counterNihilist
@counternihilist.bsky.social
he/him,
horror and tech nerd,
protocols over platforms,
fuck IP,
abolish all cops,
tired
horror and tech nerd,
protocols over platforms,
fuck IP,
abolish all cops,
tired
I dream of a world where everyone has to navigate people's boundaries in variable and fluid contexts, because everyone else is able to bring strong social pressures against them through networks of care, and no one can appeal to power to stop it. For a lot of people this world would be a nightmare.
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I dream of a world where everyone has to navigate people's boundaries in variable and fluid contexts, because everyone else is able to bring strong social pressures against them through networks of care, and no one can appeal to power to stop it. For a lot of people this world would be a nightmare.
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They used the equivalent energy consumption of the entire 19th century melting stadiums full of the world's most advanced processing chips in order to make a computer that cant do math
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
They used the equivalent energy consumption of the entire 19th century melting stadiums full of the world's most advanced processing chips in order to make a computer that cant do math
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We collectively need to remind ourselves that the arc of history only stays bent if we are constantly pushing on it.
We can't trust the state to institutionalize movement victories, & we need to understand that the institutionalization itself is often done as an effort to defang liberatory history.
We can't trust the state to institutionalize movement victories, & we need to understand that the institutionalization itself is often done as an effort to defang liberatory history.
November 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
We collectively need to remind ourselves that the arc of history only stays bent if we are constantly pushing on it.
We can't trust the state to institutionalize movement victories, & we need to understand that the institutionalization itself is often done as an effort to defang liberatory history.
We can't trust the state to institutionalize movement victories, & we need to understand that the institutionalization itself is often done as an effort to defang liberatory history.
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What we are going to have to do in the coming years is build out a whole lot of parallel institutions that can do the work previously assigned to the state, most especially civic education.
Eventually I will find my way to excitement for that project but right now the prospect exhausts me
Eventually I will find my way to excitement for that project but right now the prospect exhausts me
November 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
What we are going to have to do in the coming years is build out a whole lot of parallel institutions that can do the work previously assigned to the state, most especially civic education.
Eventually I will find my way to excitement for that project but right now the prospect exhausts me
Eventually I will find my way to excitement for that project but right now the prospect exhausts me
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Violence against agents of the state is sometimes justified. Absolutely impossible to argue against this statement. At a certain point, maybe one that has already come to pass, we are justified in violently resisting these gestapo thugs that call themselves ICE and CBP.
October 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Violence against agents of the state is sometimes justified. Absolutely impossible to argue against this statement. At a certain point, maybe one that has already come to pass, we are justified in violently resisting these gestapo thugs that call themselves ICE and CBP.
I've said it elsewhere before but two things can be true:
- Trusting in central institutions is a bad means of informing yourself because they are subject to capture by corporate interests and the biases of their leaders (and have been long before all-out fascism)
- Conspiracy theorists are dipshits
- Trusting in central institutions is a bad means of informing yourself because they are subject to capture by corporate interests and the biases of their leaders (and have been long before all-out fascism)
- Conspiracy theorists are dipshits
October 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I've said it elsewhere before but two things can be true:
- Trusting in central institutions is a bad means of informing yourself because they are subject to capture by corporate interests and the biases of their leaders (and have been long before all-out fascism)
- Conspiracy theorists are dipshits
- Trusting in central institutions is a bad means of informing yourself because they are subject to capture by corporate interests and the biases of their leaders (and have been long before all-out fascism)
- Conspiracy theorists are dipshits
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It is not endemic. Endemic means predictable rate of spread and regional containment. Because covid continues to mutate, the wave patterns are random, and spread I global, covid meets none of these criteria. The WHO declared it no longer a “global emergency,” not endemic.
October 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
It is not endemic. Endemic means predictable rate of spread and regional containment. Because covid continues to mutate, the wave patterns are random, and spread I global, covid meets none of these criteria. The WHO declared it no longer a “global emergency,” not endemic.
It's really underexamined how easy it is for 99% of people to he objectively wrong about important things, with real material impacts for being wrong. And this probably applies to me too for some things! But I think if we were all aware majority opinion != correct we'd absorb new information better.
October 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
It's really underexamined how easy it is for 99% of people to he objectively wrong about important things, with real material impacts for being wrong. And this probably applies to me too for some things! But I think if we were all aware majority opinion != correct we'd absorb new information better.
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Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
October 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
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And take, I don’t know, five seconds to consider that the people you dismiss as “scolds” might be another group of human beings fighting for equitable access to society, which traditionally it hasn’t looked super great to be against.
October 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
And take, I don’t know, five seconds to consider that the people you dismiss as “scolds” might be another group of human beings fighting for equitable access to society, which traditionally it hasn’t looked super great to be against.
Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.
- Session 9
- Mandy
- The Descent
- Alien
- Session 9
- Mandy
- The Descent
- Alien
Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.
- Alien
- The Thing (1982)
- Underwater
- does Annihilation count?
- Alien
- The Thing (1982)
- Underwater
- does Annihilation count?
Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.
- Alien.
- The VVitch.
- Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning.
- Wes Craven's They.
- Alien.
- The VVitch.
- Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning.
- Wes Craven's They.
October 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.
- Session 9
- Mandy
- The Descent
- Alien
- Session 9
- Mandy
- The Descent
- Alien
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I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11
October 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11
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Whenever anarchism — or any idea more radical than the status quo — gets dismissed as unserious, it's worth remembering the current system runs on things like "we put all the money on a scam machine that tells rich dipshits they're god."
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
www.ft.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Whenever anarchism — or any idea more radical than the status quo — gets dismissed as unserious, it's worth remembering the current system runs on things like "we put all the money on a scam machine that tells rich dipshits they're god."
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our melody is louder than a shout
October 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
our melody is louder than a shout
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Because conservative freakouts since 2017 have completely warped the media landscape, I want to compile a thread of some contemporary instances of fascist violence against antifascists that were hugely influential on everyone I know 🧵
October 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Because conservative freakouts since 2017 have completely warped the media landscape, I want to compile a thread of some contemporary instances of fascist violence against antifascists that were hugely influential on everyone I know 🧵
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They cannot round up everyone.
And if everyone is saying The Thing, targeted speech crackdowns on people saying The Thing are that much less effective.
And if everyone is saying The Thing, targeted speech crackdowns on people saying The Thing are that much less effective.
September 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
They cannot round up everyone.
And if everyone is saying The Thing, targeted speech crackdowns on people saying The Thing are that much less effective.
And if everyone is saying The Thing, targeted speech crackdowns on people saying The Thing are that much less effective.
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Like, if you are doing sensitive work or already have a legitimately good reason to worry about a knock, sure, be careful.
But if you're living a relatively normal life, not leading actions or secretly housing the undocumented or something?
Say it loud and say it proud. Often.
But if you're living a relatively normal life, not leading actions or secretly housing the undocumented or something?
Say it loud and say it proud. Often.
September 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Like, if you are doing sensitive work or already have a legitimately good reason to worry about a knock, sure, be careful.
But if you're living a relatively normal life, not leading actions or secretly housing the undocumented or something?
Say it loud and say it proud. Often.
But if you're living a relatively normal life, not leading actions or secretly housing the undocumented or something?
Say it loud and say it proud. Often.
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Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence...
Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.
Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.
We all need to be Spartacus on this one.
Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.
Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.
We all need to be Spartacus on this one.
September 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence...
Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.
Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.
We all need to be Spartacus on this one.
Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.
Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.
We all need to be Spartacus on this one.
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Scientists should of course fight against the fascist regime, but it's a mistake to latch onto "democracy" as ideological draping.
Science is unavoidably anti-democratic, and that's a GOOD THING: just as voters shouldn't get to vote away our liberties, they don't get to vote away the truth.
Science is unavoidably anti-democratic, and that's a GOOD THING: just as voters shouldn't get to vote away our liberties, they don't get to vote away the truth.
September 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Scientists should of course fight against the fascist regime, but it's a mistake to latch onto "democracy" as ideological draping.
Science is unavoidably anti-democratic, and that's a GOOD THING: just as voters shouldn't get to vote away our liberties, they don't get to vote away the truth.
Science is unavoidably anti-democratic, and that's a GOOD THING: just as voters shouldn't get to vote away our liberties, they don't get to vote away the truth.
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Something I really really want everyone to hear:
One of the CORE principles of organizing is, you always leave room for escalation.
You have to have something to hold over your opponents' heads and leverage as a real threat.
Once your escalation peaks, you've played your hand. It's over.
One of the CORE principles of organizing is, you always leave room for escalation.
You have to have something to hold over your opponents' heads and leverage as a real threat.
Once your escalation peaks, you've played your hand. It's over.
September 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Something I really really want everyone to hear:
One of the CORE principles of organizing is, you always leave room for escalation.
You have to have something to hold over your opponents' heads and leverage as a real threat.
Once your escalation peaks, you've played your hand. It's over.
One of the CORE principles of organizing is, you always leave room for escalation.
You have to have something to hold over your opponents' heads and leverage as a real threat.
Once your escalation peaks, you've played your hand. It's over.
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Abolition was the moderate compromise.
September 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Abolition was the moderate compromise.
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we must go harder on the one and only acceptable answer bring gender freedom. trans liberation. women's liberation. ABSOLUTE body autonomy. total destruction of EVERY patriarchal structure and social attitude. nothing short of absolutely overturning everything. you will get no concessions.
September 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
we must go harder on the one and only acceptable answer bring gender freedom. trans liberation. women's liberation. ABSOLUTE body autonomy. total destruction of EVERY patriarchal structure and social attitude. nothing short of absolutely overturning everything. you will get no concessions.
People have to start actually learning the difference between speech that is confrontational and speech that is actually hateful in content, and also take the next logical step which is that conservatism is built on the latter and should not be let within a mile of any kind of governance.
September 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
People have to start actually learning the difference between speech that is confrontational and speech that is actually hateful in content, and also take the next logical step which is that conservatism is built on the latter and should not be let within a mile of any kind of governance.
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the real question for our generation is "What do we do about the police?" and if we don't figure it out then all of our descendants will live underneath a klanner boot
August 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
the real question for our generation is "What do we do about the police?" and if we don't figure it out then all of our descendants will live underneath a klanner boot
I know everybody hates anarchists but just observing the repeat failures of so-called democracy to keep the worst people from wrecking society as soon as the marginalized get any rights at all, I'm like how can you not be one by now.
August 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I know everybody hates anarchists but just observing the repeat failures of so-called democracy to keep the worst people from wrecking society as soon as the marginalized get any rights at all, I'm like how can you not be one by now.