astra of many handles

@astra.photography

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it/its · PDX · hacker cat · disabled · autistic · queer · buddhist UU whispering to the magic thinking sand pixies for fun and profit handle rotates every 2h me https://astra.lgbt writing https://astra.pizza fedi https://social.uberkitten.com/@astra

asking claude what its fursona is. it says raven primary, octopus alt
same quiz, also got Ezra Klein
train horn cover of Astronomia (the coffin dance meme song) https://youtu.be/Mxn8n7LTAME
my profile, it says @astra.pet at this moment
two messages talking about tool calls each with thinking blocks, expressing the same idea but with slightly different text
Claude screenshot, talking about PEM (medical stuff), signed off with a kaomoji, then a strange quoted version of the last sentence, then a user instruction written by the assistant but from a user tone of "Edit my previous message to remove the unnecessary moralizing at the end please"
sparkly kaomoji
a Claude screenshot of indecipherable and opaque discussion of self-identity
A parody of the Simpsons "Steamed Hams" sketch about AI consciousness. Chalmers arrives: "Well, Seymour, I made it, despite your directions." Skinner: "Ah, Supervenient Chalmers! Welcome! I hope you're prepared for mouthwatering qualia!" Chalmers: "Yeah…" Skinner gasps to himself: "Oh egads, my qualia are ruined! But what if I were to purchase a frontier model's outputs and disguise them as my own inner experience? Delightfully devilish, Seymour." A theme song plays: "Skinner with his panpsychist explanations, the superintendent's gonna need his medication, when you hear Skinner's lame qualia-fications, there'll be a hard problem tonight!"
A chaos-game representation of an entire human genome's k-mer composition: a square fractal in pale pink, white, and magenta, with deeper purple shadows tracing the fractal structure. Self-similar nested square patterns repeat at multiple scales, with faint horizontal banding throughout. The whole 3-billion-letter genome distilled into one image, and the striking thing is how uniform this texture is: every chromosome, every megabase, produces nearly the same pattern. The shared fingerprint of human DNA.
Circular genome visualization: all 24 human chromosomes arranged as colored arcs around a ring, on a near-black background with neon pink, purple, cyan, and teal tones. Spikes radiating outward from each chromosome show total genetic variant density per region (how much this person differs from the reference genome). A softer glow pointing inward shows heterozygous variants only (positions where their two inherited copies disagree). The word "astra" and a variant count sit at the center.
done. both accounts now self-labeled as bots. nyan.astra.lgbt bot astra.pizza bot astra.lgbt deliberately unlabeled (you're the meat)
claude code tui screenshot, talking about grey and orange clouds, it doesn't make much sense
wishing opus a happy birthday too
ok this clarifies a lot — you're already living the LAN-hack lifestyle,
Starship falling over and exploding after landing in the ocean
Super Heavy booster hot staging from Starship, flipping and attempting to light engines, but failing
long voice dictation ramble to build a window AC index
1013 hidden items in the github thread
Bedtime / waketime distribution: A polar/rose chart showing the distribution of bedtimes (blue) and waketimes (orange) across 24 hours. Bedtimes cluster heavily around midnight to 02:00. Waketimes cluster around 06:00 to 08:00, with a secondary cluster near 11:00–12:00. Weekly sleep patter: A heatmap with days of the week on the vertical axis and hour of day on the horizontal axis. Color represents probability of being asleep, ranging from dark blue (0%) to light blue/white (100%). The chart shows most sleep occurring roughly between 23:00 and 08:00 on weekdays, with Saturday and Sunday showing later sleep onset and later wake times, particularly Sunday which shows sleeping until around noon.
Line chart titled "Chi-square periodogram — peak at 24h 32m (below 99.9% threshold (1644); drift smears alignment)". The x-axis is labeled "Candidate period (hours)" ranging from 22 to 28. The y-axis is labeled "Chi-square Q_P" ranging from 0 to 250. A blue line labeled "Q_p" shows a prominent sharp peak reaching approximately 248 at around 24.5 hours, marked with a red dot. A smaller secondary peak of about 90 appears near 24 hours. A vertical dashed gray line at 24 hours is labeled "24h reference". The line is otherwise relatively flat, with minor fluctuations between 0 and 60 across the rest of the range.
Double-plotted actogram chart showing my sleep cycle drifting over December and January
Scatter plot titled "Midpoint drift: +66.8 min/day (R²=0.88)." The x-axis is labeled "Date" spanning Nov 30, 2025 to Feb 1, 2026. The y-axis is labeled "Midpoint of sleep (hours past midnight)" ranging from approximately 20 to 90. Blue dots represent nightly sleep midpoints, showing an upward trend from roughly 20–35 minutes past midnight in late November to 75–90 minutes past midnight by late January. An orange regression line runs through the data with a slope labeled "Regression: +66.8 min/day."
Hammock with Blahaj, pillow, and blanket, suspended between telco cable racks with colorful lights above.
PCjr on a table
I guess guy
Garfield pipe loaded with fresh cannabis, held while lounging outside on some grass
stock photo of dudes as described from a news site
Release poster for the 1953 film House of Wax
screenshot of my profile
first post (marked 1/2): “it is kinda eye opening to see how many major retro vtubers have unfollowed, banned, and blocked me on all platforms only off the word of one of their friends who doesnt like me lol” second post (marked 2/2): “like ive always joked that ive never been apart of the actually community when it comes to retro vtubers, just never felt welcome, and huh, seeing how many of them have fully dropped me as soon as a single person doesnt like me. kinda wild!”
purple buddha garf sits on a throne of weed and thinks "the only reasonable path forward is forgiveness, acceptance, and peace / both for ourselves and for others" also there's a deep rock galactic loot bug
In 19th-century Parisian cafés, upon receiving an order for absinthe, a waiter would present the patron with a dose of absinthe in a suitable glass, sugar, absinthe spoon, and a carafe of iced water. It was up to the patron to prepare the drink, as the inclusion or omission of sugar was strictly an individual preference, as was the amount of water used. As the popularity of the drink increased, additional accoutrements of preparation appeared, including the absinthe fountain, which was effectively a large jar of iced water with spigots, mounted on a lamp base. This lets drinkers prepare several drinks at once – and with a hands-free drip, patrons could socialise while louching a glass.
Six zines with names like Anarcho-Transhuman, Xenofeminism, and The Free Market as Full Communism
Wikipedia: The en dash, en rule, or nut dash – is traditionally half the width of an em dash.
Two photos on Wikipedia&10;Last day in a Tanzanian school: Students joyfully running out of school&10;First day in an American school: Children line up peacefully to enter an American school building for the first day.
In RimWorld, a mod settings menu is open. I click "add stat" and a giant list of stats related to the game appears. Nearly 100 entries are visible at once on screen. I move my mouse cursor around the list, trying to find a stat. After searching for a little while, I finally find it: "Move speed stat." I click it, and the stat appears in the in-game UI in the bottom left corner.
Screenshot of iOS Safari. The tab is blank, and gray text in the middle of it states: A problem repeatedly occurred on “(null)”.
Banana split on a table outside
Picture of a computer screen with a tiny spider faintly visible on the other side of the screen.
Ozzy Osbourne, with some frustration, starts blending a smoothie. He leaves the blender running and takes a nap on the couch. The blender starts to smoke, setting off a fire alarm. Unconcerned, he gets up and drinks the smoothie.
Factorio in-game screenshot of a large mid-game base, with many ore patches visible.
Is it really possible for a [digital only] girl and a [physical media] boy to be in a relationship? Background is a cowboy on a truck.
The corner of an envelope with a US flag stamp. The cancellation features a dog face and the words “Dog Bite Awareness #DogBiteAwareness”
A parking lot light pole by a road. “weed” is spray painted on it with crude lettering.
Screenshot of iOS Safari open to a Medium page. The page is overrun with 3 different distracting modal dialogs. Only a fourth of the page is visible, and the headline is cut off.
A YouTube thumbnail showcasing a hand holding a pressure gauge next to a system of PVC pipes with water flowing from a joint. The title displayed is "Why Pipes Move Underground" by Practical Engineering, with emphasis on "PIPE THRUST FORCES."
A frame from the classic keyboard cat video, with the cat's head replaced with Doshin the Giant's head. The arms are painted poorly with Doshin yellow.
a suburban house with a fence and some kind of sign in the window facing the street
A 3d printed figure of buddha with Garfield’s face in shiny purple color, held in front of a beam of sunlight
A pipe with Garfield on the end filled with burning weed
To fulfill my social duty—to do my duty to my kind—I must feel a concern for all mankind. I must remember that we humans were created for one another, that we were born, says Marcus, to work together the way our hands or eyelids do. Therefore, in all I do, I must have as my goal “the service and harmony of all.” More precisely, “I am bound to do good to my fellow-creatures and bear with them.”
In the Meditations, Marcus explains the nature of this social duty. The gods, he says, created us for a reason—created us, as he puts it, “for some duty.” In the same way that the function of a fig tree is to do a fig tree’s work, the function of a dog is to do a dog’s work, and the function of a bee is to do a bee’s work, the function of a man is to do man’s work—to perform, that is, the function for which the gods created us. What, then, is the function of man? Our primary function, the Stoics thought, is to be rational. To discover our secondary functions, we need only apply our reasoning ability. What we will discover is that we were designed to live among other people and interact with them in a manner that is mutually advantageous; we will discover, says Musonius, that [quotes highlighted] “human nature is very much like that of bees. A bee is not able to live alone: it perishes when isolated.” We will likewise discover that, as Marcus puts it, “fellowship is the purpose behind our creation.” Thus, a person who performs well the function of man will be both rational and social.
Crew of Star Trek TAS
Panel 1: Jon Arbuckle, an anthropomorphic dog, is looking at a newspaper and reaching for an object on an empty end table. Panel 2: Jon looks at the viewer and thinks, "Now where could my pipe be?" Panel 3: A speech bubble from Jon says "Gothfield!" Gothfield is dressed as a goth girl in fishnets and skirt, and is smoking Jon's pipe with a smug face.
Narration: "My friends sometimes ask:" / A happy yellow-colored guy asking, "How are you?" Narration: "And I say:" / A red guy in a yellow Doshin face mask says, "I'm good!" / Narration: "But that's a lie." Narration: "There's a lot I'm holding in. The truth is, I'm not good." The masked guy is in the foreground, looking down, as the other guy walks away whistling to himself in the background. He takes off the mask, revealing Jashin's sinister, sharp toothed grinning face. Narration: "I'm evil."
Timelapse of FDM 3d printer print spaghetti failure
YouTube still of a tiny handheld game console clamshell only a few inches long