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I just found out that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”, and now I need you lot to know that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”.

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this day and every day, remember that it is possible to feel a complicated multitude of ways about a thing

Health Canada Food recall warning

Cheese ingredients included in certain Hello Fresh brand meal kits recalled due to Listeria monocytogenes

hand tremors and other physical disruptions to making art - jenn's little blog a few years ago i was diagnosed with hashimoto's, an autoimmune disease of the thyroid, with one of the most self-disrupting symptoms at that time being hand...

art posting again

because of ethics in game journalism

"It works on my machine," I shrug.

You peer over the wall of my cubicle to see that I have replaced my desk with a 1910 model Singer Treadle

What would you do with your time if you already knew you deserved to exist?

I describe it as such as a historian of disability because I want to remind scientists and the world that the history of science IS the history of eugenics, scientific racism and medical racism, and more.
I’m not comforting them with the idea that it was a ‘pseudoscience.’
This is your history.

A screenshot from the linked post. The text reads as follows: "I refuse to use generative AI because I simply don’t want to be the kind of person who uses generative AI. The promise of AI is that it removes friction. It doesn’t matter whether it can actually fulfill that promise, it matters that the sovereign wealth funds with seemingly infinite pockets and patience for Sam Altman’s megalomania believe it can. In their ideal world, you don’t have to think about anything because an AI will do your thinking for you, and so you can fire everyone whose job it was to think. In this ideal world, they never have to think about other people at all, whose desires and needs and rights might come into conflict with their whims. I don’t know where they imagine we’ll have gone; six feet under, probably. I quite like thinking, and I think humans should do more of it, and I think the less we do it the more our thinking muscles will atrophy. This seems bad for everyone except for authoritarians who wish we were easier to control. I also happen to think AI is quite bad at thinking and that what LLMs do is not thinking at all, but I could be wrong! It’s genuinely beside the point. I do not want the frictionless world that the political project of generative AI promises, one in which you never have to interact with a human being if you don’t want to, and therefore I would simply prefer not to be complicit in its advancement."

I missed this excellent post from @phirephoenix.com last year but I really love the premise. Read the whole post, Choosing Friction, at this link: phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-10...

Colorful rainbow woman touching a rainbow slider that is during into paint blobs. The woman has rainbow hair, one rainbow braid, a white hoodie and red pants. Drawn by gdbee in Feb 2026

some rainbows for your workweek

Mason: Dad, there's no real magic in the world, right? Dad: What do you mean? Mason: You know, like elves and stuff. People just made that up. Dad: Oh, I don't know. I mean, what makes you think that elves are any more magical than something like a whale? Yoy know what I mean? What if I told you a story about how underneath the ocean, there was this giant sea mammal that used sonar and sang songs and it was so big that its heart was the size of a car and you could crawl through the arteries? I mean, you'd think that was pretty magical, right?

Saw someone say the world is a boring place because there are no elves or dragons, so I'm legally obliged to share this:

@suchnerve “I don’t want to wear a mask all the time” Alright. Would you please wear it sometimes? Sometimes > never. Like just keep one in your bag, and put it on when you’re in an extra crowded place maybe?

A classic anti-masker tactic is to claim that if you don't wear a mask 100% of the time, it isn't worth it. Untrue. Every single time you wear a mask, you reduce the chances for viruses to spread. Wearing a mask always improves public health, even if you only do it occasionally.

When will my executive function come home from the war

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Stardew Valley over here clocking 50 million sales with SNES-tier graphics and these people are STILL trying to sell me visible pores and individual eyelashes like I ever asked for any of that.

It is never too late. Take up crochet. Buy a cello. Get back on a bike, even if your last one had training wheels. We're not dead until we stop learning new stuff.

Screaming

Macbeth was just on that grindset when he said tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

A woman in a mask Headline: Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask? Story from Jerk Wingley and Terramin Defishunsee Photo from Adobe

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

Reddit post on Climber Girls sub: —- I've never posted here but I'm a lady climber and climbing is/was my life. Endless trips, endless training. My friends. Impacted the jobs I took... My whole world. My whole world. I was chipping away, trying to get to V12. Going through a rough life patch because I had to move away from a city I liked for a job. But climbing my hardest yet. I got COVID for a third time in 2025 (I'm vaxed and boosted and took paxlovid)..... Boom long COVID. Can't climb due to PEM. I haven't climbed in almost a year. I even learned I was having some remnants of long COVID from prior infections (things like hives, or some sleep stuff, and deficiencies which I learned COVID can cause). But this last one really did it. I'm not as severe as other people but I'll crash for a week if I go to the gym. It is.... Really sad. I'm not used to it and don't know when I'll be used to it. I don't know if it goes away.

On #LongCovidAwarenessDay — I think the most important thing to understand is that it’s still happening:

“I got COVID for a 3rd time in 2025 (I'm vaxed, boosted & took paxlovid)... Boom #LongCovid. Can't climb due to PEM. I haven't climbed in almost a year.”

“COVID… is still causing disability.“

I think about this a lot.

A black and white photo spread in a book. It shows three circles, one like a gathered donut, one a pleated circle, and one a pouf. Text: 1lStrips with one edge set into a circular cutout before tightly gathering the opposite edge. After gathering, (left) a strip less wide than the radius of the cutout leaves a center opening; (center) a strip as wide as the radius releases folds that radiate from a central pinpoint (right) a strip wider than the radius inflates the muslin into a dome.

Some of the best technical writing I read is in non-computer technology.

please

this has a lot of well organized links about the many and varied harms of ai, though ofc i draw somewhat more radical conclusions

I can't raise a red enough flag for the way states are attacking trans people in this moment. It is extremely bad, and escalating quickly (and relatively quietly)

the sheer unfathomable volume of harm being enabled by this technology absolutely eclipses any purported utility it could possibly have. it is the dril drunk driving tweet of technologies

my professional field is collectively enabling a colossal moral crime and I don't have to be even handed about it

Otis the black cat looks moody among a frame of flowers

Sarah, how's the writing going?

Wellll I started taking pictures of my cat as if she was getting married, so, yeah. I mean, great.