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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 29/09/2026

Due to some wackiness in one of my group chats, I can now say that I enjoy numbers in roughly the following distribution: `\begin{aligned}\text{Enjoyed} = &\left\{\forall p^x \rightarrow \frac{1}{px} : \left(p, x \in \mathbb{N}\right) \land \left(p \ge 2\right) \land (\forall n \in \mathbb{N} […]

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 15/08/2026

A long time ago, I read the #Firekeeper Saga for the first time. It touched me deeply & I still reread it pretty frequently. Unfortunately it has basically no online presence. To fix this, I've started firekeeper.wiki I'm proud of what's there so far. It's far from complete, but I'm […]

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 19/03/2026

I probably won't be alive to see it, but I can't wait to see how they handle IP addresses if we were to add another world to the internet. Like, does Luna get its own IPv8 block by some future convention? The sheer quantity of lag demands being able to know where the address goes ~~geo-~~ […]

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 14/03/2026

Reddit gave a gem, and I must share > “I want that ball” > “I want the ball but only for a little bit” > “Get this ball the fuck away from me” > “What ball?” > The four sports classifications

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 12/03/2026

I love how on one group chat I am in, we reinvented a tone tag. /c means "contrarian" in this chat. Like "I am saying no just to say no, I don't actually mean it"

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 11/03/2026

On the one hand, we are under a flood warning. On the other, a cat is laying on me and purring to comfort herself. This is winning. #OpheTheLoaf

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 10/03/2026

I am happy to announce that my home server is back online. I can now slowly migrate services away from my main workstation

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 10/03/2026

Seeking an actual history lesson here, as someone who didn't live through it. Why is the Cold War not considered another World War?

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026

[uspol] Starship Troopers (1997)

A newsmax clip on taxi tv with headline US CRUSHING IRANIAN FORCES

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Autumn Rivers @ohanamatsumae.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

"What kind of salary are you looking for" the one you put in the job description. The salary that you specifically put in the job description that I read to apply to the job. That's the salary I'm looking for. The one you manually entered and reviewed in the job description before submitting the […]

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Currently helping an elderly family friend figure out if an email is a scam (which it obviously is) and hey, people who make mobile email apps, it's a dark pattern to not make the email address of the sender visible without needing to click on the little arrow thing. Just thought you should know.

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 10/03/2026

I would like to state for the record that I am a one-boxer www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol18JoeXlVI

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 07/03/2026

Well damn, looks like Duolingo pulled the undocumented API I was using for time tracking. I don't know when I will have time to rewrite that. Ugh. Anyone aware of a library or guide or something? If not, I'll wait til other shit is solved.

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 07/03/2026

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this Monday's post may need to be delayed. My sincere apologies for the tardiness.

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 06/03/2026

Seeking feedback :boost: Is this a good way to notate levels of confidence for a series of #math articles? #writing #writingAdvice

A screenshot of test in dark mode. It has 3 highlighted blocks, each with a title and a different color/icon. The text says:

Conjecture 1.0.0

I will note conjectures like this. Each will come with an ID consisting of three parts: a series index, a definition index, and a count. As an example, if I were to make a conjecture about definition 2 in this post, I would write it as “Conjecture 1.2.1”, indicating it is in the first post, the second definition, and the first conjecture of that definition.

Theorem 1.0.0

Theorems will be identified like so, and given IDs similar to conjectures. I will always use theorem, even if lemma may be more appropriate, for the sake of consistency.

Hint

Possible leads to investigate will be marked as hints.

A screenshot of test in light mode. It has 3 highlighted blocks, each with a title and a different color/icon. The text says:

Conjecture 1.0.0

I will note conjectures like this. Each will come with an ID consisting of three parts: a series index, a definition index, and a count. As an example, if I were to make a conjecture about definition 2 in this post, I would write it as “Conjecture 1.2.1”, indicating it is in the first post, the second definition, and the first conjecture of that definition.

Theorem 1.0.0

Theorems will be identified like so, and given IDs similar to conjectures. I will always use theorem, even if lemma may be more appropriate, for the sake of consistency.

Hint

Possible leads to investigate will be marked as hints.

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 05/03/2026

How terrible of an idea is it to bridge email to XMPP? It might be nice to trick myself into thinking they are "just messages" or something

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 04/03/2026

Draft for next Monday isn't quite ready, but I am almost set to send it to some volunteer sensitivity readers. Never done that before, so I don't know what the timeline on it looks like. I have a backup for if that process goes on too long, and it's nearly ready because I am adapting prior […]

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/03/2026

Whoever invented pop up ads on gas station pumps should be shamed and ostracized from civilized society. Literally not even letting me press cancel as my card info is just sitting in the system but also not letting me pump gas.

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 01/03/2026

For your dumb and lighthearted stat of the day: I pooped exactly 50 times in February. That is 2 more than my partner. I don't know why we are keeping track of this like it's a contest 🤣

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Anna @mothninja.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Good morning

Unattributed meme. A nine-square alignment chart, featuring signs.
Going left to right, and then top to bottom:
Done with this shit / I have questions : sign riveted into a tree in a forest reads "Your GPS is wrong turn around"

Done with this shit / Disturbingly specific: sign reads "128 persons have drowned in this lake. 2 wearing a life jacket. 126 not wearing a life jacket."

Done with this shit / Vivid: sign reads "Danger, not only will this kill you it will hurt the whole time you're dying"

Ominous / I have questions: sign reads, " if you can read this you're in range"

Ominous / Disturbingly specific: sign reads "Warning! Evacuate the island if you hear 8 short blasts"

Ominous / Vivid: sign showing a palm tree and three people being chased by flying black circles, reads "Beware falling coconuts"

Do not test the gods / I have questions: sign reads, "if elevator does not move do a small jump it should move after"

Do not test the gods / Disturbingly specific: sign reads "road may be subject to sudden catastrophic sinkhole collapse"

Do not test the gods / vivid: sign crushed by falling rock reads "Falling rock"

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

What’s the dewey decimal code for this

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 26/02/2026

Alright, suppose I have a spare laptop and hate myself just a little. Should I try out #NixOS?

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 25/02/2026

If Melanie Lynskey has no fans, then I am dead

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 25/02/2026

Holy cow, I have easily gotten 10x the readers I expected

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 25/02/2026

Lol, because I am adapting a paper for the Thue-Morse stuff, I already have over half of it outlined

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 24/02/2026

Oh god, _How to Lose A Guy in Ten Days_ is going to kill me. The secondhand embarrassment is lethal.

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 24/02/2026

@xy@mastodon.mit.edu when I get my Thus-Morse stuff written up, would you be interested in teaching/helping me work through Lean proofs of the things where that's applicable?

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Beau @mochabeau.dev · 23/02/2026

mfs be like "born too late to explore the world 😢" does openstreetmap look complete to you? get working

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 24/02/2026

I should have known that posting about spelling reform would get attention here XD

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 24/02/2026

The fact that someone asked a followup question to my blog posts has absolutely made my day. It makes me feel like a teacher again. I miss teaching.

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025

One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review.

A screenshot of a code editor. The line numbers are in the lefthand column, running from 121 to 125. There is a comment that says "Verify packages were created and check sizes" Then line 123 says echo Verifying Lambda packages were created... and Line 124 says echo checkmark emoji colon All Lambda packages verified successfully. There is no line in here that actually did anything.

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 23/02/2026

Today I'm starting a new series on data collection & visualization. In this entry we look at job hunting data. blog.oliviaappleton.com/posts/0006-… #LearnDataScience #DataAnalysis #DataScienceProjects #Grafana #SelfHosted #Writing #Blog #Jobs I've been anticipating […]

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 23/02/2026

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 23/02/2026

I am very excited for the lazy imports in future Python versions

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 23/02/2026

I just spent a long time tidying up a bibtex file. Gosh I am a nerd

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

Socks don’t have a little label attached to them that says what they’re made of and how to care for them. And we normalize this

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 23/02/2026

@hazelnoot@enby.life Hey, I just wanna run my understanding of this by you. When I schedule a note to go up, it gets assigned an ID immediately, yeah? And when it is posted, it keeps that ID?

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 22/02/2026

Since I have never managed to write my Thue-Morse results as a paper, maybe I should try to do it as a set of blog posts. The problem is that some of this is conjecture that is obviously true, but that I don't have the skill to prove rigorously. I have something like 23 definitions of it, and 9 […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

I KNOW somebody in this community can win this money. “Fulu’s latest bounty is for Ring’s video doorbell cameras, meant to encourage hackers and tinkerers to disable software features that require the devices to send data to Amazon. The reward is a potential payout of $10,000 or more.” […]

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

I don’t want to take ALL the credit but i’m pretty sure my inclusion on this amicus brief put the tariff case over the edge

It’s the dropped stitch LLC on a long list of businesses

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 20/02/2026

I really enjoyed _Behooved_ by M Stevens. It was a touch predictable at times, but it is a very good story. It also is the most I have related to disability rep ever. She has a gut condition a lot like whatever is wrong with mine. She was trained to hide it a lot like I was. I am glad I got this […]

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 20/02/2026

I really wish #TheStoryGraph had an API. It would be wonderful if I could automatically share book reviews here as well. And it would let me have my pages read in my Grafana dashboards

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 20/02/2026

Alright y'all, what #XMPP bridges are good? I want to try and move more of my messaging stuff to one app

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Olivia A-C @oliviaappleton.com · 20/02/2026

On Monday I am publishing my writing for the first time in a long time. How do I feel less nervous about it? And does anyone have advice about where to post it for wider distribution? I am trying to keep a list.

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