#paranoiac
Suburbs of a Paranoiac Critical Town, Afternoon on the Outskirts of European History
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20702
November 2, 2026 at 2:43 PM
The Paranoiac-Critical Study of Vermeer's Lacemaker, 1955 #surrealism #salvadordali
October 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1969–70) uses repetition and negative spaces to create optical illusions. The same motif reappears until it clicks into a bullfighter, showing a masterful application of Dali's "paranoiac-critical method."
November 1, 2026 at 5:28 PM
but how do you navigate that nowadays? i have no idea. at the point i'm guessing based on website homepage visual styling i feel like a 21st century oedipa maas paranoiac.

but i won't let it stop me from perusing new and novel indie stuff. it just makes it a hell of a lot more annoying to sift.
November 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Bridging the gap between rational metaphysics and paranoiac superstition
October 31, 2026 at 1:23 AM
first thought was "stuck in the drive through" by weird al, second thought was "paranoiac intervals" by Of Montreal LMAO..... those two songs together really encapsulate me as a person don't they
Gun to your head, name a song that’s over 6 minutes long.
November 2, 2026 at 6:33 PM
20) Paranoiac (Freddie Francis, 1963) 🪝
November 3, 2026 at 4:51 AM
This read drives me nuts. If you watch the video, the woman asking the question is a quivering paranoiac and McCain is trying to quickly head off the kind of nasty spiralling that defines this political epoch. I mean... he could have just agreed with her, thus saying exactly what is positive here
I have always, always been mystified at the way this moment of anti-Arab racism is celebrated by liberals
November 3, 2026 at 4:26 AM
The Paranoiac-Critical Study of Vermeer's Lacemaker, 1955 #surrealism #salvadordali.
Great art on Bluesky (@art.feediverse.org)
The Paranoiac-Critical Study of Vermeer's Lacemaker, 1955 #surrealism #salvadordali
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October 31, 2026 at 3:30 PM
It’s a good example of Dali’s paranoiac critical and spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the critical and systematic objectivity of associations and interpretations of delirious phenomena.
October 31, 2026 at 6:20 PM
an anti-porn paranoiac who thinks porn needs to be didactic is also a weird racist? Wow wow
oh idfk if people are even there yet, but for me it happened eight years ago when he argued live on tv that French soccer players aren't French but African, because they're black.
October 28, 2026 at 8:04 PM
It's weird they'd threaten Trump WHEN THEY HOLD ALL THE CARDS (Straight of Hormuz) just to ... what? Their missiles can't reach the U.S.

Either you're naive about Trump's truly demented state & its paranoiac element, or you're legitimating his unfounded fears to make his further actions seem just.
November 1, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Our Paranoiac-in-Chief is losing what's left of his small mind. newrepublic.com/post/217496/...
Trump Loses His Mind Over Key Senate Race Hours Before Election
Donald Trump suggested that Daniel Sullivan had been kidnapped.
newrepublic.com
November 3, 2026 at 3:37 PM
I get your point, but also, if someone with clinical paranoia starts abusing someone due to their paranoia, we acknowledge that their paranoia is a contributory factor without calling it "paranoiac abuse"?
November 1, 2026 at 4:57 PM
(Or like you're saying, it could just be I'm a paranoiac who thinks the worst of myself and it's hard to dissuade me from the idea that others will feel the same)
November 2, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Dalí’s double images were constructed, not improvised. In The Great Paranoiac (1936) Dalí demonstrates his precision by carefully composing a perceptual puzzle with an assemblage of smaller figures.
October 25, 2026 at 6:37 PM
5. Also paranoiac that I am, I sometimes wonder if the reason they shelved Coyote Vs Acme, for so long wasn't just because Zaslav doesn't know jack about movies. (Though that is true!)

I wonder if its cautionary message about evil corporations maybe didn't offend some of the suits. 🤔
November 3, 2026 at 1:19 AM
an anti-porn paranoiac who thinks porn needs to be didactic is also a weird racist? Wow wow
oh idfk if people are even there yet, but for me it happened eight years ago when he argued live on tv that French soccer players aren't French but African, because they're black.
October 28, 2026 at 8:04 PM
I've been following Idaho's abortion travel ban since it was first introduced. Now, a Seattle-based group is challenging the law, which targets minors and their allies. What comes next could impact abortion access everywhere. My story at @thestranger.com:
www.thestranger.com/news/idaho-l...
Idaho Lawmakers Tried to Conflate Abortion with Human Trafficking and Seattle Attorneys Are Fighting Back - The Stranger
Three years ago, the Idaho state legislature passed a law making it illegal to assist minors in crossing state lines to access abortion care. In the paranoiac tradition of American anti-abortion polic...
www.thestranger.com
October 29, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Additional context: For the @newrepublic.com, I dug into the paranoiac tradition this law feeds into with its "abortion trafficking" framing. "Abortion trafficking" isn't real, but targeting young people is a common strategy in anti-abortion policy newrepublic.com/article/1718...
The Brand New Anti-Abortion Law That’s Steeped in an Old Moral Panic
Idaho’s “abortion trafficking” law is paranoia masquerading as public policy, and there’s more on the way.
newrepublic.com
October 29, 2026 at 1:00 AM
I tripped a breaker in my head, and my sodden, weary, hyperanxious, paranoiac, hellridden, carefully obedient, nitpicking, exacting, self conscious, self righteous, downtrodden, fawning 'grown up' mind vanished... POOF

And I suddenly felt, something's rotten in the state of Christendom.
October 29, 2026 at 2:14 AM
infuriating and insufferable that *I* have to go through life knowing this - who only know I found using AI toys annoying years ago and thought better of it - and all these highly-compensated nerd freaks need to give themselves this huge structure of paranoiac permissions to contemplate it
October 26, 2026 at 7:17 PM
No, it's very understated and paranoiac. No jump scares and very little blood, but still nightmarish.
October 24, 2026 at 9:09 PM