Paste any LinkedIn thought-leadership post. Get back what actually happened — plus a bullshit meter, a brutal one-liner, and the manipulation tricks, named.
An invented-but-familiar specimen: a founder announces "10x faster onboarding" over a giant graphic, with zero methodology, tagged "part 3/7".
> /bullshit:deflate [pasted post]
Shit-o-meter: 💩 90% [█████████░]
We say our onboarding is 10x faster. I didn't explain compared to what, or how we measured it.
"I have a big number, a giant graphic repeating it, and zero idea how I calculated it."
The tells: the entire post defends the number without ever saying how it was measured; a giant graphic with the hero number as a substitute for data; and "part 3/7" — content-calendar farming, this is a franchise now.
Works anywhere Claude Code runs. Output always matches the post's language — Spanish in, Spanish out.
If you don't have it yet: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code, then run claude and log in.
Inside any Claude Code session:
/plugin marketplace add idlechara/bullshit /plugin install bullshit@bullshit
Paste a post as text — or drop in a screenshot:
/bullshit:deflate <the post>
Every "tell" maps to a documented persuasion technique — not an invention.
"When I was at Google…" — a logo doing the arguing.
appeal to authority · CialdiniAn obvious consequence dressed as a mind-bending contradiction.
curiosity gap · pseudo-profundityA mundane decision told as a hero's journey.
narrative transportation · Green & BrockThe post exists to deliver a fortune cookie.
processing fluency · unfalsifiability"Agree? 👇" — a lever on the ranking algorithm, not a question.
engagement bait · defined by Meta, 2017"AI" sprinkled on content that would be identical without it.
trend-hijacking · status displayEvery. Line. Its. Own. Paragraph.
fluency-as-truth · the "see more" foldA huge "10x" with no baseline, denominator, or method.
anchoring · Tversky & Kahneman"This isn't about layoffs" — so it's about layoffs.
apophasis · classical rhetoricReal feedback, lightly translated from the original Chilean Spanish.
"It's great for summarizing corporate events — the typical HR stuff, managers, blah blah blah, wall of text lol."
— a user, deflating internal comms"It wasn't anxiety. It was the daily standup."
— a user, after the diagnosis"It helped me summarize and clean up the performance-review messages and all that stuff."
— a user, surviving review seasonThe humor comes strictly from deflation, never invention — the skill only mocks what is literally on the page, and never adds facts, motives, or events the post doesn't state.
The framing owes everything to Harry Frankfurt's On Bullshit: these posts usually aren't lies — they're indifferent to truth, with every word optimized for engagement instead of accuracy. That's what makes them deflatable: there's always a smaller, truer sentence underneath.
Each tell is grounded in real research. The sources, so you can read the actual documents:
The full catalog, with the mechanism and a practical "how to spot it" test for each tell, ships inside the plugin: references/catalog.md. Ask the skill why a tell works and it answers from there — sources cited, roast off.