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ti zhang

@solarizedtitanium.gg
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any | staff site reliability engineer|roots in SWE | Daoist,artist,writer,musician,complex systems thinker | soft,like the ocean is soft.gentle,like the sun could be gentle | www.nombiezinja.com | married, not poly | parent | formerly @zerochilltea

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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 5h
u see me not writing for a while, it’s because i’m removing the extrinsic reward mechanism. i have written and made and did so many things in the last while they are all stacked up to post, but i dont. i will post them when i feel like the intent is fully “this will help ppl” .
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 8h
i feel bad for the ppl that went to cornell that did not do shitty things cuz for me and prob a lot of others cornell is forever associated with this event, i think it was awesome of the victim to litigate. i saw some photos of group chats, pure vileness.
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 27/09/2026
when i was 20 i almost got a tattoo that says “when the going gets tough the tough gets going” now in my middle age im like when the going gets tough brush ur teeth drink some water and take a nap, that tough going isn’t going anywhere and u r not gonna be tough for being tired
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 27/09/2026
throw back to the person that shook my hand very hard at a local tech thing a decade ago and i was like “wow ur handshake is so strong, i read in this book that when u shake hands and apply force to it its a power move and you’re trying to send a message about ur strength of character”
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 27/09/2026
u know wut, there’s a reason y ibs did not get evolved out of humans ur friends w ibs kept everyone alive from questionable food and inexplicit dangers w their heightened food sensitivity and their anxiety driven bowels thank an ibs person in ur life today for helping keep the world a safer place
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 27/09/2026
bsky user mskathleenquinn in Inglorious Basterds(2009) to the Inglorious Basterds: “oh i’m ok w that, nazi tattoos r trivial. can u make it like super pretty tho? thanks”
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 27/09/2026
scenario: u walk into a very nice restaurant in a foreign country u don’t speak the language u point to something in the menu even tho u can’t read it the server is shocked and pleased, they began smiling and announce something to the room all the other guests stand up and clap for u
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 27/09/2026
weak:y do i procrastinate on these chores for days when it only takes me 30 min to finish it once i get going strong: I DONT NEED TO DO CHORES FOR DAYS CUZ WHEN I FEEL LIKE IT TAKES ME 30 MIN ONLY weak:idk how to get going strong:I’LL GET TO IT WHEN I FEEL LIKE IT AND I DONT YET
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 25/09/2026
whenever one talks about real positive impact on their personhood from a former boss i think of a former ceo of mine asking me “will they peepeepoopoo in the office” when i asked if i could bring my then 5-yo kid to work for a day now this word lives in the autocorrect of all my loved ones for free
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 24/09/2026
nothing heals like a bowl of warm soup
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 24/09/2026
sleepie time brain what has four claws and hurts when pinching u . . . . . . four dentists ☺️
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 24/09/2026
it’s over for these hoes cuz i fixed my hair and i shaved my eyebrows and i’ve abandoned all makeup at this point it’s such a waste of time
me with purple and pink hair me with purple and pink hair and bald head on both sides but also behind too but u can’t see also i shaved my eyebrows again
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 24/09/2026
i have done an absolute crime to my hair today by bleaching it poorly, the worst thing i’ve ever done to my hair, and i am COPING WITH HUMOUR
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 24/09/2026
hey how does a colour laugh “huehuehuehuehuehuehuehue”
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 21/09/2026
somebody remake jennifer's body and make it less misogynist plzzzzzz what a classic
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 21/09/2026
im years late to the madison beer jennifer's body music video tribute discussion cuz i dont follow pop culture. but i recently saw it and despite what reddit says i think it's a wonderful reimagination of the film, where two besties are explicitly gay and have a good time and there is a good ending
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 20/09/2026
hey this vancouver web dev/game dev www.linkedin.com/in/armanabadi just saved someone from being held up at knife point! what a cool person, apparently he’s looking for work. if anyone has opportunities yall should reach out! plz share!
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 19/09/2026
went to local dive bar w partner leave w partner partner needs to go bathroom i stand outside wait partner comes out tells me: "british guy in there asked me what is up with the mask r u sick" i was like: "im gonna go in there and talk to them"
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 19/09/2026
i’m not done with the kill bill rants tarantino just wanted balls torture with some hot woman’s feet and instead of dealing with it in private like normal ppl he made two movies about it and objectified the dominatrix thoroughly instead of really thinking about what it means to be a sub
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 19/09/2026
u know u r unappealing to potential partners when ur job at the government tells u that nobody is REALLY interested in u oof
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 19/09/2026
20 year old me would be impressed about everything that i became and achieved but would also be very disappointed at my callous abandonment of esports and as a result, significant deterioration in APM and CPS
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 18/09/2026
blizzard is so convinced that ppl will pay for WoW Forever, just like we did for WoW classic. they aren't wrong, there are entire franchises and lines of products based on sheer nostalgia, banking on it, counting on it, putting people in a choke hold with sentimental reminiscences of the past
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 18/09/2026
yes i have finally given up on kvms and hubs idgaf anymore every machine gets its own peripheral it's been years of fighting these bitches and im done
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 18/09/2026
u ppl w long arms are wasting ur ascribed talent when u dont have 4 sets of peripherals on ur desk connected to 4 compooter things. i can only have 3 cuz my arms too short to reach the 4th keyboard where i would put it
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 17/09/2026
screenshot of first page of https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.08407 which is a pdf and a good read title is your agent is mine: measuring malicious intermediary attacks on the LLM supply chain
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 17/09/2026
there are like, actual researches detailing things so Aaron Rodericks the Trust and Safety person does not have to spin his own wheels from scratch, he could just take a framework of well-established community safety and build upon it but i guess he would actually have to like, care lol oh well
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 16/09/2026
playing a spiritborn for the first time this D4 season aside from the appropriation issues can we all agree that spiritborn is just furry rogue? (no i am not a furry but spiritborn is furry rogue, 100%)
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 16/09/2026
Sza's Kill Bill is a better rendition of the story and sentiments than Tarantino's Kill Bill no i will not be having arguments over this i know i'm right
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 14/09/2026
can i do Hyrox? yes. would i? no i would risk injury even tho i'm pretty fit and have been working out for 1.5 decades.they need to be louder about how dangerous it is to Just Get Into something that involves both strength, cardio, and proper form/technique
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 14/09/2026
the most viral topic of the day on the chinese interwebs rn is how a white participant shat herself at the beginning of a Hyrox combination and did the entire thing and smeared it everywhere then she posted “a win is a win” on insta idk what to say
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 13/09/2026
if i had too much money for one person i would make petting zoos of weird domesticated animals available everywhere because money and staff should not be a barrier to a regular person petting a well-treated domesticated monkey/racoon/peacock/python/elephant
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 12/09/2026
what is up my people i just removed the majority of the hair on my scalp and now im both happier and colder
me but i don’t have a lot of hair left cept on the top of my scalp
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 11/09/2026
everybody is ripping on the apple flip phone but i really like it :D
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 10/09/2026
i want to say nobody laughed on the bus when i said the blade thing and i was disappointed but it also told me i should not make the navy seal meme joke cuz the audience isn’t gonna get that one either
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 10/09/2026
some guy yelled racial attacks at me on the bus when i decided to get between him and another person of colour he was verbally assaulting, but 15 minutes of yelling didn’t even raise my heart rate past my normal relaxation zone and the barista made me a cute bunny latte art so who’s winning really
screenshot of health tracker saying i was relaxed cute bunny art on matcha latte some guy giving me the middle finger on the bus (while he was yelling shitty things)
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 10/09/2026
i got a button maker i am literally unstoppable now i am about to shitpost all over these buttons
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 08/09/2026
taking a break from life stuff to catch up on tech news then taking break from that terrible stuff to catch up on politics then realizing it’s chores time but at least now i can ruminate on everything terrible while i do chores
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/09/2026
This is still the best explanation I’ve ever seen for “why I go to the gym”
lift heavy stone
make sad head voice quiet
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 07/09/2026
today near Granville Island abandoned rail tracks, two scenes that make perfect for short narrative writing prompts
a water pot on top of a wooden post with a jacket in the distance under granville bridge near the abandoned rail tracks  a visibility cone, some abandoned rails and concrete, two jackets, one of them is a fuzzy brown one that looks newish and is sitting as if a person had just wiggled out of it and walked away dazedly but freely
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 07/09/2026
everytime i do a timezone shift i take advantage of jet lag to become one of those coffeeshop at 10am ppl but it never lasts cuz nothing smells as good as the night air at 3am and nothing works as well as these two brain cells of mine when a fine moon light shimmers through some shut curtains
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 04/09/2026
mydialect.us/quiz-standar... whaddya know i, a canadian, am actually from florida (also heads up some of these questions got some isms stuff going on especially the extended ones which has one that goes “chinese fire drill” for poor driving)
Your dialect map
Redder areas talk more like you; bluer areas least.

You talk most like someone from Florida — about 48% of your answers match a typical resident.

MYDIALECT — STANDARD
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 04/09/2026
having a hard time falling asleep reliving the cringy moments of being mistaken as some unknown and supposedly self-important sunglassed and hatted celebrity in public places then having to explain “i’m simply dodgy, socially anxious, and afraid of the sun” when asked “what were u in”
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 29/08/2026
this is a lesson that took me many incidents to learn: stop expecting others to function on passion the way you do, it’s absolutely unfair and makes assumption of excellence itself being possible only as a result of passion (blurring out frd i replied to in case ppl disagree & get mean)
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 28/08/2026
spent 30min following a tutorial to make this to gift a family friend and i gotta say acrylic markers are wonderful
photo of an acrylic marker drawing of blue sky, fluffy clouds, and blue waves. caption means “the ocean includes all”
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 14/08/2026
ah i love me some p q therefore q p logical fallacy esp when ppl are doing it to sell some courses
photo of GenAI Works’s post on linkedin comparing linux kernel creator’s single monitor set up w some poor random guy’s multi monitor set up implying some false equation of abilities u can deduct from number of monitors
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 10/08/2026
i got a muscle shirt and they are right it does make ur arms look huge i will be buying ten more of these everybody plz applaud thank u i haven’t lifted properly in months cuz surgery recovery etc but i havent lost all my guns so yay
me in a white muscle shirt my arm big me in muscle shirt my arm big and i flex
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 09/08/2026
du du -h du hast du hast mich du hast mich gefragt und ich hab nichts gesagt
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 29/07/2026
bone marrow is creamy bone juice that’s all
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 24/07/2026
JSON bourne was his dad XML
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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 24/07/2026
jason bourne was born to be jason that’s it that’s the tweet
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