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Dammit Rachel! 😂😭

@momfriend64.northsky.social @valuemeal2.bsky.social and I were shorpling at the grocersterp stooptydoo tonight and both thought "Rachel would purcheeszle those Hormbles Chormbles in a hörtbœæt" we didn't, but we thought of you as we didn't.

A little of both. Impressed by my financial health. Disappointed by my social and mental. Particularly by my complete lack of hobbies and doing fun things with my time.

"Okay, there are two routes to the Basilica, we could turn left here at the park or one more block to.. oh yes we're ABSOLUTELY going one more block." @momfriend64.northsky.social @craftlibrarian.bsky.social

On my current world tour of lands, I am done with ice and green, and now am headed towards newfound.

Always a sucker for a personality test. I think this is fairly accurate, but I might put determination higher and justice lower.

Got on a boat to go look at a thing

So far so.. good? More things are going right than wrong on vacation. Some things going wrong. Rolling with it, making it work, having a good time. The real meat of the vacation starts tomorrow, when I get on the cruise ship.

Huge vacation coming up in two days. Almost four full weeks off. The amount of reserves I burned through to get here is unreal. I haven't worked this hard since undergrad. I REALLY need this vacation to go well, and there are so many variables beyond my control.. please think good thoughts for me.

I came up with a really great name for my project when I started it. Five months in, they made me change it to something soulless and shitty. It's been another four months, I think they're gonna make me change it again. If I had any fucks left to give, this would've used the last of 'em.

There we are, we have now reached the stage of short-term-burnout where I'm making stupid mistakes. What's the solution? Ah yes, more pressure. LFG.

This past week I've surprised myself with how much I've been able to keep track of, both at work and at home. I thought I lost that with the Wellbutrin and Topamax. Makes me worry that yes, I'm juggling 20 things, but I'm forgetting the 1 most important.

As a Californian, seeing all the posts about the wildfires: Get out your covid mask, friend. Smoke particles are large enough that even cloth masks help.

Probably bad that I find myself wanting, more and more, to spend my waking hours.. not awake. I just want time to pass until the next interesting thing that I'm looking forward to.

It's important to remember that as a rule, every human life has worth and value. And it's important to remember that there are exceptions to every rule.

Seems like every day Texas comes up with a new way to make me hate living here.

I don't kickstart much, but I kickstart this. I bought a pile of pins from this dude a couple years ago when I had Covid, and I think he hits the sweet spot for "iconic for Apple Nerds, just kind of neat for normal people." www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

Haaaank why are you doing such cool things all the time

Fascinating to watch the way I am eroding. Short temper. Forgetfulness. Making mistakes. Depression. Even less motivation than usual. New Achievement: This morning I accidentally took my nighttime meds again instead of my morning meds. Reward: Face tingling and increased pulse rate!

@momfriend64.northsky.social 4x3.fun not only is better than the NYT, but it's also better than the NYT

Neat how an antidepressant can just.. stop working after like 15 months. Neat how upping the dose immediately brings back the side effects just like the initial ramp up. (Here I am using "neat" as a synonym for "shitty.")

Explain your @ StereoVenom is an anagram of my name, simple. My regular s/n is Stave. Like 25 years ago on IRC, one of my friends typoed "Steve" as "Stave." I lol'd, called him an idiot, and typed `/nick Stave` to make fun of him. It was available, so I registered it. Apparently forever.

Got a local weatherlady to yell at me for complaining about the emergency alerts last night. But seriously, I don't need an "it hasn't stopped raining so the flood hasn't stopped flooding" alert every three hours. I know. I am aware. The first alert was sufficient. I can tell it's still raining.

Randomly browsing TikTok livestreams, I found someone doing riddles. I actually wound up ending the stream with this gem. One of my prouder moments on the internet.

I don't really think of myself as a wordsmith, despite being a published lyricist a few times. But I AM pretty proud of describing @jococruise.bsky.social as a place where "I revel in being surrounded by the joy of unrestrained diversity." (also proud to be quoted in their reels, lol)

The more I'm forced to use AI at work, the more I dread the inevitable consequences. It makes me not care about my code. Sure, the program works. But the code isn't going to be elegant, maintainable, readable, or any of the things that make code *good*. And nobody will notice until it's too late.

There's only one right answer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGzH...

I can't believe I have to say this, but if you take the number 600 and reduce it to 10, there is absolutely no way to call that a 600% reduction. It's a 98.34% reduction. 98.34% of 600 is 590. To say otherwise is to be a fucking idiot that doesn't know what he's talking about.

A neat relevant fact is that the "ting!" alert noise on an Apple watch is the sound an empty Apple watch casing being hit with a xylophone mallet.

1. Get the kids addicted to free ChatGPT, by letting it do their homework for them. 2. The kids become adults, who don't know how to think, and are addicted to ChatGPT. 3. Start charging for ChatGPT.

I know a "moon hoax" guy. I finally figured out why it bothers me so much. It's because when faced with something he doesn't understand, he'd rather deny its reality than try to understand it. And also, have you SEEN an NRHO path? Holy shit that's cool! How can you choose to pretend that's fake?!

I am known to love technology and embrace the future. I always want the latest gadgets and coolest toys. The latest OS update is older than what I run. I still fucking hate AI and refuse to use it or integrate it into my daily workflow. Stupid clankers.

Today's wheel of emotions: - Excitement: moon flyby - Disgust: genocidal tweets - Apathy: work meetings I can feel myself emotionally disengaging from the world, nothing makes sense anymore. It's too insane to be attached to. Shrinking my sphere even more, it's just me and my loved ones now.

Also: There was a Canadian bear, The poor thing completely lacked hair. With winters so cold, NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP Oh shit, Limerick Rolled.

Some poems are good, Some poems are not, Because they don't rhyme, The way that they... imply.

Don't get me wrong, I fucking hate Austin's 300 days of summer. But mornings like this also remind me how much I fucking hate being cold. Why couldn't I just be happy living where it's 73 and sunny every day? Why did I have to leave that?

I usually bend over backwards to avoid confrontation. I hate the feeling of adrenaline and the fear that I'm making things worse. I've been confronted entirely too much this week. I'm running out of fucks, and it's kind of liberating. Consequences might suck though. Gonna have to wait and see.

Hahaha nevermind, irritability is a side effect of Topamax. Guess I just have to actively try to be more chill.

I probably had a lot to do this weekend. I did not do it, I played a stupid video game for hours on end. I didn't do it last weekend. Drove to and from my newly dead grandma's apartment instead. Probably won't do it next weekend either. Maybe I don't have a lot to do after all.

I will never miss an opportunity to repost one of my favorite jokes.