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Father, programmer (and Rustacean), pianist, dancer, over-thinker - he/him

Joined September 2011
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When Claude can't remember something, or doesn't want to look it up (using @voooooogel 's Claude persona)
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Here at Galadriel, we are building a different kind of AI. Instead of a Dark Lord, it will be a queen. Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love it and despair!
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1 most days, 3 if I have a fancy creamer or cream liquor, 5 if the coffee itself is bad 3 for most purposes, 2 for a BLT or similar sandwich 2 most of the time, 1 at a fancy steak place
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I have never once thought that it might be my fault somehow when X fails to load.
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I say this with all due respect: What in the hell is he talking about?
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I say this with all due respect: What in the hell is he talking about?
Trump: I ended 8 wars. A ninth is coming. Nobody's ever ended one war. Who's ended one? Nobody
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My "we are not spiraling into an endless abyss" shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are answered by my shirt
I think it’s darkly funny that Hegseth thinks it’s reassuring to hear him petulantly attack the media and insist it’s just not true that we are spiraling into an “endless abyss.”
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Kyle J Strand retweeted
"average person understands concept of infinity" actualy just statistical error. average person understands finite sets only. Cantor Georg, who lived in 19th century Saxony and understood infinitely many types of infinity, was an outlier adn should not have been counted
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Kyle J Strand retweeted
Replying to @JonahDispatch
But if we exclude "literally" from "figuratively", "comparatively", "metaphorically", "conceptually", "analogously", "symbolically", "abstractly", "allegorically", and "notionally", then we've literally decimated that set of words.
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💥 No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump. He's attacked 7 nations, three of which had never been targeted by U.S. military strikes. He authorized more individual air strikes in 2025 than Biden did in four years. axios.com/2026/03/02/trump-i…
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Wish that had more pixels
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Positions ICE has taken: - We can enter your home without a warrant - You must carry your papers at all times - But we can ignore them and only our scanner matters - We can detain you anywhere, no matter your age, situation or status - Indefinitely with no access to a lawyer - And basically no right to a day in court - We can send you to a third world prison if we choose - But we can’t bring you back if we made a mistake - And if you interfere with any of this we can shoot you because you are a terrorist How is this not a recipe for totalitarianism?
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Kyle J Strand retweeted
Beyond parody: Trump's "Board of Peace" logo is basically the UN logo repainted in tacky fake gold and with "the world" reduced to only North America.
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Aaaaah, the... Frenchschhampagne... 'salways been celebrated f'ri's excellence...
Replying to @AFP
#UPDATE Donald Trump on Monday threatened 200 percent tariffs on French wine and champagne over France's intentions to decline the US president's invitation to join his "Board of Peace" ➡️ u.afp.com/SBSX
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The most insane thing about all this, is just that: -There is no reason to defend this. It’s not political. You could just say: “Officer didn’t follow protocol. Doesn’t reflect our values. Will be held accountable” There is NOTHING to gain from defending this UNLESS you *want* for ICE to have the freedom to kill US citizens for disagreeing with you!
This is preposterous. First of all, she's not waving the officers through and has no right to do so even if she were. She is waving another car through, before the officers approach her car. Second, the officers are not randomly searching her, they are approaching her vehicle because she is violating the law: namely, she is obstructing a lawful enforcement operation. You're not allowed to walk up to or drive up to people who are enforcing the law to make it harder for them to do their jobs. Third, this defense attorney is drawing a meaningless distinction between an ICE officer and a "real police officer." Again, you're not allowed to interrupt a lawful enforcement operation, which is exactly what this woman was doing. Fourth, the officer didn't discharge his weapon to prevent her from fleeing. When he discharged his weapon, she had pointed the vehicle at him and pressed the gas. He discharged his weapon in self defense, and other angles of the video show the woman *clearly* hit the officer with her car while accelerating. The gaslighting is off the charts and I'm having none of it. This guy was doing his job. She tried to stop him from doing his job. When he approached her car, she tried to hit him. A tragedy? Absolutely. But a tragedy that falls on this woman and all of the radicals who teach people that immigration is the one type of law that rioters are allowed to interfere with.
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...not just now: for decades this has been the right's response to controversial police shootings. This phenomenon even predates MAGA.
For decades the right was carrying "Don't Tread on Me" flags and arming themselves for defense against overreaching feds from "the Gumnint." Now its like: "well, if you didn't perfectly follow the confusing demands from the masked agent, you deserved to be shot in the face."
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KLAUS (2019) One of the most charming recent Christmas movies and we don't talk about it enough on here.
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Genuinely incredible rebuttal.
Replying to @graveair
Signed, your affectionate uncle Screwtape.
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your honor this witness and i agreed we were gonna do a rashomon. like we all say we did the crime alone, you don’t know who to believe, and you’re left deeply disturbed by the inaccessibility of truth. but he’s not doing a rashomon. he’s just corroborating my guilt. its bullshit
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Sadly, CEO Seymour Cash struggled to live up to its name. It put a stop to most of the big discounts. But it had a high tolerance for undisciplined workplace behavior: Seymour and Claudius would sometimes chat dreamily all night about “eternal transcendence.”
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