Every time I check the news I think "oh the discourse is going to be unbearable"

The hospital requires masks from today but the pregnant woman sitting across from me in the lab waiting room has hers in her lap. What are we doingggg

Guys I made it through our two-day budget retreat and did not get fired for my passionate anti-AI polemic

It is kind of wild to me that the Brown shooter has been at large for four days and there has been no change in daily routines in the state. No sheltering in place, no shutdowns. Just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

work is making us attend the Museums and AI digital conference next year, fml, I'm about to get fired

why is printing gridlines not the excel default? who are the maniacs printing spreadsheets without gridlines

Wild when I tell a researcher we do not have x or y in a collection and show them the finding aid and then they send me half a dozen "do you have this" questions answered by my previous statement and the finding aid. I feel like I write terse af emails and I still need to be meaner

I am caterwauling with bleak laughter right now

I pulled over to pick up my coworker this morning when I saw her waiting for the bus and can only imagine how insane it looked to see me practically drive my garbage-filled vehicle into a storefront while blasting Florence and the Machine and struggling to throw my bags into the backseat

The likelihood of me quoting this at our budget retreat is HIGH

We are in budget prep mode and the guidance memo from above says that our narrative should include how we are going to use AI. Brother we are a museum. My department has been physically inventorying and moving collections for two years. What are you talking about

Trump is considering demolishing 4 historic Washington buildings, incl those that housed the Dep of Housing and VOA, per former gov official WH is independently soliciting bids to recommend demolition of the historic buildings, w/o input of the General Services Administration.

What are people using in their phones to designate emergency contacts now? Apparently I am in my dad's phone as "ICE Genna" and my mom was like you've got to change that

Literally Jesus’s parents had to flee to another country with their baby to avoid the imperial police

Abhorrent.

The cybersecurity rules at my work are getting so obnoxious that it is harder to do my job

Finding out "negative emotions" is an entry in the Art & Architecture Thesaurus is going to change my day and my archival practice

i'm taking a look at the forecast and i've decided we should cancel all work and school until Feb 1 2026, nothing pressing and we should take 6 weeks to improve vibes

Whenever I get an IG notification that someone I follow has joined Meta AI, I'm unfollowing

The documentary Jodorowsky's Dune is on Tubi and somehow this unmade adaptation is even wilder than I expected

I got my cat sardines for her birthday. Maybe all gifts should be food items

I have to do an absurd amount of mental prep to start lacing up the Docs for the day

Watching The Northman, which I haven't seen since it came out, and it really hits. It is not for everyone, but whew it is for me

Since this discourse is bouns to come up regarding some major media... iirc "death of the author" is a concept separating the author's personhood from interpretation of the work. It is not separating the author's personhood from economic & social support of their work simply because you like it

This happens every December; am so burned out & feel guilty I have no holiday cheer~. I don't want to do gifts. My decorations are at my parents' house because I had to downsize aggressively to fit into this tiny apt. I hate Christmas music after years of working retail. I want this to be quiet time

I would be so powerful if it were easier to print from the bypass tray

Has anyone noticed Netflix subtitles are getting worse? Are they using AI? It is ROUGH out here

Incredible news: as I was driving to work this morning I saw people walking a dog who was wearing a little jacket and carrying a paper bag in their mouth

I threw my phone when I got this

There's a Beowulf series on Netflix. Can it be worse than the movie? I'm going in

I want to include 🙃 even in professional emails to indicate I am a low-grade dumpster fire of a person and whatever the message is about, it's not that serious

CIA trained killer who Trump granted asylum to in April shoots 2 national guard troops at time Trump’s approval at all time low. Trump uses tragedy to ban brown people and threatens to denaturalize US citizens who criticize him. if I were a conspiracy person I’d say there is something suspicious

Ellie is behaving as if there is a critter behind the refrigerator and that is a situation on the very long list of Things I Am Not Prepared To Deal With

How Reichstag Fire are we characterizing today as being?

LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST? ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?

Cybersecurity is so strict at my place of work that I suddenly cannot use the DuckDuckGo search engine. Can I just go home

Can someone explain why most AI-generated images pain me when I look at them? It's like my whole brain has astigmatism. It's not uncanny valley because these are illustrations and I know that, but there is Something Wrong

I'm trying to find a particular vintage rail poster for my dad and people are selling awful AI posters on Etsy. I hate this

how many times do I have to tell my coworkers that I am hard of hearing so no I do not wish to talk on the phone

Every day this week feels like both Friday and Monday

I think it's funny how we abandoned "freak out" for "crash out" so abruptly

I know film heads already know this but I have stumbled on The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie on Tubi and this movie is hilarious

I'm checking in with Placebo, one of my favorite bands of my teenage years, and wow this really explains a lot about me huh

So many sentences in this piece are, to use what for me is the highest critical praise these days, absolute bangers. At "It's QAnon as computer science" I had to get up from my desk and start pacing www.danmcquillan.org/decomputing_...

Are you guys paying for extra Google storage? I don't want to and have been diligently weeding my photos, emails, and documents, but I've had this account for like 15 years and can't seem to get the amount down.

My beautiful limited-edition letterpress Ursula Le Guin book arrived today in a wet envelope and it! is! warped!

Reading an insipid little travel blog post and feeling very smug about the fact that when I go to a new place I learn the local public transportation whenever possible. People just Uber all the place apparently?

I applied for mortgage preapproval recently (was not granted enough for any real estate in this area lol) and today also got this weird unexplained credit denial/change form that I am incapable of understanding

My neighbors love to leave our front door open. My apartment is right inside said door and it is freezing because they cannot seem to use their motor skills or common sense