SAY "Latter Rain"!! YOU deNSE MOTHERF**KERS!!
SAY "Latter Rain" OR YOUR GODD*MN CROSS GOES ON THE SEPTIC TANK A SECOND TIME!!!

LEARN YOUR FAMILY HISTORY, CONTEXTUALIZE YOUR BELIEFS AND THOSE OF YOUR COUSINS, TAKE AN ACTIVE VIEW AND PERSPECTIVE ON YOUR RELIGION'S LIVING HISTORY,
or I swEAR ON YOUR GOD'S F**KING MOTHER I WILL DO IT---!!!

*clicks to the comments of an article about apocalyptic anti-sociality in USAmerican Evangelical Christianity*

"Not real Christians" "Cherry picking against what Jesus believed" "Not how Christianity SHOULD work" "how they can tead the Gospels and"

YOUR SPIRITUAL COUSINS HAVE A HISTORY AND CONTEXT THAT THEIR INTERPRATIVE SYSTEM AND SYSTEM OF BELIEFS DERIVE FROM
AND YOU ALSO HAVE A HISTORY AND CONTEXT THAT YOUR INTERPRATIVE SYSTEM AND SYSTEM OF BELIEFS DERIVE FROM

for the godd*mn LOVE of GOD

(Is my connection weak somewhere on the network hops or is Icosa going through an Experience.)

Arguably -- contains instructions for self-replicating from an existing one to a different host platform -- this is one of the ideals that CollapseOS is aiming for.

A software philosphy of "Worms Is Better"

(If you just say "well, that's just your posting style -- it's off-meta and not the natural style of the platform" then fine okay, but @gdkar still did it first and better than me.)

I think the person who is best at posting-here -- that is, not "who has the best posts" but who uses the medium and affordances to the maximum possible intent and impact, and fluency, as far as I can tell, to the limits of my own social/platform literacy,
is @futurebird

I am one of the worst posters here, I think.

Not that I'm bad at Posting -- just, I have no intuition or proprioception about Posting HERE, in this space, under this landscape/architecture/rules.

The Post-less Post

(Maybe you'd have a hard time with Hop On Pop, tho.)

Technically any novel can be experimental nonlinear storytelling if you cut out and sew into an ad-hoc binding each chapter, and then toss them onto the coffeetable and pick up one of them at random.

Hm.

Is anyone doing "Index of folk motifs but for stories people tell on the internet"?

Things like:

- recalled childhood media has no records or memories by wider culture (Horse Autopsy, Candle Cove, possible some pieces of The Mandela Effect in general, ...)
- consequent affirmation by assembled crowd ("everybody clapped", <I'm kinda assuming this definitely IS a trope rather than the end-note of a single famous story but like it's TALKED about aa a trope so famously>, ...)
- spontaneous violence by unanticipated passerby (the Down With Cis bus, maybe Richard Spencer Getting Punched is this? (and if so, Carlson too), ...)
- idea is infectuous (multiple copypastas, but also the "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" narrative, ...)
- ...

Like maybe there's not that much and/or every one of them are already in the existing ATU Index for classical folktales but I don't think I'd expect them to be..?

"biblically accurate angels" this, "biblically accurate angels" that, yeah yeah okay honey okay but what about the biblically accurate /angles/ tho.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_pi#Imputed_biblical_value

Like also in a surface-level, "Time"<->"Earth", "Cube"<->"Flat", way, that too.

But also in a way actually engaging with the core motivating themes you can kinda feel driving the whole ideological endeavor.

I feel like, in a meaningful way, Time Cube is the direct ideological opposite to Flat Earth,

(I cannot emphasize enough how much this is practical advice I actively want people to pick up for their own community-navigation, for the social and political ends I expect to come out of it.)

(If you're Jewish this is called "Jewish Geography". I didn't make up the name. If you're queer I've never heard anyone name it (just do it sometimes -- usually incidentally, not systematically), but if you wanna make the name actually make sense you can try calling it "Queer Network Topology" maybe.)

(... if you're doing it as part of trying to build diasporic politics in the global Hacker community, you HAVE to call it "Hacker Network Topology", I think. Or possibly "Wait do we know anyone in common? Can we play Social-BGP for a bit?")

PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR DIASPORIC POLITICS #4318642:

If someone feels familiar to you in the way you are trying to build/live a diaspora around, assume you know-someone-who-knows-someone-who-knows them. If you're having an extended conversation with them, try to figure out what that chain is -- share what places you've known fellow-people in, learn and be interested in what places they've known fellow-people in.

(If you find a chain -- success! you won the game and you have a deeper and more meaningful connection with not just that person but with everyone in the chain.
If you don't find an existing connection -- also success! you didn't win, but now you know someone in a network-location of the diaspora you didn't before, and so will have more directions to play the game in with the next fellow-person you meet.)

Also the "Post-Modem Neo-Luddism" joke that I keep trying to make happen and is clearly just not anyone else's sense of humor is objectively funny, darnit. You all just don't appreciate Art. It's the children who are wrong.

*listening to the recent Spritely Institute talk*
"Wow, nice 'The Thing You Are Supposed To Be Decentralizing Is Power' reference !"