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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 11h

It's real! And I will not be seeing it!

Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 11h

OMG back from the dead!

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Yeah for sure doing a bit. But also maybe what I said initially.

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Excellent technique in general

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We're still getting to know each other, but I think we're gonna get along great

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My goal has never been total self-sufficiency (that's a self-destructive myth), just to have more experience growing things and learning how to make them last. But there is something special about being able to create a meal from things that you grew and preserved.

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Yesterday I made slow cooker chicken with our own canned tomato sauce, our garlic, and several of these chipotle peppers and goddamn it's good.

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Concurrent pepper project on this fine Sunday: smoking jalapeños until they become chipotles. (Thank you for the smoker, @amye.org and @jperrin.bsky.social!)

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Yes, Powazek pickled a pack of peppers.

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Also, yes, Pepperoncini peppers turn red if you let them ripen all the way. They get sweeter too!

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The goats are spicy, yes, but the peppers are not. At least, not today.

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It's funny, the goats have been exposed to enough peppers that they know some are spicy and some aren't, so they gently nibble them to test, and then feast when they realize they're not spicy.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 14h

Pickled 8 quart jars of Pepperoncinis and decided I had enough so the goats helped me dispose of the rest. (Don't worry, they're not spicy.)

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See, when I hear that, it translates as "the other option was a Black woman."

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 21h

There is a woman in Kentucky who writes things on the back of her car to piss off her MAGA neighbors. And I have to admit, this one is particularly inspired. www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLR4mLYV/

"I'm just glad I don't have to listen to Charley Kirk defend the Cornell 7" written on the back of a car

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Genuinely proud of my followers for not replying to this. Y'all are alright.

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Maybe because kids can't fucking afford them

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Don't just vote because you're scared of losing. Vote because winning is FUN.

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Reposted by Derek Powazek

We spent a generation telling students the humanities are moribund, and they should all study STEM, only for the greatest advances in STEM in recent years to raise fundamental questions about the nature of personhood and identity that require the humanities to answer. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

nytimes.com

Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

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Just a public reminder to everyone that you can read something annoying here and then say whatever stupid thing you want in response out loud with your mouth in the real world and then NOT reply anything here. It's amazing. Feel free to use this post to try it.

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The likeliest outcome for a toxic narcissist with two years to lash out at his enemies before being shown the door.

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It's always someone with "diversity" in their bio.

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I told you to stop thinking with that thing. It's not helping you or anyone else

God, it's amazing that women tolerate men literally ever.

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Maybe it's because only men ever reply this way.

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Your question is stupid, and you are stupid. Stop thinking with your dick

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Amazing. I love these creatures. They're so alien.

Omg is she eating a piece of another mantis?

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100%. It loses money and always will. They don't care. They are building it out of an emotional need, not a business case.

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I think this is important because, to fully end the age of AI slop, we don't just have to regulate these companies out of existence and burn the machines that once housed the code, but we also have to teach a generation of men to develop the emotional intelligence they need to be among humans again.

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It also leads them to ignore the feelings (which don't exist remember) of the writers and the artists they ripped off to get here. It's a lack of emotional intelligence all the way down.

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And because they have no emotional intelligence, they think that content generated by AI is the same as a book by an author or a work of art from an artist. The failure that led them to AI in the first place is the same thing that makes them unable to see that the output is crap.

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The people forcing AI into the world are so rich, they could employ as many people as they want for as long as they want to so whatever they want. BUT THEY ARE SCARED OF OTHER PEOPLE. That's why they're doing this. It's a critical failure of emotional intelligence.

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