Got a few: - “Quiet” by Susan Cain - “The Undiscovered Self” by Carl Jung - “A Canticle for Leibowitz” by Walter Miller Jr. - The entirety of “The Witcher” by Andrzej Sapkowski - The “Rogue Squadron” series and “I, Jedi” by Michael Stackpole - “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” (technically a poem)

Age yourself with gaming 🕹️

Nah. I don’t really read light novels, but I will 100% tell people not to buy ANYTHING from ANY PUBLISHER that uses AI in any part of the process.

What if Gavin Newsom trolled MAGA by not being a transphobic asshole who would rather tear down unhoused people’s shelter and throw away their possessions instead of meaningfully addressing what leads to people living on the streets?

How do you nicely phrase, “I don’t need help with chores. I need you to fucking be cognizant of how your inability to think beyond your immediate needs forces other adults to clean up your literal and figurative messes, because you seem to forget other people or consequences exist.” politely?

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Just a little vent art. #pissontheirgraves #art

it's wild that anime is a worldwide, constantly growing, billion dollar industry and yet many of its junior staffers can't afford rent without assistance

What is it about an apartment with no ventilation that makes every male roommate I’ve had just desperately need to pan fry food?

I find it hard to believe that Geralt of Rivia, or any other Witcher or person who’s life and livelihood depends on a sword, would heat a blade to glowing for “extra damage.” Yeah, congrats, you’re doing extra damage to your sword.

Apartment is clean, and my anxiety about a meeting I’m supposed to be having tomorrow (that still isn’t scheduled) is just kind of floating at a solid 7.5/10.

Trying to tamp down work-related anxiety long enough to clean my apartment isn’t going well.

A friend of mine “encouraged” me to put a budget together so I could “see where I’m spending too much.” It’s rent. It’s 100% rent, and at this point, even if I found a cheaper place, I wouldn’t be able to cover moving. The cost of 52 coffees wouldn’t even pay for half of one month’s rent.

Still one of the fav things I've made

This morning woke up from a dream in which a real person I have feelings for started dating a mutual friend. I’ve genuinely felt depressed and dejected all day because my stupid brain cast me in a romcom and then forced me to watch its dumb, fake movie while I slept.

Weird, I lived in DC/Arlington 19 years ago and never once worried about either of those things.

If I knew as little about my job as Mike Johnson seems to about his, I’d get fired for incompetence.

Nah, fuck that noise.

Thank you, brain. Thank you for hitting me with a migraine with aura right before bed, deciding I only needed a few hours of very unrestful sleep after, and waking me up an hour before my alarm with a level of head pain I can only describe as “powerfully intense” and “monstrous.”

One of these guys is running for Congress on an explicitly pro-LGBTQ platform. Hell yeah. www.advocate.com/politics/dyl...

What a sack of shit. Just a waterproof leather bag full of human diarrhea.

While the feds continue to play stupid games, SNAP recipients are set to lose food aid for the next month. In the Bay Area, a growing number of restaurants are stepping up to help, and we're maintaining the list. Share with anyone who needs it. www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

I’m struggling today. Got a real bad case of the morbs lately, and today is particularly rough. I kinda wish I could jump into some other reality Quantum Leap- or Sliders-style. Just experience either a world in which I never existed, or a version of my life that sucks less.

ME: I’m so tired. Maybe I’ll get to bed early tonight. MY BRAIN: Oh you want to sleep?! Ha! How about I give you a little secret I’ve been keeping about why you’re miserable all the time and don’t sleep enough? How about we crank that loneliness and depression up to 12?! Good luck sleeping now!

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

Fun fact about me: I can’t tell you if someone is flirting with me, but if you give me 20 minutes of prep time I can fully improvise 2-3 hours of TTRPG gaming for you.

I dropped my Chemex coffee pot Friday night and broke it (it was my third). Rather than spend $50 on a new one, I got this little Bodum weirdo for $30. Holds the same volume of liquid, I can still use my Chemex filters, has a better collar (cork), and the shape is great. I’m well pleased.

Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass. It NEEDS mass pushback.

Your Halloween costume is "sexy" plus the last internet search you made: Sexy Wild Hunt Folklore

Y’all, Spotify’s stock price sunk by 5% in 1 day. YOU did this by spreading the word to boycott them for running ICE ads. These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.

What’s it like inside your head?

I’m probably a -10. I’m not intimidating, even when I’m angry. I’ll also be shocked if anyone actually replies, or replies with anything above a 1.

Why tf does everyone think my name is Kevin, despite “Keith Kelly” clearly being at the top of my emails?

For the last few years, but especially the last 18 months or so, I’ve been dealing with a feeling my therapist calls “existential despair.” Everything feels empty, meaningless, and ultimately not worth doing. I feel alone, I feel tired, and I’d very much like to simply evaporate into non-existence.

The “better to ask forgiveness than permission” thing is trash. I’m generally permissive, and will freely let friends have whatever they want. That said: Assuming that you can take, use, or do something without asking means I’ll never forgive you. I will become a nemesis and curse on your house.

Don't engage. Just block. They want to push their rage bait on here. Don't give them the satisfaction. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Define your music taste in eight artists: - Ghost - TV on the Radio - The Cardigans - Amon Amarth - Duran Duran - Type O Negative - Sabrina Carpenter - David Bowie

I haven’t had a haircut in ~15 months. It’s at a length now where any time I comb it out of my face I either look like an 80’s wrestler or an overweight Strahd von Zarovich, and I don’t know what I like less. At least the white in it is becoming more noticeable.

4 video game women you find attractive. I have a type, I guess. Yen and Neve would have me wrapped around their little fingers, and I’d be fine with that.

One of the “fun” things about having reduced affect display is that no matter how much someone gets in my face or acts threateningly, they get nothing from me. Like, on the inside I might be terrified but outside? Nothin’. Absolutely nothin’. Capybara levels of calm.

I’ve spent 18 years in San Francisco. I don’t like it, and it has problems, but I’ll be damned before I let a bunch of fascist thugs terrorize people here.

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

Reminder: in a few weeks (11/2) we set our clocks back to “standard time,” which is much more in line with actual solar time. If we kept standard time year round, we’d still have longer days in spring/summer. Day length is due to earth’s axial tilt. The “extra hour” from DST is just a scam.

If you see this quote with your favourite Pokémon (wrong answers only):

Way early, but I’m seeing Ghost in LA in February (it’s a birthday treat to myself). I’m gonna try to stay a day or two after, so if you’re around and want to get a coffee or something, let me know. I’ll start anxiety planning in December or January, so no rush.

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome Go through these steps to disable it: opus.ing/posts/how-to... #chrome #aibullshit

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

We don’t use AI for subtitles. Every line is carefully timed and translated by real people (who cry during finales and debate Best Girls, just like you).

I wrote every research paper in college the night before they were due. My lowest grade (a “B”) was on a paper about Diane Arbus for a photography class, and I only got that because I included “too much personal opinion.” GenAI ain’t shit, and the more you use it to write the worse you’ll be.

A few months ago my therapist asked why I’m not into getting gifts/acts of service as shows of affection, and I finally realized it’s because those things have almost always had strings attached. Not in a reciprocal sense, either, but just fully transactional. Like, gift/service = obligation.