dhuartson: Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby. That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.

This is not wrong.

Yes, that is a consideration. A lot of the Terry Pratchett audiobooks disappeared when the new ones came out so Cold Dead Hands re: my CDs.

On the other hand, I just rewatched an old favorite movie which aged like milk. So I have to decide - do I love something or love the memories of it?

Congratulations!

I’m purging my DVDs on the basis of “Would I be crushed if I can’t find this on streaming” and running into the problem that my tastes are both niche and ancient enough that a lot of it was never on streaming in the first place.

Seems to be fixed now? Why is blaming AI for all the blocks. Did we hurted the nonsentient software’s imaginary fee-fees?

Would have liked enough warning to create a personal list of the folks who showed up on my Quiet posters, but apparently we’re about to lose even follower feeds for not sufficiently loving the plaigerism machine.

Reposting in case people don’t know why their feeds stopped working.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Yeah but they didn’t take as much of your time or $$

That’s called “Wikipedia” and it’s how I’ve watched 2/3 of the Marvel universe so I can spend my time with just the movies I want to see

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

I’ve worked hard this weekend but feel I got “nothing done” because so little of it was on the list.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Worst cleaning nightmare I know is a modern house built to look like a log cabin - complete with unfinished wood half logs on every inside wall. Spider, dust, and splinter city.

Seriously, she is *still* howling that an afab lived as a girl her whole life woman isn’t “really” female & yet people still think it’s not her simply trying to force a personal idea of “acceptable presentation” upon the whole wide world? Theres no reason or commonality with that kind of crazy.

They’re *wrong* that’s why! The details of the ceilings don’t match the doorways, half the furniture in the kitchen looks like it’s being eaten by the walls… every detail was designed solo w/o consulting anyone else on the project & everyone was high on a different designer drug.

“Striking architecture” is what the kids are calling a hot mess these days?

A gray square stone with an American flag carved into it. Under the flag is the inscription MARY VAN NESS FAUTH 1864-1931 Past President Woman’s Relief Corps Aux G.A.R. Daughters of Union Veterans Civil War; FRANK FAUTH 1864-1940

It’s a rare gravestone where the wife gets the majority of the text and the husband is the 2-line afterthought. #cemeterysunday

Say no to Generative AI Art Buy art from real degenerates

Off to make some Human Art 🤘🏼

IP theft & ecological destruction aside, high-pressure selling “Software Will Do It All For You & The Computers Running It Will Never Fail” is such a weird take for those of us who survived the high-pressure Y2K “All The Computers Will Stop & Civilization Will END (Unless You Buy My Stuff)” campaign

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’re under absolutely no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you choose to spend the entire weekend reading a good book, making multiple cups of tea, and indulging in a borderline scandalous amount of cinnamon rolls.

me every day since the Trailer dropped

a frog holds itself upright while poking its upper body out of a manhole cover set in a pavement or road

truth coming out of her well to shame mankind

Headline in today's Guardian that reads "Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40 percent, study finds. Cognitive health in later life is 'strongly influenced' by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers."

This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.

this is just to say

I have had an issue
fetching the posts
that were
on the timeline

and which you
were probably
hoping
to doomscroll

forgive me
the takes were so hot
and so
rate limited

I bet it was because there wasn’t any fake gold.

Also apparently the enslaved people couldn’t mark the graves of their friends/family … so at least at Montpelier they planted periwinkle over the graves. So when they find a field of periwinkles on the land, they bring out the ground penetrating radar.