For better or worse, Bean is now speedrunning bathtime & getting ready for bed in order to maximize "watch Mommy play Dragonage" time, to the extent that I turned the corner and Bean has already pulled up a chair and is waiting for me 🤦♀️
This has partly backfired. They're highly invested in what's going on, which means I now can't play without them watching 🤣
Which is adorable, but I've reached D'Meta's Crossing and they keep asking why they can't watch it, what do I mean by scary, well can they just see the area-- 😅
Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)
I see absolutely no problems with this 🤷♀️
Also, for when he's of teeth-brushing age: check out Pokémon Smile!!! 😍
So, I'm letting the kids watch. So far...
Intro:
1. Why did they make the dragons sick?
2. So Solas is evil? Or just stupid?
Lighthouse:
3. Where's Harding?
4. Where's Neve?
5. Where's Harding?
Arlathan:
6. Why's [Irelin] sad?
7. Where's your friends?
8. What's a demon?
9. Where's your friends?
President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak on Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ
A+ headline.
defector.com/president-ex...
A. The answer is *always* "Yes."
B. When it rains, more often than not it's a relief from the heat and mosquitos
C. Whether or not it's raining, everything is always soaked through anyway
Being a Floridian doesn't mean I am unbothered by Montreal's Fake Spring rain
It simply means I am wholly unprepared to concern myself with whether or not it's even going to rain
The late Tony Benn set out five questions about power. In his final speech to the House of Commons he said that on meeting any powerful person, one should always ask: What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?
"How can we get rid of you?"
The immense significance of the defeat of Orbán's illiberal political machine and methodology
By me at the Empty City substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/how-can-we...
Bean: Does Dad need the Philadelphia drink?
@j3llybean5.bsky.social : The... The *what*???
Bean: Well when *I* had non-solid poops, I got the Philadelphia drink...
Us: ???
.............
Rob: ...PEDIALYTE. That word is PEDIALYTE.
Sprout is serenading the entire Metro system with "I Was Made For Lovin' You" 🤪🤷♀️
Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Got an email from Adobe saying that they were nearly doubling the cost of my creative cloud subscriptions and adding a bunch of Gen AI dogshit I didn't ask for!
If you don't want to get charged you have to log in and downgrade to a "standard" plan that's just the fuckin apps.
Feels like I'm distanced enough from it, and my soul could use it, to spin up a fresh toon 💜
This one is so relevant all the time.
@josephfasano.bsky.social
Oh my.
It's taken from the right side of an aircraft flying past Cape Canaveral just as the Artemis II mission was taking off.
Source: Reddit (posted by u/Spook_485; I don't know if that's the person who took the video)
Me: Yeah let's just fry em up
@j3llybean5.bsky.social : Those are boiled hun
Me: ehh, same difference
Rob: And THIS is why you're not allowed in the kitchen anymore
57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals.
And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked.
And then the DEI office was killed.
And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.
As a lady of a certain age who thoroughly enjoyed enjoying HP with her children as they grew up:
Fuck this IP and JKR for the harm she’s done with the money and socio-political capital she’s found herself with, much on the backs of the oddballs and misfits who trusted her.
All the way to hell.
The financial problem with Sora was despite the massive interest, PR campaign, and downloads, only 1% of the userbase stuck around for more than a few days. A small, niche, devoted userbase does not a Trillion dollar company make. It was a toy, and not a very good one. Long live human creativity!
Sprout has a new favorite snack. 🤪
You have to cultivate your own opinions, I'm begging you! Intentionally pick something you would not usually prefer and see if you like it! Take a chance on someone's weird or unusual recommendation! Try a badly rated thing and see how it hits you! Your life can be so much richer than you expect!!!!
Even if you're pro-AI, Anthropic themselves have said that using AI when learning means you don't develop skills
You need those skills later to debug the LLM's output or prompt it more effectively to fix something. These students are gonna struggle as soon as they have to do something harder.
Actual quote from recently, in a class test where AI wasn't allowed: "But how can I write code without AI?" 😐
Watching ChatGPT do your homework is *not* learning. A lot of students are vibe studying through their degrees and not gaining basically any knowledge of what they're doing
Folks, I'm probably gonna charge you so much more than $15,000 to fix what Claude fucks up. At your own risk.
a gorgeous little dragon with horns and a heart crown and a heart tail, printed in golds and oranges and earth tones.
the same dragon but printed in teals and and aquas with a hint of purple
Another dragon, but this one is printed in all sorts of gorgeous purples, from lilac to deep sparkly indigo
I restocked our adorable little wicked queen dragons! We also have a pink one, and I think post-surgery I will adding a few more variations. Maybe rainbow??? I do like rainbow.
thebrokencircle.etsy...
AI is like early radioactive tech
- Wonderfully effective for some good tasks
- Horrifyingly effective for some evil tasks
- Bad and actively harmful for lot of mundane tasks that it is being rapidly deployed into
Just because it glows doesn't mean you should use it for skincare
Mistakes are fucking GREAT, actually!
A: They are literally the process by which we learn, grow, invent.
B: Do yourself a favor and look up how many revolutionary things were "discovered" because of a mistake.
My friend poured her heart and soul into this game and it really shows!!! She’s one of the most incredible humans, so multi-talented. Please check it out!
