I finished the book I was reading and now I am a bit sad.

Not having the best brain today.

Today someone asked me if I agreed that with the rise of tools like ChatGPT, information was finally democratized and accessible to everyone.

oh no

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

Appropos of all the Current Events going on... Octopi are extremely cool. Like, so cool I think I'm going not have calamari anymore? Not vegan, but the more I learn about cephlapods the more I feel weird about eating them.

A good news story. :)

I wrote a thing about trying not to get led into totally delusional thinking by LLMs. (Another way of course is not to use them. But as a lot of people *are* using them we also need to talk about strategies for harm reduction.) substack.com/home/post/p-...

this is the GOAT tumblr post and always will be

Roses are red Sausages are fat

Journey (2012) remains a beautiful game. Perfectly restrained.

So... is there a specific set of criteria that have to be met before a conflict within a nation is considered to be a civil war?

Wondering if recruiters are not professional parasites with a net negative impact for both employers and job seekers. Maybe hr should become a regulated industry accountable for meeting ethical standards of practice.

For #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay: Bernard Willem Wierink (Dutch, 1856-1939) Gieren ( #Vultures ), 1919 platecut print, 40.2 h × 21.5 cm w Rijksmuseum RP-P-1924-380: www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio... #birdsinart

I managed to get into a wobbly headstand today in yoga! It's been a long time since I could do that.

My organization educates people on the health benefits of dried grapes. We're Raisin' Awareness!

Today I learned that the nation of Seychelles has a cool flag.

Timeline cleanse

Happy labour day. I wish everyone a few hours of sitting on a couch eating fried carbohydrates while watching silly reality tv.

Anyway, we’re using our very tiny income to create a paid route into comedy & give a portfolio & experience to freelance writers with no credits needed, while adding roughly £2k to their annual income in exchange for 6 short paragraphs of writing a week. If that opportunity sucks, keep moving.

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Seems like nyt is pulling more of their games behind account access. They can suck it, tho. I have discovered Trainwreck Labs and Metazooa is way more engaging to me than the mini crossword.

Rawr! 🐢

In progress watercolor of the Keremeos Columns

*breathe in* I am not a dumpster fire. *breathe out* I am a dumpster phoenix.

boom 🟦🟦🟧⬛⬛ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

Roses are red Your boyfriend's room is a dump

I am getting just the best kitty snuggles this morning so I guess I'm not working from downtown today

Kind of thinking of going out to the garden and making up an arrangement for my bedroom. Except entirely made of tomato vines. Summers are short here. Gotta huff that good green stink while I still can.

make a band food: Hootie and the Fugu?

Today I learned there is a kind of shoe called an espadrille, and I'm a bit annoyed about it.

In other news, I've been replaying Fallout 3 and Fawkes has trapped me in my house in megaton by blocking the bedroom door and refusing to move or be moved. I will have to load a save from like an hour ago to keep playing.

I dont understand the practice of inviting economically vulnerable people to a province with promises of greater quality of life, then fostering the conditions for disease and injury.

If a man ever referred to me as a "high value female" I would simply kill him

just make it exist first you can make it crab later

Phew, found this kind of tough! 🦈 Animal #743 🦊 I figured it out in 9 guesses! 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟥🟥🟧🟧🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 9 metazooa.com #metazooa

Post a cat. -- Mochi was not ready for her closeup, but she is delightful anyway.

Partner has some old ripped and stained shorts with a fly that simply will not stay zipped. Ostensibly they are for doing messy work around the house, but he's prone to forgetting that and going out into the world in them. Let's see if this helps.

In English a cat’s paw pads can be called “toe beans.” In German, I’ve heard them referred to as Zehenbeere, or “toe berries.” In Japanese they are 肉球 (“flesh buns”). Norwegian has tredeputer, or “stepping pillows.” And a colloquial Korean name for them is 냥젤리. It essentially means “meow-gummies.”

My favorite doctor and companion

coming into this bracket at the very end to vote specifically against the flag

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

A normal dog doing normal things.

So I did an image search for "men's summer hat" because I was curious about what options were available. I was served up a lot of male models giving their best blue steel while wearing the kind of floppy canvas number your dad takes flyfishing.

Today is International Owl Awareness Day and I had a hoot putting together this thread of international owl phrases, starting with this one… A colloquial way of telling someone to mind their own business in Punjabi is apna ooloo sidha rukh. It means “keep your own owl straight.”

Did you know it's almost impossible to light a candle in a cheese shop? It's because of the strong bries.

Good morning, folks. The sky says trans rights are human rights.