whetstone

@whetstone

I live in Colorado, have mad fits of creativity followed by periods of somnolence, and am charmed by snakes. She/her, or whatever. Signal: whetstone.54

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whetstone@whetstone· 28d

It may be her last night, and she has dwindled to well beneath the naked-eye-visible level, but she still lives. five and a half weeks.

an almost entirely black image. the palest ghost of a light stick, no longer even reddish, is visible slightly off-center to the right

whetstone@whetstone· Jul 12

inspiring! i even have the same garam masala. did mine on untoasted fresh baguette, and added some sliced almonds for crunch.

closeup of an open-faced avocado sandwich with almond slices on one half

whetstone@whetstone· Jul 8

epic handshake meme. the arms are labeled with the flags of russia and ireland, and the clasped hands are labeled with a ladybug emoji + “god’s little cow”

whetstone@whetstone· Jul 5

Today I learned of the red-crowned roofed turtle. What a looker!

A male red-crowned roofed turtle gives the camera an intense golden-eyed glare. He has a yellow lower face, a red forehead to his snout, and blue patches extending backward from his eye. His neck is red-and-white striped. A small section of his shell is visible, also mottled red.

whetstone@whetstone· Jul 1

ok, so. i had to take a business trip, and was so sad i was going to miss its last hurrah, but i just got home and my glowstick lives. the phone’s doing the thing it does during aurorae, exaggerating something barely visible, but. three and a half weeks.

the miraculous glowstick, still red but glowing so faintly it doesn’t illuminate anything else on the table.

whetstone@whetstone· Jun 26

🙌🏻

My quiz results: 84% woke/16% chud, 39% techbro/61% neo-luddite, 48% hopepilled/52% doomer, 81% davos/19% dubai.

My closest match: Zohran Mamdani.

whetstone@whetstone· Jun 21

The fountain pen people, specifically @carlbergstrom.com, sniped me again. Sailor Manyo Shirakashi & Sailor Manyo Yamabuki. I really like them both!

an abstract design in two colors to test inks. shirakashi makes longer curves and zigzags, and yamabuki fills in with short straight lines and small dots.

whetstone@whetstone· Jun 20

i honestly cannot believe this thing. it has been TWO WEEKS. she’s very faint, but she’s still here.

a red glowstick in the darkness. it is the same glowstick. it is eternal.

whetstone@whetstone· Jun 17

A closeup of a tuxedo tabby lying on his side, his eyeliner impeccable, making intense eye contact and coquettishly curling his tail over the right side of his face.

whetstone@whetstone· Jun 11

i am just so happy. it’s been more than 4 days.

the same red glowstick in the dark, just a day later. rocky horror was saturday night. it is wednesday. it is a tiny miracle.

whetstone@whetstone· Jun 10

it has been 48 hours and this is still happening the phone exaggerates, but she’s still alive

a slightly blurry image of a red glowstick on a table in a dark room. it’s reflecting faintly off the table and some indeterminate objects nearby (not distinguishable, but for the record: an alarm clock, a lamp, and a glass of water)

whetstone@whetstone· Jun 7

A chart titled “What Kind of Jew are You?” It’s a family tree showing how various forms of religious belief have descended from Judaism. “Christian”, “Islamic,” and “Mormon” all have a star.

Bottom text reads: “The ongoing factionation of Judaism has resulted in over half of the religious belief in the world. This chart shows a sample of existing and dead factions. A star indicates yet another new prophet and an addition of new holy books.”

whetstone@whetstone· May 15

behold: my tenacious new friend! #bloomscrolling

A stem of penstemon covered in purple-violet flowers. A juniper is partially visible to the left.

whetstone@whetstone· May 2

i made a friend today

a close up of a huge red poppy shot through a white picket fence. the flower is fully open and its deep purple pollen is dusting the inside of its petals. beneath and behind it you can see its spiky leaves and an unopened bud.

whetstone@whetstone· Apr 26

this is jumping spider SLANDER

A screenshot showing that the contains Trump’s face label has been automatically applied to the two adorable jumping spider photos above.

whetstone@whetstone· Apr 20

They don’t seem real. This picture wasn’t edited, it’s just a surreal color to begin with and phone cameras overreact a bit to blue.

Looking down on an artichoke flower at dusk. It appears to be literally glowing electric purple against a tangle of dark, spiky leaves.

whetstone@whetstone· Apr 17

A comic in shades of mauve. In the top panel, a person is holding their head and saying “Oh no! The rare cherry tree grandma brought with her from the old country! It’s been chopped down!! And only a week after my new neighbor complained about it blocking his view!”

In the second panel a disembodied voice says “Tree law?” followed by a sequence of besuited people popping out from behind fences and bushes with briefcases repeating “Tree law!!”

The last panel shows the person who lost the tree, wide-eyed, being carried on the shoulders of a crowd of people with torches and pitchforks, and with a shower of bills falling from the sky. The crowd is chanting “TREE! LAW! TREE! LAW!”

whetstone@whetstone· Apr 3

whetstone@whetstone· Mar 30

It's ok to let an LLM or other machine learning system take a first pass to weed out the extremely obvious and traumatizing CSAM, gore, and violent slur-fests. There are many many questionable applications for this tech, but moderation is not one of them.