Leif Hancox-Li, PhD
@struthious.bsky.social
Applied scientist working on LLM evaluation and publishing in AI ethics. Formerly: technical writing, philosophy. Urbanism nerd in my spare time. Opinions here my own. he/they 🏳️⚧️. https://boltzmann-brain.github.io/
Various machines are cleaning my house and clothes while I’m at the local futbol pub watching the sole Boxing Day PL match occurring an ocean away. I love modernity.
December 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Various machines are cleaning my house and clothes while I’m at the local futbol pub watching the sole Boxing Day PL match occurring an ocean away. I love modernity.
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Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.
December 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.
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when is my doctors office going to learn that you cannot get an accurate blood pressure reading on someone who just biked 6 miles and has been off the bike for less than 10 minutes
December 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
when is my doctors office going to learn that you cannot get an accurate blood pressure reading on someone who just biked 6 miles and has been off the bike for less than 10 minutes
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heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community
go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!
go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!
December 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community
go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!
go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!
The deer hunter as a movie was maybe designed to annoy me with its depiction of the protagonists going from a wedding in western PA to what looks like 9000-10,000 ft in the mountain west while still in tuxedos
If only it didn’t take me 2 days to travel to glaciers!
If only it didn’t take me 2 days to travel to glaciers!
December 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The deer hunter as a movie was maybe designed to annoy me with its depiction of the protagonists going from a wedding in western PA to what looks like 9000-10,000 ft in the mountain west while still in tuxedos
If only it didn’t take me 2 days to travel to glaciers!
If only it didn’t take me 2 days to travel to glaciers!
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Thirsty Dog!/Thirsty Cat! (1994-1994): Liters of lightly carbonated bottled water made specifically for pets, containing vitamins and flavorings ("crispy beef" for dogs, and "tangy fish" for cats), but FDA approved for humans consumption, and even certified kosher.
November 30, 2023 at 12:25 PM
Thirsty Dog!/Thirsty Cat! (1994-1994): Liters of lightly carbonated bottled water made specifically for pets, containing vitamins and flavorings ("crispy beef" for dogs, and "tangy fish" for cats), but FDA approved for humans consumption, and even certified kosher.
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When we retake power, we should do this for states that let children and the elderly drive aaafoundation.org/rates-motor-...
December 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
When we retake power, we should do this for states that let children and the elderly drive aaafoundation.org/rates-motor-...
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yellow line
skokie, illinois
skokie, illinois
December 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
yellow line
skokie, illinois
skokie, illinois
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The only true way is the Canadian way
(As much as I wish it was a joke, it is in fact not one and this is exactly how it works here)
(As much as I wish it was a joke, it is in fact not one and this is exactly how it works here)
December 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The only true way is the Canadian way
(As much as I wish it was a joke, it is in fact not one and this is exactly how it works here)
(As much as I wish it was a joke, it is in fact not one and this is exactly how it works here)
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good lord they’re so triggered by democrats trying to make the MTA run more efficiently and provide more service that they’re going to endorse literal fascists
December 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
good lord they’re so triggered by democrats trying to make the MTA run more efficiently and provide more service that they’re going to endorse literal fascists
burrito taxi discourse is amusing to me partly because we only order delivery a few times a year and when we do it's like $100 worth of sichuan food that will last us for half a week.
December 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
burrito taxi discourse is amusing to me partly because we only order delivery a few times a year and when we do it's like $100 worth of sichuan food that will last us for half a week.
word rotators
December 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
word rotators
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Boomers be running around turning off every light that no one is standing directly under in their 3,000 square foot detached house for two people
December 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Boomers be running around turning off every light that no one is standing directly under in their 3,000 square foot detached house for two people
The trick is to be a grad student, then you’re both
Woman who starts riding a bike not sure if she should be a poor unemployed loser who can't afford a car or an elite smug entitled asshole with a toy, asks neighbourhood Facebook group to help out.
December 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The trick is to be a grad student, then you’re both
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American labor reliably chooses to really fuck themselves in the future to save a few jobs today.
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
American labor reliably chooses to really fuck themselves in the future to save a few jobs today.
This looks like a really cool option for anyone who needs a mini split
Christmas came early for me, with delivery of my new @airspool.bsky.social heat pump. The driving force behind me getting this thing was that it promised to be easy to install, and boy was it ever! Read on to see how I got it on the night it was delivered without drilling a big hole through my wall.
December 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This looks like a really cool option for anyone who needs a mini split
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You know a great way to pay people to bike to work? Pay for a dedicated bike road network that goes places that they want to go, this isn't giving people cash money but it's saving them money on medical bills and wear and tear on their bike
Here's Why Governments Should Start Paying People to Bike to Work
In North America, where cars reign supreme, a new idea could gain ground like it is in some areas of Europe — paying people to bike to work
share.google
December 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
You know a great way to pay people to bike to work? Pay for a dedicated bike road network that goes places that they want to go, this isn't giving people cash money but it's saving them money on medical bills and wear and tear on their bike
Is this the right time to point out that in the world that copyright maximalists want, we would not be able to view the cecot documentary?
December 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Is this the right time to point out that in the world that copyright maximalists want, we would not be able to view the cecot documentary?
Italians not beating the stereotypes here
during my PhD, when I was 22, at *redacted* archive in Rome, supposedly open to the public, they wouldn't let me in. I tried everything - begging letters, calls, turning up every day for a week, attempted string-pulling...
so one day I turned up in my shortest skirt. They let me straight in.
so one day I turned up in my shortest skirt. They let me straight in.
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Italians not beating the stereotypes here
May be my trauma speaking but as annoying as Christmas music is, Chinese new year music is worse
December 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
May be my trauma speaking but as annoying as Christmas music is, Chinese new year music is worse
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In the Soviet Union the default political profession was engineering, in the United States the default political profession is law and politicians go to legal school. This makes "STEM is rightist" takes kind of hilarious to me.
I am beginning to develop a suspicion of national decline based in elevating STEM nerds to dangerously high social positions, because their tendency to believe that "anything that cannot be properly measured should not be argued for" is being more revealed by the day as an inherently reactionary one
December 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
In the Soviet Union the default political profession was engineering, in the United States the default political profession is law and politicians go to legal school. This makes "STEM is rightist" takes kind of hilarious to me.
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Also! Modern management values data over a lack of data and more importantly and dangerously *even when that more data is incorrect or has errors*.
Bureaucracy will value more incorrect data over no data at all.
Bureaucracy will value more incorrect data over no data at all.
December 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Also! Modern management values data over a lack of data and more importantly and dangerously *even when that more data is incorrect or has errors*.
Bureaucracy will value more incorrect data over no data at all.
Bureaucracy will value more incorrect data over no data at all.
Throwback to when I was writing a paper with a large group & 1 person insisted that we should omit philosophical points, so some of us wrote a diff paper on our own with just the philosophical points. Said person then complained that a bunch of men had gone and done a side paper without the others
December 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Throwback to when I was writing a paper with a large group & 1 person insisted that we should omit philosophical points, so some of us wrote a diff paper on our own with just the philosophical points. Said person then complained that a bunch of men had gone and done a side paper without the others
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Pittsburgh! Tickets are now on sale to the general public for our live show hosted by @bikepgh.bsky.social on January 29th, 2026. Our guest for the evening will be @boazfrankel.bsky.social. We're excited to come to the 'Burgh!
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December 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Pittsburgh! Tickets are now on sale to the general public for our live show hosted by @bikepgh.bsky.social on January 29th, 2026. Our guest for the evening will be @boazfrankel.bsky.social. We're excited to come to the 'Burgh!
Get tickets now:
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Get tickets now:
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Maybe I'll get in trouble for saying this, but: If I saw as many bespoke, human-authored, moving/funny/insightful posts on here as I do irate ones about AI ending bespoke, moving/funny/insightful human authorship, it would be kind of neat.
December 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Maybe I'll get in trouble for saying this, but: If I saw as many bespoke, human-authored, moving/funny/insightful posts on here as I do irate ones about AI ending bespoke, moving/funny/insightful human authorship, it would be kind of neat.