Zelda 🎀

Photo of Shine, a tan-colored tabby cat looking gently toward the camera from an upright sitting position.

Are you prepared for the kind of pets you've earned, little man?

(More of my nerds at #SootAndShine)

#caturday #cats #catsofmastodon #catsky

Set up a TV for the cats out of an unused monitor and Chromecast for bird videos.

No, they are not spoiled.

Screenshot of pokopia. Drifloon asks "humans give me energy, you know? Human kids in particular give me lots!"

Drifloon wants me to feed her fresh children.

#pokemon #pokopia #drifloon

I gave the #cats their flea/tick treatment today. They seemed to react better when I showed them the vial, let them smell it, showed them the treat they'll get after, then applied it. I showed them the tube yesterday too so it wasn't a surprise.

Not happy, but no unhappy surprises either, they […]

Screenshot of a playdate console game. A textbox reads "these fancy coffee supplies make me feel cool and grown up"

How I shop for appliances

#playdate #casualbirder

Someone recently thought I had 5 cats.

It's 2. Most it has ever been was 3.

Photo of two cats, Soot and Shine

Enjoying #Pokopia a lot. I need a non-serious week and will be taking a few more days for self care.

I am still working on being more reliable and focused, but I feel the foundation of self care is essential first.

Anyway, here's kitties.

#cats #SootAndShine

I got #Pokopia! Going to just get high on THC and play my new game to enjoy my evening.

"Game-key card" augh, didn't realize this was one of those. I like my phyiscal games, but I guess I didn't have a choice either way. Who would believe Nintendo would do this to me before Sony or Microsoft? […]

No stream from me tonight, I am on the mend but still eepy. Pokopia and Demon Tides will be streamed on the weekend!

Speaking of money, anyone got estimated VPS/hosting costs for a small #Matrix server and #Owncast?

I currently use a $5 VPS for my own site since it is all-but-static. I would love to self-host as much as I can, but I am not sure what level of beef I need for some of this stuff.

Weirdos: "The human body is so perfect it must have been intelligently designed"

The 'intelligently designed' body when the wrong person eats peanuts: "Well, time to die"

A photo of a Pusheen the Cat calendar. A cartoon cat sits on a giant marshmellow. Text reads "If I were tiny, I would sleep on a marshmallow" March 2026 Wed 4

Good day, Subjects!

Brewed some coffee, trying a cold brew.

Watching some Red Green Show and chilling with the cats, mostly Soot.

Busted out my Quest 2 and played a little Angry Birds VR. The Mixed Reality mode is nice; they've added plenty of levels since […]

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This is also one of at least 30 reasons Zero is cooler than X, btw.

Like the Mega Buster is cool and all but. Dude has a laser sword. Sit down, kid, let the professionals get to work.

- not interested in watching humans holding guns and dying

No wonder I'll never make it as a politician

"Guns are fucking boring" is why IMO enemy design is so absolutely critical for FPS gameplay.

Gotta have something fun to look at. Human enemies who also have guns usually isn't it.

Speaking of, god the Landbreakers are terribly boring losers in Endfield. Throw them away and give me more weird […]

Too lazy to record and shrink a video of it, but the solution isn't particularly novel: dual-wielding pistols + every shot is a trick shot.

You have to make it all about the body movement, since otherwise guns are just...guns.

It looks silly and impractical, but hey, I do not play video games […]

I am a little disappointed #Arknights #Endfield seems to have snipped out the bit of canon that made guns super rare (they are now 1 of the 5 common weapon types), but I can respect that they at least went super-extra on all the gun attack animations.

Solves the problem of guns being hideously […]

Sprite of a long brunette haired kunoichi in skintight blue & yellow superheroey ninja suit & red face mask & bow. Stylish red boot on left leg & blue one on right. She has a very large sheathed katana.

I leave u all w this sprite of the heroine from the Shinobi 2 mobile game

Me in 2006: "I wonder what it was like to be an intelligent person living in the dark ages of religious conspiracies and wacko health ideas"

Me in 2016+: "Ahhhh"

Cats understand your schedule.

I have been oversleeping due to an infection, and my cats have noticed the change. They get frustrated and try to wake me up, or stop sleeping with me when they would normally spend the night or join for a short nap.

I have almost totally quit my phone, and the only annoyances I have noticed are:

- Everything that wants to verify me by phone/SMS (stop this)

- Taking pictures of stuff, mostly my cats, is more difficult

That is really it. Especially if you have a real computer, I recommend using the phone […]

zelda emoji, lil lavender spikeball gal pals

Can I get custom emoji in #Matrix? I stopped paying Discord after the latest nonsense. If I can just have my lil Zelda faces somewhere not-corporate, I'd be happy.

Speaking of money, anyone got estimated VPS/hosting costs for a small #Matrix server and #Owncast?

I currently use a $5 VPS for my own site since it is all-but-static. I would love to self-host as much as I can, but I am not sure what level of beef I need for some of this stuff.

[financial]

Obligatory "yes I hate Amazon and recommend avoiding them", but this is not currently money I can say no to.

Patreon/Ko Fi is how I would prefer it, but I have quite a bit of growing to do before that is self-sufficient and I live in the US so effectively no safety net, wooo

Thank you to whoever keeps using my Amazon affiliate links on purpose! I know you exist, because I keep forgetting to post my links at all.

Affiliate link here if you want to support me while shopping on Amazon:
https://amzn.to/4qYDved

🆕 blog! “Adding "Log In With Mastodon" to Auth0”

I use Auth0 to provide social logins for the OpenBenches website. I don't want to deal with creating user accounts, managing passwords, or anything like that, so Auth0 is perfect for my needs.

There are a wide range of social media logins […]

An appointment I thought was today is over a week from now.

The rush of relief. Anxiety brain hate appointment.

"There is a magic benevolent creature who guides us all"

"really wow cool"

"it is going to torture us for eternity if you do not follow these 6504673,234523502342434,342342 rules, like do not walk sideways on tuesdays"

"oh"

An obvious way to debunk this is to look at other cultures and find out that yeah, the basic concept of morality has existed at least as long as writing.

They vary, but the "don't wildly run through the street murdering and eating everyone" stuff that really matters has definitely always been […]

One of the scariest things I have ever heard from religious people is the idea that god "invented" right and wrong.

Like everyone was just playing around in tubs of murdered baby entrails until god said "murder bad" and everyone was like "oh shit fr?"

If you believe you would be a monster […]