via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

Audiobooks = reading Hope this helps 💜

Butter expects to accompany you on all vacations and also at all of your musical performances

It just occurred to me that I am an adult with free will and if I want to eat ice cream at 3pm on a Tuesday, I can. So I did.

Remember kids, if you're working today, no you're not. It's Christmas Eve Eve. Put 8 hours of fake meetings on your outlook calendar. You're meeting with Santa. Take a dozen smoke breaks and feed a reindeer. Dasher and Dancer love Newports. This work week is over if you believe it is.

Please note I take the 60 Minutes censorship situation very seriously, I am very concerned for my American friends. And I also laughed out loud at this:

food for thought? no... you're terribly mistaken. food for eat

Anyways, here's Danny Kaye showing us how to obstruct and annoy law enforcement youtu.be/vdS2-icMD9Q?...

Some folks seem to think that criticizing Democratic politicians is off-limits because the GOP is "worse." I expect nothing from the GOP; they are obviously a part of racists and Nazis. I DO expect something from the political party purporting to represent the "resistance."

New Children’s Book ‘Good Afternoon Moon’ Celebrates Seattle’s Painfully Early Sunsets: tinyurl.com/yrze7kp8

Sunset tonight is pretty bitchin’

Alan Rickman was also a famously lovely, kind, patient, and softspoken man. No one has ever had a bad word to say about him to my knowledge. All praise for his class and professionalism. So imagine how bad Tim Allen has to be to get that reaction from Rickman, of all people

PREACH IT TECH JESUS

Matt Yglesias and his followers are so driven by their desire to NEVER seem extreme, to always seem moderate, they they cannot accept the reality of an objectively extreme situation even when scientists are shouting about it from the rooftops

Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers. 1: 'Where's Dad?' 2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'

My parents made me promise not to use my birthday money on bills. So I got myself a shirt from @tylerfromtheinternet.com because they didn't say I couldn't use the money to help pay someone else's bills. Solidarity in support of human creativity or GTFO. tylerfromtheinternet.com

It is again time to post the real tree my dad put up in the late 80s

persisting through the horrors is great and all but ripping the horrors' nuts off once in awhile would not be out of line

This is why your electricity bill has gone up ten fold. Please spare me the "It's here to stay", "Learn to use it or get left behind." Bla, bla, bla. Don't use it. Let the whole thing burn. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

It is so unspeakably cruel that I can’t have a cat. Or all the cats. We don’t deserve them, but I do, actually. I deserve all the cats. I start crying every time I imagine a warm little fur creature rumbling like a tiny motorcycle next to me. 😭

Three gingerbread prisons (actually they are there for their own safety, else the cat decides she wants one)

This headline is so funny. "How she did it" was being a screenwriter, already working in the industry, who had contacts who recommended her for the job. She's not some random fan who was plucked from obscurity to become a showrunner through the strength of her online posting or fandom.

Natures Fireworks Soap aloe (Aloe maculata) #photography #art #macro #flowers #succulents

A number of my works are available through the National Library Service, which provides work via audio and braille, and I encourage their use. All my contracts allow for this service to provide access to my work. www.loc.gov/nls/who-we-s...

Rainy Day Downtime with Razz #photography #cats #orangecats

Some people argue it really should be considered an autoimmune disorder, some people argue for allergy (some people argue allergies ARE autoimmune disorders), but it boils down to, my immune system is a bored border collie and likes to invent jobs to do.

Pink Ghost Pipe plant at my hometown, Logy Bay, #Newfoundland Canada. Ghost Pipes are most commonly white, but some have pink or even red colouration. Pic from a couple of years ago, in August. #wildflower #flower #botany #plants #fungifriends

Dog came over to me and whined to be let outside and I said, "I can't take you out yet, there's a cat on me." She literally sighed and went to lie back down.

Dog tax

The easiest position in any company for artificial intelligence to replace is the CEO and the CFO. They certainly couldn't be any less heartless

Something to brighten a Monday morning. #macromonday

Bari Weiss won't hear your remarks about how disgusted you are with her toadying to the admin but on the other hand yes she will, these people are absolute dogs for attention and would eat their own vomit on live TV if it meant even three people would notice them

In case you forgot, my geckos are cute as hell.

the facehugger emerging fully-formed from its pod-like egg

Buona notte Sleep sweet.... I'll most likely bite you in the morning...

Happy Winter Solstice May the new sun welcome you against the long night #dragons #watercolor #painting #art

It’s not a refusal to re-enter society. It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance. It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward. Mass death & disability is not normal

I think there really needs to be better terms for & differentiation between genAI / chatbots / LLM’s etc. & AI processing for pattern recognition in particular (engineering, medical research) industries. I think it’s been intentionally confused by the marketing & language around it.

“Once, universities saw their computational power exploited by researchers working for the DoD. Today, universities are being infiltrated by a commercial industry that exploits students and faculty as data mines, test subjects, and a perpetual supply depot of future users, all for their own profit.”

Dog viciously mauled by a tiger. #cats #kittens #caturday

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

May your days grow ever brighter, from here.

my son (4) said he built a “crazy train” with his train set this morning so I introduced him to Crazy Train the song and now he’s playing trains and whisper chanting “CRAZY TRAIN” to himself

Like, it's a double theft machine. It steals knowledge from scholars, while also stealing developing knowledge from students.

So while the iris (colored part) doesn't change color, the reflected 'shine' changes in response to this seasonal shift in collagen spacing, all in service of maximizing the contrast of lichens under a snowy crust. Love the title of this paper: "Reindeer and the quest for Scottish enlichenment." 🧪

#ArtAdventCalendar Solitary sandpiper reflecting.

Anyway, I read all of these anti-AI posts in academia as love letters to our disciplines. And that, at least, gives me joy in a weary world. So thank you.

The system that created Epstein, protected him, and let him thrive for decades, still exists. His market of powerful monsters still exists, and they're still being protected. There is definitely, right now, someone serving the same role he did, being protected the same way by the same people.

it's tough not to have rose-colored glasses about one's childhood years. Even if your personal experiences weren't great, the cultural milieu that was formative for a person feels disporportionately important