I know I'm not about to bring any revolutionary observations, but I still want to work through some thoughts about LLMs here on my little micro-blog. I keep running into people who are trying to hard-sell me on using ChatGPT/Gemini/etc. for tasks that I already more or less handle without a problem.

I don't like the way that history is popularly narrated in this country. At all.

There are people in the world who say that there are only two genders: male and female. But the heart and soul have much more personality. It's very sad that people who can't accept this sometimes utter very harsh words. You were born to live freely. Chiitan is an ally of transgender people🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

"The same five- or 10-second loop, so obviously mournful and defeated, can sound at another another time—10 minutes later, or 10 years later—just as obviously inspiring or triumphant." defector.com/the-disinteg...

Recently went for a gloaming stroll and was pleased to make the acquaintance of this stalwart little fella standing watch by Lake Michigan

The wind is blowing so hard I can see the windows pushing inward against their frames

Dark Science #178 - Smoke and Flame dresdencodak.com/2026/01/12/d...

Utagawa Hiroshige, Procession to the Torinomachi Festival in the Rice Fields of Asakusa, 1857.⠀ ⠀⠀ One of a few Hiroshige prints we've got for sale in our shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/utagawa-hiroshige

Nightmares really are so stupid. What do you mean my exes are getting married and hired me as their wedding videographer, but also they resent me and don't want me at their wedding? Also there's a flood or storm of some kind, and my laptop's screen is broken? Fuck outta here with that nonsense

Last night I made a gumbo from scratch and I'm really happy with how it turned out. The roux could've been a little darker, but I maybe overcorrected after burning it the last time I tried. Still really delicious, almost certainly more delicious tonight after it's sat for a day.

Hey Minneapolis ❄️—we're indie reporters here from Chicago. If there's anything you'd like us to know about community actions, vigils, or fed activity, please drop us a line on Signal at unraveled.66 📱

The dripping faucet is playing a sassy little clave

I love my beautiful daughter

Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.

I've been trying to come up with a good way to word this but I think there really isn't anything to do other than say it: I've had many AI nudes and sexually suggestive images generated of me and sent to me via burner emails. Started last year, kept going through today. This is where we are.

I'm really questioning my determination to spend so many years of my one life on this earth keeping my head down and trying to be respectable. My freak flag should have been flying so much higher.

I‘m discontinuing my social media use for the foreseeable future and I want to explain why. I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.

𝘈𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴, starring the Marx Bros., is in the public domain now. Here’s a Blu-ray quality copy on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/animal-crackers-pnm

Thinking about her...

we've all been there

You will too! Let's go 2026!!!!!

Shoutouts to yuna from FFX being disillusioned with her faith and going on to serve insane cunt in a girl band two years later

Been going to the gym three times a week since the first week of December. It's been hard but satisfying, something I've been wanting to do for a while. I'm already starting to see and feel the difference. This dress is an old fave that stopped fitting until last week. 2026 Fitness Arc Go!

I’m cold stratifying the milkweed seeds, I’m caterpillarcore, we’re butterflymaxxing, in my Lepidopt-era

Well, I went ahead and dug two graves. Still feeling the white-hot desire for vengeance, but now I'm also sweaty, dirty, and annoyed.

Jan. 7 is the deadline to apply for the Chicago Public Library's $4,000 Renaissance Project grants, which support research on Black history. chipublib.email.bibliocommons.com/email/view/6...

It's January 1st, have some of my old Silmarillion chapter illustrations! Valaquenta: "Account of the Valar and Maiar in according to the lore of the Eldar” (1/6)

My little project for the year is making my life harder on purpose. I talk about it a little bit here, but the long and short of it is that I think excessive convenience has eroded the quality of everyday life at great cost to our sense of self. I've been referring to it as The Smooth World

Cis comedians making great trans jokes is always such a treat

Just a year after un-damning 😉 the Klamath River, salmon runs are back. Dam removal "also restored natural water temperatures, cooled the river earlier in the fall, reduced harmful algal blooms, and dramatically lowered levels of the deadly parasite C. shasta." www.activenorcal.com/there-are-sa...

You FUCKED UP, your LEFTY politics have ALIENATED the BILLIONAIRES who run the CHILD BONE EXTRACTION FACTORIES and now they will do a MASS EXODUS from your STATE or CITY. Don’t CRY to ME when you no longer see their CHILD CATCHING VANS in your STATE or CITY, YOU IDIOT

agreed all-timer line

Was doing a performance residency in Salem, MA, came out of the bathroom after a shower wearing nothing but a towel, and walked directly into John Waters

usually my birthday announcements come with a whole, "buy my music!" plug attached. i'm doing okay these days, you don't have to do that. instead i'll say "hey, follow me on youtube!". youtube.com/@leissmusic

The brainworms do be wormin', so I really treasure those moments when I can look in the mirror and my first sincere thought is, "Wow I'm literally so pretty"

I examined Stephen Miller’s drunk racist history. open.substack.com/pub/ser1897/...

avatar is a dogshit racist series and it's embarrassing that people like it so god damn these two parts of the review are absolutely scathing

Epstein redactions aren't believable, and they are valuable to fascists specifically because they aren't believable. Fascists prefer lies to truth. Believing in a lie is preferable to believing a truth, if what you want is to dominate. Believing lies dominates truth. So they believe lies.

adding to the towering pile of moral and material reasons why feelings about The Economy might not match the statistics: as a failed business person I always felt like I was at a disadvantage because I'm not good at playing the numbers

Was at the gym trying a new-to-me workout and one of the trainers came up to help me with my form. After a few sets he came back to correct me and was like, "Don't cheat now!" Sir. Cheating implies that I know what I'm doing. What you are witnessing is the flailing of incompetence.

They don’t warn you about how much time you will spend washing sports bras, or how many you will need if you’re the least bit active, and the fact they all cost like $200.

I love makeup and have loved makeup for decades so here are small *very general* tips for navigating what you should invest in

A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.

'Tis the season for magic in DC Minis #13 - "M.A.G.E. Day"! dresdencodak.com/2025/12/15/d...

The Epic of Gilgamesh is historically significant as the world's first Yaoi