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Kerwin Fjøl

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Kerwin Fjøl

@zermatist

Media ecology, semiotics (not the French kind), intellectual history, other various nonsense. zermatist.substack.com

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Kerwin Fjøl
@zermatist
Jun 14
Alright, NEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This one turned out way longer than I wanted it to be originally, but it was just too much fun to write. Consider it the definitive refutation of McCloud's "Understanding Comics," with a ton of art history, aesthetics, semiotics, and so on.
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Kerwin Fjøl
@zermatist
Apr 11, 2025
It is amazing how often you discover that an Indian took over some software or tech company and then soon thereafter their product got worse and worse, exploiting those stupid enough to be loyal to it with ever-more increasing hostility. Just learned this was the case with Adobe.
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Kerwin Fjøl
@zermatist
Dec 30, 2023
I just went to PornHub and checked what their current most popular porn star is. It's this girl. I don't think porn is doing much to anyone's standards for beauty
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Kerwin Fjøl
@zermatist
Jun 9, 2024
John Coltrane sketch, apparently a matrix of five octaves with an interpolated pentagram. According to Yusef Lateef, he was always drawing stuff like this.
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Kerwin Fjøl
@zermatist
Jun 19, 2024
Replying to @zermatist
Very special episode: you'll never guess what caused this teenage boy's tumor to grow
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Kerwin Fjøl
@zermatist
Jun 19, 2024
Speaking of ridiculous network TV slop, I'd like to inform you all that shows such as this one are what your college-educated parents are watching while they eat dinner every night
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Kerwin Fjøl
@zermatist
Oct 20, 2022
All of human civilization peaked right around my early 20s when I was partying a lot and didn't have many responsibilities. It was all downhill for human civilization after that point.
Kerwin Fjøl
@zermatist
May 11, 2025
One thing I kinda like about him is that he decided to wear these strange two-colored blazers at the exact moment when he became compromised. It's like he was trying to tell everyone subliminally that he had become a psychically deformed Harvey Dent-type character
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Kerwin Fjøl
@zermatist
Sep 1, 2024
Currently reading this book on Jane Elliott's brown eyes/blue eyes experiment, in which Elliott told her 3rd grade students with blue eyes that they were inferior and actively encouraged kids with brown eyes to bully and insult them, all in the name of anti-racism.
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Kerwin Fjøl
@zermatist
Jun 9, 2025
I find the idea that Aella is an original or interesting thinker far more offensive than Aella herself
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@Grimezsz
Jun 9, 2025
I have not defended Aella in the past since a lot of my fanbase is very young and the nature of her work is not all ages, but I regret this now seeing her being so aggressively bullied. She is a high calibre philosopher and she lives it like some strange cyber girl Diogenes.
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Kerwin Fjøl
@zermatist
Sep 18, 2021
A higher IQ allows you to sustain more contradictions by giving you the cognitive power to rationalize them away as mere complexities
Kerwin Fjøl
@zermatist
Sep 12, 2025
They just caught the (probable) guy, and he's a mild-mannered college dropout, raised Mormon, who just recently became political and stated during some dinner with a family member that Charlie Kirk was "spreading hate." So yes, I'm right. Radical normie terrorism.
Kerwin Fjøl
@zermatist
Sep 10, 2025
The fact that people are trying to assassinate Charlie Kirk of all people suggests to me that normie extremism is a more serious problem than radical extremism.
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Kerwin Fjøl
@zermatist
Dec 30, 2023
Replying to @SpookyHooga
Yeah like, don't get me wrong, I think porn has done some weird-ass shit to the sexual arena. But in the world of looks, if anything it has helped lower men's standards away from where mainstream entertainment artificially elevated it
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Kerwin Fjøl
@zermatist
Dec 30, 2023
Replying to @DOssuary
All roads lead back to the supreme royal art form from the land of the rising sun
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