Flowers cover Chile's Atacama Desert in spring. The Atacama Desert, in northern Chile, is covered in colourful flowers. The phenomenon, known as the 'flowering desert,' occurs in certain years when rainfall and temperatures coincide, awakening the desert's dormant seeds

Do the homework. It’s a bummer maybe at first but then look hey you actually know something and can use it.

Well, crap 😕

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Early evening me: I should go out and mingle. Later that night: I should have stayed home to play video games and watch movies. 😒

To any journalist who wants to describe video games or video game culture: there are plenty of free to play games you can try out and there are also game forums you can read for free. You don't have to go on air and just make stuff up.

Recently signed back up for WoW (playing retail ATM). It's fun playing a polished MMO again. My goblin hunter always cracks me up too.

An interesting listen. Also, I'm reading Adam Becker's book (More Everything Forever) and it's great! 📖

A rapture? In this economy? 🙄

A good listen. I like the example of the iPhone. No one had to waste much time explaining why the original iPhone was good. As soon as people knew what it was, they wanted it. "AI" on the other hand needs endless think pieces and apologists and still isn't something most people want.

🚨NEWS ALERT! BREAKING!!🚨 🐕

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Working from home today. Soundtrack by Counting Crows, August and Everything After.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

An interesting listen

Legislatures in several states have made food coloring products illegal, however, people keep dyeing. 😝🙄

*cheering* 🫆 🔍 🚓

Enjoying Stranger Things (AKA: 80s Wood paneling, the show. OMG, I forgot how popular that stuff was) 🪵

Well, managed to get online in NMS on another save. Looks like my main save is bad. Sent in a ticket to see if it's recoverable. It may be related to the planet I was porting to: it's the edge of the Euclid Galaxy one where I set up a fishing village. An artifact for digital archeologists now.

I have been laughing at this joke all day. 🦉

Whelp ... the NMS update was fun right up to where the game threw me out and won't let me back in.

Got the latest No Man's Sky update last night with the new Voyagers update. Didn't have time to play it but I suspect there will be many NMS adventures this weekend. 🚀 🐸 www.nomanssky.com/voyagers-upd...

I started watching Stranger Things last night a mere *checks notes* almost 10 years after it first came out. I am at the forefront of U.S. culture and will not be taking questions at this time. 🍻

WOMBO ZOOM ATTACK! (Source: www.facebook.com/share/v/1Arf...)

Lunch: homemade chicken and rice soup!

Listening to 80s techno music. My angsty, mullet-having teenage self sends his regards.

Saying this again: there is a scammer out there targeting newbie authors, claiming I'm one of their clients. They use different names, and I'm already pursuing legal action. But I have never worked with a PR company, editing service, or book packager, so anybody saying so is lying, period full stop.

Had to bail out of yet another Star Trek online mission due to bugs. It really is amazing that this piece of junk is still around.

It's not the weekend yet. 😒 This notice brought to you by the Bilwise Work Week Monitoring System.

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Dinner: spaghetti, featuring my mother's meat sauce recipe. 🍝

There is a sales meeting in the office today. They're being served lunch each day they're here. They leave leftovers in the break room. Each day this week, I have had two lunches. 😝

SELLING 2 TICKETS TO NYE, AUG 13 & AUG 14 Asking face value. Fairly close - both are in Row D A bit last minute as someone on Discord expressed interest but has changed their mind. Please DM me if interested.

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i'm sorry for posting facts:

Grasp, based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in the 90s

We are going to spend the next few years finding out exactly *why* it was a horrible idea to unleash a tsunami of vibe-coded apps made by idiots and scammers on an unprepared world. Welcome to the Entirely Foreseeable AI Consequences Era.

Last week, I got an email from Microsoft. It told me I’d be paying 46% more for my Office subscription, starting next month. But when I tried to cancel, it offered me the same price I was already paying — without the generative AI features I never asked for in the first place.

Farewell, Ozzy ☹️

Did anyone think that maybe the fox just wanted someone to read them a story? 🦊 📖

Lunch: quesadilla! Quesadilla 🫓

And when asked why by Imperial goons set on having her resume work on the Death Star she said only "it's a peaceful life." #andorbrain

Baby goats work on their balance beam routine. 11/10 🥇

Being an adult is so cool you get to stay up as late as you want and eat whatever you want and get back pain and heart burn and return emails and pay taxes and sit on the phone with the car insurance and pay someone to fix your garbage disposal wait

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

We’re headed into back to school season and we as a country have dramatically underfunded our teachers. Many have made wish lists for school supplies. If you’re feeling like you can’t do anything to stop ALL OF THIS, maybe donate and put a little love and joy into the world and make some kids happy.

Found the official name of the new Dune movie you're welcome.

Happy birthday to Moo Deng! 🎉 🦛 🎂

Texas roadrunners! Picture taken of the field across from where I work.