Immortal Demon Mage (co-)leading a revolution #BookSky

The christmas tree (or possibly just the skirt under it (and there might also be a lizard outside the window?)) has tempted Adventure Cat, Black Cat, and Dapple Cat into all coexisting peaceful for awhile. #CatsOfBluesky

Avalyn got sick for a whole week with something. (No idea what it was. Something sinusy but according to tests not Covid or Flu, but not bacterial either. Very extreme cold?) So we're doing Christmas late and watching Muppet Christmas Carol for the 3rd(?) time this season while wrapping presents.

We just stumbled across the 2022 "Spirited", a comedy remake of a Christmas Carol with Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. I wouldn't call it a great movie, but it was an adequately fun Christmas movie. Also it was a musical with some pretty good dance routines, if that's something that appeals to you.

if you're wondering why your trans friends everywhere are a little on edge right now, it's because a story about a radical conservative christian student abusing rules and processes to deliberately target a trans instructor consistently gets reframed to omit the entirety of the anti-trans bigotry

Fluffy Kitten seems perturbed by his first sighting of the christmas tree and is keeping his distance. Unfortunately i doubt that will last for long =P (We're not late at putting up christmas decorations! We're exactly on time! Everyone else put them up too early! Yeah, that's the ticket!)

love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between

♪Well the boxes start comin' and they don't stop comin' FedEx out the truck and they hit the ground runnin'♪ Some of these are our holiday gifts to others, and some of them are others' gifts to us And one of the gifts to us isn't going to be much of a surprise =P

For what is i believe the first time in my professional life, i'm not taking 1.5 or 2 weeks of vacation around christmas. Instead i'm taking multiple shorter vacations and for the last four weeks of the year i will have/have had two 3-day weeks and two 2-day weeks.

Another few episodes into Magic Knight Rayearth and there's a new character, "Ferio", for Crunchyroll's closed captions to abuse. It gets it right a few times, but then there's also "fairy" and "vireo", and a bonus one of calling both Fuu and Feiro "Pharaoh". @marzgurl.com

Feminism, unions, environmentalism, consumer safety, & others. People cherry-pick comparatively "inconsequential" modern goals to complain about while forgetting (often deliberately) the massive achievements of the past & imagine those gains would just persist if people stopped fighting for them.

There are a lot of reasons to dislike Newsom. And the lack of alt-text on the pictures and memes posted by his Press Office on bsky is certainly one of them.

Checking out Magic Knights Rayearth again. It's got that "classic" 90s dubbing quality, and the CC is Crunchyroll "quality". Cephiro has been spelled correctly once or twice, but more often Zafiro or Saphira or Sphero or Zefiro or Sephora or Spyro. All just in the first episode! @marzgurl.com

I really wish Windows 11 had a log of the last 5-10 things that made noise, for both apps and Windows events. _Something_ is making a noise several times a day at unpredictable intervals, and damned if i have any idea what it is or how to stop it. (Which also means its useless as a notification.)

This morning Fluffy Kitten got startled by something, started scrabbling across the wood floor, and tried to jump up on a chair. But he didn't time his jump properly and instead jumped face first into the legs of the chair. Sorry Fluffy Kitten, but your name was never going to be "Elegant".

Guess what everyone! It looks like we will be keeping the kitten that we're Definitely Not Keeping! I know, i know, we're just as shocked as you are! We think he will be Fluffy Kitten/Cat. (@thelarch.bsky.social had some great ideas for 'E' names, but none of them seem to fit him quite as well)

Bluesky’s head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior. that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

I guess that Netflix being the ones to win the bid for Warner Bros is the lesser evil? (Though i seriously doubt they'll be any more responsive about She Who Shall Not Be Named than Warner Bros was.)

There are a lot of songs from my childhood that still get stuck in my head to this day. And most of them make sense. Animated Hobbit and Return of the King? Yup! Lemmings soundtrack? Sure! Tetris songs? Definitely! Early Final Fantasy music? Absolutely!

Sure wish i had the necessary $6,000+ lying around to bid on Michael Whelan's last cover art. It took awhile to realize that a lot of the books i "stole" from my dad's bookshelves as a kid all had cover art by the same amazingly talented artist.

SO... I'm pretty much done with Fortnite. There were statements made by Tim Sweeney saying that AI usage doesn't need to be disclosed, and then AI usage was found all over this current season- from art to sprays to in-game songs. Between that, and the upcoming shitty wizard collab... Yeah, I'm done.

Just watched Elf for the first time, and wow that romance sub-plot is strange and creepy. To quote Tom Smith, "If I were to try that, I'd prob'ly get slapped, And the chance of arrest would be high."

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: Rush Weird Al Dear Friends: Music from Final Fantasy Alexander James Adams Tom Smith (filker)

So _theoretically_ speaking, if we had a cat like the kitten that we're Definitely Not Keeping, what would his internet name be? We accidentally backed into an alphabetic theme with Adventure, Black, Cuddle, and Dapple Cat, but i can't think of any good 'E' names.

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

Wine Crabs End I don't like wine, i don't like crab, and i'm not particularly fond of an undefined but ominous sounding "End", so 2026 isn't looking great for me?

Avalyn was shooting a hairband around the room for the kitten that we're Definitely Not Keeping to chase, and at one point got it stuck up on a ceiling fan. After watching us retrieve it, the kitten is now convinced that every ceiling fan in the house might have a secret toy in it.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Argh! About halfway through my last audiobook i had a great idea about what to listen to next, but now that i'm done i can't remember what it was! Well whatever it was, now i see that i can get @marthawells.com's "Demon Queen" on Libro.fm, so let's go with that!

As someone who is in the middle of dealing with a car whose off switch does not always work because of a malfunctioning dash, and which will cost $950 to fix so that i can reliably have an off switch again, i fail to see the appeal here.

All drugs, with very few exceptions (date rape drugs come to mind) should be legalized and sold through government run stores, with taxes used to fund treatment programs. Would some people make poor choices? Yes. But a lot of people are already making poor choices under worse circumstances.

We thought we had someone we know who might be interested in adopting the kitten that we're Definitely Not Keeping, but unfortunately that fell through, so we're Definitely Not Keeping the kitten awhile longer.

I just discovered an amazing technical tip for Windows audio! I've long suffered from constantly increasing audio latency in Windows from an RDP source. Close and re-open the RDP and there's practically zero audio lag at first, but then the lag starts increasing over time. (1/9)

Really aggravated that Disney merged my MyDisney and DisneyPlus accounts without asking, and Avalyn's MyDisney and Hulu accounts without asking. I hate it at the conceptual level, but also practically speaking there is no way now to merge our DisneyPlus and Hulu accounts together.

As someone who has a flight scheduled to visit my family for the holidays, i would be sad if the shutdown continued and my flight was canceled. But that is far less of a price than other people are already paying or will pay if Trump has his way, and it's a price i'd be willing to pay.

When you recount this election day:

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Twitter Trending: "Woke Is Back" I'm sorry, what you mean to say was: "It's back, and this time, it's mad. Woke II"

It seems that today is a Crab Rave day www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDU_...

I just made coffee for an early morning meeting without turning on all the lights in the kitchen, not realizing that Avalyn had put a newly purchased bottle of curry powder in front of the bottle of cocoa-chili mix. My coffee is a little spicier than i intended. (It could have been worse?)

We've somehow decided on "Clue" as our Halloween movie while waiting for trick-or-treaters. Luckily we have it on dvd since it's not available on subscription streaming. (Ironically we found the "Without A Clue" DVD before we found the "Clue" DVD.)

Two very talented AMV creators, @ileia.bsky.social and @amv.network, have suggested a whole bunch of Halloween AMVs in my feed. Since i hate watching AMVs on my phone, i saved them to a YouTube list. If anyone else would like to check that list out, here it is! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Essentially it is this, yes.

Crunchyroll is screwing up their Subtitles. Again. In new and different ways. daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...

Hidive has some _serious_ UI issues. (No auto-play?!?) But the ability to turn on subtitles while watching a dub is a godsend. (And something that Funimation used to allow as well before Crunchyroll killed them.) And also, the Hidive subtitles are currently better than the Crunchyroll subtitles/CC.

Having any alt-text is better than having no alt-text. ...but the default for this image, "a woman with red hair and white hair looks out a window", is pretty weak-ass alt-text. Pretty sure even a human who'd never heard of Rayearth would still know the diff between "white hair" and "light bloom"

A female sex demon is called a succubus. A male sex demon is called an incubus. A non-binary sex demon is called an omnibus.