We, as in myself and my husband who is not Robert Smith. Sorry for any pronoun confusion. It’s a throwback Freudian slip to when I was 15…

The Cure - The Lovecats YouTube video by TheCureVEVO

youtu.be/mcUza_wWCfA

Happy birthday Robert! We had an instrumental version of this song at our wedding ❤️🐈🐈‍⬛🐈
#musicsky

Yes I’ve wondered that… good search results require skill to find so the LLMs become the path of least resistance 🧐

Rovelli’s books are great for a wide audience. So while I barely get the gist of this, maybe he will explain it for my brain in the future

We saw Frank Black a while ago and I acknowledge that he’s great but it doesn’t hit the same way

Yes! Surfer Rosa is one of my all time favorite albums

9- doing my thing don’t care if I look silly 😎

A picture looking down the top of a rock wall with small orange wallflowers growing between the stones and a tangle of garden below

Love how these wallflowers live up to their name. This is a volunteer that survived a very dry winter!
#gardensky

A screenshot of an article in Wired magazine with the headline “AI Models Lie, Cheat, and Steal to Protect Other Models From Being Deleted”. The graphic shows a knight with a sword drawn as if guarding something which looks like a network cloud

This seems important. The AI refused to delete a smaller AI, even moving it to protect it…(article in Wired)

Hospital Decides Cancer-Sniffing Leopard More Trouble Than It’s Worth CLEVELAND—Saying the costs had begun to outweigh the benefits, administrators at the Cleveland Clinic confirmed Tuesday that they had decided to discontinue their use of a cancer-sniffing leopard in c...

theonion.com/hospital-dec...

Hopefully not some kind of timeless enigma

Most rocks are like lava
Most plants are like dandelions
Most music is like Fleetwood Mac

You already held the line before ❄️🐯

otta - just like the rain YouTube video by otta

youtu.be/ID0-D7eAgPI

#DavidsMonthofMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 15: artist starting w O

Camp Mystic in TX and the girls’ school in Iran
They do not care.

I loved her books as a child. Even though I guess they were adult fantasy!

That is a fun word, omnishambles. Sounds Pratchett-esque 😎

“The Terrible Truth” Live at @PurpleBeeTV Studios YouTube video by Big Bill

youtube.com/shorts/yTRdz...

Absurd earworm
Happy Friday
#musicsky

The other day I heard someone using the riff from Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner”. Such a classic and apparently used in studios for sound balancing #musicsky ❤️

1 should be Jack Weatherford 😎

Secret History of the Mongol Queens—Jack Rutherford
Black Lamb, Grey Falcon—Rebecca West
The Snow Leopard—Peter Matthiessen
Ada Blackjack—Jenifer Niven
The Power of Nunchi—Euny Hong

Rewatching Insecure right now. Helpful in illustrating this kind of workplace dynamic?

Citing "serious ethical concerns," journal retracts key Monsanto Roundup safety study - The New Lede The journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology has formally retracted a sweeping scientific paper published in the year 2000 that became a key defense for Monsanto’s claim that Roundup herbicide a...

The study Monsanto cited as proof Round-up is safe retracted
due to authorship questions, misrepresentation of contributions by authors & Monsanto, conflicts of interest & carcinogenicity of glyphosate conclusions that ignored other published research. 🌿🌎🌱
www.thenewlede.org/2025/12/citi...

Right like Le Monde in English is a favorite of mine…

Joy Crookes - Fade Your Heart (Official Audio) YouTube video by JoyCrookesVEVO

youtu.be/PqsKDDi8024

🖤 stays with me 🖤
#musicsky

as someone in chicago right now believe me we all find it extremely disorienting that national dems are broadly fine with the administration unleashing a terror campaign on our city. it won’t be forgotten next time someone shows up here begging for votes.

Republican domestic terrorism...

Valid
I do use it sometimes in talking to a variety of people. But etiquette is about making other people at ease

From the Tao: “True leaders are hardly known to their followers. Next after them are leaders the people know and admire; after them, those they fear; after them, those they despise.” Lao Tzu, trans. Ursula K Le Guin

Always wanted to dress like Chiana (?) for Halloween but never got around to it …