Avery (she / her)

A distraught woman with scraggly red hair and a comically small party hat is wrapped up in a bike lock while sitting on a chair. There is cheese and bread in the background. Against all odds, it is a festive atmosphere.

Restrained in a bike lock (by the staff at the restaurant) for attempting to help clean up at my own birthday party. This is 40!

As much as I miss Korea sometimes, hearing stories about how AI is *everywhere* makes me glad I left. I have enough of an existential crisis just encountering it in limited quantities sporadically in Europe ... having it shoved down my throat would drive me to an ever greater level of despair.

Let's gooooo!!

I have also been saying this forever! Glad there's some true believers out there

Seasonal affective disorder hitting so hard this year that I'm thinking ... OK, maybe I should do something about this next year. I feel almost embarrassed to be a middle-aged woman thinking "oh, everyone suddenly hates me now; yes, that's gotta be it" like I'm in junior high again ...

A remix of the "no take; only throw" three-panel mem in which a dog says "Copy edit pls?" with a response of "Sure, my (low AF) rate is ..." from an off-screen speaker. The dog gets increasingly angry-looking in the next two panels, saying "No pay!!" then "ONLY COPY EDIT"

2026: The year in which I get paid fairly by more than one client? (Here's hoping and praying.)

Hell yeah FFVIII

me so far to 2026 (this is shutterstock image 2692016911)

this year better suck a little less than last year

So glad she's back! I was keeping my fingers crossed for you guys. <3

Incredible Crisis, a game which you can probably beat in about 2 hours, give or take. It's fun!

❗🎈FUN FACT🎈❗
EA Games is named after Ea-Nasir, who inspired them with his legendary commitment to quality & customer satisfaction.

Merry KANEDAAAAAAAA-mas from me! Lovely #akira -themed card given to me by Ben. @darrencullen.bsky.social is the artist making my day merry and bright ~

The Golden Spurtle (it has some weather in it; also it's a real charmer)

It's a great game! I play it as part of my stream every Wednesday. We are often collectively baffled by fruit/vegetable varieties.

It's ultra fun to have a year-long existential crisis because Elon Musk wants to make better and more responsive waifus! I recommend it to everybody.

A woman in a dark blue hoodie sits in a cozy bar, weaing a light green knit hat in the shape of a teapot, complete with handle and spout. Her expression is amused, and she's giving a thumbs-up.

Why prop up AI "art" when you can drink a beer and a mulled wine and then buy a hand-knit hat in the shape of a teapot?

They've been showing a Dutch variant of this on Twitch for a few weeks now, and it's awful. Especially laughable that they show a steep hill in an Amsterdam-like setting ... I didn't realize folks in other countries were getting cursed with it, too.

While at the movie theater yesterday, I noticed a poster for a film called "Die My Love." Between that and "Wake Up Dead Man," what's the grudge against commas in film titles in 2025?

A crossword puzzle fully filled out using blue pen. All letters in the puzzle are lower-case.

Wondering if anyone else is sick, twisted, and depraved enough to do their #crossword in lower-case.

Love to wake up filled with rage at the Democrats -- and I don't even live in the US anymore! Hopefully I can turn this rage into energy to write English-learning textbooks. That's how it works, right?

This is now a #TheGoldenSpurtle stan account ~ Also maybe my gimmick on this site should be making an "Absolute Cinema" meme variant based on every movie I watch ... 🤔

In lieu of a Halloween costume, repping #philly by wearing my boneriffic Mutter Museum shirt today. (Also, I'm bad at selfies; the orange wall is thematically appropriate, and you'll just have to pretend the microwave is spooky.)

Love to go from "three months of so little work I am contemplating a career shift" to "in the middle of so much work that I can't take a day off for another month or so, after a month with no breaks." #Freelancing rules!!! Please send coping mechanisms ...

A long-necked goblet of golden liquid sits on a gray, stone-surface table; the whole picture has slightly soft focus. A person's arm is visible in the background, as is the exterior of a small, charming restaurant.

Had some hot mead on Saturday that was so steamy, it did weird things to my lens and distorted the photo a little ... so the photo now accurately represents the feeling of sipping warm mead (and drinking it with 6x kinds of cheese + flourless chocolate cake)

talking about trying to beat OFF here on the internet?!?

That's such a good realization! And the knowledge that folks will be SO HAPPY to see you when you get back -- it got me through my two non-streaming weeks. :)

Two small fried dough balls sit on gray rock on an upscale restaurant kitchen counter. The ball on the left is topped with seared artichoke; the one on the right is topped with a light-pink bloop of meat. (I can't think of a better word than "bloop")

Another stellar evening of #rotterdam 's best fine dining at Tres! One of the early snacks was an oliebol (fried dough ball) filled with avocado ice cream, topped with a dollop of wild garlic gel and the tenderest pork of your dang life.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

This whole section really.