For all the excoriation of consumers for not "understanding what the empirics say" and "relying too much on vibes," economists love to fall back on pseudo-pop-psychology and vibes when they encounter something that they don't fully understand themselves.
the whole AI panic is a grim reminder that nobody actually understands what humans care about: control of other humans. We are willing to pay for stuff that is crafted by other humans because we are animals in a social hierarchy. markets formalize and abstract this but it's what drives them.
December 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
For all the excoriation of consumers for not "understanding what the empirics say" and "relying too much on vibes," economists love to fall back on pseudo-pop-psychology and vibes when they encounter something that they don't fully understand themselves.
#The Weekend Listening to David Hogg’s excoriation of the Democrat party this morning the questions I would like answered are: 1) How did Elon Musk know hours before the vote totals were reported by “battleground states” that Trump had won? 2) Has evidence been obtained to confirm vote tampering?
December 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
#The Weekend Listening to David Hogg’s excoriation of the Democrat party this morning the questions I would like answered are: 1) How did Elon Musk know hours before the vote totals were reported by “battleground states” that Trump had won? 2) Has evidence been obtained to confirm vote tampering?
Y’all need to be like the Italians after WWII and erase DT from all public mention— the only thing that should remain are the history books and the excoriation of all his greed and stupidity, and that of anyone who hitched their wagons to his turd bomb.
December 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Y’all need to be like the Italians after WWII and erase DT from all public mention— the only thing that should remain are the history books and the excoriation of all his greed and stupidity, and that of anyone who hitched their wagons to his turd bomb.
Trump demands respect for his office and position while systematically breaking or debasing every societal rule of respect and decorum, even for those who previously occupied the same position.
Can't wait for his public excoriation.
Can't wait for his public excoriation.
December 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Trump demands respect for his office and position while systematically breaking or debasing every societal rule of respect and decorum, even for those who previously occupied the same position.
Can't wait for his public excoriation.
Can't wait for his public excoriation.
im so tempted to just give her h-eds and excoriation disorder to see what happens
sorry fanfic readers we're going on a 5 paragraph rant about picking scabs off her skin because she needs to self-regulate and she doesnt have healthy coping mechanisms
sorry fanfic readers we're going on a 5 paragraph rant about picking scabs off her skin because she needs to self-regulate and she doesnt have healthy coping mechanisms
December 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
im so tempted to just give her h-eds and excoriation disorder to see what happens
sorry fanfic readers we're going on a 5 paragraph rant about picking scabs off her skin because she needs to self-regulate and she doesnt have healthy coping mechanisms
sorry fanfic readers we're going on a 5 paragraph rant about picking scabs off her skin because she needs to self-regulate and she doesnt have healthy coping mechanisms
𝕴𝖙’𝖘 𝖆 𝖙𝖔𝖚𝖌𝖍 𝖏𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖓𝖊𝖞 𝖙𝖔 𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖎𝖓 𝖎𝖓𝖘𝖊𝖈𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖞 𝖎𝖓 𝖑𝖎𝖊𝖚 𝖔𝖋 𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖋-𝖊𝖝𝖈𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖇𝖊𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖆 𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖒𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖙𝖑𝖊 𝖙𝖜𝖆𝖙 𝖔𝖓 𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊 - 𝕴’𝖒 𝖈𝖎𝖗𝖈𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕾𝖆𝖚𝖉𝖎 𝕿𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗 :
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
𝕴𝖙’𝖘 𝖆 𝖙𝖔𝖚𝖌𝖍 𝖏𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖓𝖊𝖞 𝖙𝖔 𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖎𝖓 𝖎𝖓𝖘𝖊𝖈𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖞 𝖎𝖓 𝖑𝖎𝖊𝖚 𝖔𝖋 𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖋-𝖊𝖝𝖈𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖇𝖊𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖆 𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖒𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖙𝖑𝖊 𝖙𝖜𝖆𝖙 𝖔𝖓 𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊 - 𝕴’𝖒 𝖈𝖎𝖗𝖈𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕾𝖆𝖚𝖉𝖎 𝕿𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗 :
sometimes i feel like a walking freak show. i cannot wait for group tomorrow. i've been waiting a month for it. it's the only place i've really ever felt seen for my disorders. it's helped immensely in not feeling incredibly alone, even if it's only via zoom
#ocd #dermatillomania
#excoriation #bfrb
#ocd #dermatillomania
#excoriation #bfrb
December 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
sometimes i feel like a walking freak show. i cannot wait for group tomorrow. i've been waiting a month for it. it's the only place i've really ever felt seen for my disorders. it's helped immensely in not feeling incredibly alone, even if it's only via zoom
#ocd #dermatillomania
#excoriation #bfrb
#ocd #dermatillomania
#excoriation #bfrb
Our Outlaw Prez's twisted response to the Reiners murder deserves the excoriation it's getting. But it seems there's a ton more attacks on social media & elsewhere about Trump's despicable spew than there is praise for the Reiners' political and cultural contributions. An unpalatable imbalance.
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Our Outlaw Prez's twisted response to the Reiners murder deserves the excoriation it's getting. But it seems there's a ton more attacks on social media & elsewhere about Trump's despicable spew than there is praise for the Reiners' political and cultural contributions. An unpalatable imbalance.
And, the media interviewers allow him to get away with that default adolescent answer. He needs to be challenged over and over by the media. If he's truly "unaware" of the despot's excoriation of Reiner, then he is proving himself to be unqualified for his job. He lies and deflects proficiently.
December 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
And, the media interviewers allow him to get away with that default adolescent answer. He needs to be challenged over and over by the media. If he's truly "unaware" of the despot's excoriation of Reiner, then he is proving himself to be unqualified for his job. He lies and deflects proficiently.
TIL that dermatillomania (excoriation or skin picking disorder) is common among women with autism and ADHD, which explains why I have done it since I was a kid and why winter is particularly challenging for me due to the extra dry air
December 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
TIL that dermatillomania (excoriation or skin picking disorder) is common among women with autism and ADHD, which explains why I have done it since I was a kid and why winter is particularly challenging for me due to the extra dry air
@oldtrotter.bsky.social
Puzzled by Healey's claim that he rejected Keynesianism in favour of Monetarism during his time as chancellor and his later excoriation of Friedman and Monetarism
Puzzled by Healey's claim that he rejected Keynesianism in favour of Monetarism during his time as chancellor and his later excoriation of Friedman and Monetarism
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
@oldtrotter.bsky.social
Puzzled by Healey's claim that he rejected Keynesianism in favour of Monetarism during his time as chancellor and his later excoriation of Friedman and Monetarism
Puzzled by Healey's claim that he rejected Keynesianism in favour of Monetarism during his time as chancellor and his later excoriation of Friedman and Monetarism
If the previous one was a skewering of dipshit billionaires and the bootlickers who cater to them, and the original was a merciless magnifying glass on privilege and family wealth, this one feels like an excoriation of the twisting of faith in pursuit of ego and power.
But maybe that's just me.
But maybe that's just me.
December 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
If the previous one was a skewering of dipshit billionaires and the bootlickers who cater to them, and the original was a merciless magnifying glass on privilege and family wealth, this one feels like an excoriation of the twisting of faith in pursuit of ego and power.
But maybe that's just me.
But maybe that's just me.
I saw this coming during drumpf 1.0 with the excoriation/berating of Dr. Fauci!
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I saw this coming during drumpf 1.0 with the excoriation/berating of Dr. Fauci!
This is (I guess unfortunately) the only experience I have with the movie but his excoriation is so casually off beat like when he claims Mamet's Rabbi played a victim extra and wonders aloud why.
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The Best of Val Kilmer's Spartan DVD Commentary
YouTube video by John Frankensteiner
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December 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This is (I guess unfortunately) the only experience I have with the movie but his excoriation is so casually off beat like when he claims Mamet's Rabbi played a victim extra and wonders aloud why.
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Music to my ears. A symphony of excoriation of one of the most malicious, unqualified, disgusting, & mendacious criminals to ever be grilled by Congress.
December 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Music to my ears. A symphony of excoriation of one of the most malicious, unqualified, disgusting, & mendacious criminals to ever be grilled by Congress.
Oh, the excoriation! No holds bar! It's about time that people with a large platform speak out against industrial strenght stupidity! You didn't have me lol-ing, I was laughing out loud!
My only disappointment was the credits were rolling over Indy before he came closer!
My only disappointment was the credits were rolling over Indy before he came closer!
December 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Oh, the excoriation! No holds bar! It's about time that people with a large platform speak out against industrial strenght stupidity! You didn't have me lol-ing, I was laughing out loud!
My only disappointment was the credits were rolling over Indy before he came closer!
My only disappointment was the credits were rolling over Indy before he came closer!
The Fire Political Blog explores just how absurd the claim that Venezuela is providing Fentanyl to the USA is. Trump's murderous "Operation B.S." rolls on, ignoring the threat of War Crime judgment and public excoriation. View and SUBSCRIBE, it's FREE!
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📍The Venezuela Fentanyl Fantasy: A Crisis That Isn’t — and the Real Reason It’s Being Sold to You
How a thousand-mile geographic gap turned into a political storyline — and why it raises serious legal and ethical questions.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The Fire Political Blog explores just how absurd the claim that Venezuela is providing Fentanyl to the USA is. Trump's murderous "Operation B.S." rolls on, ignoring the threat of War Crime judgment and public excoriation. View and SUBSCRIBE, it's FREE!
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Updates to my Bad Empanada dossier (v1.65). Put everything into modules: original dossier on top (below summary/disclaimers), ML critique on bottom. Included a "poetry exercise" in between: on Marx, the Gothic, and dialectical-materialism. 1/2
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![A screencap from a section on fig leaves/censored nudity (and how Bad Empanada's complaints mirror older censors):
(exhibit -1: Artist: Lysippos. Michael McClellan, in "Professor Butter Beard and 'It's All About the Fig (Leaf),'" cites Alexxa Gotthardt: "Consider the fig leaf: a little piece of foliage that's shielded the genitals of famous biblical figures and nude sculptures for centuries. It's a plant that's become synonymous with sin, sex, and censorship. And in large part, we have art history—and the artists determined to portray nudity even when it was considered taboo—to thank for that" [source]. McClellan, themselves, goes on to add, "The Italian Renaissance brought about the revival of classical Greek statuary and with it, nudity. Donatello's small bronze statue of David from around 1440 is still considered by art historians to boldly be the first nude statue since antiquity. Yet it was another David, by Michelangelo, that would cause a cultural gasp due to its larger-than-life nudity" [ibid.].
It bears repeating how the Catholics would strongly protest said nudity, as well as the Nazis [and those who emulate them when calling for genocide through state censorship and crackdowns; re: Bad Empanada wrongfully accusing me of stalking and sexual harassment, below; see, also: footnotes 4 and 5]. Nazis historically cry "degeneracy" and "corruption" when abjecting sex workers, therefore educators; i.e., by wrongfully framing them as "sex pests" through paramilitary force; i.e., cops and other state actors functioning as de facto pimps versus sex workers; e.g., the whores of Weimar [re: "Joy Under Fascism," 2025] but also my own critics [token or not] accusing me and mine repeatedly of "not respecting consent." This precisely describes what Bad Empanada and company are doing against me; re: falsely accusing me of criminal activity—notably stalking and sexual harassment, below—despite knowing their claims are false [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d2545ppta4lpznhyjvs4tl6p/bafkreibu5wgb5trzej6ihbor75zh6re55tc2qdjfmh72byvwr33q6nl5vy@jpeg)
![Table of Contents for v1.65
Frontload
- On Tokenism (side bar)
- Bad Empanada Is a Bad Actor (re: a TERF and a SWERF)
The Dossier
- Original E-mail Opening
- About Me (and My Friends' Sex Work/Activism, in Particular—plus addendums)
- Raising Awareness (about Bad Empanada's Abusive Behaviors)
- My Total Evidence
- Assorted Evidence Submitted by Others
- My Larger Body of Work
- I'm a Rape Survivor
- About my PhD
Poetry Exercise: "Wide-Load: Concerning Cryptonymy and Reversing Abjection, 'on the Aegis'; or, a Quick Refresher on Embodying the Gorgon's Fat, Terrifying Ass"
On Sex Work versus Marxist-Leninism
- Regarding Nudity (Censored or Not) as Educational, Not Criminal (during intersectional struggle)
- On Nudity, Cocottes and Red Scare (and Critiquing Soviet Aesthetics during Socialist Realism, feat. Lady Izdihar)
- Concerning Marxist-Leninism (versus Gothic [gay-anarcho] Communism; feat. Socialism for All and Chemical Mind)
- "Suffer the Little Children": Marxist-Leninist Transphobia among Token Gen-Zers and Alphas (side bar)
- Notes on Lenin, Stalin, and Why Marxist-Leninism Historically Sucks for Women and Queer People (with Bad Empanada being functionally Marxist-Leninist)
- Gothic (gay-anarcho) Communism vs Marxist-Leninism
- Stalin and Company Haunting Marxist-Leninism into Present Discourse; or, Their Toxic Legacies Polluting Present Praxis
- Further Critiques on Marxist-Leninism (from Other Researchers)
State Kayfabe and Vampirism: Emulating Marxist-Leninism's Dictators, from Stalin to Mao
- Stalin's Kayfabe: the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
- Mao's Vampirism: Bad Empanada's Favorite Dictator?
- In Closing: Such Men Suck, and How to Take Our Power Back from Them "on the Aegis"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d2545ppta4lpznhyjvs4tl6p/bafkreidfetdjqyv73uv2eo2fu2htzyno2moyfss7wsqgr5btgxaam6lil4@jpeg)
![Opening to my new poetry exercise (as of v1.60):
Poetry Exercise: "Wide-Load: Concerning Cryptonymy and Reversing Abjection, 'on the Aegis'; or, a Quick Refresher on Embodying the Gorgon's Fat, Terrifying Ass"
(source: Monster Legacy's "The Alien Queen," 2015; cited: "Always a Victim")
Before we critique Marxist-Leninism (whose bigotries Bad Empanada contributes to, and which materially support him, in turn; re: Second Thought, Hakim and Yugopnik), let's try a poetry exercise; i.e., in the style of Gothic Communism as I conceived it. Said exercise invokes a Gothic staple (or four): the Gorgon (abjection) standing in for Plato's mobile cave/darkness visible (cryptonymy*), as well as bloodletting (vampirism) and the Promethean Quest (aka the Numinous and chasing it; e.g., the Alien Queen, above, being a special kind of whore: the Archaic Mother/poster girl for abjection, Freud and Creed onwards).
*Two of four Gothic theories that I use, the other two being hauntology and chronotopes; see: "The Four Main Gothic Theories" from "Paratextual (Gothic) Documents").
[...]
Our exercise remains notably optional, but one that should clue you into my dialectical-material approach; i.e., as I normally do, Gothic Communism holistically applying poetry to theory—the Gothic and monstrous-feminine, but especially whores of a weaponized caliber, having their "ancient" (retro-future) revenge as something to conceal/reveal simultaneously in seemingly garbage stories; e.g., as Shelley does with Frankenstein's Monster the year Marx was born: coming home to roost, a castle in the flesh (one workers embody to Numinous degrees)!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d2545ppta4lpznhyjvs4tl6p/bafkreiat47j2s322nliy6kzaesqnuusskivd6btzabmdyaeggli5b2yixy@jpeg)
December 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Updates to my Bad Empanada dossier (v1.65). Put everything into modules: original dossier on top (below summary/disclaimers), ML critique on bottom. Included a "poetry exercise" in between: on Marx, the Gothic, and dialectical-materialism. 1/2
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#freePalestine
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#freePalestine
Holy chit. I've never before read such a compendium of next level excoriation! Highly satisfying. Buuuut....multiple uses of 'black' as an organ descriptor contrasts accusingly with the outrageous originality exhibited elsewhere in the essay.
December 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Holy chit. I've never before read such a compendium of next level excoriation! Highly satisfying. Buuuut....multiple uses of 'black' as an organ descriptor contrasts accusingly with the outrageous originality exhibited elsewhere in the essay.
I've been reading (Horace) Walpole as a kind of privileged outsider's view on British politics as the Revolution unfolded, and I recently came across his excoriation of exactly what you describe, which has no small resonance to much of today's U.S. (including a societal obsession with gambling!):
![Walpole, 1773: "What is England now? A sink of Indian wealth, filled by nabobs [East India Company adventurers] and emptied by Maccaronis [a kind of elite fashionista subculture marked by ennui and an obsession with European style]! A senate, sold and despised! A country overrun by horse-races! A gaming, robbing, wrangling, railing nation, without principles, genius, character, or allies; the overgrown shadow of what it was!"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ofspjqj2fhvu35gvvs42udex/bafkreiaiiijablix7tjqetpa3nfx2dzxmpgc3purriudbjp4gn63znghky@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I've been reading (Horace) Walpole as a kind of privileged outsider's view on British politics as the Revolution unfolded, and I recently came across his excoriation of exactly what you describe, which has no small resonance to much of today's U.S. (including a societal obsession with gambling!):
Everyone's mileage varies, of course, but I don't feel like this is exactly a creative choice meant to flatter Victor. More like a demonstration/excoriation of all the ways he's a fuckhead.
(Re-typing it here since I didn't volunteer to debate random people on my lunch break.)
(Re-typing it here since I didn't volunteer to debate random people on my lunch break.)
December 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Everyone's mileage varies, of course, but I don't feel like this is exactly a creative choice meant to flatter Victor. More like a demonstration/excoriation of all the ways he's a fuckhead.
(Re-typing it here since I didn't volunteer to debate random people on my lunch break.)
(Re-typing it here since I didn't volunteer to debate random people on my lunch break.)
The “take-no-prisoners” excoriation of the lower tobacco tax fantasists by @simonchapman.bsky.social is worthy of serial fist-pumps and “Yes!” ejaculations on its reading #auspol
Australia takes off the gloves on illegal tobacco, while 'lower the tax' fantasists plumb newly absurd depths. simonchapman6.com/2025/12/09/a...
Australia takes off the gloves on illegal tobacco while ‘lower the tax’ fantasists plumb new absurdities
Australia’s epidemic of illicit (untaxed) cheap cigarette shops is entering a new phase as Australian Border Force reports record seizures and three states (South Australia, Queensland and New Sout…
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December 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The “take-no-prisoners” excoriation of the lower tobacco tax fantasists by @simonchapman.bsky.social is worthy of serial fist-pumps and “Yes!” ejaculations on its reading #auspol
Now to the hallucination and the excoriation of the devil's that we will rid ourselves of so that we can spend time with God more peacefully. It may be a hallucination, but until we can ignore it, we better make it nice. I'm there with you. I haven't got out yet, going to happen though. This time.
December 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Now to the hallucination and the excoriation of the devil's that we will rid ourselves of so that we can spend time with God more peacefully. It may be a hallucination, but until we can ignore it, we better make it nice. I'm there with you. I haven't got out yet, going to happen though. This time.
Evident since Trump started campaigning in 2022. Vance’s #NATO excoriation speech should have sounded the signal to start rapidly rearming ourselves and stop relying on the USA. Instead, our leaders (Starmer, and to his eternal shame #MarkRutte) tried to ingratiate themselves further. #r4today
a woman singing into a microphone with the words he do n't love you anymore
ALT: a woman singing into a microphone with the words he do n't love you anymore
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December 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Evident since Trump started campaigning in 2022. Vance’s #NATO excoriation speech should have sounded the signal to start rapidly rearming ourselves and stop relying on the USA. Instead, our leaders (Starmer, and to his eternal shame #MarkRutte) tried to ingratiate themselves further. #r4today
Kaitlan Collins is the latest female journalist to be insulted by the porcine, demented, mean girl despot. It's too bad that he is sheltered from the excoriation that he gets every hour in podcasts & on social media, especially here. His brain would explode and hopefully he'd hold his breath.
December 7, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Kaitlan Collins is the latest female journalist to be insulted by the porcine, demented, mean girl despot. It's too bad that he is sheltered from the excoriation that he gets every hour in podcasts & on social media, especially here. His brain would explode and hopefully he'd hold his breath.