Katherine Dee (@defaultfriend)

"The term I want to propose is mediated murderer: a perpetrator who, without physical co-presence, uses networked communication as the primary instrument by which he establishes coercive control over a specific victim and drives that victim toward death."

Tough read, FBI materials.

09.03.2026 01:57 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The Mediated Murderer towards a new category of killer

I had a theory over the weekend:
default.blog/p/the-mediat...

09.03.2026 01:35 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

I’m a centrist though I got this amazing comment about how cringe is a valuable form of gatekeeping Gen Z is afraid of

06.03.2026 10:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Internet Overexposure Syndrome What appear to be psychological disorders among those who spend much of their life online may in fact be rational responses to their environment.

@defaultfriend.bsky.social last year wrote about psychological adaptions to online life which look like psychological disorders in offline line: "This is the internet: it demands a disposition that appears 'sick' in the physical world."

05.03.2026 05:49 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Do Normies Have a Right to Read ‘Heated Rivalry’ Fanfic? The culture that fandom built won, writes Katherine Dee. But the privacy and community that made fandoms possible is vanishing—and some fans are revolting.

Is AO3 *actually* a private space or are fans being a bunch of babies? I investigate:
www.gq.com/story/heated...

05.03.2026 17:05 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Candace Owens, Real Conspiracy Theorist, Not "Performance Artist" please excuse this

The always interesting @defaultfriend.bsky.social, on conspiracy thinking as culture:
default.blog/p/candace-ow...

#CandaceOwens #culture

03.03.2026 09:04 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

“…living within the digital archive disintegrates our basic, linear perception of time...every era is equally available, &all events are potentially happening at the same time, the chain of causality &influence breaks down completely.”
intriguing read c/o @defaultfriend.bsky.social, esp paired w/ qt

02.03.2026 17:02 👍 55 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 0

The call-in show is live... Join us on Kick, where unlike OTHER platforms, we have zero viewers... The theme is vampires, but as always you're free to interpret that as you wish...
kick.com/americandrea...

06.02.2026 01:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What is Fairyland? a quick primer on why i think the internet is fairyland

More context for the NY Times article on her substack

default.blog/p/what-is-fa...

05.02.2026 08:05 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Just discovering the writing of Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social. Consider me bewitched.

05.02.2026 08:02 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Andrew Tate Is the Loneliest Bastard on Earth thought digest, 01.21.2026

Free access: @defaultfriend.bsky.social on how the manosphere copies 1960s Black masculinity, especially the pimp culture.

Tate himself is a biracial man who grew up in Chicago and Indiana before moving with his English mother to Luton, an infamously rough town.
open.substack.com/pub/defaultf...

22.01.2026 01:52 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Andrew Tate Is the Loneliest Bastard on Earth thought digest, 01.21.2026

This breakdown of the manosphere's pimp culture heritage by @defaultfriend.bsky.social was equal parts fascinating, eye-opening, and depressing. default.blog/p/andrew-tat...

23.01.2026 16:26 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Carmilla is much better than Dracula

12.01.2026 01:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My dad passed away and I miss him so much.

06.01.2026 18:09 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

The Curious About Everything Newsletter #57 The many interesting things I read in November 2025

CAE 57 is now out, with the best things I read last month. This month's great pieces include:
- @thelocal.to on a freelancer not being what she seemed
- @rosalindadams.bsky.social on the godmother of weed in NY
- @defaultfriend.bsky.social on how trad culture was never counterculture

& more!

10.12.2025 16:01 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Opinion | Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld.

“The otherworld rewards skilled navigators and destroys the careless: Treasures turn to leaves; fairy wives eventually disappear back home; hubris causes travelers to be lost forever, or worse, to wither and die.” @defaultfriend.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...

28.11.2025 20:15 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Opinion | Why We Need Fairy Tales in the Digital Age The internet is a dangerous place. Folklore can teach us how to move through it.

“Seeing the internet as a fairyland — an otherworld with its own logic — isn’t about mystifying technology. It’s about seeing it sharply, as the strange and powerful environment it really is,” Katya Ungerman writes.

28.11.2025 14:34 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Opinion | Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld.

"With the internet, we cross a threshold into an otherworld. A.I. is like a creature from the otherworld who crosses into ours."

I love this piece by @defaultfriend.bsky.social about the need for myth to survive the digital age.

28.11.2025 13:31 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Hello from Australia @defaultfriend.bsky.social (video in reply)

28.11.2025 03:39 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The Trad Movement Is Sputtering. Here’s What Comes Next Flaunting “traditional values” was a way to gin up attention online, but being “trad” was never a true countercultural movement, argues Katherine Dee.

"Finally, Featured Author @defaultfriend.bsky.social makes the case that unlike the “trad” movement, the next real counterculture will refuse spectacle."

Among this week's Fairer Disputations highlights.
www.gq.com/story/trad-m...

21.11.2025 17:32 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Tune it : )

21.11.2025 02:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0