Ashe

praise the sun 🌞

I hate AI as much as the next guy but I don't know if it really means anything that some people think the AI paragraph is better than three random sentences from a novel presented entirely out of context

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

sucks that Paper Girls only got one season

a red flowering current blooming. Small pink flowers grow on a stalk in front of dark green, lobed leaves. The background is out of focus but there is a tree trunk and an Oregon grape visible.

two of my currants are flowering already! the rest are just staring to leaf out

all timer of a stupid ending tbh even by the standards of a thriller

josh cracked a joke halfway through His and Hers that turned out to be the actual ending down to the most minute detail

my coworker, who is wrong, sent me a message after two straight days of arguing that said "this AI chat probably enunciates the concern better than I am :)" with a link to an open chat gpt convo and unfortunately now I have to kill him

need the master gardener applications to open up again before I make the poor decision to go to grad school

lots of people writing treatises about a Josiah Hughes shit post lol

I think I should be able to edit my linked in page like it's Myspace. if you want to try and sell me software you should have to listen to Seven Swans and read a poem about self harm first

this makes me want to cry

I just finished this and it's one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read, highly highly recommend.

my grandma turns 80 tomorrow and a huge windstorm blew over her biggest 40+ year old spruce that the owls just built a nest in. I'm crying 😭

i keep taking like 50 photos of the inside of my pockets, accidentally recording voice memos of nothing and texting them to group chats, butt dialing people through Instagram, etc

I got a flip phone a few months ago and now I have more or less the same tech literacy as my grandmother

Interstate 8 but it's a really hard call

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

idk my life is way cooler now that I just don't do things that I could only tolerate drunk. it's really jarring to exist sober in a situation that literally thousands of people can apparently only tolerate by drinking

when I was still drinking it seemed very mundane to be surrounded by alcohol all of the time and now it just seems so fucking weird and desperate

I don't really have a hard time being sober but it does make a lot of aspects of contemporary life seem kind of rotten. like for example business conferences

I've noticed this too

And I think it's also changed how I talk sometimes! Like I don't want to talk about not being hungry even if I'm not, because I think people will assume it's an Ozempic thing

Conversations about weight are kind of thinly veiled as being about weight loss meds instead, and for some reason that's completely fine even though we don't talk about other medications this way.

People seem to feel more comfortable judging people for taking GLP-1s around me than they would be straightforwardly judging people's weight. And then, thin friends who are taking GLPs also seem comfortable talking to me about how they are feeling judged for that.

I think people have become more comfortable talking to me about weight, weight loss, weight loss medications than they were before. And conversations about weight loss meds have become a major way that people talk about weight.

a drawing of a floor with a giant dark hole in it, with eyes looking out of it, and a caption saying "over here you can see the yawning chasm of eyes peering out from a darkness that stretches on forever. Some tenants like to put a blanket over it but it tends to make the eyes angry."

02/24/26 - rental unit tour

I saw a fellow goth wearing a crushed velvet mini dress and fishnets at the resort in Palm Springs and it was the first time I've felt at ease since I landed in this deranged place

I found buffy playing on the hotel cable but unfortunately it's season 7 buffy

Just came under a MASSIVE PSYCHIC ASSAULT at the grocery store