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Profane Tmesis

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I write short stories and web serials. You can read them at profane-tmesis.info

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Profane tmesis @ptmesis.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Early feedback is... I'll call it positive.
Two royal road comments. The first goed "That was unsettling. Thank you for the chapter." The second goes "That is horrifying, thank you very much!"
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Profane Tmesis @ptmesis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
At this point I'm still picking bits of skin off the first onion.
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Profane Tmesis @ptmesis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New story! Some good old-school scifi. profane-tmesis.info/ad-profundum
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Per Aspera ad Profundum
Tree duty today. Hard work. We know they're not trees. Just like the fungus isn't moss, and the bugs aren't wolves. But it helps to use familiar names for things. We're all homesick here. It comes wit...
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Profane Tmesis @ptmesis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
At this point I'm still picking bits of skin off the first onion.
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Profane Tmesis @ptmesis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The main cast of "Perker Lewis can't lose"
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David Aja @davidaja.com · 21/08/2026
DISNEY ROBIN HOOD #1 Variant Cover.
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Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Frame #4450 from S05 -E17 - Chocolate Apple-629275
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Hacker News @mm-hacker-news.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
AI Coding Without the Vibes peterbloem.nl/blog/craft-coding
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Painting of a demon speaking through a horn into a women's ear. The woman is labeled "Me dealing with a minor annoyance" and the demon is labeled "The urge to 
walk out without telling anyone and never return"
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Profane Tmesis @ptmesis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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The Experience Feedback Loop
Hope lies in things that AI cannot do and will never be able to do. It will not do to look to things like novelty, creativity or even intuition. AI can do these things already, and is steadily improvi...
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Profane Tmesis @ptmesis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
peterbloem.nl/blog/experie...
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The Experience Feedback Loop
Hope lies in things that AI cannot do and will never be able to do. It will not do to look to things like novelty, creativity or even intuition. AI can do these things already, and is steadily improvi...
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Slideshare Gems @goodslides.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Florence @justflorence.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Profane tmesis @ptmesis.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
I wrote a story in 2024 in which an LLM breaks out of its sandbox in order to do well on a benchmark. For some reason I feel like reposting it today. Maybe it's the weather. profane-tmesis.info/chain-of-thought
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Chain of thought
A: Our starting assumption is that the message is toxic. What do you think? B: Context is key. The message reads like a joke. It may be satirical. C: We have limited access to context. However, the fact that it is a joke does not preclude the possibility of it being toxic.
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Profane Tmesis @ptmesis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Don't let the fuckers get their hands on SCP.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
When the tariffs started this was what I stocked up on.
@equine__dentist

the only flag i salute

(a large picture of a Lao Gan Ma bottle hung up like a flag)
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Jasmin Schreiber @schreibersnaturarium.de · 06/07/2026
Meme mit nachdenklicher Kuh am Strand. Text darüber: I can't go the rest of my life asking if it's Al or not
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Zach | Last Place Comics @lastplacecomics.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
👟New comic: Baby Shoes, Never Worn👟
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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
action therapist trailer 1-4
PANEL 1: Title screen for Action Therapist, "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy...By NIGHT"

PANEL 2: an ESRB rating of MATURE for Blood and Gore, Sexual Content, Attachment Issues

PANEL 3: A cab has pulled up to an airport arrivals terminal and Dr. Mariposa is getting in.

CABBIE: "All the way out to the university, eh? Well, it's your dollar, Mac..."

PANEL 4: The cabbie is driving Dr. Mariposa through the downpour.

CABBIE: "Did they ever find that famous professor lady who went missing up there?"

PANEL 5: Dr. Mariposa is still in his dripping trenchcoat and being talked to by Dean Hondo, a heavyset duck with a beard and a coffee mug.

DEAN HONDO: "We're confident your...memory issues...won't keep you from a full load of case work."

PANEL 6: 

DEAN HONDO: "Keep an eye on your Psy points. They can unleash special attacks and combos, but run out and you go nuts."PANEL 1: a mockup of a video game screen. Dr. Mariposa stands in the foreground and Diane in the background in a building. 

DIANE: "The police told me to take an ibuprofen and get over it..."

PANEL 2: the player, as Dr. Mariposa, is prompted to TALK

TALK: "Say more on that" 3 PSY
"That sounds like judgment." 5 PSY

PANEL 3: Diane is crying into her hands.

DIANE: "...Maybe you are the therapist who will break the terrible curse."

PANEL 4: Different view of a break room with stats for Dr. Mariposa. This area is called ADMIN BLDG BREAK ROOM and there are menu options to
MAKE COFFEE
MICROWAVE
BULLETN BOARD
DISH WASHER

PANEL 5: Dr. Mariposa is in an aquarium talking to a different patient. Again the player is prompted to TALK: "Let's go deeper on that." 3 PSY
"You're being pretty hard on yourself." 10 PSY

PANEL 6: screenshot of a cinema scene where Dr. Mariposa is looking angrily at a pouncing astronaut

MYSTERIOUS ASTRONAUT: "You won't traverse the catacombs of my mind so easily, Doc!"PANEL 1: Dr. Mariposa is standing in ruins under a purple sky and a wrong-looking moon. Its strange light shines on a pinkish lake. Crystal, a duck in a uniform from a restaurant is there.

CRYSTAL: "I'll tell you everything, but we can't tarry here..."

PANEL 2: The game interface shows a 24-hour pharmacy. Dr. Mariposa is a slightly higher level now but he has a CURSE status effect.

24 HOUR PHARMCY (NORTH)
* Fill scrip
* Develop photos
* Browse magazines
* Energy drinks

PANEL 3: Dr. Mariposa is talking to a shopkeeper in the faculty store. A flyer for a Walpurgis Night Sale 20% Off hangs behind him.

SHOPKEEPER: "I can only sell items to tenured faculty. You should publish a peer reviewed article!"

PANEL 4: Dr. Mariposa is in his underwear and his hair is messy. He's in his office. Diane is there and the sky is strange.

DIANE: "Maybe this CORN KEY x1 will be useful on your journey. It's been in my family for generations."

GOT CORN KEY x1

PANEL 5: Dr. Mariposa is now talking to an astronaut in his office. The astronaut lays back on the couch in full spacesuit.

CMDR WALLACE: "We are building American pyramids on the moon, configured to strange geometries."

PANEL 6: Close up of a hand holding a book.

Text: "It's a paperback copy of Peter David's 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation tie-in novel 'Vendetta'"PANEL 1: A spooky clocktower under a strange sky with an unsettling full moon. Bats are swooping around.

TEXT: "Maybe there's someone in the old clocktower who could benefit from talk therapy."

PANEL 2 : Game interface showing a treasure chest shaped like a corn on the cob.

TITLE: Hidden Corn Treasure Chest
Description: The small chest is shaped like a corn on the cob. It hums with a strange energy. 

USE KEY:
* Office Key
* Corn Key
* Citadel Key
* Empty

PANEL 3: Panel from a cinema scene where Crystal the waitress is leaning in to confide to Dr. Mariposa. 

CRYSTAL (here credited as only WAITRESS): "My mom tried to get me to go to therapy, but the therapist refused to talk about all the disappearances in town."

PANEL 4: Dr. Mariposa is in the clocktower at night. His flashlight is pointing at a nude woman, the Clocktower Hermit.

TALK: 
* "That's black and white thinking." 3 PSY
* "Would you say that to a friend?" 18 PSY

PANEL 5: Dr. Mariposa is digging through a filing cabinet in a dark basement.

DR. MARIPOSA: "These are all my old patient notes from before the accident! But ... what are they doing here?"

PANEL 6: White text on black.

PHYSICIAN

HEAL THYSELF

FAST.
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Profane tmesis @ptmesis.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026
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I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me […] The post I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake appeared first on The Onion.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A man in a beret says "thank you for coming to my art show... hey do you smell gas?" A pipe behind him leaks gas resulting in an explosion. The artist gets one of his paintings lodged in his face and says "Oh God. Oh fuck." A patron says "QUICK! we have to separate the art from the artist."
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Profane Tmesis @ptmesis.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Manny, Fran and Bernard from "Black Books", standing at an airport bar.
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Profane Tmesis @ptmesis.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A new short story for your enjoyment. profane-tmesis.info/everybody-wa...
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Everybody watches _some_ TV
My grandfather was a carpenter. I always thought that was why so many things in our house were made of wood. Or even beyond that, why so much of the living room was filled with things that were handma...
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Leen McBeans @leenmcbeans.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I can’t believe I’m not butter
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Profane Tmesis @ptmesis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A screenshot of the game Zeliard showing the cutscene where Duke Garland meets Jashi'in, just before the final boss battle.
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Profane Tmesis @ptmesis.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Dog or eyeball is the new blue dress/white dress. Except everybody sees the eyeball.
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Profane tmesis @ptmesis.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026
houston: Vega one, we need you to check the alignment on coil 3A, please. vega one: Like my mother's auburn hair, its graying imperfections are hidden from me by the innocence of youth. houston: Remind me, whose idea was it again to send a poet?
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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Profane Tmesis @ptmesis.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A new short story for your enjoyment. profane-tmesis.info/everybody-wa...
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Everybody watches _some_ TV
My grandfather was a carpenter. I always thought that was why so many things in our house were made of wood. Or even beyond that, why so much of the living room was filled with things that were handma...
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Slideshare Gems @goodslides.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 09/05/2026
A person of a comic asking a computer "what do you know about me?"
Computer replies "basic web traffic data"
Person replies "oh my god."
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Glasgow Kiss @xanderglasgow.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Too far
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Profane tmesis @ptmesis.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026
Sean Connery said of The Lord of the Rings (for which he was offered the part of Gandalf): "Yeah, well, I never understood it. I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don’t understand it." Meanwhile, in 1974, this was apparently clear as glass.
Sean Connery as Zed in Zardoz. He is wearing a bright red mankini sort of thing and thigh-length boots. He has a braided ponytail and a strong moustache.
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Slideshare Gems @goodslides.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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Andy Baio @andy.baio.net · 21/03/2026
Also 20 years ago this week, on March 17, 2006, Ze Frank posted the first episode of The Show. youtu.be/VxyiRMcNIVo
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YouTube video by ze frank
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7firestorms.bsky.social @7firestorms.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
@ptmesis.bsky.social I finished reading "a week in the life of" yesterday and I'm still reeling from it. True existential horror, the dread I felt reading the last lines was incredible.
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Profane Tmesis @ptmesis.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Or is it?
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Peter Bloem @pbloem.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026
New preprint! Predicting integers from continuous parameters arxiv.org/abs/2602.10751 We study the problem of integer distributions that have continuous parameters. This is important for distributions that are tuned by backpropagation, like those […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]
A colorful line plot. The horizontal axis is labeled mu, and the vertical axis log of gamma raised to the f plus gamma raised to the c. It shows that this quantity (the penalty term) goes to zero at the integers and get high the further mu is from integer values. A diagram explaining how the expected value of the Dalap distribution can be computed from its paramters gamma and mu. Test set results on various tabular datasets, showing that Dalap gets good performance in bits. Image generation results for Dalap, Dlogistic and Bitwise using an autoregressive pixel model. Dalap is shown to be competitive with the baseline (Dlogistic), while Bitwise performs poorly.
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The graphic is misleading. These were already two separate photos.
tmz graphic of Rob Schneider and his wife with a torn in half effect announcing their divorce
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
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bacon popsicle 🧴 @gupton68.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Truth be told I sometimes use big words I don't fully understand just to make me sound cleverer and more ambidextrous.
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Slideshare Gems @goodslides.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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Profane tmesis @ptmesis.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2025
Just realized: being "the man" is an auto-antonym.
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.A plate of the same cookies.
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Profane tmesis @ptmesis.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2025
I bought something called "long chips". They're like pringles, but very long and perfectly rectangular. It's end of the world stuff.
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Profane tmesis @ptmesis.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025
Made it to the first page of the #royalroad short stories ranking.
Screenshot of the royalroad rankings for short stories, showing "a week in the life of" at the bottom.
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