Yessssss I am blocked too! *high five*

real breath of fresh air
tech bros have forgotten how anything works
or that anything exists
other than their deadly bubble
#aifraud

I will remember to ask my GI this when I see him next.

God I fucking hate Gary Bettman.

There should be no NHL teams in places where it doesn’t snow.

No, it isn’t. And yet he essentially got away with it. He has a habit of platforming everyone who sends him stuff no matter what and he’s also a giant bully.

💖💜💖

100000000% agree.

Well there is unemployment but it only lasts for six months. It’s awful browsing jobs posted in various places. Awful. The black dog’s caught me.

💜😈💜

Thanks, buddy. 💜💖💜

Gly*r tried to get me off the ballot by filing a code of conduct complaint about my piece. And then posted the response from the con and allowed a 700 comment thread about how awful I was. Two days after the noms had been announced. I. Hate. Him.

Please keep all this in mind tomorrow, friends. I was someone who received vicious abuse for being on the ballot in 2021 and I don’t ever want that to happen again. Ever.

Mine was getting trashed by F770 repeatedly and people thinking my nom was achieved through either protest votes or joke votes. If I were ever in a position to be nominated again, I don’t know if I’d accept because 2021 was so utterly vile.

Jedi mind hugs, friend.

I’ve been out of work for nearly 10 months and I have gotten one interview. One. It’s a terrible market and I’m no longer sick enough that I’d be able to get disability. But the thought has crossed my mind.

Oh man, I remember the days of checking the classifieds in the Sunday paper and then mailing out resumes and cover letters. Now it’s all online and you have to optimize your keywords so you can get past the auto and AI filters to a real person. If you’re lucky, you might get an interview.

How is my cat a time traveler? (Dead ringer for Miles as a kitten.)

It is nice! But he doesn’t give me the context before he launches into the Tumblr post.

Rebecca Solnit’s book about Eadweard Muybridge, River of Shadows. It’s fascinating.

And so have dusty old Gen-Xers! When I saw that ad I was truly baffled.

Her writing is just so luminous.

And it’s painful. I survived necrotizing pancreatitis, so I have a lot of empathy for people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

I am sorry for your losses. Cancer sucks.

What’s going on with his stance?

It is incredible in all the best ways.

I have the PMBOK in my basement. Where it belongs. It knows what it did.

The way the pieces are in conversation with each other is just—ugh, I can’t put words to it. It’s like a memory palace, each story or poem a facet that exposes the same truth over and over again.

That is amazing. Anything to do with the pancreas hurts like hell because it is easily angered due to being a gland with too much self-importance. I love science.

It’s been a really good day and it’s been so long since I’ve had one. Thank you, friends. 💜💜💜

This feeling is also because @thebarbarienne.bsky.social is such a kind friend and came over for lunch and painting and she let me swatch her Della Magna paints and they are incredible. And she gave me a pan of their Quin Gold and a tube of Schmincke Phthalo Saphirbleu.

Everyone drop what you’re doing and get a copy of Seasons of Glass & Iron by @amalelmohtar.com because it is SO GOOD that I read it in one sitting and my heart is full in a way it hasn’t been for months.

You have no idea. I thought I’d told her about how he came to be an old coot living in an RV due to his actions after he turned 60 and lost his goddamn mind (he is 85 now and is currently rocking an Amish look despite having a regulation military haircut for, like, all of my life except now).