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a wicked and unusual boy

@myrrlyn.net

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im not a “queer ally” im a “soldier in the trans foreign legion”. also i write a semi-famous rust library. he, they, or hey. my name is alex i live in madison wokesconsin and i make kitchen appliances

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · Apr 14

look, im not saying the kind vladimir ilyich was a swiftie. that would be ludicrous. im simply saying that if taylor swift had existed at the time,

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 3h

not the beautiful thing i wanted but, nevertheless,

a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 3h

listening to the tron 2 soundtrack and boy does the stellaris soundtrack (six years later) sound exactly like it. do we just have a narrow soundscape for future computers tunes or what’s the deal here. i know paradox didn’t hire daft punk

a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

(remembering i can get fired for selling ovens) I Would Forget To Lock My Car While My Oven Is In It And I Parked Near The Substation

a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

I Will Sell Glonzo An Oven

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

even if powered refrigeration of the main fluid isn’t possible, we should still be dumping that heat into city air not the atmosphere. pipe 80degF air into my house!

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

you’d also need a heat exchanger, since a water or heavy petrochemical coolant is better in bulk than a semi volatile refrigerant is, but maybe if you’re high temping your refrigerant at like 80degC instead of 30 you have way more room in the turbine and less need of a compressor pump than i imagine

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

you’re also spending energy pumping the low pressure hot vapor into a high pressure zone so kind of a robbing peter paying paul concept here

a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

the main problem i can think of (disclaimer, failed thermo twice; reclaimer, i work at a fridge mfgr now and take notes) is that turbines really don’t like when working vapor condenses inside them. so that limits how much enthalpy can be extracted

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

huh

HUH

as far as i know there’s no thermodynamic law that requires the condenser to be a heat dump, only an enthalpy dump. the fluid just needs to be SOMEHOW colder and less pressurized on the far side

such as

by running it through a turbine

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 8h

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 7h

wait what month

a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 7h

i am constantly thinking about omelas tbh

a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 7h

i live in dane county wisconsin and have for longer than i ever spent in utah. god really wanted me to be a mormon and missed huh

a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 7h

total daily fluid intake for a median adult male is supposed to be half of that. MY baseline fluid consumption is, for a great laker, practically fremen. i used to routinely get through a day on two glasses of water and a moderate lunch!

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 7h

yes i’m stressed depressed tired and drinking too much. no i’m not an alcoholic. i don’t mean i think im “functional” or “built different”

i mean i exclusively drink a minimum of 6L of water and 1L of taco bell presents mountain dew baja blast and no other kinds of bevvie

per day

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 7h

i’m drinking too much lately because i’m stressed overworked and not sleeping enough. those three things are all interlinked, which makes em hard to detangle and work on. further complicating the matter is that i’m not an alcoholic

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 16h

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 7h

much like climate change is watching videos of natural disasters on instagram until suddenly you’re holding the phone, social decay into fascism is also that

“it’s not happening here it’s happening somewhere else” well it isn’t “else” to the people in that place is it

a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 7h

the short story “the ones who walked away from omelas” is about a city which achieves utopia by magically torturing one child, and “cracking eggs” is a euphemism for people realizing they are transgender. omelas sounds like omelettes and omelettes are made with

a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 9h

there’s no such thing as a cisgender utopia and never will be. everyone knows you can’t make an omelas without cracking a few eggs

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 9h

we tried that with getting it down to bad things never happen to (N - 1) people and everybody got mad about it

ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 11h

i think if you believe you know a way to arrange the world so bad things never happen to people, you should create a small scale model, such as a social media website where bad things never happen to people.

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 9h

☝️🤓 technically 17 is

a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 9h

it is our job to disabuse them of this notion as strongly as possible

fins @fins.bsky.social · 14h

Hispanic friend recently said 'every white supremacist thinks all other white people are just sleepers waiting to be activated' and that's gonna stick with me for a bit

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 10h

yes i am actually. your honor im with drake on this one i trust kdot to have thoroughly researched and fact checked before calling him a pedophile into the microphone bsky.app/profile/josh...

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11h

"The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content."

The forum here is a music recording, in particular a rap “diss track,” with accompanying video and album art. Diss tracks are much more akin to forums like YouTube and X, which “encourag[e] a freewheeling, anything-goes writing style,” than journalistic reporting. Sandals Resorts, 86 A.D.3d at 43 (quotation marks omitted). The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content.

a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 10h

it is tru your honor that i would never deign to compare kdot to a new york times reporter. for one thing i respect and trust kdot bsky.app/profile/josh...

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11h

"The reasonable listener of 'Not Like Us' would conclude that Lamar is rapping hyperbolic vituperations."

“Not Like Us” is replete with profanity, trash-talking, threats of violence, and figurative and hyperbolic language, all of which are indicia of opinion. A reasonable listener would not equate a song that contains lyrics such as, “Ain’t no law, boy, you ball boy, fetch Gatorade or somethin’, since 2009 I had this b**** jumpin’,” with accurate factual reporting. Accordingly, the reasonable listener of “Not Like Us” would conclude that Lamar is rapping hyperbolic vituperations.

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