Alex

What I try to explain to people is that writing a book is hard and sometimes miserable and editing a book is hard and sometimes miserable but then once in a while everything crystallizes and you can see how to make it really good and it’s the best feeling in the world. That’s where I am right now.

A brown pet rat sticking her snout through a soft blue hammock. She looks pleased.

Sleeping through the summer heat 🌞

A pet rat holding a human's hand with one paw. She has her eyes closed and appears to be in the middle of a sneeze.

11 am, Thebe time. Today mid-sneeze.

I wish more people understood that AI-assisted “search” is often this.

Sure, here’s some papers to cite on this topic.
… I very apologize, they are not real papers

„He felt like a drowned rat.“

Haven’t had any success at befriending a crow or a raven… YET… but I think the pigeons that lurk near the grocery store I go to are starting to recognize me and the peanuts I give them and they are so stinking cute

this user supports crows, ravens, and their agenda corvid haters unfollow immediately

I HATE MY COW LICK!!!!! YOURE RUINING MY LIFE KYS

yeah omg they look so skrunkly and angry to be alive 😭 you just cant help but feel charmed by their scruffiness

oh also a lot of rodent babies like rats, mice and bunnies… they‘re not exactly hideous but they‘re so small and naked and vulnerable that it makes me uncomfortable 💔

still adorable in a very fugly way

birds are one of the few animals that look dreadfully hideous as babies 😭 especially when they are fed omg their beaks become so ENORMOUS

tummy full with anxiously excited bees

Digital painting in the tones of beige and black. The charred figure portrayed is petrified in a crucified pose, but nothing is holding them down but their own body. imaginary arms detach from their pose to cover their face in quiet despair.

Found myself thinking about this piece again. Inspired by Cattle Decapitation' Just another body

its better than the big Empty tho so. could be worse

RELEASE ME

having adhd is like some sick twisted kind of hunger that cant ever be truly satiated. I‘m doing the thing that I LOVE — writing — and still a part of me is always like More More More You need to do More This is not ENOUGH!!!! MORE!!!!!!!

It makes me genuinely emotional that animals like to play, that play is kind of inherent to life.

Black-and-white photo of two long-haired kittens. One is white and ginger tabby, the other is a brown tuxedo tabby. They are sitting up on a brocade tablecloth looking adorably toward the camera. Text at the bottom reads “We is brothers”.

Little boys. 💕 Postcard from my collection, unsent, 1902.

maybe I should get myself rats in the meantime… but they usually only live 2-3 years and so often die from painful tumors I really don’t know if I can put myself through that heartbreak

ugh it could be NOW but I’m really to broke atm so I have to be responsible. but KITTY

when is it going to be my turn to have kitty

finally doing that thing you didn't want to do because now you have something you want to do even less

lord grant me the discipline to go donate some plasma today I could really use the money

A black pen and ink illustration of a European starling.

Starlings: they’re more striking than lovely. #birds #BirdArt

drawing of a ginormous red monster holding a person’s face and screaming

not being able to write when writing is your special interest truly feels like this

I love waking up at 5 am but I do not love that my motivation already starts to fade around 11 am

me every single day: I need to daydream more

This is your friendly reminder that generative A.I. is not "intelligence" and it's not the "wave of the future."

No.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are super-expensive bullshit machines that suck up a fuck-ton of stolen data, including private info and creative content, in order to badly mimic it.