@defaultfriend.bsky.social
big art bell fan. internet culture reporter all over & default.blog
Free access: @defaultfriend.bsky.social on how the manosphere copies 1960s Black masculinity, especially the pimp culture.
Tate himself is a biracial man who grew up in Chicago and Indiana before moving with his English mother to Luton, an infamously rough town.
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This breakdown of the manosphere's pimp culture heritage by @defaultfriend.bsky.social was equal parts fascinating, eye-opening, and depressing. default.blog/p/andrew-tat...
23.01.2026 16:26 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Carmilla is much better than Dracula
12.01.2026 01:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My dad passed away and I miss him so much.
06.01.2026 18:09 β π 13 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
CAE 57 is now out, with the best things I read last month. This month's great pieces include:
- @thelocal.to on a freelancer not being what she seemed
- @rosalindadams.bsky.social on the godmother of weed in NY
- @defaultfriend.bsky.social on how trad culture was never counterculture
& more!
βThe otherworld rewards skilled navigators and destroys the careless: Treasures turn to leaves; fairy wives eventually disappear back home; hubris causes travelers to be lost forever, or worse, to wither and die.β @defaultfriend.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
28.11.2025 20:15 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
βSeeing the internet as a fairyland β an otherworld with its own logic β isnβt about mystifying technology. Itβs about seeing it sharply, as the strange and powerful environment it really is,β Katya Ungerman writes.
28.11.2025 14:34 β π 3 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
"With the internet, we cross a threshold into an otherworld. A.I. is like a creature from the otherworld who crosses into ours."
I love this piece by @defaultfriend.bsky.social about the need for myth to survive the digital age.
Hello from Australia @defaultfriend.bsky.social (video in reply)
28.11.2025 03:39 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
"Finally, Featured Author @defaultfriend.bsky.social makes the case that unlike the βtradβ movement, the next real counterculture will refuse spectacle."
Among this week's Fairer Disputations highlights.
www.gq.com/story/trad-m...
Tune it : )
21.11.2025 02:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
And we're LIVE! Psychedelia and Mormons. The theme is THE GREAT TRIP.
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15ish minutes
07.11.2025 01:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Tonight at 7:30 CT.
Streaming on X, Twitch, and default.blog
Reading this now, highly recommend so far⦠more thoughts when I finish!
05.11.2025 23:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This week's call-in show is a true homage to Bell: GHOST TO GHOST!
default.blog/p/ghost-to-g...
18,000 people tuned inβ¦
24.10.2025 23:20 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
It's in 30...
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Today, for paid subscribers, I explore whether the fact that we talk to our computers, listen to posts, and send endless voice memos matters in the conversation about the end of print culture.
default.blog/p/from-post-...
Today, I wrote about taboos.
default.blog/p/what-is-ta...
everything i've posted here is off the record
22.10.2025 02:49 β π 311 π 30 π¬ 10 π 4
Today, I wrote about taboos.
default.blog/p/what-is-ta...
'The internet changes our sense of who weβre speaking to and how our words land. Until we confront that shift directly, we will keep circling the same argument about whether people βreally mean it."'
@defaultfriend.bsky.social for @politico.com
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
New record traffic on Pre-History of an Encounter!
17.10.2025 17:47 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I haven't! What's it about?
14.10.2025 19:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Today, I continue my techno-mystical adventure by diving head first out of my depth. What if LLMs are djinn?
default.blog/p/llms-as-dj...
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14.10.2025 18:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I expanded on the idea that the Internet is an otherworld and proposed some rules for how to navigate it:
thespectator.com/topic/what-f...
