If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

In Minneapolis

The world is wacky and I want to spend too much money on minis I already have (a second sylvaneth spearhead box). I got an unexpected year end bonus so I think I'm going to risk my wife's ire and go for it

historically accurate☑️

bro did you seriously not heed the teachings of yore

Your non-toxic masculinity post of the evening

PUT AWAY YOUR BOOMERANG, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DARK THOUGHTS. AND YOU WILL WIN.

This is the real secret

Enchanting video (& soundtrack!) of a capybara swimming along an underwater sandy-gravelly bottom that also shows unusually long distances between its footfalls. If preserved in the fossil record, this trackway might be interpreted as "very fast running" instead of "leisurely swimming." 🧪🐾

My wife made ice cream, with fresh cream from the farm a block away, flavoured with roasted dandelion and chicory root and hazelnuts from our tree. Also, I do most the cooking and she makes more $ than me but we still homestead harder than self-described trads. Reactionary pretenders: suck my DEI

Compliment someone's style today. They've had a week, they could use a boost

THIS IS A GOOD QUESTION and one I've been asked before by men. And I appreciate the fuck out of you who think about this. 1. Create distance. Fake forgetting something, even saying out loud something like 'oh no my wallet' and turn around going back the way you came. You only need to delay yourself

My most popular twitter post...

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

True

Watched Swing Kids with my 14 yo tonight, I vividly remember the impact of watching it when I was 15. This rewatch was heartbreaking on 2 accounts: the tragic story of the movie and the memory of growing up in time in a time when America had some moral clarity about Nazis

I worked in a psych hospital, primarily on the closed adolescent ward with CSA survivors, for two years. I wrote about what I saw and heard there for the next fifteen and will remember it always. I am not reading the files for this and many, many other reasons.

campingbaras

This advice is for everybody, not just newbies. I follow 2x the people I did in Twitter and make greater effort to post others and my experience has improved a lot over time. I've got a super lively feed and have met a bunch of nice people. Social media can still be fun!

Seriously though, let’s save the planet 🌎 🐝🦋

I really don't think our global policy of Only Dumb Assholes In Charge is working.

I love Sylvaneth figures, and I love playing #onePageRules *but* I don't love the mismatch between OPR fantasy wood elves being very archery-centric and Sylvaneth having few archer options. #nerdling problems

Somehow they've made Luigi a rebel hero, a Christ-like martyr, an innocent man, and a victim of both the empire and the keystone cops - I can't imagine a demonization attempt more thoroughly backfiring than this.

Fuck buttercup. Stupid plant, no point to it. I can respect dandelions - they have a sense of aesthetics. Bindweed is ruthless but clever, I can tip my hat to that. Blackberry sucks as a plant, but it gives out abundant fruit. We wasted a pretty name on an ugly, dumb jerk of a plant

Apropos to a post I'm not going to quote: no, you are not fucking obliged to battle the fucking right on fucking social media, or go to where they are. Why make yourself miserable shouting at bots (who don't care) or trolls (who get off on your misery). Make your fucking social media enjoyable, FFS.

If you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

Getting better, a little less crude than previous stormcast #warhammer #paintingMinis #paintingWarhammer

What a terrible time to be a good person

So damn good!

Every day I try to appreciate some sort of kindness, beauty, or grandeur. Today, I invite you to join me in appreciation of the truly breathtaking levels of stupidity that have spread everywhere, through everything, touching everyone in some way. Genuinely breathtaking to behold

Everyone knows the correct plural of alumnus is aluminum. (Or ailiuminiuim if you're British)

Giving Tuesday! 💞 Find your local harm reduction or syringe services program-these mostly run on a shoestring budget & every dollar goes to people who desperately need care in all its forms. We use donations to buy outreach supplies for all our sites to supplement basic harm reduction materials.

Why is the media consistently saying "energy," when they actually mean "oil and gas"? "Alberta energy deal" rather than "Alberta oil and gas deal" etc. This is obfuscation. It serves to present these agreements as beneficial to all, rather than specifically beneficial to the oil and gas industry.

I want to say something snarky about leopards and experienced politicians being naive, but the leader of the greens supported an oil & austerity budget and now those are our countries priorities. I can't even muster my snark, Canadian leadership is dog shit

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky We've hit peak Psychology Humour

I named my fists Congressional Democrats because they haven't put up a fight in decades

The new Ze Frank video reminded me about an adaptation found in some entomopathogenic nematodes - using both their own muscle power and static electricity, they can leap into the air and home in on their host, like an anti-insect surface-to-air missile #Invertebrate 🧪 news.emory.edu/features/202...

I'd continue doing what I do, but I'd buy more books, better outdoor gear, go to more concerts, and send my kids on more adventures

people always stereotype Canadians as being polite, and its not true at all. We are passive-agressive weirdos who live in isolated weird places and the sooner we make peace with that the better

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are on the Muppet Show tonight

My hot take is that I now think of it as the Andor galaxy. The rest of the star wars media franchise is backstory

The FUCK!?! Carney holding secret meetings with Smith about allowing oil tankers in the north BC coast? Imagine how Alberta would respond if BC and the federal gov was literally conspiring against their provincial government? No link, just caught a bit of CBC radio picking up kid from dentist

Gangbang ends in 30 meter

"A thing can be properly called ineffable iff, when effed with, finding out fails to follow" If you like this, consider pre-ordering my new book: An Ontology of Effability

Not to brag, but I just organized all my pants

"A thing can be properly called ineffable iff, when effed with, finding out fails to follow" If you like this, consider pre-ordering my new book: An Ontology of Effability

Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?

As a teen I thought it would be funny to become a professional drug user, and I was right - but you can't do that forever. So I became a data analyst, then a flower farmer, then a psych nurse. Because ADHD