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ionchy

@ionchy.ca

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it's pronounced "yawn-chee" and the `i` is lowercase MSc @ SPL ∈ UBC ⊦ PhD @ PLClub ∈ UPenn asian-canadian 🇨🇦🇹🇼🇭🇰🏳️‍🌈 https://ionathan.ch

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ionchy @ionchy.ca · 18h

yeah AoE is in sixteen hours. but I'm TIRED

ionchy @ionchy.ca · 18h

whew, OOPSLA paper in, time to sleep

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Ebil @ebil.bsky.social · 2d

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ionchy @ionchy.ca · 2d

me too

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 6d

angrily slapping a person who bumped into you on the street is harmful and rude. angrily slapping the top of a wardrobe you bumped into is fine. the reason why both of these can be true is because of an advanced logical principle called "different things are not the same"

hailey @hailey.at · 6d

an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-ai critic out there, i think you’d agree - is that some of the most bigoted things are being said to respond to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing “dna” with “bits” doesn’t make it ok

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 9d

i’m completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 6d

i regret to inform you that the next 700 programming languages are going to be "types with baggage"

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 9d

I had to expunge my thoughts on Bluesky's current, uh, choppy waters into a proper blog post (which jay can't take down for being too mean or saying 'lol' in a threatening way)

azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...

Delusions of a Protocol

On vaporware as an ideological product.

azhdarchid.com

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ionchy @ionchy.ca · 13d

omg this just came out two months ago and already he has another book coming out v exciting
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23d

my new horror novel FABULOUS BODIES is out next summer. PREORDER NOW to give your future self a little treat AND support art you enjoy. preorders are SO important and all it takes is a few clicks. EXCITED FOR OUR NIGHT OF CARNAGE IN PALM SPRINGS. LETS TROT BUCKAROOS us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

blank nightfire image for FABULOUS BODIES that says 'cover to be revealed' and has nightfire publishing colophon. it is set against pool water

pool water background with book summary that reads:

From Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Bury Your Gays, comes Fabulous Bodies, a supernatural joyride where Drive meets Beetlejuice.

Fashion influencer by day and grave-robber by night, Poppy Stringer is on call when Eddie Michaels—a flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar and queer icon—unexpectedly dies. All Poppy has to do is retrieve Eddie’s body from the medical examiner’s office, but what starts as a routine delivery quickly goes off course when Eddie wakes up.

Poppy must fight for her life in a blood-soaked night of carnage and fabulous entertainment all across Palm Springs.

ionchy @ionchy.ca · 13d

it's always amusing to me when the author name is larger than the book title. my next read is Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle, better known for certain other work

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ionchy @ionchy.ca · 14d

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ionchy @ionchy.ca · 20d

banned for posting about punching nazis

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Do not promote, glorify, or incite violence against individuals or groups.

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ionchy @ionchy.ca · 20d

there goes my business idea of selling PL-themed bongs

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Controlled substances, illegal drugs, prescription medications, or drug paraphernalia.

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ionchy @ionchy.ca · 20d

posting about where you can find hemp-based THC drinks and getting banned for methods and instructions of controlled substances

Do not share methods, instructions, depictions, or promotion of dangerous stunts or abuse of dangerous or controlled substances.

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ionchy @ionchy.ca · 20d

sharing a video of two cats fighting and getting banned for animal exploitation

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Do not create, share, or promote sexual content involving real animals or realistically depicted synthetic, simulated, illustrated, or animated versions.
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These rules do not prevent you from sharing content about hunting, fishing, and other legal wildlife activities.

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antlers @cervine.online · 20d

Did I ever post this here. idk

A living machine heavily modified small utilitarian truck clambers through a dimly lit environment with industrial rubble

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ionchy @ionchy.ca · 20d

nearly there!!

200/9999
2% done with your 2025 restaurant goal
Beli @ionchy

ionchy @ionchy.ca · 20d

in the meantime I will have to make the beans I got last month last a little longer

Dukamo & Dejene
tasting notes: peach Melba, Earl Grey tea, marmalade
Origin: bona site, Ethiopia
Process: washed
Roast: light
Varietal: 74110 heirloom

ionchy @ionchy.ca · 20d

the US tariffs have finally hit my coffee beans and the only chain in Philly that stocks beans from Traffic is OUT while the beans are stuck at the border 😭

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 24d

I’ve been complaining about this site for years and saying it was bad because people would rely on it inappropriately. So having my son bring it to me is extra ironic. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/11/08/a...

A few thoughts on CSRankings.org

(Warning: nerdy inside-baseball academic blog post follows. If you’re looking for exciting crypto blogging, try back in a couple of days.) If there’s one thing that academic computer sc…

blog.cryptographyengineering.com

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 25d

Are you... are you part of the *homo-sexual underground*?

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ionchy @ionchy.ca · 25d

for the record I started replaying BEFORE the viral bullet casing engraving post

Game log on backloggd shows I started a replay on 05 September 2025

ionchy @ionchy.ca · 25d

anyway I've recently started a new run of Disco Elysium. love this game

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ionchy @ionchy.ca · 25d

Magnesium-based lifeform thought from Disco Elysium

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yoshimi red @yoshimired.bsky.social · 28d

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"

BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"

1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."

2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."

3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

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ionchy @ionchy.ca · 28d

lmao the post got sent without the video