I know I brought this upon myself, but I think my tumble dryer just crashed.

I only have one responsibility left for 2025: a flower arrangement demo on Friday. Almost free to bed rot with a book.

I watch a lot of movies, and rarely do I fall asleep, but I tried to watch "Shelby Oaks" TWICE and have found myself absolutely put. This film is ambien. I have this problem with my letterboxd that I never know how much of a film I have to have seen to count as a "watched".

Different art exhibit this weekend. If you are in Golden Gate Park, there's an Ikenobo ikebana exhibition on both days at the county fair building. Assuming I don't drop my vase (again), I should have an arrangement for you to spot.

Did I learn to silversmith just so I can make custom arthritis split rings for playing video games without hurting myself? Yes.

Studio Gallery in pac heights in sf is opening their annual tiny show tomorrow. I've got a couple bits in it. I'll be at the Sunday 9th November opening reception 2 - 3pm, if you must have my presence in order to look at the tiny (and a few huge) pieces […] [Original post on status.fberriman.com]

me, others, paintings, friday, bernal.

I'm Kimie Shimizu in her monster form, from Silent Hill F for tonight.

I did myself a little kindness and deleted all the RSS feeds I had for tech and gadget topics (that were once interesting but now only want to sell me shit) sites, and now have a very manageable once-or-twice a week set of feeds that are almost entirely individual blogs of people I have met IRL […]

Look at this ridiculous little friend Dana gave me from Yukai Engineering. He blows on your hot tea!

I've been collecting photos of all the billboards and ad spaces here in SF, that are currently 99% AI features. What should I do with them? I feel like there's probably an average of the bubble ads image, maybe? The visual variety in them is v v low.

Wow, that's a fugly new design for a logo that didn't need to be changed. It's giving tampon.

i'm working on an essay right now and i keep thinking about how teachers are pissed off that their students are submitting AI essays and that's sad and stupid but - why are your students so chill about cheating? Bad students have always cheated, because they're bad students. But if your good […]

I'm somewhat unexpectedly in SF Gate today. https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-coyote-diet-death-research-21055463.php

i bought a (cheap) robot arm.

Surprised that "customizable, all-in-one internet digest" clue I jokingly filled in as RSS FEED on the NYT crossword today is actually correct. People actually know that? 🙏🙏🙏

I'm currently building up a lot of karma by being the new "volunteer" website person for the local ikebana international chapter. I expect a sainthood will be on it's way shortly.

So, is the UK's rail network now just a deposit scheme? Pay exorbitant ticket price, but reliably claim it back when train is inevitably very late or cancelled? Seems like a silly way to run a business, but what do I know.

Had an idea for silly make. Can you rent programmable robot arms?

finally found an opportunity to quote @undermanager in an assignment essay.

Are folks only just *now* noticing that substack is another nazi bar? I thought that was already well documented. Guys, please. RSS. I don't even care if you're just spinning up wordpress blogs.

Going to LDN tomorrow and my body has offered up a summer cold. Good, good. Only reasonable I take a lurgy back that way for once.

I'm going back to non-streaming for music, so I bought an MP3 player & have been ripping my old CDs (and I'll be spending a lot on discogs and bandcamp). Haven't bought a new CD in about ~17 years, tho, so it's put my musical age back at a certain life point, listening to only what I *own* […]

some real frontpage slander going on in here, but as usual @heydon nailed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wqnc2U9Fyc

Saw a conference website today that had used AI to animate all the speakers' photos to be videos on mouse-over. Are we okay with that? i don't think I'd want to be involuntarily* deepfaked in a presumably professional setting, making gestures I wouldn't etc. * I know they didn't ask permission.

Being cool vs. Bring cringe Via https://bsky.app/profile/ablington.bsky.social/post/3llkophm77c2b https://migurski.tumblr.com/post/781181004198166528

Coyote ecology art show // https://fberriman.com/2025/04/20/coyotes/

Spring sprang with daffs from the allotment.

My stems cells are in here!

Level up.

Remember that plug-in that turned pictures of Frump into pictures of kittens? is there one of those for Eron, because I cannot stand that man's face, either, and I would like fewer jump scares.

heh heh heh, i am recovering from gum surgery, i am getting my hips stem-celled next month and i have to design and produce and install an art exhibition by the start of april. oh, and there's a coup on. i'm fine!

Monica and I went to the SF MoMA yesterday and there was a robot spitting out paper aphorisms. Apparently the artist tried to write these using ChatGPT, but it was too shit at it, so she had to write most of them herself. I'm very tired. (Kara Walker, Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine))

God damn Gemini, which I have repeatedly told Google I do not want when it prompts, showed up in my app anyway. Now *I* have to do IT admin to get rid. I assume. Fuck you Google, Foogle.

Went downtown for the first time in ages to find myself in an ocean of blue blazers, jeans, brown shoe, finance convention bros? And they say SF is dead.

Had extracorporeal shockwave therapy today on my hips, which sounds super futuristic, but mostly i'm just now icing my backside.

I've had my phone language set to en-gb forever, which has really shown up how many websites think language == geography. You'd think internet people would appreciate how untrue that is more than most, and yet...

Last one of 2024

I have no intention of joining bluesky and @pluralistic explains exactly what I've been saying to people IRL about why: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast I did enable the bluesky bridgy fed, so if you're only over there, have at, but I'm not […]