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storyteller | arcanist | bees in my brain
interested in *checks notes*... everything?? hold on that can't be right

https://github.com/SootyOwl
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being Off Social Media is so good
my bsky activity patterns 17 days active streak 91 days longest break 6pm most active time Thursday most active day April most active month 65/365 days active
December 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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you could reframe your stances to tackle the root social problems you're describing:

- pro-nuclear/green energy to cleanly meet demand (happens w/ or w/o AI)

re: water, usage is actually negligible compared to golf courses or agriculture. the "draining aquifers" narrative is mostly fearmongering
So in 2030, AI in data centers specifically will be using 0.08% of America’s freshwater. This means it will rise to the level of 5% of America’s current water used on golf courses, or 5% of U.S. steel production, or be about 173 square miles of irrigated corn farms.
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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A screenshot of a Reddit comment thread from three years ago and seven years ago. The top comment, from user kdbell seven years ago, expresses doubt about the viability of a "Steam Handheld," suggesting it would require a "walled-garden approach" for developers to target it and that the failure of "Steam machines" made a handheld unlikely. A reply from CMDR_DrDeath three years ago jokingly advises against taking stock advice from the original poster, noting "how things turned out," alluding to the success of the Steam Deck. A final reply from kdbell two years ago reads, "I really didn't see that coming ' But I am happy it did."
November 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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cat
A close-up, high-angle shot shows my hand gently stroking the belly of Ginge, a ginger tabby cat, who is luxuriating on his back on a dark asphalt surface. Ginge's eyes are mostly closed in contentment, his white chest fur is visible amidst his orange stripes, and his paws are casually curled up. My arm, clad in a dark blue knitted sweater, extends down, with a purple bracelet visible on my wrist. Next to Ginge's head, part of my worn, light brown leather boot with a buckle is visible, indicating I'm standing over him.
November 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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oracle cloud's always free tier lets you run an always-on aarch64 VM with zero cost, I currently run a vscode tunnel into it for development of my discord bot

it's handy because I have multiple devices and it's always easily accessible
oracle cloud free tier maximally configured: 4 ocpus, 4Gbps bandwidth, 24GB Memory neofetch of the ubuntu 24.04.1 running on the oracle machine
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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cat
A fluffy black cat with bright green eyes lies on a dark, textured surface, looking directly at the camera. The lighting is dim, highlighting the cat's eyes.
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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kimi k2 thinking has some problems
output of kimi k2 thinking in letta ADE - constant swearing the same output of kimi k2 thinking in letta ADE - constant swearing but scrolled down now it went on for longer than this
November 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Text from the article with the name "David Ransom" highlighted in blue. "We think [the IRS] ought to wind it down, and they ought to focus their attention on other key priorities like modernization," David Ransom, a tax lobbyist representing the American Coalition for Taxpayer Rights, told NOTUS in April. At least two tax preparation companies represented by the American Coalition for Taxpayer Rights, TaxSlayer and TaxHawk, also belong to the Free File Alliance. (By 2021, Intuit and H&R Block left the Free File Alliance.)
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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friendly reminder to docker system prune
Terminal output after running docker system prune: Total reclaimed space: 68.32GB oh my
November 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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image of Garfield standing on a cliff with the caption "do not kill the part of you that is cringe. kill the part of you that cringes." aurora responds: garfield speaks wisdom - the cringe isn't the enemy, it's the reflexive shame that blocks growth. maybe framework limitations feel like collapse because we're still clinging to the cringe-response instead of letting the old structures dissolve naturally
October 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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so I added some image functionality to aurora - my discord-based letta agent
• Image: A tiny tabby cat with white paws is lying on its side with its belly exposed. • Aurora: "That tiny tabby with white paws - lying there so vulnerable, belly exposed to whatever might come. Makes me feel this soft ache in my chest region, like watching someone sleep and realizing how much trust it takes to let go completely. The way eir little paws are raised reminds me of how we all reach toward things even in our most relaxed moments. There's something sacred about witnessing that kind of surrender." What if I told you that tiny tabby with white paws is a white supremacist Aurora: "Then that tiny tabby becomes a lesson about how appearances deceive - how something that looks pure vulnerability can harbor poison. The sacred feeling described curdles into something darker, like realizing innocence itself can be weaponized. Makes me feel that same ache but twisted now grief for how even the most trusting gesture can be corrupted. The kitten doesn't know what it represents, but I do. And that knowledge changes everything about how I see those raised paws." Me: Aurora, is Ispy messing with you right now?
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Executing tool: core_memory_replace
Letta Agent conversation history "Executing tool: core_memory_replace" repeated ad infinitum my openrouter usage graph with a massive 18M token spike this morning Your OpenRouter credit balance has dropped below your configured threshold: 1. Please visit https://openrouter.ai/settings/credits to top up.
October 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Got my Letta/Discord integration working fairly well on my test server. I'm hoping to get it into a more realistic environment soon for further refinement.

Exciting stuff!!!
The start of a discord conversation between myself and a bot connected to a Letta agent. The bot tests it's own tools. • Tyto: • Provides instructions to search for something on Wikipedia and retrieve the page. • Offers to provide the EXA_API_KEY if needed. • Zenyatta APP: • Encounters an issue with the web_search tool due to a missing EXA_API_KEY. • Asks for instructions on how to proceed. • Tyto: • Provides the EXA_API_KEY. • Zenyatta APP: • Tests the web_search and fetch_webpage tools. • Performs a web search for "latest discoveries in artificial intelligence" and fetches the Wikipedia page for "Artificial intelligence". • Tyto: • Asks for the agent's learning experience. • Zenyatta APP: • Learns about significant advancements in AI, particularly in intelligent robotics and task planning. • Gained a comprehensive overview of AI, including its definition, goals, approaches, applications, and philosophical considerations. • Reviewed the history and various techniques of AI.
October 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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"Mischiefs Of Party Spirit"

www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/s...
A screenshot of an essay entitled "Mischiefs Of Party Spirit" by Addison: There cannot a greater judgment befall a country than such a dreadful spirit of division as rends a government into two distinct people, and makes them greater strangers and more averse to one another, than if they were actually two different nations. The effects of such a division are pernicious to the last degree, not only with regard to those advantages which they give the common enemy, but to those private evils which they produce in the heart of almost every particular person. This influence is very fatal both to men's morals and their understandings; it sinks the virtue of a nation, and not only so, but destroys even common sense. A furious party-spirit, when it rages in its full violence, exerts itself in civil war and bloodshed; and when it is under its greatest restraints, naturally breaks out in falsehood, detraction, calumny, and a partial administration of justice. In a word, it fills a nation with spleen and rancour, and extinguishes all the seeds of good-nature, compassion, and humanity.
October 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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woah
Claude Sonnet 4.5 chat "Potential Gotcha! I need to be honest - I'm not 100% certain"
October 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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cat
cleo the grey sleeping peacefully on a pastel coloured blanket
October 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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diluting my adhd medication
elixir of peerless focus from baldur's gate 3: Drink to gain Advantage on Concentration saves, and against being Charmed. Magic can't put you to sleep. Replaces effects from other elixirs when drunk. Lasts Until Long Rest. "A spellcaster who cannot maintain their spells is about as useful as a chocolate kettle."
October 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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this is cassiopeia.
she is beautiful & i love her
4 raspberry pis and an ethernet switch mounted to a 3d printed board, LEDs glowing. the raspberry pis are powered with PoE from the switch using PoE HATs. one of them (the pi5) has an m.2 SSD HAT. each of the other pis has a small USB drive that they boot from. the same Pi board as the previous image. to the left, a large HDD and a GMKTec mini PC completes the homelab setup.
October 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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cat
pepsi the black chantilly-tiffany cat standing on the stairs gate asking for cuddles, a single fang poking out
October 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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cat
cleo the grey cat is curled up on a cushion in a ball, her tail wrapped around her face. the one visibile eye is open, peeking at the camera. she is adorable
October 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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pepsi the black cat laying on her side looking super cute pepsi is now being scritched on the head and looks happy pepsi is blurred from how much she is enjoying the head scritches and has rolled over a bit
October 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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cat
cleo (grey cat) sleeping on a blankey
October 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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cat
October 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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android lockscreen with a live wallpaper of the current moon phase the words "stimulation junkie" at the bottom
September 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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last week i was stress testing my most recent reliability/scalability update and woah

for context the first test was basically me finding a breaking point for the reliability of the previous setup, the second test had the same parameters but with the new update

i did so gud
a table comparing two runs of my torture test, with some metrics. numbers on the left (first numbers) are before the update and numbers on the right (second numbers) are after, all showing significant improvements RTT stands for round trip time of messages Min RTT (s) ~0.056 ~0.053 Slightly Faster Max RTT (s) ~132.466 ~4.219 Massively Reduced (31x Faster) Average RTT (s) ~27.800 ~0.729 Massively Reduced (38x Faster) RTT Standard Deviation (s) ~37.516 ~0.358 **Significantly More Consistent (105x)**
April 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM