of coins where each coin has two possible states. Conventionally, we can think of them as yes or no. Anything that you can store digitally is binary. Even an image. So, you are not necessarily restricted to yes or no questions, for you can abstract those. You can abstract different lengths and frequencies of yes and no into any pattern that you want. The point is that any person can create any prototypical pattern that they want, that’s a high-level abstraction of binary states. There’s no particular reason to use tarot cards or an occult divination system at all.

Here’s the other thing we know about how psychic and magical phenomena work: It’s based on subjective meaning. There’s a stronger connection if something has meaning to you, and it is subjective. There’s a larger dissonance between the prototypical patterns of a magical system and gestalt patterns and prototypical patterns of your behavior that emerge from your subjective experience. There’s a technique called a soul mirror in Hermetic schools of thought. Looking at your experience through a Hermetic magical system and language reflects back to you a version of yourself through the eyes of a Hermetic system; however, ChatGPT can actually be used as a type of mirror, too. One thing that I have been experimenting with is having ChatGPT analyze my journal entries and identify prototypical patterns that can be used in lieu of typical archetypes that show up in occultism. Again, you can treat the attributes of these patterns as tuples and reduce it down to a binary system that can be paired with coin divination practices.

It’s not just an aesthetic issue, it is an epistemological issue. When you are trying to scientifically prove something, you don’t actually prove it. What was drilled into my head is that science does not prove anything, because science is inductive and not deductive; therefore, nothing can be 100% in science. Instead, science supports hypotheses and theories. In addition to that, you aim to debunk your own hypothesis. This means, if the hypothesis is that the cards have a message in them, we should be able to disprove this. Since this is purely a statistical problem, this makes it falsifiable where a lay person can easily do Null Hypothesis Significance testing.

Randomness isn’t chaos. Randomness is when there is an equal probability of something happening. If there is a pool of events and all the events have the same probability of happening, that is an example of randomness. Information is an inverse property to randomness, where there is some type of sequence and correlation among pairs, i.e., a joint probability. Information is an ordered sequence of the joint probability of two things joined by an operator that denotes a correlation. So, that means if we are testing for the presence of information and a message in a spread of cards, we are looking for correlations, patterns, and redundancy above chance.

Say that a tarot card reader is able to reject the null hypothesis and show that there is a message in the cards. Does this mean that it was the tarot cards after all? No. What is actually happening? When someone with precognition senses the future, what is happening is that the information is being written to their brain and body. Biological systems are very noisy, and they are stochastic and chaotic. There is a lot of randomness. Similar to how random events are altered outside a person’s body through magic, precognition orders random events inside a person’s body.

The synaptic transmission of neurons—whether a neuron fires or not—is inherently stochastic. For example, the exact timing and number of vesicles released in response to each action potential can vary due to stochastic factors. These factors may include random fluctuations in the concentration of calcium ions or variations in the availability of vesicles for release. In addition, the probability of a neurotransmitter molecule binding to a receptor depends on factors such as the concentration of neurotransmitter in the synaptic cleft, the affinity of the neurotransmitter for its receptor, and the presence of other molecules that may compete for receptor binding. By manipulating stochastic, noisy, and probabilistic factors such as these, precognitive information is written to the person’s brain through the activation of neural pathways.

Because of this, probability manipulation can be used to influence a person’s thoughts. By manipulating the probability of them making a particular decision, you can influence processes such as synaptic transmission and the firing of neural pathways. For obvious ethical reasons, I do not use this technique often and I do not teach it. In this political climate, who knows what people would do. I can compel people with that technique, but it requires one enter into a head space where you are okay with total domination of another person, and that persona is hard to shake off.

This means that when we can reject the null hypothesis in a tarot card reading regarding whether the cards convey a message or not, the power isn’t coming from the tarot cards or any magical system. Rather, a person is using precognition to sense the future. They are correlating that with entropic systems to encode information in an external source. Similar to how noise gets ordered in their brain, the entropic system becomes ordered to encode information. That implies there isn’t anything special about tarot cards. Instead, it is a combination of psychokinesis and precognition. Of course that implies a level of psychokinesis and precognition is necessary, though, a particular system is not.

For example, my husband is a diviner. He has precognitive abilities, empathic abilities, and small forms of psychokinesis, which manifest through his use of cards as a tool. The cards that frequently come up when we’ve been able to reject the null hypothesis for me are:

• King of Hearts
• Queen of Spades
• King of Diamonds
• Queen of Clubs
• King of Clubs

These cards frequently come up when my husband does a reading in a controlled experiment. We have an automatic card shuffler to eliminate any bias introduced from how we may shuffle the cards. My husband calls them the Five Monarchs, and he says that they represent five different personas that I have. He is correlating his empathic abilities with an ensemble that has entropy to encode information about my subconscious mind. These cards come up frequently beyond chance. Many occultists who have run into me are probably familiar with who is my Queen of Spades aspect that exemplifies the Evil Queen archetype.

While we are on the topic, formats like JPG and Computer Vision (CV) use Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) to convert blocks of pixel data from the spatial domain (the original image) into the frequency domain (represented by coefficients). It does this by decomposing the image into a sum of cosine functions of different frequencies. The DCT represents the image data as a set of coefficients corresponding to different frequencies. Lower frequencies represent smooth variations in color and intensity, while higher frequencies represent rapid changes, such as edges or fine details. This means that any occult image that can be encoded as a JPEG is composed of sines and cosines, indicating that the image possesses harmonics. This means that any sigil or magical seal encoded in a JPG format is an image composed of sines and cosines that can be minimally represented with n modulo 2. If you encode the magical texts or magical seals into a digital image, it has a harmonic and binary representation.

I’ve been experimenting with the interplay of harmonics, entropy, and image formats to manipulate Johnson–Nyquist noise or randomness from beam splitters and laser pointers, with the aim of conjuring digital images and sigils directly through magic. My endeavors have involved extensive research and experimentation. However, regrettably, given the increasing radicalization within occult and paranormal communities, it’s too dangerous, irresponsible, and unethical to allow this knowledge to fall into their hands.

Entropy is not necessarily randomness, either, although they are often used interchangeably. Randomness and entropy become interchangeable when entropy is maximized. Entropy is a measurement of an ensemble and the permutations of that ensemble. A system that can be configured differently is thus an entropic system; however, that doesn’t necessarily imply randomness. Randomness implies one configuration being just as likely as another one. Having different permutations doesn’t imply all permutations are equally likely. Factorials can be used to calculate the number of possible arrangements or configurations of a system, which is closely related to its entropy. A maximally entropic system would be random; however, a random system is not necessary for there to a psychic influence, for there just needs to be enough degrees of freedom and entropy.

I think tarot cards denote a particular culture. It’s a signifier of cultural membership. It signals to everyone that you are into occultism and tarot card readers act as guides, so it denotes a particular level of spiritual authority. Tarot card readers would thus be equivalent to an evangelical that does intercessory prayer. Seeing a tarot card reader would be like a Christian seeking a pastor.

We don’t call Music Physics. We call Music Music, and we classify it as an art. To me, magic is the part of the underlying metaphysical aspects. The problem that I have is occultists’ belief that they have a dominance on magic such that people are starting to believe you cannot practice magic without occultism. Honestly, occultism is going down really, really dark paths, and I don’t believe you can spiritually progress while practicing occultism, so, for me, it is imperative to unlink magic and occultism.

A tarot card reader that claims they rely on intuition is a fake. If there were a message encoded in the cards, we could measure the frequencies of particular cards to see if they were random without the interpretation of the tarot card reader, regardless of whether we knew what the message meant. The patterns would be there.

It’s an aesthetic and a token of cultural membership.

#Animism #animistic #ceremonialMagic #ceremonialMagick #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #ChatGPT #cults #divination #DKMU #Hellenism #Hellenistic #hermeticism #husband #LGBTQ #magick #occult #occultism #occultist #occultists #occulture #pagan #paganism #paranormal #Parapsychology #precognition #psychic #Psychokinesis #rune #runes #sigil #sigilMagick #sigils #spiritual #Spirituality #tarot #tarotCards #Thelema #theosophy #Theurgy #witch #witchcraft

𝙊𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩
#AleisterCrowley #𝙊𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩 #𝙿𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚘𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚛

Let me, once again, emphasize that I have an antisocial personality type and am deeply introverted. I’m fine with it, since it seems to insulate me from the cult tactics of preying on people’s need for belonging and esteem. That has completely ruined occult communities. I’m fine sitting here and listening to the birds chirp as I type this while watching the ducks at the pond from sitting in the sunroom.  While I am not outright misanthropic and have to be more deliberate about being prosocial and moral, my natural disposition and temperament are antisocial. I intellectually understand the harm to humanity and oneself that antisocial behavior can do and the benefits of prosocial behavior, so I try to be prosocial in most, but not all, cases because it is logical.

Examples of normalized antisocial behaviors, cultures, and beliefs that harm everyone in society, especially the people who hold them, are racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc. I would argue that these are antisocial beliefs because they negatively harm all of humanity as a whole. Watching humans socialize is like watching the mating ritual of an alien species. I don’t have a desire to approach you, be a part of your community, socialize, engage in small talk, or really hear any of your unsolicited opinions. Whether you like me or don’t, read my stuff or don’t, or think I am insane or unpleasant literally does not matter to me. It is not because my esteem is high; instead, my brain is not wired to understand or care.

The neurological system that rewards me for getting praise or punishes me for being shamed is broken, so there is no feedback mechanism that makes me sensitive to my peers. Again, that is a good thing because people spread misinformation through their peer networks, partially because of that feedback mechanism of recognition from their peers. Since that’s broken with me, I don’t care to engage in a culture of misinformation.

I understand human socialization on an intellectual level; however, on an emotional level, I don’t get it nor care. My husband has to frequently explain to me how people feel about things, but I just can’t feel them. I don’t think people understand how antisocial I am, which is probably why they keep approaching me not understanding why they are met with such hostility, though I tell people at least 500 times a week that I am antisocial. I avoid people, for the most part, because I don’t like people, which is why it always confuses me when they go out of their way to find me.

The really annoying thing about visiting occult spaces, in particular, is that they always assume you are:

• Spiritually searching for something.
• Looking for a community to belong to.
• Know absolutely nothing.

So, they are always confused with interactions with me because it doesn’t seem like I am interested in socializing. Curiosity. It’s called curiosity. I’m curious about rocks, too, but that doesn’t mean I want to befriend a rock

I have a relationship with draconic archetypes – but not just any dragon. Specifically, I exemplify and have sympathy with wyrms and wyverns. Wyrms are a type of serpentine dragon, so my affinity for dragons extends to my affinity for snakes, who are typically solitary. I’m also a Satanist, so the serpentine connotations of wyrms align with my satanic attributes and paradigm. The antisocial aspects of satanism closely aligns with the idea of severance and antisocial behavior is empirically close to concepts of wickenedess and evil. As I said earlier, though, antisocial behavior negatively impacts humanity and the entire planet. So, I am not entirely invested in the idea of “black magic”; rather, I see the world in shades of gray, which is why I’m fond of symbols such as twilight, dusk, dawn, eclipses, etc. I’m not all good, but I am not pure evil either. I’m more selfish than purely malicious, if anything. Trying to socialize with me is like trying to socialize with a venomous snake because they are misunderstood. The point is I am pretty much a serpent and quite venomous, so dealing with me is like picking up a highly venomous snake and getting upset that you were bitten.

#BlueSky #dragon #dragons #fediverse #magick #Mastodon #occult #occultism #occultist #satan #Satanism #Satanist #socialMedia #Spirituality #Threads #Twitter #witch #witchcraft

This is your reminder that I’m a vampire. It’s not an aesthetic; I’m an actual vampire. I’ve conducted some experiments. I’ve taken samples of my blood as the experimental group and another person’s as a control, and created a ward to cut the blood off from any psychic or magical energy or influence. What happened is that the proteins in my blood started to denature, whereas the other sample of blood remained the same. We used a centrifuge and biochemical assays to determine this. Yes, I have all of this equipment. I was one of those kids who got chemistry sets, telescopes, and microscopes for Christmas, so I’ve always had a home lab ever since I was a teenager. The lab and occult parts of our home look like something straight out of a sci-fi movie. No, I will not post my labs online.

Psychic and magical constructs are types of dynamical entities with structures and periodic properties. If you have an RNG or REG, a Geiger counter, or a cloud chamber, you can measure a pattern or signature. You can measure a signal through patterns in noise. So, I wanted to verify that there indeed was some type of magical influence and measure it, and I wanted to see if my blood would interfere with someone else’s magic. We set up sensors and did an initial experiment to verify that there indeed was magical or psychic influence from another person’s magic, and then we tested if my blood had an effect. Yes, we controlled everything, and not just the blood. We did baseline measurements to understand the background noise and signals not associated with psychic or magical phenomena. We conducted control experiments where no magical or psychic influence was expected. To control for the confounding variable of my expectations, we had someone else do the experiment with proper blinding. If my blood actually absorbs magic, then there should be an increase in noise in the measurable signal.

What happened was that there was no effect with the other person’s blood, but with my blood, there was a decrease in the measured order and an increase in disorder until the data was just chance. That meant that the presence of my blood had an entropic effect on the magic influence. We can speculate because my blood absorbed the magic. That also means that my blood is a good binding agent for magic, which is why I use it in magical inks. My favorite ink to mix is dragon’s blood ink. I’ve been experimenting with other resins, though.

This means that without feeding, I’ll get sickly and that psychic and magical energy are drawn to and absorbed by my blood. I don’t have to actively do anything. Anything ambient will flow towards me, so magic done in my locality will arc towards me.

Because I’m not gothic, people forget I’m a vampire. Do all vampires have the abilities I do? No, actually. I seem to be exceptionally talented with magic. I suppose that’s because of why I’m a vampire, though. I’m the scion of a specific type that’s associated with sorcery. Most vampires can’t do what I can do.

Do I have enhanced senses? Yes and no. I’m clairvoyant, so I have enhanced senses via ESP. I can see in complete darkness with my clairvoyance and even with my eyes closed. There’s an element of psychometry to my clairvoyance, so if you were in a location, sat down, and walked through the woods, I would be able to see the psychic signature you left behind and track and watch you in complete darkness. It’s similar to tracking a person through scent. I can force the signature to present as a smell, but I normally use visual heatmap gestalts in my internal schema. I can see past histories and the present very well. I’m not good with precognition because I tend to influence the future instead of predicting it. Instead of following a person through time, I would nudge their path. Since physical senses are limited by space and time, and I am not limited by space or time, you could conclude that my psychic senses are superior to the fictional ones immortal vampires have in fiction.

Am I physically stronger than a person? Yes, if I tap into the darker, predatory side of me, I am faster, but it is not because of my physical body. I instinctively manipulate the probability of where energy will be, so I manipulate force and momentum. When a person tosses a coin in the air and manipulates the probability of it landing heads or tails, they are manipulating entropy and disordered rotational and mechanical energy.

Physically, entropy is sometimes a thermodynamic property of disordered rotational energy. So, in manipulating the coin toss, what is actually happening is a person is manipulating thermodynamic properties of things like the air the coin is moving through to influence the pressure that the air exerts on the coin to get it to land on the intended face. This is a stochastic process, so whether the air, the intermolecular forces of the coin, or both are responsible depends on the path that minimizes, or maximizes in some cases, action. I can move faster because I’ve manipulated the probability of me being at a certain place at a particular time, where I have made that the only future that will happen. If I am there at the time, then that means I have to be moving with a particular momentum. That retrocausally constrains configurations of energy by skewing statistical mechanics from the literal air around me or the living things around me, which pushes me forward. I am drawing kinetic energy from the environment or organisms in the environment to move faster or hit you harder.

To move faster, I can manipulate probabilities and the pressure of the air around me to propel me forward, much like how intermolecular forces or the pressure of gas particles colliding with the coin can interact with it as it moves. It’s like compressing gas: when gas is compressed, its volume decreases, meaning the same number of gas molecules now occupy a smaller space. Consequently, the frequency of collisions between gas molecules and the walls of the container increases. These collisions transfer momentum to the walls more frequently, exerting a greater force per unit area, leading to an increase in pressure. Compression also mechanically organizes the gas, as molecules are forced together and move in less random ways. When you make things less likely, you stretch out probability waves. When you increase the likelihood, you compress probability waves, so while the example was mechanical and classical, there is a quantum analog. There’s a relationship between probability manipulation, thermodynamics, and pressure that allows for the transfer of momentum.

It’s less preternatural strength and more probability manipulation. Whichever paths require the least amount of change or action are selected as channels. It’s less physical strength and more of an energetic exoskeleton. It also works on a magical level. If a magician is able to overcome my siphoning ability, how I latently manipulate high-frequency probability waves would inject chaos into and dissipate the harmonics of a spell. Probabilities that are time-dependent can be described as a sum of sines and cosines – waves and harmonics; therefore, how I shift probabilities creates a type of crystalline barrier. You either can’t get through it, or the nature of the spell changes as it passes through, which means I have effectively devoured it. See Fourier Transform for more information on that. So, I am stronger because of the probabilities and energy I manipulate, not because of an inherent preternatural strength. Without magic, I am pretty much weak and sickly, but with it and a source of magic nearby – a hostile magician, I am very formidable.

Am I sensitive to sunlight? Yes. It’s why people will never see me, usually until twilight.

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I’m skeptical. Unless your metaphysical assertions and claims are epistemologically justifiable, I will regard it as fiction. If a person is insisting on the epistemological validity of an entire paradigm and theories for that paradigm, I am going to need Bayesian Statistics in addition to null hypothesis significance testing. I’m not one of those people who says that everything must be empirical, considering my metaphysical love is mathematics, and that is a priori, intuitive, not empirical, and objective. The bizarre thing about mathematics is that it is epistemologically not empirical; however, it is objective because 1+1 will always equal 2. An iconic property of fictions is that they are subjective, intersubjective, and dynamic – they mutate. Mathematics is not empirical; however, it is tautological, so it remains true in all cases.

Philosophically, the intuitive nature of mathematical knowledge is evidence, albeit weak evidence, for the existence of an ideal and noetic sphere. I believe that the level of intuition for conceptual mathematical entities is related to the intuition that goes into my psychic perception. I think that is why many prolific magicians are also polymaths. To my knowledge, some parapsychologists are exploring this; however, I have little evidence for that, so take that with a grain of salt.

Ontologically, I am flexible; however, I will treat the magical and occult paradigm as a convenient fiction. Ontology encompasses propositions about the existence of something, whereas epistemology is how we know that the proposition is valid. It is how we determine if that belief is justified. While I am deeply into magic and I understand that the boundaries between reality, illusion, and fiction are not as sharp as we would like to think, I make sure never to lose touch with reality.

At this point in my life as a magician, I am less interested in book clubs and creepy podcasts and more interested in replication and experimentation that I carry out myself. I’m skeptical and cynical. I will interact with occult and magical systems in the same way I would interact with Marvel, Warhammer 40K, the DC universe, etc. A lot of people clutch their pearls over that and like to argue that their paradigms, currents, traditions, and religions are “real”. Again, if you cannot scientifically prove to me their existence, they’re fiction to me. They are convenient fictions that people can use to produce effects; however, there is a tenuous connection between the existential import of that being and the effects since it is mediated through the intentions, expectations, and beliefs of a person. That’s where I am at.

I explored the more woo parts of occultism and the paranormal as a teenager and in my 20s. As someone in their 30s, I am too old to be playing pretend. And, I am deeply annoyed by millienals and Gen X’ers who are still fucking LARPing. We are too damn old.

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This is one of my rather intimate posts. I have not decided whether I will post it publicly or privately. I am leaning towards the public. We shall see. It depends on where this post goes and where it ends up. I am experiencing a bout of existential loneliness, again. It may be triggered by watching magicians in my cohort cycle back, again. Alan Wake 2 gave me a different way of looking at circles. I kept thinking that people are stuck in a loop that starts and ends where it begins. This isn’t a loop. It’s a spiral where people can spiral upwards and ascend or downwards and descend into self-destruction. The insidious illusion of magic and magical communities is a sublime narrative, typically backed by some mythology, that makes people feel as if they are working towards something meaningful, sublime, and beyond them that will transform the world. Growing up in a religious and esoteric family, I was cynical because that sentiment is endemic to every spiritual and esoteric community and it normally preyed on people’s need to belong.

I was born with psychic abilities, and I discovered that I was different when I was 7. When I showed other people my abilities as a kid, I was punished, abused, and isolated. It wasn’t that they didn’t believe me; rather, they had a negative attitude about my very existence. Ever since I was a kid, I could generate blue sparks from my hands. When I realized I could do this, as a kid, I thought it was cool, so I showed off. I could also send jolts of energy through people by touching them. That was my first set of abilities that manifested at a young age.

The blue light and sparks don’t do anything on their own. Unlike in television shows, when I hit objects with it, it does nothing. The best it can do is change the electrostatic properties of things. That isn’t to say that is the scope of my abilities. Just the blue light I can generate doesn’t do much other than glow. But, it is flashy, so whenever I want someone to believe me, lighting up my hands is the first thing that I do. Considering other people can see it and they react to it, I know it is not a hallucination. Will you ever see a recording of me doing any of this? No.

According to my husband, my eyes glow, too. I am not quite sure how it works. One of the questions is if my eyes are glowing why don’t I see it, and how is that possible without blinding me? When my intent is a ball of entropy or randomness where the intent is to make all outcomes equally likely, it causes a distortion in light that shimmers. I normally am not vocal about these things because, for some reason, it sets people off. I have literally had a little group of people follow me around for years and years trying to disprove my existence.

That started this existential search for trying to figure out why I am the way I am when I was 10. I found out answers I wish I hadn’t, but that is a whole other thing. I can’t see past the betrayal enough to type coherently about that. I am seeing millennials who are as old as me who have been involved with paranormal communities for just as long cycling back to the boards they visited as teens, and I realized that they are spiraling.

My husband believes that magic is increasing in the world and that my psychological problems are because I run from issues. He has seen me do experiment after experiment trying to disprove the paranormal and the opposite happening where my reaction turns into me trying to gaslight myself, which is when he steps in. I don’t face things, and I do not face myself, so my husband believes that the key for me dealing with things is to face that I’m a paranormal entity living in a very weird world.

There was a distressing moment in my life where I tried to run away from an issue and paranormal forces created a teleological point where all roads led me to the same path. It was like walking through the front door and into the living room from the bedroom door instead of outside. I’ve experienced a less fantastical version of that looping behavior. When I tried to leave a city, completely coincidental and random events led me back there, though I had literally flown to the other side of the country. Now, married to my soul mate, I realized the looping was guiding me towards him.

Some people say I am insane. Honestly, I’d rather be insane than any of this being real. I’m more comfortable with the idea of this all being a delusion than it being real, but the facts line up, and no matter how many times I do experiments, the results are the same. When I was younger, I used to personalize it. I used to think that this was something I was going through; however, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized, it is actually this country. America is an occultic nation, and everyone here has skeletons in their past. No one is “normal,” and the mundane is just a facade. An illusion. For some reason, it doesn’t make me less existentially distressed. It actually does the opposite.

Do I believe in fate? Not in the conventional sense of the word. Think of the swing of a pendulum. As the pendulum swings, it traces a chaotic trajectory where the path it takes is related to where the you start the swing, so creates a bifurcation that is determined by the initial point of the swing; however, with each iteration of the swing, the pendulum runs out of energy and it spirals inward. Eventually, all points will lead to the final state of the pendulum hanging straight down because it ran out of energy. We can say that the inevitable and final state of the pendulum will be in that position, so we can think of that as a type of teleology. The intuitive assumption would be that running out of energy would be denoted by 0, therefore, 0 is typically an attractor. In actuality, 0 is usually a repeller. 1 is an attractor. An intuitive way to think about it is that something will happen, albeit we may not know what, so the odds of something happening are always 1. Therefore, all outcomes are attracted to 1. That is called a fixed point attractor, and it is a property of dynamical and chaotic systems. The ability for magical and psychic forces to create order, correlations, symmetries, and make one outcome more or less likely than another is an example of creating an attractor I.e. an orbital. It’s the result of chaos. We also see it in resonant systems.

We can think of someone like me as having a particular natural frequency, and we can think of external magical forces and systems as having a frequency close to my natural frequency. The fixed point attractor in this scenario would be a stable oscillation amplitude and phase. Once the system reaches this state, it would maintain a constant amplitude of oscillation. The amplitude and phase of the oscillation become fixed points, attracting the system towards a stable resonant state. That means I resonate with magic and am dynamically pulled towards paths with maximum magical action within stochastic processes where there are multiple possible paths. Nature minimizes or maximizes action. Why is this the case? My guess is that physical properties of my body match higher-dimensional patterns such that I am sensitive like iron is sensitive magnetic fields.

One of the reasons why I am skeptical of the conventional ideas of an afterlife or reincarnation is that it’s predicated on a sequential nature of time where we are born, we die, and we experience an afterlife. However, psychic abilities are temporally non-local; therefore, they exist outside of time. For example, a person who is clairvoyant and post-cognitive can psychically perceive events in the past that happened before they were born. And, there has been evidence in the journals of people who are psychic where the person not only had flashes of their death, but they also had flashes of their own funeral. The journals were found after their funeral. It means that the person had an OBE where they were observing their own funeral, albeit, at the time, they were alive. This means an aspect of us exists on a higher-dimensional plane before we are born and after we die that we can access while we are alive. Life and death are biological terms we apply to mortal things. This entity cannot die because it was never born or lives in a biological sense within the realm of mortals; therefore, it is immortal.

I do not think our souls migrate from body to body; instead, I think our physical bodies are lower-dimensional instances of a pattern, i.e., an entity. Think of it like this: squares and triangles are different shapes, and we can have an infinite number of different squares and different triangles that are different from each other. However, they are all instances of shapes. But, shape is an abstraction. All the squares are not the same nor are the squares triangles; however, all squares and triangles are instances of shapes, and all the different instances of squares are shapes. I don’t think we have individual souls that migrate; instead, I think we are different instances of a pattern that’s connected via a directed acyclic graph. People involved in Machine Learning would recognize directed acyclic graphs because they create a neural network architecture. In this case, I think it creates a psychic network architecture that connects different lives together as nodes, where the entire system, as an entity, learns. I don’t think it is one soul that passes from body to body. I think it is a network of entities.

I think what we think of as souls and past lives are different instances of people connected via a directed acyclic graph. My husband has been astral projecting to different realities as of late. I am skeptical, but the things he experiences match up with things. From the realities he goes to, all different versions of me are involved in something esoteric, with me being a Jedi in one. We are also together in each reality. I think I am pulling energy and experiences from different versions of myself where the entire system is an aggregate of my soul. So, holistically, I resonate with other versions of myself doing magic. Reincarnation makes little sense to me because it is predicated on a sequential nature to time when psychic phenomena is temporally non-local, so that aspect of us would be beyond life and death and immortal, albeit not invincible.

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People in occult demographics, occult cohorts, and occult niches feel isolated and as if there is no place for them to go after they, themselves, set fire to their own communities. I’ve been around occult, pagan, and paranormal online spaces for decades, and I have seen them gradually set fire to each and every community. Now, many of them have no place to go since every online space is a dumpster fire that they, themselves, set.

I know I have been ranting against occultism for a while now, but another disturbing interaction with a schizophrenic woman – no, not that one from DKMU, a different one – has me thinking about how occultism enables mental illness and how antisocial personalities inevitably set fire to everything. That person going on a schizophrenic rant about me – not the one from DKMU, a different one – inevitably got them banned. That person is from my millennial cohort of online energy communities from the early 2000s. The same group of people has been running around setting fire to each one of their communities, and when one goes down, they move to a different one and destroy that one too. It’s sad, but it didn’t have to be this way.

Occultists are the ones destroying their own niche because they refuse to get psychiatric care and, instead, enable each other’s paranoid, parasocial delusions. Witches.live is slowly burning down, and everyone is jumping ship to Pagan Plus, for example, albeit those people jumped ship from Twitter. Let’s be honest, occultists and the occult niche acted as a vehicle to carry a lot of the conspiracy theories that spread, so occultists were Trojan horses and arsonists. I’m very disappointed and sad about how the same group of people will sabotage their and other people’s lives. I’ve been practicing magic since I was 10, so I’ve seen a lot.

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I am once again contemplating filing several defamation and harassment suits because insane occultists keep forming parasocial relationships with me and creating conspiracy theories about me… From what I can tell, occultists have this insane desire to punish and antagonize anyone not of their tribe, so much so that they literally will antagonize and yell at random people online. Honestly, it’s a contemplation because I don’t want to deal with the expense of a lawyer and the inconvenience to my life, but it is quickly approaching that point where I may need to seek a legal remedy because their insane behavior is escalating.

Here is your reminder:
Retaliation is legally a form of malice. If a person says something to you online that you do not like and you retaliate through intimidation, coercion, or defamation, it meets the burden of proof of malice, and it largely negates the defense that you were antagonized. In my state retaliation meets the burden of malice. If someone pisses you off that badly, you need to log off.

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I just saw someone in the Discord for r/occult reference very old Retro PK experiments. I am very annoyed with people abandoning their skepticism. Objectivity and empiricism tend to get conflated, and they are correlated with each other; however, they are not one and the same. Empiricism is knowledge that you have experienced for yourself, whereas anecdotal is a story you heard. If you were to ask me why I believe in the paranormal stuff that I do, my response would be because of the experiences I have had. When I tried to disprove that it was paranormal, my alternative hypothesis that it was not paranormal did not hold up, and its being paranormal was supported. Spontaneous paranormal experience is what caused me to seek things out and research things, so my experiences came before someone telling me that magic and psychic stuff are real. Because the peer-review and science journal process haven’t been unscathed by corruption and the insidious reach of capitalism. I do not just accept something because it has gone through the peer review process. I look at the number of times it has been cited by other articles and the reputability of the work that cited it; I look at the impact, I look at the credibility and integrity of the editorial board, I look at the journal’s ranking score. Because of the nature of paranormal subjects, many of these topics are like that. That is why you attempt to replicate what they did. You do the science yourself, and you see if you get your own data.

My cohort of millennial occultists frustrate me. There is a difference in cohorts when it comes to magic. Gen X is more conventionally modern and postmodern, whereas millennials were strongly encouraged by high strangeness, mesmerism, theosophy, new age ideas, energy work, and parapsychology. For example, I’m part of a cohort of psions; though, I no longer practice psionics, and the realization that it was built from Dungeons and Dragons role-playing kind of freaks me out and depresses me. Energy is just an abstraction of change, and power connotes the ability to get something to change as a consequence of; therefore, energy working paradigms connote an interest in power. Unlike Gen X, for example, that is more concerned with a normative paradigm, which is part of the reason why many of them are so interested in politics, millennials had a particular interest in power without the authority. There was a particular contempt for esoteric orders we had – that I still have, which is why I said we wanted power without authority.

Modern magic is more or less ontological, unfalsifiable, not testable, and concerned with spirituality and how people should live their lives. Whereas science aims to describe and predict, spirituality is more about giving people a framework for making decisions, what they should do, and how they should live their lives. Normative expressions are ontologically disjointed from reality in that they describe how things should be but do not aim to describe how they are. For example, people should not be fascists; however, the reality is that fascists exist, though, I assert they should not exist. Instead of being inductive and epistemological like science, that form of occultism is metaphysical like Math. Instead of supporting and revising itself, the ontological entities accumulate. There’s a collection of occult texts, for example, that are canon.

Honestly, some days I feel better because having the experiences I have had robbed me of my ability to deny their existence and live a normal life. My life is just as messed up as a person without psychic abilities who does not practice magic. Magicians and psychics are not special. In fact, our sensitivity to psychic and magical forces makes us more susceptible to self-destruction, obsession, addiction. I think people have this misconception. We don’t practice magic because we want to; instead, a series of events lead us down this path regardless of our wishes or wants. I find it ironic. The illusion of magic is that of power and the ability to control things and express your agency; however, being born the way I was into this deep ocean of weirdness was beyond my control. I did not have a choice, and that makes me resentful.

My cohort of the paranormal demographic frustrates me because we are approaching our 40s. Many of us, myself included, have been doing this for over 20 years. We have passed the book club and student phase, yet many of us still approach these subjects from the paradigm we developed while in school. The trope of the magical school, whether that be high school. We are past the age of even being in college. My student loan debt alone tells me that. I’m zeroing in on my cohort because we were the ones especially skeptical. Replication is part of the peer-review process. The research I see people I knew from 15 years ago spreading is literally over 20 years old. Not only have the parapsychology researchers done better, more relevant work, claiming that one has magical powers, psychic powers, psychokinesis, etc., is an extraordinary claim. How does one test the claim? You do the science yourself. At this point, all of us should have a nice lab journal filled with a lot of our results. There is no reference to any data. It is just a bunch of models, diffuse articles with a tenuous connection to whatever it is that they are claiming, and no attempt, at all, to replicate the experiments they are citing.

We call Hard Science Fiction a genre of fiction because while it is grounded in science, it is grounded in speculation. On the other hand, Fantasy in a Science Fiction setting, like Warhammer 40K, is fiction because it is counterfactual; i.e., subjunctive conditionals. We can think of things we extrapolate that do not have measurable instances as conjectural, at best. That means that occultists that do not take the time to fill their models and paradigms with data are, essentially, writing fiction and ostentate fiction – they are LARPing. Ontologically and epistemologically, there is no difference between most of what I see alone about occultism and magic and genres of fiction, such as magical realism. Magical realism is more interesting and novel.

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Open, airy, clean lines.

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Beneath the earth, we venture,
Not knowing what we may find.
Will the dungeon lead us to hell,
Where angels fear to dwell?
And therein lies a maiden;
Her lips are ruby red.
Her eyelids flutter open,
Even though she is quite dead.

THE DEAD GAME SERIES
by Susanne Leist

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