Microsoft is a genuinely fascinating company like Their products are the most used in practically every niche. All of them are ass. Most of their customers don't even realize they have other options. Their software powers essential infrastructure and can break on mandatory updates.

I will now be including the meaningless string xjq in posts that get very specific about what I experience on chemo. This way if this triggers ptsd etc. you can filter that "word" and still enjoy my other posts, but folks who want to know can know. xjq thread begins here.

Things I have looked up how to say in other languages: "My condolences" "Grateful" "Do the best you can." "Can you guess how many times I've complained to my neighbor on my right side? Not once. Never."

Man the people who follow me during non-chemo weeks must hover over that unfollow button, conflicted, during chemo weeks, and honestly vice versa. Next week: She is not spamming Andor gifs and doing weird problematic confessions; this is boring. But if I unfollow I'll miss next chemo week... hmmmm

YES let's talk about Andor some more. My husband is pro Star War and I am neutral to anti, and we both SALIVATE over this show.

I am very angry about racism - angry enough to nuke some in-person relationships that mattered to me - but I don't yell about it online as much as most white folks because I realize I know just enough about it to be angry and not enough to usefully educate anyone. That is a bad combination.

I knew what color this hero was before I saw the picture. Related: a white kid would absolutely have narced on the real culprit. White kids in places like this love authorities, because authorities tell them they are Good no matter what. Source: I was that white kid. I grew up.

It ys the seasoun of decoratif gourdes, O knaves

Just *loved* episode 4 of the new Futurama season. Not sure how much is the discrete maths class I took three times finally being of use to me and how much was being high on doctor administered deadly nightshade but it sure seemed GREAT.

Okay so, I tried to argue that Andor is art in words. Now I will do it in gifs. With minimal spoilers.

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Yes. Andor is much more Victor Hugo than it is George Lucas.

So, I wanna talk about Andor since the non Star Wars crowd - a group I identify with despite mandatory repeated Star Wars exposure due to marrying a Star Wars Guy - are hearing about it more and wondering why folks are quoting it like it's Serious Art. It's because it's Serious Art. (1/?)

Chemo strongly tempting me to add "she/her/boat" to my bio

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Chemo day. Once again I am going to try to stay off social media until my brain is back. Unfortunately the very valid and well thought out reasons for this are always the first things to go.

I just noticed a man's selfie alt-texted as "graying brown hair" when the hair in question is a spectacular mane of unrelenting and glorious silver; I literally have never had any clue what color this guy's hair used to be until I read that

I've gone 49 years without knowing what Donald Trump's voice sounds like. There is not a job on earth he could have that would make me interested in hearing him talk.

Phase Changes xkcd.com/3144/

We should call more agender/nb folks "sib;" I think it's cute. Agender bro.

So the reason there are no pronouns in my bio is not what you'd think. It's the opposite of that. My gender is "I care SO little about my gender there is literally no way to misgender me, and I am actively uncomfortable telling others how to gender me."

Too little, too late. The Damage to Disney is done.

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Walk this way

For some reason TMBG lyrics "Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding" keep bouncing around in my head...

Going with an alien abduction video while foreign visitors to GDC are at risk of being grabbed by ICE is... I don't even know. Best case, some very dark humor that they talked themselves into?

"Your stuff is shit anyway" along with a boycott might feel better to spit at a corporation but I have this feeling that "Damn, I'm really going to miss your stuff, hope you change your mind" might make them sit up a little straighter. When your best friends ditch you, you know you done wrong.

"We're going to destroy access to useful, factual information and use a water-destroying electricity hog that screws up all the time." people: that sounds bad. why? "It'll make a ton of money for my underground bunker once I've drained all you rubes dry" people: oh. can I write a novel with it?

Yes I am aware that was an ad but LOOK AT THE PHOTO

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It must be fun to be the person who picks the rapture dates. You get to consult your calendar, have millions of people care, be wrong, and have those millions of people feverishly look forward to the next time you’re wrong.

I mean, Eschatological ideation often arises in moments of sociopolitical upheaval as a kind of hedge against uncertainty, even tho the referent text explicitly says "none shall know the day/hour" & basically tells you to live your life like god might call you to account any second but sure, fuck it

We cannibals must help these Christians.

Good things can still be done and they don't have to be huge things. It can be just donating a couple dollars to a good cause. I might be annoying about this until it hits the goal: unduemedicaldebt.org/campaign/whe...

I've always loved Disney. I always loved Star Wars. I really enjoyed the Marvel movies. But when my housemate, who is paying for the Disney+ subscription, said he wanted to know my thoughts on cancelling...well, let's just hope Disney does the right thing soon, because I'll miss it till they do.

Chemo day. Once again I am going to try to stay off social media until my brain is back. Unfortunately the very valid and well thought out reasons for this are always the first things to go.

Looking at art as Art - something that doesn’t have to swaddle you up in emotional comfort and confirm you - gives you the chance to think about what you hold as moral and why. If you want art to agree with you all the time, you erode your ability to question the world and yourself

Sometimes you just gotta come up with a WIP that will relentlessly bully you into becoming a better writer

One of my favorite things about the Borderlands 4 writing team, and something that’s evident in the final project, is that it’s filled with funny people who consume (and come from!) a wide variety of cultural and media contexts. It’s a parade of separate and shared deep cuts, and that’s beautiful.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

This photograph of a local Target parking lot makes me smile evilly for a couple of reasons. I'll start wishing Target well again when they reinstate DEI. :)

Amazingly, bloodwork continues to look exactly the same as always this week, after a year and a half of chemo. White cell count, liver, etc, all in the green. This bod just refuses to be damaged, so we can keep doing the chemo, and keep the brakes on the cancer. I get to stick around longer.

Remembering Florence “Flo-Jo” Griffith Joyner the fastest woman in history. 🏁 💐 Her speed, flowing hair, and vibrant nails paved the way for generations of athletes to run their own race with flair and fearlessness.

Happy 25th birthday, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn. A titan of AD&D CRPGing, a game that I was SO excited to play in 2000 and did not disappoint. Higher-level adventures that took us from the streets of Amn to the Underdark and across the Planes. You'll always have a special place in my heart.

One of my favorite cons to go to back when I was healthy enough to go to cons!

Hey, friends. Please remember that feeling bad does not actually make you a better person or help anyone. Decouple action from emotion. Do what you can to help while feeling as good as you can. People to object to you *feeling* happy, regardless of your actions, are being pointlessly cruel.

Very very good Black journalism, please toss them a $ or two; everyone benefits when all voices are heard.

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.