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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 02/05/2026

This recent article about AI deleting a company database reminds me of this episode of Ghost in the Shell... www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

All screenshots from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Time of the Machines (anime season 1, Episode 15).

Panel 1-3: Helicopter interior. Camera pans down and then cuts from Saito to a sniper control system unit/machine.
Saito in response to Boma saying that a test of the new control system went well: “No, I can’t seem to get a feel for it. It’s overcorrecting. When I start sniping, it’s like I’m getting some interference from the system.”
Panel 4-6: Later, in a hallway at the Section 9 headquarters, Saito and Boma stand waiting for an elevator. Three Tachikomas approach.
Tachikoma 1: “Hey Mr. Saito! What did you think of the helicopter with the built-in sniper control system? Will Section 9 finally adopt them, too?”

Panel 1-4: Close up of Saito in front of the elevator.
Saito: “No, probably not. When I start sniping, I get some kind of interference. For humans like me with a low prosthetics percentage, it actually makes it harder to control, not easier.”
Panel 5: Camera pans to Boma.
Boma: “You heard the man.”

Panel 1-2: Later, the Tachikomas are gathered around the unit after tricking the robot who was guarding it by using a self-reference paradox and then sneaking away.
Tachikoma 1: “It can’t even talk? It’s a sub-Turing machine!”
Tachikoma 2: “All right, I guess I’ll have to connect its vocal output to mine.”
Panel 3-5: A curved display shows output from the control system unit with stat charts and an outline of a human torso with the number “0907”, then the palm side of a right hand with the index finger highlighted. Tachikoma 2 looks down at the screen.
Tachikoma 2, speaking for the control system: “Unknown factor, delete. Identification code 0907. Right hand. Second finger. Delete. Error. Delete. Error.”

Panel 1-6: The Tachikomas gathered around the control system unit.
Tachikoma 1: “0907? Isn’t that Saito’s ID number?”
Tachikoma 2: “Well, that interference isn’t surprising, then. It felt that the factors originating from Saito were unnecessary.”
Tachikoma 3: “Oh, I get it! In other words, it wants to delete Saito.”
Tachikoma 2: “Exactly.”

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 22/06/2025

It might be my favourite thing to give a big tip to a bartender for serving me super fancy water.

Water plus grenadine, garnished with cherries and an orange slice (which I already ate).

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 30/04/2025

Does it count if I'm one of the ghosts? 😶‍🌫️👻

Jeklyn on the couch, wearing a black T-shirt with a red devil's face. The sleeve has been pulled up, showing a left bicep flex which has a tattoo of a shy boo from one of the Mario games on it. Jeklyn is looking at the boo, who is blushing and covering their face with their little boo arms.

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 25/04/2025

Tried to post this in December, but I think I wrote all the alt text and then went away from the tab, and then it just disappeared from everything...

Crow T. Robot figurine. In the background, a 20th Anniversary Edition MST3K box tin and "I Have Passed Through Fire" wrapped tankard, with an episode of Dimension 20 on in the background.

20th Anniversary Edition MST3K box tin. The MST3K moon in front of a starry background, with the MST3K crew in silhouettes in their theatre seats at the bottom.

The inside of the MST3K box tin with a handful of trinkets. A 3D printed stormtrooper helmet with a partial skull visible behind the mask. A Minecraft TNT cube, and a bunch of cassette tapes.

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 21/04/2025

Trimmed up again and having fun playing with lines. I do this myself with mirrors and flexibility, so it doesn't come out exactly as I'd like every time, but I have fun anyway. I can count on one hand the number of times I've had a professional paid-for haircut in my adult life.

Jeklyn stands in front of a wall painted ombre top to bottom from red to orange to pink. Her body is at a quarter angle to the view and her face is side-on. Her chin is up and jawline is prominent. Her hair is buzzed off and has three semi-parallel curved lines buzzed shorter than the rest. She wears a thin gray top with a low cut collar.

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 20/04/2025

So I didn't initially realize that these are two separate posts, so... The Easter Bunny is actually a spider.

Post about the Easter Bunny fertilizing your eggs immediately followed by a post of a spider

Post by‬ ‪@missingthept.bsky.social‬
"Tonight the Easter Bunny comes down your chimney and fertilizes your eggs."
Immediately followed by -
Post from @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social‬
"This is Mr Flatty (Selenops). What does he do, you ask? He's flat. He's a flat spood."

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 19/04/2025

List of candidates and their respective parties from: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Screenshot from website showing a list of candidates and their respective parties. Of note here is Santa Claus Chatham for the Rhinocéros Party.
"Waterloo

Waseem Botros, Conservative.
Bardish Chagger (incumbent), Liberal.
Santa Claus Chatham, Rhinocéros Party.
Héline Chow, NDP.
Simon Guthrie, Green.
Jamie Hari, Independent.
Val Neekman, Independent.
Hans Roach, Independent.
Douglas Ross, PPC."

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 19/04/2025

So, I know this "Hon." probably stands for honourable... (They had so much space here, why did they shorten it?)... But I'm gonna pretend it stands for Honey.

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 15/04/2025

"providential" I will try to be my own deus ex machina.

A screenshot of the quoted post in which the video is around the 2 second mark and shows the word "providential".

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 13/04/2025

Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)

Scene from a black and white movie featuring Vincent Price. He's wearing a suit and tie and pointing a gun. He raises an eyebrow and pulls the trigger. Scene cuts to a woman in a shiny dress who clutches her abdomen and collapses to the floor.

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 08/04/2025

Look at this fucking cutie. She's all passed out over there on the other couch sticking her feets all out. (I have two couches O_o)

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 07/04/2025

Not this, but kinda like this. Not perfect, but improved since the first time I tried singing it with my whole chest.

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 14/02/2025

#HeartEyes Let's see how this one goes! Excited that this is available at my lil local theatre.

A display above the entrance to a theatre room #4 showing "Heart Eyes"

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 31/12/2024

(I've never heard of a lemon pig before, but I already had the lime and everything else, and this looked fun, so here's lil' Edgar)

Same lime as the quote post, but from a different angle, more from the front. The coin is slightly off-center, giving this piggie a little bit of a goofy smile expression.

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 27/12/2024

Only because I happen to have a box of these lying about...

Jeklyn stares down the camera with a smirk on their face while tugging a black nitrile glove on their right hand, raised and centered in front of their chest, fingers spread out in an inviting gesture. The hair on their head is buzzed off on the left side and cut short, about chin-length, on the right, with faded purple tips which dangles down in front and obscures most of the right side of their face. They're wearing a "Weird Al" Yankovic Amish Paradise T-shirt, and a couple tattoos, one of which is a shy Boo, are peeking out from under their left sleeve. In the background, a two-tone brown living room with art things and notes on the walls, the highlight being just above their left shoulder: an art print of a scene from Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Anni Jyn.

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 13/12/2024

Treating myself to enjoying a season of Dimension 20 that always makes me laugh heartily: A Starstruck Odyssey. (I love it so much, and relate so closely to the character specifically, that I got a Sundry Sidney tattoo. It's not quite complete yet, still needs some colour.)

Tattoo on light-toned skin on the back of a calf. The character Sundry Sidney from "A Starstruck Odyssey" season of Dimension 20.
The upper half of an android woman with long bright orange-red hair up in a pony tail; one eye is red and the other appears to be made of telescoping brass with a red lens; she is smiling broadly; her outfit exposes her shoulders and neck with poofy frilled short sleeves, part of a form-fitting bodice which extends down to a belt and stiff, nearly horizontal, pleated skirt; the belt around her waist contains a few tools, including a grenade; her right arm is a double-barrelled gun which begins at the elbow joint; she is doing a Rosie Riveter pose; below the portrait, the text "I CAN DO IT!".

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 29/11/2024

@annijyn.bsky.social They have arrived! These are all excellent, thank you so much. <3 Time to get/make some frames!

A neutral brown wall with a wide door frame looking into a sunset ombre painted living room (with a cat on a couch in the background). There are a bunch of colourful fine art prints (from Anni Jyn) stuck into the edges of the doorframe, and the wall has several sticky notes (HI DO YOUR PT [and in small print] TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF), three brown fine art post cards (also from Anni Jyn), a Critical Role dice tray (stacked against the wall), and a print out of the Oxygen Mask Principle (You must take care of yourself before you can do anything for anyone else).

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #525,114!

Celebrating 10M users 🎉
#525,114
First 10% Certified Bluesky Elder
Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality
@jeklynhyde.bsky.social
Joined Aug 8, 2023

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 19/05/2024

Related. Rode my motorcycle to my niece's grad party last night. Wore my rainbow kilt & what I like to call my "hot girl sweater". Just bought my 1st pair of platforms so I brought them with (had to boot swap for the ride cause I can't shift in 'em) Fun looking down from +4 inches up

Jeklyn on their motorcycle wearing a helmet with the face shield up, a jean jacket, a neon yellow safety vest (airbag), a rainbow kilt and leather chaps.

Jeklyn looking down at their new boots - green and black studded leather. They are wearing a black cap, their ombre purple to magenta hair hangs down around their face, a gray sweater with slits in the upper arms showing bare skin underneath, a black and rainbow kilt, a leather bag hangs around their waist like a sporran, and black leggings with purple and red diagonal sections on the calves.

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 16/05/2024

I woke up really early, so I got some reading in. 🕰️📚💪🏽 Two words today: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/e... www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a...

From "The Stream of American History Volume Two", p. 366: "Jefferson and Jackson had believed in progress but hardly in evolutionary terms ; they had more of a feeling that they were peeling away unhealthy excresenses and returning to the condition of a purer age. The atavistic survival of this concept split the progressive movement into two wings and the Atomists and Regulationists began to walk warily in each other's presence."

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 24/04/2024

"A work of art ... must stab the eye with its novelty, enlist one's pity, or stir one's sexual curiosity. And whether it took the form of a picture or chair, a statue or a stove, it must be a prevarication, a torturing of materials up to their limit of endurance." - full quote in alt text

The Steam of American History: Volume Two, Page 265: "A work of art must first impress by size alone, must then reveal the most polished manufacture. It must stab the eye with its novelty, enlist one's pity, or stir one's sexual curiosity. And whether it took the form of a picture or chair, a statue or a stove, it must be a prevarication, a torturing of materials up to their limit of endurance."

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 04/04/2024

I like to go visit the graveyard. Driving around the small paved roads feels like playing IRL Mario Kart. But with a lot more dead people.

A BMW motorcycle parked along the edge of a small paved road in a graveyard.

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 16/02/2024

To give it some alt text, since I don't have room in my profile description. BONUS: I painted a labrys on the back of the wife-beater in glow-in-the-dark paint. This was my getup for the yearly rave my friends throw.

Jeklyn is wearing a cut-off white wife-beater with a ring-and-chain upper torso harness. Their hair is hanging in front of their face. The scene is illuminated with a blacklight, so the white makes a stark contrast with the dark chains, resulting in a sort of ribcage effect. The ends of the hair are also fluorescing a vibrant pink.

Cut-off white wife-beater with a custom labrys (of my own design) drawn onto it in green marker pen.

The same custom labrys (of my own design) which has been filled in with vibrant green glow-in-the-dark paint - The bottle, brush, and palette are visible at the bottom of the picture. A black light was used to super-charge the paint before turning the lights out and taking the picture.

Jeklyn in full rave regalia, turned away from the camera. A bright purple light shines from the background, the whole scene awash in blacklight. Along with the labrys crop top, they're also wearing blue pineapple print underwear, bright orange ankle socks, and glow-in-the-dark bondage straps around the waist, legs, and wrists. A large UV-reactive hand-fan is in their right hand, held at an oblique angle.

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 09/01/2024

It's clear that either (1) the education system fails people so hard that they don't know actual history, skewing their world view disproportionately (unfortunately pretty likely), or (2) they purposefully leave out ~unpleasant bits~ to surreptitiously hook less educated folks (also very likely)

Excerpt from "The Steam of American History Volume One" Baldwin, (c) 1952. Page 782. Quote from the then elected vice-president of the Confederacy--preface from me, Fuck Off white supremacists--:
In his Cornerstone Speech of 21 March at Savannah, Stephens proclaimed that the Confederacy's cornerstone rested "upon the great truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery--subordination to the superior race--is his natural and normal condition."
.. and one more -Fuck Off white supremacists- for the road.

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Jeklyn Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 The Spectre of Duality @jeklynhyde.com · 03/01/2024

If you have they/them pronouns reskeet a robot! Adding more Canti to the skyline. (This is back from my manufacturing days when we were only allowed to use the radio or CD players in the shop. I made my burnt CD collection ~*pretty*~)

CD with the robot (red/fight-form) from FLCL drawn on it with permanent marker.
The characters フリクリ (stylized) are drawn on the left side, readable when the CD is turned 90 degrees clockwise. Inside the Japanese characters, very small, are the letters "FLCL".

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