Incorrect alt text is worse than none at all. None is also bad. Please get your ish together.

You should really be doing better than this by now. Like, this is shameful.

Gross.

I am not sure many people GAF about the "Mexican mafia" when we have a christofascist mafia stripping our government for parts right now...

And stripping all of us of our rights.

This admin is making the world of Fallout feel chill by comparison.

Oh wow oh wow oh wow. That is too-on-the-nose. Like, if you put that in a work of fiction, readers would say it's too much.

If you have kids, when you have kids, they have to have a sense of self worth. So they’re not followers, so they’re not willing to denigrate themselves and others to fit into a crowd. It’s critical.

Yeah. It would be so nice to skip straight to the good parts, but we probably won't appreciate it, and it won't last unless we go through the bad parts to get there 😔.

Life lessons learned lol.

That sounds way better. Honestly, I'd yeet capitalism straight into the sun if I could!

Ohhhh amazing!

I am lowkey jelly b/c I used to have a lovely blackberry patch on our street, but Portland Parks dept. killed them all last year right before they started to ripen and they're still gone.

I miss our brambles so much!

If you can't, blackberry pear cobbler is really tasty. Blackberry peach cobbler is likewise tasty!

Blackberries?! Already?! 😻

Little forehead kiss for their little kitty head 😻.

I will die on this hill: one hour of federal minimum wage should afford you a hearty (not fast food) lunch that may give you leftovers, depending on your appetite.

Minimum wage is $7 and change. Decent cheeseburgers are like $20+ now, depending on the city in which you live. This is a crime.

ABBYY is an example of "AI" being put to good use. I always finish remediating the raw output by hand, obvi.

Gen "AI" is still bad and terrible and destroys: the climate, our critical thinking, privacy, and basically our humanity.

Quotes around "AI" bc real artificial intelligence does not exist.

Y'all have any software you use regularly at work that is a joy to use?

I've been using ABBYY to help me remediate documents for almost a decade. Its OCR has gotten a lot better over the years. I use it primarily for converting PDFs to docx format.

Finding this out about David Bowie made me not be able to watch The Labyrinth anymore.

She's just so young and naive, and he's just so... Him. It's all too on-the-nose.

Don't ruin Legend for me, or I will cut you (metaphorically lol).

I'm not as mad at Bowie as Neil Gaiman, though...

At least Bowie is dead.

Yeah, I found out about that shortly before he died and listening to Blackstar was... Well let's just say that I couldn't stomach it or anything else he's made since.

Couldn't even finish a Labyrinth rewatch because it made me extremely uncomfortable.

It takes a Herculean act of will to not be constantly upset about it all the time, but I continue to enjoy having friends so I zip it irl.

Yeesh yeah, I'm still dealing with that since not socially isolating will either kill me or severely diminish my quality of life, healthwise.

I mean, my body is more disabled but I am also better able to regulate myself. Like that?

Maybe folks who have an easier childhood and young adulthood, have a harder time with aging because they have yet to live through as many situations outside of their control?

Maybe those folks are not growing up as much as they think they are?

Experience and age is bringing with it a lot of clarity for me. Then again, I had a traumatic childhood and very difficult young adulthood so that might also have something to do with it.

ONE CAN HOPE!

Aw daaaaamn. AI is doing terrible things to the human brain.

Did it at least leave you with some gratitude for their self-removal?

I'm trying to stay positive here lol!

I am only on microblog social media because of covid. That's it. Likewise, I am no longer on FB or Insta b/c of covid.

Mentally, I couldn't handle seeing everyone I knew giving up on covid precautions & participating in the genocide of at-risk folks like myself.

The photos were too much.

Ace Of Base, ‘All That She Wants’: Were Ace of Base secretly Nazis? Probably not, but let’s talk about the theory while listening to All That She Wants.

Here's an article that goes into a little more depth and it seems pretty balanced - dude was a nazi. He has recanted, but their songs are also rightwing propaganda.

off-the-records.com/ace-of-base-...

I heard that too, and my husband who's really into music told me all about it.

Is the actual nazi member dead yet, or have they made serious amends for being a skinhead?

Surprise! The sign was the swastika.

IDKIYK but Ace of Base was literally a white supremacist band. Like... *Literally* literally.