This is ground control to Major Tom You’ve really made the grade. And your husband wants to know which shirt is where.

If ever there's a time, it is this one. WITH YOUR SHIELD OR ON IT.

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: I'm my umbilical cord wrapped around my shoulder.

I take back everything reasonable I said during the SFWA debate. Until we have regulations in place on this monster shit, I am unreasonable. I am reactionary. I am anti-progress. They are posting pictures of naked 14 year olds, WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING HERE.

"If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Personal Me: Gosh, what a super good thing that there are no well-documented environmental or social costs to using AI for every task! I am so tired of these people and the “my toys are more important than anything else and because I want this, no one else’s well being matters.” routine. 😠🙄

KIMNFXDSM

So far only the 9 year old has caught on.

My husband is slowly becoming less and less the man I married and nothing I have tried to convince him to stop has worked and I am starting to panic.

You also say, "Teachers need to know the tool" and then promise "we are fighting for legal safeguards." But you've partnered with OpenAI to create your "AI Academy." Why should we trust you to curb the obvious harms of "A.i." when you've partnered with the creator of ChatGPT?

I didn't understand what was so terrible about these graphs. This year seems more or less in line with the others? Until I finally noticed the grey all the way down at the bottom of every graph. Oh. Shit. We still mask, but this is even more stark than I thought.

i asked this of my canadian followers yesterday, and i’ll ask again today. can you please sign this petition? it is a petition through the house of commons, not a third party, and the more eyes (and signatures) they have on it, the better.

Zipper on my snow boots broke 2 weeks ago and I haven't done anything about it yet. Time to find out how well the inadequate rain boot soles handle unevenly cleared residential sidewalks. Life with ADHD makes everything an adventure!

This is the face of a spoiled princess who will only drink flowing water. Not shown: the humans with ADHD who cannot be trusted to keep a fountain properly clean. A few days for shipping and about 15 minutes of amateur plumbing later, the cat drinks from the tap at will. All hail the AquaPurr!

My divorce probably saved my life; not because he was violent (although I wouldn't be particularly surprised if he'd got there eventually), but because over the last several years my migraines gradually increased in frequency until it was every damn day.

I named my fists Statler and Waldorf because they're brutally funny but can't physically hurt you.

I wanted to be a marine biologist as a kid, but undiagnosed ADHD happened and now I live far away from the ocean with a teacher spouse who has too much tenure to switch school boards. Tumblr has just taught me the word "limnology" and now I'm down the rabbit hole.

I told my kid when she was about 4 that she wasn't allowed to play until she was 12, mostly b/c I hoped it would be gone or uncool by then, but if not at least it'd be easier to explain why. Alas, getting her hooked on good games wasn't enough so I have to keep on being more ornery than her.

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance

Oh my God I'm going to die.

Imagine you could ask some dude to hop in his big, gas-guzzling car, drive over to your house any time, and do your work for you. But what if I told you that when the dude left your house, he was going down the block to visit a troubled teenager in order to help them commit suicide? (Gift link)

I want that dude to hear a ghostly "'sup, fucker?" every time he's about to fall asleep for the rest of his life.

Can I bring an age (and sex, come to think) discrimination case against the province or city (whichever has authority) for having a minimum temperature for heat but not a maximum temperature for A/C for landlords? I should not be held responsible for my actions under these conditions.

And just like that, all my questions have evaporated. Maybe they'll come back soon.

When ours was wee, she had a bright red hoodie with round ears. Husband called her Bear-Devil. I was mostly too mad I didn't think of it first to join in.

Companies, families; potayto, potahto

Telling kid the Blue Jays are losing because she won't go to sleep; parent of the year award when?

"North Virginia" has dealt me rather more psychic damage than I would have expected.

Dear Silicon Valley: The only time I wish a computer could think on my behalf in response to my spoken request is unexpected detours. Until I can frantically shout "Oh shit, the road's closed" and Maps will generate a valid alternate route on the fly, I want no part of your fancy autocorrect.

My poor fragile tummy couldn't handle whey protein. It's been awhile since I lifted, but I am glad that I discovered that plain tuna is heavenly immediately after a workout. And that I live in an era of tuna in pouches. But now someone is going to tell me why pouches of tuna are just as bad.

This is how I know I need to wake up to pee.

Daughter finally got me to sit still long enough to watch K-Pop demon hunters. So now my amazing stupid brain is giving me a constant loop of: Every time I wake up In my stupid makeup It's too early For that fucking dress.

Reagan National.

Explain your username: Jewish convert. The info class teacher had a book with a chapter of Hebrew names and their meanings. It listed Devorah as "to speak kind words or, swarm of bees" and I've never made a decision so fast. Never seen that def since. Someone knew what I needed to see, I guess?

I have fond memories of Cleolinda (iirc?) on LJ's "Twilight means never having to say you're kidding." I think it might be safe to extend the sentiment to the Midnight Society.

Temple means shrine. It's also the upper part of the face. (My friend group misremembered it as "Shrine means temple" and I'm a little sad it wasn't that.)

Someday I will send in our pledge in the early summer instead of a week and change before the HHD, but it will not be this year. I did put it in Finch this year, where it taunted me daily for 3 months. That's progress, right?

See this is the FUN part of ADHD! Everything is interesting! Some things stay interesting for longer, but I don't actually decide which ones those are!

Ooh, age-appropriate info! PJ Library sent kid "Brave Girl" by Michelle Markel and Melissa Sweet recently (for extremely ADHD values of "recently") and it became one of THE bedtime books for a couple months near the end of the school year.

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

Or, hear me out, maybe YOU should stop letting your comfort be the enemy of the good. No one is expendable.

Mia arrived less than a week before my surgery. Now she's giving all of us squeezy eyes just closing the left eye and it is the cutest damn thing. I am not looking forward to her stopping this practice when my eye is fully healed.

Surgery on my left eye on Tuesday. Recovery not completely terrible, just... You know what's really hard to do one-eyed? Getting the toothpaste actually on the brush.

Paying the cat tax for new kitty! Her name is Mia.

Hey MAGA, remember when Obama said "you didn't build that" and you flew off the handle? Too bad you didn't stop then and think about how Sweden makes your steel and Germany builds your equipment. Might've saved us all a heap of trouble.

I do appreciate that someone is doing the work to make sure our "common sense" reflects reality. I'd hate to have the same kind of scientific ignorance that bigotry requires. But this does seem like an awfully easy win.

Every time I got to Alex in time, she held it in long enough to dash back to the carpet anyway. Malevolent stench goblins, every last one of them. 😻

I think it's a toss-up between "This dog is too stupid to tell the difference between a radiator hose and a bone," and "That's great! But who are the Chefs?" ("Other dogs, maybe; but not this one.")