OH in writer chat: it's only a drawer if it pops up in front of the background elements. otherwise it's just a sparkling resizeable side panel :P

in case you were under the impression the occupation of Minneapolis was over

I was thinking "blame AI" is the new "blame the junior/new hire". But it's really so much worse, isn't it?

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... “It’s the ai’s fault!” it is not the AI’s fault. It’s your fault for choosing to continually use a hammer to handle glass and then being surprised pikachu face when things get smashed. We’ve already seen this play out multiple times. Why is ANYONE surprised?!

I can not tell you how I feel this in my bitter, black soul. I have spent the last week teaching an AI to do shit that people with a fundamental grasp of English understand. Today I had to mediate between 2 agents that were fighting about placement of information. Spoiler: both places were wrong.

It is f***ing nuts right now. "You MUST use AI in your job, by the way we're going to replace you with AI, we don't actually know what your job is or what you really do," it's like a magic circle of crap.

Project Hail Mary was just as good the second time.

Not much. Just a little hyper fixation.

Husband pulled up a “guess the spaceship” quiz and .. I did not expect to see Nell. I don’t think I’ve see that ship in 40 years and I still knew it instantly.

Purity culture, which lets be honest, has been plaguing the US in some form or another since the beginning, warps sex, making it violent or forbidden or something to be used against people. Sex, if you enjoy it, is simply part of being human. Moralizing sex fucks people up.

The core of the MAGA-GOP is not understanding the difference between apologizing for being white and being sorry for what has been and is being done in the name of whiteness (which they consider fair and “natural”).

Who could have seen this coming except literally everyone share.google/GFaMy3K2Jjlo...

Books With Pictures is wonderful, and needs some help.

Big “we vibe coded the safety features” energy www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

every freakin time.

Not just apps and software. I wasn’t joking when I said a year or so ago that I hoped everyone responsible for an important data set had a pre-2022 snapshot and a plan for how to cope with rolling back to it eventually.

coworker: do you have an example of this very specific behavior that's causing me problems with the markdown? Me: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. *30 seconds* Here, there's multiple of those in this 1500 line page lol, sob.

The right's concern with "cancel culture" is the same as their concern with everything else: They don't like it when they are not in control of it.

In other not exactly news, I read my 50 book goal for the year and I’m managing to continue. I’ve read some of Martha Wells Raksura books (because while I’m hyper focused on Murderbot, she has other works). Also just finished @scalzi.com ‘s _Old Man’s War_ which was not at all what I expected.

Today’s arts & crafts entry: a Murderbot. I printed it last week, decided today to do some painting. I don’t have a small enough brush to get the lines on the mask and chest logo. STL file here: www.printables.com/model/139315... When it’s dry, it goes on my desk. Cc @marthawells.com :)

Spotify Dj starting my Monday morning with a drinking song is such a mood.

Because the current cultural argument isn’t about sex; it’s about sex as a scoring mechanism for domination. Men who are sexually fulfilled without domination can be dismissed as lucky chads, deluded simps, doomed libertines, or any other dodge. In this conversation, “getting laid” is only a proxy.

IDK who needs to know this but... You can sing the Sesame Street song "Rubber Ducky" but change the first line to "Motherfucker, burn in hell" and it works PERFECTLY

Just got out of Fantastic Four! It was fun, did enjoy.

MUCH EXCITE. If you like Murderbot, and are looking for something to read and are down for some cozy fantasy, grab the other two of @travisbaldree.bsky.social ‘s books in this world before this one comes out in Nov :)

achievement unlocked! I managed to figure out how to cut the stickers out with the cameo! The company logo ones didn’t come out as well because it cut all the lines and I need to figure out how to just do the outside ones. But, progress! ❤️ murderbot

Cats are great! I wish this one would STOP LICKING THE CUTTING MAT.

I don’t think I put these up because I’m fighting with the cameo but I’m also playing with stickers

Trying to put a few fun things into the world because.. yeah. I made my murderbot company earrings yesterday and then said “well, uh, what next?” Then I remembered I’d made mass effect paragon/renegade coasters I could shrink down. Also, playing with chainmail stuff.

And now I have myself a set of logo earrings, because I can. The detail is a little odd just because this is small and I’m using a .4 nozzle, but anyone who can see that detail and wants to comment on it is either: standing too close, or a fellow printer nerd.

What have I been doing? Rewatching Murderbot while I do a variety of crafting stuff. Yesterday I managed to print this Company logo based off the work done by someone on a discord server I’m in.

In case anyone ever isn't sure about the ADHD, I am currently: - standing in my kitchen on my laptop, while - the shortribs are cooking in the pressure cooker (just turned it off) and - the water is heating for noodles while I: - play with Silhouette software because i want to make stickers

I have a lot of feelings and I need to go stare at a wall.

I can not overstate how excited I am. Like, how much am I enjoying the show? I put down my phone when it starts and give it my full, 100% attention. It completely serves the dopamine needs of my book-reading, memberberry loving, ADHD ass, and I will probably rewatch the series a dozen times.

Went to PDX a couple of weeks ago, and visited the Japanese garden. Took the opportunity to play with Seek (i naturalist) to play pokeplants My friends: what now? Me: Pokemon, but plants!

Wisdom teeth are stupid, getting them removed is annoying, and cats are buttheads. I’m fine, just tired and a bit sore. Two teeth removed yesterday. Ultimately the whole thing went fast and easily and I should have done it ages ago. But now it’s done.

Some of you didn’t watch/read _The Veldt_ in school and it shows. Yikes.

One of the best things about having teen/adult children is that they sometimes get into your fandoms. C is now *deeply* into Murderbot, and she's sending me random tumblr posts and other memes and it's SO AWESOME. For example: www.tumblr.com/freyadragonl...

IT IS THE ABSOLUTE FUCKING WORST.

This is incredibly problematic because it’s the first step towards also going after protest medics and jail support teams. Giving people masks when cops are launching tear gas every night is not a crime, it’s common sense protection.

Teen, reading _Network Effect_: WHAT HAPPENED TO ART. Me: oh, are you having an emotion? #murderbot

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

I'll say again: one way to think about privilege is to consider who's allowed to make mistakes (and dodge consequences), and who has to behave absolutely perfectly 100% of the time.

It's 2 pm on a tuesday, I've hit my expected totals for the week. There are multiple audio inputs coming from around the house and it's hard to focus. Clearly it's time to "just" go work on this massive cleanup I'm responsible for laaaaAAAAAAA But it means I can have music of my own with words.

OH: it's a massive step up from "there's no documentation, good luck" but if you look too closely at the pretty painting you can see that everyone's faces are melting off and the sky is full of demons #techwriting

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

These fascist dipshits keep claiming there is all kinds of violence in Los Angeles right now. At this very moment, even! Weirdly, every single local channel is running regular programming, instead of this BREAKING NEWS EVENT. It's like ... it's like the dipshits are lying, or something. Weird.

400 people in a small part of the giant LA area (10 million or so people) in a state of 30 million people, standing around with signs is hardly a “state of rebellion”.

Wrote this in the summer of 2020, definitely a good sign to be dusting it off now. "Less lethal" weapons are tools of colonial occupation marketed to police, and tools of police marketed to colonial soldiers. Anti-civilian weapons more than "less-lethal" www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

Bunch of “should-do”s on my list today. Currently working on getting the printer running after a mishap last night. Took the opportunity to recalculate e steps while I was thinking about it. But I also kinda need to leave the house for 3 different stops and I don’t wanna.