Ryn
@reprapryn.bsky.social
Reprapper, robot enthusiast, and love some open source.
Designer of the Sylph Delta 3d printer
Can also find me on @reprapryn@fosstodon.org on Mastodon
She/her
Designer of the Sylph Delta 3d printer
Can also find me on @reprapryn@fosstodon.org on Mastodon
She/her
Time to be a big boat foamer, get on a big boat, and then go to a boat museum
Nautical nonsense lmao. Notes in the alt tags as well.
Nautical nonsense lmao. Notes in the alt tags as well.
November 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Time to be a big boat foamer, get on a big boat, and then go to a boat museum
Nautical nonsense lmao. Notes in the alt tags as well.
Nautical nonsense lmao. Notes in the alt tags as well.
I remember when I had bottom surgery in 2019
Out of pocket 5K, insurance paid 40K.
Hospital funny money number, 900k.
There is a special place in Hell for whoever at hospitals and insurance companies created this racket.
Out of pocket 5K, insurance paid 40K.
Hospital funny money number, 900k.
There is a special place in Hell for whoever at hospitals and insurance companies created this racket.
so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I remember when I had bottom surgery in 2019
Out of pocket 5K, insurance paid 40K.
Hospital funny money number, 900k.
There is a special place in Hell for whoever at hospitals and insurance companies created this racket.
Out of pocket 5K, insurance paid 40K.
Hospital funny money number, 900k.
There is a special place in Hell for whoever at hospitals and insurance companies created this racket.
Hey #seattle robot enthusiasts, come to the market on Saturday at 10 AM at the old flea market in Caphill, it's robot fighting time! Brackets start then
416 15th Ave E
I'll be driving a bot in it, lookout for BONESAW
Going to be a fun time!
416 15th Ave E
I'll be driving a bot in it, lookout for BONESAW
Going to be a fun time!
November 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Hey #seattle robot enthusiasts, come to the market on Saturday at 10 AM at the old flea market in Caphill, it's robot fighting time! Brackets start then
416 15th Ave E
I'll be driving a bot in it, lookout for BONESAW
Going to be a fun time!
416 15th Ave E
I'll be driving a bot in it, lookout for BONESAW
Going to be a fun time!
Some level 1 villain In DND that got caught stealing sheep looking guy
October 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Some level 1 villain In DND that got caught stealing sheep looking guy
Oof owwie oof this just described my career
If I wanted to trap an autistic person in their job and extract the maximum value from them for the minimum pay and supports, I would:
- hire them and tell them how much I need them
- wait for them to learn to love the job, earn people's trust and have an impact
- start taking supports away
- hire them and tell them how much I need them
- wait for them to learn to love the job, earn people's trust and have an impact
- start taking supports away
October 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Oof owwie oof this just described my career
My only hope is it ends up like Myspace, and these guys all lose a fortune and other sites come to dominance with a userbase that hates the GOPs guts.
September 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My only hope is it ends up like Myspace, and these guys all lose a fortune and other sites come to dominance with a userbase that hates the GOPs guts.
If these groups had cross site links and some sort of federation model to help fund it, would be the second coming of gawker.
If it had decent search, would also obviate the need to have to play nice with Google and Microsoft's AI monster that doesn't even send traffic anymore.
If it had decent search, would also obviate the need to have to play nice with Google and Microsoft's AI monster that doesn't even send traffic anymore.
If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
September 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
If these groups had cross site links and some sort of federation model to help fund it, would be the second coming of gawker.
If it had decent search, would also obviate the need to have to play nice with Google and Microsoft's AI monster that doesn't even send traffic anymore.
If it had decent search, would also obviate the need to have to play nice with Google and Microsoft's AI monster that doesn't even send traffic anymore.
If this happens, it will be the end of non corpo chat and non corpo forums in America. There is no way for the small web to survive this with what the law wants. And by proxy would also end all non corpo affiliated open source dev.
It has to be stopped.
It has to be stopped.
#SaveSpeech
the 'STOP CSAM Act of 2025' [S.1829] is currently estimated to be 56% likely to pass according to Govtrack
This bill will undermine services offering end-to-end encryption and force internet companies to take down lawful user content
tell reps to OPPOSE
www.congress.gov/members/find...
the 'STOP CSAM Act of 2025' [S.1829] is currently estimated to be 56% likely to pass according to Govtrack
This bill will undermine services offering end-to-end encryption and force internet companies to take down lawful user content
tell reps to OPPOSE
www.congress.gov/members/find...
Oppose STOP CSAM: Protecting Kids Shouldn’t Mean Breaking the Tools That Keep Us Safe
A Senate bill re-introduced this week threatens security and free speech on the internet. EFF urges Congress to reject the STOP CSAM Act of 2025 (S. 1829), which would undermine services offering end-...
www.eff.org
September 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
If this happens, it will be the end of non corpo chat and non corpo forums in America. There is no way for the small web to survive this with what the law wants. And by proxy would also end all non corpo affiliated open source dev.
It has to be stopped.
It has to be stopped.
Gotta stop being depressed and get back in the design game. There is cool stuff to do. Western Alliance Robotics is doing big fights in Seattle Cap Hill in November and I want to make something for it.
I had so much fun with 12lbers
www.robotcombatevents.com/events/5045
I had so much fun with 12lbers
www.robotcombatevents.com/events/5045
WAR at the Market
416 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112, USA
www.robotcombatevents.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Gotta stop being depressed and get back in the design game. There is cool stuff to do. Western Alliance Robotics is doing big fights in Seattle Cap Hill in November and I want to make something for it.
I had so much fun with 12lbers
www.robotcombatevents.com/events/5045
I had so much fun with 12lbers
www.robotcombatevents.com/events/5045
Reposted by Ryn
The Guardian: Can AIs suffer? Maybe, just maybe 🤔🥺😔
Also The Guardian: Can trans people suffer? Not fucking enough 😡
Also The Guardian: Can trans people suffer? Not fucking enough 😡
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The Guardian: Can AIs suffer? Maybe, just maybe 🤔🥺😔
Also The Guardian: Can trans people suffer? Not fucking enough 😡
Also The Guardian: Can trans people suffer? Not fucking enough 😡
Reading this stuff and thinking of my media diet, I remember folks giving deus ex mankind divided shit in August of 2016 for being unrealistic in countries deporting folks to places like Oman, detransitioning folks (in game putting bioprinted bits in against consent), and general mistreatment
Israel pioneered this tactic a decade ago: deporting 4,000 asylum seekers to Uganda and Rwanda, where they faced horrific conditions and were often funneled into deadly trafficking networks.
I investigated this shadow deportation system for @newrepublic.com in 2018: newrepublic.com/article/1488...
I investigated this shadow deportation system for @newrepublic.com in 2018: newrepublic.com/article/1488...
August 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reading this stuff and thinking of my media diet, I remember folks giving deus ex mankind divided shit in August of 2016 for being unrealistic in countries deporting folks to places like Oman, detransitioning folks (in game putting bioprinted bits in against consent), and general mistreatment
Mississippi got blocked because of their UK like age Verification law and all my homies are switching to VPNs.
Not a hell hot enough for the GOP using kids as a justification to try and lock the Internet down
Not a hell hot enough for the GOP using kids as a justification to try and lock the Internet down
August 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Mississippi got blocked because of their UK like age Verification law and all my homies are switching to VPNs.
Not a hell hot enough for the GOP using kids as a justification to try and lock the Internet down
Not a hell hot enough for the GOP using kids as a justification to try and lock the Internet down
I dislike genAI for most use cases, but I find it kind of funny that most people don't know you can run autonomous.
And I can see smaller more targeted models going into edge intelligence, even if chatGPT implodes.
Same as any other AI winter, the useful stuff becomes boring and normal.
And I can see smaller more targeted models going into edge intelligence, even if chatGPT implodes.
Same as any other AI winter, the useful stuff becomes boring and normal.
When they shutoff the LLMs some people's emails are gonna be like "me client, me want deliverable, you make good, you incorporate brand strategy"
August 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I dislike genAI for most use cases, but I find it kind of funny that most people don't know you can run autonomous.
And I can see smaller more targeted models going into edge intelligence, even if chatGPT implodes.
Same as any other AI winter, the useful stuff becomes boring and normal.
And I can see smaller more targeted models going into edge intelligence, even if chatGPT implodes.
Same as any other AI winter, the useful stuff becomes boring and normal.
Reposted by Ryn
one thing i wish ttrpg players would do more is think about all the ways big and small they can make their characters less like themselves
August 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
one thing i wish ttrpg players would do more is think about all the ways big and small they can make their characters less like themselves
August 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I will use this whenever somebody says ask chatGPT. It doesn't know this will kill people in special ways and take advantage of folks who don't know it isn't an AGI
After asking ChatGPT what to eat instead of salt, a man slowly poisoned himself over course of 3 months and gave himself a psychiatric illness that was common in the 19th century, according to a new medical case study:
www.404media.co/guy-gives-hi...
www.404media.co/guy-gives-hi...
Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
"For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."
www.404media.co
August 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I will use this whenever somebody says ask chatGPT. It doesn't know this will kill people in special ways and take advantage of folks who don't know it isn't an AGI
Just got me some really cool servos and a controller from Waveshare. Looks like they are already doing tariffs if you order from them direct they charge so much less than amazon. No suprises
I got a dumb idea with cable drives that I want to show off soon that take advantage of their torque sense
I got a dumb idea with cable drives that I want to show off soon that take advantage of their torque sense
August 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Just got me some really cool servos and a controller from Waveshare. Looks like they are already doing tariffs if you order from them direct they charge so much less than amazon. No suprises
I got a dumb idea with cable drives that I want to show off soon that take advantage of their torque sense
I got a dumb idea with cable drives that I want to show off soon that take advantage of their torque sense
All this tariff and data manipulation stuff in the US is making me painfully aware that most people even corpos aren't aware of just how much stuff only works because free trade.
And that it's going to take decades of smart little guys having to work around the edges to make it less bad.
And that it's going to take decades of smart little guys having to work around the edges to make it less bad.
August 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
All this tariff and data manipulation stuff in the US is making me painfully aware that most people even corpos aren't aware of just how much stuff only works because free trade.
And that it's going to take decades of smart little guys having to work around the edges to make it less bad.
And that it's going to take decades of smart little guys having to work around the edges to make it less bad.
Great thread, and why credentialism is dumb and the current pipeline for tech is setting ourselves up for preventing real skills from developing.
Also how jank ass windows can be and how frustrating proprietary evaluation software is.
Also how jank ass windows can be and how frustrating proprietary evaluation software is.
I regularly bleat into young people's ears that there was no goddamn "tech career track" until recently. All the most senior people you know came from some weird shit. Our Deputy CISO ran a college Helpdesk. They came up from the bottom. Every single one of them has a different story. Relate to it.
July 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Great thread, and why credentialism is dumb and the current pipeline for tech is setting ourselves up for preventing real skills from developing.
Also how jank ass windows can be and how frustrating proprietary evaluation software is.
Also how jank ass windows can be and how frustrating proprietary evaluation software is.
I'm sitting here and wondering at that sort of spend, this guy would be better off buying a really really nice GPU and running a local instance. Would pay for itself in two weeks compared to this spend.
So not only is he an addict, he's a whale for corpo tech.
So not only is he an addict, he's a whale for corpo tech.
If somebody said these things about cocaine or alcohol, people would stage an intervention, stat
July 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I'm sitting here and wondering at that sort of spend, this guy would be better off buying a really really nice GPU and running a local instance. Would pay for itself in two weeks compared to this spend.
So not only is he an addict, he's a whale for corpo tech.
So not only is he an addict, he's a whale for corpo tech.
Dudes Rock
medium-old guy saw my tattoos and excitedly said ‘i have one too, on my shoulder! wanna see?’ then proceeded to pull up his sleeve to show me a tattoo of Taz the tasmanian devil holding a glock saying ‘ROMANS 12:19’ in gothic letters in a speech bubble
July 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Dudes Rock
With the move to private space, grimly think this was inevitable. Folks go to the moon not to learn about earth, but to get the He3 fusion fuel and water for building crypto and AI training farms and military infrastructure
no place in the universe capitalism doesn't despoil.
no place in the universe capitalism doesn't despoil.
Remember that NASA was only able to *start* because the rich were being taxed at 90+% marginal rates.
Now, *you* pay a greater percent of your income as taxes than any billionaire.
You're just not gonna get NASA back without billionaires paying taxes again.
Now, *you* pay a greater percent of your income as taxes than any billionaire.
You're just not gonna get NASA back without billionaires paying taxes again.
the American government is effectively ending its space program.
July 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
With the move to private space, grimly think this was inevitable. Folks go to the moon not to learn about earth, but to get the He3 fusion fuel and water for building crypto and AI training farms and military infrastructure
no place in the universe capitalism doesn't despoil.
no place in the universe capitalism doesn't despoil.
Seriously one of the movies I've been looking forward to for the last few years.
Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=m08T...
Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer
YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios
www.youtube.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Seriously one of the movies I've been looking forward to for the last few years.
Really useful tutorial for disabling Gemini and Google Assistant. Still doesn't pass the -AI tag but better than wasting battery, but still something.
This came across my feed a couple days ago. It seems to have worked, at least for now.
June 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Really useful tutorial for disabling Gemini and Google Assistant. Still doesn't pass the -AI tag but better than wasting battery, but still something.
I miss Kayla, back when I lived in Memphis she was super helpful while I was coming out. Glad to see she is still keeping the fight up
One year ago, American Problems, Trans Solutions was released. Journalist @imarajones.bsky.social spotlights Kayla Gore, Breonna McCree & Oluchi Omeoga—Black trans leaders fighting for dignity & economic justice amid relentless anti-trans attacks.
Watch & share. 🏳️⚧️
www.pbs.org/video/americ...
Watch & share. 🏳️⚧️
www.pbs.org/video/americ...
June 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I miss Kayla, back when I lived in Memphis she was super helpful while I was coming out. Glad to see she is still keeping the fight up