nope

the AI response

Woke up, had to deal with PayPal's shitty AI voice mail system that didn't understand "fraud" or "phishing," and then had to troubleshoot a TV that I first couldn't turn on, and then wouldn't connect to wireless despite sitting next to the router. Letting techbros run everything was a mistake.

Headline: "Bruce McCaw sells Hunts Point mansion for $47M below original ask" Me, sarcastically: "What, did your prospective buyers find out you can't even get a library card if you live there?" (True story. Basically: rich asshats refusing to pay their property taxes. kcls.org/faq/library-... )

We have friends everywhere.

Standout headline of the day: "Did you drive your car into Lake Washington? Police are looking for you"

10/10, no notes.

I love how every interview with Bryan Cranston where "Breaking Bad" comes up he has to tiredly inform somebody "You realize Walter White is a terrible person, right?" "But you're a good looking white man, Bryan! How can that be?" "You see the point I'm making. You just don't realize it yet."

Spirit Airlines has officially shut down operations. Well, you know what that means...

Can verify, because this one hit me, although fortunately I had enough sense to go straight to PayPal's website, look up the real number, and call them directly. I'm still waiting for them to wipe out the (tiny) deposit I didn't ask for, but at least I didn't call the fraudsters' number.

Saint Anthony Preaches to the Fish, Girolamo Tessari, 16th c, 📸 by @lindseywasson

Delayed an important meeting until Monday because my stomach hates me and I feel more than a little like I got hit by a truck. (No actual trucks were involved. Just, y'know, the metaphorical one that is women's health.) I feel so weirdly guilty about it. But ergh. bed. cozy comforting bed.

Love finding out that my personal info got exposed in a data breach (again) because apparently Columbia University, which I never went to, never applied to, and never worked for, still had my name and SSN from when I took the PSATs over thirty years ago and they decided to send me a brochure.

I would like a neighborhood ice cream truck but for adults that comes around at like 6:00ish and serves fantastic cocktails inspired by all of the original ice cream truck treats

looking forward to Oh No The National Debt becoming the single most pressing issue for the national media the second a Democrat takes office again, as is tradition

Enjoying Many Things makes it easier to remove stuff if/when they become problematic. Plus it's nice, to be enthusiastic about as many things as your brain will hold.

if you have fingers, you, too, can make a haiku you’ll need seventeen

Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd’s Crown

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

I am having the kind of day that is not groovy not groovy at all

I'm so tired of troubleshooting. It's not that I'm clueless at it, mind. It's that it's a constant, frustrating, increasingly difficult burden dumped onto users because everyone in tech got so wedded to "move fast and break things" and "git gud" mentalities that EVERYTHING FUCKING SUCKS NOW.

GNU Terry Pratchett, whose words will echo long after we, and our children, and our children’s children have moved on thank you, as always, for making me a better person (quote from Reaper Man)

🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

IG engagement-bait video: French grocery stores are unique and superior because of things like all the wine! Clearly nowhere else can you find this!!! Me in my little neighborhood grocery store 5,000 miles away, also with multiple aisles of wine: Yeah, you go on telling yourself that.

Today’s spam voice mail.

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."

Long story short: between emergency repairs at home, stressful medical stuff looming, and a pile of unplanned expenses, I'm having a really rough time of it today. Any reassuring words / silly distractions / sillier cat pictures / whatever would be appreciated.

Happy anniversary of this not happening

OUT: tech bros inventing the bus IN: tech bros inventing employees

I know this is a pedantic sort of hill to die on, but I really wish people (the media included!) would learn the difference between being fired and being laid off. Basically, it's this: Fired: you fucked up, get out Laid off: your position doesn't exist anymore, get out

Meanwhile, on Tumblr... (www.tumblr.com/dduane/81470...)

Wait, why does Oxford get one? We want a comma.

Two copy editors high-fiving so hard right now

I thought this felt relatable

Every time this tailor posts a photo of their workspace, it looks like their dog is a tailor and he's showing off the garments he made. IG z.o.e.y.a.t.e.s

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM

Khajiit has wares if you have coin

Iran attacking Bluesky is just about the weirdest plot twist I could imagine. www.securityweek.com/bluesky-disr...

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Years ago @mikeduncan.bsky.social told me "you can rewrite shit but you can't rewrite nothing" and it's made every draft easier since.

Currently in that phase of planning out a new piece of fiction where I spend about three straight days agonizing over...character names. (I have really got to stop coming up with big ensemble casts. SO. MANY. NAMES. *weeps quietly*)

Meanwhile, in other flashbacks to PBS shows of the '90s...

Just to get this on my own feed. Pretty amazing day for 14-year-old me.

Lock the fuck in, Gumshoes. Carmen Sandiego stole a priceless wax pressing of "One of These Nights" by the Eagles. You've got to stop her before she travels back in time to 149 BC Carthage and trades it to Scipio Africanus the Younger for a kilo of the good shit. *Rockapella bops on stage*

Bet you didn’t know It’s national haiku day So you should write one

Be sure to read the whole thing.

truth coming out of her well to shame mankind

Will bluesky let me post a picture of a car thats just :D