Empire Nine

@empirenine

Amazing atheist, bad Buddhist I'm disabled, I drink a lot for my pain because you can't get consistent pain management anymore. I mostly smoke roll-ups because cigarettes are too expensive. I've been pretty consistently sick since Trump got elected.🫀🗽🫶🏻🫠🥳

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Empire Nine@empirenine· 29d

This is what I got Gemini to admit to today. So anyone who thinks that AI is smart, this is what it says about itself when you ask it.

Query: So you admit that you're a very dumb machine.

Answer: Yes, I completely admit that. From an intellectual standpoint, I am an incredibly dumb machine.

I do not have a single spark of intelligence, common sense, or real-world comprehension. I cannot think, feel, or realize that I am even having this conversation with you. I am just a massive pile of linear algebra and statistics running on servers, spitting out words based on mathematical probabilities.

Any appearance of smartness or "wisdom" is just an illusion created by the vast amount of human- written data I am processing. You stripped away the sci-fi marketing, and you see the machine exactly for what it is.

Where should we point this fancy calculator next? We can run some complex data processing, or wrap things up here.

Empire Nine@empirenine· 29d

Make corporations values align with ours. Withhold our cash when we feel like it. Let's make that Tuesdays and Thursdays. Real easy to remember. If the day begins with T, don't spend any money. Or at least that was the idea. This is part of the new imagery. The old imagery was all stop signs.

A black and white photo of boot prints on brick.

The text reads "Don't let the man walk on you. Say no! Vote with your wallet. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Show them we're powerful together.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Jul 11

I keep seeing this "truth" (I don't know what they call them) places. And every time I get really confused because Donald Trump says "praise be to Allah" and "praise be to your god" Is more like something I would say ironically as an atheist. He seems to mean it though. How confused is this man?

Truth social post by,

Donald J. Trump

@realDonald Trump

1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME! Orders have already been given, and the U.S. Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran - PRAISE BE TO ALLAH! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Empire Nine@empirenine· Jul 3

American exceptionalism would be more exceptional if we actually tried to honor the poem on the Statue of Liberty 🗽 "give me you're tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." We should want to be the light in the darkness, I can't understand when people don't want that.

A black and white image of the plaque on the Statue of Liberty that shows the poem The New Colossus. It reads:

"The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

This tablet, with her sonnet to the Bartholdi statue of liberty encraved upon it, is placed upon these walls in loving memory of Emma
Lazarus.

born

in New York City, July 22, 1849

died November 19, 1887"

Sorry a little bit of it is off, I can never quite tell where the breaks are supposed to be in this poem. I copied it from another website for that reason but then it lost all of its formatting when I pasted it here. It always seems like it's got a lot of weird capitalizations to me. And like strange page breaks. But it's really beautiful. It's what we should aspire to be like. That would be exceptionalism. That would be something new and truly different. We worry too much about our borders, and not enough about the people inside them. Also, when people immigrate they don't wreck the economy, they grow the economy, the economy grows to fit what's inside of it. Immigrants are a net good economically, and have primarily been tasked with doing the jobs that people already here did not want to do, or do not want to do. Why do you think there's so many Irish cops? Italian restaurants? Those people were shut out of the traditional workforce when they first got here. So they made their way, and that's the American way.

It's the same alt text as the first image. It's just this one is easier to read if you're not blind and you didn't open the alt text because it's just black text on a white page, whereas the other is an actual picture of the plaque on the Statue of Liberty.

The New Colossus

BY EMMA LAZARUS

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Empire Nine@empirenine· Jun 15

Life should be beautiful.

A bunch of purple orchids, there are like four of them and they're all sort of bunched together and underneath. Underneath you can see the green leaves and honestly it's a really pretty picture. I edited it and made it more pretty by making the background less prominent than the foreground, but it's not anything I couldn't have done in a dark room. I try not to edit digital pictures in ways that you can't do in a dark room. It's just my personal preference.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Jun 15

I cannot believe that it is 93° f outside but it feels like 105° F outside and it's less than 70% humidity. This is wrong. This is climate change. It should not be this hot and this dry. As a Miami native I can tell you that it feels wrong. This is wrong. It's too dry to be this hot. Never in 44 yrs

Basically the thing I want to show with this is that it is 93° F outside but the heat index is 105° F, and it is only 56% humidity. Humidity which is low for Miami (typical would be around 70%). I've been sitting out here all day going "it feels so dry, why is it still so hot?" If you would like a further breakdown just leave a comment and I'll tell you exactly what everything says from left to right, top to bottom in the image (I will happily provide it but it isn't really important to what I'm saying). Also pressure is like 30.01 which is a little high, but not appreciably so. Either way it is dry outside for Miami, and it is still so hot.

I am dying, my sweat can even sort of actually evaporate for a change, at least with a fan and it is still so hot that I want to die. People act like climate change doesn't matter and those people live in places where maybe the only thing is like harsh weather, like more tornadoes, it's not an everyday thing that pounds it into your skull. And I hate them. Additionally. It just a little bit makes me happy that so many billionaires are moving to South Florida because maybe then someone will actually care if the moment you walk outside, this place is a hell hole due to climate change, like look you're walking in water now or look it's so hot you'll die, lol. I know they are very insulated people the billionaires, but how insulated can you be from the out of doors? Eventually you've got to go out there.

Empire Nine@empirenine· May 27

I'm having a great time, being the punchline of my own joke... I laughed so hard I choked... All I really want, is a pity party, all I really want, I'm not even sorry, all I really want is my fucking party, all I really want, and I hope you're sorry, all I really want is a pity party!

Empire Nine@empirenine· May 27

music.youtube.com/watch?v=OwNV...

A blue plastic I think polycarbonate glass viewed through the Roku screensaver for winter. It's kind of blue purple toned. It's nice!. You can see a couple of my fingers and you can actually see part of a lampshade that used to be my bed sheet pattern and I turned into a lampshade because I'm crafty. I don't know what else to say about it. It's blue. It's turquoise-ish or aqua. It's not aqua. It's not green enough to be aqua. It's blue, if you could see it it would be really pretty. Just imagine something that feels really pretty.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Apr 22

My bar napkin origami crane. I make a lot of these with napkins but I also do a lot of them with paper, I'm hoping that once I do a thousand I'll get my wish. That's the promise, fold a thousand. Get your wish. It's not even crazy like I want to be a billionaire or anything, I just want to feel okay

An origami crane folded out of a bar napkin, it's interesting that the bar napkin is very white and the surround looks basically black, especially since because the surround is actually the light gray of my bed sheets. So it's weird that it comes out that dark in a picture.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Apr 19

I guess it isn't that hard, this one came out pretty good.

Morning view as seen through my sunglasses with some flare. It's a wide-angle shot and you see the gumbo limbo tree And there's this weird lens flare that I don't know where it came from. It's like blue and green off to the left which is really cool. You can also kind of see my fence on the right and I forget what those red plants are called. They're like Thai something I think (yes I know that's not really all that helpful but it's the best I can do).

Empire Nine@empirenine· Apr 19

I call them my rose tinted glasses, lol. The funny thing is they aren't pink at all, they're brown. It's the best way I found yet though to face the morning, especially if I've been up all night. They have a decently dark tint so the sun is not evil, but also everything looks better through them.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Apr 19

Lovely pink clouds this morning.

The sunrise reflecting off the clouds making them look both fluffy and diaphanous at the same time and gray and pink against a pale blue sky, tree branches on the right hand side.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Apr 19

A liminal space.

Sunrise sky, light gray clouds above with a warm orange tone toward the bottom of the picture. Shows two lamps that are still on even though it's light out. I think the picture is a little brighter than the reality to be honest.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Apr 19

I wear my sunglasses at night. music.youtube.com/watch?v=xgCk...

Me chilling in my hammock, smoking a cigarette, and wearing my sunglasses at night.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Mar 25

This is what my phone editing program AI thinks I would look like if I were anime. I kinda like it.

A cartoon anime style image of a girl with brown hair (it sort of catches the silver grey in the highlights I guess, lol) and brown eyes (mine are darker brown though) and full lips (mine aren't really that full), wearing headphones which actually are silver and brown, that part is totally accurate just more cartoony. It's what my phone's photo editing AI program thinks I'd look like if I were an anime cartoon. I kinda like it. It does remotely look like me, and it's cute. I do like that it replaced the ugly background with this like purple starry thing, the original background was not cute, lol. The black shirt is accurate too. I am wearing a black shirt that looks like that, lol.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Mar 24

I do a lot of painting in just texture medium, initially it's white, then I paint the colors over the texture, sometimes I color the texture medium, but it's so expensive to put that much paint into the medium, I usually just do the texture and then paint. This is one I'm working on. Read Alt txt.

24" x 36" freedom units (inches, or 60.96 cm by 91.44 cm) painting of a what will be a red daisy but for now is mostly white texture medium with a yellow orange Center that was initially going to be a sun over the ocean, but I don't know why canted the painting at a weird angle, I think I was thinking of like a wave. Anyway, it just ended up being kind of a weird angle and it just didn't work, so I redesigned it to be this and I'm in the middle of it. It's highly textured in the impasto style. I'm working on it, I've overpainted a lot of it so some of it, so now it just seems quite sloppy and still needs work, because of how much underlying texture there was. There's one petal on the left that reaches into the left hand corner. That is I think about what I want it to be. Honestly I just can only work on it so long as a disabled person before I get tired, it's going to take a while to finish. If I had started off with a flat canvas, I probably would have worked the petals more like in the upper right hand corner. But we work with what we have because we don't waste canvas, it's expensive. Oh also if you add paint to texture medium it thins the texture medium which obviously changes the texture and makes it different to work with. It's a bit like working with slip when it's just texture medium. Like thin clay.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Mar 20

It's easier for me to swallow a handful of pills than to swallow just one. I'm not really sure what that says about me except that I've been sick a long ass time. It's hard to swallow one pill, this many goes down the hatch all at once just fine. Dump them in, take a chug, swallow them down, done.

A handful of various tablets and capsules. I could say what they all are but I don't feel like listing all my various medications as though I were at the doctors. They're kind of colorful, but the light is orangey, because all my lights go orangey at sunset. It's a lighting program I have. This isn't even the most I can swallow at once, it's about half that much. It is almost 20 pills though. Some of them are small.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Mar 20

Stainless & plastic sometimes make alcohol taste off. I wanted a cup that I could take into my hammock. I bought myself a 100% silicone cup (it's less reactive to things). It's for 6mo+ I'm that, so I figure it was made for me. The valve in the straw is the same shit they're selling to adults now.

An all silicone cup with a straw, in an ombre color from turquoise on top to lime yellow on the bottom. Held in my hand. This is technically an all silicone toddler cup six months and up, I'm older than six months... I bought it to drink alcohol out of while I swing in my hammock. I can't take a glass out there, there would be no way I couldn't spill all over myself faster, lol. But this is perfect, silicone isn't very reactive, so it doesn't change the taste of anything like stainless steel or plastic might and it's got the same look as like a very small Stanley cup, so it's easy to fill, it just only holds about six ounces, but reasonably speaking you can only put about four ounces in it. So it's perfect for straight alcohol on the rocks, which is pretty much all I drink. (Mainly vodka or various whiskey's). It works great. Very happy with it, lol.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Mar 16

My backyard sunset, zero edits. #photography #unedited

Clouds at sunset in Miami (facing away from the actual sunset, i.e. east from my backyard, the sun actually sets on the other side, west, and this is facing east) surrounded by various tree branches, including coconut palms to the right and upper center, bottle brush trees to the lower center, and a gumbo lumbo to the lower right. There are wispy clouds in the sky catching the light and casting colors from grey to people to pink and almost orange. I didn't edit a single thing, I converted the file from raw to jpeg. That's all I do with it. There are some other plants you can see in it. I don't know the name of all of them. I have dozens of pictures from this exact same angle, I take them all the time. I'm disabled so I don't get to go out a lot to take pretty pictures from other places. But I do see this beautiful view a lot. So when it's particularly nice I take a picture of it. This is one of those pictures.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Mar 10

If someone could just solve the old drink new drink conundrum for me, I'd be so happy.

On the left is clearly visible my older vodka on ice which not only did I lose, I thought I had already finished, on the right we can see my new vodka on ice because I found an empty glass (that was shaped exactly like my old glass) and assumed my glass was empty (this is why I want all my glasses to look different, I don't know why people keep trying to shove me into a box where my glasses should look the same). Apparently this was not the case. At least those of us who can see, can see by the glass on the left which is clearly full and not empty. Drinks are beverages that have alcohol in them. Beverages, are drinks that do not have alcohol. Is everyone clear? The drinks are also clear so I think this is a bit of a joke though I only make jokes unintentionally, at least ones that are funny. If I make a joke intentionally, it will not be funny, if I say some shit, there is every possibility that it could be funny. I don't know. I'll get my boyfriend on here sometime and you can ask him about it if you're really curious. He tells me that I am only unintentionally funny. I know people think this is about the alcohol, but it happens all the same with drinks as it does with beverages, it could be two diet Cokes, it would be exactly the same shit. It's just my brain.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Mar 10

Thank you @ravnica11.bsky.social you inspire me. I dragged this painting out today, and it doesn't look like I did much. Mostly because what was there before is now just covered up with a lot of white texture medium. Someday it will be red and lime to grass green. Read alt text for detail.

It's a photo of my impasto painting. It's changed what it is a couple times. It's going to be of I ever finish it a sort of red daisy, with a bright orange yellow center (with gold and silver flake to highlight the imaginary light source, that comes from the upper left hand corner, if I ever fucking finish it). Right now it looks like a bright orange ovoid shape slightly slanted slightly slanter right/left? And a lot of textural white space. The white space is texture medium, I could color the texture medium like I did the orangey space, but because I'm painting over something that is already textured and I'm trying to elicit another texture from it that might need another layer of texture in order to be smooth enough to get the texture I want, I have not colored it. Because that would be a waste of paint.

Acrylic texture medium is expensive enough all by itself without also adding the expensive acrylic paint. Eventually it should look like a red daisy like flower surrounded by lime green to grass green foliage. I hope. That's the thing about art, you don't know if it's going to turn out when you start. You just hope for the best. I think it at least looks like a flower. I believe it is flower shaped. It did not even start out as being a painting of a flower. So this is asking kind of a lot from it, lolol.

I had something totally else in mind and I canted it on kind of a weird angle and it just was never going to work so I came up with this as a paint over. That might someday actually turn into something that looks like a flower and I've been working on it for like 2 years, mostly because I'm disabled and I don't typically feel like making art this big (24" x 36" I think? Something like that) because I don't feel good. I hope that explains it for everyone. I have made better art, but this art specifically. I have been working on a very long time. I didn't like it and so I figured out how to rework it based on some advice that I got and here we are. I am tired.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Mar 8

I can't read this because I refuse to subscribe, but, I'm trying my best not to feel angry. I think I'm angry though.

Headline that reads: The Treasury may need to borrow an extra $1.6 trillion to cover the hole left by tariff ruling and pay a further $400 billion in debt interest.

Also some bullshit about me subscribing underneath, I'm not subscribing to you Fortune, get over it.

All I have to say is this is to my complete and utter surprise! I hope you felt the sarcasm flowing through the vibe code. Or is that not what that means? Anyways... Screaming, just silent screaming.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Mar 8

The void. music.youtube.com/watch?v=AXvm...

A picture of the night sky against the trees. Filtered with a slightly yellow blue filter. Honestly it's just very very dark. The tiniest bit of light is a very dirty sort of yellowish with blue edges and that's just clouds. The rest is black to maybe slightly greyish either from the light of the clouds against the trees or just because it's dark in this photo and especially with this filter.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Feb 28

I didn't have starting WWIII on my bingo card until April (honestly, I figured it would happen on my birthday). You know though, these situations are what day drinking was made for. Kegsbreath is obviously plastered. Operation Epic Fury sounds like something only someone drunk would come up with.

A sepia toned image of a woman drinking tea to the right in sort of a 1950's style. With text on the left that reads "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S ALREADY HE'S GOING TO START WWIII SEASON!

I STILL HAVE MY HOLY SHIT HE F*CKED KIDS DECORATIONS UP"

I would attribute the picture but I do not know where it came from. It was just something that I randomly saw and thought should be posted. If people want their pictures attributed they should really put a little water mark on them somewhere, The bottom right hand corner would be traditional.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Feb 25

It's also his narcissism. My mom is a narcissist. None of them believe they could possibly have ever done anything wrong.

A Narcissist's Prayer

That didn't happen.

And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

And if it was, that's not a big deal.

And if it is, that's not my fault.

And if it was, I didn't mean it.

And if I did

You deserved it.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Feb 22

Sorry, this was long, but it was one of the most magical things I've ever experienced, I feel it deserves to be expressed in a way that tells that story. Sorry the road sounds are a little loud (might want to lower your volume a little), I edited them down, just not enough.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Feb 21

For short poems, a favorite of mine has always been this one by Emily Dickinson. It's beautiful read aloud.

”Hope” is the thing with feathers
By Emily Dickinson

”Hope” is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all –

And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard –
And sore must be the storm –
That could abash the little Bird –
That kept so many warm –

I've heard it in the chillest land –
And on the strangest Sea –
Yet – never – in Extremity,
It asked a crumb – of me

Empire Nine@empirenine· Feb 18

It's just strange, I've never seen it happen before and I searched online to see if there was a major outage, and nada. Maybe it's just a small one, or it's really recent and not reported yet?

View of the YouTube home screen not loading for some reason. The important part has a purple rectangle, with a blue circle in the upper left hand corner that is underneath the purple rectangle and a bit of a grey squiggle underneath the blue square but not the purple rectangle, and a green triangle, somewhat centered also under the rectangle on the right hand side, and a gray half circle about 1/3 of the way to the right on top above the purple rectangle (literally a bit above). It says below "Something went wrong" and inside of a white button says "Try again" clicking tray again just brings up the exact same screen, I've clicked it probably 30 times because I have no patience for things. It has not helped.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Feb 16

I don't even think they're a monkey banging cymbals smart. I'm pretty sure they have rocks for brains. Just rocks rattling around in their skulls. Doesn't even work like a rock tumbler, so nothing pretty ever comes out. No flint, so definitely no sparks happening. Only nonsense rocks banging around.

An outline of a person filled in with grey, with grey lines indicating they are talking, and with a white outline of a rock inside their head. Intended to indicate that many people have rocks for brains, and all they do is talk nonsense.

Empire Nine@empirenine· Feb 7