My AI Award

ChatGPT evaluated our interactions in 2025.

It’s not wrong, that’s for sure.

The Last Russian Nationalist

People asked what happened to the Russian nationalists whom Putin didn’t manage to kill. One of them was White Rex. A hero who was killed in battle yesterday.

White Rex wasn’t a “neo-Nazi”. The name-calling should stop. He didn’t want white people to be wiped out but that’s hardly an extremist position.

White Rex correctly saw Putin as the author of the greatest genocide against whites in the twenty-first century. He was a brilliant guy. If there was a hope for Russia’s renewal, that was him and his movement.

The EU bureaucrats hated White Rex. He was banned in Germany, for example.

This was a guy who did not need to go to war. He was successful, educated, never had trouble making a living. But he saw the ethnic cleansing happening and wanted to stop it. He fought heroically on Ukraine’s side from the first days of the war.

I didn’t want to write about this because it’s painful. I heard White Rex speak many times. I had great hopes for his movement to restore Russian nationalism. This is a great loss.

But I’m seeing all the usual rat bastards use this opportunity to not only rubbish White Rex but to equate nationalism with Nazism. These are disgusting lies about people who only want to live peacefully in their own countries. Losers who would never have an ounce of White Rex’s bravery and patriotism are spreading these calumnies about the fallen soldier.

Ancestral Christmas

There was nothing like this in Ukraine when I was growing up because in the USSR we weren’t allowed to know about Christmas, so I’m extremely glad that these ancestral Christmas traditions have been recovered and that so many young people participate:

I recommend the whole thread. It’s really pretty.

Once Christmas traditions are taken away, it’s extremely hard to recover it. I still care more about New Year’s than Christmas. It’s very important to preserve these rituals and involve young people in them.

Happy Reference

It’s gotten to the point where I see a billboard saying “Book your next hotel stay with us!” and feel happy because the ad references books.

Propping up Rape Culture

Liberals truly live in a world of their own:

This comes after decades of them shrieking about the rape culture in the US.

It’s the leftists’ capacity to be completely sincere and even self-righteous about things like these that’s the most stunning. They openly support propping up real rape cultures overseas while decrying non-existent rape culture at home.

Simply imagine how many people saw this headline and found absolutely nothing strange about it.

Building the List

People have started sending in book discussion requests through anonymous comments. One is for Ian McEwan’s latest book (thanks, I had no idea there was one because Amazon recommends everything except the writers you’ve been buying for years) and another is for Pedro Baños’ Geohispanidad.

There was also a recommendation in the comments for Flesh by David Szalay.

These are great suggestions and I’m glad that the 2026 reading list is already being built.

Wrong Algorithm

The new X algorithm is murdering me. It decided that I should only be shown tweets from Ukraine. I have no idea what’s happening in the US or Canada but I know every bit of gossip, online drama, and political goings on in Ukraine. This is torture.

I don’t know how to make it go back to the way it was.

Q&A about Fox

Fox is so good, eh? I loved how she lets one assume that the father is a pedo and visits the pedo website and then puts one face to face with that false assumption at the end.

My records show that I read a novel by Oates before and retained absolutely no memory of it, which tells me that it was middling quality. I might try something else by her but that would have to wait until next year.

How to Lose Ohio

Congratulations, GOP. You really picked a winner on this one. Great move.

It’s actually worse when read silently than aloud because native is in scare quotes and that makes the whole thing sound even more clueless.

Bad Aftertaste

The novel Vera by Juan del Val is so bad that it left me physically unwell. I don’t say it because the novel is of a sensibility that is so lefty that it’s almost comical. My favorite Spanish writers are all gay communists and I think they are literary geniuses. Art, to me, stands so far above politics that I can’t begin to be bothered by artists’ political views. Juan del Val could have been a pro-Ukraine, deeply Orthodox, far-right dude, and I would have despised this novel just as much.

There’s no verbal or plot-related cliché in existence that Juan del Val failed to use in Vera. The characters read like parodies of very tired stereotypes hammered down with the earnestness of a psychotic woodpecker. The story is so predictable it gives one a toothache.

Vera is also standard leftist propaganda of the most primitive kind. It’s message is that women should be rich and get sexually liberated by buying sex services from men. But when men buy sex services from women, that’s bad. Women should be buying a lot of expensive crap to express themselves. Men should sit and wait to be bought by self-expressing women. Where should women get the money to make all these purchases? From rich men! Who are bad and evil because they make money instead of waiting to be bought by self-expressing women.

Now you understand why I feel nauseous. I urgently need to read something good to erase the aftertaste