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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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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 57m

the butlerian jihad of dune is a story about a civilization giving up on positive sum cooperation, embracing religious fanaticism, and devolving into zero sum power struggles with frozen science, frozen knowledge, and brutal resource wars

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

crazy that I can't find a single AMV with this banger (one of Kotoko's best imo). this series got its Power of Existence eaten
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNW...

Shakugan No Shana Op { Blaze - Kotoko }

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Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 15h

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

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

unironic Starship Troopers posting is for libs now

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

the Clone Wars thing is another crazy self-own layer. yeah we're the freaking good guys in the totally morally clear-cut Space War on Terror orchestrated by the Dark Lord of the Sith to distract us and install himself as fascist Emperor of the galaxy. OO-RAH 😎🔫

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 19h

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

have you read Terra Ignota?

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🔥 Gurepyon 🔥 @gurepyon.bsky.social · 2d

[oc] on to a radiant future!! ✨

my three main characters Gill, Gure and Kally looking into the camera and smiling. The colors are warm and very shiny and the background has a sunset with colorful clouds. They are standing on rocky mountains with a bit of gras and white flowers. #oc #owncharacters #art

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

one underrated function of prose style in genre fiction is hype moments and aura

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

this goes way back I used to sorta know someone who ran one of those ("goonsoftheweb", not in the Something Awful sense) on Tumblr

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 3d

A LITERAL GOD DAMN DECADE FOR FUCK'S SAKE A DECADE IS ACTUALLY *FEWER* YEARS TIME THAN HOW LONG I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS. iaiamothrafhtagn.tumblr.com/post/4848790...

frankenstein’s thrash/cyberpunk’s not dead: fugue for “un-go” episodes 3+4

(author’s note: this essay originally appears and can still be read within the patchwork children zine, curated and published in january 2013 by mary borsellino. i’ve reproduced it here for archival p...

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

Moers is so good I really want more people to read him

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

or Walter Moers

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

to me this is giving L. Frank Baum

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

we haven't run any straight nerdcrit on a solo site page but feel free to send me if you have something

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

welcome back Ms. Therion

image macro comparing the gematria for Twilight Sparkle and Aleister Crowley (190 English Ordinal, 73 Full Reduction, 215 Reverse Ordinal, 89 Reverse Full Reduction) with images of both opposite a unicursal hexagram

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

this remains the worst avatar/name/bio combo on here by a long shot I hate Gen X

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

wait as someone who also studies this stuff. what's the line you're drawing between Land's authoritarianism and his theory of time specifically?

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Perfectly Harmless Effy @effinvicta.bsky.social · 5d

Woke kinship structure (minus bilateral descent group membership), with five generations! It's bifurcated merging with nonbinary terms included.

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

does it occur to you that, even if this is convincing to you, for it to be convincing to the person you are talking to it would have to be something the people in their images wouldn't say?

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

and interestingly the pitch is made by millennials/zoomers who never experienced their childhood except through memes and aesthetics, which allows them to sell a simulacrum more "real" than the memory itself

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 5d

the basic pitch of American fascism is telling Gen X that if they go along with killing all brown people, they get to be teenagers again

John Darwin Kurc @kurc.com · 5d

From DHS. State Run Media.

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

man what even was Jump in the 80s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakigake!!_Otokojuku

"Sakigake!! Otokojuku (Japanese: 魁!!男塾; lit. 'Charge!! Men's Private School'), also known as simply Otokojuku, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Miyashita. It was originally serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1985 to 1991. It is staged in an all-boys school that teaches how to be true men. The students are trained to "revive the Spirit of Japan" and mainly engage in events where they will polish their manhood and push through with their guts.

Plot
See also: List of Sakigake!! Otokojuku characters
The principal of the private school, Heihachi Edajima, was a war hero during World War II. He trained his students to play an active role in politics, economics and industries in Japan and all over the world, though the way of training is highly anachronistic.

The martial arts depicted in this series are also highly choreographed using various forms of martial arts."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakigake!!_Otokojuku

"The Roppongi Skirt-chasing War! We Won't Lose to a Foreigner"
"Roppongi Nanpa Sensō! Gaijin ni wa Makerarenai" (六本木ナンパ戦争! ガイジンには負けられない) Kawasuji Yutaka March 17, 1988

*Instructor Oni-Hige is seen of harassing a woman in the Roppongi district, and is beaten up by George, her huge American boyfriend. For revenge, Oni-Hige then sends the students on a purifying mission in the Roppongi district against dominating foreign men.* (highlight my own) They find the huge American in a discotheque, but the students find excuses not to fight him, and Oni-Hige is beaten up again. The next day, instructor Rankiryuu orders Hidemaro Genzo who is now a student, to purchase make-up in Roppongi. Meanwhile, the students are punished by having to hold a handstand position for an hour. Hidemaro sees the Americans scamming a local shop assistant and confronts the former WBB heavyweight boxing champion J.J. George but is easily beaten up. The students decide to take revenge, and using a combination of karate and kenpo, Momotaro beats him up. When Yoko, George's Japanese girlfriend, abandons him and approaches Momotaro, he rejects her for being fickle.

Note: When Togashi is instructed to translate Japanese in the discotheque, he just shouts some common English phrases that he knows.

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ほしねぎ @neginoaoitokoro.bsky.social · 6d

うさぎちゃん

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

people focusing on that part but "well so's everybody if you think about it" is a really weak response to "the king is mad"

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

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYrw...

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

Gen X jingoism

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"