the eternal struggle of wanting to infodump the thing i'm researching while i'm researching it vs saving it all for the thing im putting together

if an article uses an AI banner image, i will not read it and will not trust what it says. if the author cared so little that they just generated some image to go with their writing, that doesn't bode well for how much they cared about being accurate

music corner is coming together

huh. okay. i pulled my fretless out of storage to actually fix it up and make it playable, and i found that the previous owner completely botched a locking strap install. so i gotta fix that. yay. fuck

i put off restringing my guitars by finally starting to scan through the backlog of film that i have hey, it worked i guess

sushi

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz

i would REALLY love if the iPhone keyboard would stop throwing in line breaks everywhere. it's so fucking insanely annoying and it's directly tied to autocorrect bc those line breaks only appear if the keyboard autocorrects a word.

FIRST WOMAN TO EVER WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. FIRST BLACK PERSON TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. FIRST FILIPINA TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. ACADEMY AWARD WINNER AUTUMN DURALD ARKAPAW.

i need to open this contraption again bc the FF and RW don't work. i know i messed something up with the belts. i don't wanna tho, i just wanna play music

those were some of the best fights i've ever seen in F1. incredibly fun race

pushing the red button to throw a tomato at crofty

ya girl taught herself PCB repair. i brought this device back to life!

today's a good day. i played drums and got some pan dulce. what more could i ask for

Better article re: the #TargetBoycott "The company confirmed to USA Today that it’s making no new commitments or reversals on its DEI policy." and "Black women across the country are reminding people that they started the boycott — and they’ll decide when it ends."

i opened it. and found several loose parts (some of which i was able to fix) and also a cracked circuit board fuck

microdosing California by making tamales in my bamboo steamer

Peanuts by Schulz: Thursday, August 23, 1984

tragic: girl builds thing up in her head, scared to actually fuck with it

IN CASE you doubted me

this is one of the primary reasons i dropped out. college was a struggle for me and the one field that fully captured me and made me wanna keep trying is Geology. unfortunately, Geology has exactly two career tracks. Extractive Mining/Oil. or Academia. and im a bad teacher

in my mind, it is impossible to reconcile "the Catholic church was a complicit and an active participant in the colonization, enslavement, rape, and complete decimation of Latin American society and culture" and "the only real church of the All-Good God"

@mayaventura.bsky.social found me a not a Tascam multitrack tape recorder at RePC. i've been looking for one for years. i don't get blank tapes til tomorrow but if this thing works ima have a full ass DAWless setup to do weird ambient, drone, or post-rock bullshit hell yeah

finished the scans of the BW roll i shot in LA. i am thrilled with the results and it really makes me want to dev my color shots.

things to fix your local Emma's brain: estradiol injection while waiting for film to scan while prog metal is playing guaranteed to work or your money back

all i wanna do is play pokopia, mama mia its addicting

this list def isn't right. this is just what came to me while procrastinating on dishes. games mean quite a lot to me and i have so many thoughts on game design and what games can say. fallout is missing, sly cooper is missing, burnout paradise is missing. there's too many games i care about!

eran rancheros.

i need the post apocalyptic cozy pokemon game to come out already

please take me out of my body up through the palm trees to smell california in sweet hypocrisy floating, my senses surround my body i wake my nose to smell that ocean burn

well, while i still find them fucking ugly, i have come to appreciate the utility of roll top bags. i get it. annoying

OH: shucking a tamal

i am in sensory hell. i am feeling soreness from five days of walking and shooting photos, and also from playing thrash metal drums for the first time in four years. and it's a different type of soreness for both.

i got to hop behind the kit for one song before their rehearsal time was up. i missed it so fucking much.

i crashed my old band's rehearsal

the sights and sounds are all the same the smell of morning enters a declining brain

i'm at a mexican cafe that played Maná into Juanes into Jaguares i needed this

i've always felt out of place in the coastal cities of SoCal. i always felt like an outsider whose only allowed into the walled garden of affluence. it feels even stronger when i'm actually a tourist. this is a fake place. it's a Disneyland built for rich dipshits to cosplay walkable communities

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

the Sun *is* a deadly laser

i'm not surviving whether i'm working on servers or go back to building houses i can make good art in the meantime. and some of that art might outlive me

they should invent a travel guitar that doesn't suck

my playlist started playing RHCP as soon as i landed at LAX. i am a parody of myself

my belief has always been that trying to tame the desert is a fools errand and places like Phoenix are spitting in the face of god i'm like 10 pages into the Cadillac Desert and i feel so immensely justified

i can think of no greater waste of ones precious human life than watching the state of the union

it's far from the worst thing this GenAI bubble has caused, but i hate that if i am talking about the programmed behavior of video game NPCs i need to clarify that i'm talking about game AI and not GenAI. it's not that i talk about game design a ton. but it does come up and is so annoying