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I work remote, so most of my communication with co-workers is via email or Slack. It's extremely off-putting when you notice they've outsourced all their writing to Claude (and you do notice, immediately).

When you go out for groceries and there's a new Japanese home goods, snacks and pop products store

Can I recommend you an anime? It's Frieren. It's so endearing and beautifully composed. It's not shounen, but isn't without action and adventure in a soulful story about human relations, time and reflection.

Brought to you by the silly new NSP song, "Going on a Date" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfdp...

Little Cup would be vastly improved with a Bronzor ban, change my mind.

Re: Ilhan Omar

Anthropic in particular amongst AI vendors, truly smacks of a cult.

I hadn't really noticed Discord's age verification roll out because they just assumed my adulthood. Which, fine I guess. If they'd needed proof, I could've just presented Winamp skins I made nearly 30 years ago... as I crumble into dust.

Getting so many "No on 40" (the CA wealth tax) mailers. "The money might not go to exactly what you think it will!" Oh right, sweet, the money will GO to something! I was on board just for the "taxing billionaires" aspect. "You're NEXT!" Lol, blatantly false.

wip of smth i've been working on - i made her a while ago, but haven't gotten around to painting yet 😅

I feel awkward posting my stuff to sub reddits I'm not very active in, even if it's completely relevant and is well-received. Meanwhile AI guys like seagulls dropping their turds in every sub they can fly by.

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

My neighbor gave us some home grown pomegranates, which I've never had before. Tasty! But this may be the most effortful fruit I've encountered so far.

Lol... I abandoned the FB page for my site when they killed an API that allowed me to make posts w/o registering that private connection as a public "app" or some such nonsense. Two posts with links per month, lmao.

Flower pony trio! I've wanted to do them as a set for awhile... and was aiming for spring, but whoops it's fall! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Wallpaper downloads available on my site: spacecatsamba.com/works/tag/po...

Should print this out on a wall placard: "I do not like this moment in time where nobody cares how things work."

There are very real safety concerns we need to address with generative LLMs. Deepfakes, privacy, AI psychosis, etc We don't need to entertain goofy nonsense from people claiming they're inventing the torment nexus from the science fiction classic "Dipshit That's Not The Torment Nexus Go Outside."

happy "Todaybor Day is Labor Day" Labor Day to all who celebrabor day

I feel like I'm on borrowed time with social media sites. Eventually they'll all have to require privacy-invasive age verification, and I'm just inclined to opt out at that point...

Geez, Dolly Parton followed by Tim Curry

Apple thieves! ... but they're cute.

Sorry Canada; I hate him too.

New Genshin region be like, "hey, wanna be a furry?"

Anyhoo, couple of Winamp skin thoughts in mind, but I like to vary my work, so probably finish up some ponies next. I assume my followers consist of MLP fans who put up with the Winamp thing, and Winamp fans who put up with the MLP thing. 👍

I never appreciate the amount of work that Winamp Modern skins actually take until I'm knee-deep in it with a giant Illustrator artboard of UI elements, a many-layered Clip file of raster assets, and a bucket of XML and MAKI scripts. And then I do a silly thing like add ~20 color themes.

You are objectively a bad person for using Chansey in Pokemon Go GBL.

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American health care is being in notable pain, but assuming you really oughta be tucked into your death bed before seeking any medical attention.

New pony is old pony; that art is ... okay, though I don't love what they did with Fluttershy's bangs. Theme song sounds like generic junk. New VAs sound nice tho. 9-minute Youtube episodes is discouraging.

I definitely wouldn't choose a return to office working, but I do miss people-watching downtown during SDCC. Sights like adult-sized Batman walking down the street holding hands with a toddler-sized Iron Man. And Deadpools. Deadpools everywhere.

I'm still salty about Mega Raichu (it's debuting in Go today); OG Raichu is one of my faves, and neither Mega is an appealing design, imo. Both are trying to be Pikachu in different ways. I hate the big arbitrary bolt things on Y's head.

Open up an email in Gmail and it has pre-populated an entire AI reply, the first line of which is apologizing on my behalf for having not read the previous email with enough attention to detail. .... wtf

So what's this Amazing Digital Circus thing? Is it good? The fandom seems a bit toxic, but let's watch the pilot and see if it clicks .... (binges the whole thing)

Finished Mina at 99% completeness... I enjoyed figuring things out to find secrets, but left a few things in the last area as the platforming and enemies were just too obnoxious to wander around as much there.

Found the best weapon in Mina! ... what do you mean I can't take it with me...?

Feels pretty hard to not be deeply cynical these days.

Upon first encounter with Klumpy in the field, "AHHH" (runs immediately backward to the previous screen). Later encounters: "Dude Klumpy, knock it off, I have to go explore this Lantern Cavern..."