Risa Koizumi 🇨🇦🇺🇸

I assumed the MRIs were due to the likelihood of him having ischemic strokes, which it certainly seemed like he's had over the past few months with how he walked, facial drooping, and so on.

Tammy Faye Bakker, 1987.

She's the reincarnation of Tammy Faye Bakker.

It's actually on there! Small print, left of the NFPA diamond.

A matte black insulated water bottle with a screw-top lid and carry handle stands upright indoors. A red-and-white parody warning label on the bottle reads “CHEMTRAIL FLUID – AVIATION USE ONLY” and includes a mock hazard diamond and a checklist with items like “Paranoia,” “Mind Control,” “Sterylization,” and “Memory Erase.” The label mimics industrial chemical signage for comedic effect.

Going to see if anybody at the gym says anything.

Precordial catch syndrome! Dramatic name for a totally benign annoyance.

Brought on by bad posture, a weird twist, or just because your body likes exciting events to keep things interesting.

Not at all surprising to anybody who has ever gotten anywhere near cows.

Quick, stick an AirTag on it!

"If I was going to kiss you, it'd be because I'm stupid and I couldn't help myself."

"...acceptable."

I Disney Princessed up more wilderness friends (I have befriended the local crows and a pair of ravens who seem to think I'm okay). I was serving up peanuts to the crows and jays, and saw the squirrel trio come bouncing over, immediately followed by a new player: A hawk. Crows and jays were having nothing to do with it and took off. The hawk sat in the low branches of a tree watching and watching... and the squirrels were of course, freaked out. Eventually two of them chased each other around and around the trunk of the tree, and the smallest one decides this is a great time to make a break for those tasty peanuts he's been eyeballing. Hawk: Swoop. Trio no more! The duo sat perfectly still on a branch for 10 minutes after the murder of their companion.

A Corvid+ tale of this past Wednesday, in emoji. (Words in alt text)

Did anyone see my last marble?
I'd saved it to give it away
Since I was a youth
Now I don't have the proof
Only words, only words, only words...
And what good are they?

As a natural redhead, Horizon is an important source of representation in a future mecha-dino post-apocalyptic society. Thanks, NCSOFT!

A tortoiseshell cat sits on a gray carpet beneath a dark metal and stone coffee table. The cat’s eyes are closed, its body upright with its tail curled around to the side. A small spring-like cat toy lies on the floor nearby. The lighting is dim, giving the photo a cozy, subdued tone.

Also, I have learned that today is National Cat Day. So here's Tau, either doing an epic slow blink at me, or falling asleep sitting up.

#kittykittykitty

Night sky with faint stars scattered across a dark blue background. Near the center, a small, hazy cluster of stars—likely the Pleiades—stands out, with the Orion constellation visible lower down. On the left edge, part of a wooden utility pole and power lines are dimly lit, while a blurry orange-brown tree crown appears at the bottom.

Subaru logo stars.

#photo #stars #Pleiades #subaru

When I found myself doing very well financially, I was most happy about being able to treat my friends, help a family member out of a tight spot, and give to charities I believed in. It was ten times better than blowing money on just myself.

I have long said, "If you do well, do good."

Sir++ objectifies everything and everyone, but he's apparently safer, and comes with his own library apparently.

"according to the White House" so a source with zero credibility and a compulsive habit of just making things up, i.e. lying.

Funny, I've only ever heard it referred to as "The Epstein Ballroom". To add some class, what about "La Promenade des Énigmes"?

The true sign you’re really an adult: Looking for something in your domicile and muttering, ”Goddamn I have too much stuff.”

Now I want to watch those two movies.

This is too stunningly logical to ever get implemented.

Which is ironic, since I think a lot of people who say it's useless tried ChatGPT in 2022 and never looked back, but the tech has evolved so fast that their objection isn't over what AI *is*, it’s over what people *think it was*.

Pac Man glorifying running around in the dark and gobbling pills to electronic music is the root of techno, trance, EDM, and rave culture. In this essay...

I can't even take credit! A friend sent it to me, he's been running an instance of Stable Diffusion for a while now, and having a blast tinkering.

Also, a callback to your earlier post, a different alt text:

🤖🌼➡️🤍✨
🌅🏙️🌕
“Let’s clank” 🖤📝

A small rusty robot with tank treads and binocular-like eyes holds up a daisy to a sleek white flying robot with glowing blue eyes. They face each other tenderly at sunset on a rooftop, with the full moon glowing in the background. Bold black text above them reads “Let’s clank.”

@catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com

I mean, they do have /r/cats, and even /r/stealthbombers

I think BlueSky is driving me back to using Reddit.

Yeah, Reddit is bad, the owners are awful, and god some kids are dumb, but the relative lack of anti-AI righteousness and political shrieking sure is refreshing.

In my living room.

This is actually the way I go about using AI for code, as a coding partner and super autocomplete. I do insist on understanding what the code is doing as I go along, though. I still live by the maxim I've said for years: "To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program."

Cetaceans and pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, walruses) actually crawled out of the sea like the rest of us but decided that land living sucked and went back to the water.