So living with my parents abruptly became unsafe (mentally/emotionally) and I'm leaving ASAP. I have somewhere to go, but it's out of state. I'm packing now but I have to register my car before I go and that's $500. Anything helps. 🫀 Venmo: probablyharmless PayPal: theohillwriter at gmail

"Just say no."

in case any fellow chicago transit dweebs were not already aware of the best free calendar you can steal color printing from an office job to put on your wall, it is here once again www.transitchicago.com/historicalca...

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I have filled out the booking form for my Botswana sleeve. Now to wait to hear back from the artist.

I don't do resolutions but I do usually decide on a general theme I want to focus on for the year. This year it's letting go of shoulds and learning to just let myself be

I just saw someone on TikTok who's going to 30 different ramen places in Chicago and I don't know why I'm surprised that there are that many here. Maybe I'm still a little San Francisco brained lol

I should kick the cats out so I can go to sleep and also my leg is losing circulation but they're so cozy under the blankets on my leg

lol well I guess I could have guessed that

WE THOUGHT ABOUT GAMES 10 IS DONE wethoughtaboutgames.tumblr.com/post/8044839... big shoutout to my pal @dochospital.bsky.social as my stalwart guest, as well as @dawnfire.bsky.social for the episode art. would you believe this is the first horse she's drawn?? incredible stuff

I think I'm gonna start a new tradition - December 30th is goblin day. I'm playing video games and eating snacks and wearing comfy pants

I helped Goldie Hawn get into the dorms where her son was visiting his girlfriend

So back then you thought Moonlight was overrated™️ and Parasite was overrated™️ and Everything Everywhere all at Once was overrated™️…and now Sinners is also overrated™️ too? Oh.

Some people apparently decide that because that guy was the worst they should be the worst too and I honestly do not understand that logic. Did you like that guy and what he did to you? Why try to be him???

I think if someone constantly jokes about what a dick they are, they probably are actually kind of a dick

Gaaaaay 😍 (Dear Stupid Penpal by Rascal Hartley)

Atomic Blonde

Is a dump cake a cobbler?

damn i really should've finished editing the dynasty warriors podcast ep before posting a banger. ah well. check this shit out wethoughtaboutgames.tumblr.com/post/6233865...

tfw you're relieved when they unfollow you

I know this is kinda weird but I really enjoy doing the washing up the day after a party, like reliving the experience through cleaning up after it lol

Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year. As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet

My seduction technique? Oh, it's just learning your favorite foods and making the best possible version of them

Remembering a conversation with my boss earlier this year where she was telling me how impressed she was with Bari Weiss' appearance on Ezra Klein's podcast "two very smart people talking to each other". I wonder if she still thinks that.

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

Waking up hungry at 2 am is weird and annoying

Entirely too relatable lol (Dear Stupid Penpal by Rascal Hartley - this book is very fun)

Remembering how I turned off spellcheck on my writing laptop last year because it started being wrong sometimes

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. I hate time travel lmao

Watching an American talk about cultural differences between the UK and the US and I can tell he's from the East Coast because one of his examples of British indirectness is "let's have dinner sometime". In California if someone says "let's get coffee sometime", sometime is probably never lmao

They want to call gender-affirming care "sex-rejecting procedures"? Fine. I rejected my sex. I emigrated from maleness. I'm an apostate from the Church of Biological Destiny. Anyone who doesn't like it is cordially invited to go jack off to their own misguided sense of moral certitude.

Also to finally finish the novel I've been working on, finish revisions on the novella, write at least one more short story than I wrote in 2025 (so 4 in 2026), and to get at least 40 submissions.

I do not think I would use the Elvira tarot deck but I still want the Elvira tarot deck

Dissociation to deter the doom

really brave of people to still be making romance movies after LOVE & BASKETBALL (2000) dir. gina prince-blythewood

TikTok is tempting me to try grindr again but I'm not sure I'll ever get past the way the ui makes my brain hurt

I learned that Howl really likes toys that make noise and bought a few different toys with bells on them. Unfortunately, she has now taken up crying loudly in the other room about being bored when I am not playing with her with her toys lol

I am picking my battles and this is one of the ones I'm picking. I also work in games and the LLM shit is exacerbating an already exploitative work environment that does not value the creative efforts that actually make good games

I'm really not into fawning

This is not the time for me to be reading estranged parents shit. Maybe it will never be the time.

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does

I hate wintry mix as a weather feature, but I think there should be a snack mix called this (preferably not involving peppermint)

I feel fairly certain tonight I will sleep. Which is funny because therapy is tomorrow so I was pre gaming it a night ahead of time but at least I guess I'm done lol

The trans homeless Christmas movie you need in your life in these trying times

Halfway through making dinner and I realized I have both leftover quiche and Indian food in my fridge that I could have eaten

Show me how your 2025 went:

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

I wish my brain would learn to stop pre gaming therapy in the middle of the night

Thinking about how sometimes people in a toxic system reject certain kinds of outsiders because they're afraid of the system being exposed for what it is and for whatever reason they're not ready to confront that reality

I do not connect with Peter Pan