Unclear…I mean chickpea is still somewhere 😂 this gravel seems to be a source of anxiety. It’s gone, in any event, and I think he feels better? Who knows!

I wonder what other books he yells at

Fucking copilot eyeballing me from the corner of my screen. Now can I write it? Now? Now? It’s like a fed up, burnt out Clippy.

Were Counsell still managing Milwaukee maybe I’d listen. As it is, whine on, sir.

Those pushing AI written work fundamentally misunderstand the value and point of writing.

Writing can’t “optimize” for word patterns or “token frequency”—writing is about experimentation, externalizing inward experience, and making connections, writer-to-reader.

A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

A shadowy picture of a cat sitting primly staring across hardwood at a little fleck of gravel.

This is a county-wide emergency requiring my full attention. We’ve been stressing this little fleck of gravel for two hours. There is yowling. I cannot remove the gravel because that upsets our precious little sir. I can only watch him watch the gravel and cheer when he bats it around. #caturday

These dreams go on when I close my eyes
Every second of the night I live another life
—Book of Heart 13.85

Marion Co. wildfire expected to smolder underground for weeks Officials said a wildfire along Woodbury Court in Marion County will continue to burn the beneath surface for an extended period of time, according to the S.C.

New hell debuting over in Marion Co

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Stupid ass kiosk at sonic with a picture of a milkshake and the sentence: “You have free will” above it

I think it’s very very important for Sonic to be careful when they talk about matters of theology

And I love how guys like this, after years and years of truly unhinged screeching and wailing, are now these placid little voices of reason and sobriety.

Distant shot of a very red and orange chested bird in a pecan tree

Painted buntings are back

A black cat sitting comfortably on a white railing. His tail is curled under the rail in a nice little swoop

Here’s one of those indignities—Salem is now sort of ours. I mean he mills about, we feed him, and the he’s on his way. But he irks the hell out of Augie🤣

So many. It is, as a cat rescue friend tells me, “tom season.” Season of the Toms involves lots of mad kitties strutting all over the neighborhood 🤣🤣

Side of a striped cat’s face. His ears are slightly pinned back because he’s raging about a stray cat just beyond the window nearby

#caturday with dark night of the soul over here. He’s brooding because a stray cat sleeps just beyond the window.

Incomplete without the little flecks of paper stuck to the cookie part.

be tender, be gentle, be loving, be courageous, have principles, make sacrifices for others, be self-critical, be moved by suffering, pay attention, discern what's really necessary, practice stillness, be cheerful as you go to work with everyone else making a rich and dignified life possible for all

I too take my protein pills and put my helmet on

Perfect, V. Thank you! Our backyard is popping off with em. Love it. The big old carpenter bees loaf midair before dipping down to the dandelions. Pink clover’s up too. Augie is a fan of anything that might bring a critter nearby🤩

Visionary topiary artist Pearl Fryar dies at 86, leaving lasting legacy in South Carolina A self-taught topiarist, Fryar transformed a former cornfield into an internationally celebrated garden.

Sad to see this. Pearl Fryar was an amazing topiary gardener and, from everything I’ve heard, a good and solid guy. Bishopville will be a little dimmer without him tending his gardens.

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It’s springing!

A striped cat in shadow looking mysterious and sprawled on a bedspread.

#caturday with shadow and sprawl.

Fred Hoiberg guarding Shaq back in Hoiberg’s Timberwolves days…

Read the guidelines, eh?

Lead state epidemiologist who helmed response to measles outbreak and COVID-19 pandemic retires The South Carolina Department of Public Health's lead epidemiologist retired shortly before the start of April and the potential end of the state's measles outbreak.

Good for Dr Bell. I hope she has a monster pension and a long, happy retirement. She’s earned that and more. The hate she received for being a sane voice during the early days of Covid was appalling.

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I’m posting through the tears. I feel so bad for students at any level right now. The mixed messages they’re getting from all sides must be maddening. I mean, my work email is begging me to use copilot. It’s sickening.

An ai generated image of a woman holding a child’s book called death by dandelion tea. The caption reads: kdp publishing simplified. Let ai handle the writing. You handle the royalties. Sign up.

I’m typing this through tears and vomit

every smug facts of life “realist,” every war apologist, every scabbed over soul should have this image burned into their eyes.