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InDefenseOfToucans

@indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social
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Idiot with books that has a Youtube channel I guess. Not a historian I just play one on TV. Trotskyist or something www.youtube.com/@InDefenseOfToucans

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having to build agents at work, the problem is they in theory could be best at tasks that are slightly too unstructured to be easily done with a python script, but you still have to be like 85% of the way there, and the trade off is less deterministic. I never can get my bosses to understand this
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Watching literally everything be called AI, an LLM advocate saying if you have used routing in like in a map app you have used AI as if graph theory and finding the shortest path is not decades and decades old.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It is amazing how often in IT we hire new people and they are shocked at the lack of ever any feeling of emergency in our department. You can just build systems that are reliable, avoiding reliance on fragile systems like STP, think about failure modes. We use anycast gateways over stack/FHRP
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
People are misunderstanding Peter Thiel's whole deal about cancer treatment not going anywhere, a lot of billionaires clearly have some very bad anxiety around their own mortality, what he means is he personally has not become immune to cancer because of it so its been for nothing.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I miss the squatters because they didn't want people to notice they were there were honestly the best neighbors i ever had. Ya sometimes people in withdrawals were walking through my yard, but every neighbor comes with some issues, liking mowing at the crack of 6am.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Friends don't let friends run KDE
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Feel like food brands i used to be able to trust and eat are too spicy now. I wonder if it would be possible to breed a bacteria that destroys capsaicin and then I can release it onto pepper fields so food quits being so spicy.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
So now Liberals and Conservatives fear the roundup. RoundUp is your friend in the war against invasive plants. Even Trump is smart enough to think it is good. Don't be dumber then him.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Damn Microsoft-Blizzard killed TurtleWow, now where will i play World of Warcraft but like a good version.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Looks like my family has a history of Hashimotos disease and based on some blood tests I might have it and at least some of my fatigue issues are due to it.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Hmm, do I help promote war because it kills more so called Sin'Dorei or do i prevent war because it helps save the lives of their enemies the trolls.
World of Warcraft Quest Objective reads "resolve the battle at the Amani Pass by helping the blood elves secure it, or try to dissuade the blood elves from fighting.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
On a lot of videos I got complaints not on the audio quality but how I talk which feature some amount of up talk, but go watch a Mr Beat video and see its just a Kansas thing he does it from time to time as well.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/02/2026
1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
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FEB 25, 2026
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Well Kansas is revoking my Drivers License, they are doing it to all trans people here so they can make sure it as AGAB on it.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This whole claude thing is actually pretty handy, its accurate enough to be a better typing accelerator and nicer then just using the language server with neovim, which have to say having just last year moved from vim to neovim for that feature that was worth it.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I am wondering how my coworkers have reacted to the Venezuela being attacked, some of them lean a bit more paleoconish though that is not fully fair as they are somewhat pro welfare, they just tend to hate Israel, but like in an antisemitic way, not a normal way. Just overall isolationists mostly.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Somewhere deep down I can tell I am still homophobic/transphobic, but only against men who are afraid of enriched bread and think it is ruining their microbiome. If you have worried about that you are gay and don't count as a man sorry. I can't believe we have to deal with men doing woo stuff now
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Linux could keep growing, but the community has to quit recommending their weird pet distro made by 2 transphobes or whatever. There is like two acceptable answers and it is Fedora and Debian, and anything directly based on those called Bazzite or Ubuntu. Recommend the normal big distros people.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
2am food take, white rice is in general inferior to brown rice in most situation.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The weirdest thing about the current era is there is trans women who are bad at computers. Go back to 2010 every trans women on a forum was probably in the top 5 most skilled tech user. Now I see trans women saying they can't figure out how to install Linux.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Running and comparing copilot and deepseak-r1 at work and honestly i think either is at the point where it can save me some typing. If i gotta refactor an ansible playbook add some variables to an old one that didn't have enough to be flexible. I can specify the type of naming and what i am looking
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I am going to contribute to the "private burrito taxi" or the "cooking at home from takeout" discourse. I saw someone claim it is poverty shaming because only wealthy households cooked at home. No I grew up in a trailer house not eating every night. Let me show you 50% of my meals growing up.
Can of Hunt's Pasta Sauce, Four Cheesepicture of a Walmart brand box of Spaghetti.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I feel like most peoples issues with Linux would be solved if they just accepted they need to run Fedora, instead of distro made by 1 dude one weekend and is going to be out of the fad by next year.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Starting to be able to eat somewhat normal again, had some green beans and lima beans in a tomato sauce with an onion for lunch today.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Permaculture is Latin for plant as many invasives as possible. youtu.be/GbQKrnNLmCg
youtu.be
Meet Acorn & His Permaculture Food Forest
YouTube video by Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Well probably find out if I gotta do a colonoscopy tomorrow, might end up pushing for one anyway just at the concern this might be cancer.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Guess it is our time for storms the rest of Kansas got hit a good amount the last few days
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Listen if the bourgeois state can't keep me from burning to death, like what are we even doing.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Well I am really sick, symptoms wise it seems like E Coli? Maybe, doctor was concerned enough to make me an appointment already. At least i get this after I already hit my deductible this year so only copays now
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Good video, I don't think most of the assumptions i walked into the video with are egregiously wrong though maybe a bit more reductive, a lot of the other information in the video was fairly new to me.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Finally going to sit down and watch this video I think. My general vibe is yes the whole "noble savage" thing is BS, most of the USA is a man made ecosystem, or well a product of human influence on it. Though that is not that unique. youtu.be/UhLizvrhbOU
youtu.be
Did Native Americans Really Live in Balance with Nature?
YouTube video by Atun-Shei Films
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Why do so many people think eating/hunting feral hogs reduces the population. It increase it which is why only states that have banned it like Kansas have got rid of the feral hogs. If you thinking hunting reduces populations you presumably have to think buying a hamburger reduces cattle population
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This hardly tastes of pickle, i am disapointed
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Popeyes has pickle lemonaid, this is the best news i have heard since covid. Maybe life is amazing and beautiful.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Would love if mineral wool would quit being made with formaldehyde, some brands don't use it so clearly it can be a thing. Fiberglass no longer contains it and it is why it while can be irritating is not that itchy anymore. Dealing with mineral wool unless I am wearing a space suit
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Glad Mark Fisher seems to not be talked about anymore. I never could read his books that people kept recommending. Something about the way they are written. Like these are all English words I know but literally none of this makes sense. I never got how people could parse that out.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
If there is one thing someone must know I really like birds. You know who else like birds Bukharin. You know who killed a parrot by bashing its head in, Stalin.
Quote from Robert C Tucker's Biography of Stalin talking about how Stalin killed a caged parrot for imitating him spitting.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Ok, i made the mistake of following some climate change researchers and lawyers focused on LGBT stuff so now my feed is 60% very silly resistance Liberal stuff. There has to be other socialists on here, maybe even other Trotskyists so I can be upset about how much i disagree with fellow trots
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Wonder if the pear trees I planted along the sidewalk last place I lived are going to flower this year. Was happy i managed to talk my landlord into letting me plant fruit trees, sad I had to move before I ever ate them.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
New Ioniq 6 design is ugly, not that I would ever be able to afford a new one, hoping to see the used ones get under 20k so I can afford one. So I get the less ugly 2023 model year anyway I guess.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Every time I have to deal with this crap, this is clearly the IETFs fault probably.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I will support whatever economic system manages to get universal support for unnumbered interfaces for ipv4, if i ever have to assign another /31 to a p2p connection I am going to give up on Tech.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Maybe the good thing about inflation is that regular flour prices are a lot closer to King Arthur Flour prices and so I can just go buy that instead without feeling bad and like i am violating my budget.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I am going to plant a fig tree this year, I think more people should grow figs because figs are cool.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Trump supporters aren't inherently evil, and we just need to take a class position, but too many people were Liberals before they were leftists so they inherit that mindset towards Conservatives. Plenty of the working class votes for Republicans and we must support them gaining class consciousness
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I fundamentally disagree with this video, Yu Yu Hakusho is better then Hunter x Hunter. Still a fun video and I get why the two hosts feel HxH is better. youtu.be/RsdSnC1RtHE
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Hunter x Hunter VS Yu Yu Hakusho: Which is Better? | Anime Discussion
YouTube video by FourStarBento
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Saying the problem exists between mouse and keyboard, or the weakest link in any technology security system is the humans. This is Liberalism, if a teller at a bank can open the vault and a robber forces them too, no one goes bank security weakest link is the bank teller.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Steel cut oats are good, making them with almond milk now, don't suggest oat milk just too much oat
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I miss this era of Pizza Hut i actually went there constantly early in college before they ended it. Actually made me believe in the viability of Capitalism for a bit.
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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I used to at least be able to say that Kansas Conservatives weren't so into the culture war stuff, granted it helps our legislature only works for like 2 months so typically they wouldn't spend their time on it.
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