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I've started appending "-ai" to all my google searches and it's a breath of fresh air not to have to see the LLM slop at the top of the results So much so that I'm toying with the idea of making an extension or something that will automatically append it. (as if I'm not busy enough already, LOL)

There's no reason to follow Aaron Rupar when Phil Lewis exists. If Rupar posts anything you need to see, someone who does a better job aggregating breaking news will repost it to your feed.

I am kicking ass making Thanksgiving dinner this year and for once I'm not being modest about it. So far everything's on schedule and we haven't had to do any big pivots. The turkey might even be done a little early which actually is a good thing in this case. Probably jinxed myself now but oh well.

Hey! I’m delighted to share that we are set now - thank you!! ❤️😊 and thanks as well to those who boosted the signal, we greatly appreciate it.

This is a long shot, but anyone have a ticket to either the Bellevue or Federal Way showing of Shattered: Battle for Dream Island Again they’re willing to sell? Both are sold out (we found out about it late) and my 12yo is the kind of devastated where he’s heartbroken but trying not to show it.

The Punctuation Collection™️

Unpacking is such a satisfying game and the storyline is really lovely. Definitely worth taking a look. If you're not a Steam person, it's available on mobile platforms too!

This week's theme for #CrochetAway is goals, those projects you hope or plan to make someday. One of mine is this Feather Wing Shawl from CraftyIntentions. It would be great to wear to Norwescon or a similar event. Maybe next year... or the year after that... 🧶

OH DARN THE POOR TECHBROS anyway.

The school in question is an Infant School, which means kids ages 4 to 7, approximately. ...hey fellow parents, what's the success rate on telling your kids that age to NOT sing a particular song? I'm sure this will go well. 🤣🤣

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out. www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...

My MS Office Nerd Skillz are mostly Excel, but today I figured out how to add boilerplate text to numbered lists in Word. Very useful if, for example, you’re a knit/crochet designer writing a 🧶pattern and it’s tedious AF manually typing “Row 1:” “Row 2:” “Row 3:” at the beginning of every line. 😎

ANYWAY if you'd like to read a fun, mid-century, country mansion mystery novel set during Thanksgiving, I literally have the book for you! You do not need to have read the first in the series to "get" it: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717309...

Paywalled link: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... "On Wednesday, Wilson took a 1,976-vote lead over Bruce Harrell. With a maximum of 1,320 ballots remaining — though likely fewer — it is mathematically impossible for Harrell to catch up."

Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle. Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger. Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.

It’s considered problematic now, but The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin really got me hooked on mysteries and puzzle solving. I’d read Nancy Drew and similar books, but TWG made me feel like *I* was having the fun of solving the mystery, whereas Nancy et al was just reading about someone else solving.

Happy 3rd Publish-iversary to my first book, Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man! It has been a wild (and stressful) past three years. I didn't have as much time as I wanted to debut Viv to the world, but I'm glad there are people who love her as much as I do! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711852...

to be fair,

I subscribed to this labeler yesterday and it's been entertaining seeing which accounts are getting badged. It tracks things like large # of unfollows, repeatedly posting the same link, minimal breaks between posts (news orgs, Jerry, etc.) and large # of posts in last 24 hours (traffic, Jerry, etc.)

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

I would not be the tiniest but surprised if on Monday, just in time for Election Day, Republicans announce that they've found some way to fund SNAP after all. 🤨

Oh and I'm supposed to be helping my kid assemble a Halloween costume and of course he's vanished into somewhere 😑 I got a pneumococcal booster shot yesterday and I'm tired & my arm still hurts, but at least I'm past the fever and chills stage (that was last night).

I have been messing with my website so much that I can no longer tell whether it's Pretty Good or just Cringe. At this point there are two more static pages I need to add and I really don't love the theme and it'll be about a week before I can meet with someone to design a logo and and and and and.

This #Halloween, we couldn't think of much that's more terrifying than not knowing what to do when an #earthquake strikes. ...But then we thought of this situation 😱

🎶 Angelica, tell my wife John Adams doesn’t have a real job anyway 🎶

AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!! but also: look at that pretty web in #5 with the water droplets and the fog behind it. 😍

Previously, driving by this billboard would make me irrationally angry. It's very refreshing to see the end of the whiny white dude phase. I hope the tribe ends up either tearing down the billboard or at least removing the Uncle Sam figure.

Sometimes a platform's Algorithm is right on target. Today, after I'd finished the last book on my Libby shelf, the app suggested I might like Murder by Memory by @oliviawaite.com. Yes indeed I might. Very much. Ended up buying my own copy to keep (and re-read) and pre-ordered the next one.

Tears caused by irritants (e.g. onion fumes) are chemically distinct from tears caused by strong emotions. And yet why is it that I find myself feeling emotionally wrung out starting about an hour or so after dicing an onion. Every darn time.

I did not expect to have such a visceral reaction to these stories, but it's like a punch in the gut every time. How fucking dare he. How can Congress see this happening and not condemn him. I hate that my kids have to grow up in the political climate.

Technically, this is a book of spells.

listen, I didn't stop listening to Nirvana when they started selling the smiley face shirts at Urban Outfitters; I'm not gonna stop using em-dashes just because chatGPT uses them

For Gen X part of why watching the unapproved & unpermitted destruction of the #WhiteHouse is so hard is the symbolism. We watched the Berlin wall fall, & remember elation and excitement that democracy and freedom were winning. This demonstration symbolizes the fall of our democracy and freedoms.

So I'm now glad for the headache b/c it was bad enough that after finishing the 2nd call I bailed on all of it and went to lie down in a dark room. The 1st call was indeed the true fraud. In my defense they had a really good script that was in sync with previous legit fraud alert calls I've gotten.

Not to be THAT dictionary, but… It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’ It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’ It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’ It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’ It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'

love love love starting off my day with fraudulent activity on a debit card that I haven’t even used since I got it I was on the phone with one fraud analyst when I got a call from a second fraud analyst about the same card & now I’m not even sure whether any of it is legit plus I have a headache

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Protip Don't scroll down this thread there's a monster at the end of these skeets

I've been working on my website for my tech editing business, including trying to draft a "no AI-generated patterns" policy. Told my husband I was trying to come up with a professional way to say "Don't send me AI shit." He, of course, suggested I go with "Don't send me AI shit."

I am not sure which is more fun: creating the complex spreadsheet templates with all the references and nested formulas and named ranges, or using them and watching the resulting values show up LIKE MAGIC 🤓

Direct from Reddit: Live on-the-scene updates of how Seattlites are coping with the city being burned to the ground by Antifa or whatever (lol)

'Rapture' comes from the Latin 'rapere' meaning "to seize and carry off." 'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.' We hope neither carries you off today.

Sammamish woman selected as one of NASA’s 10 astronaut candidates

Ah, September, the sounds of back to school: trying to get your kid(s) out the door on time.

also: hi! I'm still alive, just been busy, and sometimes I get overwhelmed with political despair and can't handle very much here. Which is really a Me Problem that I tend to "solve" by avoiding the app, even though it's not the app's fault that I haven't done a good job curating my feeds.

Nothing says ADHD like looking at your tech edit homework, groaning at all the calculations, pulling up Excel, and veering off for an hour perfecting a template that not only has formulas to calculate measurements but also a sheet for converting between units because that'll needs to be checked too.

So a thing I didn't think about when I started these courses on crochet tech editing is that I need to establish a brand name so that I can set up a website and stuff. I am terrible with naming things. I didn't even pick my own kids' names! (we went to the hospital with a "short" list of ~30 names)

I'm looking for 🧶 crochet & knit tech editors, because I'm thinking of getting into that space and I've got some questions. (willing to pay reasonable consulting fee ). DM me if you're up for a short chat? Also, pattern designers: do you use a tech editor? I'm interested in your thoughts on it too.