Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there
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the kids call it "terminally online" but they're terminally online so believe them at your own peril
sep 15, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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sep 12, 2025, 4:40 pm • 2 1 • view
American Muslim communities had to do performative intervention because the feds were just WORRIED that their kids would be targeted for radicalization. Meanwhile white suburbanites just get to throw up their hands and say "Oh well! What can we possibly do? It's the guns!"
sep 12, 2025, 5:53 pm • 9 2 • view
This is true, and it's a function of affirmative, gleeful nihilism and toxic irony. It's "just a joke bro" with bullets.
sep 13, 2025, 5:29 am • 0 0 • view
In ~2008 people on 4chan /b/ would constantly joke about Seung-Hui Cho's high score and trying to beat it. This is pre-Gamergate, pre/early-Obama, the Pepe the Frog meme was "feels good man". This was the vibe of that dialog. Most didn't take it seriously to bring into real life even as a joke.
sep 13, 2025, 5:46 am • 1 0 • view
Parents give their kids the phone at a year old to keep them busy. There's really no oversight anymore. The TV used to babysit your children now a computer babysits your children with a whole lot more information. I wonder when they'll go back to parents babysitting their children.
sep 12, 2025, 4:56 pm • 2 1 • view
Parents can’t afford to do that. They have to work to keep their homes
sep 12, 2025, 5:26 pm • 1 0 • view
I was a single parent and I managed to do it
sep 12, 2025, 5:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Seconded. People *really* need to focus more on the ideological aspect of the problem.
sep 13, 2025, 12:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Like sorry I'm not surprised a perpetually online weird guy with the capacity for violence, focused his eye on another perpetually online weird guy who perpetuated that very violence. 🤷♀️🤷♀️
sep 12, 2025, 4:17 pm • 4 0 • view
It's Like they Are Creating A Narrative To Enable them To Control The Internet, Thereby The Flow Of Information. But they Would *Never* Do That, Would they?
sep 13, 2025, 3:00 am • 0 0 • view
It's like the cyber version of Lord of the Flies. All these terminally alone wannabe edgelords who find refuge in niche Internet forums where they hide behind avatars and irony. Undisturbed by 'civilisation'.
sep 12, 2025, 5:12 pm • 4 0 • view
It's pretty much exactly like that, and being 'above it all' while laying in the shit of it fosters a sense of belonging there. And by and large, even heavy internet users kind of want to dance around the edges of this being the dynamic cause they're online 8-10 hours a day too.
sep 12, 2025, 6:55 pm • 3 0 • view
Exactly! Well said.
sep 12, 2025, 8:40 pm • 1 0 • view
in a 27 hr day i spend 25 online .
sep 12, 2025, 5:44 pm • 1 0 • view
sep 12, 2025, 5:10 pm • 4 0 • view
Everyone keeps searching for an answer that isn’t the plain truth: MAGA are violent extremists. MAGA is a cancer on our society. Everything else is a byproduct of that.
sep 12, 2025, 4:50 pm • 9 1 • view
Honestly, a lot of this is about the world, not individuals. It is harder than ever to socialize irl as a young person because third spaces keep being eliminated and those that remain are unaffordable in our current economy. Young people today struggle to find community.
sep 12, 2025, 5:43 pm • 1 0 • view
sep 12, 2025, 6:15 pm • 1 0 • view
I swear, guns had nothing to do with it.
sep 15, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Why am I feeling attacked?
sep 12, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Ah. Yes Friday. Good day to catch a killer. He looks like another Luigi. Go to prison be a star and have sex with/men. Patriarchy Militarism Capitalism White Supremacy Is the cause and effect of Everytime.
sep 12, 2025, 4:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Bye!
sep 12, 2025, 4:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Good journalism.
sep 12, 2025, 4:29 pm • 0 0 • view
"You made such a good point, it makes me look bad; please leave."
sep 13, 2025, 2:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Please convince Trump of this and get the Internet finally shut down.
sep 12, 2025, 10:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep. They're all staying home, not dealing with reality. Here's a troubling development: "The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) has warned that about 378 pubs will close this year across England, Wales and Scotland..." -LBC
sep 12, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Don't worry, AI won't make this worse
sep 13, 2025, 1:08 am • 2 0 • view
Lemme get it straight: Assassin dumps gun AT THE MURDER SCENE. Drives 300 miles through UT desert to dad’s house. Then goes online and posts on Discord that he has to retrieve his murder gun which he left at the crime scene. #charliekirk #TylerRobinson
sep 12, 2025, 6:59 pm • 0 1 • view
I mean, it's not like they're trying to make the computer an EVEN BIGGER part of our lives!
sep 12, 2025, 11:15 pm • 0 0 • view
We must kill the computer
sep 12, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Have you noticed that the mass shootings apologists stopped blaming video games around the same time the gamer to far right pipeline was widely talked about?
sep 12, 2025, 5:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Lots of On the Computer All the Time lads (sorry to be sexist, but there it is) in the UK too. Very few guns, however.
sep 12, 2025, 7:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Tyler Robinson wasn't radicalized by video games and computers. He almost certainly became a lunatic because of guys like Nick Fuentes.
sep 12, 2025, 7:12 pm • 1 0 • view
it's not like they are making more interwebs every day
sep 12, 2025, 4:20 pm • 4 0 • view
Or maybe, everybody is one the computer all the time nowadays 🤷🏻♀️
sep 12, 2025, 7:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Also have more & easy access to u know those things that are loud and spit lead. But yeah electronics
sep 13, 2025, 1:29 am • 0 0 • view
No guns, fewer problems.
sep 12, 2025, 5:39 pm • 1 1 • view
I think that might be more correlation than causation. Who isn't on the computer all the time now days? I mean, I think it is unhealthy and we need to go out and touch grass more, I've been working it into my routine for one, but I am also saying we're not all running around doing horrible things.
sep 12, 2025, 11:18 pm • 2 0 • view
I agree with this. It's the same as reading meaning into the fact they're all gamers. Gaming is so utterly ubiquitous now that it just doesn't carry any meaning.
sep 12, 2025, 11:38 pm • 2 0 • view
IDK, I feel this is not "the computer" bc I've been "On the Computer" since 1997, and lived "In my Computer" since 2001, and I don't even own a sword. Fuck, my Livejournal can legally drink next summer.
sep 15, 2025, 11:10 pm • 0 0 • view
They’re definitely not reading books! 🙄
sep 13, 2025, 1:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm just very worried right now about the nation overreacting to the events of the last few days by trying to restrict young white straight conservative men's access to guns.
sep 12, 2025, 4:32 pm • 31 5 • view
Exactly! We mustn't let victims of shootings emotionally hijack the narrative to promote gun control! it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.
sep 12, 2025, 5:06 pm • 10 0 • view
Does this mean RFK Jr. was finally right about something?
sep 12, 2025, 5:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Student in school researches about teenager phone use to get data to use to support his stance that the cell phone policy is crap. The states pulled are that 95% have access to a smartphone, and 97% use them during school. And then some other horrible number about usage after midnight. 😭
sep 12, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
sep 12, 2025, 7:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah this was my singularity moment, where their onlineness has surpassed my ability to understand what they're referring to.
sep 12, 2025, 5:19 pm • 1 0 • view
😂😂😂😂
sep 12, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Seems they are radicalized online
sep 12, 2025, 6:51 pm • 0 0 • view
My algorithm has instantly adjusted to denounce your blasphemy 😳
sep 12, 2025, 4:43 pm • 1 0 • view
fortunatly everything on the net is vetted, truthful and encourages civilized behavior towards others
sep 12, 2025, 9:55 pm • 0 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/figh...
sep 13, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Turns out if someone listens to these crazy right wing people who constantly say that this latest outrage is a reason to kill the people you hate, that someone might just do that.
sep 12, 2025, 6:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Faux 🦊 news (propaganda show) has done even more damage!
sep 12, 2025, 5:24 pm • 1 1 • view
Many young people learn to hate from their dumbass parents
sep 12, 2025, 5:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Esp since the shooting was aired all across the internet!
sep 12, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe somebody is 3D printing them.
sep 12, 2025, 10:00 pm • 0 0 • view
even eric harris and dylan klebold were very online. they had AOL websites, made DOOM mods, and there's extensive chat logs of theirs in the columbine files. it's all a very accurate snapshot of the online underground circa 1999
sep 13, 2025, 12:54 am • 0 0 • view
Who would’ve thought turning twitter into an alt-right cesspool would have consequences in real life???
sep 12, 2025, 4:23 pm • 3 0 • view
I certainly hope there wasn't any worldwide events in the last few years that had most people only on the computer all the time and not having social interactions
sep 12, 2025, 5:33 pm • 1 1 • view
Anna!! Are you a #xennial ?!?! I’m trying to find my people!!
sep 13, 2025, 4:52 am • 0 0 • view
This is wild. Anyone understanding what you’re saying? I don’t.
sep 12, 2025, 8:58 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't accept the characterization.
sep 15, 2025, 11:10 pm • 0 0 • view
:(
sep 12, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
I would love to see all of his social media.
sep 12, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
maybe they're reading articles penned by amazing journalists.
sep 12, 2025, 4:02 pm • 2 0 • view
There actually isn't. Every mass shooter is more online than the next because more people are online more than the previous day. Your biases are showing.
sep 12, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 0 • view
More time on the computer than they spend touching grass means being online becomes their reality and real people become NPCs.
sep 12, 2025, 11:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Translation: Bye bye empathy
sep 12, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Everyone is even more "on the computer all the time" than the previous one.
sep 12, 2025, 9:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm online like constantly and I don't shoot people. I think it's the specific spaces they're in. A combo of terrorgram grooming and right wing grooming I think.
sep 12, 2025, 4:05 pm • 106 6 • view
It's called radicalization. It usually involves taking a vulnerable person who has beliefs aligned with the group and slowly encouraging them to believe more extreme things. Eventually they get them to a point where they see their opponents as an existential threat. That's when the violence happens
sep 12, 2025, 5:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Suburban kids are susceptible to the fascists/nihilists because they're usually in a conservative environment concerned about loss of class or privilege. They believe change is bad and "Others" are a threat. A lack of in-person community makes it's easy for recruiters to isolate them mentally.
sep 12, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes. Terrorgram and rightwing ideological grooming is a form of radicalization.
sep 12, 2025, 5:59 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm saying the term is radicalization. We have specific terminology to refer to this phenomenon. We should use it, especially because we only see "radicalization" used in reference to Islamic terrorist groups. But it's the same process that the far right American groups use.
sep 12, 2025, 6:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Same here. I'm disabled and can't drive so almost all of my social life is online.
sep 12, 2025, 5:50 pm • 4 0 • view
All of them sure seem deeply irony poisoned, in a way that some leftists also are, and tbh those are a kind of people who are physically exhausting to engage with. I don’t think that isn’t part of it
sep 13, 2025, 1:01 pm • 1 0 • view
You’re missing the fact that there are corners of the internet strategically set up to cultivate extremists. Many by foreign adversaries, primarily Russia.
sep 12, 2025, 6:25 pm • 0 0 • view
That's actually what I'm talking about.
sep 12, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Ah, my mistake. I read that as off line spaces, like the “militias” where they can cosplay as soldiers. Also not helping, but I think the inline spaces are looking for a particular target that is alone and able to be destabilized further.
sep 12, 2025, 6:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep, the loneliness and lack of community that the right fosters is a big part of it.
sep 12, 2025, 6:55 pm • 1 0 • view
I like to drink occasionally, and would never endorse prohibition, but can fully recognize that alcoholism is a serious societal problem we need to do more about. Same principle.
sep 12, 2025, 5:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep. There's room for regulation. But I think people aren't really engaging with root causes of these problems. The lack of proper in-person community is a huge one. The proliferation of right wing ideology is another one.
sep 12, 2025, 5:16 pm • 5 0 • view
Easy access to guns is part of it but it isn't the main problem and just targeting access to guns without addressing the bigger problems isn't actually going to solve the problem at all and will make other problems get much much worse.
sep 12, 2025, 5:16 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm all in favor of gun control. But no more exceptions. It has to apply to law enforcement and rich people too. When rich white people and the police have to give up their tactical rifles, then and ONLY then will I do the same.
sep 12, 2025, 5:16 pm • 2 0 • view
As you can see by my chart, since the invention of video games, the number of shooters who've played them has gone up. Obviously there is a link and not just how things work. We also found evidence that since the first showing of Shrek 2, shooters who've seen the film have precipitously risen.
sep 13, 2025, 11:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Policymakers, quick, release a statement about how being online is danger … oh what’s that … nvm, looks like tech corporations won’t allow this.
sep 12, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
totally true. @ellereeve.bsky.social's book Black Pill was an eye opening read for me. This is a tiny thing, but I wonder what computer/phone/laptop devices these guys favor. Like, are they laptopping 8 hours a day? tablet, phone? just trying to imagine the room this shooter spent all that time.
sep 12, 2025, 4:37 pm • 2 1 • view
Not a gamer myself but the handful of teenage gamers i know invest in their rigs, brag about them, multi screens, lots of bandwidth etc. immersive setups that push constant distraction and reaction rather than introspection.
sep 13, 2025, 12:59 am • 1 0 • view
agreed. I guess I'm trying to check my assumptions. what does a the life around a "terminally online" person born in 2002 look like these days. obviously, everything is in our pocket 24/7 and 2nd and 3rd screen consumption is normal. gaming I get. curious about the media consumption hours.
sep 13, 2025, 6:29 pm • 1 0 • view
and here we are...
sep 12, 2025, 7:05 pm • 0 0 • view
I think its more about disaffected youth with no future because of what old people did to the world. Being online is kind of just what all people do now
sep 12, 2025, 7:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Social media can be the demise of the society. We will end going back to our business. We forgot we can do things for other IN PERSON, to help others. Meta is turning social media into a cancer of societies.
sep 13, 2025, 7:41 pm • 0 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/igno...
sep 13, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m having an easier time parsing Python responses while teaching myself computer programming than I do parsing what was on that bullet.
sep 12, 2025, 4:13 pm • 4 0 • view
***puts down phone and quietly backs away*** 😜
sep 12, 2025, 5:50 pm • 2 0 • view
sep 12, 2025, 6:45 pm • 0 0 • view
feels bad
sep 12, 2025, 4:04 pm • 3 0 • view
There's also something to the point that all these lone shooters are fondest of online multiplayer games.
sep 12, 2025, 3:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I think what bothers me the most is that they are "followers" of one lunatic or another. This Tyler Robinson is said to have been a "follower" of Nick Fuentes. Some other lunatic is a "follower" of Kirk... I'm 75, so it may be why I don't get it, but I have never been a "follower" of anything.
sep 12, 2025, 6:07 pm • 5 0 • view
It seems they are abdicating their thinking to someone else, and surely that can't be good.
sep 12, 2025, 6:07 pm • 5 0 • view
It's what ideologies do. Stop people thinking.
sep 12, 2025, 6:18 pm • 3 0 • view
You can raise your kids or YouTube can, and many parents are failing that test.
sep 12, 2025, 4:34 pm • 0 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/rodh...
sep 12, 2025, 4:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Dune is the ultimate utopian novel because computers were replaced with drugs that let you travel space and see the future
sep 12, 2025, 3:59 pm • 24 2 • view
Suddenly reminded of my youth of farmers-field raves Sadly now those drugs are only available if you’re a poreless VC creep
sep 12, 2025, 9:34 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m sure we’ve hit a limit. The next one can’t be more Computer than this
sep 12, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
sep 12, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Sure, just as every victim of a mass shooting is. Don’t go searching for hidden causes when there is a definite cause in full view.
sep 12, 2025, 6:21 pm • 0 0 • view
This is so very much like blaming it on video games. Essentially the same. When it's just the same sort of hatemongering that motivated the Klan. Long before video games. That motivated those angry white women screaming at Ruby Bridges. Same thing. Not computers. White supremacy.
sep 12, 2025, 4:36 pm • 6 0 • view
And the internet is where the hate is being mongered, at an accelerated rate and reach
sep 12, 2025, 5:02 pm • 6 0 • view
Plus this guy was from a family who wanted internet fame based on their display of guns. Harmless fun lighten up!
sep 12, 2025, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Screen time & computer panic is at the levels of the Satanic Panic. Soon there will be chick tracts about using your computer to pay your bills turning an innocent person into Rambo vs the schoolhouse. I spend more time on line than any shooter , and the only thing I killed is a level 4 mimic
sep 12, 2025, 5:46 pm • 0 0 • view
why can't guys on the computer simply be normal and cool like me???
sep 12, 2025, 4:15 pm • 49 1 • view
I've got some bad news, brother.
sep 12, 2025, 4:21 pm • 25 0 • view
Gonna be real peachy when dudes have AR glasses on and get real-time hate and kill instructions fed to them for people they see
sep 12, 2025, 4:38 pm • 2 0 • view
kids need to touch grass & get hugs from their parents on the regular. in this house, responsibilities for living things (pets & plants) are emphasized & device time is clocked. im a cruel parent, i know.
sep 12, 2025, 5:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Charlie Kirk..... in his own words ~ "Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, it's an initiation..." Not sure why people are so bent out of shape. Seems like he got what he wanted. www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...
sep 13, 2025, 10:56 am • 0 0 • view
everyone is more on the computer all the time
sep 12, 2025, 4:20 pm • 13 0 • view
offline's too expensive
sep 12, 2025, 10:07 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m on the computer exactly the right amount personally 🫠
sep 12, 2025, 4:21 pm • 31 1 • view
Work = computer / phone time Free time = no computer / very little phone But I game like an old man on a conole, so ymmv
sep 12, 2025, 4:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Gaming is being on computer lol
sep 12, 2025, 6:13 pm • 2 0 • view
no it really isn't but you do you boo. I also don't EVER use comms on xbox.
sep 12, 2025, 6:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Lol oh, so you do online gaming on Xbox ? How long you've been doing it because I remember COD lobbies have the same experience as being on a computer.
sep 12, 2025, 6:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, you mute and don't use a headset. Halo lobbies used to be insanesly hellish so I gave that up long ago. Yes a console is a computer by a different name. Gaming is gaming and it covers all modes. Console, handheld, computer.
sep 12, 2025, 6:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Like it's fine, its just weird to be I don't use the computer, I just use a different computer. Maybe you're being sarcastic and I just didn't get it.
sep 12, 2025, 6:29 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't even know. I don't think I was being sarcastic.
sep 12, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view
All these mass shooters seem to be spending a lot more time playing video games too.
sep 12, 2025, 6:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Too online is definitely the default mode for da utes
sep 12, 2025, 6:38 pm • 1 0 • view
sep 12, 2025, 6:19 pm • 1 0 • view
And yet they behave almost exactly like the mass shooters of old (fuck, what a phrase) going back to the turn of the 20th century or earlier!!!!
sep 12, 2025, 4:04 pm • 45 2 • view
we're at a much higher frequency rate per capita though, I believe.
sep 12, 2025, 4:05 pm • 33 0 • view
One difference about Utah is that it didnt involve an AR-15 (or like) or other weapon that would've been blocked by the assault weapon ban.
sep 12, 2025, 4:19 pm • 2 0 • view
This was also not a mass shooting!
sep 12, 2025, 4:21 pm • 7 0 • view
Sorry good point, thank you
sep 12, 2025, 4:21 pm • 6 0 • view
The speed of proliferation is so damn alarming
sep 12, 2025, 4:17 pm • 15 1 • view
Idiocracy
sep 12, 2025, 5:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, because the internet has increased the speed and the scale of the rhetorical messaging that directs stochastic attacks such as these
sep 12, 2025, 4:18 pm • 23 0 • view
This is all deliberate but the people directing these attacks are predictably losing control of their messaging
sep 12, 2025, 4:18 pm • 23 1 • view
Social media was a grave mistake, and the even graver mistake is parents now knowing anything about it and just letting their kids drift into it
sep 12, 2025, 6:24 pm • 5 0 • view
Great point! I am guessing that research bears this out. Oh, that's right, they don't believe in any stinkin' research under this administration. That requires data and science, and they definitely don't believe in that!
sep 13, 2025, 5:01 am • 0 0 • view
Guns plus online addiction is a deadly combination
sep 12, 2025, 5:38 pm • 1 0 • view
wait until their only friend is # GROK
sep 12, 2025, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Algorithms to addict people to extreme content.
sep 12, 2025, 6:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Good thing we are rushing unregulated AI bots. That will fix it
sep 12, 2025, 7:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Would Christchurch be the start of this acceleration of online poisoning?
sep 12, 2025, 3:58 pm • 7 0 • view
Maybe even Anders Breivik
sep 12, 2025, 4:02 pm • 16 0 • view
The real question is did he have an AI waifu?
sep 12, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
sep 12, 2025, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
To wit
sep 12, 2025, 4:00 pm • 343 35 • view
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sep 13, 2025, 5:12 am • 0 0 • view
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sep 12, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly right
sep 12, 2025, 4:02 pm • 60 0 • view
Perhaps, famous arson punishment should be the choice/ Erase actual names. Remove the incetive :P
sep 12, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Are there any good solutions to this problem? Genuinely curious. Bigger focus on anti-radicalisation and being source-critical/factchecking in schools/the media? (Also gun ban, but the outliers remain...)
sep 12, 2025, 4:40 pm • 16 0 • view
I'd say an increase in safe gun storage would be helpful too—for lots of folks the easy access can make escalating to that (toward themselves or others) easier. Gun lockers, safety classes, things like that. Definitely beat paired with other things, though, since it doesn't address the core issue
sep 12, 2025, 4:51 pm • 43 0 • view
During my lifetime there has been more terrorists in Norway than ever before (not a historian so might be somewhat wrong here - point is, there are more now), even in a country with no guns. Wonder what the breaking point into violent radicalism is... nihilism? Performative suicide?
sep 12, 2025, 4:59 pm • 22 1 • view
Belief that nothing matters, not even themselves?
sep 12, 2025, 4:59 pm • 16 1 • view
Fear of not mattering, maybe. Psychosis mixed with low selfesteem and narcissism?
sep 12, 2025, 5:21 pm • 2 0 • view
I remember someone talking about mass shooters here a few weeks ago and he said it came down to four things: - suicidality (desire to commit suicide) - rage - isolation - access to guns
sep 12, 2025, 5:18 pm • 44 4 • view
Yes, so based on an analysis of mass shooters, the profile is white, male, and suicidal.
sep 12, 2025, 5:45 pm • 1 0 • view
The rest is important to: there's a difference between the white male suicide who does it quietly in a hotel room bathtub, who jumps in front of a train, and who decides to also kill 20 other people. What differentiates public vs private? What differentiates public kills-only-self vs. mass murder?
sep 12, 2025, 5:54 pm • 1 0 • view
I am just quoting research analysis for top profiling characteristics. Last seminar I attended did not have verified data on the others; although, I highly suspect access to guns is spot on.
sep 12, 2025, 5:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Characteristics of perpetrators of mass shootings continue to remain consistent. Across the newest included cases (2023 to present), the majority of offenders were male (92.6%) and White (55.6%). When do we address the White, male, cis, right-wing threat to safety? rockinst.org/blog/reintro...
sep 12, 2025, 5:21 pm • 38 6 • view
Def a culture problem, expecially since their parents could see an ad with a well pictured rifle saying”your man card is here”, and american culture is not robust enough to have much of a counterpoint without a good person to deliver it. (Also missing from much of the country)
sep 12, 2025, 5:50 pm • 15 0 • view
Definitely. But some of the shooter's "ideology" is shared by young men all over the world, voting in far right parties in every government. Not convinced they're missing male role models. Most men are able to find non-violent tolerant role models.
sep 12, 2025, 6:03 pm • 10 0 • view
Leaving out the obvious : - Ostracization - Bullying / mistreatment - Abuse / abandonment - Corrupt administrations and 'leaders' ignoring complaints and allowing the above to happen.
sep 12, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Want to add being taught that violence is a solution to their rage.
sep 12, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Isolation is a big one, but I think also, our youth doesn’t see a future for themselves. Especially now.
sep 13, 2025, 12:04 pm • 0 0 • view
It's in that orbit, but there's an element of 'everything is a big fucking joke because it has no meaning' to it. It's kind of frustrating to absolutely get it and tell people it's a close sibling but not identical and they proceed anyway to rudderless colloquial nihilism that they also...
sep 12, 2025, 6:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Think they have a silver bullet for, maybe cause they're also online and joke around a bit, but like, no, you don't get it nearly enough to think there's a quick and easy way to figure and solve it.
sep 12, 2025, 6:03 pm • 1 0 • view
A starting point would be Trump. But there's no one in the media or his administration that will hold his feet to the fire. He alone has the power to turn this down several degrees, and refuses. Instead we have the New York Times writing about why the left is the problem.
sep 13, 2025, 1:11 am • 0 0 • view
You ain't ready for the real answer. That answer being no, even if you take away guns acts of terrorism will still happen. It might drive down mundane gun violence, but someone who has convinced themselves into becoming a martyr or a monster will not be so easily deterd.
sep 13, 2025, 7:04 am • 0 0 • view
There was a reason I wrote "outliers remain".
sep 13, 2025, 11:17 am • 0 0 • view
Universal basic income healthcare housing and gun laws
sep 12, 2025, 7:30 pm • 3 0 • view
The article points to how we’ve handled a similarly spread problem in the past with ISIS related accounts and Internet groups as a way to diminish them
sep 12, 2025, 5:03 pm • 4 0 • view
Thank you for taking the time to answer my dumb comment, should've read the article first. Will do now!! :))
sep 12, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view
We allegedly have this global surveillance panopticon that is so good and yet we can’t infiltrate/monitor/arrest these antisocial freaks? They’re operating (mostly) on a public company’s chat service ffs. Either I am being lied to about the panopticon or the people in power want this.
sep 12, 2025, 5:17 pm • 2 0 • view
And both are equally likely.
sep 12, 2025, 5:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Regulate social media so they cant just fan the flames of peoples discontentment. But that probably wont happen for another 10 years at this rate.
sep 12, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
The fundamental thing that the media and the online fails to do is simple. Mock these pathetic freaks for what they are. Mock them, relentlessly. These asocial spineless freaks would NOT want to do something that gets not outrage, but just be seen as pathetic.
sep 13, 2025, 3:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I think something that doesn't get connected to this a lot is how our society is pretty fractured and a lot of that is due to social isolation which in turn is due a lot to the way we've built our cities. It's easy to be extremely online if you grow up in an isolated cul de sac with nothing to do
sep 12, 2025, 4:58 pm • 9 0 • view
Absolutely. Small communities and towns in Norway are struggling too, describing ghost towns with two abandoned and one working mall. Infrastructure, community, hope, belief in self and future - it all battles the nihilism of not mattering as everything, every chance, passes by.
sep 12, 2025, 5:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Not while the current policy makers refuse to look the problem in the face and instead choose to weaponise every attack for political gains.
sep 12, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Online moderation needs to be completely overhauled Deplatforming extremists has a measured, positive, effect on radicalization. Stricter gun laws will help And obviously a healthier society with free access to Healthcare, housing, basic needs, etc will make people less vulnerable to influence
sep 12, 2025, 5:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Looking forward to Radioheads new album, "OK Computer, what the fuck!"
sep 12, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 0 • view
The more mass shootings there are, the more mass shootings there will be. Malcom Gladwell explained the phenomenon: www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
sep 12, 2025, 5:12 pm • 0 0 • view
We should probably continue to trust the dude bros with regulating their platforms themselves, as well as fixing elections
sep 12, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm curious to know if he was chatting with AI at all. There are some disturbing trends there too.
sep 12, 2025, 4:52 pm • 5 0 • view
Don’t need to chat with AI when you can be in a discord group with a bunch of people telling you to go for it
sep 12, 2025, 5:05 pm • 4 0 • view
Sure, that's the old fashioned way, but AI chat is the new way to mainline radical disconnection from reality.
sep 12, 2025, 5:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Ikr?
sep 12, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
But also, here it comes, every other nation faces this same problem but they simply don’t have America’s Arsenal to turn violent ideation into a reality. It’s still the guns, always the guns.
sep 12, 2025, 7:37 pm • 2 0 • view
I did a research project on the negative impacts of social media for a social psychology course back in 2015. It's only gotten exponentially worse since then.
sep 12, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
we need to make sure they never log off! it is the only way to keep us all safe!!!
sep 12, 2025, 9:25 pm • 1 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/10-5...
sep 12, 2025, 5:20 pm • 5 1 • view
We gotta ban guns or ban computers, one's gotta go sorry America
sep 12, 2025, 8:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Repeat after me "social media was a mistake. especially for developing minds."
sep 12, 2025, 7:18 pm • 1 0 • view
At least we don't have a lot of people with easy access to guns spending a lot of time online. Otherwise this might turn into a big problem.
sep 12, 2025, 4:18 pm • 12 0 • view
And its a good thing all they share is self help advise, and not degrading each other to see who loads up next
sep 12, 2025, 5:45 pm • 2 0 • view
No deal was struck with TikTok, and the 90 day reprieve ran out weeks ago.....
sep 12, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Imma go give my two cents as a person that grew up somewhere else during childhood. Guns were reserved for the bad guys and the guys keeping safe from those bad guys. Of course there are many arguments against it but my point being is we didn't see guns as a society norm. 1/2
sep 12, 2025, 5:49 pm • 1 0 • view
I was taught how to butcher animals as a young kid. From chickens to fish to cleaning pigs and sheep. One at a time. With care. With gratitude. With knowing we're not killing another one for a while. Survival and consumerism wrapped into thinking we need to do certain things. You desensitize 2/3
sep 12, 2025, 5:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Children from animals that's the number #1 red flag. I'm not advocating to be vegan I'm not. But I do believe the way in which we consume has created a predator. Two facts remain Mostly men Mostly white Life is life. And this is not a prolife argument. On the contrary. We reproduce just because lol
sep 12, 2025, 5:56 pm • 1 0 • view
sep 12, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Also a lot of them seem to be Republican men who violently hate others. Pretty sure there’s a trend there. Maybe something to consider when voting in the midterms.
sep 12, 2025, 7:15 pm • 0 0 • view
When I was a kid and most of my antagonists were jocks who called me unpleasant slurs because I read books all the time, I bloviated often on the theme, “if people stayed at home and read more, we’d have less violence. Who needs sports and physical exertion anyway?” 1/
sep 13, 2025, 7:49 am • 0 0 • view
I didn’t fully feel or know the ravages of depression when I was that age, and consequently had no idea what benefits putting down a book or walking away from a computer (which we didn’t have when I was a kid, anyway) and getting on a bike, walking, etc, could have for depression 2/
sep 13, 2025, 7:49 am • 0 0 • view
I was a very messed up 21 year old when my mother died, and I never processed the benefit that being a bike messenger had where the brain chemistry of exercise needed to deliver stuff was concerned. It wasn’t until I got hit by a car and my bike was out of commission that I got it: 3/
sep 13, 2025, 7:49 am • 0 0 • view
exercising vigorously every day staved off not only depression, but also corralled the wacko and deranged thoughts that can run untrammeled in the brain when one reads, thinks, and feels a LOT AND vigorous exercise also fights insomnia, more often than not 4/
sep 13, 2025, 7:49 am • 0 0 • view
But it wasn’t until the pandemic in 2020 and my only escape from work was the diet 20+ mile rides that I understood what the Greeks, the Romans, the Irish, and countless more cultures got — you can’t just study in isolation — you have to do something physically vigorous to stay centered and sane 5/5
sep 13, 2025, 7:49 am • 0 0 • view
Every kid is on the computer all the time. And judging by this place most media adults are too.
sep 12, 2025, 6:48 pm • 0 0 • view
It's almost like all of our tech and VC billionaires are merchants of terrorism
sep 12, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view
It takes a village, eh?
sep 12, 2025, 6:59 pm • 1 0 • view
It's fine. Being very online allows them to 'do their own research'. This is all fine!
sep 12, 2025, 11:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe the problem isn’t the computer but rather the things the computer shows us. This is a brutal world.
sep 13, 2025, 12:47 am • 0 0 • view
Especially not when the media focuses more on the shooters than the survivors. It's not like that encourages things at all. *Rolls eyes in disgust.*
sep 12, 2025, 8:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Not just that, but if you look at their activity, they are on VERY toxic forums.
sep 12, 2025, 6:53 pm • 0 0 • view
The internet has given all the weird and angry kids a place to meet up and plan shit
sep 15, 2025, 11:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Something to prepare for: he is currently being interrogated by a justice department controlled by trump who would very much like him to confess to a particular motivation and has been willing to cut corrupt deals.
sep 12, 2025, 4:48 pm • 1 2 • view
And Maggots wanted him hung, lynched, tortured - IF he had been a leftist - meaning non-maggot!
sep 12, 2025, 6:01 pm • 1 0 • view
sep 12, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Small point but I don't think one shot one kill is a mass shooter
sep 12, 2025, 5:13 pm • 5 1 • view
Yes, my thoughts exactly
sep 12, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
it literally is not the video games. this has been studied. it is not being online that is the problem. it's the places online where people are drawn into. that confirm their worst demons. and feeling that, build them. like x. normal people are online all the time and it doesn't make them worse
sep 12, 2025, 6:44 pm • 4 0 • view
**checks screen time ** EGADS!!! **looks around the house for guns and imagery glorifying guns** 👀 nope **goes back to screen**
sep 12, 2025, 6:05 pm • 3 0 • view
Ah as long as its just the phones we'll be fine then.
sep 13, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
AI will truly help....oh no
sep 12, 2025, 5:15 pm • 1 0 • view
everyone is on the computer you know what they all have in common???? whispering they all drink even quieter now water, don't tell anyone
sep 13, 2025, 8:15 am • 0 0 • view
i think we need a total and complete shutdown of computer until we can figure out what the hell is going on
sep 12, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/ever...
sep 13, 2025, 7:31 am • 0 0 • view
Mass shooter One person was killed, isn't that a murder? Are we mix-matching definitions? This was one person shooting one person That's the textbook definition of alleged murder The shooter might have had political motives, or personal motives It wasn't a conspiracy or endorsed by Democrats
sep 12, 2025, 5:36 pm • 2 0 • view
Is it too late to back up to the 1995 Internet?
sep 12, 2025, 5:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Well it’s good that we aren’t doing something crazy like training computers on all the bullshit everyone puts online.
sep 13, 2025, 5:35 am • 1 0 • view
The best thing about social media is having people argue with you for hours about something you instantly forgot you typed as an acrid little joke
sep 12, 2025, 6:22 pm • 339 16 • view
Humor has now lost out to the instant need to be right about everything.. I search the internet all day looking for recipes vs I search the internet all day in a blind rage looking to blame all my problems on someone else and feel morally superior at the same time.
sep 12, 2025, 7:10 pm • 4 0 • view
To be fair, that did not read as a joke lol. My condolences.
sep 13, 2025, 11:36 pm • 0 0 • view
post baking, we can argue btwn “looks delicious” and “looks really delicious”
sep 12, 2025, 6:29 pm • 19 0 • view
TIL the word acrid
sep 12, 2025, 9:35 pm • 1 0 • view
😭😭😭 solidarity in the struggle ✊🏻♥️
sep 12, 2025, 8:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Also very rarely college educated.
sep 12, 2025, 5:53 pm • 1 0 • view
AI
sep 15, 2025, 10:59 pm • 0 0 • view
As are we all, to be fair.
sep 13, 2025, 2:44 am • 0 0 • view
all on the same sites all of the time as all the other shooters, wonder if we should notice that.
sep 12, 2025, 4:18 pm • 2 0 • view
OK Make their video games so addictive they don't HAVE to actually go shoot people, they can blow them up onscreen SEE? Easy solutions
sep 12, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
All of the Kirk shooter’s shell casings were inscribed with memes from FPS games.
sep 12, 2025, 6:21 pm • 1 0 • view
A good question is, if a website is promoting/hosting conversations that are potentially dangerous to public safety, should that be policed? It is at least worthy of conversation and consideration.
sep 12, 2025, 5:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Radicalized by the algorithms that are programmed to radicalize people to hate others.
sep 12, 2025, 4:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Aka, most social media. Hate = more engagement = more profit.
sep 12, 2025, 5:19 pm • 1 0 • view
We grow closer and closer to Neal Stephenson's "Ameristan" every day.
sep 13, 2025, 1:44 am • 1 0 • view
Strange how small an online footprint they seem to have left by the time their name gets to the press...
sep 12, 2025, 6:00 pm • 1 0 • view
And that is why we needed moderators. For 20 years I scoured posts on a teen tv site and banned and removed hate speech. ENTER ELON and the NEW AGE OF Fascism-- no more moderation.
sep 12, 2025, 5:47 pm • 1 0 • view
coloradosun.com/2025/09/12/e...
sep 12, 2025, 5:20 pm • 1 1 • view
It's important the only reaction we have to this phenomenon is to repeat the manta of common sense gun laws and do nothing else about it.
sep 12, 2025, 10:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Why it's good that high schools are banning cell phone use during the school day. Maybe that should be extended to college classes.
sep 12, 2025, 3:59 pm • 18 0 • view
you joke, but do you really want people to have no alternative to billionaire propaganda?
sep 12, 2025, 10:05 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't want impressionable young people to have access to their cell phones during the school day because their brains get fucked up when they are constantly on them.
sep 12, 2025, 10:09 pm • 1 0 • view
cell phones aren’t really where online radicalization is happening though
sep 15, 2025, 11:07 pm • 0 0 • view
there's a billionaire funded nazi propaganda machine and liberals refuse to even try and fight back. we should be glad the youth aren't more fascist
sep 16, 2025, 12:33 am • 1 0 • view
given how school sucked when I went and it's only gotten worse, I can't really blame kids these days for tuning out
sep 13, 2025, 9:32 am • 0 0 • view
Seeing toddlers on phones? That’s the real good news.
sep 12, 2025, 8:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Probably phones.
sep 12, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Its almost like computers tell you what’s going on in the world..
sep 12, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Right wing social media spaces need to be shut down.
sep 12, 2025, 6:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Computers don’t post, people do.
sep 13, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view
As a journalist why would you capitalize On the Computer All the Time?
sep 13, 2025, 1:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Because you mistakenly think it's a Radiohead album?
sep 13, 2025, 2:04 pm • 4 0 • view
Not a bad shout.
sep 13, 2025, 2:09 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m told that he was radicalized during his half of a semester at a technical college.
sep 16, 2025, 12:01 am • 0 0 • view
As absolutely predictable a state of affairs there has ever been.
sep 12, 2025, 4:50 pm • 0 0 • view
A chatbot-driven shooter in the future, who could even create their own discords filled with sycophantic users that are also all bots who cheer them on in whichever way they want, is probably around the corner, maybe 10 years away at most.
sep 12, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
I better log out😳😳😳😳
sep 12, 2025, 11:37 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm sure injecting AI into everything will make it better! What could go wrong 🫠
sep 12, 2025, 5:00 pm • 2 0 • view
My ? is. Im gen x wm I’ve been on the computer all the time my entire life. We had an apple ii in 1982. I’ve played war games, conquer games, banned games, I was on the Internet when it was university usenets. And I don’t wanna murder/hate anybody So what’s going on with these boys? Or me?
sep 13, 2025, 5:03 am • 0 0 • view
The fact that the FBI can’t organize a trip to the bathroom to even crawl for suspects online now is par for the course with MAGA in charge
sep 13, 2025, 12:24 am • 0 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/zeno...
sep 12, 2025, 6:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Hearing that AI will solve this problem 🙄
sep 12, 2025, 4:20 pm • 6 1 • view