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Today's vibe

How come ChatGPT is nice to everyone except me? To help with calorie tracking, I asked it to calculate the cooked weight of a recipe, and it's all like, "Are you sure you want to eat that, fatty?"

This one's just for the Bladerunner fans.

Women In Horror Month! Here's an ANZ list of women horror writers you absolutely should read.

Kaaron Warren
Angela Slatter
Kirstyn McDermott
Joanne Anderton
J S Breukelaar
Lisa L Hannett
Kyla Lee Ward
A J Spedding
Margo Lanagan
Lee Murray
Claire Fitzpatrick
Chris Mason
Cat Sparks
Kathleen Jennings

Thanks for the Women in Horror Month shout out!

Fielding all the hard questions from an 8-year-old today. Where does air come from? Where do you go if you fall off the Earth? What happens if a bat gets tangled in your hair? Why are ducks' feet creepy?

At our school we have chickens which the students help to care for. If running with scissors is the number one perilous activity in a primary school, coming a close second must be running with eggs.

Thing I didn't expect to say today:

"No, don't put your headphone jacks up your nose."

Inside The Gulp: Alan Baxter On Australian Cosmic Horror, Swallowing Towns & The Rise - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website the weird with award-winning author Alan Baxter. We discuss his new mosaic novel The Rise, the horror of fictional Gulpepper, and writing unashamedly Australian cosmic terror.

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Me at the supermarket be like -

Smiling Damned: Yakuza Stories Stories of the Yakuza set in three different eras. Prison breaks, gang war, and bloody revenge in the Japanese noir tradition.

I just backed Smiling Damned: Yakuza Stories on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/jas...

Things I learned from a 9-year-old today:
1. Oreos have the sign of the devil imprinted on them.
2. An infinitygon is a shape with an infinite number of sides. It looks just like a perfect circle.

*sigh* I know, right? I really do not want to google "firefighter throws dildo".

Just took progress photos of my near-naked self at the insistence of my gym coach. It might be the most demoralizing thing I have ever done in my life.

On the plus side, whenever the kids at school hurl "big back" as an insult, I now know exactly what they mean.

When I am in the kitchen, everyone else has to pretend to be a vampire. You CAN NOT come into the kitchen unless I invite you.

And things have changed...how?

Quote of the day, presented without source or context:

"I want to be strong like bitch who fights bears in forest."

Someone posted in our Facebook community page about a parcel being delivered to the wrong house with a photo of the evidence of delivery.

Meanwhile, I'm obsessed by the shadow cast by the delivery driver taking said photo. Does this look just like a hunchback in a top hat, or is it just me?

Just a little break

New fitness app congratulated me today on lifting the weight of a hypothetical rhino in today's workout. That's a misleading stat, though. Yes, I lifted a rhino, but only if said rhino had been precut into 100 manageable chunks, and I just had to move them from the bench to the floor and back again.

Received a gift voucher for a full body massage, which I redeemed today. "Tell me if you have any tender spots," the masseuse said.

Turns out, I have all of them. All the tender spots.

The Algorithm has found out we're planning an overseas trip this year. Constant ads for "travel clothes" (which are different from regular clothes because...?), neck pillows and compression socks.

I will eventually cave on the socks.

I think I found the winner of the Internet today. Someone posted on the local community page on Facebook with a picture of two goats wandering in the street. "Not sure who to call," she said.

And an anonymous member replied - GoatsBusters.

This goes out to all the Gen X.

This morning's run. Approaching a mum and small boy, about 2 or 3 years old. The boy raises a hand to point at me. The mum explains, "He is impressed by your running. He says you are going so fast."

As an overweight 58-year-old with the running speed of an arthritic tortoise, that made my day.

Chicken curry is better than grilled cheese. I don't make the rules.

Ooh! Ooh! I have these! (Does it count if I grew one of them in my body?)

@aliamcb.bsky.social Crispin Glover. Kafkaesque. Free on SBS on Demand. Let's GOOOOO!

Happy "Hot Cross Buns for sale at Coles" Day!