winston
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fighting to make better worlds. interested in complexity, justice, knitting, books, and so much more. i have a lot of feelings, and curiosity. vulgar as fuck.
job: Principal Technical PrdMgr
site: winstonhearn.com
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site: winstonhearn.com
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· Aug 23
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the christmas carol movie on AppleTV, "Spirited," has a gag where a character cannot remember the name Tiny Tim, and throws out:
- Little Larry
- Super Small Steve
- Micro Michael
and all of these have become random punchlines in our house.
- Little Larry
- Super Small Steve
- Micro Michael
and all of these have become random punchlines in our house.
December 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
the christmas carol movie on AppleTV, "Spirited," has a gag where a character cannot remember the name Tiny Tim, and throws out:
- Little Larry
- Super Small Steve
- Micro Michael
and all of these have become random punchlines in our house.
- Little Larry
- Super Small Steve
- Micro Michael
and all of these have become random punchlines in our house.
happy holidays everyone, here's an upbeat ditty for you youtu.be/dpF1a4VKB9w?...
John Prine w/Sarah Watkins - "The Late John Garfield Blues" (Live)
YouTube video by John Prine
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
happy holidays everyone, here's an upbeat ditty for you youtu.be/dpF1a4VKB9w?...
One Headlight is a great fuckin song and I do not regret continuing to add it to playlists to this day
December 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
One Headlight is a great fuckin song and I do not regret continuing to add it to playlists to this day
sat down trying to write a year-end recap post, instead found a poem in a notebook and it seemed more apropos. so here, a poem: "time to kill god again"
www.winstonhearn.com/wrote/2025/p...
www.winstonhearn.com/wrote/2025/p...
Poem: time to kill god again
i used to believe it was required of me / to look every horror in its face
www.winstonhearn.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
sat down trying to write a year-end recap post, instead found a poem in a notebook and it seemed more apropos. so here, a poem: "time to kill god again"
www.winstonhearn.com/wrote/2025/p...
www.winstonhearn.com/wrote/2025/p...
digging through all my notebooks in the past few years and putting them into obsidian so i can turn them into real essays and this, written in like september of last year, really fuckin hurts now.
December 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
digging through all my notebooks in the past few years and putting them into obsidian so i can turn them into real essays and this, written in like september of last year, really fuckin hurts now.
just flipped through my poetry notebook and found a poem i had completely forgotten i'd started working on, and it's quite good, by my standards? that's fun
December 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
just flipped through my poetry notebook and found a poem i had completely forgotten i'd started working on, and it's quite good, by my standards? that's fun
this is very enjoyable. dads rock. bsky.app/profile/paul...
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
youtu.be/R9XN1iOungs?...
youtu.be/R9XN1iOungs?...
I Talked To 50 Dads at the Taylor Swift Eras Tour
YouTube video by DARK WEB | Paul Scheer & Rob Huebel
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
this is very enjoyable. dads rock. bsky.app/profile/paul...
hi friends, read this. Erin is working at the proper levels of abstraction; trying to find the right analogies to help us make sense of what is happening without being too prescriptive or concrete. a model of sense-making that generates more questions to help further our understanding. ❤️🔥
Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
Landslide; a ghost story
On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end o...
www.wrecka.ge
December 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
hi friends, read this. Erin is working at the proper levels of abstraction; trying to find the right analogies to help us make sense of what is happening without being too prescriptive or concrete. a model of sense-making that generates more questions to help further our understanding. ❤️🔥
have decided to reread "The Mushroom at the End of the World"; would be interested in organizing some discussion with others about it in the next month or two
December 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
have decided to reread "The Mushroom at the End of the World"; would be interested in organizing some discussion with others about it in the next month or two
did the TBR roulette and grabbed "Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge" off my shelf and omg apparently "Ecology of knowledge" is a systems theory informed theory of how knowledge works that breaks down domain silos. and has existed since the 70's! who fuckin knew! (not me)
December 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
did the TBR roulette and grabbed "Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge" off my shelf and omg apparently "Ecology of knowledge" is a systems theory informed theory of how knowledge works that breaks down domain silos. and has existed since the 70's! who fuckin knew! (not me)
i'm reading Daston & Galison's "Objectivity" and I think they are gonna confirm my hypothesis that scientific objectivity was in part born out of a belief that the world was made by an omniscient being.
if you don't start there, scientific objectivity is way over emphasized.
if you don't start there, scientific objectivity is way over emphasized.
December 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
i'm reading Daston & Galison's "Objectivity" and I think they are gonna confirm my hypothesis that scientific objectivity was in part born out of a belief that the world was made by an omniscient being.
if you don't start there, scientific objectivity is way over emphasized.
if you don't start there, scientific objectivity is way over emphasized.
Some of my favorite Letterkenny scenes for the fun of it
reminder that 11 seasons of Letterkenny exist if you need a heartwarming reminder of the human spirit for the holidays.
December 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Some of my favorite Letterkenny scenes for the fun of it
reminder that 11 seasons of Letterkenny exist if you need a heartwarming reminder of the human spirit for the holidays.
December 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
reminder that 11 seasons of Letterkenny exist if you need a heartwarming reminder of the human spirit for the holidays.
3 items obtained, no distractions, in and out in under 15. nobody fucks with the winston.
girding my loins and battening the hatches in order to brave costco on christmas eve eve
December 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
3 items obtained, no distractions, in and out in under 15. nobody fucks with the winston.
girding my loins and battening the hatches in order to brave costco on christmas eve eve
December 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
girding my loins and battening the hatches in order to brave costco on christmas eve eve
thinking of living less mas in 2026
December 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
thinking of living less mas in 2026
today it is time for my annual holiday tradition of catching up on all filing for the year. usually includes completely reorganizing everything so it looks nice too!
December 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
today it is time for my annual holiday tradition of catching up on all filing for the year. usually includes completely reorganizing everything so it looks nice too!
seeing if i still know how to cook by making some mushroom soup. my partner is like a 10x better cook than me so she doesn't really require me to do that labor much lol
December 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
seeing if i still know how to cook by making some mushroom soup. my partner is like a 10x better cook than me so she doesn't really require me to do that labor much lol
Republicans always believe that trust and respect can be demanded and expected. It is a one way street of course, literally anyone else has numerous character attributes (identity lol) that mean they can be trusted or don't deserve respect. The only answer to them is an obstinate "why?"
During today's editorial call, Bari Weiss doubled down on pulling the CECOT segment while lashing out at Sharyn Alfonsi:
"The only newsroom that I'm interested in running is one where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest and editorial matters, and do so with respect."
"The only newsroom that I'm interested in running is one where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest and editorial matters, and do so with respect."
December 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Republicans always believe that trust and respect can be demanded and expected. It is a one way street of course, literally anyone else has numerous character attributes (identity lol) that mean they can be trusted or don't deserve respect. The only answer to them is an obstinate "why?"
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In case you missed this on Friday, at @unbreaking.org we updated our trans healthcare explainer with a timeline (100+ events) and a totally rewritten explainer (20k words, 150+ footnotes) to help people understand the many diverse attacks on gender affirming care, and where they currently stand:
Transgender Healthcare: Explainer — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
December 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
In case you missed this on Friday, at @unbreaking.org we updated our trans healthcare explainer with a timeline (100+ events) and a totally rewritten explainer (20k words, 150+ footnotes) to help people understand the many diverse attacks on gender affirming care, and where they currently stand:
i have a book outlined and partially researched that theorizes trauma is learning/adaptation, and that the way it manifests at a small scale (PTSD/CPTSD) is a pattern for how it manifests at large scale. It's a systems theory view of trauma. I sure would love to write that book.
December 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
i have a book outlined and partially researched that theorizes trauma is learning/adaptation, and that the way it manifests at a small scale (PTSD/CPTSD) is a pattern for how it manifests at large scale. It's a systems theory view of trauma. I sure would love to write that book.
people in power really hate it when you continue to demand concrete information rather than abstract platitudes
December 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
people in power really hate it when you continue to demand concrete information rather than abstract platitudes
that Rian Johnson sure knows how to make a fun movie
December 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
that Rian Johnson sure knows how to make a fun movie
great day to be a degen and watch Letterkenny from the beginning
December 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
great day to be a degen and watch Letterkenny from the beginning
HOW MY BRAIN WORKS: Eve Ewing's "Original Sins" is excellent but very depressing so maybe i'll read another book for a bit... ah yeah a book called "Capitalism and the death drive"
should be lighter
should be lighter
December 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
HOW MY BRAIN WORKS: Eve Ewing's "Original Sins" is excellent but very depressing so maybe i'll read another book for a bit... ah yeah a book called "Capitalism and the death drive"
should be lighter
should be lighter