Trick of the light

Yeah, I was actually kinda glad to see my hair start to change, I am hoping for silver or white and for the texture to let me keep it long.

I am going gray and lots of women choose to dye the gray away, not sure how it's somehow okay to do that but not to dye it like ... Purple instead of my earlier hair color. ;)

Yeah, fuck that so much. When I was "young enough" I was in an oppressive religion that didn't let me do what I wanted with my own body.

Damned if I'm going to let anyone tell me I can't do those things now because a cult made me miss the acceptable age window. 🙄

I am just confused because if they are not considered "protesting" because they aren't putting themselves in danger, then they are just people having fun outside and that is also TOTALLY FINE.

Is this not arguably more useful than if they didn't go out at all?

He would like to give you one back!

A Golden Retriever stretched out on his side with half his body hanging out of his bed and the top of his head pressed against someone's foot

Darwin decided he needed to be touching me, but also in his bed at the same time.

Also, thinking about the pandemonium when someone says "Alexa" in a podcast, or on a video call, or anywhere else where you might be listening to it without headphones.

That except now Bob in the cubical next door just accidentally restarted your computer with a few careless words.

Not a HIPAA or FERPA concern at all, I'm sure.

🔊

That's ... so weird.

Art is one of those things a lot of people feel guilty buying because it's not "essential" ... getting it as a gift is a great way to bypass that to have beautiful things around.

He heard he was super smart so much he got really arrogant about it.

By the time we were in high school he was an ignorant jackass because he decided he was too smart to need to learn anything more when he was like 10.

Whenever I think about this, I think about this boy I went to school with from grade through high school.

He was arguably one of the brightest kids when we were in grade school (and he was a raging dick about it, like he declared himself the 'first brain' and ranked other kids accordingly.)

No, partly because we keep excusing it as boys will be boys instead of going with the old reliable "Nazis get punched."

Yeah, they are not children, of course. But even if they were ... "Nazi" isn't normal healthy adolescent rebellion.

Those Idaho mountain compounds are an outlier and should not have been counted, but Vance is just leaning right on them.

Telling on himself.

I knew a lot of teenage boys when I was a teenager myself, and there were plenty of them who knew better than to say that kind of horrific shit. It goes beyond edgy.

Fascism is not a phase adolescent boys go through.

Darwin has never screamed.

He does what I call "puppy-yips" that sound like that noise many cars make when their alarm system arms.

That's really cool, especially the sip valve thing for them.

I'll need to get some. I have a FLOMask I like, but it doesn't let me drink during air travel without taking it off, or have it on for hair appointments.

Welp.

The CDC is basically toast.

Time to get slightly high and play Dorfromantik until I can't keep my eyes open anymore.

I haaaaaate it.

For a second before I realized she had three arms, I thought she was holding the mic in her cleavage.

I know I should blend between skeins, but I don't like juggling two balls of yarn AND a growing sweater.

A dark brown sweater with a lot of cablework against reverse stockinette background, and a cowl neck.

Finished seaming and weaving in ends tonight. Then it needs a block it's good to go. :)

A little annoyed that one of the skein transitions is noticeable, but it's not with just my eyeballs so I think it's the lighting and the angle. #knitting

I had seen the part about how it's usually Lego kiddos, no clue why my brain was like "Ah yes, all the archaeology requests are Lego related, makes perfect sense. No questions."

And even then ... there better be UBI or I'll pay other people to do those things instead so they can pay their rent and feed their families.

So for me, that's like ... dishes, laundry, yardwork, fixing/doing maintenance on my car ...

It's *not* writing of any kind (including coding), thinking, or having social conversations.

My take on AI is ... if it were a) reliable and b) not a massive energy commitment that is ruining the environment and communities around data centers ...

AI should only be used for things that you do not fucking care about enough to learn to do them/want to retain the skill yourself.

And honestly, three times was enough unless the people who write the check that pays my bills tell me it's not.

And if using generative AI became a big part of my job description, I'd be looking for a new job.

Of the three times I've used it, two times it was a massive fucking waste of my time. Once it was helpful.

But I would NEVER trust it without doublechecking everything, and so I don't think the benefit to the work I do helping people outweighs the environmental and sociopolitical cost.

So I've used it a few times with that in mind. The work I do at least FEELS important, so that is different to me then just using it for funzies/generating shit no one needs on the back of plagiarism.