My gender at the dentist is "biter." As in "this one is a..." They rarely need other words.

Please we are begging you

Just realized my underwear is inside out. Ah well, ain’t gonna let that stop me.

i knew it!!!!

I accidentally ran memtest instead of booting an os when the grub menu came up. Well, I guess today is memtest day. So far zero errors, not that I am anticipating any, but like kinda annoying I gotta wait for this to finish now.

At some point, the fact that *over* 1/3 of gaming workers were laid off last year, and the fact that over half a million tech workers have been laid off over the last 3 years, will have to be reckoned with as a society, instead of being swept under the rug anildash.com/2026/01/06/5...

Being allergic to corn is weird. Did you know on average 1 out of 100 people are allergic to corn? Did you know all pharmaceuticals use corn starch as a binder in pills? Did you know drug studies exclude people that are allergic to inactive ingredients like corn? Pharmaceuticals aren’t safe for us.

Glanced at my phone briefly just to have things I knew to be true for years now be publicly proven. Ah, sometimes it’s tiring being Casandra.

The most important thing in today's Epstein files may involve 4chan. In 2011, Epstein met with 4chan creator Christopher "moot" Poole; that same day, Poole launched the /pol/ board that 3 years later would be the heart of Gamergate. And Gamergate was the start of the movements that led to Jan 6. 1/

Congrats to Cider Riot in #Portland, who recently won their civil lawsuit against violent far-Right attackers who beat and hospitalized community members on May Day in 2019. The incident famously exposed far-Right grifter Andy Ngo as working with attackers. www.portlandmercury.com/news/2019/08...

worm-in-a-rock god

The air outside is so cold and humid it’s like walking through a frozen cloud. The air inside is warm but all the relative humidity abysmally low due to the temperature difference. And I’m allergic to everything. So my sinuses are very angry, it’s bloody nose season.

Alternating between sleeping and crying. Heavy shit going on in personal life, heavy shit going on at national scale. Trying not to shut down, and failing.

Fuck ICE

A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

I need a new tarot deck. One that tells me nice things, but isn’t “good vibes only”. I got four decks already. One is “only good vibes” sugar coated saccharine. One is “bad vibes only” painful truth teller. The third is missing cards. The fourth is a spinner ring I rarely understand.

to turn off Auto Play, go into your Content and Media settings, and uncheck the Autoplay button

People really called it when they said 'you're not mad that Tiktok is a surveillance tool, your mad that it's not YOUR surveillance tool.'

The Starfleet combadge should have accessibility settings so it can project ASL holograms or provide IRL subtitles

Ableist people are so fucking tiring. You can explain it to them kindly, you can explain it to them harshly, it doesn’t fucking matter because they don’t fucking care. Their cruelty is the point.

A good resource for those in Minnesota and those outside Minnesota looking for collective action opportunities iceoutforgood.org

I’m not sure where I’m going with welding. I had kinda gone in with the idea that welding could be my backup plan for when the internet dies and my coding skills are no longer relevant. But turns out the hours welders work is very not compatible with me. Early mornings, long hours. I’m too disabled.

I cut my finger in welding class yesterday (minor cut) exactly where my finger goes over the carb of my weed pipe. It’s not causing any problems, the cut is less severe than a paper cut, but it’s just a little reminder every time I take a hit. Like “oh yeah, I had fun welding last night” every time.

Shit, I have a presidential assassin in my family tree, I don't need to be told some of my ancestors are dodgy as fuck, I've known it since I was eight. Nobody has to carry the karmic debt of their ancestors, but if the wrongs they helped create still exist today, you can work to correct them.

Let’s talk about how English is a living language that changes as we use it, and that it serves us and not the other way around. Usage of a word defines its meaning, dictionaries merely record it, dictionaries are not the definitive source for English, our daily use is what defines it.

if you’re passionate about AI accountability research and enjoy working in a vibrant lab with a multi-disciplinary team but not interested in doing traditional academic work, this position might be for you

I’m ambidextrous, something rarely discussed. Usually it sounds like being ambidextrous is an advantage, and usually it is, but it does have its downsides. Each hand has to be taught a skill individually, so I have to learn things twice. And some skills do have a hand preference.

I messed up the dishwasher again, because it has so little visual indication of its status and I’m too deaf to hear its beeps and whirs, I can’t tell if it’s running or not. Too few visual indicators for one so deaf as I. I’m not even fully deaf, just half, but it’s still a struggle.

hey washington! an Opportunity

Burnout always comes from moral injury. There's maybe something important, too, about the fact that the burned-down buildings on the LES that inspired the word were also the places where the community garden movement in the United States was born. Guerrilla green spaces that still flourish today.

Another evening of welding class, it was fun. I’m not particularly good at it or bad at it, really middle of the pack in the class, which I’m cool with. I can tell I’m getting better, and it no longer startle scares me.

Sometimes when my neck is out of alignment I just grab my head with my hands and pull up until my spine straightens, kinda Baron Munchausen it ya know?

Yesterday was weird, and so I didn’t eat any enough food or drink enough caffeine or water, and my sleep schedule was fucked, so I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck. Sitting in my room crying and eating tater tots, waiting for the calories to kick in enough for my brain to reboot.

Just got back from welding class. It was fun.

discord is asking everybody about how they feel about AI. have at it folks

Nostalgia is a poison

Memorize the rules and learn to behave But when I got to school I forgot, forgot So they put me in a special classroom Where everybody is a robot, robot 🎼 🤖

I dislike when an app.

There were also not great parts of welding class though, which had nothing to do with welding. Instructor asked if anyone was afraid of getting shocked, and someone misheard it as shot. Which then got us off topic and everyone in the class agreed we are more afraid of getting shot than shocked.

Another notable thing from welding class, is that two people said they want to go into welding because they want an honest job that has minimal AI. No one in that class likes AI, and two people specifically said they are there specifically because they want to avoid AI.

My favorite part of welding class last night was when one gal said “me and my lesbian, I mean me and my girlfriend”.

This one time I figured out how to reprogram the network printer to give custom error messages. I waited until my very stoned coworker needed to print something and threw the error message along the lines of Squirrel Jammed in Tray 1. He nervously opened up the paper tray lol

So my car is broken. It’s antitheft and key system are freaking out. It thinks it’s stolen now so I can’t drive it. This car is from 2007. I crave a car without a fucking computer in it.

While setting up my new work laptop I stumbled across all of my old iTunes music. And the song Lucky (In My Life) by Eiffel 65 has gotten caught in my brain like an earworm, and I’m not complaining about it. It’s an optimistic song to have stuck in your head!

I wanna get a whole bunch of these stickers and go to Home Depot and stick them on all the shower & bath display models.

So I’m taking a welding class, starts today, at a college. So I had a dream I was back in college, of course. I dreamed I saw all my old college friends, they called me by my deadname so I told them my new name and showed them my tits.

*looks at news, closes the browser tab and walks away into the woods* Nope nope nope

Read this thread.

Kiddo to their dad: “dada, if you don’t wanna say six seven just do this with your hands and say it in your head”

I hate using our dishwashing machine because I can’t tell if it’s on or not. I can’t hear its beeps and whirrs, it’s screen is dark when the door is closed, the only way for me to tell that it’s actually running is to look for the shine of a small red LED light on the bottom I can see under it.