Jupiter settled down quickly last night when I left him in his bedroom. Today he was very vocal about me leaving for the gym and even tried to make a break for it. So I am moving all the unsafe stuff, blocking the stairs the best I can with a folding table, and letting him explore this afternoon.

pure genius by Enrico Faccini

corpse flower blooming!

Jupiter is home!

It is kitty gotcha day! So of course it is hurry up and complete the house projects that have been stalled for years in his room. So far we've removed the last of the tack strips. Next up is replacing outlets.

No. There are lots of books and movies to read and watch if you don't like horror.

In the "you can't make this up" category of LLM interactions... TL;DR Google Gemini claims that LLMs "often give themselves a 95%+ confidence score even when they are hallucinating" - which was itself a "hallucinated" claim - then later assigns itself 0.95 confidence in that hallucinated claim. 🧵

I’m on an long flight with internet, and if you’ve followed me for a while you know what that means: TIME TO MAKE MORE CLOCKS!

There's an old clip of Jennifer Aniston recoiling from Letterman from the 1990s that really embodies what life was like before. Even stars had to laugh at things that were humiliating to defuse situations. It's floating around on YouTube and is in the Lilith Fair documentary if you want to see it.

"I would move out of the way. I'm built different." You are built like sentient strawberry preservatives and move at the speed of a software update. The fireball would consume you in seconds. Never pour fuel over an open flame.

People from the UK are saying their visas to watch World Cup matches in the US suddenly changed from “approved” to “not authorized.”

Hi bluesky I made you a giraph ok thanks

A benefit I didn't realize I got by being a bald goth lady is when I say yes to "Do you want jalapenos in my rice bowl?" they give me a boatload of jalapeno slices. My rice bowl is delightfully mildly spicy. So much better than when other people get it for me.

I will say from now until eternity that sexual violence is *core* to the fascist project. Scratch a Totenkamf tattoo, find a guy who's okay hitting and raping women

The Chewy order of course comes the day after I pick up Jupiter. So I hit up two pet stores and have bare bones kitty supplies for the weekend. Which is good anyway as I only ordered one of many things so now I have duplicates (should have two litter boxes anyway) & can you have too many cat beds?

Hospices nurses can't be there 24/7, so family gets to pick up the slack. It sucks and you get stuck in some crappy situations. It is how I got to be the one to kick my great aunt out of my grandma's house. I was randomly visiting and she wasn't listening to the hospice nurse.

Holy shit, also the Polish climber he was working for has some explaining to do Sherpa missing for a week on Mount Everest with no food, oxygen is rescued while crawling to base camp www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/s...

It’s beautiful 🥹

RIP Marjane Satrapi

Rest In Power

Every time someone tells me I should consider a different career because my job is going to be replaced by AI

She’s so stupid. I love her so much.

Saturday, Jupiter gets to come home. This is your chance to give me links to all your kitties favorite toys, beds, treats, and whatnot. I am going to get the same brand of food and litter before trying the allergy friendly stuff, just to make things easier on him. But help me spoil this cat!

Happy pride month!

Years ago I wrote "Designing with Ketchup." Now I'm back with the sequel: Designing with Mustard. This article talks about what design is, the purpose of prototyping, "use AI or else" rhetoric, and refusing to output slop. annaecook.com/writing/2026...

Fish as fluid as the ocean. 🌊 All California sheephead start life as female and move through an array of colors and body shapes as they mature. Some female adults may transition to male as social and environmental factors shift, balancing the delicate ratio of individuals in their population.

This morning, a neighbor was kidnapped by ICE in the Corcoran neighborhood. The individual had his window broken into, and he was snatched from his car. It would be great to get more observers out today and, moving forward, it would help to be more engaged in your local areas from 6AM-8AM. 1/

Y'all. Please remember the artists that drew these things when sending around memes. I feel for these artists who NEVER get credited for these (and some, nowadays, are even being accused of being AI!) Here's a few common ones I see (feel free to add others, I want this to be a living thread): 🧵

OMG OMG OMG!!! I have been approved! I get to adopt Jupiter!

beyond this, "content" was code for created, not programmed - ie, feminine, just after droves of women web developers had lost their places in the industry in the crash it went in the boxes, it wasn't making the boxes, if you know what I mean

This sucks.

Spent a good part of the evening cleaning the doom box of a spare room so I can turn it into a kitty space. Still don't know if I got approved but it needs to be cleaned out anyway.

They’ve gone mad with power if they think they can get people to turn on Dolly.

What if for pride month I posted some of my gayest hits #art #queerart #pridemonth2026 #pridemonth #blahaj

Don't mind me being confused by this page with a div containing these two spans. <span aria-hidden="true">Randomness</span> <span class="sr-only>Randomness</span> Why would you want to do this to yourself?!?

It’s important to know (IMO) that headings can never go beyond level 9 with this feature: adrianroselli.com/2024/05/leve... And avoid pushing past 6. #accessibility #a11y #HTML

leftist content creators that don’t actually organize drive me crazy. politics aren’t something you talk about, they’re something you do. discourse without action is just noise.

Happy Pride! Today I'm so proud of all the Elder Queers, the ones who grew up deeply in the closet in the days of AIDS and made quilts and ACT-ed up and fought for the legal right to have sex (because yes, queer sex was illegal) and survived. I'm so, so, SO damn proud of you, Elder Queers.

I wrote this in 2020, about living with conspiracists in the early 10s. The only way I’ve ever known for folks to get out of conspiracies is work, and connecting with the broader world.

The city’s own data shows 2/3 of Minneapolis resident bike for some trips each year. And literally 5 people have already messaged me in the last week asking for advice on e-bikes & e cargo bikes. We are not the 1%.

Happy pride!

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE

People have been asking me if I know of a resource like StandWithMinnesota for New Jersey, and I haven't found something comprehensive. So, for the moment, I have put together all the links to NJ orgs, crowdfunding links, events, and stuck them on a page of SWM. standwithminnesota.org/jersey

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

They can never take office away from me!! Muwhahaha!!! In other news, I'm going through an old doom box.

Happy Pride! Please read and share this gift link to a column I wrote last year about Thom Higgins, a Minnesotan who coined the term gay pride. He was a real pioneer who should never be forgotten.

We need to abandon the idea that there’s any virtue in suffering when you don’t have to.

ANY PERSON this age group can get a card, whether or not they’re experiencing book bans. That’s powerful for queer young folks in small towns with no libraries or libraries with limited hours or collections, too.