Practically solving my anxiety has me squarely in my empathy now and it’s rough to bear so much care for the well-being of a person who probably thinks I hate them based on how I consistently behaved towards them for a long time owed to said anxiety. Praying for a radically positive resolution.

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I was once in the same room as a guy in a very small-time band who was sleeping with the singer from Metric at the time.

Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.

Finally finished Lolita, which is certainly a book with words in it.

Why is it that tech and AI boosters keep saying "you can't put the genie back in the bottle" when making arguments about AI's supposed inevitable dominance? Did they not read the story? The genie does, indeed, go back in the bottle. Maybe we should start there.

This might be the most modern sentence I will ever write, but my comfort streamer started running my comfort game at the end of last week and it's sorely needed.

Done, and retroactively I understand the answer as well.

100% going to see if I can change my smartphone assistant‘s wakeword to ‘Metal Gear’, though.

The days of my responding to personal tragedy by becoming Gillian Seed are done. If I make a mess, it’s on me to straighten up and fly right, not go on some snivelling lost weekend and distract from the big mess by making a series of smaller, more tertiary messes. I’m in my driver‘s seat now.

“Mr. Meyer and Glass got the idea for Mouse Trap from a labyrinthine Rube Goldberg cartoon called ‘How to Remove the Cotton Out of a Bottle of Aspirin,’ according to the book ‘It’s All a Game: A Short History of Board Games.’” Also was an #illinoistech alum! chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...

I'm trying to force a 4-digit combination instead of solving the puzzle that will give me it because I'm more interested in being finished with the game than understanding it. How's everyone else's day going?

Thank heavens for 11PM.

Thinking about my aunt, who was discovered dead on this day 10 years ago.

Urkel is a cheese tulpa.

its that time again! …and a merry christmas to all

On the off chance that he’s still alive, I’d like to think that Gero 30 is permanently banned from Cameo.

Have you ever accidentally solved a problem the moment after it would have saved your skin? Do you think that it's ever too late to bring back all that it lost you?

john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him

The last time my mother commented positively on anything she heard me playing it was Brainbombs' 'Obey' and it might take me a lifetime to unpack that.

Very little music I played for my dad seemed to register in a positive way, and I'm sure he wouldn't be able to name any of it, but he had nice things to say about Pullman's 'Turnstyles…', RTF's 'Romantic Warrior', Karate's 'Unsolved', the 2nd Explosions In The Sky LP, and Mars Volta's 'De-Loused…'.

Thinking about the time I showed my dad Five Leaves Left and tried to tell him about Nick Drake, which just resulted in my dad referring to him as 'Drake' and calling him an asshole for likely taking his own life.

Music For 18 Lords-A-Leapin'

Can't wait for the Epstein Files episode of Boundary Break.

Derek Bailey, 20 Years Gone Source: Burning Ambulance. Guitarist Derek Bailey died 20 years ago this week, on December 25, 2005. He was not a jazz musician. He played jazz at the beginning of his career, along with many other styles in many contexts — he was a professional musician who accompanied…

(I don't want to be a Bluesky scold, I really don't But I wish that otherwise progressive people wouldn't post AI slop. The uncanny valley effect alone is creepy AF, it's theft of intellectual property, and someone near a data farm is undoubtedly taking some kind of environmental hit from it)

On top of everything, I've been dealing with some intense version of this for a while but it's gotten really bad the past few weeks. Took some famotidine I had lying around and am trying a compress on one of my eyes, but if anyone has any experience or tips, please pass it along.

Sad season. Your boy is going through it.

Chronically-ill/disabled/potential Long COVID folks in the Greater Toronto Area - who is your doctor? Are you happy with them? Do you feel seen/heard by them? Are they well-read with the current state of medicine? I need to get back in the saddle about my health and an attentive GP would be a start.

Mutual aid request but it’s just for kindness. It’s a hard time of the year to begin with but I’m really going through it now.

James Ransone. Gutted. A rare talent. One of a small, small group of actors who felt like a friend whenever he showed up onscreen. Requiescat.

Surprising affinity

Heartbroken.

Can’t find a way to write this that doesn’t sound like a twee bromide but genuinely, if your end of year review is that you survived painful things happening in your life & the world, stayed empathetic in an inhospitable environment & treated yourself & others decently then that’s achievement enough

Living is busywork. I want prosperity.

America is attempting to colonize itself. There really isn't another word for it.

Someone's going to make a blowjob robot that pauses right when it senses you're about to come to show you ads for an evangelist church. Mark my words.

Idea: let's keep doing these panels, but the exit is a portal that banishes everyone who walks through it into a separate and otherwise-uninhabited dimension from which there is no return.

Bellbird - Root In Tandem (private-press, 2023) Really excellent and tastefully mathy chamber-jazz project out of Montréal, like a wistful and organic Horse Lords or a more bop-forward Travis Laplante project. Streamed this last month but wanted a tangible copy because that's how I roll. #CDFriday

The only justified active shooter situation is a disabled person taking out a room of people who have 'that cold that's going around' nearly six years into a global pandemic. Ableism is genocide.

“No one is safe from the damage that COVID does. Both my mom and my uncle had post-COVID complications; my mom now has #LongCOVID. Everyone is at risk of Long COVID and I can tell you: you don’t want it.”— Christine, founder of ThingsDoctorsSay. Interview: www.instagram.com/p/DSYLEZHkWHR/

Victor Hugo's Street Fighter II

Somewhere, someone's creating visual memoir stories with no AI in them, nothing but the human experience. I'm one of 'em. Who else? What graphical memoir comics should I be looking at?

Everyone featured on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was a Beatle; change my mind.

Who's the best worst band and why is it Styx?

Sometimes I wonder if Elliot Rodger ever got deep into Jobriath.

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

Cassette labelled 'FUCK MIX' that's just the title track of Dennis DeYoung's 'Desert Moon' album dubbed repeatedly.

Sometimes it hits you that time is a mirror.