your weird aunt

I've been rewatching the first season of Last Week Tonight and the news then is EXACTLY the same as the news now: drone strikes in the Middle East, immigrant kids in detention camps, broken ceasefires in Gaza, everyone pinning their hopes on the mid-term elections, media consolidation, etc etc etc

Okay, I took a break to make a sampler of letters. Pick your fav! Or don't. It's a free country (for now)

For me, the best part about not working at the Georgia Straight is no more commenters threatening to rape and kill me daily for the crime being an outspoken woman

It was never the rules-based international order that wouldn't allow us to kidnap leaders, invade other countries, or bomb the everloving god out of poor countries

It was that we agreed not to, because it led to very bad outcomes. And we created the rules to reflect this

The rules are not your mum

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

The worst part of my most recent doctor's visit was being handed forms to sign that would allow AI use re: my medical records, which I absolutely refused. But then I had both the receptionist & doctor try to justify how they were using AI & it was all "safe"

Yeah, no.

The forms went unsigned

Nope, apparently by "nap", I meant four-hour complete crash

They stole my blood and now I need I nap

*And by "they", I mean the nurse at the hospital and by "stole", I mean I willingly allowed her to take it for testing and by "nap", I mean nap

#naptime

Just keep knitting, just keep knitting

#knitting #justkeepknitting #diy

Controversial morning opinions:

1. Listening to an audiobook is not the same as reading a book. These things require different muscles

2. I'm fine with Vancouver cancelling Car-Free Day because Covid is STILL A THING & MAYBE STOP GOING TO SUPER SPREADER EVENTS ALREADY

3. Cancel fireworks too

Ugh, I feel even worse about this decision this morning and the NDP will absolutely never get my vote again. What an absolute dogshit decision

Also my grandfather died but somehow the Daylight Savings thing felt much more pressing to mention

The elimination of Daylight Savings Time by permanently pushing time forward is such a mistake & I'll be laughing at everyone in December when it doesn't get light until 9 a.m. while I'll be out here in the woods on Standard Time forever

Please remember to adjust your clock accordingly if visiting

So, just for my own edification, the precident to take out a country's leader *has* been set, yeah?

Lately I have only been watching every episode of The Big Fat Quiz of the Year in order and I have so many opinions

Like, who tf is David Walliams and why is he like that? See also James Corden; fuck the UK for exporting him. What an annoying little man

Coming to a craft market nowhere near you: just this phrase repeated and repeated as far as the eye can see

You're right. My father never had a good day, they were all nightmares 😆

Apparently I am doing it again

The reason Mamdani gets whatever he wants from Trump is simply that it is really easy to flatter and manipulate old men

Some of you were not raised by a father from the Silent Generation and it shows

a man in a police uniform and tie is making a funny face and saying vindication !!! . ALT: a man in a police uniform and tie is making a funny face and saying vindication !!! .

So I went to the neurologist today and it turns out my brain *isn't* hooked up right after all

Every time I read a story about Kash Patel, the thought that goes through my mind is "J. Edgar Hoover would never"

Which is false—Hoover absolutely would be doing everything Patel is doing and more

If I had access to a tax-payer funded fuck jet, I would too

This is my whole career actually :

For sure. Writing about yesterday is historical fiction

Did someone mention a blizzard?

#blizzard #winter #snowstuff

Grateful Dead - Man Smart Woman Smarter (Live at Cardinal; Louisville, KY 07/06/90) [Official Video] YouTube video by Grateful Dead

I ran this exchange by Rin and was sent this in return

youtu.be/wROEH_WvocY?...

If men didn't want me to be mean to them, they wouldn't dress the way they do

Y'all, DJT isn't gonna bomb Iran until he gets his period so who has the presidential menstrual calendar? It's probably gold-plated and owned by Russia

I forgot that every LLM's logo was a butthole

A cross stitch of the phrase "Because fuck you that's why" in red thread, ending with a yellow heart.

Apparently this phrase is the only thing I know how to cross stitch

Ugh, I forgot I read this piece of shit, forgot it so hard, piece of shit

Still, I finished it, which is more than I can say for The Goldfinch