What we are starting to reckon with, through our developing threat picture of NVE and now this, is the irreverence given to acts of extreme real-world violence when carried out as communicative acts for *being* online for certain communities....

Marc-André is doing the difficult but essential work here. A great thread and assessment.

My 2p for the Satanist trainspotters pointing towards Order of Nine Angles: I'd argue this is a parody of O9A distilled through various online recombinations and iterations. Some of the language and symbols are there, but none of the intended meaning & certainly not the practice as developed by O9A.

I don't post much any more, but for everyone poring over the manifesto, scrawlings, and footprint following the Minneapolis shooting, here's a timesaver. The aim is to be remembered, discussed, to turn oneself into content that then becomes the next reference on a gun.

Todays guest post was written by @theondrakguy.bsky.social who delves into the evolution of media fiction and its influence on participatory nihilistic violence. He explore the interplay between media narratives and real-world acts of violence. www.maargentino.com/the-eleven-y...

currently pitching/booking guests for next set of @theloopcast.bsky.social shows - continuing w our series on lawful extremism and then taking it from there ^<•>^

Since I'm making an effort to post here a bit more, my PhD thesis - Digesting Creepypasta: An Analysis of Social Media Horror Narratives as Fourth Generation Digital Fiction - is available to read via Sheffield Hallam's library page. shura.shu.ac.uk/32027/

Bit of a jump scare while window shopping for money pits on Facebook earlier.

Intro time. I'm a researcher and OSINT analyst. Interested in human/medium interaction, digital narratology, tech-led cultural intelligence, and barking at policy types to read more McLuhan. Currently working in CVE spaces focusing on composite threats, and analytical best practice for OSINT.

I suppose I should endeavour to use this a bit more since there's a mass-migration (and an influx of followers, hi and thank you). It'll be interesting to see how this shakes out in the next 4 years. Will Bluesky / X be the next Tumblr / 4chan?