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@hazelnym.bsky.social
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📖💬 i, with my inflexible platonism, / my fierce seeing of only one thing at a time: / i ruled against the indefinite article.
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improper noun @hazelnym.bsky.social · Sep 27
beware of hill climbing
graffiti on a pole which says: "which option will yield the maximum enjoyment"
hazelnym.bsky.social
which one of you vandalized the snow on my front porch demanding answers about french philosophy? serious question.

i am mostly amused, a teeny bit creeped out (affectionate), and ready to put on my best metaphysical lecturing hat for you.
January 17, 2026 at 5:12 AM
hazelnym.bsky.social
love when i try to get my glasses off my headboard in the morning but i have no depth perception because i'm not wearing my glasses and then i smoodge my fingers all over the lenses trying to pick them up
January 16, 2026 at 3:31 PM
hazelnym.bsky.social
they say that hair holds memory
my hand holding up over a foot of my green and brown hair, cut off and braided.
January 15, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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possibly getting the hang of Having Hair
a selfie of myself. my hair is very long and dark brown, dyed green and blue-ish in the front. a selfie of myself. my hair is very long and dark brown, dyed green and blue-ish in the front.
January 9, 2026 at 1:29 AM
hazelnym.bsky.social
came across @sramsay2.bsky.social's charming blog tonight. as siken beautifully says:

We have not been given all the words necessary.
We have not been given anything at all.
[...]
Is there an acceptable result?
Do we mean something when we talk?
Is it enough that we are shuddering
from the sound?
“How A led to B” is among the elemental narratives of the humanistic endeavor, and every part of that quaint, broken syllogism is a bottomless exegetical pit. What is A? What is B? What does “led to” mean? What are we even talking about? Yet as the old song puts it, “Somethin’s happenin’ here / What it is ain’t exactly clear.”
December 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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andrew.heiss.phd
Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
Will you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course in the future? No. Why won’t you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course? These tools are useful for coding (see this for my personal take on this). However, they’re only useful if you know what you’re doing first. If you skip the learning-the-process-of-writing-code step and just copy/paste output from ChatGPT, you will not learn. You cannot learn. You cannot improve. You will not understand the code. In that post, it warns that you cannot use it as a beginner: …to use Databot effectively and safely, you still need the skills of a data scientist: background and domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability. There is no LLM-based shortcut to those skills. You cannot LLM your way into domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, or coding ability. The only way to gain domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability is to struggle. To get errors. To google those errors. To look over the documentation. To copy/paste your own code and adapt it for different purposes. To explore messy datasets. To struggle to clean those datasets. To spend an hour looking for a missing comma. This isn’t a form of programming hazing, like “I had to walk to school uphill both ways in the snow and now you must too.” It’s the actual process of learning and growing and developing and improving. You’ve gotta struggle. This Tumblr post puts it well (it’s about art specifically, but it applies to coding and data analysis too): Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner’s roadblock to art isn’t even technical skill it’s frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach’s capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That’s how you build on the technical skill. Throw that “won’t even start because I’m afraid it won’t be perfect” shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck. (The original post has disappeared, but here’s a reblog.) It’s hard, but struggling is the only way to learn anything. You might not enjoy code as much as Williams does (or I do), but there’s still value in maintaining codings skills as you improve and learn more. You don’t want your skills to atrophy. As I discuss here, when I do use LLMs for coding-related tasks, I purposely throw as much friction into the process as possible: To avoid falling into over-reliance on LLM-assisted code help, I add as much friction into my workflow as possible. I only use GitHub Copilot and Claude in the browser, not through the chat sidebar in Positron or Visual Studio Code. I treat the code it generates like random answers from StackOverflow or blog posts and generally rewrite it completely. I disable the inline LLM-based auto complete in text editors. For routine tasks like generating {roxygen2} documentation scaffolding for functions, I use the {chores} package, which requires a bunch of pointing and clicking to use. Even though I use Positron, I purposely do not use either Positron Assistant or Databot. I have them disabled. So in the end, for pedagogical reasons, I don’t foresee me incorporating LLMs into this class. I’m pedagogically opposed to it. I’m facing all sorts of external pressure to do it, but I’m resisting. You’ve got to learn first.
December 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
hazelnym.bsky.social
the best cold weather comfort food
a bowl of ochazuke with salmon and mushrooms
December 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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kirby air ride. wait
ikexpastel.bsky.social iKE PASTEL @ikexpastel.bsky.social · Nov 26
I would like to know! 🤓👾
November 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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foone.bsky.social
if you love something, take it apart until you understand it, then share it with the world.
August 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
All my friends should be made to live walking distance from me. I don't care if this massively upends their lives
August 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
hazelnym.bsky.social
yinz get rad
a sticker that says yinz get rad
September 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
hazelnym.bsky.social
there is currently a state-wide 911 outage in pennsylvania. if you have an emergency, follow your county's instructions. for western PA:

* allegheny: try 911, then call (412) 473-3056

* westmoreland: bypass 911, call (724) 836-1551 directly

* butler: bypass 911, call (724) 282-1221
July 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
hazelnym.bsky.social
DC: great food, great cocktails, shitty coffee
engraved rocks glass containing a red-pink cocktail and a large ice cube with "barmini by josé andrés" on the top a selfie of me and my partner at sunset with a river and skyline behind us a bowl of ramen with lots of toppings: chashu, egg, narutomaki, scallions, corn, mushrooms, nori a rich brown cocktail with a thick layer of foam in a coupe glass
May 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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kaiju
an orange cat laying on a table staring intently at a helicopter figurine from a board game
April 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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best fine dining experience i've had in pittsburgh in years — and the best company, too ❤️
March 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
hazelnym.bsky.social
back to my correct coloration 💚
a photo of myself in a hair salon. my hair is long, past my shoulders, slightly curled, half my natural brown and half freshly-dyed green.
March 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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lydz.bsky.social
please for the love of god bring back technical writing on interesting topics i do not want the selection biases of youtube and tiktok to gatekeep who finds publishing information based on their depth of experience worthwhile
March 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
hazelnym.bsky.social
pictured: the best part of this game
a fluffy white cat curled up asleep in the upturned top of a board game box on a table where the board game is being played
February 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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is there a way to mute only reposts from someone on bsky yet?
January 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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The Boy Is Tall
January 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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do i know anyone who works at github? 👀
December 30, 2024 at 3:27 PM
hazelnym.bsky.social
5 favs, 5 tags!

game: of all time? probably diablo 2
tv show: i don't watch TV...
animal: 🐈😍 all cat
number: maybe 3, but i don't think i have a favorite
color: 💚 saturated true green

@reliarobot.bsky.social
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@mcmillen.dev
@shiradrenaline.bsky.social
@breakdown777.bsky.social
seraphiv.bsky.social SeraphIV @seraphiv.bsky.social · Dec 19
This is in no way definitive, but here we go:

Game: Tunic, since I've been loving the rando so much
TV show: The Magicians, comfort show I keep coming back to despite its need for SO many content warnings
Animal: Space Dragon. If it has to be real, Earth Kitty
Number: 1006, iykyk
Color: #ff009c
gtaichou.bsky.social GTaichou @gtaichou.bsky.social · Dec 18
5 favs + 5 tags
(uh oh...)

Game: I built my name in Dragon Age so I gotta give it credit!
TV show: lately, Taskmaster
Animal: CAT
Number: 9
Color: Seafoam, Coral, Gold

@lizzieluck.bsky.social
@calwyne.bsky.social
@theseawolf1.bsky.social
@seraphiv.bsky.social
@imanotsurugi.bsky.social
December 26, 2024 at 2:29 PM
hazelnym.bsky.social
it took me a long time to realize that i like when my life is full of beautiful things
December 5, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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big stretch
November 22, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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お点前頂戴いたします

i assisted with a chadō demonstration recently and it was exciting to be teaching & Doing Tea in public.

photo from @callingbirdphotography on IG
me in kimono drinking tea from a tea bowl
November 8, 2024 at 7:49 PM