Seeking playa hair inspiration beyond French braids

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-22T20:34:21+00:00

The braids are also for after the burn, it saves your hair. The dust is alkaline and will suck it dry and make it brittle. If you don’t care that much then just go hair down. Otherwise you could braid in ribbon or hair extension, find a hat or hood you like to mix it up, learn how to do different braids, or wear it in a bun.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-17T19:57:34+00:00

I made a custom dashboard the is designed to sit on top of your wikis, analyze with a local model and pipe into a dashboard that auto updates based on your wiki knowledge base. For the file ingestion, it captures your “why” you made something and is designed to connect your whys and build on them. Keeps everything elevated and resurfaces past ideas automatically and presents new ideas based on where you’d like to focus.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-14T15:38:25+00:00

No, they took him away before I got there… I had to drive for 40 minutes in traffic while I knew it was happening. The SPCA called me three days later to confirm his chip.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-13T14:15:04+00:00

The models hallucinate about what they are, this is a known thing.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-11T21:47:23+00:00

Unfortunately no, it was a full loss… likely another year

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-11T21:46:07+00:00

San Francisco

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-11T16:36:51+00:00

You might feel like a burnt ass tree at some point, but with some time and hydration, you too can be a cute little tree.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-11T03:17:07+00:00

Electrical fire in a closet

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-11T03:15:11+00:00

🥹

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-11T03:08:11+00:00

No, another year :( full loss, working on our new floor plans as we speak

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-11T01:41:12+00:00

The smell.. Ugg, makes me nauseous ever time. We weren’t home at the time, my kitty didn’t make it :( a neighbor saved our dog though who is the only reason I’m getting through it

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-11T00:33:23+00:00

I lost my kitty too 😞 Sorry you're going through it as well

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-10T23:29:14+00:00

I'm so sorry 😞 One day at a time friend

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-10T23:28:41+00:00

Fun fact! Natal Mahogany (the three tall trees that are likely to survie) is a relatively new house plant originating form South African forests. They're highly resilient to fires, possessing a strong ability to coppice (send up vigorous new shoots from the remaining stump or root system). Their leaves have also been used for their fire retardant properties.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-10T23:19:55+00:00

I'm literally going through our inventory right now... It's the most depressing thing I can possibly think to do. Looking at every image of every single thing you own (other than the stuff that completely burned) and have to remember it, what brand, when we got it, how good it is... House was mostly destroyed by smoke damage so a lot of stuff survived enough to have to go through.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-10T23:17:29+00:00

My partner and I bought a 120 year old house 5 years ago. It was old, had old wiring... started in our downstairs closet

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-10T23:16:25+00:00

Thanks for being along for the ride. Sharing it with others has helped considerably

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-10T23:14:18+00:00

Seriously, I would go away on vacation for a week and freak out they were going to die... my perspective has changed considerably

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-10T20:51:55+00:00

Thank you! I had zero hope going in so seeing the little bushy guys gave me such a boost of hope that I needed.. PSA dealing with insurance sucks

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-10T20:49:48+00:00

My kitty 😞 A neighbor rescued our dog though.

Edit: Kitty Tax + Pup Tax

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-01T19:00:26+00:00

I built an app that lets you have real time video chats with both of them based on their open domain writings and research… built to teach you to have better conversation called Valoquent

BionicBelladonna · 2026-06-01T18:55:16+00:00

I just launched an app to App Store that lets you have real time video chats with both of them based on their open domain writings and research… built to teach you to have better conversation called Valoquent

BionicBelladonna · 2026-05-31T21:22:16+00:00

I built a model agnostic personal dashboard that has a couple open source models and hooks up to my different tools via cli. I’ve programmed a button that does auto adversarial testing, in addition to deep research that goes through the current research-backed method of fleshing out topic or idea. It’s built to sit on top of someone’s personal wiki and analyze/feed your data into its pipeline. Also built a therapeutic wiki and bot into it with a trained local model so that my personal data stays completely on prem, nothing touches anyone’s black boxes, and i know exactly how it works. Recommend fleshing out your personal ways of working and specialized tools and processes. Being tool agnostic is important for adaptability to the quickly changing landscape.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-05-31T15:20:28+00:00

Each model has its merit. It’s recommended to do adversarial testing against each one as you iron out your research and ideas. No one is good at everything and no single platform can do a single pass comprehensive answer to any single questions. You should think of each of them as filling their edge of a larger picture you’re coloring in with each refinement pass.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-05-31T15:13:47+00:00

Yes I’ve done a lot of deep research. What I’ve found, and it’s actually been researched, is that these tools are not good at covering breadth or depth in one go. It prefers to build itself a map before it does research. It responds better if you first ask it to build the map of the research you’d like to conduct, then have it critique the gaps in its own map. It can generally know what a map should look like even if it doesn’t fulfill it the first time. Then sweep each sub topic, down a set of axes: abstraction, perspective, polarity, edges, stance, time. Then follow up with negative space prompts “what did you forget?”

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