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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I actually don’t get this? Using myriad as a noun like this is a perfectly acceptable use of the word. It can be a noun or an adjective.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hank, please please please please please tell me what the heck you said on the September 14th episode of Delete This at 24:15. All I can hear is “nature has been read in do then claw the whole time”, and the auto-transcription isn’t any better. I can’t figure out what it’s supposed to be. #piples

Image of the automatic transcription of the episode of Delete This that was referenced. The text of the transcript reads as follows: “NO.
Style.
Oh, but I do like to remember that nature has been read in Duthanclaw the whole time, and suffering is...
Oh, absolutely.
Real rough out there in the wild.
Built in to the whole thing.”

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Some picks I took in Lowell around 11 AM today.

Image taken looking up towards the sky. No blue is visible. The sky is overcast with smoke appearing with an orange tint, darker lower towards the ground and lighter higher up. There are trees on the right and the bottom of the image, and the top of a house visible in the bottom left.

Image taken looking up towards the sky. No blue is visible. The sky is overcast with smoke appearing with an orange tint, darker in the lower left and lighter in the upper right. There are trees near the bottom of the image and electrical lines running through.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I'm imagining going to a convention where Biden controls 26% of the delegates, Sanders 22%, Warren 15%, Bloomberg 10%, Buttigieg 7%, Klobuchar 4%, etc... and needing to hash out the candidate and the platform there.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Oh, OK. Missed that these probabilities don't add up to 66%, not 100%. So within the remaining 34%, there are possible matches that don't contain the US.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I really don’t get why liberalism is such a dirty word in so many leftist spaces, given that like of the entire opening paragraph of the Liberalism page on Wikipedia, the highlighted bit are the only ones that run opposed to even full-bore socialism. Everything else sounds nice to have regardless.

The top of the Wikipedia page for Liberalism. It reads “Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property, and equality before the law. Different liberals espouse various and sometimes conflicting views depending on their understanding of these principles but generally support liberal democracy, private property, market economies, individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), secularism, rule of law, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion. Liberalism is frequently cited as the dominant ideology of modern history.”

I have highlighted “right to private property” and “private property, market economies”.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Probably my favorite quote from Marx: "The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living." It really does feel like that sometimes.

The image is the 2nd paragraph of Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte: "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language. Thus Luther put on the mask of the Apostle Paul, the Revolution of 1789-1814 draped itself alternately in the guise of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and the Revolution of 1848 knew nothing better to do than to parody, now 1789, now the revolutionary tradition of 1793-95. In like manner, the beginner who has learned a new language always translates it back into his mother tongue, but he assimilates the spirit of the new language and expresses himself freely in it only when he moves in it without recalling the old and when he forgets his native tongue."

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Coming back to this to post a relevant XKCD

The text of the XKCD comic reads:

“NEVER HAVE I FELT SO CLOSE TO ANOTHER SOUL

AND YET SO HELPLESSLY ALONE

AS WHEN I GOOGLE AN ERROR AND THERES ONE RESULT

A THREAD BY SOMEONE WITH THE SAME PROBLEM

AND NO ANSWER

LAST POSTED TO IN 2003

WHO WERE YOU, DENVERCODER9?
WHAT DID YOU SEE?!”

There is an image of a stick figure at a desk maniacally shaking a computer monitor.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Nikko National Park makes for a great day trip from Tokyo. Kegon Waterfall there is gorgeous, especially if you get a view from the bottom around the time of sunset. This picture is from May of last year.

Kegon Waterfall at sunset. I tight stream of water falls nearly 100 meters down a rock face. There is lush greenery all around. The sun sits just over the top of the falls.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This would heavily interfere with the nice view of the Lincoln Memorial you can get from the top of Arlington Cemetery.

Photo taken from the Robert E Lee house in the Arlington National Cemetery. It looks over the Potomac. Past the river you can see the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, and the Capitol Building.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

It's easy to say "Boston" in these discussions, and what that means is all of eastern MA, and southern NH and northern RI. I got priced out of my 1 bedroom apartment in NH (red X) after it went from under $1200 to over $1600 in less than 3 years!

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Very specifically, these stations.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The UI is completely different for me now. I have videos I opened before (left) and after (right) the change and I hate the new one. Also, the UI on paused videos now disappears if you don't have your mouse over the video.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Can a socialist not be a liberal? Just looking at the Wikipedia article on Liberalism, socialism on rules out a very small portion of the description of liberalism.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Man, I am way worse at Connections than y’all lol.

NYT Connections stats. Completed: 271. Win percentage: 78%. Current streak: 0. Max streak: 22. Perfect Puzzles: 83. Purple first: 17.

Mistake distribution. 0: 83, 1: 49, 2: 44, 3: 35, 4: 60.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

So you can make the rest a state if you shrink the district to basically just be the stuff circled here.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Benjamin Franklin disagrees. The values aren’t “shifting back” to anything. The name Gulf of Mexico is older than the United States (or Mexico!) being a country. It’s the universally recognized name around the world. It is ridiculous to change it on the whim of one man.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Also, Benjamin Franklin was calling it the Gulf of Mexico in 1767, over 350 years ago. I’m not going to call it something different because of one guy’s whim.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

lol r/Civ (which has a number of Firaxis employees as moderators) now has a rule that bans discussion of Luigi Mangione. Just typing the name Luigi in a comment will get you this warning. I didn’t even know this functionality existed in the Reddit app.

Screenshot from the Reddit app, leaving a comment on a post in r/Civ. In the reply box, a reply is being typed that contains nothing but the word “Luigi”. Below the reply box is a warning that popped up that reads “Discussion of the Luidgi Mangione and his relation to the Civ games is not allowed here as we do not allow posts or comments pertaining to current events such as this.”

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

That’s the flag of Assad’s regime. This is the rebel flag.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

@robzacny.bsky.social You describing information gathering as Karrde’s hobbies had me thinking of this

Imagine of a stick figure girl in a dress with the following text: information seeker GF. Asks for more information. “Got any new information guys?”. Always seeking information.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Ah, thankfully it was already done for me.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Fucking hell LinkedIn KEEPS TRYING TO GET ME TO FOLLOW VIVEK RAMASWAMY. Fuck off LinkedIn! I got a push notification for it this time (after several emails of the same nature). Why?! (Ignore the other horrible news)

Image showing push notification from LinkedIn recommended that I follow Vivek Ramaswamy.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Sorry Great Plains, but New England simply produces better Federal workers than you.

First three digits of social security numbers for the six New England states:

001-003 for New Hampshire.

004-007 for Maine.

008-009 for Vermont.

010-034 for Massachusetts.

035-039 for Rhode Island.

040-049 for Connecticut.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Not for nothing, but this is extremely idiotic because social security numbers AREN’T RANDOM. The first three digits are determined by birth state. I’m sure the 14 Republican Senators from these seven states will love every single federal employee born in their states losing their jobs LMFAO.

First three digits of social security numbers by state for seven states:

501-502 are for North Dakota.

503-504 are for South Dakota.

505-508 are for Nebraska.

509-515 are for Kansas.

516-517 are for Montana.

518-519 are for Idaho.

520 is for Wyoming.

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