Kaldrenon
@kaldrenon.bsky.social
Writer, encourager, big soft nerd. Kaldrenon everywhere on the internet, Seven Eagles in FFXIV. Concerningly goobery.
Most FFXIV content will be on @lyses-good-boy, still working on setting things up.
Most FFXIV content will be on @lyses-good-boy, still working on setting things up.
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Kaldrenon
@kaldrenon.bsky.social
· Nov 14
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
Profit is an accounting error.
Revenue goes to paying costs, compensating labor, or investing in improvements for the business. If you have money left over after that, you did the math wrong.
Revenue goes to paying costs, compensating labor, or investing in improvements for the business. If you have money left over after that, you did the math wrong.
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Repeat after me:
The death of perfection is the birth of momentum!
THE DEATH OF PERFECTION IS THE BIRTH OF MOMENTUM!!!
The death of perfection is the birth of momentum!
THE DEATH OF PERFECTION IS THE BIRTH OF MOMENTUM!!!
December 13, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Repeat after me:
The death of perfection is the birth of momentum!
THE DEATH OF PERFECTION IS THE BIRTH OF MOMENTUM!!!
The death of perfection is the birth of momentum!
THE DEATH OF PERFECTION IS THE BIRTH OF MOMENTUM!!!
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Profit is an accounting error.
Revenue goes to paying costs, compensating labor, or investing in improvements for the business. If you have money left over after that, you did the math wrong.
Revenue goes to paying costs, compensating labor, or investing in improvements for the business. If you have money left over after that, you did the math wrong.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Profit is an accounting error.
Revenue goes to paying costs, compensating labor, or investing in improvements for the business. If you have money left over after that, you did the math wrong.
Revenue goes to paying costs, compensating labor, or investing in improvements for the business. If you have money left over after that, you did the math wrong.
"I may not approve of all the actions of the money changers, but making a whip and chasing people out of the temple is NEVER the right thing to do."
The real lesson of Christmas is that if God had wanted to win over working-class Judeans, he should have sent down a less divisive Messiah.
December 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
"I may not approve of all the actions of the money changers, but making a whip and chasing people out of the temple is NEVER the right thing to do."
I hope to live to see the death of the billionaire class.
Note: this is not wishing harm or death on any individual. I'd be perfectly happy for it to happen through regulation and divestment, with current billionaires remaining alive and healthy.
I just want wealth hoarding to become impossible.
Note: this is not wishing harm or death on any individual. I'd be perfectly happy for it to happen through regulation and divestment, with current billionaires remaining alive and healthy.
I just want wealth hoarding to become impossible.
December 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I hope to live to see the death of the billionaire class.
Note: this is not wishing harm or death on any individual. I'd be perfectly happy for it to happen through regulation and divestment, with current billionaires remaining alive and healthy.
I just want wealth hoarding to become impossible.
Note: this is not wishing harm or death on any individual. I'd be perfectly happy for it to happen through regulation and divestment, with current billionaires remaining alive and healthy.
I just want wealth hoarding to become impossible.
Free is too much to pay to obtain terf bullshit. There is no justification for having this game in your library at any price.
Hogwarts Legacy is free on Epic Games Store. Mystery game is the next title buff.ly/HE94Ti2
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Free is too much to pay to obtain terf bullshit. There is no justification for having this game in your library at any price.
Am I A Megaman Or Am I A Muppet
December 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Am I A Megaman Or Am I A Muppet
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Zero Kelvin take:
If your company does not have an easy to find, easy to use method for customers to receive direct, personal support from a living human being, your company is worthless.
The more work you make your users do to get support from a living human being, the more evil you are.
If your company does not have an easy to find, easy to use method for customers to receive direct, personal support from a living human being, your company is worthless.
The more work you make your users do to get support from a living human being, the more evil you are.
December 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Zero Kelvin take:
If your company does not have an easy to find, easy to use method for customers to receive direct, personal support from a living human being, your company is worthless.
The more work you make your users do to get support from a living human being, the more evil you are.
If your company does not have an easy to find, easy to use method for customers to receive direct, personal support from a living human being, your company is worthless.
The more work you make your users do to get support from a living human being, the more evil you are.
Zero Kelvin take:
If your company does not have an easy to find, easy to use method for customers to receive direct, personal support from a living human being, your company is worthless.
The more work you make your users do to get support from a living human being, the more evil you are.
If your company does not have an easy to find, easy to use method for customers to receive direct, personal support from a living human being, your company is worthless.
The more work you make your users do to get support from a living human being, the more evil you are.
December 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Zero Kelvin take:
If your company does not have an easy to find, easy to use method for customers to receive direct, personal support from a living human being, your company is worthless.
The more work you make your users do to get support from a living human being, the more evil you are.
If your company does not have an easy to find, easy to use method for customers to receive direct, personal support from a living human being, your company is worthless.
The more work you make your users do to get support from a living human being, the more evil you are.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The level of "it's bad because it happened under Biden" that this administration will go to keeps getting more and more ridiculous.
Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
December 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The level of "it's bad because it happened under Biden" that this administration will go to keeps getting more and more ridiculous.
If I could speak with either of my grandmothers again, I would enjoy the opportunity.
A generative AI is fundamentally, entirely, and permanently incapable of providing that opportunity, and it is repugnant and evil to even *imply* otherwise. Composing this article was journalistic malpractice.
A generative AI is fundamentally, entirely, and permanently incapable of providing that opportunity, and it is repugnant and evil to even *imply* otherwise. Composing this article was journalistic malpractice.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
If I could speak with either of my grandmothers again, I would enjoy the opportunity.
A generative AI is fundamentally, entirely, and permanently incapable of providing that opportunity, and it is repugnant and evil to even *imply* otherwise. Composing this article was journalistic malpractice.
A generative AI is fundamentally, entirely, and permanently incapable of providing that opportunity, and it is repugnant and evil to even *imply* otherwise. Composing this article was journalistic malpractice.
This is the damage that a decade or so of an ad-monetized internet has done to really important areas like journalism.
No reasonable person would dispute that journalists deserve to earn a good wage for their work. But we have been conditioned to expect the fruits of their labor for free.
No reasonable person would dispute that journalists deserve to earn a good wage for their work. But we have been conditioned to expect the fruits of their labor for free.
Let me just say that I do not work at an outlet with an aggressive paywall, but I will also instantly block this kind of nonsense.
How does anyone think not paying to be informed is a flex? We have to support real news and indie outlets.
The alternative to paying is AI slop and Billionaire PR.
How does anyone think not paying to be informed is a flex? We have to support real news and indie outlets.
The alternative to paying is AI slop and Billionaire PR.
December 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This is the damage that a decade or so of an ad-monetized internet has done to really important areas like journalism.
No reasonable person would dispute that journalists deserve to earn a good wage for their work. But we have been conditioned to expect the fruits of their labor for free.
No reasonable person would dispute that journalists deserve to earn a good wage for their work. But we have been conditioned to expect the fruits of their labor for free.
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TONIGHT is Sarah’s annual very special solo stream for @jinglejam.co.uk!
This year I am fundraising for @wwf.org.uk with very special guests! I can’t wait! I better see you there - live at 8 PM GMT! 🐼
This year I am fundraising for @wwf.org.uk with very special guests! I can’t wait! I better see you there - live at 8 PM GMT! 🐼
December 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
TONIGHT is Sarah’s annual very special solo stream for @jinglejam.co.uk!
This year I am fundraising for @wwf.org.uk with very special guests! I can’t wait! I better see you there - live at 8 PM GMT! 🐼
This year I am fundraising for @wwf.org.uk with very special guests! I can’t wait! I better see you there - live at 8 PM GMT! 🐼
Sometimes, when things aren't going the way I think they should, I just look down at my hands and whisper, "Why haven't I leapt?"
it's important to extend grace to those around you, you never know who's just lost their job, who's going home to an empty refrigerator, who's fighting with their boyfriend, who's actually scott bakula having quantum leapt into quite the jam
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Sometimes, when things aren't going the way I think they should, I just look down at my hands and whisper, "Why haven't I leapt?"
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PSA to y’all that now is a great time to start wearing KN95s or N95s in crowded public spaces again if you aren’t already! Not only will it prevent you & yours from being sick/protect your face from the cold, it’ll keep viruses from having chances to mutate & form worse variants!
Everyone I know is sick, almost all of them sound like Dracula, and I'm coming to the realization we will not have any idea what any of this shit even is until the Felchfather is out of office.
December 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
PSA to y’all that now is a great time to start wearing KN95s or N95s in crowded public spaces again if you aren’t already! Not only will it prevent you & yours from being sick/protect your face from the cold, it’ll keep viruses from having chances to mutate & form worse variants!
Boy creature not have think? AI have think for boy!
Girl creature like boy many much if boy creature use AI for replace brainthinks.
Girl creature like boy many much if boy creature use AI for replace brainthinks.
Every ad for AI is like
Person: FUCK!! I don’t know what to get my loved one for Christmas!!!!!! I love them so much!!! Tell me what to do, AI!!
AI: get sock
Title Card: You are literally the smartest person for doing this
Person: FUCK!! I don’t know what to get my loved one for Christmas!!!!!! I love them so much!!! Tell me what to do, AI!!
AI: get sock
Title Card: You are literally the smartest person for doing this
December 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Boy creature not have think? AI have think for boy!
Girl creature like boy many much if boy creature use AI for replace brainthinks.
Girl creature like boy many much if boy creature use AI for replace brainthinks.
If you take away all the things that make something what it is, and all you keep is the name, you're not really keeping the thing.
This is like a reverse ship of Theseus situation
This is like a reverse ship of Theseus situation
I mean, in what sense will you be able to say the college “survived”?
December 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
If you take away all the things that make something what it is, and all you keep is the name, you're not really keeping the thing.
This is like a reverse ship of Theseus situation
This is like a reverse ship of Theseus situation
Sam Altman cannot imagine trying to raise a newborn without ChatGPT because Sam Altman cannot imagine.
If he could, ChatGPT wouldn't exist.
I never really had feelings about Fallon one way or the other, but having Altman on is disgusting. A horrible decision.
If he could, ChatGPT wouldn't exist.
I never really had feelings about Fallon one way or the other, but having Altman on is disgusting. A horrible decision.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Sam Altman cannot imagine trying to raise a newborn without ChatGPT because Sam Altman cannot imagine.
If he could, ChatGPT wouldn't exist.
I never really had feelings about Fallon one way or the other, but having Altman on is disgusting. A horrible decision.
If he could, ChatGPT wouldn't exist.
I never really had feelings about Fallon one way or the other, but having Altman on is disgusting. A horrible decision.
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The people selling the slop want you to think all AI is equal. It helps them sell you their garbage. But AI is actually a very large space, and a vast amount of it is still extremely useful, effective, and ethically created.
Terms to know: generative AI, agentic AI, and large language model (LLM).
Terms to know: generative AI, agentic AI, and large language model (LLM).
AI automation =/= AI generation. the scripts to automatically transcribe voice to text or whether your party character prioritizes Attack or Defense isn't the same as algorithms generating randomized results out of an amalgamation of existing data. conflating them is intentionally misleading.
December 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The people selling the slop want you to think all AI is equal. It helps them sell you their garbage. But AI is actually a very large space, and a vast amount of it is still extremely useful, effective, and ethically created.
Terms to know: generative AI, agentic AI, and large language model (LLM).
Terms to know: generative AI, agentic AI, and large language model (LLM).
The people selling the slop want you to think all AI is equal. It helps them sell you their garbage. But AI is actually a very large space, and a vast amount of it is still extremely useful, effective, and ethically created.
Terms to know: generative AI, agentic AI, and large language model (LLM).
Terms to know: generative AI, agentic AI, and large language model (LLM).
AI automation =/= AI generation. the scripts to automatically transcribe voice to text or whether your party character prioritizes Attack or Defense isn't the same as algorithms generating randomized results out of an amalgamation of existing data. conflating them is intentionally misleading.
December 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The people selling the slop want you to think all AI is equal. It helps them sell you their garbage. But AI is actually a very large space, and a vast amount of it is still extremely useful, effective, and ethically created.
Terms to know: generative AI, agentic AI, and large language model (LLM).
Terms to know: generative AI, agentic AI, and large language model (LLM).
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of course so many trans girls learn to code, they fucking love unix
December 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
of course so many trans girls learn to code, they fucking love unix
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Not only is Eurovision welcoming Israel (while banning Russia for the same reasons), but they’re willing to let go of Spain, Slovenia, Ireland and the Netherland, countries that have not committed war crimes.
Eurovision is willing to self-destruct just to protect Israel.
Boycott Eurovision.
Eurovision is willing to self-destruct just to protect Israel.
Boycott Eurovision.
Ireland, Slovenia, Spain and the Netherlands to Boycott Eurovision over Israel’s Participation
Ireland, Slovenia, Spain and the Netherlands to Boycott Eurovision over Israel’s Participation
Public broadcasters in Ireland, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Spain said Thursday they will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, after the European Broadcasting Union refused to hold a vote on wh...
www.democracynow.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Not only is Eurovision welcoming Israel (while banning Russia for the same reasons), but they’re willing to let go of Spain, Slovenia, Ireland and the Netherland, countries that have not committed war crimes.
Eurovision is willing to self-destruct just to protect Israel.
Boycott Eurovision.
Eurovision is willing to self-destruct just to protect Israel.
Boycott Eurovision.
Bluesky is a fascinating case study in how a platform can eagerly welcome new users and make overtures to sharing those users' values, then turn around and actively undo their own success by punishing users for having those very values.
They got real annoyed when they realized we meant it.
They got real annoyed when they realized we meant it.
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Bluesky is a fascinating case study in how a platform can eagerly welcome new users and make overtures to sharing those users' values, then turn around and actively undo their own success by punishing users for having those very values.
They got real annoyed when they realized we meant it.
They got real annoyed when they realized we meant it.
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The people who make generative AI tools are trying to sell destinations by waging a war on journeys.
They take it for granted that no one enjoys the experience of doing anything creative, provocative, or cognitively demanding. That's the audience they pitch to.
And that's why they're failing.
They take it for granted that no one enjoys the experience of doing anything creative, provocative, or cognitively demanding. That's the audience they pitch to.
And that's why they're failing.
'you can generate a different ending every time you view a movie!'
'you can have endless text conversations with NPCs in games!'
'you can summarize a novel, you don't have to read it!'
the pitches for genAI really reveal how much the people behind it just... hate art.
like. *hate* art. deeply.
'you can have endless text conversations with NPCs in games!'
'you can summarize a novel, you don't have to read it!'
the pitches for genAI really reveal how much the people behind it just... hate art.
like. *hate* art. deeply.
December 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The people who make generative AI tools are trying to sell destinations by waging a war on journeys.
They take it for granted that no one enjoys the experience of doing anything creative, provocative, or cognitively demanding. That's the audience they pitch to.
And that's why they're failing.
They take it for granted that no one enjoys the experience of doing anything creative, provocative, or cognitively demanding. That's the audience they pitch to.
And that's why they're failing.