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@playingwithdust.bsky.social

People happy to call others snowflakes but who are instantly clutching their pearls and running to mummy the minute they get minimal bite back

Brian O'Halloran

Is it Ian Dunt? He blocked me because I called him "miserable" when he started off on a rant about eclipses.

@playingwithdust.bsky.social

No. "The defining character of our era" is not a specific person, it's an archetype. Also, having checked your posts, you were quite rude, he blocked you, now you're moaning to me about it a week later: it's *at least* as much you as it is him.

Brian O'Halloran

To each their own conclusion.

Chris Read

@chrisjread.bsky.social

"My opinion is so unecpectedly heterodox, no-one would expect it or agree with it!" "Well I certainly don't agree with it" "😡😡😭😭"

Tony Hill

@tonyhill.bsky.social

I still have problems to believe the traumatised part. More like pretenders.

ehhhh yeah some people perform it for strategic reasons, but I do think a large number of people have become genuinely psychologically unmoored because their bold, iconoclastic provocations weren't met with universal acclaim

I think this is A Type that occurs throughout history but the modern age provides a massively expanded field for people to become it

Stephen Bush

@stephenkb.bsky.social

Yeah, agree, so much of it is visibly sincere upset, they do the whining even privately.

@owenwmichael.bsky.social

among other things, I've been genuinely taken aback by how many accomplished, successful people apparently had "gets invited to talk to university students, receives praise" as a load-bearing part of their self-image

Owen Michael