We'll see what happens but I might have to post here for a bit, the nearzone account is... I dunno, shadow-suspended or something? I'm able to post and I can see them here but I can't see any new posts when I'm on that one.

So I got it back, I'm gonna go post there again. No, I haven't received any communication; I just noticed that my icon was back. Follow @nearzone.bsky.social

I love all these people who are like "This sure are bad, but DON'T do violence, but they are very bad though, how will things get better, no violence though" what do you think the outcome of that is.

I haven't gone on refollowing yet because I'm still hoping to get my other account back. They literally gave me no good reason for the suspension and haven't responded to me yet.

Anyway, good movie, glad I watched it. I'm very sure this wasn't the point but at the end I was just waiting for Steve to be like "so... what the fuck"

I'm watching Hellraiser for the first time and how does Julia not see Kirsty there. What's the point of looking all around if you can't see her standing out there in the open beside a skinny tree?

I'm glad that the guys from Almost Friday are getting on the podcast circuit but you would have to put me in prison to get me to watch an Andrew Santino anything

Also if Ro Khanna could leave to buy some cigarettes and never come back I promise I won't piss on his grave when he dies.

"we need to fight Trump with reverance for the rule of law and the Constitution, so stop fucking bitching about the rule of law and the Constitution". I honestly hate Ro Khanna. I expect this kind of cowardice from the Slotkins of the world but I really resent this guy posing as a progressive

Axios is one of the worst news sites going. I'm not treating anything from that rag neutrally ever again. It's like Politico's little brother.

I guarantee you that if you take Hanlon's razor ("never attribute to malice what could be attributed to incompetence") out of your toolbox, you will see things roughly 50% more clearly than you do right now. One of the least helpful ways of looking at the world that there is.

Anti-Hanlon's Razor Gang. All my homies hate Hanlon's razor.

Imagine being into swords etc. on YouTube like 5 years ago when you had to watch a ton of Shad and Metatron and Schola Gladiatoria where they all crash about about Black people being cast in movies, whereas now you get stripper elf blumineck and the goofy Sellsword Arts guys who aren't awful

It is self sabotage to criticize the media as incompetent instead of actively malicious. A regular citizen can easily see "free speech" crusaders want to silence anyone who disagrees with them or that the Supreme Court is corrupt as hell. It's not that journos can't, it's that they wont.

BlueSky's mods are so bad that genuinely the only value proposition that this place has is that Elon Musk owns Twitter. If he sold Twitter, BlueSky would be dead in a second.

Oh, and free Bill Kezos!

Hell yeah, I always remember Cro Cop was a cop (obviously...) but I forgot that when he got into politics he joined the Croatian SDP. Actually shit, I feel like I remember a video of him at a protest gonna fight some people, like defending against cops? Maybe it was a different socialist fighter.

I am pretty proud of myself in that the move largely worked, though. I still get in my feelings but not nearly as much, mostly because I changed how I think about being on here.

And since I'm posting here again, just for the record, I *would* have made everyone unfollow me when I did my big unfollow, but that isn't a feature on here. I wasn't trying to bigtime people, *obviously*, I just have no control over other people's follow status.

I just gotta remind myself that it's not like I was doing crazy engagement or anything

Anyway I hope the weirdest person in the world doesn't see this and flip out that I'm not following them anymore when I specifically unfollowed just about everyone because I no longer wanted to use this account. Will I lose all respect for someone else?

Well I guess I'm up now. That was enough of a shock that I dunno if I'm getting back to bed.

I'm back posting here cause someone got my account taken down. For what? No reason, it was just a spam thing apparently. Bsky's system is so easy to game it's crazy.

Does suck to realize that people I thought of as thoughtful and kind have the hearts of sewer people. I'm pretty much just posting here when I have stuff I don't want to put on my other accounts. Got back home and letting myself exhale this fucking nonsense.

I will probably not post here again for a while but I just want to say it really sucks that when you want human contact and people don't give it you're supposed to be okay with that, like if a man comes by dying of thirst they'd go "stop bothering me" instead of getting water. Like guess I'll die

People never say I'm not interesting or not with their time. They just never gave me attention then they're mad that I'm upset about it. If one of these people were like yeah he sucked but I was humoring him ok but that ain't what they say

You could just like the tweets instead of being a huge bitch about it. That's always an option

Sometimes I feel like people don't get how debilitating it is to keep shouting to be noticed and no one cares no matter what

And as a final share, here is a list of work I've read prior to beginning this thesis. Remember to check the hypothesis out here: journalofcogency.com/2025/02/19/a...

The final stage of the work will focus on why anyone would choose to engage in subjugation, why people resist fair and equal society. The reason is a desire for luxury, as I define it. This is why people reject fairness: they hope they can get luxury, too.

The fifth stage is where I will directly deal with the question "How can the few rule over the many?" It will attempt to detail many of the forms which the subjection effect takes and use all of the previous insights to do so.

I've introduced the concept of cogency here and there in previous work but the fourth stage of this thesis will be my most detailed treatment of it. I will be using esoteric/magical ideas but will coordinate them with more standard philosophical notions.

Here I explain why I am starting with politics rather than putting it further along the track.

I'm now going to post several excerpts from my latest* piece of political philosophy "A Non-Grand Theory of Luxury Politics", you can read the whole thing here, it should be ~15 minutes: journalofcogency.com/2025/02/19/a...

Begging people to read this, the beginning of my most ambitious work yet.

I changed the title to "Why Normal People OFTEN Don't Fight Fascism" cause my point is that it's hard for normal people to fight fascism, not that it's normal to not fight fascism. Most people are anti-fascist open.substack.com/pub/jonwuka/...

Notes review of AEW World's End 2024 on Blog.Nearzone. The NZ Verdict? It was fine I guess. 🤼 blog.nearzone.com/2024/12/29/r...

New post on Blog.Nearzone: Friendship and Fandom, about getting over issues with community and with publishing blog.nearzone.com/2024/12/29/f...

Follow @nearzone.bsky.social : New post of the D&D Blood War Encyclopedia – The Dretch: Slavering Pudge, all about the frontline demons of the Blood War! youtu.be/YFf3P2vDAE4

Wild that people regularly get on here and be like "bluesky is only for acting unhinged" and yet when I act unhinged everybody mutes me

I might do a blog on this, posting it here because it's a sad thought: when I think about stories of depression that I relate with the most, it's the stories of those people who everybody thought was happy and then they "suddenly" kill themselves. I'm not a happy guy, obviously. But I still feel it.

GRMB: Go Read My Blog

In case it wasn't clear, these are critical reviews, I'm not a fan of the New Thought guys like Chopra but I wanted to Investigate

New review of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra, asking the hard-hitting and serious questions like "how do these laws explain P. Diddy?" blog.nearzone.com/2024/12/21/r...

New blog on Blog.Nearzone: Unpleasantness, a personal reflection blog.nearzone.com/2024/12/21/u...

Commentary on the VoW Friday Thursday Dynamite Review (12/13/14) – Hate and Heat is Overrated 🤼 blog.nearzone.com/2024/12/16/c...

Remember the Squad

Weird to realize how poisoned this account is, but it was poisoned first and then I abandoned it. I didn't just poison it recently. But never fear, on the other account I put a filter on so I don't come through as strongly.

You've heard of schizotranssexual jihad but have you heard of the anti-Nietzschean inquisition?

So I posted a new one on my blog, "Pro-Wres Lab: A Mess of Rankings", which is just different ranks/grades for different things in wrestling: star ratings, title designations, weight classes, and training ranks. 22 minute read but worth it (this is a lie) blog.nearzone.com/2024/11/30/p...