Okay I know we're all about staying offline these days but after a nice afternoon of offline I'm feeling tremendous relief that my kid is going to spend the evening relaxing with his favourite YouTube channels because he (probably) can't injure himself again that way. 🙀

Very funny now to have a Microsoft-affiliated guy getting all defensive about the continvoucly morged debacle. "It could happen to anyone!" Sure, where 'anyone' is 'people and organisations willing to replace human labour with generative AI', that deskilling seems to be hitting hard already...

Daily bunny no.3233 rides into the sun

Watched a 90s-era VHS tape detailing multiplication tables with my kid to aid my (awkward) explanations and it's really funny how educational materials made that long ago come across these days, it took a lot of convincing him that I wasn't trying to mock him with a video for five-year-olds. 🙀

Love how my favourite stupid newspaper liftout, B&S magazine, is visually conceptualising open marriage like it's Twilight for young adults.

Skimmed some probably genAI-generated nonsense entitled 'The left is missing out on AI' that really lowered my opinion of the person I followed who reposted it without any sort of clarifying commentary. The people who are getting really deep into this stuff are absolute fools.

Drafted my potential writing jam itch page which is substantially an unhinged rant about my love for my first computer. 🤭 Will decide whether to go ahead with that by the end of the weekend, probably depending on how successful I'm feeling at all the rest of my self-inflicted tasks.

Returned to my computer to find my daughter with her elbow on the keyboard creating a skeet of such quality it far outstrips anything I've come up with myself.

Cleaning up my baking supplies since it's been a while. Having to take myself firmly in hand when it comes to the (often very) expired items. Some of them are unopened and likely still edible but I really don't need to roll the dice with the 'best before 2022' custard powder... 🙀

Lol apparently there has been a revolving door of food-related discourse I have happily missed all of, I don't fully understand any of it and will not try but it feels like people try too hard to create some kind of morality around cooking. Not what you do otherwise, just... cooking = character. 🤨

Oh, you want these romances, you say? Congrats, they exist! Historical bicycle riders: A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell Victorian werewolves: Soulless by Gail Carriger Queer dragon shifters: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha (aka the horny dragon book) Hockey historical: Puck and Prejudice by Lia Riley

Well I'm totally fed up with this week but at least it'll be over in a day or... oh. 🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

First evening in a long time I've chucked something in the oven to bake while trying to get the house/everything else in order for the following day; my banana bread batter was a bit chaotic because I failed to mix in the butter properly but the result is smelling pretty good! 🍌

it's honesty a little weird to me to see people who are hostile to ai in art and writing, but openly advocating it for things like code it kinda feels like a value judgement, "this isn't worth my time" or maybe perhaps "it's cool to exploit people writing code but art is where i draw the line"

Is somebody out there already working on that lesbian curling romance series or do I need to be the change I want to see in the world.

this valentine's day if you're single rather than mourn relationships that didn't last why not celebrate the bad matches you managed to escape or that never started that may have derailed your life. or, be grateful it made sense while it made sense, and you got out when it didn't enjoy your peace 🕊️

I think I'm gonna make this fiction jam. Why not! The 'worst' that happens is nobody else cares to participate, and the only downside of that is making a little extra work for myself because since when has being the only person interested in something discouraged me. 🤣

Had a nice but tiring day grappling with the reality of being unable to give all of my time to two separate kids simultaneously. 🙀

You could also take a look through this series of Sakura Wars articles too, if you like :) kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/sakura-wars-...

A message from your ZX Spectrum.

I have this great idea for running an itch jam celebrating human creativity, mostly soliciting writers, but I absolutely don't have time for more projects (this never stops me) and I have no idea if anyone would even be interested. Is it self-indulgent to solo jam on itch. 🤭

Remember computer books that were 1000+ pages long? I'm reading this book now and I'm feeling so F@$#ING POWERFUL! GRAAAGHHHH!!!! #dos #retrocomputing

The two genders in my wife's and my relationship are the text we leave saved on the Dymo labeller.

You can pet the eye cactus

I love Fastmail, absolutely feel good about paying for it, but it's just one of a real run of things I have to pay for in the first half of the year that are going to absolutely ruin me. Maybe raargh capitalism will be the thing that actually gets me to put effort into promoting my books...

Daily bunny no.3228 is too close to the screen

Painful day of parenting today, looking forward to a break and spending some time with Lisp tonight so it can make me experience the kind of pain I can understand. 🤣

Was absolutely terrified last night when my Fastmail subscription renewed for the year, which I'd forgotten was happening, and I started getting automated texts at midnight because I hadn't put the appropriate funds in my account. Thought I'd gotten scammed somehow but I'm just disorganised. 🤣

Lol today for school I was talking about animal classifications with my kid and we started out sorting animals by number of legs for fun, when we got to the whale I dropped the factoid someone on here shared the other day about vestigial back legs and I think he was appropriately bewildered. 🤭

the bundle is up for two more days, if you want to get a joyful queer fantasy adventure to fill your evenings <3

Should have been in bed two hours ago but I started writing code and it was all over for me, I will now simply have to wear the consequences tomorrow.

Bees 🐝

A milestone birthday for me today causing existential angst that even in the best case scenario, I have a limited time to Do All The Things™ One thing you can help me accomplish is spreading the word about this awesome friendship bundle! Reposts make great gifts💜 itch.io/b/3486/frien...

Hey dude smugging along the lines of, 'haha and people used to say AI was good for medical stuff'... you probably mean people said stuff like computer vision had been used for diagnosis for years before jamming LLMs into everything was trendy. It has nothing to do with how badly LLMs perform so ???

Spent some time on impulse this evening backing up the oldest photos in my collection from my first digital camera a couple decades ago. Having seen the things I was doing and photographing then I can confirm I am still the exact same type of dork twenty years on, just a more self-actualised dork. 🙃

Pfft I developed this like a decade ago except I guess my chatbot only said my wife's name interspersed with 'totally' which may have been slightly less widely applicable and only worth a $100 billion valuation maybe.

Lolllll of COURSE Discord is going to crap itself right after I accidentally subbed to Nitro for a month. 'I can take advantage of this free offer for a lark and then cancel ahead of time' no actually I can't, because I can't check my email reliably and also apparently I can't count. 🤣

🍇 LOST TRADITIONS is out! The Chronicles of Nerezia continue as the Wagon Crew traverses a haunted marsh and find a ruined monastery. It's a "TFW your bestie gets possessed by the remnants of a martial arts master, and they're a rude motherfucker to boot" Buy it: buy.bookfunnel.com/pw9lfydyyw

Spent much of this afternoon vaguely puzzling over what to do with my website with the kids bouncing all over the place around me. Haven't really decided on anything yet, but it does occur to me that I almost might as well drop Django, which I don't use for anything special on the site anyway.

First disaster of the new school year is me desperately trying to clean the school whiteboard with isopropyl alcohol and actually just turning the whole thing red. 🟥

This girlie nominating six months as the time it will take the slow real author to produce a book is so funny. Finding out how much time and effort actual artists are willing to put into actually doing something well would probably kill her. 🤣

People theorising that the latest update about Heroku means Salesforce is going to kill it permanently in the next few years. Well, whatever the truth of that this just reminds me I meant to migrate my website off already as soon as an opportunity presents itself.

Wife and kid are watching The Martian and all I can think of is that one person on here or Twitter who was mad about inaccuracies in the book yelling IT'S REGOLITH ANDY. 🤣

I think many of the people pushing this 'being anti-AI is anti poor people' message are just stirring, but it's still kinda funny because of all the claims to make... I probably developed some artistic skills BECAUSE I grew up a bit poor. 🤣

Hey maybe it was fucked up to do a social movement based on obsessing over the genitals and breasts of children! Maybe there are some red flags there!

I think before you get to say Isaac Asimov's writing was crap actually you should have to build a time machine from scratch and go see what the people in the mindshare vats are saying about first person present tense books in 2100.

Finished Housewife by Lisa Selin Davis, I would like to preface any further comment on the book with a note that there is one passage that platforms transphobic dogwhistles without offering any sort of balance and I think it's important people know such things ahead of time in these times.

It amazes me to see people here to promote their creative works just casually talking about vibe coding stuff. They're so comfortable sharing that information when it communicates a relationship to the work that is to my view incompatible with most conceptions of how the creative process works.