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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 04/10/2026
lol
screenshotted excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Frank Lloyd Wright's Jacobs House: "According to Herb, passersby often came to look at the house during construction, and most visitors were friendly. One such visitor was the architect Walter Gropius, who at the time was a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; Wright reportedly refused to give Gropius a tour because a local architect had invited Gropius to the house without Wright's permission."
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 02/10/2026
ai guy grasping for a relatable analogy: i mean do you really expect all of your razor blades to be sharp every time
anonymized screenshot of a guy quoting himself on bluesky.
original post: "LLMs have known failure modes and predictable error rates... Just like any machine ever built. You can engineer around them. An llm failing at something is simply not a gotcha. People saying they don't work can make the same argument about any tech ever. It works. We have the technology."
quote post: "For example in my engineering work I have multiple review/verification loops, mistakes like this happen ALL the time and few get through unnoticed because I engineer for them. My expensive Japanese razor blades sometimes have duds in the pack, but steel stamping still works"
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 01/10/2026
photo of a firefighter on a roof in full thermal gear covered in high vis yellow/reflective stripes
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 28/09/2026
i saw someone else do "9 pc games i loved as a kid" so here we are, in no particular order except for the neverhood which more or less defined my rich interior world for years my9games.com/en/s/65bc500...
my9games.com grid featuring the neverhood, rollercoaster tycoon 2, riven the sequel to myst, myst III exile, rayman, homeworld, the incredible toon machine, age of empires II, and the "games sampler for windows 95"
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 27/09/2026
yes but what about
photo of a 1960s era mazda hood badge: a white sans serif lowercase "m" with its ascender going all the up and its final vertical going all the way down to a white ring, on top of a blue triangle shaped like the rotor of a rotary engine
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 25/09/2026
we see his little bone flutes & his ink drawings, shaw's engraved headstone, out in the "garden" that is designed in direct homage to arnold bocklin's isle of the dead. the engineers didn't build this, david did
still from alien covenant (2017): wide view of a rocky cliff face, backed up against the the large "palace" structure, sheltering a stand of tall pine trees waving in the wind. a light between the trees is the back door to david's little druid hole. huge, cubic forms emerging from the rough rock suggest this space was at least partly carved away by unnatural forcesarnold bocklin's 1880 painting "isle of the dead:" wide view of a small island surrounded by open water. white cliffs with doors & windows hewn into them rise up on the left and right, sheltering a stand of tall pines that recede into darkness. in the foreground, a boat is arriving bearing a white-robed hooded figure
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 25/09/2026
can u believe what people just give away
photo of a plastic milk jug sitting on a countertop surrounded by junk. it's full to the brim & the label indicates that it should be normal fat free milk but the liquid inside is more of a pale brown color with a hint of green
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 23/09/2026
hmmm
still image from house of cards: frank underwood is lying on the couch on his tummy looking intently at his ipadstill from house of cards: close up of frank underwood's hand playing the classic mobile puzzle game monument valley
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 18/09/2026
again. come on man
an apple marketing image of the new burgundy iphone 18 pro, featuring three cameras in a triangular arrangement. i have overlaid a green triangle and three circles to show where the camera lenses would be IF the triangle was equilateral, but it's not — another red circle and red triangle show that apple has placed the camera on the right a little too far away.
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 22/08/2026
this beauty looks like a scifi movie prop, they truly do not make shit like this anymore
photo of the carrying case for the previously-posted strobe bulb: the classic black instrument case with reinforced silver metal corners & clasps, but oriented vertically with the lid at the narrow end. one sticker reads "MARVY! / ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHY" and another reads "Delicate Instruments / Don't Drop"photo of the carrying case in the previous photo with the lid open, revealing a lot of foam insulation & the elegant top end of the bulb. the shiny black handle is mounted to a silver metal disc, encircled by a black band with a silver-on-red GE logo and silver letters reading "DANGER," "HIGH VOLTAGE," "DO NOT TOUCH SPIRAL"
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 22/08/2026
tube of the week
photo of a big beautiful strobe bulb: a foot-long glass cylinder with a rounded end enclosing two smaller tubes that wrap around each other in a tight coil. the whole thing is hanging down from a hefty metal collar with a carrying handle that i'm gripping in my left hand
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 20/08/2026
the first time i heard pink floyd money i was 10 or 12 years old walking into "beatnik bob's" in the city museum in st louis missouri & it felt like a black velvet curtain was drawn aside to reveal a glow in the dark rock & roll underworld i had never seen before
photo of "beatnik bob's," a simulacrum of a groovy cafe located inside the city museum in saint louis, missouri. a disco ball & neon signs hang above tables & chairs, a bandstand, and a counter with many bottled beverages for sale
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 19/08/2026
youtube algo has begun a noticeable drift from pet rabbits toward hydroelectric infrastructure
screenshot of a youtube video featuring a soyfacing guy apparently about to rappel down into a huge scary concrete funnel
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 13/08/2026
general ripper pausing to hold his fat stogie for dramatic effect
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 09/08/2026
still from The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014): Monsieur Gustave H, having just asked "Why are we stopping in a barley field?" is looking out the window of the train car at a posse of grey-cloaked soldiers waiting in the snow
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 08/08/2026
still from The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014: Jeff Goldblum as Deputy Kovacs, having just delivered a line almost identical in cadence, tone, & meaning to the quoted line from Moby Dick
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 07/08/2026
going kojima mode @ the mann cinema 8
selfie photo of me in a movie theater, looking back over my head towards the projector. all the other seats are empty
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 06/08/2026
i dunno man
zoomed in detail of the "kitchen table polyamory" infographic revealing that the people's hands are morphing together in sloppy fashion
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 04/08/2026
??? okay i guess
screenshot of a modal in the notes app on macos reading: "Can't Lock Note / Notes with tags can't be locked." my only option is to click "OK"
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 04/08/2026
working on some kind of a thing
work in progress digital illustration: a yellow school bus pulling in the front driveway of a sleek, futuristic-looking white building
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 03/08/2026
no Iron Range vacation is complete without a visit to The Apparatus
photo of a huge black circular dial, 6 feet or more in diameter, shot from below against the white rafters & planks of an old timber building. it looks like a clock face, but the numbers start with a white marker at the top &  run from 7–27 at uneven intervals clockwise around the rim, and its single long hand is pointing at 27. bold white letters around the center of the dial spell out WEST. below it, we can see the black iron housing of some even larger machine
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 26/07/2026
millennials don't want a living wage they want to get paid in beautiful & mysterious industrial objects
photo of an object sitting on a desk: three aluminum rings housing glass lenses, mounted vertically on a rectangular aluminum base. the two outer lenses are thick & dome-shaped, pointing inward towards the central lens which is thin & flat
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 23/07/2026
photo of the corner of a garage at the edge of a parking lot where it meets a chain link fence overgrown with shrubbery. in the shady space between the garage & the fence is a dark brown leather couch
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 23/07/2026
yeah, that's his car on his insta lmao. he's not on here of course or i'd @ him myself, but be aware that not only is tom evenstad a pedophile sex pervert, he also drives like a total asshole
photo from thomas evenstad's instagram page showing the front passenger side tire of a retired police interceptor crown vic, completely flat, rim on the pavementphoto from thomas evenstad's instagram page showing the front windshield of a crown vic. you can see the hood is black & the roof is white just like the car i saw on snelling driving like a fucking maniac hooligan
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 23/07/2026
another variant in Shortcuts: you can search symbols, but it won't surface the "deeper" variants that launchie allows you to use, like the star within a circle
screenshot of the shortcuts app on macos, showing that u can customize your shortcut with 15 colors and a variety of many SF symbols divided into categories
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 23/07/2026
since updating to tahoe i've been really enjoying a launchpad replacement app called launchie, & one customization option i love, & that i have NEVER seen anywhere else, is that you can choose any SF symbol you want to represent your "spaces"
screenshot of a settings panel in the "launchie" app, showing how i can enter any SF symbol name like "star.circle" to select that symbol as my icon of choice
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 23/07/2026
...and in contacts you can choose from a selection of 47 emoji OR pick from all the emojis, no SF symbols, 18 colors. do these developers ever even see each other in the same room
screenshot of the contacts app on macos, showing the gallery of 47 available emojis you can use for a contact iconscreenshot of the contacts app on macos, showing the 18 colors you can use for a contact icon, mostly bright and pale and guaranteed to look weird behind brightly colors emojis
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 23/07/2026
...in reminders you can choose any emoji or pick from 71 SF symbols (?), with 12 color options...
screenshot of the reminders app in macos, showing your options for list icons and colors: you can choose from 71 SF symbols (there's empty space in the 6x12 grid that doesn't do anything) or any standard emoji. there are only 12 color options but they are brighter than the options in safari
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 23/07/2026
love too customize my user profile... but not too much! it's almost fascinatingly dumb how this arbitrary assortment of emojis & colors changes from one app to another. in safari you can pick from 42 SF symbols and 15 colors...
screenshot of the settings > profiles panel in safari on macos, showing the options for user profile icons. you can choose from 42 SF Symbols ranging from geometric shapes to books to sunrise to pillsscreenshot of the same settings > profiles panel, showing your color options: colorless/default or one of 15 colors, kind of random but all muted/desaturated except for one suspiciously strong magenta
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 21/07/2026
the achewood comic where little nephew gets himself banned from the burger king chatzone for trolling
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 19/07/2026
greg kelly was maybe the funniest bizarro conservative i followed on twitter. it's been years & if i see his name anywhere i still mentally append JOE BIDEN GAVE HIS OWN DOG AWAY
screenshot of right-wing personality Greg Kelly's Twitter page circa December 2021. he has changed his display name to 'Greg Kelly-JOE BIDEN GAVE HIS OWN DOG AWAY' and his bio reads 'What kind of "man" gives away his own dog ? FREE SPEECH !'
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 18/07/2026
watching annihilation again, god this movie owns
cropped still from the movie annihilation (2018): close up of a tumbler glass on a tabletop with light refracting thru it into a rainbow and bright red blood dispersing into the water
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 17/07/2026
one way you can tell apple doesn't give a fuck anymore is they're puttin their own first-party utility apps in the squircle jail
screenshot of the dock on macos, featuring the calculator app and its shitty new icon, which is just a little calculator floating in the middle of a big empty gray squircle
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 17/07/2026
why is the "mode" button in calculator a little calculator. i'm IN the calculator
screenshot of the calculator app on macos, featuring the glassified "history" sidebar and a "mode" button that uses a little calculator as its icon directly on top of the calculator itself
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 11/07/2026
photo of a small notebook, held open by a hand with a bandaid on its thumb. inside the book, in sloppy sharpie, someone has written "SOMEONE'S WRITING DOWN YOUR MISTAKES / SOMEONE'S DOCUMENTING YOUR DOWNFALL"
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 09/07/2026
that means he & duke are partying rn in the big emoji picker in the clouds. Fs in the chat for popo
screenshot of a discord emoji: a hilariously round & squishy white & brown cat face
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 09/07/2026
let us also honor the mysterious tomes on dad's office bookshelf, too high to reach, promising forbidden knowledge from faraway lands
photo of "Die Kafka Kassette," a box set of the works of Franz Kafka in the original German. the box design is stark white-on-black, with all the type set in an elegant sans serif above a big graphical kafka signature. the red watermark is from the auction site i lifted this picture from, there are not many photos of this thing online
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 09/07/2026
Unpainted Sculpture by Charles Ray. A crashed car, disassembled into pieces & cast at 1:1 scale in colorless, textureless fiberglass. I don't remember seeing it for the first time, what I remember is going back a year or two later & hoping I would get to see it again
photo of the 1997 artwork "unpainted sculpture" by Charles Ray: a four-door sedan viewed at a 3/4 angle from the front driver's side corner, where the car has suffered significant damage in a wreck. the hood is peeled upwards, revealing the engine, the bumper is hanging down, and the body panels are crumpled all over. every piece of the car is textureless and colorless, reduced to one uniform shade of pale grey.
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 09/07/2026
checking in on /r/EDC
screenshot of a post on the EveryDay Carry subreddit titled "What do you call this type of carry?" two photos show a person's legs from the knees down, wearing athletic pants & slides over socks with a handgun strapped to each ankle
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 06/07/2026
look at all the flickering & fading & flashing happening here as i resize a single window edge. you want users to be impressed by your 1px bubble outlines & color diffusion blur fx with all this other shit going on? not likely
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 06/07/2026
but this two-tone view is hard to discover & easy to lose. hide the sidebar & it's gone. full screen, nah. window too small, gone. sidebar+folder bar too wide? no. folder bar too narrow? also no? what? why? why any of this? check out that busted sidebar button lol, it just looks like that
another screenshot of apple notes app, showing the full-width dark toolbar that returns if you change any of the parameters of the window in the previous screenshot
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 06/07/2026
using macos dark mode activates a setting in notes to turn light mode back on in the notes editor. then, if you're looking at it in the windowed view & the window is big enough, you get this beautiful split-pane two-tone design, with dark & light glass side by side! wow! surprising, delightful!
screenshot of notes app on macos. enabling macos dark mode and disabling dark background for notes gives you this beautiful two-tone design, but only under certain circumstances which i will explain in the next post
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 06/07/2026
wtf!!!!!
screenshot of my muted words & tags page showing i have just muted the phrase "billamy stancilisimo"
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 03/07/2026
forgot all about the free monument valley III expansion they announced at launch last year… turns out it’s already released & downloaded on my switch let’s go rn it’s boat time
photo of my tv playing monument valley III (3): an orange lighthouse with a geometrically impossible dock, like a rounded penrose triangle, surrounded by a calm blue sea populated by tiny rafts & tiny sailors
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 01/07/2026
i'm a taxpayer i'm allowed to do this
vector graphic of the classic 1976 bicentennial logo, a white star wrapped in a rounded red/white/blue stripe, edited to look like an initial A., encircled by a ring of the same stripe, on a sky blue background
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 01/07/2026
two burg nite
photo of two homemade hamburgers topped w mayo, sharp cheddar, bacon, avocado, red onion, & dijon
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 30/06/2026
photo of a living room loveseat abandoned on the boulevard. it has been heavily rained on and someone has spray pained -SOTA- on the back of it
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 30/06/2026
i love curating my experience
screenshot of my "muted words and tags" page, showing that i have muted "billy pencils," "stencil," "stanc*l," "st*ncil," and "stancilian." i have muted many more related terms but they just won't all fit in a screenshot
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 30/06/2026
twitter screenshot of a celebratory tweet from john hinckley jr, would-be assassin of president ronald reagan, on the day he was released as a free man. another poster responds and tells him to check out jersey mike's, then a third responds with a hilariously garbled 3x3 grid of early DALL-E genAI images of "john hinckley eating jersey mikes sandwiches"
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ansel "nan of boujou" lies @ansel.tv · 30/06/2026
she is sooooo sleepy
photo of trixie the calico cat loafing on the cushioned seat of a dining chair. she is nodding off in real timeanother photo of trixie the calico cat loafing on the cushioned seat of a dining chair, but from another angle that shows her sleepy face. it's so over she is off to dreamland
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