gosh look at that precious adorable face.... It is such a nice feeling to be loved and trusted enough by a cat that he feels comfy falling asleep on you

Translation appreciated! As an ex-californian, I got tense, upset, and bewildered, but not incandescently angry. Like, maybe I was feeling the anger peeking thru at the end mostly, but it didn't hit as 🔥 FURIOUS. I hope their soft-spoken rage at what's become of the USA reaches ppl's hearts.

I feel this so much as someone currently curating a space for my friends to play ttrpgs in that I am hoping to structure in ways that mean I can find ways to meet ppl where they are at game-wise that are fun for me too and also maybe not get burnt out in the Forever DM Zone. (Wish me luck, lmao!)

This sorta thing is intriguing to me and I am kinda trying to explore systems anyway! But, yeah, it SO depends on whether you can get a group together that are on kinda the same wavelength, and, most importantly, can communicate and problem-solve together!

cream soda is the superior vanilla soda to be sure! altho I like vanilla coke more than reg coke enough that i used to add vanilla extract to coke if I was going to drink a coke at home. i tried the vanilla sprite too and i don't know what I was hoping for but it was just bland...?

Dungeon Master was baby's first computer rpg. I was obsessed with watching my dad play it and I'd go back to it even after we finally got a Windows PC lmao. Sad to hear of Darrow's passing but glad to know I'm not alone in being fond of this old box art!

Also! Libraries are more than books. There's a wide range of services and programs available thru the library that can really help folks. Using the library's offerings is good. They can show user and attendee numbers to their board to get more funding (where more $ is available). Easy activism!

If I got a prompt I said no. I was still seeing a "want a chatbot summary?" option in a menu I use a lot and no obvious place in settings to make that disappear. The config made that go away. That is what I meant by trimming. If it took out some stuff I didn't notice anyway, that's okay.

I don't need any of the AI features being offered and being able to trim them out of menus and stop having them show up obtrusively is really all I care about. I like modifying my stuff to hide features I don't use or enhance my experience.

While slowly dying at library made friends on a now-defunct pet site. Eventually got hired to draw for them after my burnout. This reminded me how much I love drawing for people and sparked my confidence to start looking for more art work. And here I am hoping I can keep going down this path!

in fiction at least an ex-baddie might put some effort in to make a real change and offer a sincere apology whereas in reality we get a lot less of that and a lot more "oh they agree w/ us on 1 point! they're team good now!" which is just. no. that's not an ally. that's a disgruntled minion.

Trying to fit my art style into this list is also giving me a little bit of a meltdown. These are all so vague.... Not...that I have a really great term I'd use to describe my art anyway. -stares into space for a minute- welp! that's a problem for future me!

It's such bad journalism (and science)! Drinking too much water can also kill you. It's almost like things ingested in moderation are fine and doing too much of any one thing might be bad for you. But instead it's always "if 10 🍔/day made me feel ill, then eating an 🍔 is always 1 step closer to 🪦!"

I was talking about this w/ a friend the other day. 2 guys in a show that I "ship" but not in a "they are fucking" way. In that I want explore the way their lives are entangled in weird ways and profound bond between them that has nothing to do with their sex lives. Sex won't improve this for me!

I think this just begs the question of what the courtship behaviors of cardboard boxes would be. I have so many questions about the lifecycle of the box now!

I finally managed to go to a con like literally the year before COVID hit and it was amazing! And I live closer to a cool con than I ever have before now and I still have not been to another con and I don't know that I will ever feel safe doing so again and I am SO mad about it!