Natsuka
@octopodeeznuts.bsky.social
FORTRAN, Perl, and dotfile de-spaghettifier
she/they bi 🏳️⚧️ autist 📄 '89
GOP delenda est
she/they bi 🏳️⚧️ autist 📄 '89
GOP delenda est
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you could probably have a pretty effective campaign of writing letters to the family members of ICE agents letting them know those agents are hated by people in the community for sending people to concentration camps
a one-two punch of "I know where you live" (public info) and "your family knows"
a one-two punch of "I know where you live" (public info) and "your family knows"
December 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
you could probably have a pretty effective campaign of writing letters to the family members of ICE agents letting them know those agents are hated by people in the community for sending people to concentration camps
a one-two punch of "I know where you live" (public info) and "your family knows"
a one-two punch of "I know where you live" (public info) and "your family knows"
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G1: “Captain Solo, reason for REFRAD?”
Han: “I am like suuuuuper gonna get murdered by the mob.”
G1: “Commander Skywalker, reason for Leave?”
Luke: “A ghost in a blizzard told me to.”
G1:
Han: “I am like suuuuuper gonna get murdered by the mob.”
G1: “Commander Skywalker, reason for Leave?”
Luke: “A ghost in a blizzard told me to.”
G1:
a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with his eyes closed and his hand in his mouth .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with his eyes closed and his hand in his mouth .
media.tenor.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
G1: “Captain Solo, reason for REFRAD?”
Han: “I am like suuuuuper gonna get murdered by the mob.”
G1: “Commander Skywalker, reason for Leave?”
Luke: “A ghost in a blizzard told me to.”
G1:
Han: “I am like suuuuuper gonna get murdered by the mob.”
G1: “Commander Skywalker, reason for Leave?”
Luke: “A ghost in a blizzard told me to.”
G1:
If you asked me to guess what was on the B-side of Jingle Bell Rock, i would not have been able to come up with Captain Santa Claus (and His Reindeer Space Patrol)
but it kinda feels like we *should* be able to guess that, right?
but it kinda feels like we *should* be able to guess that, right?
December 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
If you asked me to guess what was on the B-side of Jingle Bell Rock, i would not have been able to come up with Captain Santa Claus (and His Reindeer Space Patrol)
but it kinda feels like we *should* be able to guess that, right?
but it kinda feels like we *should* be able to guess that, right?
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Why do we never hear about Massive Sustain, Massive Decay, and Massive Release?
massive attack is misnamed they should really have been called gentle approach thank you I'll be here all week
December 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Why do we never hear about Massive Sustain, Massive Decay, and Massive Release?
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STEM and humanities are companions and fellow travelers. The MBAs are the enemy.
here's a hot for Bluesky take: a lot of tech-criticism is so bad and focused on a kind of stupid imagined STEM-humanities culture war that some companies have been able to build whole brands around being "evil tech bros 😈" making supervillain promises despite their shit being vaporware
December 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
STEM and humanities are companions and fellow travelers. The MBAs are the enemy.
After giving it some time, i do think i prefer this overall. I wish i could see activity only on _older_ posts, but i'm okay with the tradeoff.
I might reenable "likes of your reposts" and/or "reposts of your reposts" though, just because i don't notice people's replies to those otherwise
I might reenable "likes of your reposts" and/or "reposts of your reposts" though, just because i don't notice people's replies to those otherwise
December 24, 2025 at 4:57 AM
After giving it some time, i do think i prefer this overall. I wish i could see activity only on _older_ posts, but i'm okay with the tradeoff.
I might reenable "likes of your reposts" and/or "reposts of your reposts" though, just because i don't notice people's replies to those otherwise
I might reenable "likes of your reposts" and/or "reposts of your reposts" though, just because i don't notice people's replies to those otherwise
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People who are comfortable with C should be perfect targets for LLMs, because they're already used to having to either give up on software quality OR do an enormous amount of fiddly extra-programming work!
December 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
People who are comfortable with C should be perfect targets for LLMs, because they're already used to having to either give up on software quality OR do an enormous amount of fiddly extra-programming work!
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this is an extremely long thread to demonstrate what I think was obviously true: @indexers.bsky.social should not have published that awful excuse for an LLM paper as it is.
If they want a rebuttal paper, I can finish this work and give it a shot, but I suspect they don't! Prove me wrong, etc.
If they want a rebuttal paper, I can finish this work and give it a shot, but I suspect they don't! Prove me wrong, etc.
December 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
this is an extremely long thread to demonstrate what I think was obviously true: @indexers.bsky.social should not have published that awful excuse for an LLM paper as it is.
If they want a rebuttal paper, I can finish this work and give it a shot, but I suspect they don't! Prove me wrong, etc.
If they want a rebuttal paper, I can finish this work and give it a shot, but I suspect they don't! Prove me wrong, etc.
This is an important thing to keep in mind in general
Doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Just saying cropped screenshots with no links are sometimes cropped with no links for a reason.
December 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This is an important thing to keep in mind in general
It's always a good time to listen to Eldermourne (Naddpod campaign 2), they better go back to those characters or at least that world again
And now i think it's time to start my first relisten of campaign 3. Duck Team fucking sucks (laudatory)
And now i think it's time to start my first relisten of campaign 3. Duck Team fucking sucks (laudatory)
December 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
It's always a good time to listen to Eldermourne (Naddpod campaign 2), they better go back to those characters or at least that world again
And now i think it's time to start my first relisten of campaign 3. Duck Team fucking sucks (laudatory)
And now i think it's time to start my first relisten of campaign 3. Duck Team fucking sucks (laudatory)
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democrats would be center-right among thai hippo parties
December 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
democrats would be center-right among thai hippo parties
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traffic calming infrastructure is everywhere for those with the eyes to see
December 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
traffic calming infrastructure is everywhere for those with the eyes to see
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the modern history of the criminal legal system makes it very clear that "just make this thing illegal" or "just give the feds jurisdiction over it" does not accomplish very much.
December 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
the modern history of the criminal legal system makes it very clear that "just make this thing illegal" or "just give the feds jurisdiction over it" does not accomplish very much.
obviously they would be a major sponsor of the Washington Generals
imagine an unholy conglomeration of General Electric, General Dynamics, General Motors, General Atomics, General Mills, and General Tire, with this mascot:
December 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
obviously they would be a major sponsor of the Washington Generals
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Wins like today are important in the fight against an authoritarian regime. They expose the state. They remind people that they should stand up and fight back. They inject some faith back into institutions. They push back against the zero sum thinking that can doom resistance.
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Wins like today are important in the fight against an authoritarian regime. They expose the state. They remind people that they should stand up and fight back. They inject some faith back into institutions. They push back against the zero sum thinking that can doom resistance.
it's kinda weird that all those rotary cannons are *still* associated with General Electric even though they sold GE Armament Systems in 1993 (to Martin Marietta, at the time)
i feel like there must be a lot of people who don't know that General Dynamics and General Electric are unrelated companies
i feel like there must be a lot of people who don't know that General Dynamics and General Electric are unrelated companies
ignoring Current Events and thinking of this chungus
December 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
it's kinda weird that all those rotary cannons are *still* associated with General Electric even though they sold GE Armament Systems in 1993 (to Martin Marietta, at the time)
i feel like there must be a lot of people who don't know that General Dynamics and General Electric are unrelated companies
i feel like there must be a lot of people who don't know that General Dynamics and General Electric are unrelated companies
I read Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought books in my early 20s, and ever since then, i've been gently steering toward a career as a "programmer-archaeologist"
I think i'm getting there; some of my work in my current job could probably be accurately described as software archaeology
I think i'm getting there; some of my work in my current job could probably be accurately described as software archaeology
for me the biggest downside of the AI bubble is that it's going to leave the software world totally trashed with not just a bunch of garbage code but also a bunch of garbage architecture that I'll have to painstakingly explain to stakeholders over and over again to avoid
December 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I read Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought books in my early 20s, and ever since then, i've been gently steering toward a career as a "programmer-archaeologist"
I think i'm getting there; some of my work in my current job could probably be accurately described as software archaeology
I think i'm getting there; some of my work in my current job could probably be accurately described as software archaeology
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discourse tends to assume supportive parents for political reasons but most parents are not that kind of supportive & a more consistent ideology under which the nuclear family has unlimited and exclusive power over children is not really a liberatory move
December 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
discourse tends to assume supportive parents for political reasons but most parents are not that kind of supportive & a more consistent ideology under which the nuclear family has unlimited and exclusive power over children is not really a liberatory move
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it would be cool if journalists put as much effort into policing themselves and their colleagues as they put into defending their colleagues from any and all criticism that are deemed to come from outsiders, regardless of the merits
December 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
it would be cool if journalists put as much effort into policing themselves and their colleagues as they put into defending their colleagues from any and all criticism that are deemed to come from outsiders, regardless of the merits
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Capital are mid tier villains; The Cops are the Final Boss of American politics, and they must be brought to heel.
Woke 2.0. It has to win, and it has to work, and it has to make people relatively happy, and it has to put guardrails in that can outlast it.
And people think it'll be a challenge!
Woke 2.0. It has to win, and it has to work, and it has to make people relatively happy, and it has to put guardrails in that can outlast it.
And people think it'll be a challenge!
December 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Capital are mid tier villains; The Cops are the Final Boss of American politics, and they must be brought to heel.
Woke 2.0. It has to win, and it has to work, and it has to make people relatively happy, and it has to put guardrails in that can outlast it.
And people think it'll be a challenge!
Woke 2.0. It has to win, and it has to work, and it has to make people relatively happy, and it has to put guardrails in that can outlast it.
And people think it'll be a challenge!
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Gomez Adams was one of the original Wife Guys.
December 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Gomez Adams was one of the original Wife Guys.
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keeping this around for the next time i'm asked what Bluesky is
December 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
keeping this around for the next time i'm asked what Bluesky is
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The Left is doomed to collapse into the fascist abyss unless we realise that the vanguard of the working class right now are the proletarianised tech and pink-collar work forces. Workers on the way UP are revolutionary. Workers seeking rent from a stagnant system are reactionary.
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The Left is doomed to collapse into the fascist abyss unless we realise that the vanguard of the working class right now are the proletarianised tech and pink-collar work forces. Workers on the way UP are revolutionary. Workers seeking rent from a stagnant system are reactionary.
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The number of people who produce art, in the broadest sense of the word is a fraction of the number of people who could produce art. Actually, it's worse than hat. Slice art into the many mediums and genres. The number of people who could do that kind of art compared to who does is unbelievably tiny
December 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The number of people who produce art, in the broadest sense of the word is a fraction of the number of people who could produce art. Actually, it's worse than hat. Slice art into the many mediums and genres. The number of people who could do that kind of art compared to who does is unbelievably tiny
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49. The game isn't over by far. But make no mistake: we are winning. That's something to be proud of. It's something to accelerate. It's nothing to take for granted. And it's certainly no time to take Yglesias' advice and fumble the ball so the other team won't feel so sad. /fin
December 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
49. The game isn't over by far. But make no mistake: we are winning. That's something to be proud of. It's something to accelerate. It's nothing to take for granted. And it's certainly no time to take Yglesias' advice and fumble the ball so the other team won't feel so sad. /fin