#echo chambers

[unsolicited-opinions]

If your principles vanish the moment they're inconvenient, emotionally unpleasant, or socially awkward...they're not actually principles.

The proof of your being principled isn't in what you say about your enemies.

It's in how you speak constructively and truthfully when your friends and allies fall short.

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

[magnetothemagnificent]

As a general rule, if you find yourself in a space where you're being told that you are permanently broken or hurt because of the way you were born or because of something that happened to you, you are not in a healthy or helpful space. If you are being told that you are permanently damaged, you are not being given tools to heal or move forward. And the people telling you that you're permanently damaged are going to point you towards a scapegoat for the damage they're telling you that you have. They want you to feel hopeless so they can use you as a weapon.

[public-enemy-one]

Contemporary Anthropoids

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Anthropoids | Field Notes (Anthropologist’s Summary)

HOMO CAVICRANIUS (VERNACULAR: “CRO MAGANONS”)

ETYMOLOGY. From Latin cavus “hollow” + cranium “skull”; “Cro” used colloquially to denote an empty or hollow head

TAXONOMIC NOTE. Order Primates; Family Hominidae; Genus Homo; Species cavicranius. A contemporary, culture-bound morph of modern humans distinguished by behavioral, not anatomical, traits.

ERA: “Contemporary Pleistocene of the Internet.”

DIAGNOSIS (OBSERVER SUMMARY). Individuals exhibit a marked deficit in original ideation; novelty is typically outsourced to borrowed slogans or collective scripts. They are easily fooled by flattering narratives and easily offended by minor social friction, serving as fierce custodians of their own feelings.

• COGNITIVE ECONOMY: Original thought outsourced to tribal consensus; novelty triggers defensive postures.

• AFFECTIVE ARMOR: Feelings guarded like crown jewels; status rituals revolve around validation tokens.

• SOCIAL ENFORCEMENT: Minor norm violations can prompt full excommunication (“The Great Unfriending”).

• LANGUAGE USE: Prefers slogans to syllogisms; rhetorical volume inversely proportional to evidence density. Lexicon favors catchphrases, reaction tokens, and meme-forms over argument. Qualifiers and ambiguity are treated as contaminants.

HABITAT & RANGE. Dense in algorithmic echo-valleys ( Comment fields, group chats, migrates along recommendation currents.) Peak activity at dusk and during controversy cycles.

BEHAVIOR:

• FORAGING: Gleans from headline husks; high-calorie confirmation bites; allergic to qualifiers.

• MATING DISPLAY: Signal-boosting, badge-collecting, and ceremonial screen-captures.

• DEFENSE: Rapid offense on perceived slights; blocking/banishment as primary predator-deterrent.

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION: High in-group cohesion regulated by emotion-first norms. Status accrues through demonstrations of loyalty to shared feelings rather than through evidence or craftsmanship.

COGNITION & LEARNING: Epistemology is testimonial: truth = that which validates group affect. Novel inputs are processed through an offense filter; dissonant facts are rapidly quarantined.

CONFLICT RESOLUTION: Sanctions are swift and performative. Even trivial infractions can trigger total social excision, described by informants as “cleaning the camp.”

MATERIAL CULTURE: Screenshots (“receipts”), reaction badges, and curated lists of approved sayings. Long-form texts are displayed as status artifacts more than read for meaning.

ETHOLOGY (TYPICAL SEQUENCE): Cue (minor slight) → Surge (affective amplification) → Chorus (group resonance) → Purge (removal of offender) → Balm (mutual reassurance).

RESEARCHER’S CAUTION: Engagement is best conducted with neutral phrasing and clear boundaries; provide sources sparingly and only after affect has cooled. Field encounters suggest that humor with obvious goodwill diffuses more tension than facts delivered at high speed.

[leikeliscomet]

New Essay

Is Culture and Human Interaction Dying or Do You Not Go Outside?

'You say to touch grass but you only touch the parts you are familiar with.'

Is Culture and Human Interaction Dying or Do You Not Go Outside?

Needing the death of ‘the death of’

[totally-cis-offical]

Tumblr is weird because sometimes you’ll repeatedly see an opinion you strongly disagree with but you never see anyone express your opinion about it and then when you ask someone about if your viewpoint to make sure you’re not an apple they’re like “no yeah I’m pretty sure that’s the normal/reasonable opinion”

[victoriannarwhal]

It's kind of funny that we as a society reached a new level of anti social behavior. Instead of interacting with fandom and other people online people are turning to chatGPT for fics.

Society complains a lot about loneliness epidemics, and younger people being socially inept.

The children growing up now are going to be even more socially fucked.