Trump's obsession with Greenland and erratic interventionism towards Venezuela are almost textbook case studies of a declining great power externalising its growing domestic instability into external imperial quagmires
January 19, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Trump's obsession with Greenland and erratic interventionism towards Venezuela are almost textbook case studies of a declining great power externalising its growing domestic instability into external imperial quagmires
My mother (baffled tone): “But… but it’s just you externalising your inner world???”
July 28, 2026 at 4:23 PM
My mother (baffled tone): “But… but it’s just you externalising your inner world???”
Basically the ultimate AI technology is externalising all responsibility for anything going wrong forever.
January 6, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Basically the ultimate AI technology is externalising all responsibility for anything going wrong forever.
"For nearly a decade, [the European Union] pursued a strategy of “externalising” migration control, directing aid, training, and equipment to African states ostensibly to reduce irregular migration towards Europe."
How Europe’s migration policy and arms empowered Sudan’s warlords #AlJazeera #Sudan
How Europe’s migration policy and arms empowered Sudan’s warlords
European migration funding strengthened Sudanese paramilitaries, while weak export oversight allowed the flow of arms.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"For nearly a decade, [the European Union] pursued a strategy of “externalising” migration control, directing aid, training, and equipment to African states ostensibly to reduce irregular migration towards Europe."
Externalising cost and risk and responsibility like this is such *chef’s kiss* end-stage capitalism.
Wild how they address this by offloading it on to parents rather than, say…making a safer product.
September 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Externalising cost and risk and responsibility like this is such *chef’s kiss* end-stage capitalism.
to me the vibes of AI safety feels like it's about externalising the problem of evil to an uncontrollable force to distract from the fact that evil is still mostly within us humans, including the people in the tech industry themselves
I have no problem with devoting SOME funding and effort to understanding the risk of AI killing us all.
But I think it's insane that in 2026, as we're watching AI cause right-now harms to right-now people, that the ethical tech space has been almost entirely taken over by these galaxy-brain fears.
But I think it's insane that in 2026, as we're watching AI cause right-now harms to right-now people, that the ethical tech space has been almost entirely taken over by these galaxy-brain fears.
September 22, 2026 at 5:39 PM
to me the vibes of AI safety feels like it's about externalising the problem of evil to an uncontrollable force to distract from the fact that evil is still mostly within us humans, including the people in the tech industry themselves
She’s wrong though. It’s me externalising my inner world AND bullying Guy.
July 29, 2026 at 7:07 AM
She’s wrong though. It’s me externalising my inner world AND bullying Guy.
It's like they're externalising some sort of frustration at having never been able to terrorise Africans like other European powers.
May 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
It's like they're externalising some sort of frustration at having never been able to terrorise Africans like other European powers.
Honestly everyone using genAI tools to save their own time and effort is just externalising that time and effort multiplied many-fold, onto other people.
It’s cognitive fly-tipping.
It’s cognitive fly-tipping.
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Honestly everyone using genAI tools to save their own time and effort is just externalising that time and effort multiplied many-fold, onto other people.
It’s cognitive fly-tipping.
It’s cognitive fly-tipping.
Funding cuts are framed as correcting CDC “messaging failures,” shifting responsibility for the consequences onto the very institutions being undermined, externalising blame to the out-group, and reinforcing the group-think of the in-group.
August 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Funding cuts are framed as correcting CDC “messaging failures,” shifting responsibility for the consequences onto the very institutions being undermined, externalising blame to the out-group, and reinforcing the group-think of the in-group.
We love externalising our internal thoughts so it looks like flashbangs on other peoples’ timelines
September 25, 2026 at 11:54 PM
We love externalising our internal thoughts so it looks like flashbangs on other peoples’ timelines
starting to realise when people are externalising their own insecurities at me within 24 hours of it happening, which is progress!
September 21, 2026 at 8:49 AM
starting to realise when people are externalising their own insecurities at me within 24 hours of it happening, which is progress!
Identification of 371 genetic variants for age at first sex and birth linked to externalising behaviour
"Late age at first birth is associated with parental longevity and reduced incidence of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Late age at first birth is associated with parental longevity and reduced incidence of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Identification of 371 genetic variants for age at first sex and birth linked to externalising behaviour - Nature Human Behaviour
This genome-wide study of age at first sexual intercourse and first birth identifies 371 signals driven by reproductive biology, externalising behaviour and environmental effects, with later onset ass...
www.nature.com
December 7, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Identification of 371 genetic variants for age at first sex and birth linked to externalising behaviour
"Late age at first birth is associated with parental longevity and reduced incidence of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Late age at first birth is associated with parental longevity and reduced incidence of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Externalising your inner demons
April 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Externalising your inner demons
The surveillance state is never really about "efficiency". It's about externalising cost, risk and harm onto the people least able to fight back
(I want a minister questioned in parliament on how permanent, whole-population, airline data-tracking to police public benefits can ever be proportionate)
(I want a minister questioned in parliament on how permanent, whole-population, airline data-tracking to police public benefits can ever be proportionate)
Child benefit payments stopped based on incomplete data - people who went on holiday for short periods had payments stopped because travel data seemed to show they had left the country permanently, but they had done no such thing.
Tell me again how automation is seamless and efficient?
Tell me again how automation is seamless and efficient?
HMRC cuts child benefit for 35,000 families based on incomplete travel data
UK tax agency apologises after flagging people as having emigrated, often when they return via different routes
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The surveillance state is never really about "efficiency". It's about externalising cost, risk and harm onto the people least able to fight back
(I want a minister questioned in parliament on how permanent, whole-population, airline data-tracking to police public benefits can ever be proportionate)
(I want a minister questioned in parliament on how permanent, whole-population, airline data-tracking to police public benefits can ever be proportionate)
I'm trying to regain some self-esteem by externalising/visualising my symptoms, rather than criticising my body, but it's really difficult
September 22, 2026 at 8:35 PM
I'm trying to regain some self-esteem by externalising/visualising my symptoms, rather than criticising my body, but it's really difficult
It's such a dominant mechanic. Fear of becoming Other mitigated by externalising it to the most convenient marginalised group.
December 3, 2023 at 6:09 PM
It's such a dominant mechanic. Fear of becoming Other mitigated by externalising it to the most convenient marginalised group.
2/4 … in reality, they've just gathered wealth through a rigged system. Favourable tax policies? Check. Monopolistic practices? Double-check. Exploiting labour? Triple-check.
And let's not forget the pièce de résistance: externalising costs. These geniuses offload the mess they …
December 10, 2024 at 3:43 PM
2/4 … in reality, they've just gathered wealth through a rigged system. Favourable tax policies? Check. Monopolistic practices? Double-check. Exploiting labour? Triple-check.
And let's not forget the pièce de résistance: externalising costs. These geniuses offload the mess they …
Angus Taylor is a moron. He just doesn’t get most people, on both sides, are sick of this confrontational, blame‑externalising version of politics.
February 19, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Angus Taylor is a moron. He just doesn’t get most people, on both sides, are sick of this confrontational, blame‑externalising version of politics.
But transphobes are always miserable before the bigotry surfaces... and then it becomes their outlet for upset.
A way to distract from their real problems by externalising the issue.
A way to distract from their real problems by externalising the issue.
June 7, 2026 at 10:12 AM
But transphobes are always miserable before the bigotry surfaces... and then it becomes their outlet for upset.
A way to distract from their real problems by externalising the issue.
A way to distract from their real problems by externalising the issue.
the tenth doctor's three modes of existence:
- adorable goof, eyes sparkling with genuine love for the cosmos and all within
- externalising a sadness and grief so deep and cold that the bottom of the mariana's trench seems cozy in comparison
- "do not make me do the things i could do to you"
- adorable goof, eyes sparkling with genuine love for the cosmos and all within
- externalising a sadness and grief so deep and cold that the bottom of the mariana's trench seems cozy in comparison
- "do not make me do the things i could do to you"
July 8, 2024 at 10:19 AM
the tenth doctor's three modes of existence:
- adorable goof, eyes sparkling with genuine love for the cosmos and all within
- externalising a sadness and grief so deep and cold that the bottom of the mariana's trench seems cozy in comparison
- "do not make me do the things i could do to you"
- adorable goof, eyes sparkling with genuine love for the cosmos and all within
- externalising a sadness and grief so deep and cold that the bottom of the mariana's trench seems cozy in comparison
- "do not make me do the things i could do to you"
I think he's just externalising the fact that the most common reaction to him in any circumstance is disgust.
August 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I think he's just externalising the fact that the most common reaction to him in any circumstance is disgust.
I’ll be well over 80 then so continence and still being able to eat solid food might be my biggest challenges rather than changing my politics due to externalising my self loathing 😊
September 5, 2026 at 7:16 PM
I’ll be well over 80 then so continence and still being able to eat solid food might be my biggest challenges rather than changing my politics due to externalising my self loathing 😊
📌 A sex genie who focuses on externalising your intrusive thoughts. Vanilla is *boring*.
March 13, 2026 at 10:43 PM
📌 A sex genie who focuses on externalising your intrusive thoughts. Vanilla is *boring*.
They don't want to confront the fact the problem is coming from inside the house. It's pure externalising
September 2, 2026 at 12:59 PM
They don't want to confront the fact the problem is coming from inside the house. It's pure externalising