Do you still wanna hang out tomorrow, or do you now have to work instead? <3

I would love to hang out if you’re free!  I still have plenty of time to work later in the week – I’m more just thinking that in the long term it might be better to eventually reserve Saturday as an off day and Sunday as a work day

Let me know if you need to talk - I’m on my way to bed but will be supportive however I can. This is rough, man.

Thanks.  I’m fine for the moment – it’s more just melancholy and weird for me than outright horrible (like I imagine it is for some others).

Not being as immersed, my impression was that this person was clearly using their ideology to attract a certain type of person for reasons that were sketch and in light of what I’ve readtoday that appears to have been confirmed and cracked wide open.

Pretty much

But like I said in the post she had built up a lot of cred as a generally cool person over the course of several years and it’s kind of hard to convey the sway that had or the … I dunno, the reasons I understand so well why people trusted her, I guess

Like, this is weird and maybe not the “right” response to have in several ways, but I am sad almost to the point of crying right now because for a long time “monetizeyourcat” was one of my favorite people I’d found on tumblr, and a person I felt a lot of connection and fellow-feeling to just from reading her posts, a lot of which were individually pretty brilliant, and I already knew that her worldview had drifted far enough from mine that I couldn’t stand to follow her blog anymore, but the revelation and confirmation that she’s actually a nasty person interpersonally really breaks my heart somehow

Her blog really added a lot to my life for a long time there and it’s weird and sad to think that she may have been just as personally nasty back then

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That can’t be a real name, right? It’s too…TOO something

It’s a pseudonym, though his real name is “Curtis Yarvin,” which is pretty something as well

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It always reads to me as “and then the preacher smacked my forehead and then I saw the LIGHT and was HEALED!”

Pretty much, except sometimes the preacher is Mencius Moldbug, which makes for a really weird image

idgaf I still love him

Well I’m also holding out some hope that this will be the one that brings me back into the fold

(I never read Reamde because Anathem felt like one book too far)

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So…radical honesty? It has its pros and cons. Especially cons, in my own admittedly biased experience. There’s no shame in not explicitly saying a thing because it would be hurtful to people who care about you.

Something like that, although I don’t know that term well enough to know if it’s what I mean.

The reason I’m talking about this that I’m suspicious I’m being way too paranoid about what would be hurtful to people.  It’s not that I think I should be saying the hurtful things, it’s that I tend to be very careful about how I talk in a way that may be more anxiety-induced bullshit than actual care for others

If I try talking in a certain way and it turns out no one really cares, that would not only be freeing for me, but it would teach me things about them, and ultimately make my relationships with other people that much more founded on real knowledge and that much less founded on anxious assumption-making.

In practice, though, I think is just my latest anxious worry topic (there tends to be a new one every 4-8 weeks or so) and I’ll forget about it soon enough

I get credit for this one, right?!

Let it be known that without tumblr user bohtie your lives would never have been graced with this top-shelf Nostalgebraist #Quotes™ product

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I saw them once! It’s not even my thing but it was great

I saw them once when I was really into them in college and it was a lot of fun

I randomly ran into some people I knew from college at the show, including one guy who’d just come along with his friends and had no idea what Nightwish was beyond “some sort of metal band.”  I think he ended up enjoying himself, thankfully

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This just makes me want to see baby pictures of you

I’m not sure I have any in digital form – the closest thing I have is, well, this