ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king
@archangelzeriel.bsky.social
Engineer/manager. Progressive. Gamer, but not like "Gamer" gamer. Beer and beard enthusiast. Probably won't follow you back.
Currently playing: FFXIV, Silksong, Env Station Alpha
On Deck: Factorio Space Age
Recently Finished: Clair Obscur
Currently playing: FFXIV, Silksong, Env Station Alpha
On Deck: Factorio Space Age
Recently Finished: Clair Obscur
It boggles my mind on a constant basis what absolutely boring people most public billionaires are.
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
It boggles my mind on a constant basis what absolutely boring people most public billionaires are.
... Starting with the fact that there is zero evidence that throwing trans people (or anyone!) under the bus will do anything to ensure your own or your institution's survival.
And plenty of evidence that at best it delays the inevitable by a trivial amount of time.
And plenty of evidence that at best it delays the inevitable by a trivial amount of time.
The truth is that there are many good people in good institutions regretfully making the choice to sacrifice trans people because they fear for their own survival and their institution's survival...
...and it is incumbent on us to show them that their choice is not without consequence.
...and it is incumbent on us to show them that their choice is not without consequence.
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
... Starting with the fact that there is zero evidence that throwing trans people (or anyone!) under the bus will do anything to ensure your own or your institution's survival.
And plenty of evidence that at best it delays the inevitable by a trivial amount of time.
And plenty of evidence that at best it delays the inevitable by a trivial amount of time.
Hell, I give you permission to hate it without reading it! Life's too short to read meaningless prose from a hack.
Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Review: Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Political journalist Olivia Nuzzi has dazzled the media with scandals, but her prose is less sparkling. Her much-anticipated new memoir is rife with arrogance and thin on sourcing.
www.latimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Hell, I give you permission to hate it without reading it! Life's too short to read meaningless prose from a hack.
Imagine - when you don't force people to consume posts with an algorithm, they tend to prefer not to engage with rage-bait and unpopular content.
Corollary - a lot of people on the right don't accept that their positions are wildly unpopular when divorced from the team sports of politics.
Corollary - a lot of people on the right don't accept that their positions are wildly unpopular when divorced from the team sports of politics.
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Imagine - when you don't force people to consume posts with an algorithm, they tend to prefer not to engage with rage-bait and unpopular content.
Corollary - a lot of people on the right don't accept that their positions are wildly unpopular when divorced from the team sports of politics.
Corollary - a lot of people on the right don't accept that their positions are wildly unpopular when divorced from the team sports of politics.
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Wait are we looking for a slogan for the politics of being fucking normal?
"Truth, Justice, and the American Way" isn't booked at the moment and covers the key points
"Truth, Justice, and the American Way" isn't booked at the moment and covers the key points
December 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Wait are we looking for a slogan for the politics of being fucking normal?
"Truth, Justice, and the American Way" isn't booked at the moment and covers the key points
"Truth, Justice, and the American Way" isn't booked at the moment and covers the key points
I named my fists Simon and Garfunkel, because you'll carry the reminders of every glove that laid you down or cut you till you cried out.
I've named my fists Hall and Oates because whoa-oh here they come, watch out boy, they'll chew you up
I named my fists Pride and Prejudice, because it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of two fists must be in want of whupping ass
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I named my fists Simon and Garfunkel, because you'll carry the reminders of every glove that laid you down or cut you till you cried out.
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
Honestly? Probably retire fractionally earlier, in a society with more art and science and commerce due to there being more opportunity to take risks and more money in the hands of people who will spend it.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Honestly? Probably retire fractionally earlier, in a society with more art and science and commerce due to there being more opportunity to take risks and more money in the hands of people who will spend it.
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The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen.
Weezer
Goo Goo Dolls
Everclear
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Edna's Goldfish
Weezer
Goo Goo Dolls
Everclear
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Edna's Goldfish
November 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen.
Weezer
Goo Goo Dolls
Everclear
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Edna's Goldfish
Weezer
Goo Goo Dolls
Everclear
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Edna's Goldfish
I occasionally get the urge to passive-aggressively create a personal block list called "unable to read and understand conversations" or some such, just so I can get the permanent last word because I suspect a lot of the folks I block are also the kind of people who check what lists they're on.
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I occasionally get the urge to passive-aggressively create a personal block list called "unable to read and understand conversations" or some such, just so I can get the permanent last word because I suspect a lot of the folks I block are also the kind of people who check what lists they're on.
I feel like I'm the opposite of this guy because reading his insane justification for stealing from a fellow member of the proletariat made me 10% more capitalist.
We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
![A quote-tweet with the profile blocked out because I won’t be accused of sending flying monkeys at this digital turd.
counterpoint: pirate everything all the time. pirate a sandwich. download a car. abscond from from small business owner mindset with your brain
[High Priestess, Low Patie... • @cherie... • 14h
Re: previous post - People who steal art of any kind are assholes, full stop. If *you* deserve to be paid for your labor, so do I - and so does everybody else; this means writers, visual artists, musicians, and every other category of People Who Make Things.]
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every time vulgar leftism pipes in from the sidelines of petit bourgeoisdom i am forced to become 8.75% more marxist](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x2ssvkga34xug334b66hvrje/bafkreigp2f33rtfu62kqjygnsxhg3jxxs6udwuyisipmyqrh5ew4c6kbyi@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I feel like I'm the opposite of this guy because reading his insane justification for stealing from a fellow member of the proletariat made me 10% more capitalist.
Haven't we all figured out by now that Pete Hegseth's entire heuristic for what "manly" and "good for the military" mean is just "things Pete Hegseth thinks he is good at"?
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Haven't we all figured out by now that Pete Hegseth's entire heuristic for what "manly" and "good for the military" mean is just "things Pete Hegseth thinks he is good at"?
Whole thread is great, and also what I (as a tech guy who's got some machine learning experience) have been saying all along.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Whole thread is great, and also what I (as a tech guy who's got some machine learning experience) have been saying all along.
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Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox
Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
Every game designer parent I know bans Roblox for their kids
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
It's frankly astounding to me that some of these dorks are so bubbled that they are 100% convinced that "racism" isn't a thing that exists, they're just being "realistic" in their feelings about minorities, and therefore the word "racist" is just a rude way to say "Republican" or "right-wing".
Weird how many racists like to self-identify themselves as racists.
November 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
It's frankly astounding to me that some of these dorks are so bubbled that they are 100% convinced that "racism" isn't a thing that exists, they're just being "realistic" in their feelings about minorities, and therefore the word "racist" is just a rude way to say "Republican" or "right-wing".
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Probably shouldn't have to say it, but this was in the year 2002.
Repost if you were alive when Oregon amended its constitution to remove its ban on the existence of Black people within its borders and Black ownership of land within the state, even if those Black ppl stayed out.
Repost if you were alive when Oregon amended its constitution to remove its ban on the existence of Black people within its borders and Black ownership of land within the state, even if those Black ppl stayed out.
November 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Probably shouldn't have to say it, but this was in the year 2002.
Repost if you were alive when Oregon amended its constitution to remove its ban on the existence of Black people within its borders and Black ownership of land within the state, even if those Black ppl stayed out.
Repost if you were alive when Oregon amended its constitution to remove its ban on the existence of Black people within its borders and Black ownership of land within the state, even if those Black ppl stayed out.
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The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
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Of all the potential moderation policies a site needs to have, the violent rhetoric one is consistently the one that causes the most uproar, because people will almost never agree that two posts are equivalent if they are directed at two different targets, even if the words are identical.
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Of all the potential moderation policies a site needs to have, the violent rhetoric one is consistently the one that causes the most uproar, because people will almost never agree that two posts are equivalent if they are directed at two different targets, even if the words are identical.