Kelyetar
@kelyetar.bsky.social
Programmer, former high school teacher, Dutch. One of the Ancient Millenials.
Lurking here to read what some smart people are saying.
Lurking here to read what some smart people are saying.
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/2 That kind of knowledge is what I have in the place where others have a capacity to interact comfortably with fellow human beings.
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
/2 That kind of knowledge is what I have in the place where others have a capacity to interact comfortably with fellow human beings.
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the fact that being really into eugenics appears to sort people for being shitty human is kind of amazing. like there is, in theory, room to be super interested in the area in principle and not be a shitty human being, but the correlation is robust
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
the fact that being really into eugenics appears to sort people for being shitty human is kind of amazing. like there is, in theory, room to be super interested in the area in principle and not be a shitty human being, but the correlation is robust
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Kicking in the doors of daycares is a great way to turn wine moms into molotov cocktail moms.
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Kicking in the doors of daycares is a great way to turn wine moms into molotov cocktail moms.
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just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works
(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
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You mean an all-expenses paid book tour where he talked about himself?
August 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
You mean an all-expenses paid book tour where he talked about himself?
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new rule: if your opinion column’s premise can be answered immediately with the word “no” you aren’t allowed to write it
August 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
new rule: if your opinion column’s premise can be answered immediately with the word “no” you aren’t allowed to write it
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Pretty much throughout history we have people in powerful positions who are bad at their job or good at their job. Trump 2.0 is the only Administration ever filled with people who are literally trying to accomplish the opposite of what the job was created to do. It’s not like anything else.
July 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Pretty much throughout history we have people in powerful positions who are bad at their job or good at their job. Trump 2.0 is the only Administration ever filled with people who are literally trying to accomplish the opposite of what the job was created to do. It’s not like anything else.
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The whole fucking point of rights is that you don’t have to sue the government to obtain them
June 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The whole fucking point of rights is that you don’t have to sue the government to obtain them
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Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
June 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
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Website for bank, insurance, airline, or buying tickets of any kind: Did you get that code I sent you
Me: Yeah, here you go
Website: Sweet, you're logged in
Me: Great is it cool if I go to the bathroom
Website: Yeah bro of course
Me: And you're not gonna log me out right
Website: Who is this
Me: Yeah, here you go
Website: Sweet, you're logged in
Me: Great is it cool if I go to the bathroom
Website: Yeah bro of course
Me: And you're not gonna log me out right
Website: Who is this
May 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Website for bank, insurance, airline, or buying tickets of any kind: Did you get that code I sent you
Me: Yeah, here you go
Website: Sweet, you're logged in
Me: Great is it cool if I go to the bathroom
Website: Yeah bro of course
Me: And you're not gonna log me out right
Website: Who is this
Me: Yeah, here you go
Website: Sweet, you're logged in
Me: Great is it cool if I go to the bathroom
Website: Yeah bro of course
Me: And you're not gonna log me out right
Website: Who is this
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best way to prove you're not miss piggy is to lash out violently after having your vanity bruised
May 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
best way to prove you're not miss piggy is to lash out violently after having your vanity bruised
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this whole "did my own research" thing is so silly because everything else apart, if you gave a shit about this subject you would have already been doing research instead of waiting to start when it trended on your social media. You are not researching. You're fadding. You must accept this.
May 30, 2025 at 10:39 AM
this whole "did my own research" thing is so silly because everything else apart, if you gave a shit about this subject you would have already been doing research instead of waiting to start when it trended on your social media. You are not researching. You're fadding. You must accept this.
A few un-fun facts:
* Cancers of internal organs may not show any obvious symptoms until it's way too late;
* Some symptoms may be indistinguishable from those of other ailments;
* Some cancers go from 0 to 60 in weeks;
* Cancer is, generally, a bitch. A sneaky bitch, at that. Fuck cancer.
* Cancers of internal organs may not show any obvious symptoms until it's way too late;
* Some symptoms may be indistinguishable from those of other ailments;
* Some cancers go from 0 to 60 in weeks;
* Cancer is, generally, a bitch. A sneaky bitch, at that. Fuck cancer.
A mere 5 months after he leaves office, where he was supposed to be under close medical watch. This is not going to make the questions about complicity to other Democrats go away. It may make it worse.
May 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A few un-fun facts:
* Cancers of internal organs may not show any obvious symptoms until it's way too late;
* Some symptoms may be indistinguishable from those of other ailments;
* Some cancers go from 0 to 60 in weeks;
* Cancer is, generally, a bitch. A sneaky bitch, at that. Fuck cancer.
* Cancers of internal organs may not show any obvious symptoms until it's way too late;
* Some symptoms may be indistinguishable from those of other ailments;
* Some cancers go from 0 to 60 in weeks;
* Cancer is, generally, a bitch. A sneaky bitch, at that. Fuck cancer.
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A swing voter is not a centrist. It's like, a guy who loves guns but has a gay sister, loves weed but hates food stamps because his cousin who owes him 50 bucks gets them. (Also, Osama was Iraqi.) You don't win that guy with a carefully crafted platform, you do it by not seeming fucking lame
I really feel like more people need to constructively engage with this! You can think the moderation/centrism discourse is often braindead (as I do!) but the center left really needs a pretty robust convo about what winning, say, an Iowa or Kansas or Texas or Ohio senate seat would look like.
It’s because of the senate map
May 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
A swing voter is not a centrist. It's like, a guy who loves guns but has a gay sister, loves weed but hates food stamps because his cousin who owes him 50 bucks gets them. (Also, Osama was Iraqi.) You don't win that guy with a carefully crafted platform, you do it by not seeming fucking lame
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there is an enormous difference between "I have a hard time picking up social cues" and "I am just deliberately being a straight up asshole" and it does an enormous disservice to the former group when people in the latter group pretend that's their problem
At a certain point you have to ask yourself if being the edgy, brave, no bullshit type worth missing a dear friend’s wedding because you cannot be trusted to not make strangers wildly uncomfortable
May 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
there is an enormous difference between "I have a hard time picking up social cues" and "I am just deliberately being a straight up asshole" and it does an enormous disservice to the former group when people in the latter group pretend that's their problem
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if the vatican truly understood the hustle they'd rent out their chimney for gender reveals
May 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
if the vatican truly understood the hustle they'd rent out their chimney for gender reveals
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
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Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop.
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
Reality Check
I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this and still, to this day, people are babbling about the "AI revolution" as the sky rains blood and crevices open...
www.wheresyoured.at
April 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop.
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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Foreign Friends with Travel Plans to the U.S. for Conventions:
A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans.
I would like to amend my prior statement.
Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.
A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans.
I would like to amend my prior statement.
Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.
April 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Foreign Friends with Travel Plans to the U.S. for Conventions:
A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans.
I would like to amend my prior statement.
Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.
A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans.
I would like to amend my prior statement.
Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.
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One of the few things where I agree with Elon Musk is that Peter Navarro is a worthless idiot.
Of course, one of the few things where I agree with Peter Navarro is that Elon Musk is a worthless idiot, too.
Of course, one of the few things where I agree with Peter Navarro is that Elon Musk is a worthless idiot, too.
Peter Navarro goes full Baghdad Bob about the Dow losing 1,000 points today and being down 5 of the 6: "You had the highest rise in stock market history yesterday. Of course there's gonna be a little pullback ... it's no big deal."
April 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
One of the few things where I agree with Elon Musk is that Peter Navarro is a worthless idiot.
Of course, one of the few things where I agree with Peter Navarro is that Elon Musk is a worthless idiot, too.
Of course, one of the few things where I agree with Peter Navarro is that Elon Musk is a worthless idiot, too.
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At least now I understand how he bankrupted a casino
April 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
At least now I understand how he bankrupted a casino
This thread, but for people who cook:
Imagine someone claiming to be a master chef. He's "finishing up" a vegan dish that he claims he made himself.
He is now sprinkling undercooked bacon bits over it, right before your eyes.
That's how gamers feel about Elon.
Imagine someone claiming to be a master chef. He's "finishing up" a vegan dish that he claims he made himself.
He is now sprinkling undercooked bacon bits over it, right before your eyes.
That's how gamers feel about Elon.
I was trying to explain the whole "Elon Musk cheats at video games" thing to a non-gamer and I think got a good analogy for crafters: imagine you want to convince people you made the skull quilt that raised nearly $6k for Romancing the Vote this year: www.32auctions.com/organization...
Sweet Dreams quilt
Auction item 'Sweet Dreams quilt' hosted online at 32auctions.
www.32auctions.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:26 AM
This thread, but for people who cook:
Imagine someone claiming to be a master chef. He's "finishing up" a vegan dish that he claims he made himself.
He is now sprinkling undercooked bacon bits over it, right before your eyes.
That's how gamers feel about Elon.
Imagine someone claiming to be a master chef. He's "finishing up" a vegan dish that he claims he made himself.
He is now sprinkling undercooked bacon bits over it, right before your eyes.
That's how gamers feel about Elon.
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Trump TRIED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT, and our solution was, literally, “let him off the hook and hope he simply goes away of his own accord.” And then we were shocked when he came back and… showed no respect for the law or government. He’d already committed the worst treason in US history!
March 31, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Trump TRIED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT, and our solution was, literally, “let him off the hook and hope he simply goes away of his own accord.” And then we were shocked when he came back and… showed no respect for the law or government. He’d already committed the worst treason in US history!
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the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
Whatever the immediate fallout of the scandal, what is going to stick around is the impression it gives, of hapless idiots doing ridiculous things. And I think that seriously reduces the appeal of capitulating to these jokers.
March 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns