Pirate Jenny

Absofuckinglutely

These people are such careless, ridiculous idiots. They value appearance over everything else & then they pull this kind of shit & hope that the fog of their narcissism means that ppl won't notice.

And when ppl notice, these guys make excuses. Still waiting on the reasons for those big-ass shoes.

I mean, E.L. Doctorow in Ragtime wrote something like that

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

There are many things worth more than millions of dollars. Like the land that's been in your family forever.

In the parking garage at work, there is a Cybertruck with the license plate CYBERTRUC, and I just....

🫠

I mean. Honestly. The state that the exterior of my car is in. I am driving a hovel on wheels.

Six years ago WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Despite tens of millions of deaths, the world has not sufficiently addressed the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, and we are more vulnerable to future pandemics due to anti-science officials leading government agencies around the world.

He's up to about 40 feet in the air?

I have been priced out to Staten Island but I will never leave this gorgeous city, I love it so much, I am hanging on by my fingernails and I am grateful

Just thinking again how the NYT ran a metro piece about the mayor being besieged by bombs & their takeaway was that his response was concerningly limp, a point that they did not make convincingly & which was contradicted by his real life response. And it's because he didn't sell out Muslims.

No, someone did NOT write "leave it in tacked" on a park website *dies*

🙃

Sorry, extrapolating.

This notion that it's somehow magical and perpetually on the verge of real consciousness needs to be killed with fire.

I loaded up one of my own drafts into Grammarly, and once again clicked the “expert review” button. As before, Grammarly seemed to be looking for “inspiration” from the experts who would be certain to hate this feature the most. There were tips from a phony Timnit Gebru, the prominent AI ethicist who is among the world’s most vocal critics of how AI has been developed and deployed; and from Julia Angwin, the New York Times opinion writer who has overseen numerous investigations into how tech systems degrade privacy. I had hoped to find myself among the suggested reviewers, but in my tests today Grammarly spared me that indignity. You can’t choose a specific reviewer in the product; instead, you can refine your suggestions by clicking automatically generated topic tags. Once when I did this, Grammarly offered to show me hallucinated experts in “media ethics,” and the force of the irony was sufficient that I had to briefly lay down.

100% the inclusion of @timnitgebru.bsky.social in Grammarly's fake "expert review" feature was a bit of slimy, acidic trolling from some juvenile AI dudebro. Just unbelievably nasty

Reminds me how Altman picked Miyazaki's aesthetic for a viral trend as revenge

www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

Whenever I fucking feel like it, basically

I don't have a fancy camera, but if I get to meet him, I'll post my iPhone pics

I like big birds and I cannot lie

I MUST GO AND MEET THIS BIRD

I met the Mandarin duck, I can meet this guy. I missed Flaco & Pale Male, and I'm perpetually kicking myself that I missed the wood crane on Staten Island because I fucking live here & it was just a car ride away.

The East River is a logistical challenge BUT I WILL GO.

Still crazy that the president’s lawyer spent two days with Ghislaine Maxwell, she “cleared” him of wrongdoing and was almost immediately transferred to a more pleasant prison and nobody in the administration will explain it and the media acts like two large dots are just impossible to connect.

Lasagna in the oven. Also cooking some mince, and then roasting asparagus. And then...oh, lord, the crudite tray for the week. RIP my refrigerator space.

The UK is a small island, only so many ppl on it

Ralph Fiennes

"Yeah man, times were so good for farmers back then they wrote books about it!"

Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet

they give black history month the shortest month of the year and steal a hour of precious sleep on women's day. People, we are at war

Happy International Women’s 23 Hours.

Get used to earning less than your male counterparts, sweetheart. Now smile dammit, you are so much prettier when you smile.

I think about this a lot. If I was drowning, you wouldn't call it a respiratory illness, so why is it a mental illness when I'm in a situation beyond what my psyche can handle?

in my tech career, at the trenches level, almost all the damage control and clean up after the boys get through breaking stuff was done by competent women, from code clean up to new architecture of failing projects. but i knew this was the exception, and not the rule. sigh.