I was really hoping that Hickman would become a writer. He has a gift. He should be writing. But he won’t. He’s showing us why many gifted people amount to absolutely nothing when others, with a much more modest gift, achieve a lot.

This is hitting me like a ton of bricks lately.

Parenting in an ultra-high-median-age area feels untenable. The contrast between our baby and the collapsing world around her is intense.

It's one thing to live in a place with no future as an adult, but with kids? It's dismal. https://t.co/UFSWEI8HJ8 pic.twitter.com/LtPnHgeLcj

— 𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 (@shagbark_hick) October 29, 2025

This isn’t about housing or region. He fantasizes about writing but he isn’t writing. Creative work is like any other work. You need to get up every day and grind. Go at it in tiny, frustrating, annoying bits. Learn to enjoy the process because the reward is far away and possibly nowhere.

Clearly, much of it is temperamental. Hickman needs to get the hyperactivity under control before he can create anything. But he’s making it about “society” and has zero insight into his own limitations.

Well, it's been interesting getting critiqued, psychoanalyzed, cheered on, complimented, threatened and generally scrutinized for good and ill by tens of thousands of people.

The fruit of it all? Last night I dreamt we took a sabbatical in the desert. Offline — no Twitter.

We… pic.twitter.com/nTShz3RZGh

— 𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 (@shagbark_hick) November 1, 2025

It’s a shame. We’ve lost a writer in him.

It is annoying, though, that the same people who tolerated Tucker and raised zero objections while he lauded Russia to the skies and calumnied the US in relation to Russia’s war-mongering are only now noticing that something is wrong. And they are only noticing now because he revealed himself as a Jew-hater.

Tucker’s 9/11 documentary is unpatriotic and anti-American. It’s definitely a lot more shocking than his interview of Nick Fuentes. But nobody gave a crap. For years, he’s been spreading lies about America and supporting every dictator who hates our country. And none of this raised the slightest outcry. Dude reflexively, deeply hates America, which is the definition of a leftist. Nobody cared.

Now they all decided to notice. Seriously, what a joke. “He platformed Nick Fuentes.” Long before that, Tucker platformed Putin who is guilty of the murder of millions. Let’s compare that to Fuentes who runs his mouth a bit too much. Yet what is provoking a bigger outrage, Tucker being turned into a quivering, slobbering mass of subservience by someone who hates America over anything else, or Tucker turning Fuentes into a quivering mass of subservience for two hours? Tucker and Fuentes are both Americans. Whatever they say to each other is nothing like slagging off your own country to please a hostile foreigner.

The problem, as I’ve been saying for a long time, is that Tucker is a leftist. Our biggest issue is that we can’t figure out who’s a leftist even after he praises every Commie dictator in existence. The Left, though, identifies us very easily. We have no cultural power to a large extent because we can’t define who WE are and aren’t. We are stuck in the utterly inane debate over whether it’s OK to criticize Israel instead of spending at least a fraction of the time on talking about whether it’s OK to blame our own country for everything bad that happens anywhere.

Now Tucker Carlson is praising Venezuela. I told you, people, that he’s a leftist. The moment somebody starts praising third-world hell holes as being superior to America, that’s how you know this is a leftist. To them, third-world hell holes are only that because American colonialism victimized them. This has been the leftist narrative for over a century. It never changes.

I don’t know from BPD but this is literally every female student in the past 20 years:

“How do you think it made me feel when I saw that you corrected 16 mistakes in my composition? It’s like you are saying I’m a horrible person.”

I don’t know what causes this extreme touchiness but I do believe that people put it on because they think it’s cute and then it becomes second nature.

Then we end up with the idea of hurty words being equal to violence, and the rest we all know.

I take back whatever I said about Ioffe. Poor woman, her mother tried to abort her several times. And found nothing better than to share the details of these efforts with Ioffe.

It’s not surprising that the woman is not all there.

My mother has also told me obsessively throughout my entire life how inconvenienced she was by my birth but at least she wasn’t the kind ever to contemplate abortion. Thank God for small mercies. What it might feel to have your mother detail the many efforts she made to end you before birth, I can’t imagine.

Ioffe’s mother later went on to get a bunch of successful abortions, sharing their details with her daughter. Of course, Ioffe will never clock on to how much her anger at being a woman is a result of her mother’s wanton cruelty.

A woman at work asked if I was dressed like a hippie for Halloween. This is how I was dressed:

I deeply dislike hippies, so now I’m rethinking the dress.

Every single mainstream news story for an insane number of years is exactly this:

Once you see it, good luck unseeing it.

And here’s the last therapy-related question from this batch:

Why do so many people need therapy these days?

A bunch of reasons come together to create the need:

1. People have a lot more leisure.
2. People do a lot less physically demanding activity than their body needs.
3. People are a lot less religious.
4. People don’t make things with their hands.

Leisure is great if you can fill it with sublimating activities such as creating art, being in nature, gardening, etc. Otherwise, it offers a great breeding ground for neuroses.

Dude, this sounds very serious. You need institutional, on-the-ground help. I have no idea what’s available in your area but help is definitely in order.

If you are dealing with an adult who brings up or threatens suicide, you need to shut that down and, ideally, remove yourself from the situation. Threatening suicide is manipulative and shouldn’t be humored. This, of course, is different in the case of a child.

I’m very worried about this boy and I hope there’s help available.

To avoid starting a new post, here’s the type of (adult) person you should always avoid in addition to the performatively suicidal:

• The terminally unlucky also known as “a walking disaster.” These are people who constantly get in trouble at a rate much higher then normal. They can’t go through the day without injuring themselves, blowing a tire, losing important documents, and experiencing every minor misfortune known to humanity.
• People whose life strategy is built on devaluing yours.
• People who try to establish an unequal power dynamic by often offering unsolicited advice.