essay mood but due to allergies/meds, my throat is super dry & hoarse today, and therefore it's hard to read back my logic/rhythm to myself 🙃

orpheus, can you look at me? please? look at me. i don't want to. why? because you're not coming with me, are you? no. it's ok. it's ok. can you please look at me? *and then he turns* i'm sorry. i'm so sorry. that bit of KAOS kills me every time what a way to spin the myth

I just don't understand the like, cinemasins history-citing version of tracking 'faithfulness' to myth for games like hades, like if it doesn't track 1:1, then it isn't good have you fuckin met greco-roman myth?! different interpretations, let alone plot versions, are so much fun

watching KAOS again and idk that I clocked that Prue is/was Trojan (the nose line)

Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position. Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i... We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.

I've been using FreeTaxUSA for a couple years now, & it's been cool. Free federal return, but $15.99 for state return.

"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'" bro what-- what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?

Alt text must provide context for people who cannot see the image. Describe the image's context and purpose. Do not write alt text for cute or clever jokes based on visual content you expect users can see. This is an abuse of alt text, as it violates the whole point of alt text.

d&d with friends helps cleanse the soul of anxiety

yet another video in which a youtuber admits halfheartedly that maybe auto-translated video dub/sub is the one good use. (it is not!) 🙃 you should care about a multilingual world more than the script content or algorithmic reach of a video.

trying to do epilogue for the second time go trigger oceanus things three times then return to shadow on purpose ... get Moros romance dialogue instead ...

hades 2 had me spend extra kudos and a boss reward for the fluff/ran out of spend rank thingy before i'm even halfway done collecting all decorations/music/familiar-forms and i just kind of hate that

I wish streaming (/Discord) had like a hidden tag I could use where it alerts the streamer that I followed or joined but lets them know that I also don't want to be broadcast acknowledged, so I could stop like stealth-joining communities in their deadtime just to avoid social anxiety spikes.

today is about trying to do basic & needed social things that most people think are alone things (Go To The Grocery Store) while in the middle of the delayed anxiety attack from two days ago

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

that "final" underworld run where Mel has 0 chatter after a certain boss (& certain people won't show up) it's just so creepy

doing rivals prometheus on sister blades and i forgot how stupid it is to be melee/short-range on that fight (thank selene for wolf how)

wanting to write an essay on captions and how it's obvious when well-meaning people don't check their captions or misunderstand that captions are for accessibility not expression despite their similiarities with written text and then realizing that that should probably be a video essay

pickup trucks for the average person should not have been allowed to advance past this. if you need anything bigger, you should have to provide some kind of documentation showing you have the license and need for special heavy machinery, otherwise you get the 1990 toyota hilux

my biggest gripe for Hades 2 is they put in a ton of resources and then barely use them past unlocking the weapons & incantations. there's plenty of cool items in the decorations that are just kudos + boss resource and it's boring tbqh considering the lovely descriptions.

going to social events and having to decide if I should explain how social anxiety is sometimes not just shyness but acute agoraphobia & I don't get to know what is too much until I'm there, or if I should just nod along and do the easiest/quickest thing possible so I can stop having an awkward time

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

the local mayoral race flipped from losing by 46 votes to ultimately winning by 18 votes, after counting all the provisional ballots in case anyone thought their vote didn't matter locally

maybe i should play this game sober

I got loaned two books at once (like, personally, not library borrowing) and have to binge both while my brain constantly wants to get back to thinking about how Hades 2 interacts with myth structure.

just fyi, muting works on through the quote posts so if you do the quote-post journey, and even like 4-posts deep, there's a muted word, the whole quote thread will be that "Post Not Shown Because Muted Word" button requiring clicking to find out what even set it off in the first place

if you put the actual text of the screenshotted emails in the ALT text, then mute filters can work even better

if the joke is in the image, the joke should also be in the ALT text when there's 2k characters allowance, one-liner summary ALT text is not cool

I think that with how uncertain things are right now for the arts, it's especially frustrating when given the advice from artist to artist that in order to survive, you have to do more, and that it's seemingly at the point where whatever more we have to do, it's never actually enough.

sharing all the epstein emails is an easy way to practice using a text-grabbing app to grab the text and paste it into ALT text 👀

I have actually hand-washed clothes in a sink before (during a study-abroad when we simply weren't near laundromats) and it is doable for like a week of "I know I'm wearing this 2-3 times before I wash it" wearables. It is too much time & phys space (drying!) for regular doing.

"they have laundry delivery services!" in nyc maybe over here in suburbia hell virginia the nearest laundromat requires a car, not just the physical ability to lug your shit around there is also 1 public laundromat in this college town. everything else is shared by apartment buildings.

in the pandemic, after my neighbors left for break & didn't return, I learned that it was sharing apartment/dorm washers that made my skin itch from my own clothes because everyone else was using the most scented whatevers at every stage in-unit washer w/ similarly sensitive roommates is amazing

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

“finally it will be clear to americans that republicans dont like obamacare” will you listen to yourself man, listen to the actual words coming out of your mouth

AI can't do that. It can't understand the words or the characters it's "voicing." It can't understand your intent and has no intent of its own. You need a real actor to do this.

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

bookshop dot org actually keeps me logged in on either desktop or mobile browser for more than 24 hrs, challenge 2026

surely someone else has already made the joke that m*sk likes the definition of a derivative because he has only ever been one

Ancillary Justice was fucking cool and now I'm ordering the other two at least, before I give this lended copy back to my friend.

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

feels like congress should have to suffer with the rest of us on blown-up ACA monthly premiums also, if they think it's so good now

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

twitch plays cspan would get demonstrably more goals done than the current senate democrats

cannot convey the amount of "what the fuck" i hold towards kaine rn warner, too, hasn't given a shit about real people in years

watching a reading of faustus tonight was more satisfying because faustus actually suffers the consequences of the soul-sucking deal he makes over nothing-power

Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.

Jesus Christ, @kaine.senate.gov, getting a pinky promise to hold one single vote on ACA funding is not "a path toward fixing the health care mess" anymore than a lottery ticket is a "path toward fixing my personal finances"

even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people

“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”