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Autumn

@aeshna-cyanea.neocities.org

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mostly chatting about atproto meta for now. 30, they/them (or she/her if you like me)

other interests:
digital archiving and pkm software
history of the soviet union, esp pre ww2
game design
cute invertebrates 🪲🦋🐝🕷️🦐🦀🐙🦑

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Autumn

@aeshna-cyanea.neocities.org

jaz answered this on discord a while back discord.com/channels/109...

screenshot of discord message:

every request you make when subscribing to 20 labelers triggers a lookup for labels from 20 potential issuers on every entity hydrated (every actor, post, list, etc.) in the API response
increasing that by an order of magnitude can blow up the amount of work done to serve requests significantly, I wouldn't rule out the limit increasing again (we've already done it once)
for now we utilize bloom filters to keep the cost of hydrating labels low (99% of the content you request doesn't have labels on it)
But those will eventually end up with lock contention if every entity hydrated requires making hundreds of lookups against the bloom filter
for instance, loading your timeline hydrates something like 100+ entities
multiply that by 200 and you're doing 20,000 label lookups per timeline page
that's something we can optimize in the future if/when we need to though
we use ScyllaDB which is great but means we don't have table joins and doing a lookup that results in a "not found" case is generally slower than looking up something that exists in our experience
so being able to short-circuit that 99% case of a label not existing is very desirable

October 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM

Autumn

@aeshna-cyanea.neocities.org

I see a hint of depravity hiding within you.
DEPRAVITY?
I have it too!
We match!
Yaaaay!

August 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM

Autumn

@aeshna-cyanea.neocities.org

Disagree. Google has lots of heuristics for when the user types in a math question (unit conversions, arithmetic) and displays a special UI that gives a precise answer. They could just improve those instead of replacing them with the slop generator

screenshot of a Google query for a unit conversion of lb to kg

August 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM

Autumn

@aeshna-cyanea.neocities.org

hey does anyone have the version of this image by @fencepostmagpie.bsky.social where the mc is bisexual and delighted instead of sad i need it urgently

cartoon of straight trans fem distraught that the cute tinder "guy" is telling her "thanks to you, I figured it out! I'm trans too". Ray also looks on while shedding a single tear. Author caption: "where have all the good men gone". In the background three girls all labeled "her old bf"

August 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM

Autumn

@aeshna-cyanea.neocities.org

screenshots attached

image with arrow button pointing github repo settings

image with arrow pointing to website field in settings dialog

August 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM

Autumn

@aeshna-cyanea.neocities.org

My general feelings on this are best summarized by the following image

panel 1- Israel telling the US "let's go. In and out. 20 minute adventure"

panel 2- Israel and the us looking very upset and a headline clipping that reads: "IDF chief warns Israelis must brace for "prolonged campaign" against Iran"

June 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM

Autumn

@aeshna-cyanea.neocities.org

> the way this reads now is like. that soviet time capsule where everyone's like 'in the 21st century i'm sure you've conquered all disease, eradicated poverty, and set out to explore space! good luck to you all!' and you just sit there like. for a minute thinking of what could have been

In child psychology, a paracosm is a mental construct developed by (often lonely) children and early teenagers. It is a fantasy world secluded from ours, featuring new words for common and novel phenomenon, intricate taxonomies of nations, animals etc. Emily Brontë had one. Henry Darger had one. Children tend to forget their paracosms as the Real World imposes its terms (around 13-15).

That did not happen to Elysium. Elysium was always going to be massive. Large enough to blot out our entire reality. Messianic. Transatlantic.

Elysium: the Crown of the World.

Elysium: the Real World is an embarrassing fantasy construct and Elysium is real.

Hence, Elysium survived contact with the Real World through competition. It had its genesis during the turn of the century as a high fantasy setting. With – I would say – “some interesting ideas.” Back then we were over the moon about it. We wrote incessantly. Mostly spells, hundreds if not thousands of them, each exactly one page. We visited Elysium via pen-and-paper role-playing, using a proprietary system that later became Disco Elysium’s Metric. “We” were a group of 5-10 highschool dropouts called The Overcoats (it was terribly cold outside and we wore thick coats), anarchists of some sort, with the motto: “Today we drink tea; tomorrow we rule the world.”

Unironically, we intended Elysium to be the vessel of this conquest.

After all – it was all we had. Truancy means vagrancy, unemployment, an assortment of mental illnesses. Seeing your friends go off to University to become “real people” and have things like a PC to play Baldur’s Gate 2 on. The need for a paracosm did not dissipate as the Aughts rolled on – it intensified. With nowhere to go and -22 centigrade temperatures outside, we knew we had to become “artist-people” of some sort to survive. Yet it was hard to write anything in this “fallen world,” as early Christians put it. The names themselves seemed compromised, a catwalk parody: London, Milan, Paris. A shudder of loathing still overtakes me as I write them.

Revachol, Mirova, La Scala del Mesque – now that I could write. An implacable air hung over the states and cities. The cold light of the mind. Grand. A quality we’ve come to call elytical. Even basic terms for everyday machinery needed to be changed to preserve this intangible quality. Motor carriage. Graffito. Sprechgesang. (What they call rapping.)

However, the version of Elysium we had then was not that. It was “Revachol, something-something, name missing, something lame.” After a year or two of spell-writing the result was deemed “weak.” Naive (which it was). We couldn’t bin it, however – it was too big to fail. So we started replacing things: names, concepts, characters. Everything smaller and

less credible than reality had to go. Circa 2002, we invented the pale. By 2005, we’d discarded medievalism, the pseudo-renaissance, and the industrial revolution, replacing it with modernity: plastic telephones, cops, communism, the international currency.

(The spells, too, had to go. A term you have yet to encounter – extraphysics – pushed them out. Magic, we realized, needed to remain a complete unknown.)

The world around us was getting larger and darker. To keep up, Elysium needed to be even larger and more terrifying. Moreover, the world that ends all worlds ought also be more beautiful than reality. More extreme. We were anarchists, after all – growing into hardboiled Marxist-Leninists on empty stomachs. The alternative need not only to outgrow, but also to outclass the Real World and its satanic complexes.

It quickly became apparent that in order to go “further than Pärnu” (Pärnu is a tiny beach town 100 kilometres from Tallinn) we needed to outdo History.

So far we’ve only managed to show you a tiny, insignificant corner of it: the district of Martinaise in Revachol West, on Insulinde. I can not begin to tell you how introductory it is. (“Disco Elysium” means “I learn Elysium”). It’s small. A matchbox world. It’s all we had money for.

Yet because of You – you angel, you legend, our comrade in arms – because of your interest in our idea, we get to see more of it. Jamrock, I hope. And then to other isolas.

Thank you. We hope you enjoy the Final Cut.

Robert Kurvitz, lead designer / lead writer
Brighton, England
December 2020

June 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM

Autumn

@aeshna-cyanea.neocities.org

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking

the hours are going by. The past increases,
the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing,
regrets mounting.

Do you understand?

[I Understand] [remain ignorant]

May 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM

Autumn

@aeshna-cyanea.neocities.org

my personal favorite

(meme with a drawing of a sea dragon SHLV)
Aborted Launch Vehicle
Sorry I couldn't send you to Mars anon...
Nixon had other plans
I could have been reusable...
there wasn't enough budget...
550 tons to LEO... could have built you a space station
hopefully BFR can replace me
would have been pretty cool to launch from the ocean

May 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM

Autumn

@aeshna-cyanea.neocities.org

Today is Moehanga Day in the United Kingdom. #Onthisday in 1806 Great Britain was discovered by Moehanga. Of course, various indigenous, white-skinned tribes had already inhabited the British Isles for thousands of years, but Moehanga was the first Māori to discover Britain. The British natives were in awe of Moehanga's tattoos and they insisted he meet their chieftain King George III.

When Moehanga arrived on the island he saw families living in primitive, damp and unsanitary conditions and a brutal society that punished almost any act of disobedience, from theft to living with gypsies, with death. The Britons were a warlike people, renowned and feared for their prowess at fighting other European tribes and even raiding and conquering lands and taking slaves on distant continents.

Today Britain is a thriving multi-cultural nation, producing a range of quality exports whilst preserving its rich heritage and traditions. Happy Moehanga Day! #OTD #Moehanga

Satellite view of Britain captioned
On 27 April 1806
Moehanga discovered Britain

April 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM

Autumn

@aeshna-cyanea.neocities.org

thinking about them again

Helltaker Syndrome
Instead of brain there is cute demon girls

March 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM

Autumn

@aeshna-cyanea.neocities.org

Apology form:
To: Charles De Gaulle
From: Europe
Date: 2025 A Year we will live in Infamy

Reason for behavior (checkbox):
The media convinced me the American global hegemony would last forever and they would protect us forever
I miss not having to spend any money on my military
I was jealous of French Superiority and Nuclear prowess
The French are Annoying
I don't know Shutting down all our Nuclear powerplants and becoming reliant on Russian gas was a bad idea
Mercury was in retrograde

I will hereby respect European Strategic Autonomy

March 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM

Autumn

@aeshna-cyanea.neocities.org

Don't forget sea slugs! There are a lot of species that reuse stinging cells from cnidarian prey for defense, and some herbivorous ones reuse chloroplasts from algae they eat for photosynthesis.