This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

Murderbot welcome to the war on cars

Favorite concerts to get to know me The Tea Party Peelander Z TOOL Einstürzende Neubauten VOLA Soen Pixies Front 242 Matte Blvck Razed in Black But not KMFDM because Sasha was being a moody twerp and kind of an asshole. Also, that sound system was the worst.

Johnny Knoxville is one of the better things to come from my hometown, and I'm not just saying that because prior to Jackass, it was known for Zima. Boys will be boys should be reserved for things like elaborate acts of dubious sense/safety which are hilarious.

My body's setpoint is finally defeating the tirzepitide (yay!), but being both hungry and overfull all the time is annoying. Hoping I can get things balanced out soon-ish. Also, I see many date energy balls in my future. Thank pity there are good ways to make them taste like more than just dates.

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

I am increasingly of a mind to swaddle myself in a portable Faraday cage suit and walk into the woods forever

the fuck it will

#vss365 No, no, feral isn't a synonym for wild; it's domesticated things that escaped and started living *as if* they were wild. That's why I freaked out and said we should leave when the dragon called us #feral humans! Never thought your low SAT verbal score would matter for adventuring. Damn it.

There are so many things that divide us, but dumplings bring us together in a nigh-universal human experience. (If dumpling diplomacy isn't a thing, it should be!)

Cleaning the dryer vent with its three right angles is a tremendous pain in my ass. If I ever need to make decisions about the location of our laundry room, I'm going to plump for wherever means we can do it with a 1 foot straight piece of venting.

I love the energy of this! This is one of those songs that I might not have stumbled across were it not for the exceptional music video. Big ups to the cinematographer, director, props person, and underwater acting coach. (I never thought of that last one before, but yes, don't drown the artist.)

It would be so nice if I had a volume knob on my brain so when I start making out with my sweetie, kisses aren't competing with half-remembered songs from Hamilton, endlessly repeating the phrase "biblically accurate platypus," and showing off its weird animal behaviors slideshow. So Nice

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It was a mishearing, its actually the *sax* genders *jazz intensifies*

Deep femme, woman, yes, man, deep masc, chaos goblin. (Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me. 🎸)

Start from the top of the thread to discover what snake diffraction is and why the question below is supported by peer-reviewed research! I still can't believe it makes sense.

I did a cursory search for this post, but there is apparently a company called "buildo," which is the real story here.

Just finished You Should Have Been Nicer To My Mom by Vincent Tirado, and I loved it. Compelling with no heroes or easy answers, and the setting is intensely real. I'm enjoying wrestling with it, but I'm going to let it cook before I read it again.

I'm not sure there's any culture in the world that wouldn't find this statement offensive, save Jains. All root vegetable are precious and unique! 😂

One of the best parts of the Internet is the intensely enthusiastic people. This person won't make an AI underwater temple scene when they can spend months painstakingly placing every fish. That one really does trash pickup through their LEGO city with to-scale garbage trucks. And it's beautiful.

When adversity strikes, our minds naturally gravitate toward threat detection and problem amplification. Healthy positivity interrupts this pattern by redirecting our cognitive resources toward possibility rather than limitation.

What shocking about people's trust in govt is not how low it is, it's that it even exists at all

Fatphobia is absolutely wild. Even while I was freaking out about my unexplained weight loss and seriously grieving the muscle mass I lost, there was (and is) that little voice saying "but you fit into your old clothes and your face looks better and..." I'd rather have some fat and my butt back.

Is the quoted post in reply to a comment about the GPU/AI bubble? Global oil prices? US international relations? It's impossible to know without clicking through. I hate this.

Interesting study about potential health hazards of erythritol. HOWEVER, note that studies exposed cells to levels of the sugar alcohol commonly found in beverages, NOT levels commonly found in bodies. Take results with a big grain of salt. Or a big grain of erythritol, as the case may be.

sorry I seem distracted just have to keep checking my phone to see if one of my freedoms is being arbitrarily taken away

Me: Hati can be such a chill cat sometimes! Not always, but sometimes. J: We call that learned helplessness. Or behavioral despair. (I'm impressed at how much he rolls with the punches when it's the kiddo, given how little it takes for a stranger to freak him out.)

I should be working, and yet...

Another day, another AI rant. One, I wish people would stop using the term "intelligence." Two, please stop lumping price prediction, NPC behavior, and cancer detection with the lying machine that lies and the creepy artwork theft hallucinator! In conclusion, argh I hate everything.

A shockingly apt description of Elon Musk.

Never met Tony Peters, don’t know who he is, but a million years ago on Facebook he posted this and I don’t think anyone’s ever put it better.

Sad Stir Fry Easy-ish for the commentators to say?

Low Libido Beef Burrito

Really enjoying the current challenge on the Finch app: music! It's been too long since I listened by album instead of algorithmic playlist. I'm looking forward to "sing in the shower" and "listen outside your usual genres."

I've just been informed that my $17 for a two-pack Hanes bralettes (from Target) are hand wash and dry flat only. Am I actually in a simulation like those bros keep saying or are we in the bad place like everyone keeps joking?

Look, kid, I appreciate you. Also, if you want to make it to thirty without ulcers, you'll need to develop middle gears. (There's more graffiti along similar lines in the porto and on a number of nearby walls. A for effort, points lost for overwriting?)

"No more shoes?" "Nope. AI all day." "What does that mean?" "It's AI. It's in everything. It's the future. So we're the future." "What does your AI do?" "Multi-modal agentic self-supervised latent-space singularity." "You don't know what that means, do you?" "No." "Here's a billion dollars."

I still hate how effective altruism got tainted by all these selfish jerks with motivated reasoning. I liked discussing research on how best to make a difference and the tradeoffs of strict utilitarianism vs. the personal joy of giving. (Because personal giving feels great, right?) 1/10

Lots of functioning as an adult is the same as/similar to parenting a small child, for me. Lay out outfits ahead of time Plan out meals and snacks for day Enforce regular bathing and bedtime Use bribes to accomplish flossing and toothbrushing Or is my inner child just not very inner?

The Adoration of the Wieners (Carnitas, Denied), iPhone and unexpectedly good lighting, 2026

"Well well how the turns have tabled" x.com/JonnyMicro/s...

It's an uncomfortable and exceedingly weird to feel peristalsis and associated gut processes start back up. So. Loud.

Perfect

Within the first five minutes, I wanted to call Coriolanus (2011) magnificent. I still think so. It's also a beautiful showcase of the director's role; one scene that moved me to tears was silent and not in the text. Ralph Fiennes did a wonderful job

My carnivorous sundew is now inside containment. I really hope this works and I don't have to add a secondary window.

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

Food poisoning while ramping onto a GLP-1 agonist = probably my worst birthday yet. Do not recommend.