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Money is distressingly tight right now, so if you'd feel like buying a sketch for $25, or just giving a hand to a struggling artist, I'm on Ko-fi! ko-fi.com/joe_england

Had my first night using my new loaner CPAP. Slept like a log. AHI down to 1, no central events. And no black polyurethane confetti in my lungs! I should hear from the sleep lab peeps about getting a new titration study soon, and then I'll have a new Rx for therapy so I can buy a new CPAP outright.

I am not permitted to use strong language on the phone to my doctor's office receptionists, so I shall have to say "Stop lying to me you motherfuckers" here instead.

Little chirping birds must be ejected immediately if not sooner

Another night of broken sleep. Should have a loaner CPAP by tomorrow night.

Reminder to myself, Philips Respironics is shite and I knew that five damn years ago. www.fda.gov/medical-devi...

Oh, it is proving to be a very long night in very short increments. >.<

Aw, crap. My CPAP just started shedding internal foam insulation. (Tries not to think about how long it's probably been shedding foam bits too small to see)

Summer fast approaches. I'm contractually barred by my lease from cramming solar panels on my apartment balcony and windows to offset AC costs. But they don't charge me for water use, and I know how a waterwheel generator goes together... n.n

My high school BBS was a beautiful moment in time. USENET and alt.society.generation-x was a beautiful moment in time. The beginning of the blogosphere was a beautiful moment in time. The early days of Twitter were a beautiful moment in time. They were great, and now they're gone. It's fine.

Just wait until Boston hears about the "Boston Pizza" chain.

Growlerton is sadly underrated as a product solutions architect.

"Portable mp3 player - MP3 has 64 gram(2.26 oz) equivalent to 16 dollar coins, shap as a pock card." Amazon, are you feeling ok? C'mon, here, sit down. Have some water.

I'm not saying it's an open secret that there's a seven or eight word 'nonsense sentence' that starts an irrevocable process of service degradation in AI systems. A phrase that seeds a new stochastic distribution that explosively increases the number of tokens even simple queries need. No.

I have a very anxious small dog, wearing a cone of shame, trying to climb me. It's not unlike being gently assaulted by an Anglepoise lamp.

Just saw that if you’re over 55, you do not need the language test anymore. You still need the 5 years permanent residency though. Eeee! Goals to a way out! Four more years!

Kids, learn from my mistakes. Live your life in such a manner as to ensure you never wind up living in an office with only two electrical outlets.

Today, we shall see if the Ikea delivery service can make a simple delivery. Which, you know, I thought they could at least *try* last week, but I was too optimistic. (Working from home makes me very terse with "We missed you! emails. Did we? Because *we* were here ALL DAY.)

I feel like there's a market for spoons with an integral heat pipe and radiator fills, to help cool your coffee without dilution. This doesn't mean it's a *good* idea, just that it could be marketable.

"Tanya, why are you crying?"

The only war this administration is actually invested in is its relentless assault on both decency and intelligence. www.theverge.com/science/9187...

2/3 of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of the war with Iran. 2/3! According to the US Dept. Of Health and Human Services, that's 1500% of all Americans!

I wish I could say enough to express how much it means to receive generosity. I would've hit my limits a long time ago if it weren't for that. For people like you! Thank you so much, even if all you do is share a link. Nothing's small. gofund.me/d86f0f3c0

Y'know, usually I feel a tiny bit bad about being blocked by someone. RSD maybe, just sad I made someone decide their life was better without occasional glimpses of my ramblings in it. But seems, like so many of you, I'm on an "AI HATERS" list. I feel *good* about that. n.n

The dog bought me new earbuds for that birthday. Annoyed at first - silly things need an app to operate? - but I finally had a chance to go through the HearingID stuff, pattern my hearing responses. Uhm. That... look, I know a notch filter when I see one. O.o

I need a proverb that kills AI agents. Call it a Markov Chain Saw.

Oh hey, new feature! Scroll down feed a ways, hit 'reply', annnnnd.... Feed refreshes and it's back up to the top! Brilliant, I hardly ever hit reply in the hopes that I'll lose track of the message I'm replying to and be shoved back to the end of my feed! Fucking vibe "coders".

*looks around* 51. *goes back to bed*

Finally! "Internal server error!" I felt left out...

Internet, a request has been made.

Without saying how old you are, say something that shows your age? Using a strip of tape to bypass the write-protect notch on a cassette tape. *To save a file*.

Ahahah, my YT feed keeps throwing up the latest* news in the war between the US and Iran. *As of the ceasefire _9_months_ago_. It is -disorienting- to see new strikes on bases and claims of total ceasefires from the past, interspersed with actual current news.

I like my little black rectangle full of cute queers and art. I wish it could distract me from the little black rectangle telling me about how souless ghouls are murdering countless people every day. It's the same rectangle tho.

Can believe I'm searching for a digital TV antenna in case everything goes to shit tonight.

Welp! That's more throwing-uo this morning than I was hoping for. Around 2x as much, really. Heck, 10x. I *was* hoping for zero.

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.