@contrasortem

And after the fire, the sound of a soft whisper.

Joined July 2026
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Starting an anti-shrimp welfare charity, where we pay vegan Effective Altruists token sums to eat unethically-farmed shrimp.
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馃@nevereatcars11h
i hated my adventure
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Replying to @BetaEstradiol
user choice is bad. I like software where a smart person/group has thought hard about the best options and has made the correct choices for me (some top-of-mind examples: fish shell, Black code formatter).
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Nail is going to be in SF soon! You should all force him to hang out with you!
Nail (SF 10/27 - 11/1)
@NailYourShoesOct 24
996 is a Chinese number used as shorthand to refer to the number of friends you should hangout with every week :)
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I believe functional programming should be safe, legal, and rare.
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most of the people i meet, drawn from their old stories, know them, and speak of them in past tense; their existence is defined more by its absence than its presence. a shape burnt unto a wall that i am unintentionally, unwittingly, and uncontrollably tracing footsteps toward.
contra sortem@contrasortemOct 23
every day i think about somebody who has left my life, probably permanently, and i miss them immensely. in all honesty, this happened a while ago; by some measure, more or less a lifetime ago. somehow, i keep finding myself haunting new spaces they've already been.
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every day i think about somebody who has left my life, probably permanently, and i miss them immensely. in all honesty, this happened a while ago; by some measure, more or less a lifetime ago. somehow, i keep finding myself haunting new spaces they've already been.
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>try to use darcs to work on friend's project >darcs is kill why are haskellers so incompetent?
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i love to waste hours half-attentively working on a single thing that would have been solved if i would have been willing to make slightly better decisions days ago
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(self-assured, not insecure at all) Hey the speed I walk through museums and art galleries is totally normal right.
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severe engineer
@severeengineerOct 22
>everyone wakes up late >everything closes early when is san francisco actually awake?
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i am an expert at vaguely dissociating on san francisco public transit
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message to the hater (severe engineer): you lost (missed out on six hours spent sleepily hanging out in san francisco international airport before a flight)
an empty airport that severe engineer didn't go to

ALT an empty airport that severe engineer didn't go to

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another thing that @severeengineer missed out on (he just keeps losing, folks)
a cat that the severe engineer didn't see

ALT a cat that the severe engineer didn't see

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message to the haters: you lost
images from an 11PM dinner severe engineer wasn't at

ALT images from an 11PM dinner severe engineer wasn't at

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can't believe @severeengineer missed another bay area function! low energy! sad!
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clocksSugars@clocksSugars25 Jan 2025
im gonna say it, i dont think first principles are real. first principles were invented by big rationalism to sell more deductions but the world doesnt come with ready made rules
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first principles thinking is incredibly powerful, but if you use it frequently you are probably a moron who hasn鈥檛 taken the the time to develop good heuristics and/or intuition.
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Replying to @contrasortem @toasterlighting
In 2023 I had finally sat down to make a "Henry Kissinger FunkoPop" after being obsessed with the ideas and he died within a couple days after I started sculpting it, very bad timing
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LOOK AT ITS LITTLE JUMP:
閬奿ng@yuingdazoOct 18
銇娿伅銈堛亯
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my girlfriend just fell asleep to me singing over the phone and i feel so immensely happy in a way i might never have felt in my life prior to this
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