So I think I've got another "finale" song, this time for Symon, the barn owl Gunslinger: (I've got a few more, but I'm not 100% on their placement just yet.)

Sypheryan and Wyra were both kind enough to create the following graphics for our fundraiser!* I'm so happy for the help from both of you, and the little bits of progress being made every day or two. Help us fill the world with air and with fun; getting our own castles will help us do that.

It was a lovely day today, just enough cloud to paint the sky. Helped me make a case for a Thing. :V But also, that plum tree just keeps getting more beautiful! The deer were here last night while I was not, but my measures seem to have kept them from destroying everything! So far.

I don’t think I ever expounded on yesterday’s events; the big thing was, woke up early to stop by the nursery in Las Cruces again before a meeting, only to find I had a completely-flat tire. You know, the week I’m gonna be doing all that driving. Luckily, I could get it taken care of, but. x_x

Ahh, I think I figured out the trigger. We watched a short in class today that was… extremely unpleasant. I just gotta get through it.

Nope, not tiredness anymore I don’t think. I mean, it’s there, but. I am… absolutely in a state of supreme downward spiral, and I genuinely don’t know how to recover

I think I’m honestly just tired, but I’m definitely overwhelmed and had an uncomfortable number of conversations with Pachi on the drive up to Socorro about the phrase “sudden unplanned ventilation of the skull”

ive been in tears over this since i woke up

MY ANACONDA DON’T MY ANACONDA DON’T

“would strangle America’s golden goose”

Even Matt Walsh isn’t buying it

Bringing about Armageddon to get everyone to stop talking about the Epstein Files, no no that sounds about right

I have to wonder how others feel in their own bodies. Like, how is this a part of you? How do you want this part of you?

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

This week is gonna be a little hectic. Tomorrow, meeting with prof to discuss a Thing I'm trying to put together that he has experience with, then classes, then drive up to Socorro. Wednesday, drop of something for advisor, return home, picking up groceries on the way. Thursday, classes...

Already shared this picture yesterday because that’s when I put that arbor in, but today I drove it down a little further into the ground, then started leveling the ground beneath it. Still gotta plant the other rose on the right side, but to do that the ground’s gotta be elevated a bit.

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i can just get these out of the way in batches

hehehehe i found that pokopia generator

Hit the trail! 🪧 [ #art #designs ]

Toss in a side of Stanislav Petrov and then add the note that the goal of military AI is to automate him out of existence

Described as "creepy-cozy", Creature Kitchen is a cooking simulator where you befriend local wildlife and feed them their favorite snacks. "There's a strange house to search, a forest to explore, and plenty of stomachs to fill."

the future was supposed to look like this

I was just talking about this the other day! Y’know, about 20 years ago a friend of mine had a saying about certain computer companies that bought into Intel chips: they “drank the Itanium Kool-Aid”. One by one, we watched them all fall. Same’s happening now. Just different Kool-Aid.

Keep saying "slop" in reference to AI. At every opportunity. The techbros are listening, and this word makes them so sad on the inside that they'll hoist themselves on their own Streisand Effect petard.

Got the collards in the raised bed this afternoon; was hesitant, the forecast calls for a mild freeze Friday night, but apparently these things weather hard freezes just fine. Also, more of the plum tree, because it just keeps looking more gorgeous by the day. :D

More dreams last night. My aunt hosted a holiday gathering; while there, my sister decided to try to drive to a driving school, but the roads were so slick she couldn’t get into the parking lot. A cousin was trying to remodel their place; another collected money from various places.

The kids don't know about the Amanda Bynes poster hastily airbrushed to avoid implying she endorsed peace

i ❣️ bodily autonomy

Got a message back the next day; apparently they’re no longer brokering that building. The folks who are financing it decided to broker it themselves. Which… fine, I guess? Message was forwarded, no response yet. Maybe tomorrow.

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

Had a dream last night that I was traveling in the Philippines with some friends. We stopped at this kind of outdoor food court, and I waited in line for 20 minutes at a McDonald’s that had been sunken into the ground. But, I didn’t recognize any of the food options, so I got frijoles. It was good.

“But we HAVE to put a bajillion AI data center satellites in orbit! It’s the only way to keep up with the growing demand!”

Busted my ass the last couple days just trying to get a bunch of shit done. And, of course, the world busted my ass to keep me from doing it all. Had to search hours for tools, had my tablet monitor’s power supply die for no reason yet again… But SOME stuff got done. :V

My track record for pkmn starters: Charmander (reptile) Totodile (reptile) Treecko (reptile) N/A (skipped Gen4) Snivy (reptile) Fennekin (fire) Rowlet (cute) Sobble (reptile) Fuecoco (reptile) Take a huge fucking guess what GenX starter I’m looking at

It is pretty crazy, but we are also building concentration camps all over the country so. I mean it's top 10 right now though for sure.

it had to be done

Shot off a message about proposed office space being developed in the area I’d wanted to eventually put CORAX studios, like literally the exact fucking spot I absolutely cannot afford it, but fuck it, gotta shoot my shot. And if CORAX actually does take off, it’d be the perfect office space. :V

Meanwhile the US government’s automated systems have managed to shoot down, let me double-check my notes real quick… …a Mylar balloon and a drone piloted by the US government Yeah how’s that track record gonna translate to actual murder

Woke up a little earlier than I PROBABLY should have, but got some shit done. Cleaned up the old annuals, watered a bunch of stuff since we’ve been drier than the Sahara this winter, and got one of two roses in the ground. Lots to do. Gotta avoid getting overwhelmed. x_x

So, just in case you, like the CAH folks, were wondering why it took SCOTUS a year: The goal wasn’t the tariffs. The goal was the price increase. Now that the tariffs are gone, you’ve been paying them for a year—you’re used to it, right? That was the idea. “Let them eat cake.”

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

UI designers: If your UI necessarily has interactive pop-up notifications that cover up other interactable parts of the UI, give at least, AT LEAST one full fucking second before the pop-up registers interaction. Do not allow interaction immediately! I can’t even SEE the goddamn thing yet! STOP!

You know, this shit could easily be avoided if there were any goddamn communication whatso-goddamn-ever. But this administration is incapable of producing horse shit at a race track, so who’s even remotely surprised.

It is astounding. We were trying to find a list of scorpions in New Mexico to start working on a Thing, except all search engine results have been irreparably poisoned by the Arizona bark scorpion, and that alone. Sure, it’s in like Animas, but that’s about it. Not that you would ever know!

Along the same thread, we have been visiting Color Your World about once a week the last month or so, mostly because FDMA350 kept getting canceled for a bit there (Prof. Bakshi got sick). We have gotten a few new houseplants, as well as some replacement crop plants, collard greens and strawberries.