Yikes !!
06.03.2026 19:24
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Yikes !!
A big black cat standing at the edge of my bed, with one paw up because he was doing that little prancing thing when cats want to knead something but they're standing
A big black cat walking along the edge of my bed with his ears back
A big black cat making a weird face too close to the camera to be in focus
This absolute criminal woke me up at 5am this morning because he wanted to cuddle. I thought maybe he wanted fed early, but no, he just wanted to snuggle up against me and use my face as his pillow
The slideshow was almost entirely pictures of your cats, by the way. But also one of Bean when I met him at the shelter!! And the shitty little rental car I had that was like driving a roller skate in the snow
Auto-generated photo slideshow thumbnails: a sweet little long-haired tabby looking up at me imploringly, followed by a himalayan cat looking judgmental and irate
My phone offered me this slideshow when I opened the photo app, and for a brief moment I thought "wait, did I save that new picture of Cookie?" but that's just her face. Also, nice contrast with Muffy
Oh christ, giving genetic testing results is one of the worst applications I can think of for a chatbot, too. "This result isn't just devastating for your own future health—it also may make you reconsider having children!"
Considering how many Amazon reviews are just AI garbage at this point, I guess I'm really just trying to see if anyone was pissed enough to come back and write "this thing can't even suck up cat litter." Online shopping 👍
After repeatedly searching "litter," Amazon AI says: "Based on your systematic approach to cat care, here are excellent litter options across different types and budgets:"
After repeatedly searching "litter," Amazon AI says: "Perfect! Since you actively care for at least one cat and have experience managing cat litter supplies, here are some excellent options organized by type and features:"
I think Rufus noticed my "systematic approach" to using the same search query over and over so I can be mad at it, and now it no longer tries to get the vacuum involved at all. "Perfect! Go look at cat litter, since you seem to be obsessed."
Amazon AI response to a search for "litter": "The Fanttik Slim V8 APEX Car Vacuum can handle small amounts of cat litter effectively with its 19,000Pa suction power. The pet brush attachment and flexible hose make it particularly useful for cleaning litter that's been tracked around your car or home. However, customers mention you'll need to empty the small dust bin frequently when cleaning larger messes. The HEPA filter captures 95.99% of particles, which helps with fine litter dust. Were you looking for cat litter products instead, or do you want to know more about this vacuum's effectiveness with litter cleanup?"
Another attempt from my phone finally yielded a response about the vacuum AND cat litter, but it's just regurgitated from the product info. The one reference to the customer reviews that I wanted to search didn't relate to cat litter
Another Rufus response to "litter" on a hand vacuum product page: "I can see you're currently looking at the Fanttik Slim V8 APEX Car Vacuum, which would actually be great for cleaning up cat litter spills around your litter box area!" followed by links to litter boxes
I tried to search the reviews again from my laptop, and the AI response briefly acknowledged my question (with another "actually" thrown in) before trying to direct me to cat litter boxes
Rufus AI response to a search for "litter" on an Amazon product page for a hand vacuum: The Fanttik Slim V8 APEX Car Vacuum isn't a cat litter product - it's actually a handheld vacuum cleaner designed for car interiors, keyboards, and small cleaning tasks. Given your interest in cat care and looking for "litter," you might have been searching for cat litter instead. Would you like me to show you some excellent cat litter options? I can recommend clumping, natural, or dust-free varieties based on your preferences.
User review results from the same search for "litter," which were displayed below the AI response, and didn't show up until I expanded them
Amazon's shared search field for AI help and customer reviews sure is convenient! I didn't fucking ask you, Rufus, so don't "WELL, ACTUALLY" me when there are four reviews that mention the word "litter." It even managed to sneak in the classic "it's not this—it's that" LLM structure
Waka waka waka waka
It was clearly just trying to save me from the irritation of sitting on hold forever. Our computer overlords are always looking out for us 🤗
One time I got so completely trapped in a loop of "no, I can definitely help you with that!" that I had to hang up and call back to start over. Usually it eventually recognizes my request as something it needs to transfer to a person, but I guess I said the wrong thing, and it really doubled down
Spending five minutes arguing with the pharmacy's automated voice menu that keeps insisting "okay, but I can probably help you with that!" instead of letting me talk to a real person
I remember marking that I was "neither satisfied nor dissatisfied" on Taco Bell surveys, because come on, it's fucking Taco Bell. Then I worked retail w/bullshit surveys, and I realized that the underpaid employees who gave me perfectly adequate service probably got hassled for a "bad" review :(
Sometimes they're secretly pass/fail, too, so on a scale from 1-5, anything below 5 is a zero. All the surveys really do is annoy the customer into giving management a reason to punish the employees
And then every site's like "we noticed that you're blocking our ads 🥺 we're just a little guy, it hurts us so much 🥺 won't you let us make our site unusable? pretty please 🥺"
"psychopharmacology is my passion," à la "graphic design is my passion," but instead it's drug interactions (including the one that can cause death) and a clip art pill
When the pharmacist calls you to make sure you understand that two of your medications could have a fatal interaction before they'll refill your prescription
GO ALL OUT!!
That was with a q-tip?? Good god, what do they make them out of these days. My late 2013 model macbook pro is just barely still chugging along, but when Bean knocked it off a dresser, it suffered no damage and dented the fucking floor instead
A big black cat possessively curled up inside a relatively large, shallow cardboard box
Don't you dare even THINK about recycling this box
A big black cat's face, blurry from being too close to the camera, with part of my foot in the background (wearing an orange and black striped sock with a black cat face on it)
A big black cat sniffing one of my Halloween socks
Blurry big black cat, standing in the way of my socks, again
Big black cat too close to the camera to even fit in the frame
I tried taking a picture of my black cat Halloween socks yesterday to send to a friend, but Bean was outraged that I wasn't paying attention to him instead
Waka waka waka waka
Is this the one where you were excited to find a green rock, and everyone yelled at you and told you it wasn't green
You were destined to meet again one day 💕
Also, the pre-anesthesia bloodwork found that his creatinine was high enough to be stage 2 kidney disease... switched to a special food, and it's back to normal now, thank god. He wasn't having symptoms yet, so I had no idea. Hopefully this will keep him healthy for a good long while
Bean had his teeth cleaned in June, and it turned out he had two back teeth that needed pulled due to resorption, which they could only tell once he was knocked out. So I'm glad I had it done for his sake. Plus, when he meows directly in my face, it no longer launches a little stench projectile
If you can swing it, I highly recommend it! Tooth resorption is surprisingly common, and painful, and just gets more painful over time. Muffy had several teeth that they could see needed to be pulled, and I really wish I'd prioritized that, since she was probably in pain all the time
Stumbled across a wolf version
