Y'all deserve better but we already know that :')

Was fortunate enough to be involved in an early early early playtest of this and it's AMAZING. So deeply atmospheric, vibes on point.

Went to a very cool projection mapping thingy inspired by Vivaldi's Four Seasons and I posit that nobody hates the "Spring" movements more than someone who played violin in school. Yes I still know it and yes I could go another 20 years without hearing it again, thanks.

Wonder if anyone else on the Mernda line hits That Part just after Clifton Hill and thinks "ah yep this is where the train derailed last year" as we're all bouncing around kind of erratically.

I'm still not over this

can't think too hard about rocks sitting under the sky for 3 billion years without maybe having a panic attack

A key part of my job has somehow become playing "is it AI"? like a contestant on that "is it cake?" gameshow, biting into all the next-big-things execs are frothing over and showing them that it is, in fact, another decade-old machine learning technique.

I wrote like this for 45 minutes because the alternative was her sitting on the keyboard and chewing every cable in sight.

The Netflix doco series "Dirty Money" uses Lie Cheat Steal by Run The Jewels as it's theme (baller) including the line "teabag a piranha tank" and I just think that's beautiful.

Fun fact you don't have to accept things with grace and poise you can also accept them with bitching and moaning.

Ready or Not 2 cast is STACKED, goddamn. Very cool opening (match-cut or recreation?) and an immediate delivery on the promise of the premise. Did a bit of chatty exposition, annoying, but swiftly offset that with excellent use of a 4Minute song.

If I can't deploy a 35-word compound sentence with a semicolon as the coordinating conjunction in a post-graduate critical analysis essay, what the fuck is the point? (Got my first masters in 2012, in creative writing... times have changed, health sciences are different, I accept this, but also: 😒)

I love making bread because I'm not simply sitting about for an hour, wasting time, I'm PROOFING.

Please enjoy one of the worst photos I've ever taken, at lowkey one of the best gigs I've ever been to. clipping.

Ok yes SEO is weird lately (the goalposts have always moved but trust: these are strange days) HOWEVER I cannot stress enough how important it is, now more than ever, to reduce your reliance on social media. Pay for a domain, get a website, have an archive and a point of contact that that you OWN.

Anytime I hear a sentence beginning with "the AI boom--" I just wanna take a real deep breath and scream as loud as I can, you know? Just like, scream, a primal howl at the absolute maximum decibel, an emptying of the lungs in frustration and rage.

(it's a real patch)

I am v. open about being medicated for adhd and sometimes I wonder if that's oversharing / bad... then other times a colleague asks me for advice about helping their kid with medication side effects and I remember I can be both annoying AND helpful. Annoyingly helpful 😌

With apologies to Saul Bass

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Couple of real foggy mornings lately.

I should add that this perfect specimen has an instagram: instagram.com/whythecatyells

This is what living in my house is like. It's just a series of pictures you can hear, and they're all of her.

went to push my glasses up and smooshed my figer directly onto the lens gonna crash tf out

"Property investors not engaging with the market will reduce the number of rentals" ? ???? ??????? ?? If an investor falls in the woods and no one is there to bid at auction, does the property cease to exist?

Automated recommendations in all their forms might be my least favourite development of the last decade. They're inevitably concerned with the middle of a low or no-context bell curve, and we're left with a kind of flattening effect that touches EVERYTHING.

"I absolutely want to harm the defendant, but I don't believe that this court is capable of harming him, so I don't see how that could be relevant" is *chef's kiss*

Some night shots from Tokyo recently.

Surprising absolutely no one, fits at the Bezos gala are mid at best.

I wanted to put a shambling mound into Mörk Borg, so I wrote an adventure about it. https://loottheroom.itch.io/swamp-thing

Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written and I think it’s important to credit our sources.

Guy I've had good interractions with in uni collab chats ALWAYS mistypes my name as "Alexander". The first time he got it right and used the feminine form was the first time he disagreed with me (apparently if I have reservations about paid surrogacy, I must hate IVF) and that is indeed how it goes.

Inertia in the face of The Horrors makes sense if we understand The Horrors to be business as usual, differentiated only by the quiet part now being said out loud.

The difference between science and art is that in science, you have to get the rules right even if the vibes are off. In art, you can break any rule you fancy in pursuit of the vibes. The rules and the vibes continue exist regardless.

Unethical pro life tip for stimulant-medicated ADHDers: start a big task at the end of your dose's half life and let hyperfocus take the wheel. It's unhealthy and quality will vary but by god that task will be done.

breaking news 13-year-old cat is perfect baby

In that half feral state where there's deadlines and shit simply will not stop OCCURRING.

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Last night's sky made up for public transport woes AND getting rained on 😍

updating my rolodex, who are my setting/narrative-focused TTRPG writers who are open for freelance work? (don't have specific opportunities, but it's good to have folks to point towards when stuff gets sent to me that I have to pass on)

Me a few years ago: gee I really don't appreciate how radical new technology always seems to manifest out of the military industrial complex, be nice if the "best and brightest" didn't just get snapped up by the military for their work to only become public after a 20-year delay. Monkey paw: curls

no no nono nonono no nononononono. oh my god for so many reasons no.

Other people have said smart and useful things but that ain't me so here I am expressing frustration via mediocre memes.

Colour memory game, lil bit fun actually.

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