“Rey was nobody but she matters“ vs. “Rey is from yet another dynasty of Special Force Users, just the bad ones this time” is like, top five movie-writing betrayals for me.

A colleague who I think has a very measured view on the subject said in response "It's knowing the context of the technology and how it works so people can make informed decisions; it's not 'here's how to use it'." I'm vehemently against so-called "AI" and I agreed with this!

I had this argument AT LENGTH as a member of our general education council. People would say "we need to teach AI literacy!" and my drumbeat was constantly "meaning what?" and the only people who had an answer were folks opposed to willy-nilly "AI" adoption!

Doggos spent the weekend with their grandma. She has a cat door. They have decided it is a dog face door.

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

Ran my tabletop game tonight and I love sharing my weird little story with my friends.

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

Went looking for new shredded cardboard bedding for our ferrets and Azon suggested “Used-Like New” and uuuhhhh.

Messing around with my Calendar system for my world Ryrin and I need to come up with 23 holidays. Anyone have any cool ideas for holidays in a fantasy setting?

For @typebarmagazine.bsky.social, I wrote about how trying to play nice with the modern concept of "fandom" is ruining the greatest card game that's ever existed www.typebarmagazine.com/the-fandom-s...

weird, this is almost word for word the note my wife handed me just before I stood up to make a speech at our wedding

"Piranesi" by Susanna Clarke is an amazing book. But one of the things that has lingered with me the most is the idea of having past versions of yourself within you that you must be kind and take care of...I'm really bad at forgiving my past selves. I need to be kinder to them. They tried.

I’m tired of being angry at Pokemon Pocket, better open up the social medias—why did I think this would help.

Lots of friends relating to this but I had a different issue. I didn't find any of the male characters hot/cute, but I did name Tifa after myself when I did a playthrough renaming after friends and I'm sure that doesn't mean anything at all

The other day I saw someone who had a massive scaled-up like 2-ft long hair-clip and just now I saw someone with giant bedazzled safety pin earrings and I think I need more fashion accessories that are just "small thing, but BIG" because I loved both of those so much. Whimsy-maxxing.

demeter when her daughter goes missing

I see your Skyrim jokes, but counterpoint: given that the only Scions we see in the teaser are Estinien and Alpninaud, this is 2 Heavens 2 Ward.

Unless they pivot at the last minute, it looks like I might have a job for the first time in 2.5 years? I almost hate to hope at this point but it would mean sooo much if it works out. Lots of red flags so far: “Are you willing to put the interests of the organization ahead of your own?”

A tiny plastic bit of our microwave broke so it couldn't open. Love how shit everything is made anymore. We managed to use super glue and an old paintbrush to fix it...which is probably illegal. Fixing your own devices is copyright infringement, after all.

social media was a wonderful brain toilet for every random half thought you didn't want to bother real people with before they decided to move all of society and infrastructure and government inside of the toilet

Realistically, we probably need go rehome our ferrets but the thought of it literally makes my stomach hurt. I love these smelly little fuckers.

HEY ANSWER THIS: (a little informal thing before research I’m starting this summer) Do you consider Mario (like, that Mario) to be a “fat video game character”? Why/why not? feel free to RT etc

I was doing good depression-wise since ECT but got an email that our financial house of cards is going to collapse soon so fuck me I guess

The same day that @foxharper.bsky.social reminded me about the Death Gate series of books, I went trawling my school document archive and I offhandedly mentioned that series in one of my class assignments...just weird to hear about it twice after like 2 decades of not thinking about it.

So I'm not sure if I ever did a "senior thesis" exactly, but I did once write a 7 page essay about JD Salinger's use of cigarettes in his works to signal how gay af a character was.

I did multiple things that I've been putting off and I'm fucken exhausted now. Both mentally and physically.

Have you heard of the High Elves?

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

I'm fairly certain I knew this, but it never really sunk in that fungi don't use cellulose like plants, they use chitin like bugs. Their bones are bug bones. I love how the more I learn about fungi the more cursed they are. It is the best.

Wonder how that is going...site has been crashing all day.

When space games have you lose all momentum from a sprint/boost it always annoys me. That is how boosters work in space! You burn them for short bursts then ride the speed boost that doesn't go away! There is no drag! Why am I slowing down!

heated chivalry

I've heard of electrum first in D&D 3.5 as coins over 20 years ago...I've been reading Pyramids by Terry Pratchett and they mention electrum..so still fantasy...only today while watching SciShow did I realize it was not only a real metal, but just an alloy of gold and silver??

The problem with getting the stitches and glue that are supposed to come out over time is how itchy they are.

I’m against incarceration in general but people watching short video content loudly in public need to go straight to jail without passing Go.

virgin mary punching the devil, england, 13th century

fucking in front of the Overton window in the living room to keep the rent low

Sorted my thoughts about censorship, so I can stop thinking about it.

I’m almost a full week with my new spinal cord stimulator and now that my incisions are almost fully healed, the new implant seems to be helping a ton? Though it is a trade-off…I don’t feel my nerve pain at all, but if I do things that normally trigger pain, my arms vibrate(like TENS) very hard.

My new back remote(top) is sooooo much shittier than my old one(bottom) that it pisses me off. It is terrible at connecting. It has no where for my appletag to attach. And it’s “User Experience” can be best described as “Dollar Tree Universal Remote.”

"On Thursday, a war broke out between those who worship the Mother Goddess in her aspect of the Moon, and those who worshiped her in her aspect of a huge fat woman with enormous buttocks. After that the masters intervened and explained that religion, while a fine thing, could be taken too far."

Me: I always skip show-intros. the songs are fine the first time, but they get old fast. Also Me: 🎵You're dead, you're dead, and out of this world🎵

Grammar of made-up words is weird. "Spelljammed" feels right to me, but I cannot settle on if I like "Spell Blocked" "Spell-blocked" or "Spellblocked" as the next tier of "mucked up your ability to cast magic."

RT if $3000 would literally change your life

I am not a big fan of "awkward humor", I just get second hand embarrassment waaay too easily. I know some of y'all love The Office, but I cannot watch it. Even shows that do not lean on it as hard, like What We Do In The Shadows, still gets too much sometimes. Namely Colin-centric ones.

There is an easy way to stop having "firebombs" being thrown at your mega-mansion...stop having mega-mansions fivehead.