Sliffslaff Slibberslak
@oakfather.bsky.social
Classically Trained Carouser
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Nice reply "owning" me, unfortunately you parsed 2 levels of irony but missed completely the third, wherein it's clear I'm making fun of the persona your reply intended to critique. That being said I'm still hurt to an almost unimaginable degree
November 30, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Nice reply "owning" me, unfortunately you parsed 2 levels of irony but missed completely the third, wherein it's clear I'm making fun of the persona your reply intended to critique. That being said I'm still hurt to an almost unimaginable degree
Butlerian Jihad, right now please. This sort of digital necromancy is so grim, so evil, it must be destroyed.
November 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Butlerian Jihad, right now please. This sort of digital necromancy is so grim, so evil, it must be destroyed.
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Microsoft have dropped a list of the 40 professions most threatened by AI. Your first instinct should be to dismiss it due to their mountains of interests in convincing the world that AI is more than horribly inept at most jobs
But on a second look, it's worse than that. Historians? Mathematicians?
But on a second look, it's worse than that. Historians? Mathematicians?
July 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Microsoft have dropped a list of the 40 professions most threatened by AI. Your first instinct should be to dismiss it due to their mountains of interests in convincing the world that AI is more than horribly inept at most jobs
But on a second look, it's worse than that. Historians? Mathematicians?
But on a second look, it's worse than that. Historians? Mathematicians?
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In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.
Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.
Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
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I hate when there is another universe or dimension in a show. That’s none of my business! Don’t show me that!
September 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I hate when there is another universe or dimension in a show. That’s none of my business! Don’t show me that!
Break free from western Christian epistemology. It colors every aspect of your thinking and how you interact with the world. Push back at the absurd binaries and rigid hierarchies that Christianity has normalized through its cultural hegemony.
September 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Break free from western Christian epistemology. It colors every aspect of your thinking and how you interact with the world. Push back at the absurd binaries and rigid hierarchies that Christianity has normalized through its cultural hegemony.
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If you ever have trouble believing Pedocon theory -- that an entire national political party could be populated entirely by perverts in open pursuit of their perversions, recall that the entire country once split and fought a war over it.
from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
August 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
If you ever have trouble believing Pedocon theory -- that an entire national political party could be populated entirely by perverts in open pursuit of their perversions, recall that the entire country once split and fought a war over it.
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To me this really highlights the extreme parasocial relationship between Trump and his supporters. This man didn’t think about his daughter’s business when he voted, and now he thinks he has a line to Trump?
August 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
To me this really highlights the extreme parasocial relationship between Trump and his supporters. This man didn’t think about his daughter’s business when he voted, and now he thinks he has a line to Trump?
I saw this in the theater as a first date with a girl who I was too afraid to hold hands with.
Wes Craven's Red Eye was released in theaters on this day 20 years ago 🛩
August 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I saw this in the theater as a first date with a girl who I was too afraid to hold hands with.
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#OtD 8 Aug 1845 UK Parliament passed an enclosure act taking away public land and appointing officials who could enclose more land without approval from MPs – one of 5,000 such acts passed. This dispossession created the working class stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1076...
August 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#OtD 8 Aug 1845 UK Parliament passed an enclosure act taking away public land and appointing officials who could enclose more land without approval from MPs – one of 5,000 such acts passed. This dispossession created the working class stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1076...
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every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing
August 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing
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AI converts simpletons into monsters, turns lonely people insane, and it does so by looting public resources, destroying the planet, and stealing from the creative. It’s not revolutionary. It’s just Facebook 2.0. But now every tech oligarch can get in on the ground floor.
August 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
AI converts simpletons into monsters, turns lonely people insane, and it does so by looting public resources, destroying the planet, and stealing from the creative. It’s not revolutionary. It’s just Facebook 2.0. But now every tech oligarch can get in on the ground floor.
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my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time
March 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time
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Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.
Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to
August 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.
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Pliny the Younger apparently thought sports were very stupid but it's funny that it's for the exact reason laid out in Seinfeld s6e12 ("The Label Maker")
![[6] L To Calvisius.
Thave been spending all my time here among my tablets and books as quietly as I could wish.
"How is that possible," you ask, "in Rome?" Well, the Circensian games have been on, and that is a kind of spectacle which has not the slightest attraction for me. There is no novelty, no variety in it, nothing which one wants to see twice. Hence I am the more amazed that so many thousands of men * should be eager, like a pack of children, to see horses running time after time, and the charioteers bending over their cars. There might be some reason for their enthusiasm if it was the speed of the hors or the skill of the drivers that was the attraction, but it is the racing-colours which they favour, and the racing-colours that fire their love.
If, in the middle of the course and during the race itself, the colours were to be changed, their enthusiasm and partisanship would change with them, and they would suddenly desert the drivers and the horses, whom they recognise afar and whose names they shout aloud. Such is the influence and authority vested i one cheap tunic, I don't say with the common crowd, - for that is even cheaper than the tunic, - but with certain men of position; and when I consider that they can sit for so long without growing tired, looking on at such a fruitless, cheerless, and tedious sport, I really feel a sort of pleasure in the thought that what they take delight in has no charm for me. Thus it is that I have been only too glad to pass my leisure time among my books during the race-meeting, while others have been wasting their days in the most idle occupations. Farewell.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26gfiesadzjgf44w2dv5yeo7/bafkreieap7ojlbpperccfkitgfnxrufik6wdvrgrtfa6ssdm72ihbdhwqm@jpeg)
July 31, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Pliny the Younger apparently thought sports were very stupid but it's funny that it's for the exact reason laid out in Seinfeld s6e12 ("The Label Maker")
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The Romans executed tens of thousands by crucifixion, and you're just gonna assume the guy on my necklace is Jesus?
July 25, 2023 at 10:32 PM
The Romans executed tens of thousands by crucifixion, and you're just gonna assume the guy on my necklace is Jesus?
Teach your kids to brew before you send them off to college. It'll make them cool and save them a ton of money.
July 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Teach your kids to brew before you send them off to college. It'll make them cool and save them a ton of money.
This is going to start a new crusade. Maybe there will really be a Butlerian Jihad.
AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist
July 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This is going to start a new crusade. Maybe there will really be a Butlerian Jihad.
Techbros and billionaires want to ruin every beautiful part of nature in North America. Well, maybe everywhere in the world too, but I live in N America so that's my experience.
July 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Techbros and billionaires want to ruin every beautiful part of nature in North America. Well, maybe everywhere in the world too, but I live in N America so that's my experience.
They're coming for your parents. if you were born abroad, they're coming for your children. How many generations of racial purity will be enough to stay?
Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
They're coming for your parents. if you were born abroad, they're coming for your children. How many generations of racial purity will be enough to stay?
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“Over 250 million acres of public lands are eligible for sale in the bill, including local recreation areas, wilderness study areas and inventoried roadless areas.” www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
www.wilderness.org
June 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“Over 250 million acres of public lands are eligible for sale in the bill, including local recreation areas, wilderness study areas and inventoried roadless areas.” www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
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You will either become a fascist or a communist in the next 20 years so you might as well take your pick now
January 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
You will either become a fascist or a communist in the next 20 years so you might as well take your pick now
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This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.
The president exists in a dystopian fantasy world with no connection to reality
June 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.
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some men’s baldness reveals itself artfully, hair falling away to unveil a beautiful scalp, as michelangelo would free a statue from a block of marble. but other men’s heads burst forth from their hair in an unsightly mockery of birth, a blighted plain upon which some remnants of life still cling
June 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
some men’s baldness reveals itself artfully, hair falling away to unveil a beautiful scalp, as michelangelo would free a statue from a block of marble. but other men’s heads burst forth from their hair in an unsightly mockery of birth, a blighted plain upon which some remnants of life still cling
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If the second largest city in the country can’t handle like 400 protestors, how are the police supposed to implement martial law at the behest of the Trump administration? The numbers don’t add up.
Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department are calling this a warzone. One side is in military gear, with rifles, throwing flash bangs and tear gas.
June 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
If the second largest city in the country can’t handle like 400 protestors, how are the police supposed to implement martial law at the behest of the Trump administration? The numbers don’t add up.