blow smoke
(originally, US) To speak with a lack of credibility, sense, purpose, or truth; to speak nonsense.
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ty for wanting my sea witch to kill you and blow smoke in ur faces 🙏
"That is a classic symptom of the Copy Fail exploit." Do not blow smoke up my ass, Gemini, there's nothing classic about an exploit that was released less than a week ago.
He only listens to experts who blow smoke up his ass & thus he is desperate to find an expert who won't. Trapped in his own head
Blow smoke in my face if you so desire
Telling them not to blow smoke up my ass is is actually helpful in making it more palatable. My prompt is 1/10 of the character count of pmarca's bullshit there. Accuracy can be improved by certain surprising phrases…
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(originally, US) To speak with a lack of credibility, sense, purpose, or truth; to speak nonsense.
“"That is a classic symptom of the Copy Fail exploit." Do not blow smoke up my ass, Gemini, there's nothing classic about an exploit that was released less than a week ago.”
Are these "statistics" they cite verifiable, or are they just blowing smoke, trying to scare people?
“ty for wanting my sea witch to kill you and blow smoke in ur faces 🙏”
— Bluesky· May 2026“"That is a classic symptom of the Copy Fail exploit." Do not blow smoke up my ass, Gemini, there's nothing classic about an exploit that was released less than a week ago.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“He only listens to experts who blow smoke up his ass & thus he is desperate to find an expert who won't. Trapped in his own head”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Blow smoke in my face if you so desire”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Telling them not to blow smoke up my ass is is actually helpful in making it more palatable. My prompt is 1/10 of the character count of pmarca's bullshit there. Accuracy can be improved by certain surprising phrases but those are already in the base prompt.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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