Hot take: The most dangerous word of the last 50 years is “deserve.” It makes tradeoffs feel like injustice, self-denial feel like oppression, and delayed gratification feel like punishment. “Deserve” is how we turn lifestyle preferences into crises and math into outrage.

I’m considering shutting down my Mastodon server (abraham.su). I got serious about Mastodon back during the NoAgendaSOCIAL wave — when it felt like the cool kids had carved out their own corner of the Internet. But after the schisms, shutdowns, and blocklists, it’s mostly quiet news feeds and sporadic connections. It isn’t emotional—just practical. Before I pull the plug or keep it as a “legacy cool thing” with a Soviet TLD, I’d love honest feedback: Is it still worth keeping?

Truth Under Fire: The Framing of Charlie Kirk

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Truth Under Fire: The Framing of Charlie Kirk

In the wake of Charlie’s death, a movement arose—people rediscovering their faith, seeking truth over ideology, and finding the strength to for...

So they may have finally arrested “the pipe bomber” — some guy from Virginia. But let’s be real: the entire internet already decided months ago that it was the mystery Capitol-Hill-adjacent woman in the hoodie, and they’re not letting that go. Once the internet declares its truth, every update becomes “a cover story,” “a distraction,” or “plausible deniability.” Doesn’t matter what press conferences say, who gets cuffed, or what evidence is presented — people believe what they already

Most people close their eyes and get a free IMAX in their head. When I close mine, it’s just black screen, no buffering. That’s aphantasia: I get “picture a red apple” as an idea, but there’s no image. Add SDAM, and my past isn’t a movie, it’s a set of text notes. On the other end of the spectrum is hyperphantasia, where people have Avengers-level CGI in their heads.

Chris Abraham

I learned about Aphantasia from the Netflix TV show Space Force Season 1 Episode 7

I turned 50 in March of this year, 2020, and I had never conceived that I completely lacked a mind

I’m not taking sides, but I keep noticing a pattern. People describe Trump as threatening because he talks about a “vengeance tour,” settling scores for how he was treated in his first term and during the Biden years. Yet many of those same people say that if Democrats win again, they should respond with an even broader revenge effort in reverse—including charges like war crimes or crimes against humanity. I’m not judging anyone; it’s just interesting how each side mirrors the other in intensity

Every man eventually turns the corner and goes from loving Johnny Dollar the most to loving Gunsmoke even more than that.

The head is always enough. But maybe a finger or an ear or an eye. I mean assassins seem to just use their cell phone camera.

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How would one collect the 50 million bucks Maduro reward? You gotta drag the whole carcass to the white house or just the head would be enough? Ask...

Not a democracy.

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I realized today that the whole concept of the vampire—across centuries and even in modern stories like Talamasca—may be built on antisemitic coding: blood libel, the cursed wanderer, the secretive outsider, the one who “feeds” on the host society. I never saw it before, and it genuinely unsettles me. It’s painful to recognize how deeply this old prejudice has been woven into something we thought was just fantasy.