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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
this gives me reason to post my recent Sphere shot which felt very symbolic in an "we're so cooked" way
January 19, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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January 10, 2026 at 4:41 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.
December 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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!
December 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
omg and with the Base functionality, I can create a nice table view sc
December 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
beautiful sunrise over the strip this morning
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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?
December 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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-...
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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)
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
your last saved meme is your moral
philosophy
November 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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...
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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!
November 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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.
October 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
also
October 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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)
October 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
today in being competent at work
October 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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
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
August 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
hello from the fashion show at the great minnesota get together
August 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
had friends over for dinner and they are book people so our shelves got all sorts of love and attention, as is right
August 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
oops i did it* again

*lost track of time in the James Turrell installation
August 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
too bad i'm taken for good because this would be a great dating profile pic for the meat market
August 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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
August 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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?
July 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM