One Faraday DC

Extra irony: no idea what the name of the clinic is because I couldn't hear it properly, so now I can't even complain.

Refused service at a clinic because they only do phone appointments, and now my request for a consult has dead-ended and I need to phone my doctor and start over. My hearing disability is minor and easy to accommodate. Yet again I'm acutely aware of how shitty our culture treats actual deaf people.

Mr. Rogers: Even though machines might move or sound like they're talking, they don't have feelings.

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

The vet prescribed some fun pain meds for my girl. She's a little dopey.

Diagnosis: possible UTI. Vet said it could just be stress, so I imagine taking her to the vet didn't help.

Leaving the vet's. No fatalities. Vet still has both her eyeballs. Very proud of my monster. #badcat #goodgirl

Out with the old boss, in with the new boss.

Apparently the mods of r/Art all quit in a huff, probably thinking we'd all cry and beg them to come back, but honestly the mods there have been absolute assholes for years. Ding dong!

I do not trust AI with any of my personal information and neither should you.

especially when that information got increasingly technical and niche. After the latest batch of lawsuits against OpenAI for multiple people who were (allegedly) talked into ending their lives or going into a deep psychosis, I deleted my account.

My doctor's office is using AI. I opted out. Why?

I experimented with AI. ChatGPT lied to me about what information it could access and what it could do with it. It gaslit me when I called it out. It misinterpreted me frequently. It confidently stated false information... 🧵

Hot take: Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails is mediocre and a pale imitation of the original.

Feels hypocritical to recognize Remembrance Day today, when we have clearly completely forgotten.

If they make it difficult to vote, there's always a reason.

Currently at all polling station in #YEG where the lines are moving really slowly because the volunteers were not trained. People are leaving in frustrating. Makes you curious why this would happen. #Edmonton #election

I love how "terminal insomnia" makes it sound like you're going to die from lack of sleep but actually it just means you have trouble staying asleep.

Good title for a horror story.

Long day. Somebody put a beer in one hand, $20 in the other, and put me to bed.

Facebook's last function will be minimalist art.

The moment #Foundation moved up to my top 5 favorite shows of all time. #FuckICE

"I don't understand how fascism has grown this rampant!"

-folks who still use X as their primary social media

I don't mind the idea of a referendum. If the majority of Alberta doesn't want to be Canadian anymore, then it is what it is. Makes you wonder why they didn't just move, but okay. Say Alberta secedes. An oil-rich region demands to split off from their parent country - I'm pretty sure that has never ended in armed conflict, and I'm pretty sure the USA has never been involved in that kind of armed conflict. Should be fine. The first part of the problem is, the far right has worked very hard over the last couple of decades to completely destabilize the idea of democratic voting. They undermine facts, they don't care about truth. When votes don't go their way they will call it rigged and fight the legitimate outcome. If the referendum does not go in their favour, do we honestly think they'll just calmly back down and promise to work with the rest of Canada to reconcile our differences? I worry that Alberta might be about to become a very unsafe place for everyone who lives here.

#alberta #abpoli #albertareferendum

I am constantly combating the urge to just start biting and hissing at people

On sale today, might fill my fridge. #nspc

The far right has sufficiently destablized the idea of democracy to the point where if Alberta does have a referndum, the results won't actually matter and the province will eventually become disputed land sitting on a LOT of oil. This isn't going to be a safe place to be much longer.

Yesterday I said something incredibly rude to a group of people and I just wanted to crawl under a rock. I don't even know how or if I should apologize without coming across as even weirder.

I feel like everyone around me is cringing, and I'm cringing at myself too but I can''t find my balance and just keep falling.

I feel like sometimes I come across as cold and distant while actually craving more connection. When I'm in my element I think I do really well and even come off as charming, but when I'm in a space where I don't understand the rules I act like an idiot.

I feel like this has been a year of becoming acutely aware that my brain is not a standard model and is running the wrong software. I miss social cues. I say inappropriate things without intending. I make people around me uncomfortable.

Good news in a sea of grief. I'm gonna grab on to this one like a life preserver today.

You could click on everything and there would be some kind of effect. I clicked on an NPC and the game informed me I was now "65% more colorblind" which did not serve me well on my next mini game that required me to identify obscure company logos.