Naufragous Kat

I mean, the marketing blurb clearly says you’ll love it …

I still don’t really know what a Labubu is. (Sets post to no replies to keep it that way)

Hey, Orlando. Anything shaking Friday night?

Well, I think at least for the likely trajectory of my career, reporting and writing news stories will still be a human task. But copy editing? 😬

I am afraid that by NOT engaging with it, I’m making it even more likely that I will lose my livelihood to it. I suspect that the way to remain employed in my field will eventually involve being familiar enough with how AI writes/edits to outperform it.

And yet.

I don’t want to feed the beast.

I am not sure there is a song commonly played these days in public places that I loathe more than “Shape of You.”

If I ever run a brewery, the guest WiFi password will be thatwouldbeagoodnameforabeer

This is the correct take. I was an adolescent when Tubthumping hit big. I HATED it. I have since come to appreciate the Woody Guthrie Would Be Proud hell out of Chumbawumba.

In retrospect, “Folk Ballads from Scotland” probably should have been enough of a clue that if I hadn’t listened to this in some time I might want to revisit the lyrics before suggesting it.

Oh dear I totally forgot how not-kid-friendly this one gets toward the end oops yeah maybe don’t play them this one

OK it also might not exactly be 100% kid-friendly but anyway

Telfer's Cows, by Andrew Calhoun from the album Telfer's Cows: Folk Ballads from Scotland

Oh wait wait this one!

andrewcalhoun.bandcamp.com/track/telfer...

YouTube video by Two Cow Garage - Topic The Great Gravitron Massacre

I am still trying to think of good suggestions but if you need a palate-cleanser from kids tunes this Two Cow Garage song (not really little-kid-appropriate) is a banger

youtu.be/jY4KB9zOTY8?...

I bit the ever loving hecc out of the tip of my tongue tonight and this is going to suck for at least a few days

Ugggghhh

I’ll dm ya 💚

Yay!

I figure there may be a time when for Work Purposes it could be useful, especially as perimenopause seems to be making me Even More Weird, but the bigger question for me is whether being Officially Autistic would be useful for me, personally. The answer to that has continued to be “eh ... maybe?”

Well, except instead of saying I’m “probably not” autistic I’m more likely to say I may well be. Just doesn’t seem to me that seeking out a formal assessment would change things in any appreciable way to make it worth doing for me, at least now. This could change ...

It’s my inverse!

I feel like this would be a delightful French 75 variation.

Ohhhhh this sounds excellent and with the abundance of green mangoes around right now … 👀

Hunter, you and @tainskeep.bsky.social should know one another.

'On Accident' Versus 'by Accident' Your age determines whether you’re more likely to say “by accident” or “on accident.” Kids today, man. Kids today.

I found a Grammar Girl post (that cites a small study) positing that it’s a generational shift vs. regional, which supports the media theory. I wonder if the NYT folks who did that giant map-based linguistics project some years ago would have insight.

www.quickanddirtytips.com/articles/on-...

Can I bounce a song off ya at some point soon? I’ve decided it isn’t an entirely irredeemable piece of shit but it needs workshopping. Would love to send it to you for feedback (maybe even a video chat if you have the bandwidth and we can find a mutually agreeable time). 💜

I need details about that alchemy in a fancy glass

He’s not supposed to jump/climb/run for awhile yet.

I’m trying to keep him engaged.

Every once in a great while, I noticed a scent in the air that reminds me of the smell of polymer clay cooking. I’ve never been able to figure out what it actually is, but it is a dead match, to my particular olfactory nostalgia anyway, for fimo/sculpey baking

Y’ever open a can of sardines to goblin-eat straight out of the can at a quarter to 4 only to find you accidentally grabbed the FANCY sardines and now you feel like you’re not doing them justice eating them straight off the appetizer fork.