Malkaiden
@malkaiden.bsky.social
Ronin tech lawyer & wandering scholar. Working on a PhD in Law & neurotech. European, Marxist, Atheist.
Futurist & scifi writer. Observer of humans, feeder of cats. Player of TTRPG games, hater of human social status games.
Futurist & scifi writer. Observer of humans, feeder of cats. Player of TTRPG games, hater of human social status games.
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Malkaiden
@malkaiden.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Greetings, wanderer, but ☝️ Beware!
I post on:
📚Higher Learning (good)
🌀DiaMat analysis (YMMV)
🔗Systems theory & cybernetics (ditto)
🚩Communism (good)
💰Capitalism (bad)
🌎🌍🌏Climate (bad)
⚖️law & injustice (bad)
🍄drugs (YMMV)
🧠neuro-science &-tech (YMMV)
🪤 game design (good)
I post on:
📚Higher Learning (good)
🌀DiaMat analysis (YMMV)
🔗Systems theory & cybernetics (ditto)
🚩Communism (good)
💰Capitalism (bad)
🌎🌍🌏Climate (bad)
⚖️law & injustice (bad)
🍄drugs (YMMV)
🧠neuro-science &-tech (YMMV)
🪤 game design (good)
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![cait @cait.bsky.social • 5mo
how come "realism" in games only applies to shit that sucks and not, for instance, the fact that most flashlights do not actually run out of batteries after 3 minutes, and good quality tools will literally outlive you if you take good care of them
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cait
@cait.bsky.social
if somebody sold me an axe that broke after chopping down 10 trees i would go back to their shop and beat the shit out of them
June 9, 2024 at 6:10 PM](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vzh3zzjcbamllzjadsmfooxq/bafkreifgnudfupzxq72zxfv3zeo6cryhi6jnoppqdprvacz5r4ohb4toh4@jpeg)
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I keep seeing people claim "they didn't even manufacture consent" in the wake of them bombing random speedboats that have no hope of reaching the US. I point this out to beg you all to realize what demons we are dealing with. That was them trying to manufacture consent. That was it.
Breaking news: Donald Trump has said that Venezuela’s airspace should be considered closed, after a military build-up by US forces in the region on.ft.com/489mnfV
November 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I keep seeing people claim "they didn't even manufacture consent" in the wake of them bombing random speedboats that have no hope of reaching the US. I point this out to beg you all to realize what demons we are dealing with. That was them trying to manufacture consent. That was it.
my self-regard is a metronome between towering ego and the self-deprecation of falling beneath standards for the divine
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
my self-regard is a metronome between towering ego and the self-deprecation of falling beneath standards for the divine
probably the pettiest and most inconsequential reason I have for being [redacted] at Charlie Kirk's fate, is that very soon he will be forgotten, and I will never have to be confronted with his malformed ugly mug again.
September 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
probably the pettiest and most inconsequential reason I have for being [redacted] at Charlie Kirk's fate, is that very soon he will be forgotten, and I will never have to be confronted with his malformed ugly mug again.
i will never get over how Arkansas is ArkenSAW but Kansas is KanZASS.
Deeply unserious language.
Deeply unserious language.
September 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
i will never get over how Arkansas is ArkenSAW but Kansas is KanZASS.
Deeply unserious language.
Deeply unserious language.
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KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"
BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"
1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."
2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."
3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."
BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"
1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."
2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."
3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."
September 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"
BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"
1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."
2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."
3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."
BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"
1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."
2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."
3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."
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IMO the main problem with NIMBYism is simply that "this conflicts with my sense of aesthetics" just isn't ever a valid argument when weighed against the material needs of human beings, regardless of how closely those aesthetics hew to a societal good.
September 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
IMO the main problem with NIMBYism is simply that "this conflicts with my sense of aesthetics" just isn't ever a valid argument when weighed against the material needs of human beings, regardless of how closely those aesthetics hew to a societal good.
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The f*&%ing library.
2. What is something “low effort, high reward” you wish more people knew about?
August 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The f*&%ing library.
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me, a communist, reading Fabula Ultima, an RPG written by an anarchist
August 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
me, a communist, reading Fabula Ultima, an RPG written by an anarchist
I've never understood how biblically accurate angels are supposed to be scary, but then what they are is "eldritch" the same way lovecraftian monstrosities are, and I never found those scary either. I found them weird and kind of funny.
August 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I've never understood how biblically accurate angels are supposed to be scary, but then what they are is "eldritch" the same way lovecraftian monstrosities are, and I never found those scary either. I found them weird and kind of funny.
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reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland
August 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland
making my way through the Knights of Last Call review of #DrawSteel, and:
"when things are just written down in your character sheet and they don't do anything, I think they are lame."
Derik Malenda manages to perfectly articulate all my feelings about elfgames.
"when things are just written down in your character sheet and they don't do anything, I think they are lame."
Derik Malenda manages to perfectly articulate all my feelings about elfgames.
August 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
making my way through the Knights of Last Call review of #DrawSteel, and:
"when things are just written down in your character sheet and they don't do anything, I think they are lame."
Derik Malenda manages to perfectly articulate all my feelings about elfgames.
"when things are just written down in your character sheet and they don't do anything, I think they are lame."
Derik Malenda manages to perfectly articulate all my feelings about elfgames.
it's such a weird thing that Netanyahu, a genocidal criminal, looks very much like a monkey
August 7, 2025 at 5:14 AM
it's such a weird thing that Netanyahu, a genocidal criminal, looks very much like a monkey
leave it to America to make the fall of America the most unbelievable, batshit insane dystopian scifi script you couldn't even intentionally imagine
August 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
leave it to America to make the fall of America the most unbelievable, batshit insane dystopian scifi script you couldn't even intentionally imagine
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This is what the Online Safety Act is doing.
How is this keeping children safe?
How is this keeping children safe?
July 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This is what the Online Safety Act is doing.
How is this keeping children safe?
How is this keeping children safe?
me, an early-stage designer craving deep engaging rules in a non-shitty ruleset engine and minimal adjudication reliance:
July 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
me, an early-stage designer craving deep engaging rules in a non-shitty ruleset engine and minimal adjudication reliance:
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Porn and art with sexual themes deserve to exist on their own merit, not because censoring them has knock-on effects for non-sexual content. Please stop expressing outrage by implying that censorship would be okay if it *just* affected sex workers and artists engaging with sexual themes.
July 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Porn and art with sexual themes deserve to exist on their own merit, not because censoring them has knock-on effects for non-sexual content. Please stop expressing outrage by implying that censorship would be okay if it *just* affected sex workers and artists engaging with sexual themes.
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During the first lockdown, a couple of years in to the major surge of TERFs on social media, mostly Twitter obviously, I realised I recognised their behaviour. It was how Scientologists behave in those documentaries where eventually people like John Sweeney totally lose it with them.
July 23, 2025 at 8:28 AM
During the first lockdown, a couple of years in to the major surge of TERFs on social media, mostly Twitter obviously, I realised I recognised their behaviour. It was how Scientologists behave in those documentaries where eventually people like John Sweeney totally lose it with them.
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I feel like I just hit a new old man milestone. I went out to empty the trash, there was construction going on, and I angrily thought “why are there always things happening”
July 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I feel like I just hit a new old man milestone. I went out to empty the trash, there was construction going on, and I angrily thought “why are there always things happening”
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Well-said, @ketanjoshi.co.
Fatalism supports apathy and leads to deeper failure. I’ll pass, David.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/14/c...
Fatalism supports apathy and leads to deeper failure. I’ll pass, David.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/14/c...
Climate fatalism is just as wrong as climate denial — it's never 'too late' for change
Veteran environmentalist David Suzuki believes the time has passed us to stop climate change. He's wrong.
www.crikey.com.au
July 16, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Well-said, @ketanjoshi.co.
Fatalism supports apathy and leads to deeper failure. I’ll pass, David.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/14/c...
Fatalism supports apathy and leads to deeper failure. I’ll pass, David.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/14/c...
one of the things I know I'm not in the minority for, is that I have zero sympathy for people who are suffering the direct, causally linked consequences of their choices and beliefs. Especially when they can very easily choose to stop what they're doing, but they just refuse to.
July 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
one of the things I know I'm not in the minority for, is that I have zero sympathy for people who are suffering the direct, causally linked consequences of their choices and beliefs. Especially when they can very easily choose to stop what they're doing, but they just refuse to.