I genuinely believe that people don't appreciate just how much of all the bad vibes right now are still largely a COVID hangover. It was a profoundly traumatizing event for American society, on the order of the civil war or the great depression and we've largely decided to just pretend

my legs are protesting my recent decision to exercise them

dishy mcflatface

the emperor has no clothes

retuvn

I find this idea quite endearing

Omigod Omigod Omigod, my plantain has a teeny little sprout :3

I think the concept of epistemic hygiene got too caught up on how to avoid contaminating others with your icky biases and not enough on how to clean up the aftereffects of using logic in your head. Because, you know, thinking stuff isn't actually a neutral action.

Today I used the box technique to draw the best chair I've ever drawn and I'm mad about it

newer computers are less effective boat anchors than older ones laptops are basically useless

i finally put this in sidetrail like i've been meaning to. good thing i procrastinated till after the refresh, eh?

Gawd I wish that were me :'-(

Today I channeled Loki for flexibility. My offering is to be telling people terrible jokes, also maybe burning a piece of beef later to keep with tradition. "He's not picky" , except I am highly skeptical. He's gonna want something really over the top next time I know it.

Check it out.

So, I wrote a thing about writing a thing. Beware, may contain trace amounts of madness.

i just walked "What happened to sidetrail?" by @valerierayne13.bsky.social sidetrail.app/@valerierayn...

I have decided. Fuck trying to find a leftbrain frame for magical thinking, I'm gonna become a witch. No more distantly appreciating the aesthetic; time to cast spells. It's dumb to believe in the psychological power of ritual and not be making regular use of it to adjust my own psychology.

Hey @sealight.xyz Do you have the lexicon doc for the annotations type posted anywhere I could stare at it a bit?

With a ketchup bottle, one will squeeze out as much sauce as their heart desires or more. With ketchup packets, one will squeeze out just as many as they have the patience to and ratchet down their dipping to fit. I bet this is a metaphor for something

windows please i have homework

That is evil genius right there

I am doing such an excellent job at predicting how long tasks will take that it has become *relevant* whether I skive off from schedule. Oh what a problem to have!

They say 'the reward for doing good work is more work', and 'there are no prizes for meeting basic requirements'. That's not very motivating. Let's change the incentives. Post a recent thing you did which you could use just that little bit of encouragement or appreciation for! #MundaneWins

the local news yesterday very earnestly explained how photos taken with your cellphone may contain information you didn't intend to share with the world I know objectively this is a very good service they're providing to their audience but I died a little bit inside

SELLOUT! TRAITOR! SHILL! (like, in all fairness me too) BUT BE BETTER THAN ME! RESIST THE DARK SIDE!

a peer-to-peer system is what we need. ShameTorrent

i just walked "touch grass" by @chadtmiller.com 9/10 would walk again

i love making videos for an audience of 3 contacts of whom none reliably click into the app every day

Thinking about the difference between: - we can’t prove he did this thing, which is a crime - we can prove he did this thing, but can’t treat it as a crime - we can prove he did this thing, which is a crime but shouldn’t be What does it mean if he shot the guy, but did not commit murder?

okay so, the décime/10minutes is about an incense stick and the hour is an inflated shichen 🤔

This litany, but applied to 70% of rationalist shibboleths

you may not like it but this is what peak agency looks like

Goblin Tools is a good

Chisenbop is such a clever counting system, but it turns out that with any significant quantity of items I need one of my hands to mark WHERE I am at in the space of things-to-count or I'll keep losing my place.

Sometimes I think about how violent, sex negative, and weirdly vanilla dark romance is. I also wish I could explain proper gang/mafia related codes of ethics vs an MMC who is just violent and emotionally abusive. Loving a bad man is different than he’s not bad because I love him.

HE CANNOT BE KILLED IN A WAY THAT MATTERS

I, too, could probably get good at art if I spent a subjective age iteratively attempting to recreate thousands of other peoples' creative works and photos. But I got other shit to do, while the AI does not

the amount of strife caused in my life by the fact that the ideal temperature to brew tea is far from the ideal temperature to drink it

boomerang is frisbee for lonley peopl

this promethazine cough syrup has NO BUSINESS tasting as tasty as it does it's taking me actual impulse control to not just drink bottle straight wtf

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im sick. negative covid test makes me feel better for all of 15 seconds, emotionally, before my foggy mind puts together that this makes zero difference *physically*. i don't have covid, great. i am still sick.

At the dinner table with family was a terrible time to scroll over a strong reminder that I'd left the adult content warnings off.

"if you 99% avoid eating eggs, you’re very good at lacto vegetarianism, and if you 99% avoid having adulterous sex, you’re very bad at monogamy and everyone will be mad at you" this construction gives me sparkly feelings✨

Is it just me or does “No prophet is accepted in his hometown” read exactly like an artist defending themselves with "I'm unappreciated in my time u__u"

> be me > woman up and ask a chat AI to help me compose that message I've been procrastinating on > its first draft is so much better than anything I could have come up with on my own > pride stings > shout at computer "WHY IS THE AI SO MUCH BETTER AT WORDS THAN I AM?!?" > ...question answers itself

From today’s walk. October being beautiful 🌿

I feel like everytime @anthropic.com comes out with something I get chills down my spine because a bunch of AI capabilities just became *real*, as in concretely obvious and accessible.

how hard would it be to make a reverse image search over Bluesky? asking for a me. I want to never post a meme when I could instead quotepost the closest person in my network graph who already posted it.