Pavel

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

The OG Simon's Cat film!

My hot take of thanksgiving food items and recipes:

Make whatever the fuck you like. I don’t have to eat the fish heads in the Mac n cheese, so why do I care?

The telltale heart but it’s just the turkey defrosting in the dryer downstairs

Wario in a biker outfit in a monster-truck kart, being pursued by multiple enemies and two blue fireballs.

"Witness me!"
(Playing around with Mario Kart World's photo mode, and with exporting the product. Pretty simple process, actually. 👍)

AI slop?

I like to be fancy and use wine in my bong, gives each hit a distinctive nose, with earthy tones and plenty of body.

Was just messing around in GTA:V when I overheard an NPC complaining about immigrants, so I shot him and his buddies. So, to the actual question: do I need to let my employer know about this so they can take appropriate actions, or does the FBI automatically notify them? What's the etiquette here?

That's awesome. I've been in PNW 20 years now, but still haven't taken the Alaska cruise. This is definitely biasing me!

Amazing! When/where are these pictures?

Orange and white cat, asleep, head held up by a hand.

Ollie likes to fall asleep like this, his tiny orange head propped up by my hand. Cute weirdo.

Turned out that it wasn't dead: it just flew off. So a napping wasp!

Dead wasp, lying on its "back", legs up in the air, on a table outside. Narrow depth of field, BBQ grill in the background.

Drowned wasp on the patio.

Take this as a supportive nod from the hiring team: they obviously think you're potentially hot shit!

The way he runs into a bomb-riddled building to save those kids, top notch!

Zenith Electronics - Wikipedia

The original "clicker", this beauty worked without batteries and produced ultrasonic sound to control the television: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_...

“Why’d I stand up?”

❌ “let me fix you”

✅ “hey, you don’t have to keep holding that alone”

The pull of negativity, cynicism, and pessimism is so strong. Especially with social media. You get rewarded with likes and shares for the hottest and judgiest takes.

But finding joy and love in the little things and celebrating those things is much, much, MUCH more rewarding.

View from inside a ferry: multiple cars parked inside, and beyond them is the Seattle skyline.

View coming back from Bremerton.

Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.

In your life, you are an explorer on the far edge of timespace piloting a body that is an entirely unique configuration of some of our universe's wildest, rarest technology.

So, when you make a mistake, leave aside the language of shame and failure. Instead, try, "ah, fascinating."
Because you are.

It's amazing what we can do when we have such supportive friends!

Pepto isn't going to buy itself, so step up and do your patriotic duty by eating that day-old shrimp burrito.

Well, I'd say that's it for us as a species. Everyone is gone, "dead internet" became "dead city" and no one noticed.

Orange and white cat sleeping, with his nose tucked into his paws

Ollie is helping me fight off a cold. Best wingman ever.

What's on your mind?

I loved the Brosnan version, can't wait for a newer take on the trope of the bored playboy who likes committing victimless crimes.
(Also, Lion King was a wonderful Hamlet version, one of the best of the past hundred years.)

Fuck. Yes.
I have to limit myself to only telling people "you should write!" on Fridays, cause otherwise I'd be screaming it every fucking day!

Tall office buildings in the rain. The Space Needle is peeking out from behind one of them.

My view of the Space Needle.