nathan
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Some guy who likes to make incense sticks, play the trombone, cook vegan food, and muck about with computers.[...]

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There must be a hyper-specific German word for that sense of abject despair after a long break from work that comes from realizing you're only days away from having to go back?
November 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM
For about a week now, there has been a single fly in my apartment who just seems to want to hang out. He chills in the bathroom or on a lampshade until people are up and about and then he just goes and tries to sit on you or just walks / buzzes around your area as if to see what you'r[...]
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November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A version of Hook in which Captain Hook is explicitly an old queen:

*Stabs Rufio*
"Now *that's* what I call twink death Smee!" #hook #gay
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
That feeling when you accidentally like your own woot and can't undo it lol
November 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The hardest part about testing an incense composition is, counterintuitively, not trying too hard to smell it. You have to kind of let the fragrance come to you. Before I commit to turning it into incense sticks, I'm using a traditional Chinese method of incense burnin... see complete post
November 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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All I want is to live in a country where this story isn’t the 80th most alarming news story of the day
October 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Working on boring spreadsheet; going to take a break in a bit and work on fun spreadsheet instead. :A_BlobCat_Wobble:
October 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Part of a batch of palmiers I made over the weekend; these crunchy, sugary little ears are quite possibly my favorite thing to make with a box of frozen puff pastry. Originally posted at https://nathanupchurch.com/gallery/cooking/dsc0033-compressed-webp/ #vegan #baking #pastry
October 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Sarah's Vegan Kitchen just dropped Cozy Autumn Kitchen 2025. Big fan of these videos. :neocat_cofe_256: #vegan
October 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Picture from a review I wrote on Boy Vienna's 11:11 incense "cigarettes." #incense #designer #review #blog #cigarettes
October 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Anyone else see this going very wrong, very quickly? #AI #slop #SpicySlop
RE: https://mastodon.social/users/verge/statuses/115373821553522545
October 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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I love 3D printing it lets me have things I never thought I'd get to own like a 🌈 coffing incense smoker. I got the file for this off of bambu labs

#incense #incensesmoker #3dprinting #3Dprints #pokemon
September 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM