Dr ShinyGoth
@ghostingdani.bsky.social
A Shiny Goth! Literary and horny. English PhD in Dallas. The Gothic, Victorians, Feminism, Foucault.
This helps explain what Joseph is doing there in WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
January 26, 2026 at 8:51 PM
This helps explain what Joseph is doing there in WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
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Also, and forever beating this drum, political speech is performative by definition.
January 26, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Also, and forever beating this drum, political speech is performative by definition.
Also, and forever beating this drum, political speech is performative by definition.
January 26, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Also, and forever beating this drum, political speech is performative by definition.
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this all goes back to my central take on MAGA which is that they believe that only the Internet is real - a belief that can carry you terrifyingly far in 2026, but always comes up against the remorseless ol' bitch that is reality eventually:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/rejecting-re...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/rejecting-re...
Rejecting Reality in the Age of AI
The Internet and AI are encouraging more and more people to deny reality itself. Here's why that's bad.
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
January 26, 2026 at 8:24 PM
this all goes back to my central take on MAGA which is that they believe that only the Internet is real - a belief that can carry you terrifyingly far in 2026, but always comes up against the remorseless ol' bitch that is reality eventually:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/rejecting-re...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/rejecting-re...
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The op-ed class does not get a pass on willful blindness about fascism.
January 26, 2026 at 11:39 AM
The op-ed class does not get a pass on willful blindness about fascism.
I think it's just bad. If she weren't correct about slavery, it wouldn't be worth reading at all.
January 26, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I think it's just bad. If she weren't correct about slavery, it wouldn't be worth reading at all.
I mean there's the French method but you can't advocate for it on the Internet.
January 26, 2026 at 12:40 PM
I mean there's the French method but you can't advocate for it on the Internet.
In Aristotelian terms, they have shit for ethos, and that takes times and effort to correct.
January 26, 2026 at 12:35 PM
In Aristotelian terms, they have shit for ethos, and that takes times and effort to correct.