I’m doing great {{citation needed}}

Just read Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary in three days. (It’s been a while since I read a new book that quickly.) ADORED IT. Just. It made my heart happy, ESPECIALLY the ending—!!! UGH. GOOD BOOK IS GOOD.

Happy birthday, if it's your birthday. If it's not your birthday, please print this out and look at it on the right date.

A picture is still worth a thousand words, but due to AI slop, those words are all melting, illegible gibberish.

Is there a food or drink that is nostalgic for you? I'll go first: drinking Sprite (esp. out of a can) reminds me of summers and spring breaks at home. My siblings and I spent weekday mornings at our grandparents' house. When my grandmother got home from her part-time job, she took us back home.

A reminder for the nationalists out there

I am rewatching TRON: Legacy btw. (Anything’s better than Ares was, tbqh.)

They should remake TRON: Legacy but make it PG-13 so that way Sam Flynn can say “shit.” Also so someone can say “fuck.” (I haven’t decided who should get the Hypothetical Fuck. Maybe Tron? “Fuck you, I fight for the Users” sounds badass.) (then again, Tron is too much of a gentleman to say “fuck.”)

If you accidentally post AI slop and are told “hey that’s AI” the correct answer is to go “aw shit I didn’t know” and delete it. Not “oh oops oh well, watcha gonna do” and keep it up because it’s giving you engagement. Stop it.

I saw TRON: Ares this afternoon. My expectations were in the upper reaches of Hell and it only *just* cleared them. Which is to say: it sucked, but it did not ignite my incandescent rage. It just sucked, and it had absolutely nothing interesting to say about anything in the TRON universe.

"In a just world" I'm going to stop you there. This is not that world. On the other hand, this world has pizza and the just world does not, so things do balance out.

Tempting idea: use Wheel of Names to make a wheel with all the movies that I own on it. Spin the wheel. Watch that movie. Remove it from the wheel. Repeat until I have watched all the movies that I own.

Okay. I’ve listened to the TRON: Ares soundtrack, and it’s pretty good. Like, it’s definitely another good score from Reznor and Ross. But.

I have had a shitty-ass week with not getting enough sleep and not feeling good about anything and it looks like it’s going to be topped off with another evening where I look at my day and discover I have squandered its potential YET AGAIN bc my brain couldn’t work up to Actually Doing Things. UGHHH

EVERYBODY SCREAM #Art 🎨

3843 - August 16, 2025 #Titanic #EDIDtT

Okay friends and friends, crowdsourcing time: I am looking for tips on asking for Workplace Accommodations under the ADA. Specifically for: scented cleaning products affecting my allergies and asthma. My DMs will be open to discuss this topic if anyone needs more details privately.

I’ve only played @fieldsofmistria.bsky.social for five hours so far, but believe me when I say I would die for this very excellent boy.

Look I know the Steven Universe + Uncle Grandpa crossover ep is not in SU’s canon, but goddamn if it isn’t the funniest episode ever. There are so many funny lines, and Pearl’s over the top OOC-ness is hysterical. (“THAT’S NOT MY BABY” is iconic, okay??? I am not taking notes at this time.)

Rewatching Steven Universe and really enjoying it. I’m in the middle of Season 1, and having Lion 3 and Alone Together back to back is just an insanely good pairing. God I love this show.

It's me I am counting BRING ME ALL THE PUMPKINS

Superman movie GOOD.

3816 - July 20, 2025 #Titanic #EDIDtT

Watched the TRON: Ares trailer and now I'm MAD AS HELL. It really, REALLY feels like the ppl making Ares have missed the ENTIRE MOTHERFUCKING POINT of TRON. There STILL aren't enough narrative details to sell me on the story. It's just Cool Thing after Cool Thing & I don't know WHY I should CARE!!!

The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.

post a picture of when your pet was little bitty little Finn on his first day in the house!!

If you're trans I love you, and if you're looking for any glimmer of a sign from the universe to stay with us let it be this

if white Americans didn’t want Mexicans in California maybe they should not have conquered California from Mexico and then spent 150 years building up an economy entirely dependent on the flow of people and goods across the border just a thought

posting this from tumblr again because it's still relevant

Mario makes direct eye contact with you and then walks left off of the screen. He never comes back. Your console won't turn off.

You know you can just not use AI, right? You can make a choice not to be part of this. Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it. You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

Here- first teaser. Much more to come…

Donated blood today!! Also found out that today’s donation got me to my 3rd gallon donated!! I got a cool pin about it and everything! :D

WHY DO THEY KEEP ENDING THE MURDERBOT EPISODES *RIGHT BEFORE* THE THING I WANT TO SEE THE MOST???? GAHHHH I CANNOT MAKE IT ANOTHER WEEK!!!!!

3763 - May 28, 2025 #Titanic #EDIDtT

ancient friends

A little opabinia mermaid for #mermay

So I finally got to the theater to see Sinners this afternoon. Still turning it over in my head, but DAMN what a fine film. I want to see it twenty more times, please. Holy shit.

“Just calm down and let people enjoy chatgpt.” Sorry, no. I find it creepy that folks are treating a machine that mimics human speech as their friend / therapist. It is feeding you lies. It is destroying your thinking abilities. Shut it off. Talk to other humans. Go outside.

Still making my way through #DoctorWho Series 5. Watched "Vincent and the Doctor" last night, and god, what an episode. I was a DW fan through the worst of my depression, and this episode was such a balm. The Doctor's line about "a pile of good things and bad things" got me through so many bad days.

Happy Star Wars Day

In a fit of nostalgia last night, I watched "The Eleventh Hour" again, and seriously? I could write an essay about it. It's an astonishingly good hour of TV. It's got tons of plates to balance, and it juggles them with ease, using different tricks to tell its story effectively. I love it. #DoctorWho

To all the trans men who need to hear it, it is totally okay to be a man. Testosterone does not make you evil. Transitioning doesn't make you a traitor to feminism. It's not internalized misogyny. Most men are good people, even if the bad ones get the most attention. You are good.

I will say this about today's #DoctorWho - I have never, in all my time watching DW, wanted SO BADLY to reach into my TV and slap/strangle a character. That changed today. (Like, whatever, I can deal with a character going "X - DOUBT" to aliens, but this asshole made it PERSONAL. FUCK 'EM.)

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

3669 - February 23, 2025 #Titanic #EDIDtT

3732 - April 27, 2025 #Titanic #EDIDtT

Found a four-leafed clover just now!! Spotted it completely by chance while taking the dog out. 🍀🌈