I work for a big corp that already ignores their own regulations :) I’ll start opening products, pissing in them, and putting them back on the shelf. It won’t help anything but I’ll personally enjoy it

George W. Bush’s presidency. I don’t know what the kids are smoking when they say current republicans make him look “classy” or that Trump’s first term was worse than his. He bred a constant state of paranoia and xenophobia and used it to justify killing countless people in the middle east. The damage done to that part of the world is staggering and everyone just treats it like background noise.

Also that decade post-SpongeBob where every kid’s cartoon was about a loud, annoying, dumb guy.

Tired. Worked ten and a half hours yesterday. Went to bed early but my ankles are still feeling it.

If I can peel myself off the couch in the next ten minutes I’m gonna get an hour of pec exercises in before work. That’s a big if though, because my cat is asleep beside me right now and she’s soooo cute.

Yeah, I really wanted to get rid of the smartphone because I waste so much time on it. I made a list of all the things I use it for and possible alternatives, and it was mostly doable, but I just can’t give up Discord. Got friends and family without cell service, especially the younger ones, and Discord is how they text.

Part of me is relieved because tracking my gym progress with pen and paper sounded like a pain. I’m always missing at least one item from my gym bag on a given day :P adding two more to rely on is a bad idea.

But still, the luddite life is so alluring…maybe someday I’ll be free of this magic rectangle that makes me sad.

I went through a terrible in-between phase where I first went from drawing cartoony people to trying to draw more realistic ones. Never had an art class or anything, pretty sure I have aphantasia too, so I was just raw dogging it until I learned how to use refs. I specifically remember constantly attaching the thumb at a weird angle and wondering why my characters looked like they had crab claws.

That or some niche porn because I started thinking too hard about how my interspecies characters would have sex. Most of my characters aren’t even attractive to me but that didn’t keep me from drawing them doing shit to each other’s junk.

Also My Little Pony crossover fan art but it was just characters facing left on a white background.

It’s not even universally true in red states, unless you want to believe I’m the Super Special Exception. I was thinking of my own failed attempts to reach out recently and got bitter and started saying shit.

Every time I get to know my neighbors, things are going well and then they suddenly drop something wildly transphobic, homophobic, or ableist. The last one was especially horrifying back when people were still talking about COVID— “but it only affects old/disabled people!”— pretty much saying to your face that they’re cool if you die.

Relying on other people in a survival scenario seems incredibly irresponsible. It’s America. Your neighbors want you dead.

ETA yknow what this is cynical and unproductive. Just do your best to protect yourself but if you belong to a vulnerable group you already know that. People aren’t inherently evil and I need to log off when I’m upset.

True, I just assumed that reflection was required in order to give the AI the prompt, and the AI was mainly used to format it correctly. I might be talking out of my ass here since I haven’t used it extensively.

I mean good moments are just things like “romantic moment with someone who ghosted me a year later”, or “meeting a baby relative who I see three times a year”. Don’t get me wrong, they’re lovely and important moments, but there aren’t moments so good they change a person’s day-to-day life.

But bad moments obviously impact your life every day. You can’t walk correctly anymore. Someone you love is dead. You botched an opportunity so you’ll never escape poverty. Et cetera. Those moments obviously have a bigger impact because every single moment afterwards is determined by them.

I’d travel more. I could never afford to leave the country of course but I’d like to see neighboring states or even just see more places in my own state. I want to know what it’s like to exist in the world before it’s gone.

I wish I knew. People keep telling me to “organize” and “strike”. Like yeah a Walmart full of 60yo conservative white people is going to strike over this, fucking idiot.

Wayyyyy too many variables. Are we talking weed or meth? Sexual assault by an adult, or by an abused child repeating behaviors? Is the DUI just barely over the legal limit or is it egregious? Is the theft a colonizer stealing land or a beggar stealing bread?

I can’t with moral absolutism.

Mixed feelings. I decided not to study graphic design because I saw the writing on the wall, so I’m a little salty. I think they can be really useful for cutting back on menial tasks though. For example, I don’t see why people bitch about someone using AI for their cover letter as long as they proofread it afterwards. That seems like the kind of thing you’d want to automate, unlike art and human interaction.

I think right now I just kind of hate AI because of capitalism. Tech companies are trying to make it sound like they can do so many things they really can’t, and people are falling for it.

My beloved teaspoon… When I’m too lazy to fish the tablespoon out of my coffee tin and clean it… three teaspoons

I would truly starve to death if I didn’t have a teaspoon

I have less money and customers are meaner, I guess? That’s how literally every new development affects every working class person

I’d want to pirate every drawing program I never got a chance to try, plus the fancier writing software. Gonna have a lot of time to learn both.

I’ve seen shockingly few movies and TV shows so maybe all the media I can get my hands on, too.

If you can, try to get to bed an hour earlier tonight. I do that when I lose track of my sleep schedule.

Good idea, thanks! Especially about the collar, I bought hers back before I even considered leash training, so it’s not the most visible. It’d be helpful to have something reflective if she ever got away from me

My cat is getting more adventurous on the leash, which is good news for her but bad news for me. She’ll only go on walks at night, and she wants to lurk around outside everyone’s windows and make me look like a total creep. I’m not trespassing, we never leave the apartment grounds, but it’s dark, my clothes are black, and my cat is black, so I’m worried if I hover too close to the building someone’s just gonna see a silhouette outside their window and get freaked out.

We also switched to a new antacid and she absolutely hates me for it, but she hasn’t thrown up this week :)

Not really. I find when people are jealous they either try to cut you down in subtle ways, or they self deprecate and guilt trip just because you happen to have something going right for you.

I’d like to be admirable, I think. I’d prefer to rub off on people in a positive way than a negative one.