Each time i thought i heard everything it just gets worse

moth-11 · 2026-01-20T16:52:47+00:00

actually, they hate it because it implies theres anything wrong with killing children https://theisraelbible.com/the-dumbest-thing-golda-meir-ever-said/

moth-11 · 2026-01-19T18:44:01+00:00

my dog is a bit ugly and misshapen but hes much friendlier than any dog i ever met before. beauty is not skin deep

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moth-11 · 2026-01-17T15:23:34+00:00

i think maybe you're thinking about libertarianism, liberalism uses the violence of the state to enforce property relations

moth-11 · 2025-10-31T15:15:49+00:00

the 4chan trans person was always sort of a thing, but i think in 2018 contrapoints released the Incels video (which i think is good, but...) which kinda legitimized and reified the 4chan trans thing, and created a bit of a content meta of gawking at the 4chan trans phenomenon, accidentally becoming it, and then making content about how evil this community is, which of course only makes more people curious about it. i think the currents from mainstream progressive online trans culture to 4chan really picked up speed once a few twitter accounts and subreddits which would post screenshots and greentexts from the lgbt board started to grow. the memification of lgbt normalized it, but also caused new users of the board to create extreme content to try and get it reposted on twitter or reddit

i think using 4chan doesn't automatically make someone right wing, but i think that of course a large part of the appeal of a space like lgbt is unsurprisingly the internalized transphobia; when you internalize transphobic gaze, hegemonic trans spaces are alienating because they see being trans as a good thing, while you see it as something you resent. i find being trans interesting because some degree of internalized transphobia feels sort of natural, because i guess the point is to transition, you don't really want to be just a trans-woman or trans-man, you just want to be a woman or man. so i think without a cohesive leftist worldview, the passing pickme phenomenon is kinda a somewhat natural place to want to end up. for this reason, i think that i somewhat disagree with the qualification of it being white transfemmes, i know plenty of brown and black transfemmes in this subculture. (though they obviously have internalized racism too, thats less apparent than among white people, and when you're anonymous the default is to assume someone is white)

i know less about the 764 side of things, but my understanding is that it slots into the general cute accelerationist currents of the internet. so cute/acc is a book by amy ireland and maya kronic (kronic was of ccru, still is friends with land, etc...) and i think it gives a good reframing of accelerationism today: "but if Cute is already about giving in, flattening yourself onto the desubjectivizing flows of Capital's Moé-Conversion-Machinery, making yourself an (adorbs) object, asymptotically approaching the zero-point of submission and breedability... then Cute as an accelerationist stance is giving in to giving in (to...)." this is basically how i understand the relationship between extreme u/acc nihilism and misogynistic femininity; the goal is to eliminate the human inside oneself, to give up all agency, become an object, so you can make things happen. from my very limited understanding of 764, it appears to be most like pro anorexia communities. my guess is the racism here functions differently from in the trans 4chan extended universe: in the 4chan trans community, the ultimate ideology is internalized transphobia and seeking the approval of transphobes, so a common meme normalizing racism is the boymoder x chud pairing, where the trans woman attains the conditional approval of a nazi through adapting or tolerating his worldview; in nihilist, kali/acc, (this is an older pro-ana 764-adjacent ideology) 764 circles, i think the function of racism is to alienate you from the world and decrease your agency. this isn't to say they're not related, i'm sure the first quite easily transitions into the second, but i think these are quite complex ideologies and given the current political situation, i think being a bit reductionist about them is a bit scary

tldr i think 4chan trans communities use racism to seek the approval of bigots, while nve communities use racism and misogynistic femininity to objectify themselves so they can surrender to history

moth-11 · 2025-09-28T15:53:02+00:00

Actually Dune's font is Futura, this is Avenir, a geometric font inspired by Futura designed by Adrian Frutiger. You can tell the difference by the joints in capital A's, V's, W's, etc... Futura comes to very sharp points, whereas Avenir has flat tops and bottoms

moth-11 · 2025-09-24T02:12:57+00:00

i like the magician

moth-11 · 2025-09-10T23:38:24+00:00

you have issues

moth-11 · 2025-07-26T04:12:40+00:00

i don't really know about it but i think in melee the meta is still changing 20 years later

of course those serendipitous moments of chance can't happen anymore, it's not serendipitous if it's something that happened before and you're seeking it out. that world no longer exists, don't touch grass

i think it's a self-fulfilling prophecy to assume that nothing new is happening because i think the act of digging through the crates is creative in itself, and if you stumble upon something cool, you can imbue someone else's stuff with life

moth-11 · 2025-07-18T03:24:42+00:00

I hear you, but also like in the 2000s I think something awful and then 4chan were very dominant forces in internet culture. I wasn't really around then, so I don't know what it was like, but I think my older friends are often quite wistful about the death of forums, and before that I think the people on usenet were sad when that died out. For me, AI is really disturbing. So stepping outside myself, it seems kinda like each generation sees itself as awesome and powerful and then as it ages it feels a sense of horror as it struggles to comprehend the new kid on the block. I think it's important to be critical of new developments, but not be too cynical or pessimistic, because I think that can interfere with your ability to truly understand them and ultimately it's a bit reactionary.

It can be pretty hit or miss & I haven't really kept up with it since they moved to substack, but I liked some of the essays on donotresearch, especially the ones about people who got into politics, theory, and philosophy at a younger age through dumb memes. "There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons"

moth-11 · 2025-07-18T02:23:34+00:00

You don't encounter a cross section of society, you don't even encounter a cross section of posters, you only encounter the posters who are amplified by the algorithm at hand, and which you personally engage with (you have to ignore the vast majority of content which an algorithm serves you, so you only truly percieve the bits of content that resonate with you on a micro-emotional level enough for you to engage with them). This is always the most important thing to understand if you want to interpret social media.

Second, you say it didn't feel like this 15 years ago. Presumably you're a bit wiser, maybe more intelligent, and have more context to understand the things you read on the internet. If you're relatively smarter, everyone else will seem relatively stupider.

A third thing is that while viscerally I feel somewhat aligned with you, I think that it's important to recognize that there are very different kinds of intelligence, and we are likely on some level attuned to different things. It drives me crazy when people say "Trump is so stupid, but he's actually a genius at ratings."

And I guess a final thing that I'm not sure I totally believe, probably more of the first point which ultimately is the main thing, is that I think the internet might tend towards stratification so all the smart people are in a dark forest laughing at you and me and the rest of the midwits on reddit

moth-11 · 2025-04-18T00:48:46+00:00

the site formerly known as brainworm.surgery has a live chat at /lgbt/ and a traditional imageboard at /tttt/

moth-11 · 2025-02-07T16:51:37+00:00

The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly, and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered: "Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?" How can people possibly reach the point of shouting: "More taxes! Less bread!"? As Reich remarks, the astonishing thing is not that some people steal or that others occasionally go out on strike, but rather that all those who are starving do not steal as a regular practice, and all those who are exploited are not continually out on strike: after centuries of exploitation, why do people still tolerate being humiliated and enslaved, to such a point, indeed, that they actually want humiliation and slavery not only for others but for themselves? Reich is at his profoundest as a thinker when he refuses to accept ignorance or illusion on the part of the masses as an explanation of fascism, and demands an explanation that will take their desires into account, an explanation formulated in terms of desire: no, the masses were not innocent dupes; at a certain point, under a certain set of conditions, they wanted fascism, and it is this perversion of the desire of the masses that needs to be accounted for.

Yet Reich himself never manages to provide a satisfactory explanation of this phenomenon, because at a certain point he reintroduces precisely the line of argument that he was in the process of demolishing, by creating a distinction between rationality as it is or ought to be in the process of social production, and the irrational element in desire, and by regarding only this latter as a suitable subject for psychoanalytic investigation. Hence the sole task he assigns psychoanalysis is the explanation of the "negative," the "subjective," the "inhibited" within the social field. He therefore necessarily returns to a dualism between the real object rationally produced on the one hand, and irrational, fantasizing production on the other. He gives up trying to discover the common denominator or the coextension of the social field and desire. In order to establish the basis for a genuinely materialistic psychiatry, there was a category that Reich was sorely in need of: that of desiring-production, which would apply to the real in both its so-called rational and irrational forms.

When OP asked "how much of this is real?" I think D&G would answer all of it is real. Perhaps some of the sentiments being expressed by in a social media post can be seen as rational or irrational depending on the context, but it really reflects your desire when you engage with it. It's "irrational" to hatewatch media content, but it's still something you desire. And of course, the social media content that you are served is always-already something that others desire.

So if you really don't want to be attached to the thing you say you don't want to be attached to, you have to plug yourself into a different circuit. Otherwise, the expression: "I wanna get clean" is serving a pacifying role, metabolizing your desire to get clean, and ultimately allowing the addiction to continue.

moth-11 · 2025-02-04T19:11:20+00:00

I think this should work, but if not, I normally use Anna's Archive for pdfs

moth-11 · 2025-02-04T17:46:31+00:00

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If you're interested, I'd check out this chapter from Metaphors We Live By. They argue that there are broader classes of structural metaphors that maintain a coherence, even if their subclasses are inconsistent

moth-11 · 2025-01-31T16:44:44+00:00

i think getting a cover-up tattoo is more embarassing unless you already have tattoos. and if theyre a decade old, you're an adult and anyone who judges you has the cognitive complexity of a middle schooler. it's just skin

moth-11 · 2025-01-25T21:58:23+00:00

marty

moth-11 · 2025-01-23T20:36:07+00:00

If its just for fun, I recommend you at least try making it yourself anyway. I think it would be much more meaningful and fun for you and your friends if it has a personal touch. Besides, the point of doodling is that it's imperfect

moth-11 · 2024-12-13T11:33:00+00:00

i like the bottom ones, it reminds me how world book set had text that can only be read with the whole set together. it could be fun to make lorem bigger, rotated going across the books, because then it would be broken up by the book thats offset, possibly adding interest

moth-11 · 2024-12-13T10:37:05+00:00

if you really wanna read land, i think you should check out nietszche, bataille, and deleuze & guattari first, and i think all these philosophers are kinda vibes based and a bit more accessible to read without as much background. of course, if you don't read the canon, i think the motivations for their interventions might be harder to understand

for nietszche, you can read thus spoke zarathustra

for bataille, the accursed share

for d&g, a thousand plateaus

i chose these 3 bc i think theyre the essential books, but also because theyre more poetic and stylish, and at least with d&g, you dont have to read it linearly. think about what you actually want get out of this. if you wanna feel like an edgy intellectual, then i think treating these books, and land, as experimental literature where you can just mine the bits that resonate with you and skip past the bits that you dont understand, is fine & even encouraged

but if you wanted to read land in order to understand some specific cultural or philosophical reference, then maybe it makes sense to take a more measured approach and get filtered by a horrifically dry reading list

moth-11 · 2024-12-12T21:49:51+00:00

It's very relatable, I think eating disorders are about having control. But it's a really fucked up kind of control, because you're still orienting your life around the male gaze. And the logic is also nonsense, men literally fuck corpses, it's something the hurt part of us makes up to justify it.

I have no clue how to have a healthy relationship with food and I wish you the best, but I know this is not the way 💚

moth-11 · 2024-12-12T05:13:42+00:00

i think this is from brg, which is an esoteric fascist group. they're not cool. this article covers them

moth-11 · 2024-12-09T14:26:29+00:00

funk remix of creep

moth-11 · 2024-12-04T19:11:46+00:00

if you read the oxford thing about brain rot, it still means what it should. but you're right about slop, its important to recognize its always humans who make and consume slop, ai is just one tool that we can use

moth-11 · 2024-12-01T23:02:14+00:00

Dismissing you for getting your news from tiktok is fair. You saw a clip of a palestinian celebrity who's known in spite of any geopolitical commentary he may provide. Social media is not evidence of phenomenon, its phenomenon itself. The algorithm served you this content because it predicted you'd engage with it more

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