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⚪ @hillhand.com · 15h

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The Strange Origins of Vsauce

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · Sep 14

this is sickening.
fuck these fucking fuckers!

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · Sep 13

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social:

ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday.

Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events.

Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez

Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.

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RodTor @rodtorrez.bsky.social · 1d

Trump shits on America.
Trump shits on Freedom.
Trump shits on our businesses.
Trump shits on our farmers.
Trump shits on our cattlemen.
Trump shits on our neighbors, our children, on all of us.
Trump thinks it's funny, and wipes his ass with the Constitution.

Now we all know what we must do.

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Pumpkin Spice SwampLizard 🎃 @swamplizard.bsky.social · 2d

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass?

me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

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⚪ @hillhand.com · 2d

@carlbergstrom.com Curious to hear what you think about stuff like this. I like having access to this for when I'm making my little toys, but in the grand scheme it's hard to get anyone to care about a little under powered model like this.

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⚪ @hillhand.com · 2d

I designed and printed these Taasen pieces for myself forever ago: thangs.com/designer/hil...

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 4d

Reposting with alt text.

I agree wholeheartedly with this part in particular: "But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning" because no matter what you call us, we all have different abilities to deal with different things.

To the Editor:

I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body.

I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities. There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger's syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate.

For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema.

Jason Jacoby Lee

New York

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Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 4d

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

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⚪ @hillhand.com · 4d

I had a similar experience! Went to what was likely the smallest in the Vegas valley today and we still lined a whole block.

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⚪ @hillhand.com · 4d

No Kings:
- 170+ Americans detained by ICE
- Illegal EO to end birthright citizenship
- Sending troops into blue cities
- **Stupid** tariffs, AND lying about them
- Detaining students for op-eds
- Reallocating funds appropriated by Congress
- Trump administration has defied 1-in-3 judges' rulings

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⚪ @hillhand.com · 4d

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⚪ @hillhand.com · 4d

I was able to convert a GGUF version of Comma-v0.1 and get it working locally in Ollama.

This is, as far as I know, the first and still only LLM trained ONLY on ethically sourced public domain and opt-in data. I'm glad to have this for my own experiments and toys: huggingface.co/jadael/comma...

jadael/comma-v0.1-2t-GGUF · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co

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⚪ @hillhand.com · 4d

Gobbledygook voices are tragically underused.

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⚪ @hillhand.com · 5d

Separate from the Game Crafter version I'm working on which will be cut from acrylic, I also made these 3D printed pieces for my own set forever ago. I wonder if Game Crafter will end up offering 3D printed parts at some point 🤔

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 6d

One thing I wish journalists would do is, after any Republican answers a question, say "Do you think that even though Trump thinks the opposite?" and then wait for them to change their answer and then say "He didn't really say that, I just wanted to see what you'd say".

Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 6d

It is breathtaking. To hold any leadership position in this Trump Party one must surrender all of the actual qualities essential for being a true leader — perhaps most notably: backbone and a conscience. This is what having no integrity or decency looks like.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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⚪ @hillhand.com · 5d

Like to increase the power of the bass.

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⚪ @hillhand.com · 9d

Er, no, 16mm across, about the size of a Meeple. Not sure where I got 8mm lol.

⚪ @hillhand.com · 9d

Yaaaas shaped pieces are obviously the way to go. For scale, these pieces would be about 8mm across, and the board is about 7 inches along one each edge.

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⚪ @hillhand.com · 9d

It does mean there need to be little notches to hold the legs, but those notches could be repeated as a decorative element along the sides.

⚪ @hillhand.com · 9d

Alright, I think this is much closer to a final design (though I still want to try letting the different pieces be different shapes). The legs now straddle the board instead of going through a slot, so if you leave the legs off you don't have holes in the board.

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⚪ @hillhand.com · 12d

Now that I see it, using d4s as pieces for Taasen was a cute idea but look how friggin classy THIS looks:

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⚪ @hillhand.com · 13d

So I'm using d4s as the game pieces for a version of the game Taasen by Jennifer Diane Reitz, since the game has a theme of 'triangles', and that ended up looking pretty cute.

And now because there's a "bottom", I can hide a rule hint down there!

A render of a d4, the sides are light blue with a centered white glyph composed of a triangle within a crescent.

A render of a d4, the side we are looking at is black with a trio of glyphs arranged in a rock-paper-scissors style triangle with arrows showing the cycle.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · Sep 21

this place sucks, the even more overtly evil options suck, and look I don’t want to go to mastodon either, can’t we all just pick some neglected but immortal MUD or MUCK or MOOP called something like “The Realm of Soul’s Fire Online” and hang out there?

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⚪ @hillhand.com · 14d

If you know anyone that would like them, they can be ordered here: www.thegamecrafter.com/games/playsc...

Playscii Cards

A standard 54-card deck where every suit, pip, and face card is rendered in retro ASCII/ANSI art.

www.thegamecrafter.com

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⚪ @hillhand.com · 14d

Was up extra early one Sunday a few weeks ago, had an idea pop into my head, couldn't work on anything else, and had these designed and ordered from the printer later that day.

I LOVE THEM ❤️

A photo of a deck of playing cards where all the art is text/ASCII.

A photo of a deck of playing cards where all the art is text/ASCII, showing each suit has a different color (red hearts, orange diamonds, blue clubs, black spades)

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