That I need a healthier hobby.

I tried a Budweiser once. Once was enough.

Other people’s opinions of you are based more on what’s in their heads than yours. Don’t worry about it. Say what you think.

Before I click that, what is Thoughtscreen.com?

Whose blood?

Whose blood, OP?

What do you think about what are your thoughts on AI?

And the author should be syphilitic and working in a drafty garret, at the very least.

You could, but I wouldn’t buy it. I want art that someone sweated, swore and agonised over.

They were WWII novels, so nothing scholarly.

I did. My point is that this productivity tool hurts your productivity until you tinker with it to make it less annoying.

Sighing (a lot) and reminding myself that every time the 29th rolls around I get a three-day weekend.

I’ve never been able to tell.

It was a dream about my actual last job.

At least in my work instance, by default it sends me an alert any time someone posts a reaction emoji in one of the dozen chat channels.

That could explain my dream about setting up a projector in a room with a poisonous atmosphere, where everyone except me has a space suit…

There’s a space station sim from 2001 that I still play because I love it so much: Startopia. I’d like Startopia 2 to be pretty much the same as the original (including graphics) but with higher-poly models and better scripting tools for modders.

For-profit social media, certainly. I don’t trust it anymore. Astroturfing, data-harvesting, I feel like they’re all made to fuck us over in some way.

As a bookish child, I made weekly trips to the library. To get to the kids section I had to pass the large print shelf, and there was one book that was always there: The Spitting Image. The gargoyle on the cover scared me! But when I finally looked him straight in the eye I found that he was trying to look furious, but came across as a little goofy. That’s the way I imagine myself, too.

Moments I have truly known I was alive:

• Using the restroom after chopping chillies but before washing my hands

• Hearing my boss say “Can I talk to you in my office…?”

• Seeing the jerk who swerved around me doing three times the speed limit get stopped by a cop

• Playing with a kitten I had just adopted

I’ve watched anti-Nazi TV, read anti-Nazi books and sung along to anti-Nazi songs. But I think my all-time favourite has to be Surf Nazis Must Die.