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@upsilona.bsky.social
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Aspiring poet, nearly 50, autism, and other issues, Leader of expert engineers by day, dreamer, of classical history, physics, astronomy and philosophy by night. Share but please do not steal.
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upsilona.bsky.social @upsilona.bsky.social · Sep 10
The Manifesto of Sacred Autonomy We begin with silence - not absence, but respect. We do not enter uninvited. We do not touch without trust. To live ethically is to pause, to ask, to wait. The boundary is not a barrier - it is the birthplace of dignity. I. The Right to Refuse No tool, no law, no hand shall cross the threshold of another without clear, conscious welcome. Respect is restraint. Power, if it must exist, must kneel before consent. II. The Body Is Not a Negotiation This flesh, this breath, this pulse… they are not permissions to be granted. They are sovereign. Risk to self is not a crime. Safety is not a leash. III. The Ethics of Touch and Echo Every action leaves a trace. Before you move, ask: Who will feel this? If the answer is more than you, then the answer must begin with them. IV. Against the Soft Cage of Care We reject the kindness that binds. We reject the laws that love by force. We reject the systems that punish freedom and call it protection. To err is human. To choose is divine. V. A Culture of Invitation Let our technologies knock, not barge. Let our relationships ask, not assume. Let our governance listen, not command. Let our designs be doors, not traps. VI. The Path We Build We build with space. We build with choice. We build with the radical belief that freedom is not chaos… it is care, without coercion. It is love, without leash. UpsilonA
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The First Mask
Built to soothe them, worn to survive.
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December 31, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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The Violence of Visibility
On being read before being known
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December 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Bonfire of Identities
Identity burns low — comfort is the name we give the pyre.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Steak Knife
Reflections on sudden violence, memory, and the fragility of life
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December 28, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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A love poem to human evolution.

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The Lovely Girls
A love poem to human evolution.
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December 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Artificial
Why dependence, not sentience, is the real AI risk.
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December 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Ordinary Brian
Middle-class, built on misery.
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December 26, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Midwinter Mirror
a poem about what Christmas reveals, not what it should be.
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December 25, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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New poem on the changing nature of tools and the unchanging nature of people

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Tools
Tools change, human nature has not.
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December 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Carbon-neutral censorship
When erasure goes green and everyone cheers.
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December 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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That’s Adorable.
Legal Poison for the Profoundly Shallow
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December 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Where I'm at
Everything at their feet, and they still built a sewer.
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December 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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High-Functioning Abyss
Running on wreckage, wired for precision.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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New poem on masking, reflection and learned performance.

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Proof of Life
On masking, reflection, and learned performance.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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SENSEI
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December 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Thoughts on Sex after a Half Century
An unsentimental reflection on sex, status, and staying visible.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Life Raft
For the life that held me when nothing else did.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Why dependence, not sentience, is the real AI risk.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Life Raft
For the life that held me when nothing else did.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Why dependence, not sentience, is the real AI risk.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Thoughts on Sex after a Half Century
An unsentimental reflection on sex, status, and staying visible.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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SENSEI
- new poem by UpsilonA
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December 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Digital Scaffold
Someone points.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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