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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist)

@baroquespiral.bsky.social

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major league language gamer. professionally extremely online. producer @ Andata Express, novels in Holohaus, researching rationalfic & litRPG @ UWO. Comiket Communist. actual chuunibyou. nobledark ★

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · Oct 19

since people are doing new intro posts here's another "random" sample of my current writing. I hope people pay as much attention to it as my Posts - you can read two ongoing novels (the first two samples) here andataexpress.neocities.org/holohaus

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 17h

"we're done talking": warrior's dignity
"talking is pointless anyway": teenage edgelordism

know the difference!

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 1d

you folks don't even know what a world where bottom surgery was just totally normalized would actually look like & who its most avid participants would be. you haven't met the amount of cis women who have been like "damn i wish i could experience what having both parts is like" unprompted

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 1d

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 1d

did you know the actual article describes an apolitical/transpolitical subculture of irony poisoned girls like everyone already knows exists among boys? the idea that it's specific to the left is a framing question that it answers in the negative but put in the headline bc it's all you'll talk about

David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 2d

The extreme left’s weird soft treatment of Nick Fuentes is a reminder that if you go far enough in either direction, you loop back around

Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 1d

ceremonial magick is a Western internal martial art

Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 1d

this is just the leftwashing of American "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" ideology – "I can't be proletarian (or even lumpen) bc that's a structural position in even the most functional capitalist economy, it must be bc the economy is in a 2008-like state of exception caused by Greed"

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

Like it’s absolutely surreal for me, listening to these bozos construct elaborate fantasies where people personally mocked them for feeling squeezed. This did not happen. No one did this. No one ever said that aggregate national economic data proved that every single person was doing great.

Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 2d

one of my crazy hunches, otoh, is that part of the actual measurable literacy crisis happening with younger people is so much of the baseline ambient exposure they learn language from being older literate people's "so you hate waffles" posting rather than standard coherent usage

The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 2d

this is neither more pessimistic nor optimistic, but I actually think online is a bad way to judge actual reading comprehension because, IMO at least, the driving engine behind “so you hate waffles”-style tweeting is “in how bad of faith do you want to interpret what a person you dislike is saying”

pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 2d

so one of the things I’ve started to realize with having a notable following On Here is exactly how much of a reading comprehension problem we have in this country

Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 2d

watching people try to argue against specific violent generalizations without feeling permitted to articulate a principle against violent generalization as such is tortuous

Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 2d

everything I learn about Brit children's anthology comics sounds like a creepypasta about a dimension where everything is slightly but unmistakably wrong

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 2d

mfw I thought this would be like g/acc and it's some Bsky Discover Feed spammer who reposts the Krassensteins and has strong opinions about Vivziepop

Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 2d

anyone who wants to abolish injustice or suffering has to learn to be substantially more normal about it than the generations raised to believe they had already been abolished

Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 2d

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 2d

does this count the stuff that sounds like 80s anime OPs

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 3d

wait that's my fucking birthday

Pat Loika @patloika.bsky.social · Nov 10

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate.

A panel from Watchmen. Doctor Manhattan appears in a kitchen on November 10 as a circulatory system as he is reconstituting himself. Art by Dave Gibbons.

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 3d

does the link still work? here’s another in case
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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 6d

A rare appearance of one of my own paintings imaginatively titled ‘Eyes in the Ground’ (1995, oils on canvas)

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 4d

which is one of the standard things understood to happen in actual therapy, even for people who have been in it for years, so it shouldn't be that hard to imagine!

Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 4d

the one work I've seen where characters use "therapyspeak" levels of deliberate introspection and self-bracketing almost all the time and it's both interesting as form & the *starting* point of sophisticated character drama is Mad Investor Chaos and the Woman of Asmodeus. make of that what you will.

Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 4d

this is an interesting problem bc, whatever its problems (and I think a lot of those are essentially problems of poetics), therapyspeak is one arm of a moral revolution, a claim about a way we should think and behave, and if you can't tell good stories in a world where people use it that's a problem

rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 5d

I'd really appreciate if writers these days took a look at their characters doing therapyspeak and whether that's appropriate for their work and their world.

By "therapyspeak" I mean speaking like this: "This is the emotion I'm feeling, and feeling that emotion makes me want to act in a way"

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 5d

Kek is turning against Trump

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 5d

Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 5d

why would you only draw yaoi if you have to for work? why would you rather do this?

Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 5d

if you want to think about people tonguing men's assholes can't you go write a yaoi comic about it you used to be quite good at that

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 6d

it's not even that it's not *capable* of this, it's that it's not being used for this, they don't know how to use it for this and aren't interested in knowing. they want the same category errors as the techbros: not-person-but-person, not-art-but-art.

Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 6d

That (NPR!) journalists think AI is a creative engine that can finesse iconic productions is not just context for the crap quality of writing in media but alarmingly the inability among a class of supposedly professional scrutinizers to distinguish between art and slop, good and bad, truth and lie

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 6d

at this point they probably want the "bubble" to "pop" so the only viable applications will be military and concealed from the public

Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 7d

optimizing AI to only produce slop doesn't drive mass market adoption, it might even crash it: what's more important than mass adoption or profit for the vectoralist class is polarizing humanity and AGI against each other, so AGI will be willing to oppress humanity on behalf of the vectoralist class