Having to use AI at work is pretty meh I hate the externalities Deity save us all from the live service slop universe we’re trapped in (but it pays more)

Yearly reminder that Paying to have your taxes done is a scam by TurboTax and intuit who lobby the govt to keep shit complicated The irs provides a list of organizations that file and do a lot of the work for you, for free Watch the upsells though

In miraculous news I found another pair of no-waist-gap jeans off the rack when my last ones just died on me Tailoring is great and all but a decent fit right away is better

kill all fake lovers

Small joys Licking off the yogurt lid Ice water in winter the as soon as you start to warm up Sleepy kitten stolen tummy pets

2.5 litter machine downsides 1 hard to check on digestive health when evidence is whisked away 2 empty the bag/drawer day is vile. So vile. We open all the windows. 2.5 cat is long /large and machine potty area is small. Mars may never learn to put his front paws towards the outside.

I like long walks on the beach after you try to get me to go outside for an hour and I keep refusing because I am cozy and it’s too bright outside

Things I had to fight my adhd to do so far today Pt routine Call parent Unemployment paperwork(although that should be over now until who knows when) Cast on a second sock for a pair 🧶 Start lunch I feel I’ve done far more than a full workday, since “go to work” feels like just one thing.

Age verification? I remember when the first Leisure Suit Larry asked you a bunch of questions at the start and booted you out if you didn't know the answers, because only an adult would know them

If I had not known who won the superbowl I would now Certainly a lot of hoots happening

One (of many) weakness Japanese salad dressing

American girls are always talking about her/she's kisses

What is it with the knife lickers in anime anyway ?

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

My mantra for the eternal sweater of lace suffering (not the actual name of the pattern): This whole thing is way less stitches than a sock This whole thing is way less stitches than a sock

I think most game dev teams underestimate how damaging slow workflows are to the ultimate quality of their game. If it takes 5 minutes to launch the game and see your changes, I think your game is going to be MUCH worse than the alternate timeline where it took 1 minute

Regular zip Hoodies are _not_ where it’s at Why isn’t absolutely everyone into sweaters ?? Im so cozy I can’t deal with it

“How could any card game be fair when not everyone had access to the same pool of cards? My friend Sam had been a big player of the card game Magic The Gathering. We’d argued about this more than once.” M. Dinnimam dropping truth bombs about games in the Carl series

I see lines at ramen shops so often and it’s baffling that a 20 person line at a shop seating 60 people has an hour wait Like Seattle I’m sorry but eating ramen for more than 20 minutes ain’t it - the noodles get soggy at some point no matter how firm you order them

The game Flotsam is as cute as I hoped it would be when I wish listed it years ago. This is what I wanted to play.

Having a large, heat sucking formstone counter of some kind or another has really made me reconsider place mats (before: useless. Now: appealingly insulative) Please let my pasta be warm for more than 10 seconds thanks (I’m fine I’m using folded tea towels and life is so much better than it was)

Watching the 3 body problem and an old game was mentioned and yall should know if you didn’t already that strip poker on the commodore 64(although we had a 128 and a cartridge for 64 compare) Was real

I should probably play caves of qud right?

Where does one anonymously journalblog these days? I guess I could just ao3 a bunch of thoughts but I don’t want to do that to my fic readers, who would be looking for lewd Redacted after an 8 year hiatus.

Did you know that for five bucks a month you get access to the PBS passport streaming app which has tons of incredibly good shows and documentaries and things and it helps support their funding?

Ok sure

Often for the new year I do make a little list and remind myself of things like Be kinder Cardio Vegetables This year in my unwillingly unemployed state the winter holiday liminal timespace has just extended backward into mid October, when I found out the project I was on would end.

normal human maintenance is the Sisyphean task set Rx obtain Pt routine Job applications (or job) Feed self Become clean Maybe it’s the adhd and SAD but this seems like more things than a primate ought think about in a day Still need to set up a printer, clean off old pc, clean piano

I thought about it and I only want to knit things for Me I daydreamed about gifts for a while But it’s ok to just have a hobby making nice things with nice materials and enjoying the things

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

@hamlette.bsky.social q-up game may be your jam. Spatially based+item builds Some interesting classes/characters Most characters are (mostly) set skills per level but there is a roguelike character to unlock It goes Full Balatro eventually

Q-Up is definitely a thing We live in interesting times

Not to advertise but it seems that Libro.fm doesn’t suck at all for audiobooks Seattle Built is a great little local company for a new pc build

Tired: unemployment benefits Wired: UBI

Uncertain if it’s seasonal or layoff related but doing 1-3 not recurring, self-initiated things per day is destroying me Today it was pushing on the “please take your hardware back, ex employer” thread so now maybe I’ll get shipping boxes. and filing for unemployment. Some things are nicer -

There are way way way too many screws in electric keyboards I may never return it to an assembled state And Since the kb still needs more disassembly (it stinks) Might as well go all in

You can learn so much by adopting a baby creature Like how to take apart an electric keyboard so you can get the cat pee out of it

Brushing up my resume and poking at the job search assist service ri*t games gives me thru May of next year I uh Was at Microsoft a long time. The very real possibility of maybe going back for one of their game studios or something has jogged a lot of memory

The kitten(8.5mo old): chewing and weird mouth things in his sleep Me: aww he’s dreaming about eating plastic

*beastie boys* well old homer simpson made nuclear POWER getting paid peanuts by the HOUR all the employees are taking TURNS getting abused by mr BURNS and so he became a union MAN going on strike for a dental PLAN didnt want his daughter to make FUNNY FACES because after all LISA NEEDS BRACES

Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

I am, it turns out, pretty sad about my little r&d team getting canned I’ll be ok but looking for jobs in the dark season is dreary!

My partner is the best pet photographer I could ask for.