got my suit for my brother's wedding. the place I got it from had it altered. except they forgot to do the trousers. now I have to go back and have them do that. ugh.

my car proper broke down. it's either a spark plug or the injector. either way, not great.

I've more pointy things on they way, too.

My nieces love joining in, pulling the darts out of the target and giving it a few shanks. When they're older I might teach them how to actually throw them, if they're still interested.

a pair of tuo shou biao throwing darts with grey cloth tied to the back, both embedded in a colourful, straw archery target

been taking a break from social media. pretty stressed lately from a bunch of stuff and it wasn't necessarily helping. in the meantime, after years of throwing mostly pens or other small objects, I finally bought some real throwing darts

I keep forgetting to put on a watch in the mornings because I'm rushing around ;_;

one of my classmates asked me for a book from my digital archive, so he could give it to a friend, and apparently he's been calling me 大哥 (big brother, in this context basically sempai) to her which is super cute

home now. my parents live nearby where I broke down so I called them and we were able to shift it to a side street for the night. no idea what's wrong with it, gonna have a look tomorrow.

my car just fucking stopped in the middle of a main road

in 1983, 90% of U.S. media was spread across 50 companies. in 2012, it's these six Comcast, Newscorp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, CBS

in 2012, it was six. now it's four.

AI is going to make it nearly impossible for anyone to afford a new PC, phone, or gaming console -- all in the name of a future that will never come to pass and a present that will just make a few dudes rich. This is unacceptable

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

just fyi if you wear these around me I *will* break them and I’m willing to deal with the consequences of that.

A purple button badge on squidwards shirt that says "I'm not ignoring you I'm just really busy and if I don't use my few free hours for myself instead of responding to everyone I will straight up lose my sanity"

lion dancers with banners unfurled whilst confetti rains down around them

dragon parade, pink dragon chasing pink pearl, with red horse decorations hung around

green and orange lion dancers walking down the street

a little girl in a green hat and bone amplification hearing aid in front of a throng of people lining the street for the festival

some photos from the festival

I remembered my camera this year

新年好

Every billionaire in the Epstein files could drop dead tomorrow and the world would not only be fine, it would actually improve. The quality of our media would improve. Our environment. Our food. Our health care. Our technology.

still no furries, but there are a bunch of people absolutely dripped to fuck

no fursuits yet, but federal mp penny wong is here

local spring festival stuff today

I wonder if those fursuiters will be back

as much as I love wearing linen, I'm well ready for summer to be over. bring back coat weather

So a new Mothica EP dropped last night

The drop in the chorus of Somewhere in Between makes my brain so happy

AI is the “asbestos of the internet”

this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit

you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table

you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from

My eldest niece asked what my favourite song is today.

How does one explain Red Star by The Birthday Massacre to a 4-year-old?

I did my best

Green tech is going to be bigger and make more money than LLM/GenAI will over the next decade by an order of magnitude

I was repeatedly told that autonomous vehicles had fewer accidents than actual people.

Lmao, I would literally rather pour myself into a wood chipper.

American Century of Humiliation is manifesting in ways I did not predict.

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

bully them more

Is this is a dagger that I see before me or are you just happy to see me?