Spam can be so deeply weird. No clue with this one, though it's made me think abt how we now live in a world where someone might decide to profit off of years of comment guilt-tripping by offering an LLM-comment-writing-service subscription 😭

Gosh that one needs a David Attenborough voice over stat!

OK but think abt it, that's less than 0.001% of works in the archive so maybe that still flies?

That could be it! US PTO numbers do also always baffle me, esp since there's so few bank holidays. It's unfortunate that the result is (or might be) that people tell themselves it's childish to take time for themselves one day a year 😕

💯 I also often don't bc my bday is always around VUK, but not close enough that I can sensibly connect the VUK vacation with a potential birthday vacation. But it wouldn't have crossed my mind to think of it as childish.

Full timeliiiine

It's very rough but there's frames on every second of song! 🎉

Oh I'm glad to hear it! My old man has chronic pancreatitis and it's hasn't stopped him from reaching an age that's approaching older than god so here's to many more days and years of tabby satan 🐈‍⬛

oh no :( sending good thoughts! 💚🤞

I'm baffled at the idea that it would be considered childish to take time off for your bday?

It's a very retro experience!

I got that, too! I did have a decent amt of notifs, but I don't think it was 30. I didn't count them 😅

Will reply in DM! 💚

While I'm here: thank you for your threads! Your writing is very thoughtful & accessible, I appreciate the care you put into image selection & credit, and as an nb individual trying to learn more abt what's traditionally considered men's fashion, the info you share has been very useful & affirming.

Desantis' outfit sure is 😬! Is it just the cultural context mismatch of jacket and trousers (and shoes) that's causing that, or is there more? Personally I feel like there's something off abt the color matching as well (maybe it's the tie?) but I don't have the fashion eye (yet) to say what exactly.

Must be hard for them to give that up now that they HAVE to let the AI make and record their podcast :( Pour one out for the ones truly harmed by GenAI 😔

Exactly! Nothing has ever been further from infodumping, and you *still* get to infodump! Win win!

(That is why douchey techbros have podcasts, isn't it)

Bsky not doing well with the whole business of loading pages today, or is it just me?

Clearly the solution is a Titanic podcast by Hils which you can recommend off-handedly in situations like this 😀

I hear capitalism! That said, recently a conservative suggested UBI as a possible solution to problems, which makes me think that perhaps this commonly held assumption is wrong. Either that, or he's a death cultist and was trying to single-handedly cause a cosmic paradox that would consume all life.

SO RUDE, but somehow also a relief every time. "Oh so it's not actually impossible to start. Gotta remember this next time!"

(Me next time: BUT HOW START, START IMPOSSIBLE 😭😭😭)

Scientific proof would mean repetition, right? I've played myself D:

The HARDEST, truly 😩 Thank you!

btw lovely vidukon vidders vidding for themed premieres: unfinished business; i will be your VJ this year so any questions, requests, thoughts, hmu!

Okay, actual progress! 1:45 minutes done, and the song is 30 seconds shorter than it was. It's almost as if you can only make progress on a thing once you actually start it 🤔

wise words; it worked! 😂

Have clipped! Btw is it normal to want to abandon the project after clipping bc Too Many Clips Cannot Process, asking for a friend 😩

Submissions for Premieres and Unfinished Business are open! You should now see both options when logged in to your Dashboard on the VidUKon site. Deadline is on Sunday, 19 April.

We'd love to see your vids! Find out more about how to submit yours: vidukon-cardiff.dreamwidth.org/71574.html

Anyway if you need me to serve as living proof of your point that non-weather-people know jack shit abt tornadoes some more, I'll be here all day 😂

(Info that I found & decided to believe bc it's gov.uk and recent: www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/to... )

I was going to joke about how if that's true, the UK as the country of roundabouts must've come up with some pretty solid anti-tornado tech considering they don't really have tornadoes, except then I googled that last part (bc lol what do I know) and TURNS OUT they have more on avg than the US?? 🤯🤯🤯

Reminder that the vidding workshop signups are open! Only saying this because I'd completely forgotten and only just remembered 😅 8 more days to sign up! Deadline for the segment is May 10.