Hamster Serenade

things we should have hand gestures to communicate:
- I want to say hello to your dog but not to you
- please say hello to my dog but not to me
- I like your gender
- your fly is down

things we have hand gestures to communicate:
- six seveeeennn

bad people can and often do make good art. attacking the art as retroactively subpar to free yourself of moral dilemma and give yourself permission to not care means you're innately equating quality of art as representative of moral virtue (it's not) which is how you get purity culture

I've been practicing greeting old men with a solemn nod. you can pry a smile out of my cold dead body

A pixel art illustration of beads and sequins. The text in the middle reads "genAI is for losers".

Fuck AI.

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why is cheddar the default cheese when there are so many better options

few things as satisfying as giving good scritches to a cat

This bobtail squid burrowing into the sand is already adorable, but please watch till the very end!

It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍

I would use elit3 haxxorz skills primarily to play ABBA at inopportune times and places

annual reminder: The Sound od Music is not a Christmas movie, and My Favourite Things has no place in Christmas music.

proof 1: Captain von Trapp, "It's too early for blueberries"
proof 2: the Anschluss was signed in March

"for some reason I thought I could do that" -> "I had major hubris"
"lol that was a dumb decision" -> "oh no, I have shown hubris"

a major personal accomplishment this year has been to incorporate the word "hubris" into my regular vocabulary

Hey everyone going WELL TIME TO PLAY MORE FORTNITE TO HUNT DOWN PEOPLE WEARING HARRY POTTER STUFF

No. Stop playing Fortnite. They're partnering with Rowling and Harry Potter in 2025, with full knowledge of what that decision means. Stop supporting them. Stop playing the game.

"your monthly banking statement is ready" take it back

gonna set some kind of record for level of codependency between a human and a cat

don't forget costume fees! rehearsal fees! cost of makeup! shoes! transport costs! incredible racket 10/10

Figure 1 from a paper published in Nature (linked in post). The figure purports to be an infographic depiction of the "Overall working of the framework" for 'explainably' diagnosing autism spectrum disorder. The infographic is plainly nonsense, containing many spelling errors, nonsense words, meaningless images and graphs. Clearly created using generative AI and (crucially) NEVER CHECKED AT ANY STEP OF THE WRITING OR PUBLICATION PROCESS.

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Various cute cat mugs.

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THEY ADDED NEW GARBAGE reblog to save a life

finally determined that lunchtime on a Wednesday is the lowest traffic time at the grocery store so I can wander around dazedly reading every single cream cheese package like it's my first day on planet earth

Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.

Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

tl;dr yes but only if you have a cat

Life in Grad School: Is There More To It Than Just Pasta? An Op-Ed

close up of the head of a sleeping black cat

cat who knows NOTHING about any drool stains

unfortunately not me but my god I'd do it at least once

Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown.

We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.

the tragedy of today's breakfast
- put ziploc bag down ln hot burner
- fumbled two slices of bread in a row into the gap between counter and stove
- burned toast

"hi im sandwich"

what would you do if your initials were PBJ