kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 6hum my ancient roman towelboy twink bf doesn't understand the concept of cleaning out?? "just wrap it with some fresh goat's intestine if you're worried about a little σκᾰτός" 000
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 6hnot sure if anyone's observed this already but death note really is a deeply incisive portrait of the three different kinds of autism 000
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 23hjust heard that trump wants to start working on his arch 👀 000
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026and i suppose the orcs are turks, come to think 110
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i think all sci-fi and fantasy should do this. tolkien shoulda made the ents vietnamese 160
Reposted by kungsluk kungslukvanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026protip if you never make yourself vulnerable or open to love you never get hurt. life hack. 1340548
Reposted by kungsluk kungsluk"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Right, they're saying, "I made an intelligent being and then told it to make 10,000 copies of itself to try a problem and to delete itself if it failed and then iterate its mass-self-suicide until it solved the problem" and, uh, buddy, I don't think you made a being but if you did, ho boy... 88013
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026i had a similar dream a couple of months ago that's since metastasized into an outline of a novella 120
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026baleen all the way. chilling, cruising the bright beautiful surface waters, nothing to do but sing and contemplate ... the life of the mind 010
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026eating a woman out, consensually = gay anally penetrating a man, nonconsensually = straight know the rules ! 0100
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026whether a sex act is gay or straight no longer depends on the gender of the participants -- the most important thing is whether it's consensual or not 1121
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026iirc rick berman said something similar to this about star trek: deep space nine. instead of calling them the palestinians, or the jews, or the kurds, you call them the bajorans and in so doing force the viewer abandon their preconceived notions from real-world instances of oppression and extremism 000
Reposted by kungsluk kungslukrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026right, exactly. i am adjacent to rationalists because i have worked alongside rationalists for a decade. some are very earnest EA monks who more or less give away the huge amount of money they make. some are neoreactionaries with essentially Satanic values. the monks and neoreactionaries get along. 1069458
Reposted by kungsluk kungslukWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The conservative justices are free to hold Supreme Court expansion illegal, but it’s going to be embarrassing to be in a 6-to-48 minority 732321
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026no WAY we're bringing poor wayne lee into this 000
Reposted by kungsluk kungslukWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“People are being hugely irresponsible with this disruptive new tech. We need robust regulation to mitigate its disruptive impacts. We’re workingon that.” “Wow, that sounds really good can I learn more abou—“ “Don’t listen to them. They’re a sex cult” “Don’t listen to him. Not a cult. Promise.” 227214
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026how are you at this level of disillusionment already bro. you're still in college 000
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026After Leaving the Confederate Army I Got Reincarnated As a Super-Powerful Warlord On Another World! 000
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026i actually find it a little alarming that poorly-written isekai anime, whose target audience is dissatisfied 40-year-old japanese salarymen, is gaining so much popularity with american zoomer males 100
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026maybe my gen z therapist was right. maybe i really do have bad vibes and am lowkey unpleasant to be around 001
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026when we're putting in our shifts in the lab designing woke 2, we have to figure out how best to prevent it from being used as an interpersonal cudgel by marginalized people with severe personality disorders 000
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026germ theory is really on the back foot these days it seems 010
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026we simply were not meant to be SEEN by this many people 000
Reposted by kungsluk kungslukmothman the wanderer @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026...welcome to Day 1 at Skunk Works: this is our pride and joy, the SR-71, which is fast enough for our pilots to escape both toxic operating thetans and Class V demons up to and including Ba'al himself. go on, laugh; a lot of smarter people disagree! 619025
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026if you look into major right-wing figures' sources of funding, it arguably already has 010
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026my boyfriend has observed that the same thing is true in his (undergrad business) classes. what the hell is going on 000
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026of the movies i know: the dark knight and ghostbusters come to mind. i've never seen american sniper but i hear it's well-made of the books i know: lord of the rings and book of the new sun. if we're counting "the author is conservative" as "conservative art," maybe also the ender's game books 010
Reposted by kungsluk kungslukFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...iankduncan.comSex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian DuncanHow a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ... 591946468
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i'd like to add from personal knowledge: one of the doge boys from that infamous Wired article (who appear to have mostly been recruited from that same silicon valley milieu) used to run a small effective altruism blog 061
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026tbh they should have done this for stranger things as well 000
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026it's genuinely hilarious that they allegedly spent 7 months planning the murder and were caught in basically 3 days due to the sheer quantity of enormous fuckups 130
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026gene wolfe stories must be about either: cannibalism, weird anti-modernist gripes, the universality of the christ, or large women. if it is about more than one of these things, what you have is actually a gene wolfe novel 173
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026in their defense, my brain did have that immediate p600 ungrammaticality reaction to 'spectra' as a singular. but then, like a normal person, i asked "am i likely to know more about physics terminology than a literal physics PhD?" and i decided not to correct the usage of a literal physics PhD 1170
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026i do this to my undergrads sometimes and it usually catches one or two per assignment. i'd be worried about including one in a paper, though, bc i'd be (kind of irrationally) mortified if an actual human reviewer somehow found and read it 020
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026way ahead of you. every night as i drift off to sleep i smile serenely and whisper "It might happen tonight" 020
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026i don't think that will be a useful tack to take legally but i like where your head's at 3120
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026con: the president's pardon power means we'll probably only be able to criminally prosecute the minions he actively chooses to betray. pro: the president is currently donald j trump, who betrays most people 6422
kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026i was a fairly undiscerning 17 year old when it came out and i thought it sucked so much shit it put me off marvel movies permanently 000
