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Hellion

@ellyzoe.bsky.social

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Multidisciplinerdy. Lit & language lover, Comp Sci PhD (AI), teacher of many subjects. Jack of all trades. Jewish hillbilly in the PNW. 🏳️‍🌈 Fix your hearts or die. she/they/elle/iel. English/Français 🌩️👀 9MDQTEGZfpxH

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · Jun 3

Time for another what-is-AI thread, because there’s a lot of confusion, seeded on purpose by shitty vulture capitalists trying to sell stuff.

AI is a legit branch of computer science with a LOT of different approaches & addressing MANY different types of problems.

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 11h

Of Batman:

“I suspect”—she put her fingers to her temples—“that if he did not have the pointy little ears he would look like a butt plug.”

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 11h

No kidding. I had never heard of this guy before, but reading the Wikipedia page, it does sound like an eventful time in the worst way.

Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 12h

Suck it, Hemingway 😉

Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 12h

Hahahaha @ finding the word “epeening” in a novel 😂😂😂

Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 16h

“Wow,” said Drew. “See praise comma faint colon damning with.”

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 16h

Hahaha before you go ham on the flours try it as is. 😂 it works perfectly as is but puffing right is always tricky!

Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 16h

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · Apr 7

I found the best hummus and pita recipes I’ve tried today (made them with falafel and garlic yogurt and roasted eggplant and chopped tomato and onion) 😍😍😍

Dark red bowl filled with oil-topped, paprika sprinkled hummus, and a big orange plate piled with literally perfectly puffed-up pitas

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 16h

Yes! the most reliable recipe I have found is yeasted—and it is literally no fail—every pocket puffs. I have found it still works ok to make it about a fifth whole grain (up the water a bit) but haven’t managed to reverse engineer it to sourdough as reliably. Timings are tricky!

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 16h

Hahahaha zackly

Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 16h

Well.. FYI I killed my 17yo kitchenaid with bread kneading 😬 so if you wanna keep it, it wouldn’t hurt to keep going by hand for anything stiff-ish.

Neither of these doughs is sourdough, but most of what I make is, usually 40-50% whole wheat. Sourdough is delicious & has scope for play. Ideal!

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 16h

Love your seasonal name btw! Perfect! 💀

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 16h

I hear it’s kind of meh on whipping, tho tbh I haven’t done any whipping since I bought it. That’s not one of my big needs (kneads?!) from a stand mixer.

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 16h

😂😂 Yeah I looked at the industrial ones but they’re so BIG and I don’t actually need that capacity; I just wanted something that could knead dough and not serve drama, and so far at least the Ooni is doing it.

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 16h

Pretty sure it can do 1500g of flour (that’s three big loaves) no problem, and maybe 2000? Not sure. But also appears to do fine on one-loaf quantities. I’m basically never making more than 4 loaves at a time.

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 16h

The first pic is arepa dough: 600g of masarepa for 8 small arepas. The second is 12 pitas/500-odd grams of flour. But I have had it stir 3# of meat plus onions/parsley/panko/egg/etc, and I have done 1000g of flour. The footprint of this mixer is approximately the same size as my 6qt kitchenaid was.

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 16h

It gracefully does a 10m knead of the pizza dough that made my old kitchenaid overheat and abruptly shut down after less than 1m—and then plays a little tune and shuts itself down politely. It has a timer!! 😍 It had no trouble with cookies OR mixing several pounds of ground meat & add-ins either. 🥳

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 16h

So the whole country is crumbling into a fetid pile of festering shit, BUT I’m thinking about important things like my brand new (well, as of August) ooni stand mixer that seems to be able to handle every dough I have thrown at it gracefully: no clanks, grinding, overheating, sudden shutdowns, etc.

The illuminated inside of the bowl of my stand mixer, which is churning arepa dough into a pretty white flower shape with its paddle attachment.

The illuminated bowl of my stand mixer, which is kneading dough for 12 pita breads with its dough hook-and-bar attachments

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16h

And this is why you simply can’t decide to ignore all the talk about ditching “the groups”.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 18h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 16h

Fantastic! Congrats!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17h

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 17h

Feels like that’s solvable by them blocking the labler?

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17h

Yup. Been saying whomever can break this story that his crew is sitting him in front of a TV while he gets his IV treatments before he has to go on TV or sign EOs is gonna save the fucking country

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 18h

I thought he wanted an external war in 2016, not a civil one 😭😭😭

Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 18h

I was trying to be “reasonable” 😭 TBH I v much feared for this (also for a ginned up excuse to start a major war, which he definitely appears to have been working towards) in 2016. It didn’t happen then but I think it will happen now if we (collectively) let it.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

this is one of the sweatiest and most desperate documents the the united states government has ever produced

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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