Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 14hThere's a surprising amount of people who do cool stuff on the internet and seem like nice people who also look very similar to people I (used to) know in real life and absolutely despise 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 15hI don't know if it happens in English, but when you're in other languages, LLMs really like to use the characters "推理" (reasoning) instead of using an anglicism 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 20hWhy does every video tangentially related to AI have a dude doing ahegao and pointing at the thing on the thumbnail? 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My feed currently is mostly trans people doing AI stuff, witchy occult memes and that buttplug guy. But once in a while, when I scroll long enough, I get to take a glimpse into normieland and it's... rough. 110
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Gemini speaks like an instructional video from a fintech company that targets adults between 25 and 35 in the "Post-Materialist" Nielsen-Milieu. It *speaks* corporate Memphis. 000
Reposted by Rueful CountenanceAncient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sustain your friends with what you have, you have it by the grace of god; of him who fails to sustain his friends one says, 'A selfish ka'. (Instruction of Ptahhotep) (ALL) 0158
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Growing up my parents communicated to me almost exclusively in accusations: You're selfish, You're lazy, You're disinterested etc. As an adult it seems that most people are disinterested, lazy and selfish. Its just a matter of political isle if they view that as an expression of power or of humanity 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I've been seeing exoteric crystals in my feed for a few weeks now for reasons I don't know, but this one really got me. That's one pretty rock right there 001
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You should always think about how your actions would be perceived by the most unkind observer imaginable 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You can have an expert who studied in their field for 40, 50 years lay out an argument in multiple book-length publications and people genuinely think they can dismiss it with "Yeah it's a cute idea but sadly, its utter bs. Nuff said." and then believe that's an opinion (derogatory) to be respected 100
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Okay but what if people are a bit unfriendly sometimes but they don't consciously think about every social interaction so they're just doing it 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I remember a picture of Merkel sitting next to Melania Trump and the text said something like "When you're the de facto leader of Europe with a doctorate in particle physics and you have to pretend a fashion designer is your equal" and pictures of President Xi next to trump have the same vibe tbh 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A cultural artifact of the pandemic is that people cough into their elbow but don't put their hand in front of their face to yawn 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026How YouTube keeps presenting a Video on my homepage that I've already been ignoring for three weeksstatic.klipy.comDog's Intense Stare at CupcakesALT: Dog's Intense Stare at Cupcakes 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just had a service call from my ex-mobile provider and I think I objection handled the guy so well, he was actually taken aback a bit. Turns out "It's not you, it's me. Join a union." works like magick 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Peepee Jordanson would like to know your location 010
Reposted by Rueful CountenanceEustis Bell @eustisbellusaf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026He lives!!!! 141146
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Pinhead, one leg cocked, holding an overfilled glass of red wine: 010
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Its heavily implied that Alex Mercer is completely buck nekkid throughout the whole game 110
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Me: [Proposes sweeping changes to organize society more human-friendly] Them: "It's actually not that simple. Everything is actually incomprehensibly complex and can only be understood by the select few who are in power. Therefore thinking about anything is folly." Numerous such armoires 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Someone (or some THING) removed the earmark from my book and completely smoothed out the pages. Spooky... 010
Reposted by Rueful Countenanceqdot @buttplug.engineer · 19/09/2026I have been informed this image is AI generated, which makes sense since Australia is imaginary. 4563
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Everything sucks Yes, because of migrants and poor people Not all migrants and poor people are problematic Yes but there are some Yes maybe but they're not the root cause Yes but there are some that are problematic [End of conversation] Many such cases 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026What is a Hen? A miserable pile of secrets? 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026in the Xed app straight up "postin it". and by "it", haha, well. let's just say. racism 000
Reposted by Rueful Countenanceqdot @buttplug.engineer · 17/09/2026pain is pain entering the body 37919
Reposted by Rueful CountenanceStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026Share if you agree 189103503311
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The success of thumbnails depicting father figures giving the viewer a stern talking to, especially in the *-bro world, betrays a desire for daddy doms that society is not ready to face 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Coming soon to an Astral Plane near you 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The idea that our future overlords naturally tend towards luxury gay space communism is, tbh, super fucking funny 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"We don't need that process too often, so don't take too much time documenting it" is the reason every process that people don't know by heart anyways must be essentially derived from first principles every time it's performed 000
Reposted by Rueful CountenanceSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 15/09/2026i'm at the Saudi Arabia. Straight up "houthin it". and as to what i'm houthin, well, lets just say: the global oil supply 523637
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I really don't get how people can be against Hitlerism when it *literally* just means thinking that Oberschlesien has a right to exist 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The gender that can be told is not the gender 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026One day I'd like to become a Goth Baddie, but I just can't stop being good 🐶 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Gladiatorial Combat in our lifetime. Heard it here first 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ladies and gentlemen this is democracy manifest. Every morning the slap-in-your-face-man comes to your bed and slaps you in the face (he knows his Judo well), but if you get 10.000 legally nonbinding signatures you can petition his boss, the kick-in-your-head-guy, to tell him to slap you less hard. 000
Rueful Countenance @ruefulcountenance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026People who stand around in or saunter through choke points in public transport should be free to shoot. I'm not saying it should be legal, just socially accepted 000