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Being on here keeps me humble, because I think I have a great imagination and understand other people well, but I keep getting proven wrong. People do and think things that utterly baffle and confound me I embrace beginner's mind

I'm a bit more pretentious than that

less wrong but are you sure

I waver between extraordinary smugness and crushing self doubt so maybe that makes me moderately pretentious?

Hey I'm a pretentious moderate of long standing

Turns out government by Toonces the Driving Cat is an obviously terrible idea that only gets more terrible the longer it goes on. bsky.app/profile/brai...

It's been a really hard decade for the "work hard, study hard, it's your responsibility to build a better world" crowd. Turns out any intellectually lazy, ethics-free dipshit with the right connections and money can tear it all down.

Bluesky: Where the moderately pretentious go to argue with the pretentiously moderate.

I used to be moderately pretentious, but I’m all right maintenant.

Speak for yourself. I'm here to be pretentiously immoderate.

…and I’d much rather be moderately pretentious than whatever is going on at those other sites these days.

Are we on Bluesky because we’re moderately pretentious, or does simply being on Bluesky make us that way? 🤔

i feel pretty darn smug about it tbh

"Ddon't call me stupid.." "You BlueSkyers are so fucking superior!" [Sorry, couldn't find the clips]

I am proudly pretentious but I can actually back it up unlike these charlatans!

But I’m over 65 with postgrad degrees. Do I get to be quite pretentious about how we would have done it better in my day?

I will never fault you for showing undue mercy

Hey yeah, same.