Autumn's Kiss ☯️

Link 👇 archive.is/2026.04.06-100…

@ShakeelHashim Free access 👆🏼

@ShakeelHashim archive.is/2026.04.06-100…

This is a very good, very long piece. Excerpting some of the new/juicy bits (but you should read the whole thing!)

@bryan_johnson Don't die is not an accurate name for your project it's more like 'look how many paid servants it takes to prolong my life a few days longer'

I've instructed my chef to make meals that are exactly 700 calories. But they're more than 700 calories. You know how I know? My resting heart rate is elevated by 3 beats per minute. I'm 1,000+ reps (days) in knowing how food impacts my heart rate.

@aimeeterese Yeah... that was and still is lthe main legitimate counter to #metoo

This is so weird. The woman who allegedly ran her business like a cult is being jailed for nine years. But she didn’t do anything to force anyone to remain in her employment. I don’t understand how this is reasonable… if you can jail people for persuading people to do things they later regret, then it’s open season on calling all regretful sex rape. Or regretted purchases theft. It’s just kind of insane.

@roving_brah You sure are imagining quite the characters! You could open your own eyes, ya know ;)

You gotta be friends with this kind of weirdo. Harmless and capable of interacting with society as a whole normally but still obsessive and strange. They will open your eyes to things you didn’t even know existed/never thought of

Like most people I hate his takes but shagbark really is the type of guy I want to know in real life and have in my friend rolodex. Legitimately interesting character

@yayfor1a Jewish tradition is for that to happen on the 8th day I'm pretty sure, not 6 months

Mom at the park with 6mo: “careful bud!” To me: “he just got circumcised I get nervous for him to fall on his tummy” My urge to ask if she’s Jewish 🙃😫 Stop mutilating babies!!!

@thegenesisbl0ck context matters, he's at an age where he is eating real food & looks like they haven't been there long. So it was not some feeding emergency. And she clearly is ok w her friend/family filming her... so seems more like an example of an exhibitionist fetish than motherly duty

No one consented to seeing your milk engorged boob. You can just put a blanket over and have some dignity.

@shagbark_hick You're just like that dude who joined a monastery and took that selfie w the haircut and glasses. When someone tries so hard to signal to others that they are an original thinker/built different/an iconoclast, etc., it translates as performative BS

It's simple: I fulfill an ancient and largely universal sociological role. When one, over the course of a decidedly strange and unorthodox life, develops a series of ideas and habits that run deeply counter to those of the dominant culture, that person becomes an avatar of unspoken collective resentment against the confines of that dominant culture. Because allegiance to the prevailing social order commands its members to remain silent on their various types of disgruntlement, they are deprived of a normal, civilized outlet for those feelings (frank speech that might lead to "dropping out" or "going rogue"). So they find whichever nonconforming individual is closest at hand -- the more heterodox the better -- and use him as a kind of target. Like drunken peasants beating the village idiot mercilessly in a bloody display of collective existential impotence, the online mob revels in castigating the "weird" one. When he rises to defend himself at all, they furthermore take joy in seeing him who, by his aggression, "proves" that he has brought all of his misfortunes upon himself, and at this, the mob is deeply satisfied. That I furthermore routinely present what are likely annoyingly coherent arguments for why I think and live the way I do -- the vitriol I rouse is all the more intense, for my reasoning for refusing to abide by typical conventions is only rarely unsound. This has a maddening effect on the attacker, and the frenzy he achieves by attacking me gives him (or her) an especially potent form of psychological release. And so as rogues and rabble-rousers go, I might be considered "top shelf" rather than a middling amateur. It's all a bizarre and deeply theatrical display that I have found amusing for many years. I've been the target of this stuff all my life, and because of it, I have developed a deep affinity for creating the most well-reasoned defenses of my ideas that I can possibly generate. I totally revel in making an offensively heterodox argument in the most airtight fashion I can, such that my detractors are totally without a serviceable counterargument, and are therefore reduced to a (very gratifying) sputtering rage. I provide society's rank and file with much-needed catharsis; I am the jester, the Heyoka, the village drunk, the Gypsy on his wagon. Paradoxically, the display that follows me wherever I go actually results in the deepening of social and moral bonds amongst members of the dominant culture! Though I receive no thanks for performing this most essential function. But I don't need any; the show itself is payment enough. And anyway, I am not looking for payment -- I do all of this (only half-consciously, I think) to send a signal out to others like me, that we might find one another in the crowd and someday soon form a band of merry rogues.

@RoguesPhilo Anytime they try to defend themselves against critics, they both pretend they just want to be left alone and let be but in reality their defenses always imply they think they are holier than thou and deserve to be praised for their lifestyle and decisions. It's annoying af

Why the Online Right hates Hickman: Hickman is a folk hero of the bygone, frontier American days when pioneers roamed the earth and braved wild unknowns. American Historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that “the universal disposition of Americans to emigrate to the western wilderness ... is the actual result of an expansive power which is inherent in them". This inner "power" lays dormant within Europeans; it explains the motive of European global conquests. We simply "cannot stop". Our "Faustian spirit" dares us to forever more reach beyond us. The American's inner power manifested into two distinct types — the pioneer (Hickman) and the industrialist (Anon Right). The confrontation between these extreme, opposite types has shaped the soul of America, since our first footsteps on the continent. The pioneer's "faustian spirit" is manifested through the integration and conquest of nature. He is not "LARPing". He is not "running away from Europe". He is not "denying the exceptionalism of Aryan civilization". He is deeply engaged in an ascetic warrior experience where he overcomes the near-insurmountable challenge of survival. He represents an ideal heroic character, a force of pure self-sufficiency. He is a legendary being whose adventures echo forever throughout the halls of history. Can Hickman be said to be the perfect embodiment of the "pioneer warrior"? No. I consistently ridicule him for his refusal to ride a horse into own, or, at the least, get a cart and a mule, or, perhaps a burro! An American adventurer cannot be said to be exceptional without a noble steed — this surely we can all agree upon. It is obvious that Hickman does authentically live some of our unique ritual rites of passage, especially for a Transcendentalist author like Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, or Ralph Waldo Emerson. He wanders through the wild unknowns of rural America, has a deep contemplative connection with nature, and documents his experience, like each writer within the American literary tradition. Perhaps if Hickman was some drug addled upstate New Yorker without ambition like so many are afflicted, we could ridicule him with greater ferocity. And yet, he is self-employed as a writer (something his online anime pfp critics likely dreams of), owns multiple properties, and has a family. Critics may degrade him as a "hobo", and yet he has generated clear wealth from his pioneer travels. To view him as "impoverished" would be incorrect, as he has a clear opportunity to scaffold his internet fame into a book deal or two that could put him several brackets of riches beyond us all. The online right hates Hickman, primarily, because he acts in real life with his face. He does not hide, nor protect his identity. He lives first and writes second. Regardless of your opinion of Hickman's morality, he himself is the embodiment of his ideals. As Marcus Aurelius wrote so eloquently: "Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." In contrast, the Anon believes he embodies the great American industrialist who must "move to the city and retake positions of power". Anyone who denies this exact sentence is labeled a "LARPING grifter" and targeted for immediate destruction. Frederick Jackson Turner wrote of how the industrialists would come after the pioneer to order his land and produce capital surplus. "The men of capital and enterprise come. The settler is ready to sell out and take the advantage of the rise in property, push farther into the interior and become, himself, a man of capital and enterprise in turn. The small village rises to a spacious town or city; substantial edifices of brick, extensive fields, orchards, gardens, colleges, and churches are seen. Broad-cloths, silks, leghorns, crapes, and all the refinements, luxuries, elegancies, frivolities, and fashions are in vogue. Thus wave after wave is rolling westward; the real Eldorado is still farther on." The men of industry must overcome the primitivism of the environment and establish the foundation of civilization. Fundamentally, they are builders. Their herculean aim is to develop tall towers that touch the heavens and reach into the divine. They are magicians who take the raw materials of the Earth and order them in accordance with God's will to create beauty. Frankly, the pioneer and the men of enterprise loathe one another. The industrialist is repulsed by the pioneer's savagery, his total refusal to "play by the rules" and continue to advance European civilization. The pioneer is repulsed by the industrialist's incessant need to "box him in" with the orderliness of civilized life, the world of which he fundamentally rejects as decadent. Why restrict the freedom of the human spirit with all these laws and regulations, burden him down with material goods, and, god forbid, condemn him to such a peasant thing as a job? Disgusting. These contrasting types appear yet again between the "return to the land" vs the "retake positions of power" online right factions. The answer to which type is superior is irrelevant. We can see the debate is the literal foundation of the American identity. it is meant to be revived until the end of the American Empire. Rather than fight, we must simply accept our roles and seek to allow each type to manifest its own, unique superiority. However, I must assert that the Anon Right are not great industrialists, but rather frauds. They post an infinity of epithets all centered upon the notions of "Make America Great Again" and "America First". Yet, when they see a brother move to a rural environment instead of saying the magical words "move to the city and retake positions of power", they cheer for his demise. Any setback Hickman faces from the harsh New York winters to the clothing choice of his wife are immediately ridiculed online, as if to say "Yea, that's what you get for being poor, loser." — there is no virtue in such actions. Much like the Leftist, the Anon Right speaks all the ideals of their movement, and yet he absolutely refuses to see value in his own people. The Anon Right does not like Americans (unless it gets them ad revenue online). They like hiding online, posting pretty Pinterest pictures, and pretending they're winning, while they openly slander their countrymen for the audacity to act in real life. The lesser decry the greater for the crime of being to justify their personal inability. The Anon refuses to Manifest Destiny in real life. The Anon turns his back on tradition and divorces himself from the potential to become heroic. The Anon Right are shaped by daily trends; they have no basis in tradition, nor any responsibility to live with any real consequences of their beliefs. They can simply hide, delete their accounts, or make a new faceless name. There is no commitment, not in the same light as Hickman who must first himself adventure before he writes. The Anon lives a passive existence, vicariously through others. If Hickman didn't exist, the Anon would have nothing to write about. His being is dictated by whatever trend generates him clicks, an identity formed by the herd alone. The anon represents pure quantity a mass without unique character or value beyond the fleeting opinion of the day, whereas Hickman represents the quality of heroic pioneer who has consistently shaped the American identity.

@AudreyHurtburn @Coleidoscopes @_BeeHolder_ Imagine what it must be like at home 🫠

@Coleidoscopes @_BeeHolder_ I think it’s really interesting that as a mother you believe we must give in to our children’s irrational demands. Children do not get to decide choices such as these.

If you don't care about your existing children’s feelings, what business do you have creating more?

@Michaelfiore @resetforimani Yes she will need a mordant so they don't fade right away ;)

@resetforimani I think we will need further evaluation. I’m not an expert at this, but there are also ways to pre-treat the fabric so that the dye absorbs better.

Y’all, my daughter wanted to do an experiment to see which flower makes the best natural dye, and this is so cool! It’s turning out so well. The purple petunia is blowing my mind. Bougainvillea is outstanding also.

@DagoSupremacy @squigglydonut I imagine your wife wishes you stfu sometimes

@squigglydonut 19 is pedophilia now? Also there dozens of them. I only remarked on their attractiveness. Not screwing any of them…I’m a happily married man!

I teach introductory college courses as an adjunct part time. One thing I must note is how attractive your average 19 year old girl is. Even the dogs are kind of hot. Just great.

@orphicresonance She won't be accepted into a first grade program even if she has lost a tooth. And, at that age it's not that early to start losing teeth/a tooth

So if my kid (going on 5) is losing her first tooth (?!) already, does that track with her being ready to start first grade “early”? Can the slightly woo/waldorf parents pls advise

@markcecchini x.com/pikeypilled/st…

at least 12 of my clients have had new babies in the last year 11 / 12 were girls what is going on

@HippyMomPhD Many teachers don't even bother so changing how one interacts w the materials or trying to make it more relevant or meaningful won't help, imo. Goethean phenomenology is a better way for younger students, especially

I wonder if parents hate doing science experiments because they are messy - or because the way they are done isn't valuable? What's the point of another volcano experiment after you've done one - it's not even studying a real volcanic activity. It's a chemical reaction in a volcano shape? The way I use experiments is to bring to life what we are learning but ALSO to teach thinking and reasoning I let kids decide what to do next. How else can we play with these materials? What else can we learn? Maybe parents wouldn't mind doing experiments so much if they had more of a point. What do you think?

Meat Lego Gnosticism 👇

@Coleidoscopes @VeledaNacht Too bad that's how you're choosing to frame your own experience. Thankfully everyone else has the ability to choose their own frames as well

@VeledaNacht Every woman is wrecked by them, but some lie to please their sad male following

I have bulging discs and lost three back teeth. I have to lean to the left a little to fully empty my bladder because something healed crookedly. I have at least two debilitating migraines a year that cause stroke symptoms, which started when I was pregnant with my first. I love my children very much but they wrecked my body in serious ways. You sound childish, unprepared, and ignorant to me when you focus on stretch marks over how you can die.

@dissproportion @Coleidoscopes 🎯

Just as she is unusual for having ten babies without any lasting effects, you're also very unusual for having all those issues. I'm sorry that happened to you, but it isn't typical at all and shouldn't be used to scare people any more than she should be held up to tell people nothing ever goes wrong.

@kenzietuff Growing up it was always the super religious girls who had the slutty reputation bc they would do anal and oral sex so they could still consider themselves virgins 🤣

The Christian female reaction to the wife post from what I have seen thus far has been “your wife was probably a wh0re too!” Really selling the whole Christian wife and family thing. I could not invent a worse pitch for a faith or lifestyle in a lab.