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@akil.bsky.social
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lover of dirt.
staff software engineer, studio potter, and native plant caretaker.
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scammers
October 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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we need to end the internet for the sake of mankind. everyone who spends more than 1hr a day online has a very bad brain now.
a screen shot from the criminal complaint against johnathan rinderknecht accused of starting the fire that started the palisades fire: h. On November 1, 2024, RINDERKNECHT asked the following prompt to ChatGPT: “I am 28 years old. And... I basically... This just happened. Maybe like... I don’t know, maybe like 3 months ago or something. Like, the realization of all this. I literally burnt the Bible that I had. It felt amazing. I felt so liberated.” On August 30, 2024, RINDERKNECHT wrote to a family member, “Burned the Bible I had literally.” i. On July 11, 2024, RINDERKNECHT provided the following prompt to ChatGPT: “A dystopian painting divided into distinct parts that blend together seamlessly. On the far left, there is a burning forest. Next to it, a crowd of people is running away from the fire, leading to the middle. In the middle, hundreds of thousands of people in poverty are trying to get past a gigantic gate with a big dollar sign on it. On the other side of the gate and the entire wall is a conglomerate of the richest people. They are chilling, watching the world burn down, and watching the people struggle. They are laughing, enjoying themselves, and dancing. The scene is detailed and impactful, highlighting the stark contrast and the direct 19 connection between the different parts of the world.” In response, ChatGPT produced the following image: a series of images of the world burning.
October 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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doj wins sce gets hit with a big fine. they raise the rates to pay it. long term the rates never go back down. a win for everyone except the ratepayer.
charlie from always sunny in philadelphia conspiracy meme.
September 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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are we sharing our everyday carry.
a gerber multitool.
June 1, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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a few from the afternoon pottery session.
a stoneware vessel fresh off the potters wheel. a stoneware vessel fresh off the potters wheel. a stoneware vessel fresh off the potters wheel. a stoneware vessel fresh off the potters wheel.
May 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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we’ve been patiently waiting and watching these bananas slowly grow and ripen. 🌱
a grip of bananas cut from the stalk.
May 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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seriously! only a single split bulb.
a garlic bulb that is splitting apart
May 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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May 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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ovals with feet. #pottery
some freshly thrown stoneware rings rings have been turned into oval pots. Ovals with various number and sized feet
May 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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quite the garlic harvest this year. 🌱
a few dozen freshly harvested bulbs of garlic.
May 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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ahh our monster of a matilija poppy is beginning to bloom. 🌱

#californianativeplants
romneya coulteri blooming with showy white and yellow flowers.
May 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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some gloomy day magic in the #californianativeplants garden. 🌱
Golden yarrow in bloom. a yard full of california native wildflowers. a miniature lupine is in bloom in front of elegant clarkias. a jungle of clarkias california buckwheat on a gloomy day
May 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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a daily visitor to the purple sage. 🌱

#californianativeplants
May 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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april showers type shit. 🌱

#californianativeplants
a bright orange sticky monkey flower blossom woolly blue curls in the rain. purple sage flowers in the rain the last of the arroyo lupine blooming.
April 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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a few days of graypril before may-gray officially starts up. 🌱

#californianativeplants
an overcast day in the california native plant garden. many green to gray green shrubs of the coastal sage scrub are beginning to bloom.
April 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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gilia tricolor 🌱

#californianativeplants
many blooming bird’s eye gilia on a sunny day
April 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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wasn’t sure if this calochortus catalinae was going to bloom. 🌱

#californianativeplants
a catalina mariposa lily blooming in the california native garden. a catalina mariposa lily blooming.
April 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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We have a big one in the garden that hasn’t begun to bloom yet this year.
a California native garden with many shrubs grasses and wildflowers.
April 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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a couple fresh garden 🌱 pots drying. i’m calling these gardener’s teapots

#pottery
a stoneware watering pot with a squiggly spout drying a oval shaped stoneware watering can drying
April 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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some planters out of the kiln.

#pottery
a dozen stoneware planters in various sizes and glazes sitting in a garden.
April 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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kill your lawn! 🌱

#californianativeplants
a slice of my front yard. It looks amazing with many coastal sage scrub California native plants growing
April 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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an unexpected rain this morning. 🌱
#californianativeplants
a native carpenter bee resting on an arroyo lupine wildflower baby blue eyes wildflower purple innocence wildflower woolly blue curls begins to bloom
March 31, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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a mini spring meadow in the front yard. 🌱

#californianativeplants
California poppies, tidy tips, blue eyed grass, and arroyo lupine blooming. a dry creek bed overrun with wildflowers beginning to bloom.
March 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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a few start of spring moments from the #californianativeplant garden 🌱
the blue/purple/white flowers of an arroyo lupine in bloom. gilia tricolor begins to bloom California native sages, wildflowers, grasses, and goldfields rubbing elbows in the garden. everything is green and lush from the recent rains.
March 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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dudleya edulis looking happy in the garden.
#californianativeplants
a very green fingertips dudleya
March 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM