Essays

SMS Science moved to here.

SMS Conflict/Abuse Stuff moved to here.

Personal

A lot of my rambling about anthropology, abuse and politics can be browsed in the per-thread tweet archive.

Limbic Spastic
(Sept 2024) My second essay about societal bullying dynamics, about the disgust reaction that’s missing from the average person.

Bullying Doesn’t Stop
(Jun 2024) My first essay about societal bullying dynamics, about the spiraling effect of ostracisation and narrative control.

Thoughts On LGBT
(Aug 2023) A personal reflection on contemporary LGBT topics, particularly pride, queerness and gender ideology.

Keep Talking
(Dec 2022) Thoughts about the role of communication (and lack thereof) in resolving conflict, thru my experience with the SMS community.

Journey Thru The Void
(Dec 2021) A brief sketch of my feelings on handling the Tareq Discord case while enduring ostracisation from SDLL.

Untitled Unmastered
(Oct 2021) A deep exploration into alienation – thru my IRL life history and the roots of my depression, which was tipped over the edge by being thrown out of a friend group in Sept 2021.

2020: A Year In Review
(Jan 2021) A mixed ramble getting at the themes surrounding my life, from when I wasn’t yet irreversibly depressed.

Essays I Like

On Humans

Social Justice And Words, Words, Words by Scott Alexander (2014/07/07)
About linguistic SJWs and the motte-and-bailey fallacy.

What A Woman Is by Aella (2022/04/19)
About the cluster nature of meaning, basing identity on declaration, and the ick.

Jewish settlers stole my house. It’s not my fault they’re Jewish. by Mohammed El-Kurd (2023/09/26)
About semantic violence.

On Kissing And Fucking Your Friends by Ella Yurman (2024/02/18)
About queerplatonic relationships.

On Games

The Pac-Man Dossier by Jamey Pittman (2009/02/03)
I was about 15 when I first read this analysis of Pac-Man’s dynamics, and found it captivating.