A commenter in particular said this thumbnail was pretty www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW17...

oh my god Google that's the basic mantra for pilots, it doesn't need to be translated

That dang blood-guzzling bird and his friend the werewolf cat are at it again... www.youtube.com/watch?v=A33S...

Xylophones are like one of the softest sounding instruments, a megaphone and all-caps title seems inappropriate

And another! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA2H...

It's only been like 4 months, but new video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBEB...

What is a coffin, but a time-capsule for my corpse

Had a dream that my brother wanted to try out a new card game, called "Uno 2: Angle of Attack!" All I remember was two wrapped packages of cards and the backsides had a stylized "2", but other than that, no idea what the "Angle of Attack" part was gonna be.

You MUST regret it

I sometimes think it's actually a challenge for Mario fan content makers to make low difficulty, casual levels, like what is typical of most Mario games.

It takes a little computer architecture understanding to fully appreciate it, but one of the reasons the older 8 and 16-bit consoles have wild and chaotic glitches is in part that, nothing "protects" the memory. Once those old CPUs get started, it's hard to stop them, even if they jump off a cliff

One of my favorite passive amusements is seeing out-of-context captions appear on YouTube Short thumbnails.

wtf, sausage shorts "You're going places" I don't know about that, AliExpress

"How could you not know that?!" "Well, if I knew how I didn't know it, I'd probably know it."

It probably says something about humanity that sometimes YouTube shorts are clips from a show played at 1.5x speed, because I guess we can't consume short form crap efficiently enough

Heh, I saw this on Amazon, "4X-Large is your recommended size based on millions of customer orders and reviews." I can't tell if that's a legitimate statistical thing or just a sad remark on the US general population

I swear, nothing pisses me off more than reading one sentence from a news article before it's like "Enter your email to receive free spam if you actually want to know anything about what's going on!"

had a moment I was in a Discord chat where I expressed "A" is not the same as "B", but I used the format -- "A" <> "B" -- because I was actively writing SQL code at the time for the day job. Someone said, "That's not how inequalities work", and I "corrected" it, added "sorry, I'm a dev :("

Me: "Nice, we get an extra hour of sleep tonight!" My body: "Oh, okay, so we'll just wake up at 6:30 instead of 7:30" Me: "No, that's not the point-"

A Halloween decoration from a house down the street

10 minute long video. "Does [thing that shouldn't work] still work?!" Jump to 9:30. "No, it doesn't!" Glad I didn't spent the additional 9:30 on that.

Product description: "The product supports plug-in use, eliminating your worries." Finally, the plug-in worry remover is available

I went to a furry convention, and all I got was this dang sunburn Sort of accurate, in any case, I guess I have to consider bringing sunblock to a convention in October, my face and arms are cooked red at the moment

Mod-makers should not be forcing me to "experience" their mod "exactly as they intended." If I want to do that, I'll install only their mod. If I want to add insane space lasers that mess up their intended experience, that's my prerogative. Video games are supposed to be "fun", not life and death.

Today's dumb thing, a failure to connect to a remote computer for the last couple months ultimately came down to someone typed the username "sftpdrop" as "stfpdrop" ("ft" vs "tf" transposition) I'm both glad and really annoyed it was something so simple and stupid

Interesting thing this morning. After I did the "merger" of the channels, I got at least three comments in about an hour this morning of people basically saying "I haven't seen you for YEARS!" This pretty much confirmed that YouTube clearly is not promoting my stuff, not even to subscribers usually

For those interested in my content, I folded the old former "Misalignment" channel into Southbird mainline, for various reasons. But I didn't expect YouTube to notify everyone of 80 videos being moved. Their own documentation said they'd only mention up to 3 in 24 hours, but clearly that's wrong...

heh, was just watching a "grandparents make awkward Facebook post" type vid, and I suddenly realized, all my grandparents are dead ... so, how's the day going

Two modes: "I'M SURE I'M RIGHT, I JUST CAN'T FIND IT" vs "Okay, found it... wait, fuck, I'm wrong"

Trying to get back into drawing. Always told myself I should draw more fanart of @cptsouthbird.bsky.social for literal months now (or fanart of anything in general...). Anyway, here's the sketch, finally. I am still pretty bad at art. #bird #avian #fanart #furry #furryart #sketch #othertagsIDK

Flubbed statement in a video, some mix of trying to say "save time" or "alleviate the situation" became: "I'm gonna save you guys a lot of alleviation right now." Thanks?

Plok Boss Music that is all

Time-saving YouTube tip. If someone asks a question in the title, and the video is like 15 minutes long, they probably answer it somewhere in the middle, and you can probably have your answer in 30 seconds on Google.

The modern personal horror -- a Windows connect/disconnect sound you didn't instigate "BUT WHAT IS/WAS IT"

There's two reasons I may use the YouTube "Not Interested" feature. 1) Political or otherwise vitriolic bullshit 2) EWWW, EWWW, I NEVER WANT TO KNOW, THROW THAT IN THE DUMPSTER, I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THAT X CRAWLING IN THEIR Y, LALALA

It never matters what's in the blur section, I, by habit, cannot click this fast enough, without reading whatever it is. I don't care. I never care. And I'm annoyed it asks "why", because the answer is always, I DON'T CARE

One of those YouTube self-censors I've been hearing lately is "ish" for "shit" That's ""great"" and all, but it definitely changed the sound of the following statement: "This is the worst shit ever!" ... which was read as ... "This is the worst-ish ever!" ... kinda alters the impact

heh, the timing of that shot of an annoyed looking audience right when an unrelated error dialog popped up

My sister is about to fly out to Germany from the US to begin her new job (and life I guess) with her family and cat... I wish her the best.

Starting up a heavily modded MC server and watching all the billion exception messages go by, that are just considered normal business... one can't help but still be like "dude, are you okay?"

Just got this on my phone. What's cool about this is, the general local advice I've heard around here are "there aren't really local numbers, just call 911 and tell them it's not an emergency", which always seemed kinda stupid, but in this case, well... I don't even have local numbers to call

Funny how often I see like a 20 minute YouTube essay, but I could get all the info I need from reading Wikipedia for about 30 seconds

Meanwhile, at work

One of the possibly ironic things in my life, I am, and have always been, a socially anxious introvert. But it doesn't meant I don't want to "say things." By default, I try to avoid social situations and talking to people, etc., but, y'know. Streaming's been nice in that regard, I can just "talk"

Heard my current 100% WFH job was considering 1-day/week return-to-office - On this project, no end in sight, it's mostly support, not new innovation - 95% of the people I work with on it are out-of-state - The local people I do work with, "collaboration" is like having an hour meeting twice a month

Got a reply to a 10-year-old YouTube comment of mine. To a channel I don't even follow anymore, related to drama I haven't thought about in years. It was, quite simply, "Unfortunately not", and I can't remember much about the context at this point.

Funny how easy it can be to "hear" AI narration sometimes, like this video that talked about "California's Interstate six-eight-zero", which is basically how no human would say it unless they were trying to be super clear for some reason. "Aye six-eighty" (I-680) would be more likely