Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Perverted Undertone before trivia, this is a good omen

"Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind."

Yet another weird uneven week at work but also we are going camping + mushroom hunting this weekend and the weather is looking good for it

ART didn’t respond. It just existed there, glaring at me invisibly in the feed.

Winter Beth is returning. I'm not looking forward to the gloom but man I love Winter Beth and her lap dominance

Sunday Scaries hitting differently lately

Every good programmer I know has been saying this to me for months; meanwhile every not-great programmer I know has been trying to outsource their work to ai, causing more issues/delays than they if did it themselves. A lot of these tools only seem good to people who are not great at their jobs.

Had this idyllic sunny autumn Saturday in (war ravaged) Portland and was ironically Offline enough to miss most of the memes about such a thing until this evening

Do it. Kill all the trees of heaven

Boxie PNW meetup today and I'm so confused by how clean we all are

Several people who love me are also proud of me, which is enough for today

I have a very scary meeting in 30 minutes 😭

bluesky has a problem: shit sucks real bad everywhere and that's what's on everybody's mind all the time. everything else also has this same problem

New headcanon, disgraced rapper podcaster Bernie Sanders

Ate leftovers with a summer ferment as condiment and I feel like parts of me are coming back alive

Oof yes this has absolutely been my experience

A friend recognized the entertainment potential of the big AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT graphic but replaced Kennedy’s face with a much better alternative:

Cooked tonight! Felt good! Tasted delicious!

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm... Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

My appetite abandons me under acute stress, BUT cooking is incredibly helpful for my mental health so I'm so grateful that I want to cook some things this week (first time since early August)

I've been under a type of stress that has been making it hard to find distraction or pleasure in much of anything for the last month+ but this weekend I seem to be capable of reading books + doing crosswords and I'm so grateful. Thank you surprise OR coast weekend

I recorded a demo using the AI powered demo software today and it was like unlocking a horrible new power. Horrible in the "good god this is too many retakes" sense, and power in remembering that I'm good at demos as performance (the secret is, I find demos boring)

I got to learn a new perk of my registered domestic partnership today. Aroace queer partnership is cool as hell while also mostly being about two nerds who read a lot as children, finding each other

SIRI, FIND OUR LESBIAN WIVES

I actually got to spend a full workday coding and it felt good to actually do that part of my job again 😭

Wow, this discrepancy is STARK - between the percentage of managers who think technical work is appreciated vs. the number of actual developers who do. Pull quote: “I’m not convinced our leadership think we’re people.” OOF. From Dr. Cat Hicks, @grimalkina.bsky.social

more than a decade ago, one Fraction-Aja Hawkeye panel captured the vibe of this entire era we're living in now

Solid congrats to my cat Beth for destroying the last of the paper blinds because she remembered she could do that

Another cursed workday, what a time to watch a 20 year career turn to ash in your hands (very 2025 coded)

I have seen one of mine and it was pretty amazing TBH. Human after all

Your email finds me deeply burned out and disassociating.

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

This entire work week has been nonstop emotional whiplash and I'm grateful for the high notes but also taking tomorrow off to try to recover

My favorite part about re watching King of the Hill so far is noticing just how often Bobby Hill says "okay" to a novel situation or demand. I've caught my internal monologue doing it

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.

Not in the headspace to fully appreciate it, but still, I do love Pumpkin Beer season

Going through a truly novel + hellish work situation where every day is kinda pins and needles, but also: wow I am so surrounded by love and support

Review "Pancakes, Divorce, Pancakes" 🤝 King of the Hill "And They Call It Bobby Love"

Now more than ever, I guess

Today has been so many strong, seemingly contradictory feelings all happening nearly at once 🎢 Sincerely grateful for this window where I briefly have two distinct work realities, what a gift

oh no

oysters 🦪

Grateful to live in a household where I can have a good cry about a hard situation before returning to television shows and cats

2025, man

today marks one full year since i quit my corporate tech job and i didn't die or lose my community so let that be an example, lesson and threat

I loved this piece from @grimalkina.bsky.social about who is and isn't allowed to be technical. "I am sorry to be the one to tell you this, but if my belonging in tech is fundamentally unacceptable yours is uncertain." www.fightforthehuman.com/why-i-cannot...