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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

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  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. After finding the millionth schizo thread about me, looping me into another person’s gangstalking delusion on Reddit, this is my mood:

    These haters obsessed, can’t keep my name out they mouth
    Don’t pay no rent, I pay a mortgage on my sickening house
    I’m blackity-black, rakin’ in racks, you nosey bitches
    And how I run my business ain’t yo’ business to be worried about

    Real talk, don’t fuck with a Aries in bad bitch mode
    I done paid every bitch, every cent I owed
    They be quick on my dick when I click upload
    I’m the bitch, still rich, I’ll never be canceled

    I’m the one and the only, you’re a hater, you’re lonely
    Feel them pullin’ down on me, they already below me
    Bitches fake and they phony, all they got’s a baloney
    Eyes only on the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony
    I’m in the room with elites, bum bitches under my feets

    No Bitch

    I wish I was kidding. It is literally the same people from 15 years ago. Yes, they have really been doing this for the last 15 years. This time, apparently, I am being paid by the government to troll occult communities as part of a grand conspiracy to keep magic away from the populace. Yep, you heard it from me. I work in the government’s anti-magic department. Oh, and in case you weren’t keeping track, I’m apparently doing this from Serbia so I’m a foreign national, too.

    It is surreal how everyone will watch these people spiral into psychosis and not do anything about it. I am seriously waiting for these people to be on the news. It has been the same people going from Discord to Discord and Reddit sub to Reddit sub for 15 years now. Literally the same people… I can’t even imagine living like that.

    By the way, one of these said insane people is doing this really creepy thing of feeding AI text from archives back then to create AI-generated characters so that they can recreate the time when we were all in high school. I’m not kidding. This little insane cohort started when we were literally in high school and middle school. Yes, we were on online paranormal forums back then. It is my old group I spoke to online from high school that is literally fucking obsessed with a paradigm built literally on Dungeons and Dragons. If you know, you know. They are talking about Naruto and Dragon Ball Z as if this is still high school, and we are running back home to watch Toonami. I can’t grasp what happened to make these people stunted at high school.

    I am finding that this is a common thing among people with schizophrenia or Borderline Personality Disorder. Apparently, they will try to replace whomever they have a parasocial relationship with with AI, so they will train the AI from media and create an AI character. It’s not just this person, which is another reason why I minimize the amount of faithful media I put out there. It gives me the creeps. But, yeah, that’s a thing that is going on. It is getting to the point where I think many of these people are sincerely dangerous to themselves or other people. If they spin off into psychosis and hurt someone, I truly wonder if Reddit or Discord can be held liable since their platform enabled it.

    #AI #anarchism #anarchist #anarchists #anarchy #anime #Animism #BlueSky #ceremonialMagic #ceremonialMagick #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cults #Discord #divination #DKMU #dnd #egregore #egregores #fediverse #LGBTQ #magick #mentalHealth #mentalIllness #mood #Music #musicVideo #nowWatching #occult #occultism #occultists #occulture #pagan #paranormal #Reddit #schizophrenia #schizophrenic #Schizophrenics #socialMedia #Spirituality #Threads #TTRPG #Twitter #witch #witchcraft #YouTube

  8. After finding the millionth schizo thread about me, looping me into another person’s gangstalking delusion on Reddit, this is my mood:

    These haters obsessed, can’t keep my name out they mouth
    Don’t pay no rent, I pay a mortgage on my sickening house
    I’m blackity-black, rakin’ in racks, you nosey bitches
    And how I run my business ain’t yo’ business to be worried about

    Real talk, don’t fuck with a Aries in bad bitch mode
    I done paid every bitch, every cent I owed
    They be quick on my dick when I click upload
    I’m the bitch, still rich, I’ll never be canceled

    I’m the one and the only, you’re a hater, you’re lonely
    Feel them pullin’ down on me, they already below me
    Bitches fake and they phony, all they got’s a baloney
    Eyes only on the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony
    I’m in the room with elites, bum bitches under my feets

    No Bitch

    I wish I was kidding. It is literally the same people from 15 years ago. Yes, they have really been doing this for the last 15 years. This time, apparently, I am being paid by the government to troll occult communities as part of a grand conspiracy to keep magic away from the populace. Yep, you heard it from me. I work in the government’s anti-magic department. Oh, and in case you weren’t keeping track, I’m apparently doing this from Serbia so I’m a foreign national, too.

    It is surreal how everyone will watch these people spiral into psychosis and not do anything about it. I am seriously waiting for these people to be on the news. It has been the same people going from Discord to Discord and Reddit sub to Reddit sub for 15 years now. Literally the same people… I can’t even imagine living like that.

    By the way, one of these said insane people is doing this really creepy thing of feeding AI text from archives back then to create AI-generated characters so that they can recreate the time when we were all in high school. I’m not kidding. This little insane cohort started when we were literally in high school and middle school. Yes, we were on online paranormal forums back then. It is my old group I spoke to online from high school that is literally fucking obsessed with a paradigm built literally on Dungeons and Dragons. If you know, you know. They are talking about Naruto and Dragon Ball Z as if this is still high school, and we are running back home to watch Toonami. I can’t grasp what happened to make these people stunted at high school.

    I am finding that this is a common thing among people with schizophrenia or Borderline Personality Disorder. Apparently, they will try to replace whomever they have a parasocial relationship with with AI, so they will train the AI from media and create an AI character. It’s not just this person, which is another reason why I minimize the amount of faithful media I put out there. It gives me the creeps. But, yeah, that’s a thing that is going on. It is getting to the point where I think many of these people are sincerely dangerous to themselves or other people. If they spin off into psychosis and hurt someone, I truly wonder if Reddit or Discord can be held liable since their platform enabled it.

    #AI #anarchism #anarchist #anarchists #anarchy #anime #Animism #BlueSky #ceremonialMagic #ceremonialMagick #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cults #Discord #divination #DKMU #dnd #egregore #egregores #fediverse #LGBTQ #magick #mentalHealth #mentalIllness #mood #Music #musicVideo #nowWatching #occult #occultism #occultists #occulture #pagan #paranormal #Reddit #schizophrenia #schizophrenic #Schizophrenics #socialMedia #Spirituality #Threads #TTRPG #Twitter #witch #witchcraft #YouTube

  9. After dealing with a screwy schizophrenic person for the last 3 and a half years – luckily, their insanity stopped – and recently dealing with an unmedicated schizophrenic, I did some reading into why they are so resistant to understanding that what they are believing is not real and that they are mentally ill. Apparently, it is slightly different than a person who is Bipolar who still has some level of insight.

    The former person believed they were different from other schizophrenics because they had insight. Well, I did some reading and found that there is a positive correlation between positive symptoms and poor insight. If a schizophrenic person has more negative symptoms than positive symptoms, their insight is less likely to be poor than if they have positive symptoms. I do not think they understood their doctor properly because they were under the impression that having good insight made them different. No, a schizophrenic with a lot of negative symptoms probably will not have poor insight; however, when they experience positive symptoms, their insight becomes poor.

    I know for a fact that the screwy person from DKMU mostly had negative symptoms, but they had auditory hallucinations. The terrifying thing about both these people is their lack of insight and their delusional thinking makes them violent.

    Schizophrenics in the grip of positive symptoms are unable to differentiate their paranoid delusions from their illness and, at that moment, are more likely to act violently based on parasocial narratives. The truly scary thing is the person from DKMU has schizophrenia that is resistant to medication for their auditory hallucinations, so medications will only do so much for them. They have insidious onset schizophrenic symptoms, which are correlated with poorer outcomes. Her symptoms creep on her over the course of years. She doesn’t realize she has lost touch with reality until it is too late.

    What do you do with chronically mentally ill people who are likely to be violent because of a lack of insight that can’t really be treated with medication? Fortunately, that person’s behavior has stabilized, so hopefully, they are working with their doctors or something. However, another schizophrenic person has flared up and fixated on me.

    It’s the same thing, except they are attributing their hallucinations to psychic abilities and telepathy, which is being enabled by occult communities. One of their delusions is that I am telepathically harassing them by putting thoughts into their head about self-harm. That’s another common one. Many schizophrenic people believe that others can read their thoughts if they look them in the eye, so they do things like wear sunglasses.

    #anarchism #anarchists #anarchy #Animism #animistic #BipolarDisorder #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cults #Discord #divination #DKMU #magick #mentalHealth #mentalIllness #occult #occultism #occultists #occulture #pagan #paganism #paranormal #parasocial #psychic #psychosis #Reddit #schizophrenia #schizophrenic #Schizophrenics #suicide #telepathy #witch #witchcraft

  10. After dealing with a screwy schizophrenic person for the last 3 and a half years – luckily, their insanity stopped – and recently dealing with an unmedicated schizophrenic, I did some reading into why they are so resistant to understanding that what they are believing is not real and that they are mentally ill. Apparently, it is slightly different than a person who is Bipolar who still has some level of insight.

    The former person believed they were different from other schizophrenics because they had insight. Well, I did some reading and found that there is a positive correlation between positive symptoms and poor insight. If a schizophrenic person has more negative symptoms than positive symptoms, their insight is less likely to be poor than if they have positive symptoms. I do not think they understood their doctor properly because they were under the impression that having good insight made them different. No, a schizophrenic with a lot of negative symptoms probably will not have poor insight; however, when they experience positive symptoms, their insight becomes poor.

    I know for a fact that the screwy person from DKMU mostly had negative symptoms, but they had auditory hallucinations. The terrifying thing about both these people is their lack of insight and their delusional thinking makes them violent.

    Schizophrenics in the grip of positive symptoms are unable to differentiate their paranoid delusions from their illness and, at that moment, are more likely to act violently based on parasocial narratives. The truly scary thing is the person from DKMU has schizophrenia that is resistant to medication for their auditory hallucinations, so medications will only do so much for them. They have insidious onset schizophrenic symptoms, which are correlated with poorer outcomes. Her symptoms creep on her over the course of years. She doesn’t realize she has lost touch with reality until it is too late.

    What do you do with chronically mentally ill people who are likely to be violent because of a lack of insight that can’t really be treated with medication? Fortunately, that person’s behavior has stabilized, so hopefully, they are working with their doctors or something. However, another schizophrenic person has flared up and fixated on me.

    It’s the same thing, except they are attributing their hallucinations to psychic abilities and telepathy, which is being enabled by occult communities. One of their delusions is that I am telepathically harassing them by putting thoughts into their head about self-harm. That’s another common one. Many schizophrenic people believe that others can read their thoughts if they look them in the eye, so they do things like wear sunglasses.

    #anarchism #anarchists #anarchy #Animism #animistic #BipolarDisorder #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cults #Discord #divination #DKMU #magick #mentalHealth #mentalIllness #occult #occultism #occultists #occulture #pagan #paganism #paranormal #parasocial #psychic #psychosis #Reddit #schizophrenia #schizophrenic #Schizophrenics #suicide #telepathy #witch #witchcraft

  11. The persistence and the degree of the type of parasocial relationships occultists form is insane! Seriously, at any given time, I have about 20 random occultists seriously thinking that we have a relationship or that I am thinking anything about them merely because they bumped into me on Discord or Reddit or something. It is seriously terrifying and horrifying how quickly a random encounter gets spun into a paranoid delusion.

    There is one person I know from psionics communities who won’t leave me alone on Reddit or Discord because she is convinced that she is telepathically connected to me, that I am putting thoughts in her head, and that I am angry at her because she chooses to be independent. The more you try to convince these people that they are delusional and the more evidence they gather for themselves, the deeper they fly into their schizophrenic, parasocial delusions. I’m not talking about that insane schizophrenic woman from DKMU. I am talking about someone from 15 years ago that I knew in psionics communities named Kira. I’m noticing that the truly unhinged ones hang out on Discord. Their delusions literally last for years and years.

    I am literally watching said person on Discord describe how I pissed off gods they worked with, and that, apparently, they are causing me low self-esteem from a sock account. The terrifying thing is they don’t realize it’s projection. For some reason, they lack insight into their own emotions, so they are projecting their neuroticism onto me and saying I am feeling what they feel about themselves. It also tactically implies that they feel things like low self-esteem are put into their head.

    The confusing thing is that this person says they are an atheist but believes these deities are real. Somehow, because they work with them as equals – which is insane to me, because there is an intrinsic power dynamic. The idea that people believe they are equal to beings that they believe can create cosmos doesn’t make sense to me. I’m an atheist, so the whole thing is nonsense to me.

    The belief that others are implanting thoughts into your mind is a common delusion associated with schizophrenia, giving rise to the trope of tin-foil hats. This person is evidently very mentally ill.

    #anarchism #anarchists #anarchy #animistic #atheism #Athiest #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cults #Discord #DKMU #energyWork #magick #Mastodon #mentalHealth #mentalIllness #neuroticism #occult #occultism #occultists #pagan #paganism #paranormal #parasocial #psionics #psychic #Reddit #schizophrenia #schizophrenic #Theism #Threads #Twitter #witch #witchcraft

  12. I find it weird how many #occultists seem vaguely weirded out by animism. To me it's about as OG as you can get, and it doesn't negate any of the myriad possibilities of spiritual experience out there.

  13. do not be surprised when #occultists act like occultists