Archive Dog the Day/Jamie

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"Antisemitism" after terrorism in Boulder

"Antisemitism" after terrorism in Boulder

Two men on a front porch are bombarded by a ragtag pack of misfits, including a jowly old man standing on his hind legs, a young dog snorfing the muzzle of patient hound, a spotty spaniel wagging its tail, and a brindle-colored apple-head looking at the camera

James Ownby's hunting dogs, Wootten Colorado, ca. 1910

I'm currently tapped on rage and am just feeling profound sadness

I try to log onto this website for 2 mintues to post something light-hearted - like how much I would want to be the archivist for the Paul Reubens estate - and instead I immediately see something inexplicably dire and it's like being punched in the stomach several times a day, every day

I don't know if this makes sense, but the Mrs. Meyer's rain scented hand soap makes me feel like I can be a better person

So first they were like "autistic people can't date," and everyone was like, "do you not have a Netflix subscription?" And now they're like "girls have too many dolls." I'm just saying, I see a through line

Black and white image of medium white dog with longish hair, wearing a leather harness, with a man looking like an old timey banker?

Man now scratching dog's neck

Found a little dude today, Curt Palm collection, ca. 1930s. Label said "campus buildings" which it mostly was not

I think the teachers at our crunchy progressive daycare are not allowed to comment on how cute a baby is, so I'll just assume everything they say to me should be interpreted as a tacit acknowledgment that my baby is the cutest. what's that? we're almost out of diaper cream? oh, ok, we'll stock up 😉

my work computer has been begging me for a restart for like 10 days. when I finally let it go, it took all of about 45 seconds. like, that's what you were all excited about? get a life

I campaigned for my position to be NTT, because, and I quote, "leave me alone"

The absolute last thing I want is for someone to contact me in the future trying to still talk about it. Like, mind your own business

I figured out what I wanted to say and I wrote it down, I kind of give 0 fucks if somebody reads it or not

one reason I never get anything published is that, when I get notes back from an editor, my instinct is to say "Oh, no, thank you. I was done thinking about that."

there are many ways one could imagine Trump to be acting strategically - oh, X is certainly a distraction from Y, or, hmm, convenient that Z found a way to benefit from the latest chaos - but, realistically, guys. He's a stupid fucking maniac. There is no plan, that's demonstrable 1000x over

giving elderly people a phone number to call for assistance knowing 100% there's nobody going to answer to the phone. just a cardboard cutout of a country

all of life has the same feeling of inhuman emptiness as google AI search results. the facade is up, it looks the same as it was, but there's no way to know what to trust to be real anymore

the food and medicine brands we know will still be on the shelf, but we won't know how many health and safety regulations are no longer followed

one thing that scares me is how much we don't know what is changing. like, we'll all still look at the weather app on our phones, but we won't know they're just making shit up now because they have no more government data to draw on

Learned the word opprobrium today, like everybody else

Parents, keep your eyes open. Is your teenager a sick fuck? Bullying can start at home

Weren't most of the doge douche troops in high school during the pandemic lockdowns? Should've pushed these freaks out of their basements to be bullied instead of leaving them alone to stream increasingly deranged manosphere content for two years

What would any of our Movies and TV Shows even be about? How would documentaries about the 1960s even know the age of Aquarius was ending? Why would mousy 7th grade girls even bother going to the public library if not to surreptitiously look up Helter Skelter in the card catalog?

We're all on here trying to craft a joke about, like, imagine Elon Musk's merry band of groypers just abruptly cut funding to MK-ULTRA in the middle of Operation CHAOs, before Charles Manson had time to do anything but spread VD around San Francisco, right?

It's just as meaningless as computers passing 1s and 0s back and forth in perpetuity, with no audience, while the rainforest burns down

Catch me in a Silent Running space pod full of rusty film cans and VHS tapes, where I can quietly process analog media alone in a monk robe while I float off into the dark universe

Is it just going to be AI writing finding aids for other AI to do research for other AI to write papers, which will only be read by other AI doing more research?

I don't even understand the end goal, really. You're creating information and content faster than any audience could ever consume it

If you hate your job, that's sad for you. But I love my job, it's truly the culmination of every skill and interest and work experience I've ever had in my life, and I want to do it, myself, with my human hands and brain and eyeballs, for as many hours as necessary

It's really the same as AI art or creative writing -- or academic writing, even. Do you find no pride or joy in actual human experience?