Josh Heretic
@heretic.li
Sure, I'm in a band: it's called the internet, I play keyboard | Worker-owner & Senior Software Engineer @throneless.tech | They/them | ✊💀💜🏴
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Web: https://heretic.li
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Fediverse: @josh@heretic.li
Web: https://heretic.li
Avatar by @outlaweric.com
AI prompt "engineering" is slightly lower on the skill tree than "being good at ordering at Starbucks."
December 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
AI prompt "engineering" is slightly lower on the skill tree than "being good at ordering at Starbucks."
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A TTRPG one shot where your crew has accidentally wandered into the Mimic Home Depot, which is actually a weird alive dungeon trying to kill and digest you. You have to fight your way out using things you find in a Home Depot.
December 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
A TTRPG one shot where your crew has accidentally wandered into the Mimic Home Depot, which is actually a weird alive dungeon trying to kill and digest you. You have to fight your way out using things you find in a Home Depot.
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
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I’ve played a lot of simcity but I didn’t know you could go pro
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I’ve played a lot of simcity but I didn’t know you could go pro
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pretty convincing asimovaddendum.substack.com/p/are-llms-t...
Are LLMs the Best That They Will Ever Be?
Without careful disclosure architectures, AI products may only get worse, even as the technology gets better.
asimovaddendum.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
pretty convincing asimovaddendum.substack.com/p/are-llms-t...
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Hello! today is 🎂🎉MY BIRTHDAY! 🎉🎂
For my birthday, plz read what is up of my webcomic/signal-boost this skeet? It would mean a lot to me!
Only 50 pages so far. It hasn't updated in ages, but I'm still working on it. Updates will resume when the backlog reaches 50 pages.
blikada.com?pg=1#showComic
For my birthday, plz read what is up of my webcomic/signal-boost this skeet? It would mean a lot to me!
Only 50 pages so far. It hasn't updated in ages, but I'm still working on it. Updates will resume when the backlog reaches 50 pages.
blikada.com?pg=1#showComic
Blikada
blikada.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Hello! today is 🎂🎉MY BIRTHDAY! 🎉🎂
For my birthday, plz read what is up of my webcomic/signal-boost this skeet? It would mean a lot to me!
Only 50 pages so far. It hasn't updated in ages, but I'm still working on it. Updates will resume when the backlog reaches 50 pages.
blikada.com?pg=1#showComic
For my birthday, plz read what is up of my webcomic/signal-boost this skeet? It would mean a lot to me!
Only 50 pages so far. It hasn't updated in ages, but I'm still working on it. Updates will resume when the backlog reaches 50 pages.
blikada.com?pg=1#showComic
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The @hope.net conference has been kicked out of St John's University.
Someone found a pamphlets that promoted "an anti-police agenda", complained to the university, which launched an investigation and announced they're kicking out HOPE, all without communicating to the organizers.
Someone found a pamphlets that promoted "an anti-police agenda", complained to the university, which launched an investigation and announced they're kicking out HOPE, all without communicating to the organizers.
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The @hope.net conference has been kicked out of St John's University.
Someone found a pamphlets that promoted "an anti-police agenda", complained to the university, which launched an investigation and announced they're kicking out HOPE, all without communicating to the organizers.
Someone found a pamphlets that promoted "an anti-police agenda", complained to the university, which launched an investigation and announced they're kicking out HOPE, all without communicating to the organizers.
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Call me the Edmund Fitzgerald the way twenty-nine good men lost their lives going down on me.
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Call me the Edmund Fitzgerald the way twenty-nine good men lost their lives going down on me.
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I want a pixel art Dark Tower game where you chose your dad's face (hat, scowl, beard, etc) and if you get in a duel you have to assemble all the correct pieces in time to win or you have forgotten the face of your father. This came to me in a dream.
September 17, 2023 at 5:03 PM
I want a pixel art Dark Tower game where you chose your dad's face (hat, scowl, beard, etc) and if you get in a duel you have to assemble all the correct pieces in time to win or you have forgotten the face of your father. This came to me in a dream.
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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I hope everybody understands that the people who say we can't have anybody better than Harris, Pritzker, Newsom, etc. are lying because THEY don't want anybody better.
November 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I hope everybody understands that the people who say we can't have anybody better than Harris, Pritzker, Newsom, etc. are lying because THEY don't want anybody better.
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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
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Donald Trump showing his appreciation for his Black soldiers, by Godfrey the comedian.
November 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Donald Trump showing his appreciation for his Black soldiers, by Godfrey the comedian.
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Please don't forget about the folks in Jamaica who must rebuild after the hurricane. Any amount helps; shares help too. This is a local organization.
@fairshare.help
@fairshare.help
Dar Al Islam Jamaica is raising money to help their community during the Hurricane #Melissa
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Please don't forget about the folks in Jamaica who must rebuild after the hurricane. Any amount helps; shares help too. This is a local organization.
@fairshare.help
@fairshare.help
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they'll do anything to avoid living in the hell they've built for us
I live 100ft away from a retired House rep in his 80s who I see at least monthly at our neighborhood social; he has said to me almost verbatim what Duncan said here. Older members are terrified of walking away from the 20-person 24/7 support network you can't even get in a high end nursing home.
I keep saying this but the reason members of congress want to stay in office until they die is they can't buy that kind of elder care anywhere else, even if they are rich
October 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
they'll do anything to avoid living in the hell they've built for us
Bernie and his inability to change and grow continues to be an albatross.
October 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Bernie and his inability to change and grow continues to be an albatross.
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“Folks, what they DONT want is a peaceful permitted march that has proven to not change anything. They DO WANT black bloc & fighting with the police. They don’t want you to be pacified! They want to be directly confronted, yeah! This has historically been the case. I know what I’m talking about!”
one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump
As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.
newrepublic.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“Folks, what they DONT want is a peaceful permitted march that has proven to not change anything. They DO WANT black bloc & fighting with the police. They don’t want you to be pacified! They want to be directly confronted, yeah! This has historically been the case. I know what I’m talking about!”
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Punching Nazis, although great and cool, is not uniquely antifascist. Proud Boys (Western Chauvinists) beat up Active Clubs (National Socialist) and it doesn’t uniquely make them Antifa.
Words have meaning. We think you should be Antifa, and we mean that.
Words have meaning. We think you should be Antifa, and we mean that.
Your Nationalism is not Antifa.
Winston Churchill was not Antifa.
General Patton was not Antifa.
Your favorite Nationalist was not Antifa.
That’s literally the point.
rt to spread awareness.
Winston Churchill was not Antifa.
General Patton was not Antifa.
Your favorite Nationalist was not Antifa.
That’s literally the point.
rt to spread awareness.
October 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Punching Nazis, although great and cool, is not uniquely antifascist. Proud Boys (Western Chauvinists) beat up Active Clubs (National Socialist) and it doesn’t uniquely make them Antifa.
Words have meaning. We think you should be Antifa, and we mean that.
Words have meaning. We think you should be Antifa, and we mean that.
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Your Nationalism is not Antifa.
Winston Churchill was not Antifa.
General Patton was not Antifa.
Your favorite Nationalist was not Antifa.
That’s literally the point.
rt to spread awareness.
Winston Churchill was not Antifa.
General Patton was not Antifa.
Your favorite Nationalist was not Antifa.
That’s literally the point.
rt to spread awareness.
October 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Your Nationalism is not Antifa.
Winston Churchill was not Antifa.
General Patton was not Antifa.
Your favorite Nationalist was not Antifa.
That’s literally the point.
rt to spread awareness.
Winston Churchill was not Antifa.
General Patton was not Antifa.
Your favorite Nationalist was not Antifa.
That’s literally the point.
rt to spread awareness.
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Anarchists are known for our courage. We have gotten used to acting boldly in an array of contexts.
What is needed now is the courage to establish public positions around which a fighting movement can cohere.
This both scarier and simpler than many of the things we have done in the past.
What is needed now is the courage to establish public positions around which a fighting movement can cohere.
This both scarier and simpler than many of the things we have done in the past.
No Kings, No Masters
A call for anti-authoritarian blocs at the October 18 "No Kings" demonstrations.
crimethinc.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Anarchists are known for our courage. We have gotten used to acting boldly in an array of contexts.
What is needed now is the courage to establish public positions around which a fighting movement can cohere.
This both scarier and simpler than many of the things we have done in the past.
What is needed now is the courage to establish public positions around which a fighting movement can cohere.
This both scarier and simpler than many of the things we have done in the past.