Mariana Colín
@themorbidzoo.bsky.social
Ambivalent YouTuber and PhD Candidate in Communications/Media Anthropology. #1 Twilight apologist.
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The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.
January 6, 2026 at 1:27 PM
The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.
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Race and Gender studies, philosophy, and comparative religious studies.
Ahem.
Ahem.
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Race and Gender studies, philosophy, and comparative religious studies.
Ahem.
Ahem.
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If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time?
Really American FB
Really American FB
January 6, 2026 at 2:07 AM
If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time?
Really American FB
Really American FB
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I extremely hate the policies and personality of Donald Trump to an insane degree but I’d be offended if China sent in team to kill a bunch of our civilians and military personnel and kidnap our leader and his wife and then declare that they now “ran” the United States, this isn’t hard
January 5, 2026 at 1:18 PM
I extremely hate the policies and personality of Donald Trump to an insane degree but I’d be offended if China sent in team to kill a bunch of our civilians and military personnel and kidnap our leader and his wife and then declare that they now “ran” the United States, this isn’t hard
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It’s useful to think of the Internet as a medium where consequences for anti-social behavior go to die, which partly explains why our politics got so much worse over the last 30 years.
I have neither thrown nor received a real punch in my life but I kind of think the root sin of the social internet is letting people just say and do things that in the real world would get the shit kicked out of them
January 5, 2026 at 1:50 AM
It’s useful to think of the Internet as a medium where consequences for anti-social behavior go to die, which partly explains why our politics got so much worse over the last 30 years.
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The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
January 4, 2026 at 11:57 AM
The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
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it's about oil (superstructure), not oil (base), to put it in marxo terms
The amount of “this is clearly about oil” posting across all platforms as story after story comes out where the oil industry is saying that the oil isn’t worth extracting is making me feel a little insane
January 4, 2026 at 7:42 PM
it's about oil (superstructure), not oil (base), to put it in marxo terms
Agree or disagree with Saruman’s attack on Helm’s Deep, you can’t help but be in awe of the Uruk Hai’s aptitude and zeal for mowing down old farmers and 12-year olds
God, grow up
God, grow up
the most braindead kind of take in these situations. we've had the unquestioned power to turn most countries into glass parking lots for most of our lifetimes. who on earth is still impressed by this?
January 4, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Agree or disagree with Saruman’s attack on Helm’s Deep, you can’t help but be in awe of the Uruk Hai’s aptitude and zeal for mowing down old farmers and 12-year olds
God, grow up
God, grow up
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Trump wants his "situation room" image, the journos wanna be Ernie Pyle or Brian Williams. They both want to be big stars on TV. It's all about fantasies of deeply insecure children trapped in adult bodies.
These people don’t believe in anything, they just want to be seen sternly intoning about “no end to the war in sight” into the camera while wearing a helmet and plate carrier and get fuck-ass mad when denied the opportunity
January 4, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Trump wants his "situation room" image, the journos wanna be Ernie Pyle or Brian Williams. They both want to be big stars on TV. It's all about fantasies of deeply insecure children trapped in adult bodies.
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I TOLD YOU BRO. I FUCKIN WARNED YOU DAWG
January 4, 2026 at 7:45 AM
I TOLD YOU BRO. I FUCKIN WARNED YOU DAWG
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final stage of US empire sees us capturing several presidents, putting them in a house, and making a show. we will watch the presidents fall in love. we will watch them hate and despise and reconcile with each other. a thrilling conclusion to the american project. well then there's All Stars
January 4, 2026 at 4:36 PM
final stage of US empire sees us capturing several presidents, putting them in a house, and making a show. we will watch the presidents fall in love. we will watch them hate and despise and reconcile with each other. a thrilling conclusion to the american project. well then there's All Stars
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For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
He put his complete trust in a chat bot that turned him into a savage murderer.
Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges
A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.
trib.al
January 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
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this is the cartoon version of American imperialism - we’re going and kidnapping foreign leaders because we want the oil and saying that out loud on the television - and if you can’t just flat out oppose that without qualifications get out of the way
January 3, 2026 at 6:19 PM
this is the cartoon version of American imperialism - we’re going and kidnapping foreign leaders because we want the oil and saying that out loud on the television - and if you can’t just flat out oppose that without qualifications get out of the way
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Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie
January 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie
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trump the type of messy bitch who could have the ideal internationally-accepted face for his wildly illegal imperial adventure and throw it away because she won the nobel prize and he didn't
Trump on María Corina Machado: "I think it'd be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman but she doesn't have the respect."
January 3, 2026 at 6:29 PM
trump the type of messy bitch who could have the ideal internationally-accepted face for his wildly illegal imperial adventure and throw it away because she won the nobel prize and he didn't
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Presented without further comment in defense of the “wars are for porn now” thesis
Trump to Fox & Friends on the raid that captured Maduro: "I mean, I watched it literally l like I was watching a television show. If you would've seen the speed, the violence -- it was an amazing thing."
January 3, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Presented without further comment in defense of the “wars are for porn now” thesis
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Big congrats to the Nobel Committee for awarding the prize "for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" just so she could immediately conspire with a foreign government to murder civilians on the high seas then invade and stage a coup.
I feel like the history of western imperialism is often like this, where there's an almost-plausible case for resource-grabbing, an almost plausible geopolitical explanation (first Caracas, then Havana), and a sort of liberal imperialist fig leaf to keep democrats from being too mad (the Nobel shit)
January 3, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Big congrats to the Nobel Committee for awarding the prize "for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" just so she could immediately conspire with a foreign government to murder civilians on the high seas then invade and stage a coup.
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ME: got a fantastic idea for a movie about a priest who loves capitalism
EXECUTIVE: sounds intriguing. this guy got a name
ME: uh. bishop. robber… baron. bishop robert barron
EXECUTIVE: sounds intriguing. this guy got a name
ME: uh. bishop. robber… baron. bishop robert barron
January 3, 2026 at 2:41 AM
ME: got a fantastic idea for a movie about a priest who loves capitalism
EXECUTIVE: sounds intriguing. this guy got a name
ME: uh. bishop. robber… baron. bishop robert barron
EXECUTIVE: sounds intriguing. this guy got a name
ME: uh. bishop. robber… baron. bishop robert barron
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The closest comparison for the Grok thing we can imagine right now is if cereal made a bunch of people ill and the news put a microphone in front of some cereal boxes at the grocery store and was like “well they didn’t admit guilt, not sure who else we can ask”
January 2, 2026 at 8:24 PM
The closest comparison for the Grok thing we can imagine right now is if cereal made a bunch of people ill and the news put a microphone in front of some cereal boxes at the grocery store and was like “well they didn’t admit guilt, not sure who else we can ask”
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All of these news articles repeating the Grok “apology” aren’t just bad framing—they aren’t even news stories as much as technology fantasy speculative fiction stories that imagine a reality in which no human can be held responsible for creating and operating a CSAM-generating computer program.
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 8:18 PM
All of these news articles repeating the Grok “apology” aren’t just bad framing—they aren’t even news stories as much as technology fantasy speculative fiction stories that imagine a reality in which no human can be held responsible for creating and operating a CSAM-generating computer program.
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would love to see a really slick commercial like the chatgpt one where it tells the guy to make pasta for a date but the commercial is for bringing all of your personal and professional problems to Clever Hans the Arithmetic Horse
Is there any precedent for powerful people claiming that a nonsentient process has a personality behind it that only they and their fellow experts can understand and speak for and it knows everything and can do anything and wants to help and also it will destroy us if we dont give it what it wants
January 2, 2026 at 1:02 PM
would love to see a really slick commercial like the chatgpt one where it tells the guy to make pasta for a date but the commercial is for bringing all of your personal and professional problems to Clever Hans the Arithmetic Horse