The in-game chat drama has given me at least the same amount of entertainment as the game itself. A true microcosm of what people will say with the screen of complete anonymity.

Everything old is new again: I listened to a gen z reinvent local live breaking news coverage: “Wouldn’t it be cool to have like, a livestream of police car chases?”

Sorry folks, Iowa’s closed.

“Wow my ankle feels great, my being careful and gym rehab must be paying off!” The congested, sneeze-addled, exhausted sense of reason: You know there’s Tylenol in that cold medicine, right?

I played WoW with an absolute muscle tank gym bro, and if anyone use the r-word in Discord he would always call them out. “Not cool bro.” “Hey dude don’t use that word.” “Fuck off with that bullshit.” We didn’t always see eye-to-eye on game stuff but I respect the hell out of him personally.

My town has holiday lights that are supposed to be stars and banners. But every time I see them my brain sees “dancing witch.” I will try to communicate my interpretation via very shitty overlay.

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

The people I would feel the need to spend $600 on already have whatever they need, and appreciate my homemade cookie box more anyway. I mean everyone gets cookies, but they especially get cookies.

The data transition from USCellular to AT&T looking a lot sus when the line that caused the first overage in years never leaves the house 🧐.

Morning thoughts about "AI". Where do we go from here?

This is the Sunday-est Friday Tuesday that ever Wednesday-ed.

Boiled and drained some cubed potatoes and onion, added milk, butter, cheese, and lentil veggie cubes and accidentally made super chunky baked potato soup. You might say this was the expected result. Nay. I went in fully convinced I was making weird, massacred mashed potatoes.

I’ve realized I have my sweatshirts sorted into 3 categories: ‘plain’, ‘generally acceptable in polite company’, and ‘feral’. Not because I don’t wear the ‘ferals’ in public, but easier to grab a vibe than a specific one. To no one’s surprise, the ‘feral’ pile is much larger.

I am going out in public in real pants, styled hair, makeup, and contacts for the first time in a very long time, and even I am thinking I need to inform the church.

Seller: We don’t ship to PO Boxes give us your street address. Me: The PO Box is the final point for all mail. We don’t get mail at the house. [gives street address and asks to include PO] S: We don’t do PO Boxes, we will only ship it to the street address. Package: Gets delivered to the PO Box 🤦

It is deeply entertaining that the photos from the White House today show an enthralled fanboy Trump and Mamdani smirking a nearly audible “Get a load of this schmuck.”

If I had to see this unprecedented combination of words then you do too.

@kathryntewson.bsky.social Unsure how best to ask, do you know of reviews of AI legal software that aren’t hype pieces? Work’s testing a contract review one w/ a gpt base & want to go armed w/ criticisms, but 3rd party/AI-skeptic reviews seem impossible to find. Thank you & thank you for all you do!

i went out to dinner with this guy and this is what he texted me immediately after … whatever happened to “nice to meet you”

Never skipping arms at the gym while also working on violin bow technique is a potent combo.

Made “chocolate cake” chia seed pudding with low expectations. Figured I’d probably hate it, with a small chance of loving it. It is somehow firmly in the “meh, it’s fine I guess.”

Two of the 5 don’t use it at all, that I’ve ever seen. Two use it normally. One stances on it like she doesn’t trust it all but does technically use it in the most bizarre way possible. Lightweight clay litter I’ve found is best. I wish sawdust worked better in it. Still worth it.

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

“Your AI-powered Mental Health Chatbot.” Excuse me? Have you read any of the news lately?

I get that it’s a CLE and if it was too short I wouldn’t get my hours. But a CLE on ChatGPT and attorney ethics should be someone saying “just fucking don’t” and then staring at the camera saying “seriously, no” every five minutes for the following hour.

My office has a couple guys in other departments that’s coworker has started to refer to as Big Mark and Sub Mark and I cannot stop tittering like a child when she does.

Related, because I've been sitting on this for years, but if you're a Good Omens writer please know that Chateauneuf-du-Pape is not a particular wine but instead a wine region located in the south of France. They're particularly noted for red wines but CdP can also be white. CdP is especially noted-

Apparently at a certain stage of hunger I go from “snack aisle” hungry to “eat a fruit” hungry. Went to Costco and walked out with apples, bananas, plums, and grapes. (and a bag of mini Dubai chocolate bars but let’s look past that.)

We have finally arrived at the “it feels normal” phase, time to implement the “strengthen and rehabilitate without screwing it all up and having to start over” phase…

Kids soccer cleats! Retail $275! Description: See photos, 2 left shoes

The thing about getting a “good job” from the dentist is now I feel like I have a reputation to keep up.

Gonna connect some more dots here and say that the loss of right-to-repair has also resulted in the loss of pride and self-worth associated with fixing something on your own. Brought to you by me being able to troubleshoot and fix my robot vacuum with parts available to me directly.

“Sir. Please. You have a lap, I’m just not petting you. It’s not like I’m violating the Geneva Convention here.” Him- Liar, straight to jail.

The fun conundrum of “is my eczema flare because of stress or the fact I swapped soaps, or both?” Both are equally likely and any lotion or cream will only make it even worse….

red aurora said: what if all 3 at once “Aurorae are said to have foretold the death of Julius Caesar (44 BCE) and predicted the American Civil War (1860), and the French Revolution.”

No words. I’m a block from home.

YA’ll I’ve never seen them, let alone let this be my first time. This is incredible.

I accidentally taught myself this lesson well. I was using a word replacer in a browser, and I didn’t realize it was affecting a very common word. I used context to figure out what the new weird word was, but searching for it led me nowhere. Because the word I created didn’t exist.

Yes, yes. Bearded Aziraphale is a smoke show. But picture this *makes cinema hands* bearded DEMON! Aziraphale is gobsmacked when he sees an unshaven Crowley!

Some ding-dong running for mayor of my (500 population, no local bar ) town tried the whole “we need to revitalize downtown, I guarantee 5 new business by the end of my 2-year term” and folks let me tell you he did not even make the top 3. Can’t make money off people with none of it.

Me, wandering the kitchen wondering why absolutely nothing sounds good after only having a protein coffee & rice crispy treat for breakfast: What the fuck? Me, realizing my anti-depressant got swapped to the manufacturer that kills my appetite for like 10 hours: What the fuck?

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

Welp apparently the kick in the pants I needed to get over my “I don’t want to do anything, not even read AO3” is for some idiot democrats selling out the rest of us after the message we sent on Tuesday. At least my MFL list is still going strong.

I barely think about the job anymore, but I just realized how bullshit of an excuse Wells Fargo used to not let us do work from home (“information too private/sensitive”) compared to, uh, what I do and review completely from home now.

I can’t wait for the day I wake up and it’s finally the funniest day on the internet

I’m trying to look up actual reviews of the AI software being presented next week so I can go armed against it, but the first 3 results pages either link to it directly or are just sycophantic hype pieces about AI. I just want examples of the mistakes I KNOW it makes.

Ok fine This just might be the thing to make visit Boston for the first time since I lived there for law school. Not alumni events. Not Mike’s. Not accessible public transit. The slide that embarrassed a cop.