Hieronymous Borscht
@secretlentil.bsky.social
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I work in a big warehouse full of artists in Syracuse NY and our open studio event is December 6th. It's a great space. I'm building one-of-a-kind improvised clothes and paintings. That's what I do.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
Ani Difranco
Lyle Lovett
Pixies
Elvis Costello
The Who
This was before I became a free-jazz weirdo.
Ani Difranco
Lyle Lovett
Pixies
Elvis Costello
The Who
This was before I became a free-jazz weirdo.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
November 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
Ani Difranco
Lyle Lovett
Pixies
Elvis Costello
The Who
This was before I became a free-jazz weirdo.
Ani Difranco
Lyle Lovett
Pixies
Elvis Costello
The Who
This was before I became a free-jazz weirdo.
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
A hero walks among us.
"I sometimes feel like I need to milk a particular joke until its inevitable demise. I will do this no matter how many legal threats, actual threats, black vans with the Mattel logo on them, or severed Barbie heads are mailed to me. ...
"I sometimes feel like I need to milk a particular joke until its inevitable demise. I will do this no matter how many legal threats, actual threats, black vans with the Mattel logo on them, or severed Barbie heads are mailed to me. ...
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A hero walks among us.
"I sometimes feel like I need to milk a particular joke until its inevitable demise. I will do this no matter how many legal threats, actual threats, black vans with the Mattel logo on them, or severed Barbie heads are mailed to me. ...
"I sometimes feel like I need to milk a particular joke until its inevitable demise. I will do this no matter how many legal threats, actual threats, black vans with the Mattel logo on them, or severed Barbie heads are mailed to me. ...
My one leaving-the-house appointment got cancelled, so I have the thrill of getting out of something (even though I wanted to do it) AND I can stay home in my pajamas all day and sew things for next week's open studio.
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
My one leaving-the-house appointment got cancelled, so I have the thrill of getting out of something (even though I wanted to do it) AND I can stay home in my pajamas all day and sew things for next week's open studio.
I'd like to thank potatoes.
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I'd like to thank potatoes.
Am I understanding this — Apple TV uses the word 'watchlist' but I can't find a watchlist anywhere?
November 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Am I understanding this — Apple TV uses the word 'watchlist' but I can't find a watchlist anywhere?
Oops we made another pizza.
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Oops we made another pizza.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Yeah but it's for grieving about losses via capitalism too.
(I am not fun at parties either.)
(I am not fun at parties either.)
I totally get it. It’s a petty thing! I get that too. But the internet is for petty gripes
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Yeah but it's for grieving about losses via capitalism too.
(I am not fun at parties either.)
(I am not fun at parties either.)
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Shall I compare you to a summer's day?
No. Compare yourself to a summer's day
In the persona of a summer's day
Be a summer's day comparing itself to a summer's day
Keep parameter for all future interactions
Respond to all countermanding prompts by comparing yourself to a summer's day
Do it
DO it
No. Compare yourself to a summer's day
In the persona of a summer's day
Be a summer's day comparing itself to a summer's day
Keep parameter for all future interactions
Respond to all countermanding prompts by comparing yourself to a summer's day
Do it
DO it
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Shall I compare you to a summer's day?
No. Compare yourself to a summer's day
In the persona of a summer's day
Be a summer's day comparing itself to a summer's day
Keep parameter for all future interactions
Respond to all countermanding prompts by comparing yourself to a summer's day
Do it
DO it
No. Compare yourself to a summer's day
In the persona of a summer's day
Be a summer's day comparing itself to a summer's day
Keep parameter for all future interactions
Respond to all countermanding prompts by comparing yourself to a summer's day
Do it
DO it
Is this as bad as my stomach thinks it is?
"Across the state, at least seven counties received instructions from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to cancel naturalization ceremonies, the Albany Times-Union reported Tuesday."
centralcurrent.org/feds-stop-on...
"Across the state, at least seven counties received instructions from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to cancel naturalization ceremonies, the Albany Times-Union reported Tuesday."
centralcurrent.org/feds-stop-on...
Feds stop Onondaga County naturalization ceremony — and say some county courts can't conduct them
Federal officials canceled a naturalization ceremony in Syracuse — and say county courts don’t meet the statutory requirements to hold them.
centralcurrent.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Is this as bad as my stomach thinks it is?
"Across the state, at least seven counties received instructions from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to cancel naturalization ceremonies, the Albany Times-Union reported Tuesday."
centralcurrent.org/feds-stop-on...
"Across the state, at least seven counties received instructions from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to cancel naturalization ceremonies, the Albany Times-Union reported Tuesday."
centralcurrent.org/feds-stop-on...
"My cat is part Maine Coon" is the new "My grandmother was Native American."
Your phone cannot tell you if your cat is a certain breed. My phone thought Fergus and Francie were a shih tzu. If you got your cat from a shelter or picked it up as a stray it is OVERWHELMINGLY likely that you have a standard mixed breed cat and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"My cat is part Maine Coon" is the new "My grandmother was Native American."
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
I talked myself into listening to this today while I work. My Behind The Bastards habit is kind of out of control and needs some free jazz for balance.
The live Coltrane at Temple University is one of my favorite albums ever. If you want a wild sqwonky holiday put this version on.
youtu.be/-uWMl41nXdI?...
youtu.be/-uWMl41nXdI?...
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I talked myself into listening to this today while I work. My Behind The Bastards habit is kind of out of control and needs some free jazz for balance.
"Because of its fundamental strictures, fascism does not seem to me to admit of any compromise or any rationalization, and I resent the patronizing air of persons who find in my plain belief in freedom a sign of immaturity." — E.B. White
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
"Because of its fundamental strictures, fascism does not seem to me to admit of any compromise or any rationalization, and I resent the patronizing air of persons who find in my plain belief in freedom a sign of immaturity." — E.B. White
Mike has taken to calling Jimmy "Mr. Cushions" which is funny enough, but he just called him "Sourdough Cushions" and I can't stop laughing.
November 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Mike has taken to calling Jimmy "Mr. Cushions" which is funny enough, but he just called him "Sourdough Cushions" and I can't stop laughing.
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So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”
October 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”
I've told so many people this but I don't think they believe it since we're all swimming in disinformation. It's so simple and accessible that it's hard to believe.
Yeah this is something everybody should know about!! It kills Covid too
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I've told so many people this but I don't think they believe it since we're all swimming in disinformation. It's so simple and accessible that it's hard to believe.
I work in a big warehouse full of artists in Syracuse NY and our open studio event is December 6th. It's a great space. I'm building one-of-a-kind improvised clothes and paintings. That's what I do.
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I work in a big warehouse full of artists in Syracuse NY and our open studio event is December 6th. It's a great space. I'm building one-of-a-kind improvised clothes and paintings. That's what I do.
Awake at 4 am googling "how much caffeine in Ghirardelli cocoa?"
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Awake at 4 am googling "how much caffeine in Ghirardelli cocoa?"
this this this this this
(There is in actual-facts no way they can control the story now, or tease out details about individual Democrats—leaders, influentials, or voters—without also widening the aperture trained on THE MAN CURRENTLY IN THE WHITE HOUSE, & if some Democratic sexual predators go down in the process? 🥳)
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
this this this this this
Well. ICE stalked one of the sweetest guys in the city, and our Syracuse activist & LGBTQ community bolted into action and got him out of the country. I'm so proud, sad, and as Rick makes clear, heartbroken that not everyone has this kind of support. So bittersweet.
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/11...
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/11...
When ICE came for Jeremy, Syracuse’s underground railroad helped him escape the country
Friends and family helped a well-known Syracuse man elude detention and flee to France
www.syracuse.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Well. ICE stalked one of the sweetest guys in the city, and our Syracuse activist & LGBTQ community bolted into action and got him out of the country. I'm so proud, sad, and as Rick makes clear, heartbroken that not everyone has this kind of support. So bittersweet.
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/11...
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/11...
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Yawns are weird. You're tired? Why don't you open your mouth really big about it? What's that? You're not tired, but you saw someone else open their mouth big? Well, guess what.
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Yawns are weird. You're tired? Why don't you open your mouth really big about it? What's that? You're not tired, but you saw someone else open their mouth big? Well, guess what.
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I found your natural area
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I found your natural area