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Nerdery, art, rambling. Just a gsrden-variety weirdo trying to person in this messy reality.
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I saw an anteater skull today and I never really thought about that snoot being incorporated into the skull. Always kind of pictured them as being like elephant trunks or something.

Went to the Santa Ana Zoo today. I appreciate that the animals can be off exhibit if they want, but I wish more of them felt my Cool Quiet Observer Animal Friend vibes and popped out to say hi. Also I am interested to see how the new construction turns out. Enjoy a giant anteater.

Time for some sub par photos of birds from my lunch break. It's a good day for it. #birding

'Why is this shirt so scatchy at the neckline? Why is it sitting so strangely on me? It's not like I put it on backwards." Yes. Yes it is. That is exactly what happened. Not for the first time, and definitely not the last, but somehownit takes me 3-6 business days to figure it out each time.

I don't go anywhere without it

How do I connect on this platform? This is the closest to screaming into the void. Then I don't post and make it worse, so it's a loop of yuck

It's International Asexuality Day. Is there a cake to celebrate?

@sapientpearwood.bsky.social hope you have a marvelous birthday!

I know I'm mishearing the lyrics of Elton John's "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)" but I do like my version: "Don't give us none of you aggravation And hide away your Death Star plans!"

I want to scream. "He's old, you can't expect miracles." I can expect him to go in for a routine procedure and come out healthier because that is the entire point. I can expect a consistent set of instructions as all of the medical professionals are on one page.

IMPORTANT QUESTION: What is your favorite #dinosaur (or dinosaurs)? 🦕🦖 I'll go first; one of my favorites is kentrosaurus

The trick where people are adding in swear words to searches to bypass AI drivel from Google does work, but it's inevitably going to result in someone using it at work and pulling up some extremely NSFW results and I can't wait to laugh at that story when it happens.

I've started to see Pern stuff on my internets again and I'm really excited.

This is the gif du jour for me and my team today. By our powers combined, we might have one collective good night's sleep between us.

There is no reason for me to be this tired. I feel like sleeping for a week

little pieces of language are ours slogans, taglines, chants, flyers, memes, stickers, posters, zines

Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.

WHOOPS My hand slipped and I made more Darby O'Gill #valentinescards

Here, I made this nice thing. This is the V-day equivalent of cosplaying a character nobody asked for. Have King Brian Connors from Darby O'Gill and the Little People. Enjoy

Finally managed to get the step counter to stop at exactly 7,777. No good reason, just for fun. Maybe an ancient @dndpodcast.bsky.social reference rising up from the depths of my brain cause this

My back and my knee are competing to see which can cause me the most trouble on top of everything else going on for me. Amazing

I do not enjoy the holiday that comes tomorrow.

Well, Holly has a late bifht vet appointment. I get to go out in the pouring rain with a distressed cat and hope they can help her feel better.

It's SNA, not JWA. Stop with the confusing nonsense, airport.

My cat has been very upset about all the things going on in her world. People visiting, furniture moved, routines changed, one member of the household gone for a week and returning with strange contraptions to help him walk. Poor baby. Tomorrow will be better but I wish I could explain it to her.

Don't want to bother anyone in particular but the depression has claws and fangs tonight

The red-shouldered hawk that lives by my place was big mad today. Maybe the emails tried to find her well.

I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance. Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.

Can't get the setup to play nice so going to work with minimal bells and whistles today

This week has been a roller coaster but at least someone told me about FathomVerse

Been stressy all day. There is just so much everything at one time

Is there specific etiquette for leaving books at a Little Free Library? Like obviously the one by the preschool doesn't get spicy romances, but othet than that kind of thing, are there unspoken rules?

Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.

PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Since CDC websites and datasets are being taken down by the Administration… The ENTIRE archive of ALL CDC datasets uploaded BEFORE January 28th, 2025 can be found here: archive.org/details/2025...

I've been on a Fraggle Rock kick lately (always). I finished this yesterday, after putting in far too much time on it. Couldn't decide if Philo and Gunge needed to be chatting to someone, so added in Phena in her Fraggle AU form in one. Enjoy. #fragglerock

I've been keeping up with my little walking workouts this month, but tonight the old back pain showed up to haunt me. I'm very close to meeting the daily goal, but it's much harder as my instinct tells me to twist around like a geriatric dinosaur to help relieve the pain. I refuse to let it win

Cleaning up a doom pile and found this very important thing. Now I have #PinkPonyClub stuck in my head.

The Horrors are taking hold of my mind tonight, sheesh

Someone sent me an email that was very clearly jazzed up with AI. I already didn't appreciate the content but the tone was racheted up from the normal irritating one to overbearing and demanding with false-polite "professionalism." So that's a new and annoying thing in my inbox on a daily basis

In the work chat, my team repeats typos as a form of teasing. But there has never been a time when I didn't mean "birb" when I wrote "birb." Had to pull out the Audubon article explaining when a bird is a birb. They needed to know about this wonderful colloquial term. search.app/sfmMcSEBkckC...

You know when you have a ziplock that isn't quite aligned right so you keep having to snap and pop bits together? My back is doing a very skilled impression of this today

I saw a motorized unicycle the other day and I haven't stopped thinking about it