Mel (they/them)🐀

I want to sit in the garden and drink tea with him ❤️

Nice! I didn't even know this was a Google feature!

Oh no, poor doggo and poor you! Reopened incisions are a real test of your nerve. I've been there with a rat or two. 😬 Here's hoping everything stays put now!

Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

Please check your Halloween candy carefully this year! Corporations are hiding useless AI features inside of the bars in an attempt to trick you to use them.

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

Lol I feel like such a dinosaur. It's only been a year or so since I started tapping my CARD to pay for stuff. At this rate I'll adopt phone and watch payments about when everyone is switching to, like, eyeblinks for payments.

Poor doggo 🥺

El Chikitin, an elderly gray and white rat with dumbo ears, stands on the sofa with nose raised high, proudly showing off the snack he found.

See pic 1

IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS

Old man El Chikitin has found a piece of cereal and wants you to admire his foraging skills. His nose is still sharp after almost 2.5 years!

#PetRats

A gray squirrel lounges atop a sandstone-looking ledge, back legs outstretched, eating food with his lil hands.

I love the zoo animals that don't BELONG TO the zoo, they're just AT the zoo.

This bold as brass squirrel stared at me as they ate, for a solid 5 minutes before I left to follow my party. I did not know squirrels had that much attention span.

Lol yes. Chiki is reigning champion these days!

His litermate was Raliberto! The were/are my favorites from their cohort. Such friendly calm potatoes!

At this point I don't want an AI assistant even if they did make it sound like Majel Barrett

The pale scraggly looking head of El Chikitin sticks out of a box to lick a dish of whipped cream. We can't see into the box, and Chiki is not moving a millimeter farther than he must, so the head looks festively disembodied. Spooky!! 👻

Nico, a rat with a charcoal hood, stands in his cage eating whipped cream from a little white dish. His dish secretly has medicine in it for his sneezes. 🤫

(His old-man buddies say hi too! Their 2.5-year birthdays are coming up in November!)

Filiberto, a black colored rat, leans out of a hide to eat birthday whipped cream from a small white dish. He has spattered some small droplets of the cream onto his whiskers.

Happy half birthday to Filiberto! He's an impressive 2.5 years old!

#PetRats 🐀

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

Biggest things I learned from doing a master's while working full time:

* Done is way way way better than perfect

* Procrastinating strategically so I can go to bed

* Assorted technical skills and knowledge I probably could've learned on my own, but I never got around to because no deadlines

During my master's I was 15 yr older, and only a little less feckless. Buuuuuut I needed my sleep a lot more.

So I started drafting most papers TWO evenings before they were due, and got more efficient at bullshitting.

Yeahhhhhh! Go, slug, go!!

Yeah everything SUCKS but humans are still silly wonderful beautiful creatures who collaborate with slugs to make videos like this. So. All is not lost.

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Bucket, a brown rat, perches on his human's shoulder and glares into the camera.

Here's Bucket! He's ready if you need someone to bite the drama.

(I'm not sure how one bites drama, but if anyone can find a way, it'll be Bucket.)

OMG!!

Neil Gaiman Assault Lawsuit Comes to an Abrupt End The civil court case against author Neil Gaiman has come to an abrupt end after being dismissed by the judge.

So, at this point you may well have seen an article like this one: movieweb.com/neil-gaiman-..., and I really want to talk about what it actually means from a legal perspective. Just to establish bona fides here, I'm not a lawyer. I'm a guy who went to law school, got out, and learned he hated law

People always say "stop doomscrolling," nobody ever says "stop the Doom"

Doesn't even cross their minds.

Botober 2025, Art prompts created by a tiny and cursed language model 1. noodle juice 2. Pinetanabous Mold 3. crock up 4. crushed cold water 5. heated baking rings 6. sozerfrapple 7. Behold onion. 8. ground mayonnaise 9. small sweet pipes 10. 1/4 can cool soup 11. catsian spinach 12. lemuffir 13. pickled cubiwery 14. Lightly spather 15. bear spice 16. 1 medium clothed bell 17. drained bread crusts 18. baking stalks 19. grated pan 20. 1 smorbs 21. cucumteragus 22. Spoonfur Pie 23. rub the bog 24. Leanwhile 25. 6 slices soup 26. pepper towels 27. 1 cup sliced dish 28. 1 teaspoon flup 29. small calling cheese 30. add blender. Shell. 31. Orenge Gelatin Hourse

Literally one person in the world asked for this: #botober art prompts!

Generated by a tiny neural net, not running on a huge datacenter but on a single laptop, and not trained on the wealth of the internet but on 800 reader-submitted vintage jello recipes.
www.aiweirdness.com/tiny-jello/

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video