Danyn
@snail5.bsky.social
I has a flavor. Formerly @snail_5 on Twitter.
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Good to see Hell following responsible urban planning practices and taking the necessary steps to accommodate inevitable population growth. Yes in my Circle!
What’s the opposite of “rolls over in grave.” Gives a thumbs up from the grave? Or “Dante <3’s this” from @theonion.com.
Tenth Circle Added To Rapidly Growing Hell
CITY OF DIS, NETHER HELL–After nearly four years of construction at an estimated cost of 750 million souls, Corpadverticus, the new 10th circle of Hell, finally opened its doors Monday.
theonion.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Good to see Hell following responsible urban planning practices and taking the necessary steps to accommodate inevitable population growth. Yes in my Circle!
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It's wonderful discussion of generative "AI" and LLMs, but it's also a much-needed celebration of what it is to be human and use language as we learn to understand and explore our world.
One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/
February 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It's wonderful discussion of generative "AI" and LLMs, but it's also a much-needed celebration of what it is to be human and use language as we learn to understand and explore our world.
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This is digital humanities
Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.
February 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is digital humanities
Fuck yeah let's gooooooo
(Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England by Richard Rastall with Andrew Taylor) #MedievalSky
(Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England by Richard Rastall with Andrew Taylor) #MedievalSky
February 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Fuck yeah let's gooooooo
(Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England by Richard Rastall with Andrew Taylor) #MedievalSky
(Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England by Richard Rastall with Andrew Taylor) #MedievalSky
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This is Maple. She wants to know why you needed to take a photo at this very second. You caught her and her teef by surprise. 12/10
February 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is Maple. She wants to know why you needed to take a photo at this very second. You caught her and her teef by surprise. 12/10
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I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
January 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
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Artemisia Gentileschi cornering the market on paintings of women killing men in gruesome but inventive ways. Love that for her!
Jael nails a tent stake through the head of Canannite general Sisera. Ready for meme-ification.
[Artemisia Gentileschi, Jael and Sisera, 1620. Oil on canvas, 36 3/8 × 50 1⁄4 in. (92.3 × 127.5 cm). Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest]
[Artemisia Gentileschi, Jael and Sisera, 1620. Oil on canvas, 36 3/8 × 50 1⁄4 in. (92.3 × 127.5 cm). Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest]
February 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Artemisia Gentileschi cornering the market on paintings of women killing men in gruesome but inventive ways. Love that for her!
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damn gurl are you medusa because i get hard when you look at me
February 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
damn gurl are you medusa because i get hard when you look at me
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brown gravy at night, potato's delight
white gravy in the morning, fresh biscuits take warning
white gravy in the morning, fresh biscuits take warning
February 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
brown gravy at night, potato's delight
white gravy in the morning, fresh biscuits take warning
white gravy in the morning, fresh biscuits take warning
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You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.
February 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.
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ok. because we all could use a little joy here are some silly medieval hedgehogs for hedgehog day:
February 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
ok. because we all could use a little joy here are some silly medieval hedgehogs for hedgehog day:
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Off to the word mines for the day but everyone needs cheering up on a Sunday like this. I've told this one before but anyway, gather around, children, for this is the story of how my paternal grandmother, the quietest woman to ever live, beat up the most famous magician in Asia during his act
February 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Off to the word mines for the day but everyone needs cheering up on a Sunday like this. I've told this one before but anyway, gather around, children, for this is the story of how my paternal grandmother, the quietest woman to ever live, beat up the most famous magician in Asia during his act
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Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon's trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.
November 15, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon's trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.
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I'm not saying this is a coup. But if you *were* going to do a coup, how would things look different from recent events -- seizing the federal payments system, federal purging law enforcement, threatening to sic armed US Marshals on civil servants guarding classified data
Musk's cronies tried to to gain access to classified USAID data. USAID Director of Security John Voorhees security said no. The Musk people threatened to call in the US Marshals and take the data at gunpoint. They still said no.
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...
edition.cnn.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm not saying this is a coup. But if you *were* going to do a coup, how would things look different from recent events -- seizing the federal payments system, federal purging law enforcement, threatening to sic armed US Marshals on civil servants guarding classified data
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If it ain't illegal, it ain't civil disobedience.
A lot of people mistakenly conflate "non-violent" with "non-disruptive" and/or "exclusively legal". SCLC, SNCC, CORE, etc all were very willing to undertake very disruptive and legally dubious non-violent activities.
It's unfortunate that the history of the Civil Rights movement has been rewritten as "We marched peacefully until our enemies grew a conscience".
MLK and SNCC accomplished a major shift in policy using a deliberate, low-grade insurgency carried out with incredible skill and decades-long strategy.
MLK and SNCC accomplished a major shift in policy using a deliberate, low-grade insurgency carried out with incredible skill and decades-long strategy.
February 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
If it ain't illegal, it ain't civil disobedience.
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Renaissance hottie alert.
Meet one of my favorite Renaissance friends: Galeazzo Sanseverino, a mercenary whom contemporary sources describe as the sexiest thing in pants in Italy, part of the badass polycule threesome that ruled Milan in the early 1490s. Thread 1/?
(#HistoryPix Countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" day 3)
(#HistoryPix Countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" day 3)
February 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Renaissance hottie alert.
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if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
January 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
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incredibly cat content (watch the whole thing)
January 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
incredibly cat content (watch the whole thing)
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running the federal govt the same way I figure out which breaker powers the garage
the white house saying the medicaid portal will be "back online shortly" does lend some credence to the idea that they're just shutting the entire government down and manually whitelisting whatever they see becoming an immediate political threat
January 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
running the federal govt the same way I figure out which breaker powers the garage
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Most scholars I know--affiliated or not--just want access to resources behind paywalls--subscription journals, databases, books. No one I know is going "gee I wish I had AI tools to mine those resources for pithy, questionable syntheses." They can't even GET TO the resources. THAT is what they want.
January 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Most scholars I know--affiliated or not--just want access to resources behind paywalls--subscription journals, databases, books. No one I know is going "gee I wish I had AI tools to mine those resources for pithy, questionable syntheses." They can't even GET TO the resources. THAT is what they want.
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In the 1700s, people would rent a pineapple for their party. Not to eat. Just as a status symbol for everyone to look at because it was so expensive and special.
Well, I've got an 18-pack of eggs from Costco and some bulk Kirkland French roast if anyone is looking to impress...
Well, I've got an 18-pack of eggs from Costco and some bulk Kirkland French roast if anyone is looking to impress...
January 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
In the 1700s, people would rent a pineapple for their party. Not to eat. Just as a status symbol for everyone to look at because it was so expensive and special.
Well, I've got an 18-pack of eggs from Costco and some bulk Kirkland French roast if anyone is looking to impress...
Well, I've got an 18-pack of eggs from Costco and some bulk Kirkland French roast if anyone is looking to impress...
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Life imprisonment for being undocumented.
Bill title: "AN ACT TO CREATE THE MISSISSIPPI ILLEGAL ALIEN CERTIFIED BOUNTY HUNTER PROGRAM"
because "Fugitive Slave Act" was already taken.
Bill title: "AN ACT TO CREATE THE MISSISSIPPI ILLEGAL ALIEN CERTIFIED BOUNTY HUNTER PROGRAM"
because "Fugitive Slave Act" was already taken.
Mississippi introduces a bill allowing chattel slavery. Life imprisonment for “illegal aliens” solely for being undocumented.
HB1484 (As Introduced) - 2025 Regular Session
billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
January 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Life imprisonment for being undocumented.
Bill title: "AN ACT TO CREATE THE MISSISSIPPI ILLEGAL ALIEN CERTIFIED BOUNTY HUNTER PROGRAM"
because "Fugitive Slave Act" was already taken.
Bill title: "AN ACT TO CREATE THE MISSISSIPPI ILLEGAL ALIEN CERTIFIED BOUNTY HUNTER PROGRAM"
because "Fugitive Slave Act" was already taken.
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If all you are doing is immersing yourself in the horrors of the world and you are so far down the moral injury burnout well that you are screaming at others for not joining you in it, you need to read this old thread.
bsky.app/profile/raha...
bsky.app/profile/raha...
Not trying to armchair diagnose or anything, but a whole lot of people who are constantly screaming at other people about Causes on social media exhibit A LOT of behaviors that would make me put them on moral injury burnout leave if they were T&S agents I was managing
I am frankly not much use to anyone - friends, family, anyone I might use what resources I have to help - if I am constantly living in a black hole of despair
and neither, I think, is anyone else
and neither, I think, is anyone else
January 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
If all you are doing is immersing yourself in the horrors of the world and you are so far down the moral injury burnout well that you are screaming at others for not joining you in it, you need to read this old thread.
bsky.app/profile/raha...
bsky.app/profile/raha...