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• Post #4370147

  My partner has never travelled anywhere that would induce jetlag. And I've been the sage seasoned traveller that reminds her that jetlag is bad actually I forgot that she used to be a sound engineer and could flip her sleep schedule at will. She's gonna be fine and I'm so jealous

• Post #4295739

  Hank Green has written a statement about his LLM usage - and there's an interesting thing hidden in there about the addictiveness of LLMs? A lot has been said about LLMs giving incompetent people the feeling of competence But I think there's also something about what it does to competent, or at least previously competent people. People who've needed to moved into more management/coordination positions suddenly getting the dopamine rush of being a do-er and maker again And I'm...

• Post #4062313

  Decided to re-watch all of Kunihiko Ikuhara's work back to back My mental health is doing great - why do you ask?

• Post #3956112

  RE: https://mastodon.sprawl.club/@ludicity/116939432745772414 This is all so true and leaves me wondering how I exist in all of this

• Post #3851826

  I'll be caring for my partner in Brazil as she recovers from surgery for the next 2 months and I'm trying to figure out what knitting projects I should take with me I'm currently working on a double knitted scarf for someone else but I don't want to take it because a) It's bulky b) It's nearly finished c) It's for someone else who paid for materials d) It's on 2mm needles that get bent if I look at them wrong e) I've put enough effort into it that I will cry...

• Post #3851379

  I officially have enough knitting paraphenalia that I need a better storage solution than "that drawer with all of my knitting shit in it" I think it's been About three years since @lookitmychicken@blorbo.social taught me to knit so when I hyperfocus I really hyperfocus Now to find a storage solution that doesn't annoy me

• Post #3732308

  I should really vacuum but my cat is sleep purring on my feet so maybe I just live in filth forever

• Post #3639389

  I do not like the cold

• Post #3487036

  I've read all of the Dorohedoro manga and in watching season 2 I realise I remember almost none of it

• Post #3159704

  Jesse: What are you listening to? Me: I'm trying to make a playlist of crisp and melancholy songs for a playlist - but I think this song is too distorted Jesse: For what? Me: For me? Jesse: But for like an event? Me: No - for me. Because I specifically want a playlist of crisp but melancholy songs Sometimes our brains work in very different ways

• Post #3145945

  Evergreen https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-to-be-such-losers

• Post #3145943

  I wanna have another go at learning mandarin One thing I really struggled with was saying tones. My flat affect is so much more pronounced than I think it is - when I record myself and listen back I'm not making the sounds I think I am

• Post #3145942

  A cool fun thing about needing to sell my labour under capitalism is that the stress and alienation gave me an autoimmune disease that makes me worse at the labour I sell which in turn causes stress about food and shelter which makes the autoimmune disease worse

• Post #3145941

  I try not to be a grumpy old fart but improvements in lighting technology over my lifetime mean that nearly every live music show has a high chance of having migraine triggering lighting

• Post #3088652

  @pat@hachyderm.io I just wish I there was an avenue for me to do something that felt vaguely useful for the next few years and using AI feels like soul rot which is as far from useful as it gets

• Post #3087644

  “But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.” - Charles Darwin is timelessly relatable