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@hazelnym.bsky.social
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i, with my inflexible platonism, my fierce seeing of only one thing at a time: i ruled against the indefinite article.

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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
spotted this little visitor to my yard and heard @beardic.us saying "pollen pockets" in my head
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
my eyes are bleeding but today's basilisk is dead
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
not my worst culinary day (fish cakes made out of leftover grilled halibut from the weekend, and pasta with sauce made out of leftover grilled tomatoes from the weekend)
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
in love with this dedication to monospace typesetting: unsung.aresluna.org/i-just-chose...
unsung.aresluna.org
“I just chose words carefully.” – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
eggplant "unagi"don!
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
he's doing his best
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
ALL MY DREAMS HAVE COME TRUE
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 10/08/2026
v1.130 is live! Want to follow someone for their posts but not their reposts? Now you can — turn on "Hide reposts in feeds" for any account you follow.
A screenshot demonstrating how to hide reposts from an individual user: Go to their profile, tap the three-dot icon at top right, and select "Hide reposts in feeds" from the drop-down menu.
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
wow apparently this is the thunderclap that woke me up this morning
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🇰 is for kitty (she just found this under my fridge ... where it has been sitting unbeknownst to me for at least four years, courtesy of the previous owner)
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
giving me her best pepper impression after spending 15 minutes shamelessly trying to eat my steak
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
how'd i wind up in the universe where it is more time AND cost effective for me to place my own lab orders with a direct-to-consumer provider than it is to try to find an actual doctor
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
my houseguest is cuter than yours
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
お好み焼き
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emma (scary) @emma.verycooldoma.in · 14/06/2026
this place could use a netsplit or two. keep all yall humble
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
a friend showed me this meme and i told them it was kind of funnier because i didn't understand the reference and then they made me watch the episode
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
she took a nap on me after this
a cute puppy, black with a few white splotches.
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
starting up too late playing crunchy board games with old friends is bad for the body but good for the soul
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
the best memes are nigh inscrutable
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
a miserable little pile of secrets
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
no take!! only
oversized throw
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
got accosted by a crazy road rage lady while trying to run some errands. cool cool cool cool cool
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
november's marbled polecat illustration does not adequately convey just how cute they are
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
my chadō teacher told me to teach irekodate to our beginner students, and then i was too locked in to notice her taking some candid shots. it felt illegal to be in her spot!
a photo of me wearing a yukata, sitting seiza on a tatami mat, pointing while i explain something to a beginner student who is performing tea ceremony
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
overheard at the pharmacy old lady: the AI told me my medication would be ready on tuesday, but when i came, the pharmacy hadn't even received the prescription. could you help me not have that issue again? pharmacist, after a long pause: well, if i can speak frankly about that AI...
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
come to chicago activate in the next 15 minutes for an ass kicking
photo of me. black dress, black stockings, black boots with heels.
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
PSA for the person next to me on this plane: no one wants to listen to you audibly smacking your gum with your mouth wide open if you're incapable of chewing gum in a less revolting manner, at least wait until there aren't several strangers trapped shoulder-to-shoulder with you, jfc
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
fast and thorough and sharp as a tack
a photo of myself with hair just past my jaw, dyed green.
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
which one of you vandalized the snow on my front porch demanding answers about french philosophy? serious question. i am mostly amused, a teeny bit creeped out (affectionate), and ready to put on my best metaphysical lecturing hat for you.
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
love when i try to get my glasses off my headboard in the morning but i have no depth perception because i'm not wearing my glasses and then i smoodge my fingers all over the lenses trying to pick them up
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
they say that hair holds memory
my hand holding up over a foot of my green and brown hair, cut off and braided.
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
possibly getting the hang of Having Hair
a selfie of myself. my hair is very long and dark brown, dyed green and blue-ish in the front.a selfie of myself. my hair is very long and dark brown, dyed green and blue-ish in the front.
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
came across @sramsay2.bsky.social's charming blog tonight. as siken beautifully says: We have not been given all the words necessary. We have not been given anything at all. [...] Is there an acceptable result? Do we mean something when we talk? Is it enough that we are shuddering from the sound?
“How A led to B” is among the elemental narratives of the humanistic endeavor, and every part of that quaint, broken syllogism is a bottomless exegetical pit. What is A? What is B? What does “led to” mean? What are we even talking about?

Yet as the old song puts it, “Somethin’s happenin’ here / What it is ain’t exactly clear.”
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 09/12/2025
Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
Will you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course in the future?
No.

Why won’t you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course?
These tools are useful for coding (see this for my personal take on this).

However, they’re only useful if you know what you’re doing first. If you skip the learning-the-process-of-writing-code step and just copy/paste output from ChatGPT, you will not learn. You cannot learn. You cannot improve. You will not understand the code.In that post, it warns that you cannot use it as a beginner:

…to use Databot effectively and safely, you still need the skills of a data scientist: background and domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability.

There is no LLM-based shortcut to those skills. You cannot LLM your way into domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, or coding ability.

The only way to gain domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability is to struggle. To get errors. To google those errors. To look over the documentation. To copy/paste your own code and adapt it for different purposes. To explore messy datasets. To struggle to clean those datasets. To spend an hour looking for a missing comma.

This isn’t a form of programming hazing, like “I had to walk to school uphill both ways in the snow and now you must too.” It’s the actual process of learning and growing and developing and improving. You’ve gotta struggle.This Tumblr post puts it well (it’s about art specifically, but it applies to coding and data analysis too):

Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner’s roadblock to art isn’t even technical skill it’s frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach’s capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That’s how you build on the technical skill. Throw that “won’t even start because I’m afraid it won’t be perfect” shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck. (The original post has disappeared, but here’s a reblog.)

It’s hard, but struggling is the only way to learn anything.You might not enjoy code as much as Williams does (or I do), but there’s still value in maintaining codings skills as you improve and learn more. You don’t want your skills to atrophy.

As I discuss here, when I do use LLMs for coding-related tasks, I purposely throw as much friction into the process as possible:

To avoid falling into over-reliance on LLM-assisted code help, I add as much friction into my workflow as possible. I only use GitHub Copilot and Claude in the browser, not through the chat sidebar in Positron or Visual Studio Code. I treat the code it generates like random answers from StackOverflow or blog posts and generally rewrite it completely. I disable the inline LLM-based auto complete in text editors. For routine tasks like generating {roxygen2} documentation scaffolding for functions, I use the {chores} package, which requires a bunch of pointing and clicking to use.

Even though I use Positron, I purposely do not use either Positron Assistant or Databot. I have them disabled.

So in the end, for pedagogical reasons, I don’t foresee me incorporating LLMs into this class. I’m pedagogically opposed to it. I’m facing all sorts of external pressure to do it, but I’m resisting.

You’ve got to learn first.
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
the best cold weather comfort food
a bowl of ochazuke with salmon and mushrooms
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
kirby air ride. wait
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 25/08/2025
if you love something, take it apart until you understand it, then share it with the world.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
All my friends should be made to live walking distance from me. I don't care if this massively upends their lives
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
yinz get rad
a sticker that says yinz get rad
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
there is currently a state-wide 911 outage in pennsylvania. if you have an emergency, follow your county's instructions. for western PA: * allegheny: try 911, then call (412) 473-3056 * westmoreland: bypass 911, call (724) 836-1551 directly * butler: bypass 911, call (724) 282-1221
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
DC: great food, great cocktails, shitty coffee
engraved rocks glass containing a red-pink cocktail and a large ice cube with "barmini by josé andrés" on the topa selfie of me and my partner at sunset with a river and skyline behind usa bowl of ramen with lots of toppings: chashu, egg, narutomaki, scallions, corn, mushrooms, noria rich brown cocktail with a thick layer of foam in a coupe glass
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
kaiju
an orange cat laying on a table staring intently at a helicopter figurine from a board game
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
best fine dining experience i've had in pittsburgh in years — and the best company, too ❤️
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
back to my correct coloration 💚
a photo of myself in a hair salon. my hair is long, past my shoulders, slightly curled, half my natural brown and half freshly-dyed green.
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lydia @lydz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
please for the love of god bring back technical writing on interesting topics i do not want the selection biases of youtube and tiktok to gatekeep who finds publishing information based on their depth of experience worthwhile
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
pictured: the best part of this game
a fluffy white cat curled up asleep in the upturned top of a board game box on a table where the board game is being played
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
is there a way to mute only reposts from someone on bsky yet?
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The Boy Is Tall
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
do i know anyone who works at github? 👀
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