I think if I'm suffering though an online course lecture and they show me an AI generated image as a gag I should automatically get some of my money back

I think I've made my yard too perfect and desirable for garbage babies (lacewing larvae) and now they're drinking all of the butterfly eggs before they hatch

be nice to carleton. see, him sit. please do not push off cliffs for amusement

@americanbeetles.bsky.social I re-tried asking for alaska scaphium, exact same question text, but apparently they're all gone now. I'm so sorry for the apparent sudden disappearance of literally all beetles

extremely tempting to immediately write off every museum or scientific institution participating in some kind of genAI hype grift as unsalvageable garbage forever, but where am I going to put my stuff now?

Path of Titans added the ability for the azhdarchid pterosaurs to push other players away by flapping their wings, and I have now been pushed off of cliffs into water for laughs three separate times. Please stop trying to drown poor Carleton

Bluesky rn

trying to proofread chatbot output going great

there is really just no way to do anything remotely decorative around the utility lines in this yard, they just crisscross around various structures in such a way as to totally ruin any sensible pathing. it's bothering me a lot! whoever planned this neighborhood was just putting stuff anywhere

do you think I can get away with leaving a strip of unmowed beggarticks over here, and then just cutting a little bit around the utility boxes? I have no idea what I'm doing, but the bees like the beggarticks so I try to save them

here's what it looks like when you accidentally disturb a glubby trying to hibernate under a plastic pot

what do you mean 8.4% of all digitized clam shrimp records on the planet earth are from me. I don't like that.

one of the conferences I'm going to says all over the website to not go to the ongoing ICE protests and to definitely not wear your official conference nametag around town, so now I definitely need to go to the protests but with even more nametags somehow

can I not get pointless reminder emails from the people who got me fired for five minutes

I hate conferences and I don't want to go but I have to go or everything I care about will probably die with me. I might get permanently kicked out of my first meeting with this group for upsetting the AI overlords. I don't even know if anyone is looking forward to seeing me. shrimp help me

why won't the one pond froggy let me see him

for every me out there, loudly crashing out of academia and kicking and screaming all the way, there are a thousand others who had no platform to scream from and whose beloved research either got sucked up by some jerk PI or died away unceremoniously into nothing

do we think it's kosher for me to even briefly allude to the fact that I lost my job for talking about the chatbot I'm reviewing in my conference talk or do I have to keep my mouth shut just to muse about AI being objectively bad on its own

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

Now that I'm old I get to go from Gross Teenager Acne Ointment to Middle Aged Person Acne Scar Repair Cream. I feel slightly like a cocoa-scented fish

was trying to take a nice screenshot of carleton having a good time and relaxing with other animals, but actually here's carleton getting debuffed 0.1 seconds before that stinky bird's suchomimus friend jumped him. he got away though

wildlife pond is now Fully Decorative. neighborhood busybodies can theoretically now relax

is this MMO really supposed to be giving me delivery quests with a drop off location on land while I'm playing as an ichthyosaur, like am I really expected to shimmy up here five times for 100 exp

my horrible cruel younger brother refuses to play dinosaur MMO with me. I am laid low by the patriarchy once again /s

Path of Titans clearly does not want the aquatic players to be oozing their giant bodies up the streams and into the lakes, but it's really fun to try. I got to Grand Plains' river, tried to get to Big Quill Lake, but hit the waterfall and died instantly from massive fall damage.

Does anyone on Path of Titans want to help push my enormous Icthyosaur body up the path past the waterfall in Grand Plains so I can play in the river of PVP

we're getting trick or treaters and didn't prepare anything because last year I got lots of candy and wore a costume and no one stopped by for six hours. can we get an update in advance next time? now I feel really bad

In Path of Titans I tried to surprise two players sitting on a rock together as a water creature by majestically jumping out of the river nearby, but I went too fast and flopped my giant tube body helplessly onto the rock next to them like a raw hotdog

I kind of forgot about Halloween because I'm busy getting professionally punched in the face over and over and not allowed to do anything about it. Kids don't trick or treat here and I have no job to show up costumed to anyway. Running low on optimism

the three of us are all cold so we came to sit on The Wall

I am still trying to take an exam in an online course that the professor absolutely 100% insists I need to be either filmed with Honorlock or proctored in person, but rescheduled the proctoring, which I missed (my bad), but now they have to dissect crayfish and can no longer proctor me, or something

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

I can't stop feeling really sad and isolated

something important to know about me is that multiple times now I have tried to show people the first Ecco the Dolphin, started the game, got way too excited just to be playing Ecco again, and immediately triggered the opening cutscene on accident by rocketing out of the water at maximum speed

trying to learn about short tailed possums, which are marsupials with no pouch, but the results are predominantly: 1. that "pterosaur heresies" guy 2. people owning or selling them as pets for some masochistic reason

do you think it's a coincidence that I posted something to the effect of "iDigBio is making chatbots now, be careful trusting them in the near future" in a listserve last night and all of a sudden there's a post in there from the iDigBio director like COME JOIN OUR FREE WEBINAR SERIES

observe dressing-up of native plant yard. see walls making the scary plants look sufficiently tamed. do not look too hard at behind-neighbor fence, that is out of my hands, lol

So glad the building supply store is sending me minute by minute updates on the pallet of bricks I'm getting delivered, in case they get cold or something

It's not really even cold right now, it's like 50-60 F, but there is nothing on this earth more horrible than being cold

I hope my former coworkers are having horrible days over and over forever. Especially Rob

Bill Gates would rather kill poor people than address climate change. Fuck him. Fuck his foundation. Fuck philanthropy. And fuck Microsoft.

Anyone who has offered to help me financially, please instead help out PRI / Paleontological Research Institution. They run a wonderful small museum in Ithaca at risk of foreclosure. They offer special sensory-friendly days, fully-masked days, fossil IDs, and an online gift shop. www.priweb.org

Path of Titans has Tanystropheus in it now, I like them

My 90 year old dad called to tell me about how AI is taking all the money from universities and it's stupid and lies and makes the world worse. Yeah, I know.

I am making the wildlife pond suitably HOA-coded with an easy access stepping stone. I'm going to get Decorative Pond Encircling Rocks and everything. Finally my autistic powers of mimicry are coming in handy

In addition to playing a stegosaurus named Carleton in Path Of Titans, I also play a Rhamphorhynchus named Spaghetti. I don't bite people or use debuffs, I just eander around observe fights like a weird cameraman

ordered another pallet of bricks. hopefully this will be the last one

one of the funny rimworld gaming youtubers I watch sometimes to keep the darkness away for some reason admitted on video to using chatgpt to write a gag. jail

everyone tries to be kind and reassure me that someday I'll find a great place to work and be genuinely valued, but I honestly don't think that's possible. I just have to go into every experience prickly and guarded because most people will be cowards and no amount of hard work will make me valuable