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What is Bonesmashing? Inside the Extreme Looksmaxxer Technique As looksmaxxing enters our lexicon, the practice of bonesmashing—tapping your face with a hammer to shape your bone structure—is trailing
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𝕾𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖉𝖊𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖊𝖉 Doomscroll is a sensor array. We track weak signals in culture, power, belief, and collapse. Follow to observe before the story hardens. If it feels uncomfortable, you’re close.
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𝕾𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖉𝖊𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖊𝖉 Doomscroll is a sensor array. We track weak signals in culture, power, belief, and collapse. Follow to observe before the story hardens. If it feels uncomfortable, you’re close.
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Feb 24, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop When a subculture runs out of symbolic rebellion, it often turns to the body. Looksmaxxing is less about attractiveness than about optimization under perceived scarcity. Bonesmashing is what happens when algorithmic aesthetics meet masculine insecurity and low trust in institutions. This isn’t vanity, I think. Feels more like young men attempting to brute-force status in an economy that feels rigged.
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