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

I just got one of these "bone-vibrating" listening devices (SHOKZ OpenRun Mini), I'm instantly impressed. There's nothing to be heard just being near them but putting them on my head, fairly loud volume. A little lacking in bass, but I can live with that. Plus your ears are still otherwise "exposed"

Y'know, I still try to be a "good boy", if there's a show I really like, I'll buy the discs for it. But, if you can't even bother to offer a physical copy, and you're telling me all I can do is "hope" it stays on a streaming platform I have... sorry, I'm gonna download shit.

Why was this the example

"Veo 3" AI stuff has been flooding my YouTube feed. I don't mind "AI slop" when used for comedic or absurd reasons, it's the least offensive route. What I can't believe is some of these compilations on YouTube are just stealing other AI clips. Like, autogenerate your own content, that's the point.

Installing Windows on a new mobo, it stalled with a vague window that was titled "Install driver to show hardware", and wouldn't continue. I have never seen this before, but ultimately, there was a USB Ethernet adapter that I guess had no default driver. And that stops the Windows installer now.

Sometimes... - Funny thing happened, start typing 3 paragraphs in Discord about it - "No one's gonna wanna read that", try to make it like one paragraph - Hmm, still too long, maybe just a couple sentences - Y'know what, forget it, it wasn't that funny anyway

Thinking about Tomodachi Life Switch, as it's gonna wind up being a "transition" game assuming it remains on Switch as the release platform, wondering if when we're in "Switch 2" era if there's gonna be new Switch games with an update being like "to play v1.3, you need a Switch 2, sorry"

"The regulator's broken... I mean, I could put it back on, but the regulator's broken..."

On the heels of that storm stuff, some around me that still don't have power (but they're almost there), anyway, my dad's driving an 800-mile-one-way trip, and I told him, watch the weather. If it gets nuts anywhere along that path, I don't care if he just camps somewhere for day or two. Stay safe.

Wicked storm through Pittsburgh last night, knocked out and destroyed a lot of power related stuff. Over 200,000 people without power, I was one of them for about 18 hours. Worst estimates, some may not see power restored for 5-7 days, though I'm guessing they're more in the rural sections

TV shows never like to do the stories where the main character was bullied and never got any exciting redemption arc, but instead just got to live with it.

Has anyone ever actually tried "YouTube Playables"? I don't go to this site to play games, it's more passive time-wasting. But also tired of seeing the fat ass yellow man

My grandmother is in hospice care (CHF), and I visited her yesterday for what might be the last time (sure looked the part), and I'm processing all of that. Meanwhile, day job's throwing issues at me that I can't relatively care about, but I'm supposed to. Never sure how to handle these days.