Sophie Kirschner
@pinemach.bsky.social
I'm just learning as I go.
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Exit 3A at night 🚚🌃
August 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Exit 3A at night 🚚🌃
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This is what it’s like to read about the American governing elite right now.
![At least five Tang dynasty (618–907) emperors were incapacitated and killed by immortality elixirs. In historic recurrences, the newly enthroned emperor understandably executed the Daoist alchemists whose elixirs had killed his predecessor, and then subsequently came to believe in other charlatans enough to consume their poisonous elixirs.
Emperor Xianzong (r. 805–820) indirectly lost his life due to elixir poisoning. The Xu Tongzhi (Supplement to the Historical Collections) says, "Deluded by the sayings of the alchemists, [Xianzong] ingested gold elixirs and his behaviour became very abnormal. He was easily offended by those officials whom he daily met, and thus the prisons were left with little vacant space." In response, an official wrote an 819 memorial to the throne that said:
Of late years, however, (the capital) has been overrun by a host of pharmacists and alchemists ... recommending one another right and left with ever wilder and more extravagant claims. Now if there really were immortals, and scholars possessing the Tao, would they not conceal their names and hide themselves in mountain recesses far from the ken of man? ... The medicines of the sages of old were meant to cure bodily illnesses, and were not meant to be taken constantly like food. How much less so these metallic and mineral substances which are full of burning poison! ... Of old, as the Li Chi says, when the prince took physic, his minister tasted it first, and when a parent was sick, his son did likewise. Ministers and sons are in the same position. I humbly pray that all those persons who have elixirs made from transformed metals and minerals, and also those who recommend them, may be compelled to consume (their own elixirs) first for the space of one year. Such an investigation will distinguish truth from falsehood, and automatically clarify the matter by experiment.
After the emperor rejected this appeal, the palace eunuchs Wang Shoucheng and Chen Hongzhi 陳弘志 assassinated him in 820.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4d2snfeymcblmvoaxvgfs7i6/bafkreicj4uaxsxrzzrod3yxa3uihy7odewkf4jpynd6mplgxek23u2rx5q@jpeg)
![When Xianzong's son and successor Emperor Muzong (r. 820–824) came to the throne, he executed the alchemists who had poisoned his father, but later began to take immortality elixirs himself. An official wrote Muzong an 823 memorial that warned:
Medicines are for use against illnesses, and should not be taken as food. ... Even when one is ill medicines must be used with great circumspection; how much more so when one is not ill. If this is true for the common people how much more so will it be for the emperor! Your imperial predecessor believed the nonsense of the alchemists and thus became ill; this your majesty already knows only too well. How could your majesty still repeat the same mistake?[27]
The emperor appreciated this reasoning but soon afterwards fell ill and died from poisoning. Palace eunuchs supposedly used poisonous elixirs to assassinate Muzong's young successor Emperor Jingzong (r. 824–827).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4d2snfeymcblmvoaxvgfs7i6/bafkreieltlwjzprlfasqdo67fgciczehab5vw7qrdojwhixyyet6f33yc4@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This is what it’s like to read about the American governing elite right now.
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Rip and tear until it is done? No, shred and grind until it is fun, dude 🙂🤙
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Rip and tear until it is done? No, shred and grind until it is fun, dude 🙂🤙
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You GOTTA stop being so desperately afraid of the audience. Look at me. Look in my eyeballs. Stop being so desperate for approval. Stop writing for the whiny babies in your audience and start writing for the freaks who like cool fucked up shit
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
You GOTTA stop being so desperately afraid of the audience. Look at me. Look in my eyeballs. Stop being so desperate for approval. Stop writing for the whiny babies in your audience and start writing for the freaks who like cool fucked up shit
Truly remarkable the way some folks can't handle it when you're rubber and they're glue (& anything they say bounces off of you and sticks to them). Really takes a special kind of jerk to keep insulting you again and again seemingly out of desperate frustration that they simply cannot hurt you, huh.
November 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Truly remarkable the way some folks can't handle it when you're rubber and they're glue (& anything they say bounces off of you and sticks to them). Really takes a special kind of jerk to keep insulting you again and again seemingly out of desperate frustration that they simply cannot hurt you, huh.
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10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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A new sect may have been formed to capture the "whispers" in the woods for @ironwood.bsky.social's Pacific Drive expansion👁️🗨️
Thanks to the vancouver indie camp members, and uh sorry to the campers across the lake. ⛺
*Use headphones for a binaural experience
Thanks to the vancouver indie camp members, and uh sorry to the campers across the lake. ⛺
*Use headphones for a binaural experience
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A new sect may have been formed to capture the "whispers" in the woods for @ironwood.bsky.social's Pacific Drive expansion👁️🗨️
Thanks to the vancouver indie camp members, and uh sorry to the campers across the lake. ⛺
*Use headphones for a binaural experience
Thanks to the vancouver indie camp members, and uh sorry to the campers across the lake. ⛺
*Use headphones for a binaural experience
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they're treating a Nazi takeover of the federal government as no big deal and the possible election of Zohran Mamdani as the end times. it's a remarkable job of failing to meet the moment, and the most revealing sign yet they don't want to do anything at all except cling to party power.
the anti-Mamdani crashout among status quo Dems (amidst a federal fascist usurpation no less) might well be the final harbinger of "whig irrelevance collapse" i've been expecting all these years
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 AM
they're treating a Nazi takeover of the federal government as no big deal and the possible election of Zohran Mamdani as the end times. it's a remarkable job of failing to meet the moment, and the most revealing sign yet they don't want to do anything at all except cling to party power.
Alright, y'all. One leftist mayor got elected. Meanwhile, the Trump admin is very intent on making sure there are no more elections. This is a very small win. Don't celebrate yet. You aren't voting your way out of this new Nazi regency. You have a hell of a lot more work to do.
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Alright, y'all. One leftist mayor got elected. Meanwhile, the Trump admin is very intent on making sure there are no more elections. This is a very small win. Don't celebrate yet. You aren't voting your way out of this new Nazi regency. You have a hell of a lot more work to do.
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US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
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Kings aren't bound by laws, after all.
Though history does contain a number of examples of what else one can do with malignant regents.
Though history does contain a number of examples of what else one can do with malignant regents.
Despite two separate courts ruling Friday that the Trump administration must fund SNAP amid the government shutdown, the president said his lawyers don't think the orders are legal and will need to look into it more.
Trump Says Courts Need To Give Him More 'Legal Direction' On Funding SNAP
www.huffpost.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Kings aren't bound by laws, after all.
Though history does contain a number of examples of what else one can do with malignant regents.
Though history does contain a number of examples of what else one can do with malignant regents.
Frank Herbert on LLMs, from Children of Dune (1976):
November 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Frank Herbert on LLMs, from Children of Dune (1976):
When the market becomes inured to arbitrary tariffs and can no longer be so easily manipulated by them, the administration will resort next to arbitrary wars.
Old: The US might illegally attack Venezuela.
New: The US might illegally attack Nigeria.
New: The US might illegally attack Nigeria.
November 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
When the market becomes inured to arbitrary tariffs and can no longer be so easily manipulated by them, the administration will resort next to arbitrary wars.
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This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
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Hi, I'm a computer programmer and I have an idea for a really cool new digital securities market. It's so devious and machiavellian, it'll take decades for anyone to figure out how to even approach regulating it. Who wants to give me a gazillion dollars to make it and market it?
November 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Hi, I'm a computer programmer and I have an idea for a really cool new digital securities market. It's so devious and machiavellian, it'll take decades for anyone to figure out how to even approach regulating it. Who wants to give me a gazillion dollars to make it and market it?
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Wow, what an astonishing display of ignorance about who actually pays for Affinity and what those people want, or very much do not want.
Congrats, whatever MBA geniuses concocted this one. Now you're just worse Adobe.
Congrats, whatever MBA geniuses concocted this one. Now you're just worse Adobe.
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Wow, what an astonishing display of ignorance about who actually pays for Affinity and what those people want, or very much do not want.
Congrats, whatever MBA geniuses concocted this one. Now you're just worse Adobe.
Congrats, whatever MBA geniuses concocted this one. Now you're just worse Adobe.