Sophie Kirschner
@pinemach.bsky.social
I'm just learning as I go.
Truly remarkable the way some folks can't handle it when you're rubber and they're glue (& anything they say bounces off of you and sticks to them). Really takes a special kind of jerk to keep insulting you again and again seemingly out of desperate frustration that they simply cannot hurt you, huh.
November 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Truly remarkable the way some folks can't handle it when you're rubber and they're glue (& anything they say bounces off of you and sticks to them). Really takes a special kind of jerk to keep insulting you again and again seemingly out of desperate frustration that they simply cannot hurt you, huh.
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10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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A new sect may have been formed to capture the "whispers" in the woods for @ironwood.bsky.social's Pacific Drive expansion👁️🗨️
Thanks to the vancouver indie camp members, and uh sorry to the campers across the lake. ⛺
*Use headphones for a binaural experience
Thanks to the vancouver indie camp members, and uh sorry to the campers across the lake. ⛺
*Use headphones for a binaural experience
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A new sect may have been formed to capture the "whispers" in the woods for @ironwood.bsky.social's Pacific Drive expansion👁️🗨️
Thanks to the vancouver indie camp members, and uh sorry to the campers across the lake. ⛺
*Use headphones for a binaural experience
Thanks to the vancouver indie camp members, and uh sorry to the campers across the lake. ⛺
*Use headphones for a binaural experience
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they're treating a Nazi takeover of the federal government as no big deal and the possible election of Zohran Mamdani as the end times. it's a remarkable job of failing to meet the moment, and the most revealing sign yet they don't want to do anything at all except cling to party power.
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 AM
they're treating a Nazi takeover of the federal government as no big deal and the possible election of Zohran Mamdani as the end times. it's a remarkable job of failing to meet the moment, and the most revealing sign yet they don't want to do anything at all except cling to party power.
Alright, y'all. One leftist mayor got elected. Meanwhile, the Trump admin is very intent on making sure there are no more elections. This is a very small win. Don't celebrate yet. You aren't voting your way out of this new Nazi regency. You have a hell of a lot more work to do.
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Alright, y'all. One leftist mayor got elected. Meanwhile, the Trump admin is very intent on making sure there are no more elections. This is a very small win. Don't celebrate yet. You aren't voting your way out of this new Nazi regency. You have a hell of a lot more work to do.
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US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
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Kings aren't bound by laws, after all.
Though history does contain a number of examples of what else one can do with malignant regents.
Though history does contain a number of examples of what else one can do with malignant regents.
Despite two separate courts ruling Friday that the Trump administration must fund SNAP amid the government shutdown, the president said his lawyers don't think the orders are legal and will need to look into it more.
Trump Says Courts Need To Give Him More 'Legal Direction' On Funding SNAP
www.huffpost.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Kings aren't bound by laws, after all.
Though history does contain a number of examples of what else one can do with malignant regents.
Though history does contain a number of examples of what else one can do with malignant regents.
Frank Herbert on LLMs, from Children of Dune (1976):
November 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Frank Herbert on LLMs, from Children of Dune (1976):
When the market becomes inured to arbitrary tariffs and can no longer be so easily manipulated by them, the administration will resort next to arbitrary wars.
Old: The US might illegally attack Venezuela.
New: The US might illegally attack Nigeria.
New: The US might illegally attack Nigeria.
November 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
When the market becomes inured to arbitrary tariffs and can no longer be so easily manipulated by them, the administration will resort next to arbitrary wars.
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This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
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Hi, I'm a computer programmer and I have an idea for a really cool new digital securities market. It's so devious and machiavellian, it'll take decades for anyone to figure out how to even approach regulating it. Who wants to give me a gazillion dollars to make it and market it?
November 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Hi, I'm a computer programmer and I have an idea for a really cool new digital securities market. It's so devious and machiavellian, it'll take decades for anyone to figure out how to even approach regulating it. Who wants to give me a gazillion dollars to make it and market it?
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Wow, what an astonishing display of ignorance about who actually pays for Affinity and what those people want, or very much do not want.
Congrats, whatever MBA geniuses concocted this one. Now you're just worse Adobe.
Congrats, whatever MBA geniuses concocted this one. Now you're just worse Adobe.
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Wow, what an astonishing display of ignorance about who actually pays for Affinity and what those people want, or very much do not want.
Congrats, whatever MBA geniuses concocted this one. Now you're just worse Adobe.
Congrats, whatever MBA geniuses concocted this one. Now you're just worse Adobe.
Affinity announced their new version. There's a free version and a premium subscription plan with "AI".
I don't like this.
I don't like this.
Key takeaways from the preview announcement:
- 1 app for vector, pixel and layout
- .afdesign file gone, now .af
- free forever for everyone (updates and features always free.)
- AI entirely optional
- Modular UI
- Many tools now work across modules
#Affinity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP_T...
- 1 app for vector, pixel and layout
- .afdesign file gone, now .af
- free forever for everyone (updates and features always free.)
- AI entirely optional
- Modular UI
- Many tools now work across modules
#Affinity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP_T...
Your first look at the all-new Affinity
YouTube video by Affinity
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Affinity announced their new version. There's a free version and a premium subscription plan with "AI".
I don't like this.
I don't like this.
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the american financial elite, all at once, had abandoned capitalism in an attempt to purchase the power of the state.
October 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
the american financial elite, all at once, had abandoned capitalism in an attempt to purchase the power of the state.
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Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.
October 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
inspired: sleep kills you and just creates something that thinks it's you after
October 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
inspired: sleep kills you and just creates something that thinks it's you after