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GA born & raised. Software engineer & computer scientist. Love language learning, books, the outdoors, and food. #RiseUp 🖤❤️
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this one took 3 hints but i got it. only saw this movie once
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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what is the answer pls i'm dying
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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There Will Be Blood movie poster Black Swan movie poster No Country for Old Men movie poster Pulp Fiction movie poster
November 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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One of the #WelcomeToDerry actor's name is Dorian Grey and I need to know if it's his government name but when I try to Google it all the results are the book!
November 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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What movie do you consider perfect?
Scene from the movie “There Will Be Be Blood”
October 31, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Isla Mujeres, México
Oct 2025
October 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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#NowReading
1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin
October 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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The accuracy 😂 #GBBO
October 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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A picture of the beach Isla Mujeres. The sky is blue with fluffy white clouds scattered. There’s a lone water bottle on the beach. Hopefully the owner retrieved it
October 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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A picture of the sun rising at the beach #BlackSkyOutdoors
October 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Enjoyed the movie so I got the book and then I fell for Amazon’s recommendation system because I didn’t NEED Jurassic Park in Spanish since I have the English book and audiobook and I’ve read it like 10 times but here we are…
Pictures of two books: La sociedad de la nieve by Pablo Vierci and Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (in Spanish)
October 3, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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“It is natural enough to be cautious and thoughtful, especially when faced with important decisions, but often the only way to know what awaits us is to live it.”

— Mark Nepo, “The Book of Awakening”
A picture of a page from “The Book of Awakening” by Mark Nepo that says the following: SEPTEMBER 29 Consider or Enter If you try to comprehend air before breathing it, you will die. We can only consider things so long, After a while all the information—all the options and opinions-will begin to weigh us down. After our deeper eyes have seen the situation, all the well-meaning voices telling us what we should or should not do will start to feel like strings we can't cut through. This was poor Hamlet's fate. He overthought his life away. He over-considered which way to go until he felt stalled and oppressed by just being in the world. It is natural enough to be cautious and thoughtful, especially when faced with important decisions, but often the only way to know what awaits us is to live it. This brings to mind the revelation that came upon a Hindu sage centuries ago. One day in the middle of their morning prayers, the sage suddenly rose and ushered his students away from the monastery. He rushed about them and shooed them back into life like little ducks, proclaiming, "The day is to be experienced, not understood!"
September 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Someone told me to check a neighborhood crime map when looking for properties and I'm so dead at these icons lol

💊 - drugs
🔫 - gun
👉 - intimidation
💵⚠️ - counterfeit/forgery
🫱 - assault (lots of these at a church?!?!)
September 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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It’s the mountains for me ✌🏽🏔️
Me somewhere in Banff. I forget which mountain lake this is my bad Me in Steamboat Springs! Me in the mountains. I think this was at the SkyWalk in Banff
September 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Sheesh what a way to start a book
A picture of the following quote: “Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings.” -The Dhammapada
September 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Why is the ebook the same price as the audiobook and in what world should an ebook be damn near $20?!

This is my boomer millennial complaint. Back in my day ebooks were $10!
Screenshot from Apple Books showing that “1929” by Andrew Sorkin is $18.99 for the book and $19.99 for the audiobook
September 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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One of the best things about knowing more than one language is being able to read books in a different language.

#NowReading #BookSky
September 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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This book really made me think about it in depth. It explores how celebrity culture has seeped into all aspects of American life and made people illiterate consumers incapable of distinguishing fact from fiction. It even predicted the rise of Christian nationalism and conservatism that we have now
A picture of the book “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” by Chris Hedges
September 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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This week I’m continuing with the theme of books that eerily predicted the current state of American culture decades ago 📚
A picture of the book “The Culture of Narcissism” by Christopher Lasch
September 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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I really like @karenhao.bsky.social’s writing and narration. This is a great book.
Screenshot from the Libby app of the audiobook version of “Empire of AI” by Karen Hao
August 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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If these stupid things actually become sentient by some improbable mechanism it's definitely over for us lmao
The most likely outcome is a society where wealth and influence are highly concentrated, knowledge is abundant but distrusted, and individual narcissism is fed by infinite AI mirrors. Work will not disappear entirely, but the kind of work that sustains the broad middle will. For most, the future of labor is not liberation—it is contraction into tasks machines cannot be bothered to do, while elites arbitrate meaning, wealth, and visibility. This is not dystopia in the cinematic sense. It is simply the logical end of a species that consistently undervalues collective truth, overvalues identity performance, and now faces a technology that exposes both tendencies at scale.
August 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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I wanted to see if I could scrape some publicly available data tro fine tune a foundation model and ChatGPT is pulling the "do as I say not as I do" on me
August 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Hoy fui a una clase de arte de latte organizada por Flow Coffee, junto con un grupo de intercambio de idiomas, y fue muy divertido. Este es mi primer intento de hacer un corazón en el café. No es perfecto, ¡pero lo intenté!
August 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Finally! After an 11 week wait
Screenshot from the Libby app of the cover of the book Empire of AI by Karen Hao which I’ve been waiting ~2 months to borrow
August 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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“Politics has become a product of a diseased culture that seeks its purpose in celebrities…”
“Celebrity culture has bequeathed to us what Benjamin DeMott calls "junk politics." Junk politics does not demand justice or the reparation of rights. It personalizes and moralizes issues rather than clarifying them. "I's impatient with articulated conflict, enthusiastic about America's optimism and moral character, and heavily dependent on feel-your-pain language and gesture," DeMott notes. The result of junk politics is that nothing changes-"meaning zero interruption in the processes and practices that strengthen existing, interlocking systems of socioeconomic advantage." It redefines traditional values, tilting "courage toward braggadocio, sympathy toward mawkishness, humility toward self-disrespect, identification with ordinary citizens toward distrust of brains." Junk politics "miniaturizes large, complex problems at home while maximizing threats from abroad. It's also given to abrupt, unexplained reversals of its own public stances, often spectacularly bloating problems previously miniaturized." And finally, it seeks at every turn to obliterate voters' consciousness of socioeconomic and other differences in their midst."28 Politics has become a product of a diseased culture that seeks its purpose in celebrities who are, as Boorstin wrote, "receptacles into which we pour our own purposeless-ness. They are nothing but ourselves seen in a magnifying mirror."29 Those captivated by the cult of celebrity do not examine voting records or compare verbal claims with written and published facts and reports. The reality of their world is whatever the latest cable news show, political leader, advertiser, or loan officer says is reality. The illit-erate, the semiliterate, and those who live as though they are illiterate are effectively cut off from the past. They live in an eternal present. They do not understand the predatory loan deals that drive them into foreclosure and bankruptcy…” — Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion “The most essential skill in political theater and a consumer culture is artifice. Political leaders, who use the tools of mass propaganda to create a sense of faux intimacy with citizens, no longer need to be com-petent, sincere, or honest. They need only to appear to have these qual-ities. Most of all they need a story, a personal narrative. The reality of the narrative is irrelevant. It can be completely at odds with the facts. The consistency and emotional appeal of the story are paramount. Those who are best at deception succeed. Those who have not mastered the art of entertainment, who fail to create a narrative or do not have one fashioned for them by their handlers, are ignored. They become "unreal." — Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion “An image-based culture communicates through narratives, pic-tures, and pseudo-drama. Scandalous affairs, hurricanes, untimely deaths, train wrecks-these events play well on computer screens and television. International diplomacy, labor union negotiations, and convoluted bailout packages do not yield exciting personal narratives or stimulating images. A governor who patronizes call girls becomes a huge news story. A politician who proposes serious regulatory reform or advocates curbing wasteful spending is boring. Kings, queens, and emperors once used their court conspiracies to divert their subjects. Today cinematic, political, and journalistic celebrities distract us with their personal foibles and scandals. They create our public mythology. Acting, politics, and sports have become, as they were in Nero's reign, interchangeable. In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we neither seek nor want honesty or reality. Reality is complicated. Reality is boring. We are incapable or unwilling to handle its confusion. We ask to be indulged and comforted by clichés, stereotypes, and inspirational messages that tell us we can be whoever we seek to be, that we live in the greatest country on earth, that we are endowed with superior moral and physical quali-ties, and that our future will always be glorious and prosperous, either because of our own attributes or our national character or because we are blessed by God. In this world, all that matters is the consistency of our belief systems. The ability to amplify lies, to repeat them and have surrogates repeat them in endless loops of news cycles, gives lies and mythical narratives the aura of uncontested truth. We become trapped in the linguistic prison of incessant repetition. We are fed words and phrases like war on terror or pro-life or change, and within these narrow parameters, all complex thought, ambiguity, and self-criticism vanish. "Entertainment was an expression of democr…
August 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM