I am somehow completely unsurprised that Mozilla is going all in on the current trend of AI idiocy. Seems very on-brand for the organisation actually. 🙄

Three trips to emergency for the kids this year (plus at least one extra urgent care visit), hoping to do a bit less of that next year perhaps by stapling bubble wrap on them or something. 🤣

I do get the intent but I wish we could retire 'kids understand queer people easily' as an argument for or against anything. We don't let the value of any other concept hinge on whether it's simple to explain to a five-year-old and nor is there anything wrong with children who don't 'just get it'.

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Spent last night almost entirely playing Stardew Valley and you know what, that was absolutely the right decision. 🥔

I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage. This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country. #CommitToALivingWage

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Explaining to my wife the series of difficulties I had getting my Django-based book tracker application with two (TWO!) bits of custom middleware to run on my Debian laptop. Not sure whether she was more excited about my package compatibility issues or my ultimate failure.

THOUGHT YOU WERE SAFE FROM THESE POSTS DIDN'T YOU well I failed to get my book tracker active on my alternate laptop to keep tracking there but I'm sneaking this in while I brave a few minutes on my usual machine to grab some stuff. See, I've even been reading a bit over the past few days. 🤣

My wife is doing a partial digital detox over her Christmas break which mainly means not using her computer and I'm happy for her because she definitely gets enough computer time normally but also I'm already getting meme-sharing blue balls. 🤣

Always fun to get to the yearly tradition of being horrified all over again that Home Alone is regarded by so many as a fun Christmas movie.

I FELL INTO THE TRAP I wasted like an hour in Debian trying to get two pieces of software that did not want to recognise one another to play ball to no avail and I may only be using this computer for a week or two anyway, why do I do these things to myself. 😭

I didn't actually realise this was good for accessibility; I was concerned it might be otherwise (and many of you probably aren't aware you can delete link text after the preview is created). Really good to learn these little things that make everyone's lives better on here.

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

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Found a PIC squashed into my office carpet and I feel kinda bad for the little guy, gonna try to straighten up its pins and see if it still has its micro juice. 🤭

I kind of love this. And potatoes 🥔

It's been a ride following the rollout of the kids' social media ban here. I actually think kids and most adults shouldn't be on these hellsites. But I swear if I hear one more smug bad take from some so-called expert I'm going to consider going out into the real world to smack some bottoms. 🙄

Absolutely harrowing day of trying to back up anything important on my laptop in between horrific fan grinding noises while keeping the kids alive (only one injury). Very much enjoying a peaceful evening on my backup laptop even if everything isn't quite set up on here how I like these days. 🍵

Backing up everything on my laptop today so I can move to using an older laptop until my fans are replaced. In the past 24 hours my fans have gone to grindtown because I was typing excitedly about blobfish in Stardew Valley and also because I deposited my Neopets currency with too much gusto. 😭

Not sure how it's already day 10 of #ArtAdventCalendar, but here we are! Here's one of my little polymer clay crows. Each feather is cut and textured, and the crows are always brushed with chameleon powder for a little extra magic.

Finished this rascal for my daughter yesterday, she already gave them a few cuddles before all the limbs went on. 🤭 #knitting

I realised last night that the silly 'find the cats' smartphone game I like to wind down with sometimes was using an AI-generated background image for its daily puzzle. I only noticed because it was actively unpleasant to view, so many weird artifacts/fuzzy bits. If I see another I'm uninstalling! 🤮

Generative AI is probably now helping the sorts of people who would always proudly outline to me their 'groundbreaking' story idea (that was actually the plot of five other well-known books/movies/games) to produce said idea. It can even reassure them the result really is groundbreaking. 🤣

Doing my best to convince myself that I don't need to completely comprehend every Lisp code example to complete reading the book, deep understanding is what writing code yourself is for. 🤭 #reading

Honestly every time I'm forced to deal with people in a bureaucratic sense (as heavily opposed to joyful voluntary or serendipitous encounters) I find myself wondering anew why on earth we want to attach our computers to chatbots that would make them behave more like this kind of bollocks. 🤷

Discovered this afternoon that my child had previously managed to spill BBQ sauce on my PS2, SNES, and N64 boxes and had not told me. I was able to clean it off for the most part but not without minor box damage. One of those moments that really tests the relationship between parent and child. 😂

Daily bunny no.3163 adopts a child

So tired of Albanese and his goons preening over reducing HECS debt. They're mostly just reversing prior unfair increases that should never have happened in the first place, that's nice but you don't deserve medals for doing the bare minimum right thing, wipe the lot or STFU. 🍵😑

Slipping very behind on the Poirot challenge but I can still finish before the end of the year, I just need the sleep gods to not take me before 10pm again. 😭 #reading

Unlike some I thought the new season of Australian Big Brother was well done given obvious time/budget constraints, but managing the finale time so badly the runner-up got no live interview was not the best ending. Especially when Emily came across as one of the few decent people in the house. #BBAU

Was too busy and then too tired to post about anything yesterday so we missed a day, but it's all good it makes me look like I actually did a disproportionate amount of reading yesterday. 🤭

Wife coming into the kitchen just as I tell the child, "Don't put the fork in the dishwasher!" and having to explain she's trying to insert the fork into the door panel with the probable objective of disassembly. 😑

I wonder if it's not a popular view but I rather love Mrs. Oliver, I wish Christie had given her books in her own right although perhaps not for murder specifically. 🤭 #reading

Lol that guy mouthing off about narratives in games not being as good as narratives in other mediums yada yada, he is perfectly willing to act like that is a topic for serious discussion I guess but really it's of the type better kept to circles of those who also like sniffing their own farts.

Sigh my child headbutted my desk while crawling around under it and my laptop fan started making grinding noises of death again. Nice to know I'm going to have a miserable time with my technology to look forward to over the next couple months. 😭

Wife has bought an old (they're all old now, I mean 80s era) VCR for a Christmas project and it's beautiful, we're cooing over it like normal people do over an infant. It doesn't work in the slightest, won't so much as eat a tape, but it is gorgeous! 🤣

Have miraculously managed to hold off on adding even more books to the list by virtue of not really having time to look at the ones I already have let alone more. 🤣 #reading

Trying to resist the urge to start piling books onto my list again... just when I think I've got myself under control I think of ten justifications for starting new things... 🙀 #reading

Does Wrecking Wave have a fishing mini-game? Of course it has a fishing mini-game! It's standard practice in any game to have a fishing system!😀 #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Already seeing the 'made by straight women for straight women' barb against Heated Rivalry, which I think is really funny actually because when it's a work especially outside of the romance umbrella featuring violence or abuse frequently towards women nobody is nearly so worked about 'who it's for'.

Anyone who is able would be better off just avoiding Woolworths and their partners in evil Coles. So tired of them making all the papers publish their hand-wringing about shoplifting when they're the biggest criminals in the room. www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/...

Starting a deep dive into Meshtastic today as the wife has been making use of it in a work project and its capabilities seem really impressive, although my interest in it is substantially more frivolous than the things she is working on. 🤭

Really enjoying getting back into reading more about programming and technology. Don't always have the energy with the added mental load of school admin as well, I'm more inclined to confine myself to recreational reading that doesn't require thinking. 🙀

The more Mrs. Oliver shows herself and is trotting around getting up to shenanigans the more I think Christie was getting sick of writing Poirot novels, but I adore her all the same. 🤭 #reading

Really enjoying not having to leave my house to tell other people how to do their job properly today, but so far my knitting got pulled off the needles and there is water in my beloved KitchenAid scales, both of these events have the same general cause. 😭

If I was feeling a little bit too much like a functional adult of course Duck helped to bring me back down to Earth by sending me into a panic when she pulled my marimo ball habitat off my desk. WATER, GRAVEL, BALLS EVERYWHERE. 😭

A weird day. Got to meet with representatives from the hospital we have a complaint against and directly communicate my belief that the individual who originally vilified us is not fit to continue in their current role based on what we observed. At least my conscience will be clear in the future.

Wrapping up my last major commitments for the year is taking me away from the books but we're through most of the worst of it now, the heavy reading will commence once I've recovered. 🤣