Idk that this is woke but I think elected members of congress and their families should not be able to hold individual stocks. They can have index funds but I honestly think anything else can’t help but being insider trading.

Can’t figure out how to sort out the feeling that I would’ve loved my daughter just as much if she’d been any combination of genes and never known the difference, but also feeling like I would literally die if I didn’t have my exact baby girl exactly the way she is.

Thinking about how cute it is that humans try to communicate with the same modes even if it doesn’t make sense. If I’m whispering on a Discord call, you also whisper, even though we aren’t in the same room. If you’re brushing your teeth and silently gesturing, I’ll silently gesture back at you.

i care about nothing today other than what flavor of pop tart gets sacrificed

Yesterday my girl slept so terribly I thought we might need to leave Christmas at my parents so she could sleep in her own bed, but tonight she put herself back to sleep for the first time. Way to turn the corner, honey.

Two hours into the demo for Trails In The Sky 1st and the vibes are pretty cozy so far? Very like… classic RPG. Idk. It’s appealing even though nothing has happened except dad leaving

I'm unpacking with Nightmare Before Christmas on in the background and this part genuinely stunlocked me. I almost dropped the plates I was holding.

When I was a teen, people would compliment me on my singing voice but not in the way I wanted. People would say whatever I was singing sounded beautiful, but I didn't want it to be beautiful; I wanted to be punk. I wanted to be compared Hayley Williams, not Charlotte Church.

Rivendell is elvish for "The Sequel to Mystdell."

I think people are so obsessed with having definitions that are precise that they fail to have definitions that are accurate. “Not having a publisher means you’re indie” is very easy to concretely evaluate. It’s also very wrong.

(7.4 spoilers ish but only for something that was shown waaay pre-patch) tumblr is enjoying the saga of the .

“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia. It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”

Spending my workday watching lyric videos made in Windows Movie Maker and uploaded to YouTube 17 years ago.

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

It’s so funny that the best parental leave I’ve heard of in the US is 16 weeks which lines up basically perfectly with the 4-month sleep regression. Welcome back to work, hope you like sleep in 90 minute increments.

This is like paying the guys that robbed your house to also burn it down.

It’s so weird that there’s a type of doctor you can see where half the time they’re checking to see if you have cancer and the other half they’re evaluating your skincare routine.

Me (washing my hands constantly so I can do tongue tie exercises for my baby): My hands are the driest they’ve ever been in my life. Me (constantly putting moisturizer on baby because it’s winter and her skin is dry): My hands are the softest they’ve ever been in my life.

Has anyone written a linguistics paper on how we mix up fifty and fifteen when we hear them but not thirteen and thirty?

Found out that the doctor who delivered my child is an influencer with over 100k followers on instagram.

I miss my mom.

Thinking about how meaningful Harry Potter was to me for my entire adolescence/young adulthood. It’s tied up in some of my favorite childhood memories and even some of my best memories with my late mom. It was a part of my first wedding ceremony. None of that makes it worth supporting a terf.

I don’t understand why so many Democrats seem convinced that they can win over Republican voters. Those voters like Republicans and vote for them because they like their wretched policies. They do not want the diet version

Love taking any opportunity to message my husband “taking the baby and leaving”

My problem with Qobuz is that its recommendation algorithm seems to just be “music your high school boyfriend likes” but it does legitimately pay creators way more per stream. Fantastic if you already know what you want to listen to.

in order: purchasing on bandcamp, streaming or purchasing from qobuz, streaming from most other platforms (apple music, tidal, deezer, etc.), or pirating (if financially unable to afford other options) are all valid alternatives to supporting the spotify corporation.

Private Equity

Why do they call it an oven when you of in the cold food of out cold oh shit my oven's broken

Up for the past 20 hours, 17 of which were spent traveling. Baby is down, hopefully for the night. I sleep now.

In the tutorial for Kingdom Hearts, in the middle of telling you critical things like how to move, jump, attack, and interact, the game tells you that breaking crates can sometimes give you items. This happens literally 0 times after the tutorial. Not even one additional time.

It actually breaks my heart that we had to leave the morning after giving her the PlayStation so I will not receive any more of these beautiful insights.

“Mickey Mouse didn’t look happy, which made me scared because he always looks happy” - my 9 year old niece, on Kingdom Hearts

I think people really don't appreciate how remarkable it is that the games industry releases hundreds of video games every year when you consider that not one person on earth knows how to make a video game

When somebody just gives you a weird vibe and you can't really put your finger on why, you have some Je Ne Sais Qualms

Calling my baby a deeply unserious person when she refuses to latch properly.

ATTENTION SPEEDRUN FANS‼️ I accidentally bought AGDQ tickets on the same day I'm supposed to get married & they cost me $2,000 (plane, registration, hotel, etc.) If anyone wants to go take my place for FREE it's going to be at the St. Marys church his name is John he's 5'10 super nice guy

Facebook marketplace is enrichment for stay-at-home moms. You get to check something on a regular basis, experience the thrill of getting a good deal, and have an excuse to leave the house and drive somewhere.

It's actually not that hard to jailbreak words and then use them however you like, if you don't mind voiding your language's warranty.

Thinking about Arcane Citadel: Duel of Mages.

It turns out that providing an economic incentive to plant a bunch of trees is good, actually.

This, and also I sometimes think wistfully about RoboRosewater. The takeover of LLMs took beautiful things from us.

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It’s my birthday and I, having a newborn, do not have the time to fish. Please fish in my stead.

As someone with some, but not a lot of music theory knowledge, I am captivated by how difficult a question “what key is this music in” is. You just kinda hope it starts or ends on a note that makes sense? Minimize accidentals?

The sound is mandatory here.

The last of my Silksong LP went up this week, so now I can recommend checking it out in full. I really enjoyed the game, I ended up thinking a lot on design level pieces as I was going through this. An excellent title, an excellent experience. Love those little fleas! m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A bunch of rich assholes threatened to leave Massachusetts when we added a millionaire tax and guess what. They didn't leave and it's raised billions of dollars for the commonwealth

one of the most talented people I know made a parser game Obra Dinn-like? yes yes yes yes yes

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

It’s not in the zeitgeist now so I want to make sure it gets the credit it deserves: The Roottrees Are Dead is an incredible notebook puzzler. Honestly top-tier up there with Return of the Obra Dinn. What a joy to play and watch other people experience.