It's been a minute or few. I started posting again on my 20(?) year old blog so maybe that's been my focus instead of trying to be funny-ish with minimalist characters available?

The movie mashup I didn't know I needed until now.

I'm assuming that the final round of funding for this whole Rapture thing fell apart. I was so looking forward to far less people being around.

If you have to dissemble structures enabling free speech to avoid being embarrassed then maybe the first step towards a solution is to stop being an embarrassment. Also, release the Epstein files you fucking cowards.

After slightly longer than a year of being unemployed, I'm headed out to do some IT work via NextDoor tomorrow. I can't wait until it's a year from now and I'm full-time cleaning up AI slop and fixing all of the inspired work of 0-3 years of experience folks.

I watched too much of this tonight and I'm a little disappointed that it exists. Prop comedy for a loss

If you know me in real life then you know what a disaster this is. The number of friends I've made while hanging out here is uncountable. Next Saturday is going to be apocalyptic.

Listening to this completely overwhelmed me with nostalgia which I am normally very allergic to. I miss the idea that Mark is out there somewhere in all likelihood either befriending or annoying someone.

I'm super happy that Slow Mass is back in action. I think this record was the one recorded a few years ago and delayed by a whole fucking thing. This record is a bit quieter than their previous LP "On Watch." I was a tiny bit letdown by that initially but I'm all the way onboard now.

Just tried the Spotify "DJ" feature for the first time since it was released. Its advanced AI feature is the miraculous ability to play the first song from every record you've listened to in the past two weeks. Swell.

I have to wonder how long it will be until the length of the parade of logos at the beginning of a movie will be longer than the actual film. I suspect that it won't be long now.

The most meta thing I've found in my spam folder lately.

Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer

I don't know how many times my back lizard brain has wondered why the back of the Top Ramen features a line drawing of Fred Armisen. It finally alerted the part of my brain that handles non-stupid tasks so now both spheres are less dumb. Still ...

I'm so tired that I just opened this post dialog and stared at it for 5 minutes. That there is some high quality brain atrophy.

What happens when I feel like making home fries at night.

Did my first tinkering around with Deepseek and I kinda believe the hype now. The phrasing of the replies is far better than I've seen. I'm always pretty critical of AI anything since it's just a chatbot with an infinitely larger database of bullshit but I found its replies useful for once.

The single funniest view of the week.

I just realized something interesting. Bluesky is now the only social media account that I have.

So much for that platform. I've started down this road a few times just out of general frustration with privacy and ad-ware. Aligning yourself and your platform proudly with the tiny-handed fascist turd expedited the process exponentially.

I heard these folks for the first time this morning. I don't know how to properly classify them (post-hardcore with spazzy inclinations?) but I've liked everything that I've heard so far.

I look at Musk's nazi salute the same way that look at acquaintances that use 'gay' ironically. Your intent doesn't matter one fucking bit if overheard it lands on a victim unironically and does the same damage. Fuck all of the journalists apologizing for this monster in a human suit.

Good to hear, $spam_recruiter, I feel validated. Thanks for looking out for my var UserInterests.

Amazingly a CEO has learned that the magical combination of locking things want to buy in cages and cutting the number of employees per store to the barest of minimums isn't a recipe for success. It's astounding what utter failure can teach these titans of industry.

Is it possible that YouTube algorithms will ever change and not prioritize faces in involuntary/uncomfortable orgasm expression? I'm guessing not and future generations will only be capable of distinguishing approval/disapproval by O faces and agonizing heads held in both hands.

Eagerly awaiting the arrival of the replacement battery for my car key fob. Putting a physical key in a car lock feels odd now.

Thing I'm happy about: Playing (new) music again. Same cast/crew minus my soulmate guitar player who had to move far away. Bad things that I hate: We're only like 7 days away from the Orange grift-goblin fuckfest that no one here asked for.

If you need me I'll be at The Bronze.

After talking about Botch at practice the other night I found myself looking this video up again and I am still astounded. Botch really was that incredible. I remember seeing them for the 1st time and being astonished that all of that came out of one guitar.

Playing Metaphor: ReFantanzio which is slightly less bizarre and incomprehensible than say American politics. I will say that the next being, virtual or real, that utters 'fantasy book' within striking range will indeed be struck.

New Cloakroom song. This video is pretty great as well.

This is fucking heartbreaking. I knew Luke for 25+ years and always loved hanging out with him. I last saw him about six weeks ago, was kinda wondering how he was doing, and now this. Fuck.

Maintaining a starter is something I imagine myself doing in hell in perpetuity and at a much larger scale. Granted, this is only the 3rd day of a completely new batch so I should know better by now.

Making Bots Useful Again

On immigration, I'd go with "Republicans have spent decades making sure our immigration system stays broken as guys like Trump and Musk hired foreign workers rather than pay Americans fair wages. We need a fair system with a path to citizenship that billionaires can't rig."

Noticed this on BundleHunt; just in case you need a tool specific to cleaning up the clothing in wedding photos and possibly deleting ghosts from photos? Are wedding dresses appearing in photos suddenly not cool?

After reading a huge number of slapdash and typo-ridden NYE posts, I am thoroughly convinced that we should just permanently change the name of the holiday to 'new years eye.' It just sounds that much more creepy, awful, and aligned with how life actually is now.

Good news: no one needed me to pick them up this year after NYE. Bad news: It's fucking 2025. Oh dear.

I think I'm going to take a break from the stressful internet. My browsing will temporarily be confined to the mostly text world of w3m. I need a short exodus from the world of twitchy JavaScript and AI-driven form field fillers. Is this my midlife crisis?

Engine Kid (among other bands from around this time period) was so fucking influential to me. The idea that guitar parts could be math-y and heavy without falling down the reverse headstock/divebomb rabbit hole was a slap upside the head that I needed.

Please RP! translifeline.org/about/

I accidentally shook Jimmy Carter's hand. I was wrestling a hand truck around a crowd from a book signing event and was inadvertently in line. He recognized what happened and got a chuckle out of it. I appreciate that he rested a hand on my shoulder while shaking my hand. Memorable 30 years later.

Somehow I missed the release of this record for 8 months. If'n you like d-beat stuff ...

The one okay thing about unemployment: I haven't had a single conversation in months about some Lovecraft-ian atrocity cooked up in Excel suddenly not working.

Finished up the day by watching the 2004 re-make of Dawn of the Dead as an xmas tradition 6 years running.

Happy/Merry whatever your deal is. I appreciate all of you.

I don't often click through NextDoor emails since there is enough overt racism available nearly everywhere these days but this one at least made me pause for a moment.

Short but well written piece about the adversarial relationship that big tech has with its customers and users. I really think that technology is the worst that it has ever been for end users with the difference between now and then being that the shittiness is by design.

Abrasive and booming. I wouldn't try to classify Gaoled's genre but it's definitely within the hardcore realm. My copy of this LP should be here any day and it's definitely going to be spending a lot of time being played repeatedly.

I'm beginning to interpret "AI-enhanced" in software descriptions as "periodically fails at basic functionality to be followed up by flagellation by spokesperson saying we need to create nuclear power locally so AI can hallucinate optimally."