A photo of my boyfriend pressing the clutch in his car with his limited edition Mach 5 pumas

Dalton was so excited to wear his cute Mach 5 shoes to the movie

Some may say "Dudes Rock," but I just think that guys are cute like that

The parking lot after Speed Racer was full of car guys revving their engines 😂

Hell yeah!! It looked so GOOD remastered and on IMAX! Still a perfect movie start to finish! 😄

And it was so good seeing Lilly and Lana's names corrected 💞

Speed Racer in IMAX at amc

Adventure's waiting just ahead 5️⃣

Eh. On both my work and personal laptops, the only places I see any kind of AI being aggressively pushed on me are in Microsoft and Google products. I know that Apple Intelligence is available, but I don't ever feel like they're trying to trick/force me into using it like Copilot and Gemini do.

It's taken me over 20 years to switch from Windows to Mac, with a key driver being Apple's slow and more calculated stance on AI. I really hope that a change in leadership doesn't also come with a sudden shift towards pushing AI into every nook and cranny of their products.

Also, that you can't 100% rely on therapy to fix you. I've been in Therapy for several years, and it's been massively helpful, but most of the time it feels more like I'm paying someone to be an emotionally intelligent mom while I talk through all the work I do outside of therapy to learn and grow.

How to talk to and nurture my inner child so that I can show up in control as an adult without completely destroying my whimsy and joy.

Aloy in Horizon Forbidden West pointing and cringing at a statue of the technofascist billionaire who destroyed the world with his military "defence" AI robots.

Catching up on the manifesto that Alex Karp posted yesterday.

User dratsab huffman asks the question: To amuse myself i researched revacholian nationalism as well as measure head's race theories etc etc and focused my character on "traditionalism". Anyway, ive noticed that if i ever click dialogue options that are in tune with my character's political compass, i lose morale. Whats the point of having this as a mechanic if its going to be so detrimental and feels like the character doesnt believe he actually is this or something... is there anyway to overcome that kind of morale loss?

Recalcitrant Jester replies: Being a fascist is a deeply demoralizing experience. You have to not only radically alter your worldview to make reality fit into your unhinged schema, but that worldview is predicated on the notion that the weakest, most unworthy degenerate worms on the planet are somehow overpowering and humiliating you on a moment-by-moment basis. In mechanical terms too, the lowered morale also reduces your volition score—the more you indulge in your delusions, the less you are able to exercise self-control and self-awareness. The point of fascism being mechanically detrimental—the ludonarrative theme—is that fascism is an unequivocally self-destructive ideology, the practice of which only serves to nurture that self-destructive urge and turn it outward. It's not like Dark Side points in KotOR where you can access cool new abilities and get to enjoy being such a nasty lil rascal; you are not supposed to enjoy being a fascist in Disco Elysium. Fascism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike.

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

More pictures of the ruins

A sign board that explains that the cement ruins in the background was once a pumphouse called The Buena Vista

A brick wall surrounding the ruins of a pumphouse building

Cement walls with metal grates protecting people from falling down a deep hole.

A wide view of the pumphouse ruins, surrounded by grassy hills

Went on a hike and found the most Horizon-like ruin I've ever seen. There was DEFINITELY an ornament somewhere in there.

About half the cars in the lot were gray Teslas

I just realized I said San Diego by habit. I'm not in socal. I'm in San Jose, lol.

I just saw a very small child in a pink dress and sandals get out of one of them. The easiest trail here is 4 miles with 700ft of elevation gain

One gray Tesla left, and less than a minute later, a white Tesla took its place.

I'm sitting in a parking lot for a hiking trail in San Diego. How many gray Teslas do you think are parked here?

A few days late, but the Street Fighter trailer looks great! It's a love letter to the kids who grew up with a Sega Genesis.

Yeah! I live in Stockton, but am in the bay area often

a western fence lizard, turning its head at a perfect 3/4 angle.

Look at this guy I found in Pleasanton! He loved the camera 😍

And a quick shout out to @dandolar.bsky.social for sharing his Geek Squad knowledge of walls in old houses

Planning out where to mount the TV by taping a paper template to the wall with making tape over the studs

The TV mounted on the wall with my LTEK dance game pad on the floor in front of it

We did it! I still need to get a cord cover, but Dalton and I managed to mount the TV in my DDR room at arcade height.

*on my fridge, as decoration, lol

I'm so glad that I'm the type of nerd that keeps an old hard drive magnet in my fridge, because this is the only way to confirm studs in my 1940s house with rock plaster walls 😂

We were guessing based on measuring 16" from an electrical outlet, and drilling, but kept hitting nails, lol.

A spread of the Ethereal Visions tarot deck

I really love Ethereal Visions 🫶🏼

My black cat, sleeping on the back of a couch in front of a window

Drax's new late-afternoon spot

"I will face God and walk backwards into Hell"

Happy Birthday!