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st. paul, mn

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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this gives me reason to post my recent Sphere shot which felt very symbolic in an "we're so cooked" way
the Vegas sphere emulates the sun, in front of the actual sun peaking over a distant horizon. the symbol of our civilizational foolishness attempts to replicate the only true source of wealth we have.
January 19, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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IG link: www.instagram.com/p/DTUOK_Hjrt...
Screenshot of IG post validating the information in the bluesky post
January 10, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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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.
screenshot of text that says: The US is facing an election with some extremely high stakes. One candidate wants to pursue some policies that will maintain stability and hopefully improve some people's lives. The other candidate wants to round up millions of immigrants, imprison or expel them; then rig election laws, ban trans healthcare, remove women's autonomy over their bodies, and implement policies that will bankrupt most working class Americans. The choice is between somewhat improving the status quo or immense harm to millions of humans. For anyone who sees these stakes and wants to prevent harm, the stories of what to do seem quite inadequate. Vote! Is the number one proactive thing to do. It feels like watching someone pour a bunch of gasoline on a building and seeing them clearly say "I am going to throw a match on this in two minutes" and being told the best thing to do is get a first aid kit and find some water on a map.
December 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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i wanted to learn how to tell temps in celsius and so this year i figured out that if you have two weather apps on your phone (I have Carrot and the built in one) you can flip one to celsius and add their temp widgets to your homescreen. Made learning so easy!
screenshot of an iphone homescreen showing 4 widgets, the second showing -16 celsius and the third showing -9 fahrenheit.
December 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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omg and with the Base functionality, I can create a nice table view sc
screenshot of Obsidian in dark mode with a long list of books, date added, and the folder each book is in.
December 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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beautiful sunrise over the strip this morning
shot of the sun peeking over the mountains around Vegas. in the foreground the abomination known as The Sphere is lit up with a display that looks like the sun. It is a study in contrasts between the real and the fake.
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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at the risk of venturing out of poster into reply guy, can you caption the threads embed for those of us who shan't ever dip in?
screenshot of the article showing that the threads embed has no content
December 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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i don't think this piece, with the deliciously ironic headline "What Did Men Do to Deserve This?" got nearly enough traction

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
New yorker screenshot with the text: "What some Democrats would prefer, it seems, is a centrist manosphere of their own. (One imagines a podcast studio attached to a well-appointed gym where a bunch of white guys are discussing "Abundance" over beta-alanine smoothies and doing pistol squats to the theme song from "Pod Save America.") In "Notes on—
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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thanks to the local branch of the st. paul library i have an immense stack of books to read over this holiday week (i am kid free and have no other plans)
huge stack of books in a car seat
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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your last saved meme is your moral
philosophy
a fake outline of a book with the text: How I defeated Slavery With the Power of Love by John Brown Chapter 1: The Power of Love The first step in my journey was realizing that it is impossible to defeat Slavery with the power of love. Chapter 2: The Power of Incredible Violence
November 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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catching up on anthropic's breakdown of the way their agent was used for hacking and this annoys me so fucking much www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
screenshot with the text: "At this point they had to convince Claude—which is extensively trained to avoid harmful behaviors—to engage in the attack. They did so by jailbreaking it, effectively tricking it to bypass its guardrails. They broke down their attacks into small, seemingly innocent tasks that Claude would execute without being provided the full context of their malicious purpose. They also told Claude that it was an employee of a legitimate cybersecurity firm, and was being used in defensive testing."
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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i do hope our paths cross! i seek community in this town, and i love books. here is where i sit as i type this skeet lmao
wide angle view of a curved bookshelf filled with books
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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it's ok, i get to make cozy things for my loved ones. kinda worth the energy. i am about to do my first custom pattern for alyssa!
sketch of a knitted shawl design in a notebook
November 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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my writing process looks like this now. long form drafting in one notebook. outlining and meta thinking in another. lots of marking up. all for a thing no one is asking for and i may never even publish lmao.
two notebooks laid at a slight angle across the frame. the one in the back is lined and has a full page of handwriting, mostly in blue but with comments and notes in green. the notebook in the front is a dot grid and has a lot sparser writing, with many questions.
October 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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also
Calvin and Hobbes panel. Calvin's mom says "Life could be worse, Calvin" to which he responds loudly "LIFE COULD BE A LOT BETTER TOO"
October 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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on the left, the smol in progress stack, on the right the current options available (until the 4 i ordered this week arrive look i make no apologies everything sucks and learning brings me joy)
stack of books, top to bottom: Replace the State, Davis Worlds of Exile and Illusion, le Guin Cannibal Capitalism, Fraser Known and Strange Things, Cole Revolutionary Rehearsals, Barker et al stack of books, top to bottom Ways of Being, Bridle Into the Key of Decay, Dial Who's Afraid of Gender, Butler The AI Con, Bender & Hanna Careless People, Wynn-Williams Curiosity Studies, Zurn & Shanker Rediscovering Turtle Island, Keen The July Revolution, Bonafulla Democracy in Chains, MacLean The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World, Graeber Original Sins, Ewing
October 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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today in being competent at work
screenshot with the text "lol my ability to ship projects on time with no stress sure does raise a lot of questions" "questions like 'that's possible?'" "and 'how?'"
October 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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this year we built ourselves shelves and we built enough extra to cover 1, maybe 2 years of continued acquisition
September 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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i am personally still not over the fact that James C Scott and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing were partners so i'm making memes about it as you do
a meme that says "my english teacher and my gym teacher got married" only english is crossed out and replaced with "anarchist anthropologist" and gym is crossed out and replaced with "feminist ecological anthropologist." the text is over a photo of James C Scott's Seeing Like a State and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World
August 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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hello from the fashion show at the great minnesota get together
August 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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had friends over for dinner and they are book people so our shelves got all sorts of love and attention, as is right
outside of our bookshelves showing hundreds of well organized books in a custom shelving configuration inside of our shelves with a reading nook and hundreds more books all beautifully organized
August 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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oops i did it* again

*lost track of time in the James Turrell installation
a photo from inside Sky Pesher, a James Turrell Installation which involves a room cut into a hillside with a square opening in the ceiling perfectly framing the sky
August 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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too bad i'm taken for good because this would be a great dating profile pic for the meat market
a sign says "Cute Stuff This Way" with a big painted arrow pointing to the right of the image, where a tall goofy dude stands with a shit eating grin on their face
August 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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alas, a migraine took down a team member so we are sitting out the event. but here's some photos of what we made! sorry @blackhartstp.com
derby car with a dildo on the back, painted in trans colors front of the derby car with a bedazzled vulva the ass of the derby car wearing a lacy thong
August 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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my problem these days is i get like maybe 8-10 hours a week when i could read if i'm lucky, and here's my in progress and next up stacks. all interesting!! why can't i read them all?
in progress. Capital Cannibalism, Fraser dawnhounds, stronach Mohawk Warrior Sociery, Hall Wolf Island, Mech Known and Strange Things, Cole Field Guide to Patchy Anthropocene, Tsing Solutions and Other Problems, Brosh next up: Two Cheers for Anarchism, Scott Who's Afraid of Gender, Butler Curiosity Studies Ways of Being, Bridle Replace the State, Davis Rediscovery of Turtle Island, Keen July Revolution, Bonafulla Democracy in Chains, MacLean The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World, Graeber Original Sins, Ewing
July 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM