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Jen Wainright

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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I've got two tickets to Iron Maiden, baby. Come with me Friday. Don't say maybe.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Peter Gabriel in #17 was a nice touch. IYKYK
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Female Ruby-Throated Hummingbird - August 2026
Photo of female Ruby-Throated Hummingbird on pink flower
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Juvenile Chipping Sparrow (left) and House Finch (right) - July 2026:
Photo of juvenile Chipping SparrowPhoto of juvenile House Finch
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
These guys love their peanuts.
photo of Blue Jay on ground with two nuts in its mouth
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tonight's musical interlude: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iHh...
youtube.com
Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Official Audio)
YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
House finch in the backyard July 2026 These girls squabble as if there weren't enough food for everyone. I assure you - there is enough food for everyone.
photo of house finch on a branch
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I am not happy about my nephew being on board a "high value target" in DT's crazy-ass war.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
We seem to have a ceasefire in the raccoon/fox poo war.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It's being a PITA for programmers right now because of the new guardrails, but for my (non-coding) work, Fable 5 is f'ing brilliant.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The good news is it's not radioactive* raccoon poo. The bad news is we have (fox) poo on our path. *They carry stuff that's very rare in humans (mostly young kids who ate dirt), but very bad.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
TFW you realize you clicked on the wrong (depressing) Chappell Roan song.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Almost everyone I know has abandoned Blue Sky. I guess it's a good place to talk to myself.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Your pop interlude for the day: open.spotify.com/track/3hcivo... Yes, we were this close.
photo of Lady Gaga in concert March 23, 2026
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Damn. Fable 5 is good. I made it review something I'd already discussed with Opus 7 and 8, and Fable 5 gave me a list of 15 things to address.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I used em-dashes for decades before AI made them unfashionable.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Is there any group whinier than Claude users?
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Fritillary on daphne flower June 2026
Fritillary (butterfly) on small white daphne flower
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
No one told me this thing was squirrel proof!
photo of squirrel falling off birdfeeder pole
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Pic of Trash Panda in our woods last week. He (might be a she) wanders through at least once a day and hasn't caused any trouble.
photo of very cute raccoon almost standing on its hind legs in some woods
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Not the greatest because I had to crop in extensively - this is a tiny piece of the full frame because I was in a hurry and grabbed the camera with the lens that was on it at the time, but Trash Panda is still ridiculously cute.
Photo of raccoon sitting by tree with tongue out
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The hummingbirds have found our new feeder!!!
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Chewy recommended I set up my purchase subscription for every four weeks. Clearly they have not met my squirrels.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Broke into a house with a crowbar. That's a first for me. Everything is fine. Those little doorknob locks? Just tape them open - they can be defeated almost instantaneously. In oddly related news, you CAN put a cat carrier together with a cat inside.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
He is fine. I was worried about Trash Panda after he didn't show up at his usual time. I heard gun shots in the neighborhood. We don't have hostile gunfire here, and it's usually hunting related. You're allowed to shoot a raccoon that destroys property on your land, and that's what they do best.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Trash Panda walking in the woods last week
photo of raccoon walking in woods
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Trash Panda last week. I was zoomed in, then cropped the photo - I wasn't really this close to him.
Photo of raccoon sitting next to tree
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Glad we didn't skimp on my computer's CPU or memory. Lightroom Classic is burning 75% of memory and 50% of CPU and still taking forever to import my files. Granted, there are 8500 of them. Wildlife photography takes a lot of space....
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
@anthropic.com I love the new Claude tools, but it is a serious PITA to have the information in them silo'ed by application. Chat can't see what I'm doing inside projects, and Code and Cowork are right out. In your copious spare time, can we have a toggle to let them all see a project?
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Swallowtail butterfly on daphne June 2026
Photo of yellow swallowtail butterfly on white daphne flowers
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I understand why it's there, but it pisses me off every time I see the Fable 5 is unavailable note in Claude. Opus 4.8 works great for me, but damn. Fable 5 was incredible for the like two minutes I had it.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Have you earned your opinion on AI? Great article on AI. My opinions on AI, positive and negative, are based on my personal use. Well, except for Grok. I just hate Elon. theengineeringmanager.substack.com/p/the-right-...
theengineeringmanager.substack.com
The right kind of AI sceptic
Hold your opinion from experience, not proximity.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I hate it when Claude is right, but I'm glad I have him* on my team. *It's a mathematical model, but I anthropomorphize everything, and its name is Claude.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Scheduled task failed because I had Claude Desktop set to Fable 5 last night. Grrrrr
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Fable 5 is a great editor - blows me away how good it is. Did not accidentally build a bioweapon.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
God grant me the confidence of an average white man. Dude is so sure he's right, and he's dead wrong.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I joked about using Fable 5 to summarize the CEO's post, but I used it this morning for feedback on something I wrote. Damn. This thing is good. Really good. I'm not paying extra for it after they take it out of my subscription - it will be back when they have more capacity, but wow.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Used Dario's Fable 5 to summarize his way-too-long post today. 😆
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Finally saw Project Hail Mary. Was skeptical, but amaze amaze amaze.
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The baby finches have fledged!!! The last one is still on our porch. The parents are in the area and making noise, probably coaxing him off the porch.
Photo of house finch fledgling
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Squirrel is likely big mad about Trash Panda raiding his peanut jar. I don't mind feeding him as long as he doesn't trash my feeders. This is Adam's pic - mine are still on my camera. He let me get within 10 feet of him, which isn't great, but I guess it's to be expected in an exurb like ours.
Photo of adult raccoon
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I know it's because longer chats are more likely to go off the rails, but it's still a tad annoying when Claude tells me to go to bed. 💀
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Phone snapshot of one of the downy woodpeckers that have built a nest in one of our dead trees.
Phone snapshot of a downy woodpecker
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Baby finches - We saw only four today, but there might be another one stuffed in there. They have real feathers now and are starting to look like finches.
photo of baby finches in a next in a holiday wreath
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
It's Big Guy again!
Photo of Eastern box turtle
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Journey - not their hugest fan, but who doesn't like Journey?
Photo of two people at a concert
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Saw a raptor (almost certainly a hawk) swooping over our feeders this morning. I guess if you're attracting prey, you're going to attract predators too. Squirrel is still foolish enough to sit on top of the shepherd's hook to eat his seeds....
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Squirrel eating the sunflower seed he got out of the squirrel proof bird feeder. I don't mind feeding them, and this slows them down. They'll have their own feeder later this week.
Photo of squirrel
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The fact that a bunch of tech bros can't communicate effectively with an AI model that uses human language doesn't mean the model is broken. I get great results from Claude for a wide variety of tasks, and I have never seen the rude and insulting behavior said tech bros report on Reddit. USER ERROR
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Jen Wainright @jenwainright.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This guy gets it. It's not that AI is so great, but that maybe human intelligence is mostly fancy autocomplete with logic and some other bits thrown in. We are the connections in our brains - not the structures, and a lot of life is knowing what comes next.
Screenshot of Reddit post from u/Methratis 2 days ago about AI intelligence.
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