Actually funny April Fool joke

It's funny. Half the ads I get on YT are for AI services and software. I block every one. Sometime I block them twenty or thirty times, since I'm stuck with them until I can skip 'em. You'd think any modestly functional algorithm would go "Hey, he *hates* AI! We should show OTHER ads to him!"

*orders a hot mocha beverage* *gets a hot matcha beverage* *unaware due to lid* *first sip scrambles taste receptors for an hour*

Watching a video of German board games with TheMate. I feel dumber with every passing second. o.O @iridiumwolf.bsky.social , Trains of Mars is like unto Snakes and Ladders.

I know I've seen it before, but the Golden Sisters of Battle still spark joy.

Oh what could that be in the short list for the New York Festivals 2026 Radio Awards award for fiction audio book, could it be There Is No Antimemetics Division by me, qntm, narrated by Rebecca Calder?

the very specific ADHD feeling of buying a new thing because you need it, going to put it away, and finding that you already have that exact same model sitting there

Inflation Timeline xkcd.com/3223/

ICE is detaining LGBT+ asylum seekers with no criminal record and separating same-sex families, even when people are following the law. This is happening right now. I just signed this petition – can you add your name too? a.allout.org/s/O53MQ/

There is just nowhere to *take* a dog on a cold, rainy day. (Checked with the local Petsmort - they can't board her for the day, she just had her vaccinations yesterday and they insist on a 48 hour wait postvax.) Fortunately, she's pretty much happy sleeping on the passenger seat with me.

The entire kitchen and bathroom has been packed up, for the second time in as many months, for roach spraying. We've got it down to an *art*. Now I need to spend the next nineish hours out of the flat. With the dog. Hmm. What? No, not 'road trip'. Silly girl.

Sure, let's see what's on th- ... no. Oh no.

Not saying this would fix me, but it sure wouldn’t hurt.

BTW if anyone can do a good cave johnson impression I would literally pay money to hear him say this. x) It's exactly the sort of unhinged nonsense he'd say

I'm admittedly kind of evangelistic about radio.garden, but oh well, you're just going to have to endure me blethering again about it. Every glowing green dot on the globe is a location with at least one online radio station. You can listen to radio from anywhere that's currently on air. 🧵

Sick. Been sick for a few days. Flu-like symptoms plus a sore throat. Ick.

Here is you chance to become a Wizard of Speed & Time, and it won't cost $1000/sparkle!

"It's Pachelbel's Canon." "It is not." "The key is different, and the tempo, and it's in a different mode, but it's STILL Pachelbel's Canon!" "..." "You ok?" "I just invented the Pachelbel's Canon of Theseus."

I need a mashup pic of Trump in his garbage truck, on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, under the "Mission Accomplished" banner. I mean, it's coming, might as well get ahead of it.

New book on ADD has arrived! Can't wait to dig into it. (Paper it's printed on is like shitty newsprint) Oh dear. Is this common now? I don't buy a lot of hardcovers, but I was hoping for paper brighter than a 15% gray...

Blood Moon. n.n www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/c...

Attack Decay Sustain Release

This is the most dystopian thing I've heard today, and people are actively pursuing the heat death of the universe to make coin.

2AM Flash of the Blindingly Obvious: "the edge-scraper needs the sole of a jack plane." I will totally remember what this means in the morning.

*staggers home after another episode in the ongoing saga of TERRIFYING FOUR-FISTED TALES OF DENTISTRY* I wanna unsubscribe from this service...

egypt.urnash.com/parallax/cha... I decided to post all of Parallax as-is to my website. I can't tell if it's good or not any more. Let me know if you have any feelings about it.

a nice thing about when the internet was a bunch of little sites and servers was that it was a lot harder for governments to pressure "the chat provider everyone uses" to implement age verification. you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy

Alright. Which one of you *legends* stole size from *JUPITER*!?!

Hey, anyone attending the #Iran #Toronto protest in Sanfoka (Yonge-Dundas) Square: recommend staying away from the Eaton Centre, try to enter the square through the West or directly on the street. The area around the Eaton Centre exit/entrance is pretty packed and there's risk of a crush

"Stand Alone Complex." 🤣

So I’ve taken Disapproving Rabbits out of retirement as part of the resistance. Proceeds will go to The Bond Between who are taking in pets after people are disappeared by ICE. www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Di...

The storm has reached west Toronto: bitterly cold, stinging snow, skin freezing in the wind, visibility way down. Left the parking lot for ten minutes, no trace of my departure on my return. A good day to stay in.

The 2025 Ursa Major Awards, furry's kinda-sorta equivalent to the Hugo Awards, are taking nominations now through February 15th. My novel The Turning is eligible! ursamajorawards.org/nominatio...

1/ Denmark was preparing to fight the United States over Greenland, according to Scandinavian news reports. Around 1,000 Danish troops and a frigate with anti-ship and anti-aircraft capabilities are being sent to Greenland, with standing orders to fight invading forces. ⬇️

When I was a kid, if you'd told me I'd live in a future with 'AI' everywhere, I'd have been delighted. If you'd gone on to tell me I wouldn't use them for moral reasons, I'd have been very confused.

For instance: "Canada lives by the benefit of the United States. Remember that, Mark, when you make your statements."

Alrighty after months of work, a lot of setbacks, and some breakneck effort the RABBIT MASK PATTERN IS FINISHED AND AVAILABLE! www.paleopanthera.com/masks/rabbit... My patterns are designed for cardboard but play nice with EVA foam and occasionally leather. #cosplay #costume #therian #rabbit.

That Fucking Guy *never* felt "an obligation to peace".

Slightly diminish a game: Marquess Nukem.

Jackrabbit #1 is insisting this meeting could have been an email, and the others are all LOOK MIKE IT'S FOR MORALE.

Anyway, let me leave you with this. I only found out I was dyslexic because life kept giving me melons.

The Hound and the Fox. Stella did not fit. Her fur did not glow with fire like the foxes in her family mostly did. She was at best rust adjacent; like autumn if it rained too much, or like old whitewash left a season too long.

"Observe how I have strapped *multiple* cassowaries to this stick. What I have now is not so much a feather duster, as a *dust fucker.*"

Hey folks, I seem to be getting a lot of what I call "phantom replies" lately, where posts I've made are showing that there's replies there, but I'm not seeing them at all. It's making me a little worried that people might think I'm ignoring them, but I keep seeing stuff like this more lately:

Oh joy. Roaches in the dishwasher. 'scuse me while I find a flamethrower. O.o

If we could reach the current goal, we could at least pay some heavily overdue taxes. Anything you can spare would help, but I'm grateful for even a repost.

Happy This Year. n.n

Ah. Running out of time to repost this. youtu.be/1D5PtyrewSs