“She arranged her hair in the most becoming manner, and she put on a dress whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and was, as young girls say, “a trifle indecent.”” V4.C5.6 Oh Cosette, honey, no.

#aiart prompt 1013: A bag, labeled “summer”, being yeeted off a cliff by a mook labeled “Equinox”. Pen and watercolor.

#aiart prompt 598: the dark night was barely kept at bay by a weak light, dimly illuminating the lower boughs of a red maple. A few tufts of Spanish moss hung from the limbs, pale green in the wan light.

Yes!! Equinox! Fuck off, summer!

YouTube, it seems, still trying to make autoplay in feeds happen. Who the fuck wants that, and can we launch them all into the sun? I can’t even find a setting to turn that shit off, atm. Ugh.

Christians pining for rapture this weekend sound like:

#aiart prompt 1012: Along a narrow road in a city of austere marble, a rusted wrought iron fence enclosed an unkempt garden; the lush verdure teemed with life and color, an abrupt and wild contrast to the cold city.

#aiart prompt 597: the skull was adorned with decorative jewels and filigree, with bright sapphires wedged into its eye sockets; it rated on a silver platter, dull with centuries of accumulated dust. The gemstones catch the torch’s light.

#AgainstTheStorm: I’ve been working through my third cycle, attempting to get to the Silver Seal. This cycle has been nuts. Almost every town was done next to a world event; most gave royal resupply. All on Veteran, for whatever that’s worth. I’ll probably kick up to Viceroy next cycle.

So, for most normal people, if one so colossally fucked up at work that you ended up cratering a revenue stream and might possibly cost the company billions, you’d be fired, yeah? And very likely sued, depending on how punitively, petulantly litigious your erstwhile employer was. #Disney

“In all that has been related heretofore, the reader has, doubtless, been no less prompt than Thénardier to recognize Jean Valjean.” V4.B3.C1

#Fallout76: I’m glad Bethesda finally got around to fixing glowing eyes on ghoul women. Looks much better than the hot mess when playable ghouls first came out.

#aiart prompt 1011: Mixed media, grungy, caricature: samurai ronin cat. #caturday

#aiart prompt 596: silhouetted against the monitors they sit, in a room otherwise dimly lit; backlighting from the monitors plays on the wall. Heavily distorted with blurring, streaking, digitization.

#aiart prompt 1010: Teal, cream, wine, charcoal; using flat colors and geometric patterns, a moment of action.

#aiart prompt 595: the yard was heavily overgrown: near a once smart hedge sat, on old red brickwork, a now rusted wrought iron patio set. These were actively being reclaimed in a battle between ivy and blackberry, each side claiming significant territory for themselves.

T’would be rather impressively ironic if the House of Mouse is destroyed* due to capitulating to fascism. * for a given value thereof, at least representing a sizable loss of market value.

#aiart prompt 1009: Red, orange, yellow, brown: forest in autumn aflame. Once turned, soon down: cold’s onslaught to blame.

#aiart prompt 594: many overlapping sinusoidal curves, out of phase, of different amplitudes. Each rendered fuzzily.

The music for #AgainstTheStorm is fantastic: chill and spacey. Almost classic prog rock, on some pieces. An utter delight to listen to while stressing out over finishing towns.

#aiart prompt 1008: The large, round window looked out upon the market square, empty due to the hour; the misty night air diffused light coming from the magic engine street lamps, casting everything in an eerie, chartreuse glow.

#aiart prompt 593: the petals were translucent: their exact color indeterminate when viewed head on, but reveled on edge. They were also faintly glowing, softly illuminating the misty night air about the trellis.

So, an amusing side effect of the new windowed mode in #ipados26: YouTube can now, technically, be played in the background while another window has focus. Oops.

I’ve been reading Les Misérables the past month, which I have alluded to occasionally here; last night, I finally got half way! Anyway: I decided to update my iPad today to iPadOS 26; this caused the rendering of the book to change, which means the metrics I’ve been using to track progress changed.

#Fallout76: this is quite possibly even better than Comrade Collectron:

I’d still like @bsky.app to provide a native iPad app, but iPadOS 26 in windowed mode does make the iOS app version a bit more palatable.

#aiart prompt 1007: Toxic ooze dragon, congealing out of a polluted, noxious pool. #DragonTuesday

#aiart prompt 592: hovering low above the tundra, the speeding hovercycle raced onward, its rider backlit by the setting sun. The craft’s two repulsers glowed indigo, and their heat shimmered the air.

#AfterTheStorm supplemental: hey, i managed to complete a Seal on my first attempt! Sure, it was the first such thing in the game, and I nearly reputationed out before I finished it, but neat!

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

#aiart prompt 1006: Velvet cloth, slightly rumpled and sun dappled. The cloth is light purple with a darker purple pattern.

#aiart prompt 591: whether weather wilts, whither water wanders, where wavers wheat, winter’s wonder weaves.

#aiart prompt 1005: Demented and slightly gothic: a cgi rendering of a fluffy animal.

#aiart prompt 590: through a mirror darkly.

Charlie Kirk was not a soldier on the other side of the war. Charlie Kirk was one of the forces driving toward war. He chose to use his one precious life not to fight a battle he’d been indoctrinated into, but as a privileged white straight man, one he steered. One he used *for* indoctrination.

it is not civil when an evil person says evil things in a calm tone of voice. conversely, it is not uncivil when a good person uses curse words to denounce evil things at the top of their voice. it is evil to pretend not to understand this.

I played a lot more #AgainstTheStorm last night. I’m finding meat production to be very difficult, which means Lizards and Harpies are much more challenging to keep happy. A lot of that is RNG with maps and the unlocks I’ve accomplished, but still: annoying.

#aiart prompt 1004: The orb hung a few meters in the air, backlit by the setting sun. It appeared fleshy, and faceted: each facet dimpled, and eventually gave way to an autonomous mouth. (cont)

I may have stayed up just a bit too late last night checking out #AgainstTheStorm, not too long ago added to Game Pass. I only got through the tutorial towns, but it was addictive enough that I’m now earnestly thinking about it.

#aiart prompt 1003: Blurred beyond recognition: shapes lose structure lose cadence lose meaning; red begets black.

#aiart prompt 589: above the darkened rows of corn, an eerie chartreuse light starts to illuminate the interior of the clouds. Suddenly, a shaft of brilliance pierces through, swirling with fraying matter. A wind rustles the stalks.

Apropos of absolutely nothing in recent days news, whatsoever:

Givens: 1) Charlie Kirk’s beliefs, behaviors, speech is currently being posthumously whitewashed; 2) the media has already massively sanewashed the gaudy convict occupying the Oval Office; Prediction: when it happens, he’ll be lionized as the second coming of Christ. Even more than currently.

#aiart prompt 1002: Dark purple against light cyan: candid study. High contrast; two-tone; dramatic; gritty.

#aiart prompt 588: feeling disoriented, the person put their hand to their head; it felt as though the very world—reality itself—were twisting, distorting, spiraling through the cosmic ether.

/6 To me this is a little like the virtue of bravery. Bravery seems morally neutral in itself; its virtue depends on its ends. Very few people say "look, I don't agree with the 9/11 hijackers, but they were really brave and that's admirable."

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

#Fallout76: current camp build; very wip. Obviously, I’ve not really got around to wallpapers or decorations, as I’ve mostly been focused on the structure. But, some placed objects are suggestive of each room’s intent. The design is based on the vaults as seen in Fallout Shelter.

#aiart prompt 1001: Blurred, glitched, stretched, fuzzy, translucent, ephemeral: contemplation of the lavender.

#aiart prompt 587: a handful of layered, translucent, variegated rectangles, seen as in an isometric view, against a dark gradient background.