"If I was going to kiss you, it'd be because I'm stupid and I couldn't help myself." "...acceptable."

A Corvid+ tale of this past Wednesday, in emoji. (Words in alt text)

Did anyone see my last marble? I'd saved it to give it away Since I was a youth Now I don't have the proof Only words, only words, only words... And what good are they?

Also, I have learned that today is National Cat Day. So here's Tau, either doing an epic slow blink at me, or falling asleep sitting up. #kittykittykitty

Subaru logo stars. #photo #stars #Pleiades #subaru

Funny, I've only ever heard it referred to as "The Epstein Ballroom". To add some class, what about "La Promenade des Énigmes"?

The true sign you’re really an adult: Looking for something in your domicile and muttering, ”Goddamn I have too much stuff.”

I think BlueSky is driving me back to using Reddit. Yeah, Reddit is bad, the owners are awful, and god some kids are dumb, but the relative lack of anti-AI righteousness and political shrieking sure is refreshing.

Things that damage conservative man's masculinity: Using a straw, lunchboxes, anything not beer or whiskey, sunscreen, ChapStick, emojis, anything mental health, cats, style, and reusable shopping bags. But a trans girl can't lose hers despite any degree of hormones and surgery. Huh! 🤔

If you ever wondered what my ADHD brain likes to listen to while I do various thinky tasks. (For best results, sort by Recently Added) open.spotify.com/playlist/2DE...

With Alt text, of course.

#caturday #tortie

Repeatedly typing up posts and hitting cancel. Except for this one.

Come on brain chemistry, you can't do this to me, it's not even winter yet. There's still 12 hours of daylight!

Playing with/learning to do things in Unreal Engine and its cursed editor. I made a ball to throw around that is spawned as a temporary object with a velocity vector. *81* lines of C++ NOT counting comments and empty lines. I am now convinced UE is the cause of psychosis in the games industry.

I always forget it's the weekend, and suddenly the Trending Topics on here take a 270° turn...

Hello, Tau! #caturday #tortie

My big fancy mechanical keyboard was acting weird. I ended up Googling about it. It required a soft reset and now it works fine. Has technology gone too far? 🤔

The Doomer Catastrophazi in shambles.

Freeze warning tonight. Winter is coming. ❄️

Tau's penthouse perch, keeping an eye on the scene. #caturday #tortie

Updated all my iThings to *OS 26 today. It seems fine, and I like the new windowing system on iPadOS. But... 3D is back, baby! I'm amused at the cyclic nature of UI fashion. Does my noticing this mean I'm old now?

So! I enslaved CoPilot in Visual Studio to GPT-5 to bludgeon Unreal Engine as my first real AI-assisted coding project. Can confirm: AI writes ugly code. 🤮 But it's great being able to type "What the fuck is this?" when the cognitive weapon that is UE&VS attacks with eldritch error codes.

🎵 But I won’t get clothes online 'cause I get worried about the fit 🎵 🎵 But that rule don’t apply concerning my relationships 🎵

Absolutely deserved.

I'm glad I stumbled upon progressive/melodic trance, or I think I'd still be stuck listening to the same stuff I liked in high school. #Trance

Still solar powered. I like how her markings look here! #caturday #tortie

Who else is betting that the media will pay more attention to Charlie Kirk getting shot than it did to the last school shooting?

AirPods Pro 3 look lovely, but Apple f'ing burned me on the AirPods Pro I wasted $200 on before, so as much as I generally like Apple and have iThings galore, I will never buy AirPods again. Basically, had them serviced via a program to address the crackling issue so many people were having. ⬇️

Calm DOWN, officer! At least let me get these nitrile gloves on...

M-O-O-N, that spells moon.

The rate at which the days get shorter this time of year always messes with me.

Fun fact: Cats are at least partially solar powered. #caturday #tortie

To sleep, to dream, now there's the rub. I could drop a toaster in my tub. Would all be glad, if I were dead? Could I perhaps kill them instead? -- Green Eggs and Hamlet

The worst part about ennui is that it's so French. (Le plus terrible avec l’ennui, c’est qu’il est si français.)

@gregmorosoff.bsky.social #MenWithCats

Here's a thought: Regarding the White House scheduled announcement today, I think the worst-case scenario re: Trump would be for him to "temporarily" resign due to illness, Vance takes over, and the MAGA cult stays in thrall because Dear Leader is presumably coming back.

Work long enough with the machine, and numbers like 4032, or 16128 come not as numbers but as faces glimpsed in the crowd, almost-friends, not quite, the eyes wrong, the mouth different, yet you look again, because memory insists you once knew them.

While out running earlier, I saw a Great Egret. Which I have never seen before and are downright kind of spooky. No pic, alas.

@mrgooshball.bsky.social , since we have a shared love of eggcorns, I present: Little skeletons.

Remapping the Caps Lock key on the iPad’s Magic Keyboard to Escape, and now pondering if I should do that on my big desktop keyboard...

Hey, those are my slippers. #caturday

Neat! The last Apple Watch update enabled the blood oxygen sensor. Doesn’t look like they settled the patent case, so I guess they worked around it. This of course happens like a week after I bought a standalone pulse-ox meter. At least it was only $20.

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Oi. I understand that BSky rewards knee-jerk anti-AI sentiment, but I swear most people don't even know what the term encompasses, on top of being 100% uncurious. My reply to someone who seemed to think AI fire detection cams are the same as LLMs:

Hey @mrgooshball.bsky.social remember when I quipped about the DC patrols being like tasking STEM grads with picking up trash? 🤣

Eye-opening life experiences after 30: Seeing photos of someone you dated as a teenager and haven't seen in the interim. ⌛