can you spot the two frogs hiding in the ferns?

man i love spring, the bird sightings have been so good, we've had scarlet tanagers, redstarts, magnolia warblers (so cute!), orioles, indigo buntings, hummingbirds, and we have a nesting robin and a nesting wren. these are the less common ones in the yard, in addition to all the regulars 😍🥰🐦

Hey it's the book's birthday! Happy 1st Birthday to our book @alexhanna.bsky.social :) The AI Con has been out in the world for a whole year. 🎂🎂🎂 thecon.ai

Me: “I don’t think you’ll like the show I started” Partner: “no dragons?” Me: “or hobbits” Partner: “probably not then” (I’m watching Severance)

The systems that ought to be protecting us are not doing it. We have to protect ourselves and one another. Even if you don't do it in other facets of your life, please mask up when: * traveling * in health care settings * you're experiencing symptoms of airborne contagions

last week i went on a long rant to coworkers about AI being unreliable & told them not to use it when sending me info. coworker just emailed "i can't find the information so i asked copilot" & to no one's surprise the info is incorrect & the correct info is easily found by googling. i am tired.

coworker trained our department on a new software tool and is now frustrated that not everyone is understanding how to use it. they've been doing it this other way for like 20 years, but she's already ready to abandon the new tool and was irritated when i said they just need more training 😖😵‍💫

Honored to illustrate this fantasy map for Emily Renk Hawthorne’s novel “From The Depths.” Inspired by the Northern California coastline basked in moonlight with a border composed of Chinese mythological creatures.

I think that "...people have more feelings than they know what to do with" is 1 million percent the answer. We're enduring so much and being told to act like it's normal, and when art that touches our feelings arrives, it pops a huge messy bubble.

Found a free fish tank on Craigslist, my first tank isn’t even done cycling and I’m already trying to set another one 😂

Happy May Day. May this prediction come true. ✊

Coworker suggested an AI do my job if we just train it properly and omg the rant I went on no one was prepared for lol I ended it by basically saying I’m the AI here, it’s in my brain and you can’t teach a machine what’s in my brain 😩 but jfc

can't figure out how to professionally say "im not your fucking personal assistant" in a work email so i guess i gotta delete this one

I had a dream last night that I found the Libro.fm golden ticket, which is hilarious given I have never once remembered to look for it when I’m at a bookstore on IBD, including today lol, even after dreaming about it I totally forgot about it again lol

Alright I’ve had a meltdown, I’m feeling anxious, currently over caffeinating by drinking a 2nd coffee. I’m checking all the boxes for being ready to go to the bookstore lol

Indie bookstore day tomorrow and I haven’t made a plan or a list yet 🫠😬

debating if i should tell my boss im not going to be eating meals with people at this work retreat cuz i mask, or if i should just take my food to go when im there and not explain

i started a new IG for posting about my garden and pond frogs lol (muldersfishtank if you want to follow) but omg the algorithm on there is all animals and nature, so much better than my main IG. i definitely still have to train it to not show me any fucking AI though ugh

Barnes & Noble doing a "double stamps" weekend over Independent Bookstore day is real loser shit

absolutely going through it digestively taking iron pills and finally contacted my doctor only for her to remind me she actually listed alternative options if i had issues 😵‍💫 i had printed her notes even! but that part was on the 2nd page far down from the initial recommendation 😖

alright, we have a nesting robin outside my work window, which means i'm now in charge of running out and chasing sparrows away all day 😵‍💫

i gotta say, seeing there was like 25k people at BookCon and barely anyone wearing a mask has made me real depressed

Watching the animated hobbit movie this morning, my partner’s birthday weekend continues. The music in this is so good, bop and after bop

We currently have 7 frogs in our ponds!!! I think that may be a record number of frogs. Here’s one pond with 4 of them, 3 on the ground around the rocks and one on the ramp in the pond

Every streaming platform is just constant glp1 ads I am about to go back to rewatching the x files jfc

Emailed a coworker that male coworker who was sending wrong info "didn't have a clue", she replied and cc'd him on the email 😵‍💫😖 normally I'm not snarky in emails but it was a mess, so also not surprised she accidentally added him to that thread. But now I gotta prepare for his meltdown if he see it

i finished my x files rewatch last night, so i guess i have to figure out how to be a person again

I just looked at the vegan options at this work retreat I’m supposed to go to and it’s a salad wrap, like just a buncha veggies in a tortilla, not even with hummus Lolol 😩

omg, i preordered a book that had a giveaway to enter with your preorder, i thought i had forgotten to enter the giveaway and shrugged it off. well i just got an email that i won one of the prizes lol. good job past me, my grief brain forgot this happened

i have spent so much money on this fish tank that still has no fish in it 😂 but it's all prep, we are getting closer to a fully cycled tank. in the meantime i've changed my mind on what fish i'm getting basically every week so it's good i've had to wait

THE AP CALL IS IN: CHRIS TAYLOR HAS WON THE RACE FOR WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT

Wow the whiplash from “AI is going to revolutionize the world!” to “AI doesn’t work, don’t rely on it, but it’s still good for a laugh and worth every dollar of the $400B invested into it”. 🫠

my family was digging through my grandma's dishes and trying to see if they were worth anything. I was using google lens and then ebay to see what items were called and how much they were listed for. my brother in law was asking chatgpt. i was finding everything faster and with more accurate info

the weather roller coaster is really fucking with my sinuses 😵‍💫

Only read two books this month, but I watched 6 seasons of the x files. A win is a win

i dont want to work today and people keep asking me 101 questions they should know the answer to

haven't been reading much this month except detailed reddit threads from 3 years ago about fish tanks

This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event). However.... apnews.com/article/ioc-...

I had one minor inconvenience today and had to drive straight to the bookstore and buy some books

Forgot to bring a book and got my appointment a half hour early 😭🫠

sometimes to ragebait my partner i ask a really 101 question about lord of the rings and just see what happens, and he always delivers 😂 he has recently discovered he can do this to me with the x-files which has been much less fun! lol

been doing another x-files rewatch and im now at the end of season 5, which means i have to figure out when i'm going to stop watching so i don't get pissed off lol

Got plants for my fish tank, we are moving along. I’m still just perusing fish while I wait for the tank to get cycled, I need to get test strips at some point

First frog sighting of the season 😍🥹😭

Look, more stuff for the slop crowd to ignore while they demand to be called artists!

Sometimes wearing a mask makes me feel anonymous and invisible and other times it feels like a giant red arrow like ok now they’ll remember me cuz I’m the one person who always wears a mask 🥴

We don’t have universal healthcare for the same reason that white southerners poured cement into their community swimming pools rather than let their black neighbors swim in them. Racism is ruining ALL of our lives.

there's a meeting today about AI use at work and i want to go because i feel like i should know what BS they are going to say, but i also don't want to go because i know the BS is going to piss me off so much and i just don't want to be pissed off the rest of the day 😖

ok the constant drone of snow blowers is starting to get to me 😵‍💫

FUCK YES!!!! MICHAEL B. JORDAN WINS BEST ACTOR!!!!