Somehow... by some inexplicable miracle... my health insurance plan for next year has not increased in price. idk if the company is eating the difference or if the insurance company just didn't rise prices (legit unbelievable) but either way, not complaining.

Legal protection is part of my benefit package this year? Uh... what? I've never had a 'legal services' plan in open enrollment before. Is this a recession indicator? Like, what the fuck is this? If this is health insurance but for law there's absolutely no way this is a good service.

I'm a little bad with cross-posting twitter->bsky so this is a few days late but better late than never: 本当にありがとうございます！今年は城ヶ崎美嘉さんとるるきゃんを応援するために日本にたくさん行けて本当に感謝しています。美嘉さん、お誕生日おめでとうございます！シンデレラガールズの未来がどんなものになるとしても、これからも一緒に頂点を目指していきましょう！🎉 #城ヶ崎美嘉誕生祭2025

Ah, forgot to put the vid in my watch later and I lost it. Oh well, it'll probably turn up again. Algo knows I like new urbanism type shit. It'll be in my recommended soon enough.

Hey don't go making my town look too good buddy, I don't want a bunch of yuppies and New York expats coming over here and driving up the rent prices okay. Listen it's a post-industrial wasteland and the river is still polluted. Source: Trust me bro.

Wait what the fuck... some, I'm assuming urabnist, kind of YouTuber (though one I'm not familiar with off hand) released a video about my town. It's feels so weird seeing a video about my town man. I haven't watched it yet but it seems like it's positive so I guess my town is doing something right.

11月12日は城ヶ崎美嘉の誕生日です！ #城ヶ崎美嘉誕生日 https://idollist.idolmaster-official.jp/detail/20086

美嘉ちゃんお誕生日おめでとう*ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭*🎉 #城ヶ崎美嘉誕生祭2025 #城ヶ崎美嘉誕生日 #城ヶ崎美嘉 #生成AI不使用作品

おそらに☆きらりん また会おうにぃ～！

i... is 'Hilton Head' a perk included with your stay at a qualifying Hilton resort? Really takes the concept of room 'service' to a whole new level.

I guess if by the end of next week if there's still no progress on the shutdown or at least some kind of temporary funding for ATC then I'll contact ANA and try to implement the Canada plan. If that fails I just have to hope EWR ground, tower, and NYC area TRACON has the staff on the 27th.

I'm considering driving to/from YUL/YYZ and flying from there to HND/NRT but it requires ANA to agree to change a non-changable non-refundable booking and I need roughly the same flight times and I can't take a flight that connects through any US airports (most of them do).

I'm really kicking myself for thinking EWR would be fine to fly from for Once Upon a St@rs and MOIW since it was kind doing better by August. But now it's one of the most dysfunctional airports in the country again and getting worse and it's looking more and more like both my trips get cancelled.

Ngl, part of me thinking it makes sense to cancel, rebook flying out of Toronto and just make the 8 hour drive to Canada Wednesday night to get a Thursday morning flight. My flight's not refundable though so it'd cost like an extra $2000, not really feeling that at the moment.

Literally flying from Newark to Tokyo on Thanksgiving for CGfes... starting to have that pit form in my stomach just thinking about it. Loads of delays and ground stops and no end to the shutdown in sight... I'm only going for the weekend so if my flight gets canceled the whole trip is a wash.

まねきねこコラボの美嘉ちゃん🐱 フードの下は猫耳あるのかなー？ #生成AI不使用作品 #城ヶ崎美嘉 #illustration

Maybe if I do 30min on the stationary bike everyday and have some Omega3 it'll magically solve all my problems and I'll live to 106 when l'll push too hard trying to take a poop and immediately drop dead of a heart attack. (Apparently that's a really common cause of death for old people)

I gotta start exercising again... I'm so goddamn tired all the time, even when I get good sleep. Really does have me wondering if it's cause of the high LDL and triglyceride levels. That or it's endocrine. I should probably go back to the cardiologist, but I hate getting all the bloodwork done.

Bit of a shame that Misskey didn't take off. I kinda liked the concept. Oh well.

I heard twitter is ditching the algorithm and putting grok in charge of determining what posts to show users... which I'm sure definitely *won't* be a shitshow. Not sure if there will be another mass exodus but I should probably stop using bsky as my 'crashing the fuck out' canvas just in case.

Once my Argentinian rancher business is booming I'll start buying horses and training them so I can eventually take them to Japan and run in the Arima Kinen... that's such a good idea...

I think I wanna move to Argentina and become a cattle farmer. Feel like I'd have better prospects there.

We're uh.... we're never getting elections again in the US aren't we?

I really wanna do some major overhauls on all my devices and move away from ecosystems like Windows and stock Android in favor of open source alternatives. Plus just a general overhaul of my opsec because I got waaaay too lax with that shit.

メガホビEXPO2025 ALTER 城ヶ崎美嘉

Press [K] to kanpai respects.

This problem that has be driving me nuts for weeks was caused because I mixed up the names of two structs that define the register map for this IO expander depending on the setting of the bank bit. I'm so fucking dumb man holy shit.

Producers! Today in Japan is the 20th anniversary of the Idolm@ster series! Thank you for supporting the Idolm@ster series for the past 20 years! The series wouldn't be here without all of you. Be proud! Here's to more years to come! アイマス最高！ #idolmaster

Happy 20th Anniversary to THE IDOLM@STER series! Whether you were there from the moment it began, or discovered it somewhere along the way, thank you for being part of these 20 years! May it continue for many, many more!

My twitter TL will never be better than it is today.

Today’s the 20th anniversary of THE IDOLM@STER Series! Thank you for all the producing memories, Producers! We hope this M@STERPIECE continues to go on for each branch for many years to come! IM@S SAIKOU, and “i" MUST GO ON! #アイマス20周年おめでとう #アイマス20周年イヤー

It's nice to have a day where I'm not the one crashing out, it's literally the entire world around me crashing out. Gamers, vtuber fans, and the US gov all in meltdown. As for me, I'm pretty good. Excited to go back to Japan for NEI next week and having a chill day at work. Life is alright sometimes

You stupid dingus, I'm sending you the read opcode and the right address... just shut up and put the 0xFF in the bag... or on the MISO line

No big deal, only like $7k over my expected flight budget lol. I'm probably never going this hard again. For im@s 20th anniversary and Deresute's 10th I really made an effort to go all out. After this year I'm probably going back to 1-2 trips a year sadly. Maybe less given the unstable economy.

idr exactly what I'm up to now but I think the total flight costs so far for Deresute Osaka+Tokyo+Kanagawa, Hotchpotch 2, MaiNote Fes, and NEI total to somewhere around $11,500. Mind you I haven't even booked ML12th or the CG Memorial Live yet. The total damages will probably be close to $15k.

Shutting down the House of Representatives till September to avoid yet another vote to force the release the Epstein files.... is uh, definitely a move lol. I'm sure Mike Johnson fancies it a power move.... but it's really a weakness move. Anyway, enjoy all the civil unrest this will cause Mike.

I don't really understand why people seem to prefer vtuber drama to the real high stakes drama of the collapse of Western Democracy which is playing out every single day and has WAY higher stakes. If you tell me it's escapism I WILL post the FFTA quote.

I wish Trump wouldn't make these bs "the DOJ should look into the Democrats" comments. FFS, grow a pair. If you wanna arrest Obama and Biden on some bs charge fucking do it. The limp dick Dems need their feet held to the fire. I want to find out if Schumer is capable of more than letter writing.

Anyway, my car still needs brakes, and rather than deciding to lift and compromise my filthy otaku ways, or take my car to a mechanic and pay like 3x the cost of the parts to do the work, what's a good brand of impact wrench that can get those motherfucking nuts off?

You know, I've done my brakes before (with help)... pads, rotors, and calipers... etc. I know HOW to do them. Queue today, just me this time, ready to do full rotors/pads... go to take off tires... can't get the lug nuts off. Embarrassing. Forgot I'm a disgusting otaku that put 0 pts in STR.

It really does feel like we're living in the torment nexus man, goddamn. Please stop this ride, I want to get off.

Anyone know anyone looking for a companion for Never End Idol day 1? I gotta really unlucky with the chuusen and could only secure day 2. General sales asobiticket lagged out hard and they were all gone by the time I got in. I'm trying for resale lottery but I doubt I'll hit.

Ah, so this is what it feels like to lose a $1700 gamble... cool. It's not a total loss I guess since I have day 2 but man..... I figured 765 general sales would go quick but damn. The latency from being on the opposite side of the earth didn't help matters either.

Sometimes I wish I involved myself more with CG earlier. While I casually followed it from its inception I didn't really get serious about it till 2019-2020. I often feel like I missed much of its golden years.

Many mixed feelings today. I've mentally hardened myself for this day knowing it'd likely come around the 10th anniversary and given all the content reductions we've seen so far. Still sad to see though. I hope there's still some kind of future for Cinderella Girls.

#2025年自分が選ぶ今年上半期の4枚 下半期もたくさん描くぞ💪✨

サンカヨウと美嘉ちゃん #城ヶ崎美嘉 #imas_cg #illustration #生成AI不使用作品

Apparently it's some Windows restriction? So now I have to transfer my hundreds of gigabytes of music, video, and images to my Linux laptop and move them over from there because apparently Linux doesn't have that issue? This is so fucking stupid.

New SD card for the new phone, it's been a long time since I've transferred large volumes of data to SD manually but idr hitting path length limits on folder names before. I only get 127 bytes to name a folder? That's not long enough! Wtf!

My Galaxy A73 he served me well and will continue to see some use as my backup phone but it's battery capacity has degraded noticably so I'm jumping ship to a new phone before I get fucked over by tariffs. This time I'm going back to Motorola.