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It was a mistake to leave me unsupervised.

Ah false spring, with all its teasing hopes, has well & left. Perhaps we shall get a second preview this coming week?

A small bookshop called "March Hare" has put many books out in cardboard boxes, all marked with "$1.00" or "$5.00" labels. bunny passersby on the street flip through the books casually

Daily bunny no.3256 is looking through the paperbacks

Blessed is my brain that remembers the barebackrealtime handle of loathsome turd Andrew Sullivan (it’s “rawmuscleglutes” btw) before his proper name

Sometimes, brain work good

Almost nobody gets a “good deal”. I’ve been close enough to major label productions & seen how that factory can work (uncredited team of hungry young producers churning out ideas for someone with status to say “nope nope nope yup” & take all the acclaim [+$$] for it). You gotta choose your trap.

This is the truest freedom of being a Dayjob Guy. Your creative stuff can (& should!) be completely unfettered by concerns for market reception

At least neurodivergent dirtbags like me can still go drink cans of beer in the park! And the weather is warming, bit by bit

Interesting to behold the fact that cheaper options in urban life have been disappearing at ab increased rate simultaneous to overall reductions in pay and/or work opportunities. Almost like there’s something structural at work!

If one possesses egalitarian sympathies, it’s remarkable how simplifying a significant reduction in income becomes.

All those fancy places which rely on exploitation for their continued existence? No need to feel guilty over being tempted to patronize them: you’re too poor to do it!

painting of a seal doing astral projection on the beach

seal doing astral projection

Consumerist & tacky, maybe, but: making low-sugar high-protein ice creams with the ninja creamy blender is like, really good

(Which if you read the fuckin news is pretty much how a lot of people are rolling these days fuck me)

The notion that anyone lets these tools perform tasks unsupervised or even worse allows them unmediated access to mission critical functions (or sensitive data or accounts) is the equivalent of giving an 11 year old a mickey of rum & a shotgun & keys to a sports car

It really is iffy how much of this is just the indeterminate nature of the tool or if its underlying “dataset” or “logic” really is this goofy.

I mean…it “can” do things if & when you try enough. But I absolutely don’t “trust” that it’s doing these things properly let alone optimally

Using the robots to help make some (slow but significant) progress in doing some video graphics programming but holy moly is this a case of unreliable narration.

“To do this you’ll need to add two variables. Here is the list of the four variables that will do what I told you about.”

A shamrock shake

Hell yeah one upside to shrinkflation is there’s a $3 urine-sample sized milkshake for my annual sham shake fix

a black and white typography edit. there is white text that reads "don't want to see trans people? pluck out your eyes." in the middle of the design is a hand holding a scorpion by the tail. between the scorpion's claws is a human eyeball. the entire image is edited to look photocopied.

one of my most popular designs

I hate that the internet has so poisoned my brain that I looked at my bag of psyllium husk branded “fibremax” & was genuinely surprised that it was spelled with only one terminal “x” #fibremaxxing

Purposefully misspelling goniometer as gooniometer: “is this anything?”

Gonna try leg curls & extensions before squats today bc in reality the way im built all squats are basically lumbar limited anyways so why not try to pre-exhaust the other motor units?

(Will check in in a few hours to see just how stupid this notion may turn out)

It is a beautiful day out. I will try to read less news (this is my sanity mantra)

Oh shit it’s like warm enough to grill 😎

Illustration of a deliberately crudely drawn kaiju incinerating a city with its breath attack. Text around the edge reads “don’t forget to breathe”

Don’t forget to breathe (nuclear fire upon your enemies).
#art #kaiju #inspirational

Ahhh someone I hooked with in a different city & declined to exchange numbers (“let’s keep it to the apps”) but turns out to live here messaged me back months later

On the one hand - I’m flattered

On the other - shouldn’t I feel more insulted?

…

They are pretty hot tho 🙃

“Intellectual” life is so much easier to parse once you understand that rich people love to collect pet “thinkers” who have some patina of charm or thoughtfulness but whose sole real function is to flatter existing hierarchies. That’s literally it. It explains the various kinds of repulsive toadies.

Wall mural featuring anthropomorphic figures as well as a dapper-looking frog in a top hat

I did see an anthropomorphic mural tho

Went to Geary Art Crawl. Basically a few vendors & a small beer garden. Nice to see people out but…not a ton of art. You can tell there used to be funding & now, not so much

Ah - the first “nice” sunny day in Toronto. I figure we got maybe two weeks before we need to turn the AC on 😅

I can remember when search engines worked. I am that old. Now? Now, you need to Find Someone Who Knows about the thing you’re searching for. The owners of the platforms which essentially comprise utility functions in our daily lives have made us all stupider & slower. For shame.

These world-historical barbarians, these utter philistines, took the fucking library of Alexandria & turned it into a stupid fucking mall so they could squeeze money out of it. Such idiotic destruction, such waste. I can only shake my head