I want to be playing bass. I want to be fixing up my old guitar. I want to do dungeon crafting. I want to paint minis. I want to write. But I can't because I have COVID and I need to lie down. Because of robert fucking kennedy.

COVID War Journal day 8: fuck this is *lingering*. Every day is one gruelling step forward and a half step back. Undeniably better every day but actual "wellness" seems beyond the horizon. So glad I'm not vaxxed since of course... *crickets* *loud hacking cough* *more crickets*

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

Know what movie is better than I remember every time I watch it? Return of the Living Dead.

So word is that Bluesky has shit the bed and is racing towards late-stage anti-trans fash-cap? Good thing I'm still available on...WORDPRESS! www.vytautasmalesh.com GIVE ME CLOUT! I NEED CLOUT! I AM SO THIRSTY FOR CLOUT!!!

Every - EVERY - accusation is a confession with them.

I have no idea what Zendaya even looks like

Illness broke last night. Recovering today. No longer feeling miserable, just poorly.

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

This will end well.

Their goal is not effective governance. It's not even *really* a "takeover." It's more like if you baked a cake for a party, and you had a little sibling who was whining for it, but you said no - it's to share. Then they smash the cake when you aren't looking and shovel it into their mouth.

and scene

Post a goth or punk girl

Pretty unavoidable to not call this illness Covid at this point. Test was neg, but test was from last round and maybe not hip to new variants idk. Colds don't linger this long & strong. Never had a temp so it's not flu.

Look at the frustrated little-dick energy on this fucking incel. CW: Police brutality, fascism

Me: "So in my interviews with *multiple* high-level empoyers, I have learned that if your job-seeking materials score too high on their own AI detectors, they are automatically deleted." Students: *AI GENERATED RESUME FULL OF CORPORATE BABBLE* Me: "God luck during this next recession!"

1. This is one of the most insane statements ever delivered by a presidential spokesperson in U.S. history. Totally disconnected from reality. 2. There is either going to be a civil war or abject Democratic surrender to autocracy. They are telling this you, to your face, in explicit terms.

I would like to state, for the record, that I don't like being sick very much. This is day 4-ish. Chicken soup exhausted, Dayquil holding steady.

My anthem after 3 days of having a cold

PAWHUSKA, Okla. (AP) — Former Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris pleads guilty to charges of sexually abusing a girl in the 1980s.

Another college instructor posted about the joy getting sucked out of this profession by AI: absolutely true. I sometimes give students some very light, very softball "go learn something" assignments...>50% AI generated responses this time around. What's the fucking point?

I'm mad about a lot of things (ha! ha!) but the sheer number of journalists who wrote "There are no plans to implement Project 2025" under the grounds of "well, Trump says there aren't, so..." and still have jobs is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy up there

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything. Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

i made this meme which is better than the article:

I don't recall giving this interview

It's that time of year: when joyless scolds come out of the woodwork to remind you that AcTuALlY tHaT SoNg iS aBoUt HiS DaD dYiNg

This piece on student loan debt held by older adults will get a lot of attention (or at least would during a normal news cycle). I'm surprised that Parent PLUS loans also didn't get a mention.

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you. They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

Who'da thunk that "junta" would ever be more than just a question on a 5th grade vocab test?

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Also: that "cold" that my GF and I had that I thought might have been the flu and I was like "ha my vax attax BAX!" because I felt fine? Yeah now I also feel like shit and Ithought it was a cold but then I read that super sore throat, like I have now, is a symptom of the new COVId strain so fml

I know I've said this before, folks, but...I just don't think things are going very well right now.

👀 Just Now -- President Trump in the Oval Office said a government shutdown gives his administration the power to cut benefit programs, which include Social Security and Medicare. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

OPINION: Florida's institutions of higher education are in trouble.

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations..."

Me in week 2: Hey students, don't forget about this one assignment due in week 5 - might want to start that now. Me in week 3: Okay, don't forget that assignment... Me in week 4: "" Me in week 5: "" "" Student in week 6: Dr. Malesh did we have an assignment because I'm confused..."

Kudos to whoever made that cheap shitty AI-looking commercial for Star Trek: Fleet Command. It's like birth control for consumerism. I was thinking about installing but oh hell no.

Ding ding ding

We know - why do you think we're protesting?

One of the deals we make for a *somewhat* civilized society is that we all try to tamp down our worst lizard-brain, oppositional defiance disorder instincts. But our fascist government has broken that bargain so hard that it’s time for everyone else to summon their sleeping FUCK YOU MAKE ME powers!

So is the military at any point gonna say "nah, not gonna fascism" or nah you think?

that we have built an alternate media ecosystem in which every American city is an apocalyptic hellhole - completely unmoored from reality - and the political system has collapsed to the point that the president can use this fabrication to send troops against his own citizens is a staggering failure

why did one straw break the camel’s back? here’s the secret: the million other straws underneath it.

Thousands of movies and shows on streaming. More entertainment than I could possibly consume in a lifetime. A universe of universes to explore. Me: watches Bloodsport for the 896th time.

Not to be selfish, but it sucks that the 2020s are turning out to be so much like the 1920s because that suggests the 2030s will mimic the 1930s, the 40s the 40s...and I probably won't live long enough to loop back around to the 90s.