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Lydia Scribe
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Future author, future podcaster, future miracleworker. Someday I'll be someone.
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Latest bit of Silksong Madness: I got this on my Starbucks cup, and for a second I thought it was Hornet. 😆
September 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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New profile pic! This one from an artist whose work I've loved for a long time, @tatoisr.bsky.social ! She did a spectacular job here! I love all the little charms on the jacket sleeve, the gold trim, the swoosh of the hair and the smirk! 😍
Tato's adorable depiction of my avatar character: a blonde, purple-eyed demon girl wearing a purple military-style jacket and a star-shaped hair pin.
August 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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I could have stayed Jekyll--kept you hidden within me, your name an illicit thrill. Why in the name of God and heaven did I come out as Hyde: expose my sin and call it virtue; profane my temple with the trappings of Eve; eat the fruit of evil and kill myself with its insidious poison?
June 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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June 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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@jonbois.bsky.social I caught a piece of nerd cred you messed up. Where's the apology? Who's getting fired for this blunder???

(Just kidding. Love your videos! 😁)
A tweet I made over on Twitter. "But that's not what I wanted to mention. In one of the many, many side tangents, he talks about a military operation to take radioactive waste and scatter it, and I quote, "like coins in Super Mario 1-1. ...Level 1-1 doesn't have any overworld coins. They're all in blocks. Facepalm."
May 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Yessss, I'm so excited! I finally got my name misspelled on a Starbucks order! 😆 It's like a rite of passage.
A Grande Mocha from Starbucks, for "Lidia." An Egg Pesto Mozzarella sandwich from Starbucks, for "Lidia."
May 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Adam Smith's legacy is... complicated, but at the very least, he does get some sick burns on landlords, lol. I was trying to find some good ones, but here's the best one I could find offhand.
When the public deliberates concerning any regulation of commerce or police, the proprietors of land never can mislead it, with a view to promote the interest of their own particular order; at least, if they have any tolerable knowledge of that interest. They are, indeed, too often defective in this tolerable knowledge. They are the only one of the three orders whose revenue costs them neither labor nor care, but comes to them, as it were, of its own accord, and independent of any plan or project of their own. That indolence, which is the natural effect of the ease and security of their situation, renders them too often, not only ignorant, but incapable of that application of mind which is necessary in order to foresee and understand the consequences of any public regulation.
April 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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I guess you were probably joking, but... I couldn't find anything about uncertainty, but here's Smith's take on tariffs, lol
To give the monopoly of the home market to the produce of domestic industry, in any particular art or manufacture, is in some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, and must, in almost all cases, be either a useless or hurtful regulation. If the produce of domestic can be brought there as cheap as that of foreign industry, the regulation is evidently useless. If it cannot, it must generally be hurtful.
April 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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April 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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If we're switching to dice, then I think the next-closest thing would be a craps table.
The layout of a craps table, with all its many variations in bets.
April 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Also, hey, look, the Democrats are in here, too!
Revelations 6:10-11 from the Bible. They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
April 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Here's two more. The first one is DeepSeek. I... really don't understand this punchline. As to Copilot's joke... I know I've read this joke a hundred times in those lame joke books for nine-year-olds.

Like I said. This is the level LLMs' jokes are at. Neuro's jokes are IMPOSSIBLE.
So, my friend Dave bragged about teaching his dog to meditate. "He sits perfectly still, paws folded, eyes closed—total zen," he said. I was skeptical, but sure enough, when I visited, the dog was cross-legged on a cushion, ominously serene. Impressed, I asked, "How’d you manage this?" Dave sighed. "Turns out he’s just *really* good at pretending I’ve thrown a treat." The punchline? Even enlightenment is food-motivated. Copilot's "very original" joke: A snail goes to a car dealershp and says, "I want the fastest sports car you have, and paint a big S on it!" The dealer asks, "Why the S?" The snail replies, "Because when I drive by, I want people to say, 'Look at that S-car-go!" I'm rolling my eyes, this joke is so bad.
April 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Okay, I tried both ChatGPT and the free version of Claude I had access to. Their jokes are... not much better than Gemini's, but at least ChatGPT's is kinda funny. (I'm almost certain it stole this joke from somewhere, though.)
ChatGPT's decent joke: "So a guy walks into a library and asks the librarian, 'Hey, do you have any books on paranoia?' The librarian looks around and whispers, 'They're right behind you...'" Ba-dum tish. Open-AI GPT 4o-mini's terrible joke: "Why did the computer go to school? To learn how to improve its memory! But what happened when it graduated? It kept forgetting its classmates! So where did it end up? In a web browser, surfing the net for better connections!" Ha... ha?
April 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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By contrast, I asked Gemini to tell a joke, and it gave me these stinkers. Three completely unoriginal jokes, with these weird second punchlines attached to the end that make no sense. (Also, esp. that first one, LLMs love to make meta-jokes about themselves. I assume this is programmed in.)
Gemini's first terrible joke: "Why did the language model bring a ladder to the conversation? Because it wanted to reach a higher level of understanding... and maybe get over some data biases." ughhhhhh Gemini's second terrible joke: "What has a spine, but no bones? What can tell you stories, but has no mouth? What travels the world, but never leaves a shelf? ...A library book, obviously. But I was mostly asking because I'm trying to figure out how it keeps ordering pizza." What does pizza have to do with anything??? Gemini's third atrocious joke. "What has cities, but no houses? Forests, but no trees? And rivers, but no water? ...A map! I was asking because I'm trying to figure out how it keeps losing its car keys." Boooo, you stink!
April 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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How did they miss this? They even spelled it right. Or are they not familiar with tea-leaf reading??
The definition of the word "augur:" to foretell especially from omens
April 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Then they explained that it uses the Inscribed Angle Theorem, and I breathed a sigh of relief. Of course. It's all doubled angles, and the doubled angles add up to tau. So the collisions don't add up to pi; they add up to half-tau. Phew!😮‍💨
A screenshot of a video explaining the mass experiment described previously. Of note is the first equation, "2 theta plus 2 theta, et cetera, is less than 2 pi." In other words, less than tau. Vindication!
March 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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March 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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A two-panel comic. Panel 1: Elmo looks at a collection of fruit and pile of mysterious white powder. Panel 2: Elmo rejects the fruit and slams face-first into the pile of white powder.
March 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Here's two of my favorites!
The Magic: The Gathering Card "Vraska, Golgari Queen." A Gorgon woman sits imposingly on a rock throne covered in moss. The Magic: The Gathering card "Alesha, who Laughs at Fate." An older woman leads her troops in battle by pointing a sword to the left.
March 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender--and make sure to include alt text!
The label on a bottle of wine, called "Winking Owl." The logo is a red Owl that looks like paper and felt, and naturally it looks like it's winking. Very cute, very demure.
March 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Search your name on Scryfall and post the first card image!

Ooh, I got a badass!
A Magic: The Gathering card called "Lydia Frye," a blue/black hybrid mana and 2 colorless, 3-power 2-toughness Legendary Human Assassin.
March 1, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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I had a post about "Sisters of Dorley" come across my feed this morning, and it reminded me of this thread I wrote a year and change ago back when I started reading "Dorley" for the first time. i always wanted @badambulist.bsky.social to see it, find out if she agreed with my idea or not. 😅
Three tweets from Twitter. Text as follows: "Spent the night struggling to fall asleep, when my brain kept coming back to the opening to a "Sisters of Dorley" HBO show. For the record, I'm not convinced this would be a good idea. ("Sisters" relies on its medium to really work.) But if you were to do that... The opening would be very simple: start on the floor with the 3rd years, then the camera pans down to show us the 2nd years, then the floor with the coffee mugs and Aunt Bea's office, and then finally the dungeons at the bottom. All while a cheery female British pop song plays. (...Would Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" be too apropos? 😅)"
February 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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You want old sayings? Here's an old saying for you.
A quote by CS Lewis: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
February 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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That and Bloom's taxonomy and its variants, of course.
A list of verbs, depicted as a staircase. At the bottom in red is "Remember," and then going up in rainbow order, "Understand (Orange)," "Apply (Yellow)," "Analyze (Green)," "Evaluate (Blue)", and "Create (Violet)."
January 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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I don't know where these numbers came from, but this is generally the most well-known version of how to maximize learning retention.
A triangle broken up into different layers. The top says "Lecture 5%," and then going down from there, "Reading 10%," "Audio/Visual 20%," "Demonstration 30%." These are the "Passive Learning Methods." Below that are the "Active Learning Methods:" "Group Discussion 50%," "Practiced by Doing 75%," and at the bottom, "Teaching Others 90%."
January 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM