genuinely found myself watching this with a big grin on my face shame there's no eurovision this year, eh

Had works drinks tonight and quite frankly I was not expecting the phrase "what is rimming?" at any sort of work-related event any time soon but I guess that just emphasises the degree to which I was wrong

"vibe coding" is a terrible name for "letting an AI do it," it should mean "having six beers and going ham in Python on a Saturday night" instead

I don't have kids so I dressed up my book as a child for world book day

Excuse me can we get our ball back from your roof

No, I said ~pelicanesis~. I can move birds with my mind. Look, I'm making that one fly through the air.

I was intending to finish one last thing and then head back home but Iggy has different ideas about that

There's council elections in Holland in a few weeks so there's posters urging you to vote up around town but the thing is, we're not actually voting because our municipality is merging with another one later this year so they postponed our elections so they wouldn't have to run them twice in a year

Those are your feet, Iggy

The Dutch for a mnemonic literally translates to "little donkey bridge" As ever, do with this information what you will

Hello Iggy

I'm pretty sure the only culture that sours for the better is yogurt

I wish people would come to understand transphobia as systemic, structural, and pervasive so we could stop treating transphobia as explicitly limited to people saying "I hate trans people" and accept the way our society conditions us all to dismiss, diminish, and dehumanize trans people.

When we were in Iceland a few years ago I picked up a book of poetry written for, and under the branding of, a chain of Icelandic supermarkets by Andri Snær Magnason, and I cannot stress enough how ~hard~ these poems go

Yeah got no real patience for people making excuses for soldiers following evil orders cause of their fear of the consequences like im sorry you Would die for your country but not for what’s right?

You don't fool me, Cosmo and Wanda

Someone should invent full ear headphones that can go over glasses without being uncomfortable and squeaky

Dutch government is debating "digital issues" today so a bunch of organisations have sent them a letter basically going "AI companies steal everything and chatbots hallucinate so it's important we make it easier for them to get good data so Holland can become best at AI in Europe" which is insane

Some good bed hair this morning

Controversial opinion: I think we should stop doing bad things for a while and try doing good things instead

In Holland the tax return window opens on March 1st so every year the tax return website overloads and crashes for at least the first three days of March

It's only taken me like 20 attempts but I beat a 24 fear Typhon

Dutch fact: a "patatje oorlog" is chips with mayo, peanut sauce and onions, because we are a people of goblins

Stake frites, call that a Patatje Orlok

Some Dutch foods: - Hete bliksem, "Hot lightning" - Kapsalon, "Barbershop" - Uitsmijter, "Bouncer" - Boerenmeisjes, "Farm girls" - Beschuit met muisjes, "Rusk with little mice" - Patatje oorlog, "War chips" - Watergruwel, "Water horror" - Hagelslag, "Hail strike" - Lekkerbekje, "Delicious mouth"

It's rare to see a "we bought a company and are making changes" announcement these days that isn't terrible but y'know what, I'll take "we bought thingiverse and are getting rid of all the AI slop"

Suddenly decided that what I really need at this point in time is a shiny dice tower

I put up a bathroom cabinet recently and it's nice that I now have room for all the tubes and jars that used to live on the sink but mainly it's good for post-shower selfies tbh

The Dutch for "quantity" is "hoeveelheid," literally "how much-ness." As always, do with this information what you will.

Writing a review

Lightly salted

No that's a lion

Well, fuck

Old MacDonald's car alarm E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I-

I had someone go "well it's not that I disagree with how you feel about AI but don't you think the AI train has left the station and it's pointless to rail against it now?" and no, I think that makes it all the more important we rail against it now

Made a vegan boeuf bourguignon It was very nice

For some reason that Kratos is giving me strong "Boyle from Brooklyn 99" vibes

Famous ratings cannon George Galloway

It's nice to wake up to good news for once, we should try that more often

Because of reasons I got a Letterboxd so I'm immediately trying to write enough reviews to make it worth looking at, which is a very subjective metric letterboxd.com/ohlookbirdie...

I don't think that's correct

finally reading Kafka's Metamorphosis and it's not at all like i expected

I don't buy the tattoo placement, Mario is clearly a tramp stamp man

It's a small thing but I guess a small thing is still bigger than no thing

Love it when the train you're on gets cancelled so they have to try and ram a full train's worth of people on the next train which is a quarter of the length

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails. it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

Goals tbh

Love a pain au chocolat that looks like you rolled up a phone book

The reboot of The Thing should have had Mick Gordon do a song for the soundtrack called The Only You They Fear Is Thing