Reposted by heli rainKimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 7hSee also croissanthology.com/earringcroissanthology.comThe Whispering Earring (Scott Alexander)Cleaner, easier-to-reference repo of Scott Alexander’s The Whispering Earring (that’s the Schelling title, real title below). Original from livejournal is ba... 011
Reposted by heli rainSilly dollthing (Alison!)🏳️⚧️🔞 @sillydollthing.bsky.social · 20/08/2026ACTUALLY YEAH LOUDLY YELLING THIS, IF YOU ARE ON SPIRONOLACTONE YOU ARE BEING CHEATED AND CHEATING YOURSELF BAD SIDE EFFECTS BRAIN FOG *REDUCES* BREAST GROWTH It's the endocrinologist special for a reason 138324
Reposted by heli raineva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 3hTIL that this recurring TNG minor character was played by a stealth trans woman she’s in 43 episodes and several of the movies 832391
Reposted by heli rainJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 4h"I'm supposed to be a tough guy," Curtis confided. "I can hold your hand," the mayor offered "What happens if I faint?" Sliwa asked. "I've got you," Mamdani assured him, grabbing his hand as Sliwa received his flu shot. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...abc7ny.comMayor Mamdani holds hands with one-time rival Curtis Sliwa to get flu shotAn apparent bromance has continued to blossom for the one-time political rivals. 81609225
Reposted by heli rainThe Intercept @theintercept.com · 4hHow much does it cost to get more information about a cop who punched someone in the face? If you guessed anything lower than $2.5 million, you’d be wrong — at least according to the city of Eugene, Oregon. buff.ly/AlxYU8S 26437
Reposted by heli rainhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 5h(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory 321379223
Reposted by heli rainNattiepuff 🏳️⚧️ PWYW Comms Open! @nattiepuff.bsky.social · 9hPWYW Commissions OPEN: www.furaffinity.net/view/65949785/ Commission done for friend @bahamutomega.bsky.social :3 They found a mouse! ^w^ #art #furry #furryart #commsopen 084
Reposted by heli rainStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 9h"Why are all these Asians in our universities!" idk man, they read a book from time to time, I dunno what to tell you. They got whole fuckin' libraries full of them in every town in America. 531128
Reposted by heli rainKimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 10hdon’t worry everyone will just make panels of LLMs do their reviews for them imagine 12 Angry Men but it’s just a dozen Astras reading a manuscript and swapping salesforce 0days with each other on OpenReview that’ll be the standard ICLR review quota someday 142
Reposted by heli rainBumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 13hEven if it doesnt affect your personal beliefs (which it obviously does thats just how human beings function) I do not understand how so many self professed leftists feel comfortable patronizing the business of a nazi billionare directly responsible for mass human suffering on a historic scale 3354
Reposted by heli rainDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 13hWhen two groups with different faculties of social communication partake of the same "signal" - like being on X all the time - the differences between those groups will tend to diminish in a converging series, until the remaining differences fall below the threshold of political significance. 06614
Reposted by heli rainMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 9h“Can the right use misogyny and male supremacy to purchase loyalty from nonwhite men for a white supremacist project?” Was one of the questions posed by the 2024 cycle that genuinely hasn’t been answered yet. 720226
heli rain @heli.pet · 18hI really do appreciate it! But unfortunately their three states aren't on my game board 110
heli rain @heli.pet · 18hThere's the subreddit wiki which I might rely on if I need to? But I'm not part of the whisper network 010
heli rain @heli.pet · 21hI think she started to say "he" and then almost masterfully corrected to "Heli" once, which honestly good save 030
Reposted by heli rainAhhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 21hOne time I tried to report to the police at my university that two guys had been talking about assaulting a woman in front of me and when I went to write a statement the cops put me in a room with an autographed picture of Donald Trump 460962
Reposted by heli rainDognito Hazard @d6016.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I am brave *cries into pillow after dealing with any government entity* 513528
Reposted by heli rainMaterialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026also I think "what if you optimize in the direction OpenAI optimized away from after 4o" is a question that people are probably thinking about and which probably does not have good answers 511714
Reposted by heli rainSimkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026anyone else feel like this 5255841679
Reposted by heli rainJack JR Swisher, transfenderman 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @jackjrswisher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Watching the all-woman lead cast of Ghostbusters. It’s so good! Way better than I expected. Plus I know so many actors who starred. Maybe it’s time we stopped listening to cis male critics for a while. They clearly get too butthurt when something cool comes along that doesn’t pander to them. 052
Reposted by heli rainWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026‘Bold GWOT truth teller’ has as a type of guy generally (plenty of expectations, not categorically) aged horribly and either become a right winger or either been revealed as a crank or became one. 720722
heli rain @heli.pet · 01/10/2026She "she'd" me like 4/5 of the time this time and called me "sweetheart" a bunch 🥰 I'll take it 191
Reposted by heli rainTansy 🔞 🔜 Furpocalypse AA! @tansy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026"To you I am obscene, but to myself I simply am." - The Creature, Frankenstein (2025) This will be available as prints for Furrydelphia! And boy howdy holy fuck did it take me a while to finish. Thank you everyone for the words of encouragement along the way :') 131097297
Reposted by heli raingwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 01/10/2026this! also i dont think most people understand that people with medical backgrounds are not doing lethal injections. Often times it's performed by jail staffers with 0 medical training and sometimes the person it's done on isn't even unconscious 512412
heli rain @heli.pet · 01/10/2026I don't actually think it should be legal to key cars that are blocking chargers, but looking at chargers I can't use because Americans are sociopaths makes me wonder 000
Reposted by heli rainrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the problem is primarily that you have to be up to your neck in pseudomathematics in order to even understand how they're mistaken. in order: (1) their "Bayesianism" is not Bayesianism; (2) even MIRI now admits that Hutterian AIXI is impossible; (3) information theory forbids their metaphysics 1237329
heli rain @heli.pet · 01/10/2026In retrospect I spent my 20s watching people transition and each time going "gee golly gosh I wish *I* could be a girl too oh well!" 150
Reposted by heli rainElyon113 @elyon113.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Instead of buying new kitchen lights for $$$ I decided to 3D print some new ones for $1.80 in filament Years ago a libertarian argued at me that “Communism will never work until every single person can have a machine in their home that will make whatever they want for free” Seize the means! 3309
heli rain @heli.pet · 01/10/2026I tried to be the "fedora guy" in college, probably surprising nobody In retrospect I needed estrogen, not a stupid hat 151
Reposted by heli rainPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening. 101271404
heli rain @heli.pet · 01/10/2026How were suites assigned? I just want to see the clustering algorithm hehe 100