~daniel_barker~

Claude, ask ChatGPT if Gemini is lying to me

Yeah I'm dressed as the idiot from Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot you idiot.

Store aisle shelves stuffed on one side with inflatable ducks faces the other, stuffed with inflatable flamingos.

some shit is about to go down

Does sound quite fun to me

Ah, I see

I'm going away this weekend in part to see some cool skies and if you lot have cooler skies here while I'm gone I will be LIVID

(I don't really know what they do in Galway tbh)

Well maybe it's not but I think anyone born since the nineties would feel that's something you'd want to learn from a video where you can see what happens. Learning physical skills from a written text seems quite antiquated.

Yes. A sharp contrast to what it's like a decade or so later when they are impressed by literally nothing.

YouTube simply did not exist! I followed the instructions from the book until I could do it. I think I still have the book. That would sound insane to a young person now. Or just a normal person I guess.

Something about my childhood that I only just realised how weird it sounds now: I taught myself to juggle from a book.

Dressing up as a fucking massive cockroach for world book day and phoning in sick because I’m a cockroach to see if they get the reference

Yes I know what you mean though, it's a fair point.

I do, I'm pretty good about reaching out and offering people routes for connection, especially when I know there's neurodivergence and life stuff and other obstacles. But still. After a point you feel you're pushing at a closed door.

Yes true. And that's a reasonable taxonomy - not everything can be on a lifetime scale.

Yeah I think health of various kinds plays into this kind of thing quite often.

Enjoyed reading this. Not as much as I would've enjoyed it 20 years ago of course but still.

But in terms of the drift.... it bothers me there's a few people out there who I know are some of my favourite people and just. Maybe I'll never see them again. Who knows.

There's very few friends I've ever properly fallen out with or had a really clear end to the friendship. And of those few, almost all were due to fallout from romantic entanglements of some description.

There's maybe half a dozen people I used to be good friends with who have just drifted away in the last few years. And sometimes I think I should try and reach out again but then... were they just too busy or did they just start liking me less?

Dear men: all my novels are tactical.

Oh yeah I live there

Chelsea should fuck off imo

I hope whoever's annotating my nudes doesn't have to rush to meet their nude KPIs. Just seems wasteful.

“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair?”

Aussiemandias

Alex: Yes, but the task...

Odysseus: The task clearly said that nobody could help me.

Greg: That's one in the eye for you, Alex

Alex: Another one.

everyone has invisible struggles, like for example, I don't like the way my shirt feels

It would have been so easy, and probably expected, for Radcliffe to become a monster, or just another washed up and abandonded child star, but he really seems like one of the best people on the planet.