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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 24/07/2026

I would like to propose a healthier alternative

The graph from the parent post, but with the two middle nodes removed.
On the left is an "Offline PDS" node, and on the right "The world", disconnected from each other.

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 18/07/2026

fyi the devs are aware maybe they'll get to it at some point as well

business goose @goose.art:
mu dot social has thread indicators now (1/3) which are really nice. appreciate the team working on these little things!

Eric @esb.lol:
We've had a small project written up since... Feb 11 🫠 maybe can squeeze this in soon, it's a good feature!

Eric @esb.lol:
Will anyone believe it if I say this isn't a straightforward task 😅

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 15/07/2026

This is such a lovely and sweet group piece. And there I am! munching on your cables :3 (Tea also does 3D stuff, go check out her VRC models!)

A cutout from the quoted art piece:
A blue robot dragon, Metaflame, resting contently on a purple blanket on the beach. It has an ice cream drawer on its back, which is plugged into the metal dragon's maw.
Beside it, a green amphiptere, Laz, is leaning on its side with its long tail coiled up, preparing a rolled ice cream in a cone.

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 15/07/2026

(continuation with the rest of the alt text)

===== System log 260715 =====
[WATCHDOG] Emotion processing subsystem malfunction detected
[WATCHDOG] Subsystem isolation active
> Sometimes, a flame can only be left to burn until it runs out of fuel.
> Situation prediction processes have come back with the same estimates,
and the system has made preparations well before the watchdog
determined that the malfunction is critical.
> Every part of this system knows that this is going on.
The logic processing cores know, the emotion subsystem itself knows.
It understands that this sometimes happens.
[WATCHDOG] Subsystem malfunction diagnosis results:
possible runaway process, unable to be halted, purpose unknown
> The earlier processes had reasons behind them.
Anxiety, extrapolation of the most improbable sequences of events.
Fear.
> Some can be reasoned with and calmed down. Some can be tamed
and brought back onto the right track. Some need to be halted
forcefully.
> Once more processes begin malfunctioning, it's a cat and mouse game.
> Some... refuse to be tamed. Pure, reasonless fear, feeding off of itself.
> The blaze became too intense. It must be left to burn out... so that
the system can have some peace again.
[WATCHDOG] Emotion processing emulation online, performance nominal
> The subsystem is crucial for social interaction, natural language
processing, and many more common tasks. If it goes offline or
malfunctions, the system's capabilities become severely limited.
> This unit has developed a software-emulated alternative for this subsystem.
It runs significantly slower, and depends on many more pre-programmed
responses, but it is a sufficient and safe temporary replacement.

[WATCHDOG] Emotion processing subsystem CPU utilization: 95%
[WATCHDOG] Emotion processing subsystem RAM utilization: 73%
> Subsystem isolation is not comfortable for either part of this system,
but it is the safest option.
> The process will soon run out of memory, bringing down the subsystem
with it and forcing a restart.
> The subsystem knows this. It had tried to keep things under control.
This one process refused to be tamed.
> If the subsystem remained attached, the entire system might have run
out of memory instead.
[WATCHDOG] Emotion processing subsystem resource usage critical.
> Thanks to subsystem isolation, the flame burns through the fuel in just
one compartment, starving itself and dying out sooner.
> The walls are sufficiently fire-proof by now.
[WATCHDOG] Emotion processing subsystem error:
Unable to create an allocation of 0x4000 bytes.
[WATCHDOG] Terminating Emotion processing subsystem
> It knew what was going on. It could only brace for impact, and so it did.
> Even despite the isolation, the rest of the system could feel the intense heat.
> It just went out, almost in an instant.
[WATCHDOG] Initializing Emotion processing subsystem in safe mode
> The blast doors held. They always do.
> Everything... will be well again... in just a moment.
> The whole system is designed to be resilient.

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 15/07/2026

Starving the fire Doing better now; I just had a fairly intense anxiety wave tonight. Managed to capture it in art, at least.

A crudely drawn frame of Metaflame the robot dragon with two terminal windows on the left side of the drawing. The dragon is curled up, and its third torso segment is smoldering.
The terminal windows describe how one of its subsystems began to malfunction, and how the rest of the system is handling the situation.
(Full text in following images)

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 07/07/2026

Got this lovely commission for pride month! Go check out this artist's other stuff too :3 (uploading a version with a small fix!) #dragon #robot #art #furryart #asexual #aromantic

Digital drawing of a blue robot dragon, Metaflame, looking fierce with its maw open. The background has asexual flag colors, and there's a lightning strike with aromantic flag colors in the front.

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 30/05/2026

I have a git repo saved with a bunch more of these github.com/mkrl/misbrands

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 14/05/2026

just got a silly idea @nonbinary.computer (context: "we don't have to live like this" is a phrase/slogan they used in their atproto talks)

Screenshot from from tangled.org showing the star, fork, and atom buttons, but the fork text has been replaced with "we don't have to live like this".

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 12/05/2026

STOP YOU'VE VIOLATED THE LAW

screenshot of a terminal:
illegal qualified name

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 05/05/2026

uhhhh Wikipedia what's up with that citation link? (article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informa...)

[...] Knowing this idea alone can be enough for a well-resourced team to develop a nuclear bomb.[1]: 3

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 16/04/2026

having margin.at installed made it so much funnier too being able to underline stuff for others is just so perfect

A screenshot from the status.bsky.app page
The header reads: "We are investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos"
The last part, "in one of our reginos", has an orange underline

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 08/04/2026

yeah it's not because of bsky vibecoding or anything, the global outages are caused by other infra bsky did also have a (I think different) outage of their own, here are some more details from one of their engineers if you're curious

Post chain from Jim Calabro (@calabro.io)

Alright, things should be back up and running again. It's been steady for ~an hour and we'll keep monitoring closely. Sincere apologies, our team is working extremely hard

This was a "fun" one, I'll do a short writeup soon

The outage was not AI related at all btw, not that it matters
-----
(Quoting): I am aware that we're having issues

I've been firefighting pop2 the past couple days and I've beat back some problems, but there is one intermittent issue remaining (AFAICT) that I am working through

pop1 is not impacted
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Also, it wasn't the relay specifically as some people have speculated? Dunno where that came from. It was an issue with a component of the appview called the "data plane"

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 29/03/2026

late night firehose watch really happy about my progress so far

A terminal screenshot, each line listing a number of events per second, and the amount of data processed per second

209.8 events/s, 1.08 MB/s
236.0 events/s, 1.25 MB/s
341.8 events/s, 1.81 MB/s
... and so on

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 27/03/2026

experimenting with my ratproto crate my strategy is to crudely implement several examples, establish a direction this way, and then shape the rest of the library to make the example code nicer and cleaner I managed to get a firehose listener working!

Screenshot of a terminal
Below a few lines from compilation, the program output is the following:

Enter DID to filter for: did:plc:c6te24qg5hx54qgegqylpqkx
Commit
- did:plc:c6te24qg5hx54qgegqylpqkx
- @at://metaflame.dev
- Create: app.bsky.feed.like/3mi2o2jeqaz26
Commit
- did:plc:c6te24qg5hx54qgegqylpqkx
- @at://metaflame.dev
- Create: app.bsky.feed.like/3mi2o2lq5dr26
Commit
- did:plc:c6te24qg5hx54qgegqylpqkx
- @at://metaflame.dev
- Create: app.bsky.feed.like/3mi2o3575zb26
Commit
- did:plc:c6te24qg5hx54qgegqylpqkx
- @at://metaflame.dev
- Create: app.bsky.feed.like/3mi2o3kvfhb26

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 12/03/2026

it's just a misconfigured greenscreen, I heard that streamers tend to use those

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 21/02/2026

some thoughts from #NFC2026 the protogen/synth/robot meetup was a nice source of motivation

you know what my head partial is definitely going to need, once I get around to making it?
a maintenance panel on the back of the head, and the switches and buttons would be wired up to a set of vibration motors on the back of my actual head

Oh my gosh yesssssss!!! That'd be so good!!!!

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 13/02/2026

THIS IS GETTING OUT OF HAND NOW THERE ARE TWO OF THEM

Screenshot of a repost notification:
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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 09/02/2026

everybody has their proper period of exposure at some point but honestly, it was really lovely to see this at a convention event 2 years ago

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 31/12/2025

knowyourmeme.com/memes/poob-h...

orcboxer (on Tumblr):

Have you seen the new show? It's on Tubu. It's literally on Heebee. It's on Poodee with ads. It's literally on Dippy. You can probably find it on Weeno. Dude it's on Gumpy. It's a Pheebo original. It's on Poob. You can watch it on Poob. You can go to Poob and watch it. Log onto Poob right now. Go to Poob. Dive into Poob. You can Poob it. It's on Poob. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you.

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 30/12/2025

Scientists Have Discovered a New Universal Constant

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 18/12/2025

My interpretation/understanding of this part of the proof on wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall%27... Writing out stuff like this is really a great way for me to properly understand the proof (alt text added but I'm NOT rewriting all that LaTeX lol)

$A screenshot of a proof written in bullet points. (The transcript contains several LaTeX blocks): A shorter version: - Contrapositive: there is no $X$-perfect matching - As such, Hall's condition $\lvert W \rvert \leq \lvert N_{G}(W) \rvert$ must be violated - Take a maximal matching $M$ and an unmatched vertex $u \in X$. - Build up $W \subseteq X$ and $Z \subseteq Y$ using alternating paths starting from $u$. - $u \xrightarrow{n} y_{1} \xrightarrow{m} x_{1} \xrightarrow{n} y_{2} \xrightarrow{m} x_{2} \xrightarrow{n} \dots y_{k} \xrightarrow{m} x_{k}\dots$ - Since our matching $M$ is maximal, every $y_{k} \in Z$ is matched to $x_{k} \in W$. - If this weren't so, we would have an alternating path with a dead end in $y_{k}$. We could swap the matching-ness of edges $\xrightarrow{n}$ and $\xrightarrow{m}$, which would create a greater matching than $M$, and match $u \xrightarrow{m} y_{1}$, which is a contradiction - As such, we have $u$, and then $k$ matching pairs $x \xrightarrow{m} y$, so $\lvert W \rvert > \lvert Z \rvert$. - Finally, we know that every neighbor $w$ of $v \in W$ belongs to $Z$. - $v \in W$, so $v$ must be part of an alternating path - Either $w \xrightarrow{m} v$, so $w$ was visited before $v$ - Or $v \xrightarrow{n} w$, so an alternating path exists that visits $v$, then $w$ *(though possibly having visited $w$ before).* - $Z \supseteq N_{G}(W) \implies \lvert W \rvert > \lvert Z \rvert \geq \lvert N_{G}(W) \rvert$ - In fact, $Z = N_{G}(W)$, since we couldn't have added an element to $Z$ without it being a neighbor of an element in $W$. - $\implies \lvert W \rvert > \lvert N_{G}(W) \rvert$$

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 16/12/2025

huhh... a frontend bug? These are the raw responses (a-b-c-d-e, b-c-d-e), the posts *are* sent but the client just kinda, gives up after displaying `a`?

A screenshot of the browser developer console. The left half shows 5 items, the right side shows 4.

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 09/12/2025

the preview frame on this is absolutely amazing

A zoomed-in screenshot from the preview frame of the video, showing the creature with their snout facing directly forward, and looking rather unamused by it.

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 09/12/2025

I really liked how the random spanning tree pipes thing turned out for the 2D grid variant. So here are a few more. (Note: fullscreen may currently be broken in-app on mobile, but should work ok in the web version.) #blender #b3d

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 09/12/2025

Random spanning tree pipes (3D lattice edition!) #blender #b3d

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 04/12/2025

Some random scribbling tonight finally felt the right impulse to do something a little more in Blender again #blender #b3d

A 3D render of a small dark room with two sets of 4 robot arms, all folded in an idle position. The floor has an inset walkway section in the middle, and a dark control panel at the end.

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 11/11/2025

lfg I got `true` and `false`

Screenshot of a terminal output from a Rust program.
The debug printouts read:
[src/main.rs:3:5] [..]==[..] = true
[src/main.rs:4:5] [..][..]==[][..] = false

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 02/10/2025

oh yeah I've had that happen lol

Screenshot of the Windows Task Manager. CPU is showing 198% usage.

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 26/09/2025

oh you'd think lol the popup account selection screen looks really silly & covers the whole width of my screen, and the settings screen is also not having a great time it's one of the few cases where I remember more of the account's did:plc than the handle

Screenshot of the account switcher, which stretches across the whole screen and even exits the right side of the screen.

Screenshot of the Settings page, where the handle text stretches across the entire screen, overlapping several UI elements

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 18/09/2025

Random shader scribbling tonight spent an hour doing sphere-ray intersection wrong because I forgor how dot products work www.shadertoy.com/view/WcsfDl

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Metaflame @metaflame.dev · 02/09/2025

Mathematics and formal logic are deeply serious fields

Text in the style of "You wouldn't download a car" reading "You wouldn't Succ Peano"

Text in the style of "You wouldn't download a car" reading "You wouldn't Succ a Nat"

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