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[context for bsky/fedi: this guy is a well-known face on twitter, these are just a handful of his most recent tweets that we decided to just retweet for fun, but there are hundreds like this; you should also, uh. check his Wikipedia page. and now we crosspost the ramble we tweeted 45min ago:]

jiankui he is, alas, still one of the greatest to ever do it (as a poster)

my "you don't, in fact, gotta hand it to jiankui he" t-shirt is getting a lot of questions already answered by the t-shirt

or he is a perfectly sane person who just has chosen that feeding his own narcissism is all he wants out of life, and that is a sane mindset in some sense, tragically

when we say he's the greatest to ever do it, it's in a “the world is made more beautiful by having a few incredibly dangerous narcissists who're really really good at posting” way, not in a “jiankui he is actually admirable in any moral sense” way

in his public image, he seemingly has all the depth and nuance of a certain narcissistic Kamen Rider Ryuuki character, which is an incredibly funny thing to say because that's a tokusatsu series where everyone has an almost one-note personality, but it's more or less true

(hell, Kitaoka Shuuichi of Kamen Rider Ryuuki might actually have more depth, but we will point out that obviously public twitter account vs tv series is a ludicrously unfair comparison, the former will usually show less of someone's personality for obvious reasons)

we are of course aware that we are currently living in a glass house from which it is not wise to throw stones, even if we know we'd throw them whatever the weather; we do hope it's kind of insightful somehow though

we'd really like to claim we are not quite as bad as him, but we will reserve judgment on that and you can make up your own mind