[sigh] I must now go sanitize the epidermal layer of this corpus of organic material that is attached to my brain, by furbishing it with oils and chemicals while standing under a stream of hot water. At least I'll feel and smell nice when it's over.

when the office moved into a street full of homeless people we would raid the free mini-kitchens for protein bars and gave them away. sandwiches. anything we could smuggle out.

Am all stocked up. I've been doing this for about a month now and it has been working out pretty well. Significantly less expensive and less toxic waste in the environment compared to buying cases of 16.9 fl oz plastic bottles.

So the contract for the netcup VPS where my #Tor middle relay node is hosted is due to expire on 2026-03-31. I was going to just let it expire, but I'm now going to renew it. It's about $6.65/month, which is affordable to me. I'm glad to contribute to the Tor network in the way that I can.

[grumble] Good morning

I remember one time there were these trans men on Twitter a while back joking about forming a Marmot Club for people who have boobs that they don't want. And I says, I'm a cishet man with gynecomastia, can I join your club? 🥺 And they says yes, welcome to the Marmot Club. 🙂

Alpha males < Beta males < stable males with rolling security patches

Can a void even be said to be "real"? Maybe we'll never know. That's okay.

Something I'll probably never understand the appeal of: reaction videos.

Me: Aw shoot. I done opened up a can o' snakes. Rubber duck: Worms. Me: Pardon? Rubber duck: The saying is a can of worms. Me: But that... how do worms cause chaos? All they do is wriggle and burrow into the ground. Rubber duck: Well snakes can't even fit in a can! Me: It's an expression!

Am exposed to the elephants. The LOLephants.

Is 'dis 'da guy?! I'll give 'im a what-for. 🤨 👊

I'm just gonna go hide now. 🙃 For all intents and purposes, I am a shrub. 🙃

Me: (asks a slightly TMI question but not rudely) Me: Err... you don't have to answer the question -- maybe I shouldn't have asked. Me: Err... not that you need my permission to not answer the question, or anything. --- Sometimes I get myself stuck in these awkward social knots. 🙃

CW: sex, brothels So like, how do legal brothels in Las Vegas work? Do they like screen every customer for STDs, or have certain hygiene requirements? It would be kinda weird and gross if they just let any rando customer come in without some kind of hygiene standards.

Thanks to the game Weird West, I now have an interest in the weird western genre. Someone in the Weird West Discord server shared this upcoming weird western ARPG, and it looks amazing.

So I just remembered that Steam Play is a thing, and I could use that instead of spending $20 to use GeForce Now. Wish I'd have remembered that a week ago. Would have saved me $20.

Damn. Myrient is shutting down on 2026-03-31. The owner can't afford to host because of the rise in resource costs. They were spending $6000 a month! I already have part of their ROM collection in my digital archive, but I'll try to download more before they shutdown. Fuck AI

Glad this is coming to Firefox soon. Zen already has it.

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Am very...uh-- (What's a socially appropriate way to express that I am sad and lonely?)

Me: When I snap my fingers, a cute thicc goth gf who is compatible with me in all the relevant ways will magically appear. [snaps] [nothing happens] Me: It can still happen! It just hasn't, yet, is all.

CW: cigarettes, tobacco The cigarette I just had tasted kinda funny. Open source tobacco when. But in all seriousness it's probably just a quirk of the batch of tobacco that cigarette was made from. Tobacco is a plant and it's not always going to have a consistent and uniform flavor profile.

Shower: ✅ Dinner: ✅ Laundry: ✅ Shave: TODO

I wonder what "baby talk" sounds like in other languages.

Man there are some real gonks who haven't learned how to think critically and process nuance. Earlier on Mastodon I experienced an instance of "don't know if trolling / nerd-sniping / wasting my time, or just a gonk." I'm gonna err on the side of gonk.

🎤 Oh one fine day in the middle of the night

Oh boy, my Facebook timeline is now like 90% Alysa Liu. What have I done 😂

Interesting discussion in this thread. snac.lx.oliva.nom.br/lxo/p/177178...

I'm back to using regular #Firefox. I'm glad they added the AI killswitch. It's nice to have container tabs, DownThemAll, and LibRedirect again. There is nothing that comes to mind at the moment that I miss from Vivaldi. Workspaces was a cool feature, but it's not critical to my flow.

meep

How do you tell if mushrooms are rotten? They always have dark spots and they're already fungus.

Someone called me a "techno-pessimist" lol. Because I'm anti-AI and anti-crypto. Imagine having such a simplistic view of technology -- or the world, even -- that you only see one possible technological future as "valid and right", and everyone who disagrees is categorically a "techno-pessimist".

Tune in on March 31 to see what awaits for Tamriel. 📺 What would you most like to see?

I think "Plimpton" is a funny surname. Apologies to anyone with that surname.

Press " } " to move to the next blank line. Press " { " to move to the previous blank line. #vimtips #vim #neovim

Innovative idea: *human* agency

a flotilla of ships from outer space could simultaneously destroy 5 major world cities and the news will still be about how it affected american tourists

Apparently this is Gottfrid Svartholm, one of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay. At home, in his work station. The shizotypy is strong with this one.

Someone should make one of those memes where it's a view of airplane seats and each aisle has celebrities, and it's like "Where you sitting?", but it should consist entirely of celebrities who died in a plane crash.

OH (self): "Yeah I don't know what his deal is. He walks around here like the AI in Sims 2."

bro I don't even 'member 'dat

I subscribed to Nvidia GeForce Now so that I can game while I'm on my non-gaming portable computer while I'm at my grandma's house lol. Pretty cool that this is possible. I'm using the Beta client for Linux. I set an event on Proton Calendar to send me a notification to unsubscribe in a month.

And when people are like "oh you're PURITY TESTING" Yes, if you want to call it that? I do feel like "no concentration camps" is a fine purity test?

Final Destination