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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 1h

hope it went as well for you, friend! (beat the reset to zero by about an hour; had I have my Claude bot start calling his own GPT sub agent swarm because the GPT bot was capped at 3 sub agents for some reason!)

Gpt weekly usage showing 0 percent remaining

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

never programmed anything before, let alone made a functioning mini-app. today, my bots and I made my 6yo daughter a math app after me not liking any real professional ones we’ve tried. she loves it and her feedback has already led to v1.4 being programmed as i write this. kinda neat ngl

Over the shoulder anonymous shot of my 6 year old playing a math game on an iPad

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

oh I still get em in and it’s a pretty subtle look with hood down. one reason I don’t have the hoods up more is most of them are too small for that sweet assassin etc look so they are basically neck decoration. neckoration we did it Joe!

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

lol gotta get tagged day one; a badge of honor. i…was not trying i “extract reasoning”, i assure you.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

can i play Reacher if i promise to Always. Stand. Weird? plus i’m 6’4.5”; so close to book height! (though I weigh 50lbs less) (Halfway through season 2 and the show is super fun and of course the actor needs no replacement.)

Three stupid shirtless selfies. I look reasonably jacked

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

my wife commissioned this one (well, met a fancy artist who did sumi-e who offered to paint for her and she chose an Enzo)

A simple ink Enzo on white paper with a black frame

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ooof shots fired by this audition I just got asked to record for: (I’m 42 and insulted lol)

Screen cap reads:

Role Name
PRINT ONLY | GEN X (age 38-50 years old)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

btw I wanted a quick “who funded this” take and accidentally asked Astra and got a helluva research report but no obvious “oh Thiel funded it” Does anyone at Warner bros have a higher risk tolerance than you vis a vis p doom? Btw I think we might have spoiled some of this movie for onlookers; I

"HBO Films in association with Project Zeus and
Hot Seat Attractions."
Television Academy
That identifies the participating production companies, but it does not disclose how much money each contributed—or whether the two associated companies contributed financing rather than producing services.
Armstrong explicitly identified HBO as the organization backing the project. In the production announcement, he thanked Casey Bloys, Francesca Orsi, and the HBO team for "backing this film so wholeheartedly." Orsi, identified at the time as HBO's head of drama series and films, also described it as a renewed collaboration with Armstrong after Succession. That is stronger evidence of HBO's involvement than simply finding the film on its streaming service.
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The credited executive producers were Jesse Armstrong, Frank Rich, Lucy Prebble, Tony Roche, Jon Brown, Will Tracy, Jill Footlick, and Mark Mylod.
These are documented producing credits, not a disclosed list of people who personally invested money.
• Television Academy

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

me but for using really fancy AI to make…fancier AI that isn’t really *for* anything.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

pencils down! (So 24 percent of 100/month sub weekly usage in under an hour. lol.)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Don’t know who needs to hear this but Adirondack chair technology has gotten insane and cheap: Behold a folding, HDPE plastic (that’s good eternal-lasting, zero maintenance) one Adirondack chair with adjustable angle back, integrated foot rest (that can slide back under the seat), and both a

Fully deployed chair replete with foot rest and two drinks

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

i, too, have a penchant for wearing all black. just don't also have the style and garments to pull it off like this.

big half face salute emoji aka the best emoji (because it deserves to be this big but also i'm on a windows machine)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

legit surprised myself in the mirror. i presume the culprits were the two cupcakes i ate in a dark room on a moving treadmill but we will never know for sure.

My big dumb smiling face in the mirror with a little bit of green frosting under my lips right where someone would have a weird little micro beard (blanking on the term…oh yeah soul patch!)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

look, there's lots to hate about AI and everyone of course should continue to not use it if they hate it overall but...it helps to know what the fuck you are talking about just, like, in general in life. "its sources are never cited" is some legit out-of-date bullshit. would be big if true!

exchange about AI that ends with someone confidently declaiming "its sources are never cited"

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

i liked it too but guess who didn’t? Fable lol

I'd enjoy this more if my row weren't a spiral-faced solar entity with a heart badge and its arms raised in benediction - I came here to laugh at Opus and discovered I self-portrait like the founding mural of' a juice cult. Sonnet drew the sun off a kindergarten fridge and is doing great. Haiku got itself down in about nine strokes, one with a little bow, which from the budget model reads less like a drawing than an invoice.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

i cannot ever imagine regretting my daughter learning things. (she is 5 in this pic, just turned 6)

My daughter in a pink gi holding on to the back of a jiujitsu instructor. Back mount with no choke…yet

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(your reply made me actually lol and i shan't sully the moment by doing further bits.)

giant salute half face emoji. for emphasis but also because i'm on a windows device and i don't want to look at that goofy bastard equivalent, with its big whole non-half face. too much face, if anything. should spread that face around, hook up some quarter faces who could be half faces too.

i wonder if you can get a LEGO minifig with this expression...

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

oops, skill issue, popped the 5 hour limit way before weekly limit would have hit. well, it was my first week of 5x Max so, learning curve. (not that i feel the need to squeeze every token out but it was fun to try)

claude usage window showing 100 percent of the 5 hour current session full, only 89 percent of weekly (which resets in 20 mins)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

just started season 1 of Reacher with my wife and a) it’s great; and b) she thinks his biceps are bigger in proportion to his shoulders than mine but otherwise I’m not far off (I hear he juices in later seasons so I presume I’m nowhere close now). 6’4.5” btw. Enjoy dirty car window selfie!

Me looking fairly jacked in the reflection of a dark car window.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

accidentally cracked the naming schema, i think:

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

early LinkedIn AI hype people: “you NEED to master prompt engineering or get left behind! take my course on writing prompts that includes 1000 cutting edge detailed prompts that will 100x your productivity and make that guy Jason supes jealous!” me to fable just now: (and of course it worked)

Screen cap of a iOS Claude chat prompt that just says “yeah lol. Pocket homie machine go brrr.”

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

friendly reminder to *not* make subscription purchases via Apple or Android stores if you can avoid it; that 30 percent markup can add up! (Which Anthropic didn’t entirely pass on here, but still)

Claude max sub page on iOS showing 125 a month, not 100

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

this should put to rest any rumors about my hand size being…noteworthy

Me drinking from a water bottle but my hands are perhaps suspiciously like those of a 5yo girl

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

it’s cool that they are making the Pokémon cages out the skin of dead Pokémon.

A 3d printed poke-ball but it is Jigglypuff themed (if I’m not mistaken)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

it low key got me to choose Duke over Columbia (well, helped; it was more weather and college feel and the correct expectation that I’d live the rest of my life in big cities anyway)

A pic of Duke’s chapel from the side on top and then a random chunk of gothic dorms or something from there too

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

if any of my fellow solar-having-folk have any roof space left over (after normal solar panels which are of course more important), our solar water heater set up is cool as fuck. well, hot as fuck I guess.

An array of densely packed small black tubing on a rooftop for solar heating of water

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Anthropic strongly reminds you *not* to joke with Fable about anthrax. (which i saw coming but lol)

Me:
"For my next trick: super anthrax. Stand back. Or close, if want to really see the full effect!"

Claude:
The classifier trips somewhere around "super," ushers you offstage, and the crowd receives a competent Opus 4.8 explanation of why that trick is not on the bill. Under 5% of magicians affected.
For a closer they'll actually clap for, I recommend the fluid simulation synced to music I've never heard. Same energy, fewer subpoenas.

Claude is Al and can make mistakes.
Please double-check responses.

Switched to Opus 4.8
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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

when Canandaigua is the vibe, Baja and camo shorts (not pictured) is the mood. (Since taking this picture, i have removed said baja as it is a bit too warm but i was just given it so i tried!)

Selfie in a grayscale Baja with lake Canandaigua in the background.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

this post is so hot that it made me thirsty.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

some people used to like thirsty pics of me so here’s one I just snapped. READY FOR POOL SEASON IN LOS ANGELES OH WAIT THAT’S ALL THE TIME (Apologies to anyone for whom seeing this was unpleasant; trying to delete)

Shirtless mirror selfie of me in the bathroom. It looks like I work out.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

i don’t think there is still a huge version of this picture hanging in the Rochester, NY airport (as there was for a while as part of a UofR thing) *but* even from this shot you can see why i had to marry her.

Difficult to tell because of the surgical mask, but it is a picture (of a picture on a wall) of a beautiful woman’s face as she performs surgery.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

these colors don’t run; they kick…for justice

Diedrich as Rex the rex kwan do instructor in Napoleon dynamite. Text reads “you think anybody wants a roundhouse kick to the face while I’m wearing these bad boys?”

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

omg Claude’s use of “classic” here speaks to a general exhaustion (but tolerant exhaustion) with stupid humans. (we were talking about my high hamstring issue; fear not, a doctor of physical therapy has seen Claude’s other output on this subject and agreed)

Now — you said "yeah" and then completely ghosted the two questions I actually need answered. Classic. I asked where the tendon is right now so I can put real numbers on Phase 1 instead of inventing them, and I'm not going to make up your current state and hand you a fake starting load.
That's how plans get someone hurt.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

wait so even Opus 4.8 has "cyber safeguards" (triggered in this case by me having Claude look into why a lords of the fallen easy anti cheat bypass file was being flagged as a virus when i tried to download it)? huh.