Itty bitty lizard committee (Brown anole chilling near my reading spot)

Flea market today. Miles and miles of Plastic American Jesus paraphernalia. But I finally found a pair of sunglasses that fit.

Just added sandhill cranes to the bird list for this road trip

"Watch this, I'm gonna give them the nictitating membrane." "Why you gotta be so weird, Bob."

Yeah that’s cool

I don't normally disclose a live location like this, but I just watched some humans go to space. So, y'know. That's pretty neat.

Everywhere I've stopped to eat, there has been a tv with a cop show on it. This is one of the ways in which I do live in a bubble. I forgot this was, like, a thing.

One of the points of a road trip for me is always seeing new and interesting birds. Today was full of ibises and boat-tailed grackles, but after a day of looking for birds on purpose, this guy was just...hanging out on the roof. Did not care that I came out and took pictures.

protesting in this outfit is a real “heads I win, tails you lose” moment when it comes to the optics

Adorable: Outside the Air & Space Museum. Kid comes out running with a model plane, holding it way up high like it's flying. Stops. Hands it to mom. Mom thinks for a second, then holds it way up in the air and runs with it like it's flying. They're both smiling their heads off.

Kestrel is officially Out of Office* *On a road trip and probably about to post a bunch of dumb pictures

It has been brought to my attention that I should prove this is human-made, so here's the capture of me trying to freehand Linux Tux Original Flavor and then trying out ways of making it my own.

In the middle of a casual conversation about Wicked last night, this stranger at the bar said to me "You were a gleek, weren't you." LOOK. IT WAS A DRY TIME FOR TELEVISED MUSICALS. IT WAS ALL WE HAD.

JUST IN: Minnesota sues DOJ, DHS for access to evidence in the killings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...

What this tells us is the The Youth are not falling for it right now. (To be clear, The Adults shouldn't fall for it, either. The military will ruin your life.)

When I've accidentally swiped off my home feed

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Now that I have this Linux machine, I want a correct OS sticker for it, but I didn't love any of the existing ones I found. Somehow this has ended in me designing an entirely new base version of Tux, the Linux mascot, so I can add layers to him like a dress-up game.

My lifelong friend who got half-married today runs a community center, and after the ceremony, we were talking about how she got to use the narcan I brought for the center a while ago. This is what punk kids do when they grow up. They feed and medic people. They look after the next generation.

Friend let me know yesterday that they're "just signing paperwork, small gathering" getting married today. I'm very happy to be here, but it turns out there is a ceremony part, and I cannot take my hat off because I just bleached my roots and was giving them a few days before dying them to match.

*full of pain meds, trying to get my linux machine to talk to my printer* Yeah, maybe this should have waited until tomorrow.

There was a talk I wanted to go to, but it got rescheduled because of a snowstorm. It was rescheduled for tonight. Today there is a snowstorm. I'm starting to think this event controls the weather.

As more keys and ports have failed on my laptop, I finally bit the bullet and bought a refurb Thinkpad. Nothing like a fresh Windows install to convince me I'm making the right decision in switching this to a linux machine.

I have learned to Girl when I have to, but I often find myself wanting to sit a femme acquaintance down and say "Look, are you actually enjoying this hair and shoes bullshit, or could we talk about literally anything else right now"

Dear tv and movie writers: Please, PLEASE, eradicate the phrase "Do you understand me?" from scripts. It's so bad. I'm thinking of getting a click counter for it. A drinking game would be deadly.

Just to be clear, this isn't about taking those drivers off the road. It's about getting them to drive without licenses, because they need the money to survive, and later saying that they're being deported because they committed that crime.

"Dot swarmchat dot ai" makes this the lowest-effort thing I have ever seen in my life.

Today I bought a jar of assorted buttons at a thrift store. The buttons are all sorted into little bags. No bag contains matching buttons. Today I bought a project.

...did ai write this caption?

Who do you think does the haircuts on Voyager? Do they have holodeck stylists? If so, do they have to turn the safety off so they can cut hair?

Guy outside the bar: I'm so sorry, I'm, like, way too high to talk right now Me: No worries *stares at the snow falling* This guy: So anyway, let me tell you my entire life story

They call people who don't like ai "denialists" and meanwhile the dude is just saying this out loud

My current understanding is that ICE got a warrant, physically assaulted protesters to gain access to the house, arrested three people, *none of them were the guy named in the warrant* and nobody knows who they actually arrested.

"Roughly 100 protesters...have blocked the doors and are refusing leave...A growing crowd linked arms and formed a human chain around the building. People blew whistles, chanted “ICE out,” and directly confronted the ICE telling them to “get off the property.” www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

If you're still using Grammarly for some reason, it's past time to stop.

"I love Vermont, I'm glad I came home to it, I am doing good work here," I say to myself as I hide from my ex in a Walmart.

Me: I think this next laptop does need to be something with better specs. Orpheus: Sure. You're kind of a power user. Me: Power user? I am not! I'm just using the machine as Ada Lovelace and Margaret Hamilton intended! ...oh. No, wait, I see the problem.

This delivery driver throws treats to all the dogs on his route to see if they can catch. Spoiler alert: some of them definitely cannot. Still 13/10 for all (TT: jezzyvi)

If this were real (it's not), it would bring a new meaning to Ed Zitron's "I'll never forgive them for what they did to the computer."

*after a week of fucking around with potential cover art* My problem is that my art style is the wrong one. For everything.

Why do I feel like Harry Kim is wearing rollerblades just out of frame

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

This is soooo pleasing especially with SOUND ON!

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Don't bother with the survey; it's designed to force answers that look like you're cool with them using AI. Just block and move on.

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

The only thing I know to do about war is to warn people not to enlist. The military—all branches, all jobs—will fuck up your life even if they don't outright end it. It will not help you. It will not keep its promises. That shit ended with WWII. It will just ruin you and move on.

"Boy kibble." "Girl dinner." This is appropriating punk house culture.

Self sufficiency is an illusion, it ends with you eaten by bears in the Alaskan wilderness. Mutual aid and community is the reality that has kept humans alive for 300,000 years.

Going to do my strange "fuck capitalism/need money" dance here. I have a Ko-Fi. It's like Patreon, but less icky. I will soon need a new laptop and phone, so if you can pitch in even a dollar a month, it will help keep me doing what I'm doing. Now let me explain what I'm doing.