I seem to have medicated/slept it into reasonable docility. But the cough lingers.

Hopefully more Lord of the Rings than The Hobbit.

Having determined it’s not gonna get me with the flu or Covid, because I got my shots in time, the universe has decided to take me out with “just“ a nasty cold. 🤧 My bedside is a wasteland of tea mugs, vitamin C drops and tissues. 0/10 do not recommend except for masochists.

On one hand, I am delighted to see a movie adaption of Ramayana, if only because it’s gonna piss the hell out of white supremacists, but also because it will be absolutely gorgeous. On the other hand, there’s no way they’re gonna do it right in two hours.

Dear Tech companies, Here’s an idea. How about you let us decide if we want AI on our technology. If we do, great. You made the right call. If we don’t? That’s the free market. Deal with it. With reserved affection, The rest of the world.

She doesn’t pull significantly. She just slips out of collars.

Yeah, fosters are always double clipped. Bean will just stand there and let me reattach the collar but I’d prefer it not happen again…

Dog folk! Give me your best recommendation for a collar/harness a twisty dog can’t slip out of! (This is a dog that ducked out of a slip chain, I’m looking for serious help. )

Well, some of them are still blaming Obama…

The popularity of Andor undercuts your theory.

Any and all "'AI'-detection services" are scams. They are just another way for the desperate, greedy companies behind the slop machines to *feed more stuff into their slopmakers*. They are not useful, accurate, or cost-effective. Just cut it out. Stop being taken in by the slop grifters. Jeez.

Inflation picked up in September after three months of relative stagnation. Overall, prices were up 3.7% from a year earlier and 0.6% from August. Driven, according to sources, by gas and diesel prices. I’m sure somehow that’s Biden’s fault.

And Anakin/Vader fell from rage driven by a fear of losing love (mother, wife..even teacher), not from a desire to be the Big Bad. His story was tragic, Ren’s story was annoying.

This new Press Secretary is going to make these briefings so useless being banned from them will be irrelevant

And I’m home, “only” 3.5 hours late. Blessings on my pet care team, who stepped up and made sure everyone was fed. I’m really gonna miss being a wfh freelancer when the alarm goes off in six hours, tho.

Honestly if Dems ran on a platform of "We Will Make Republican Crimes Have Actual Consequences" they'd win in a landslide

“…practices which had been long abandoned… public executions, torture to extract confessions…and the deportation of whole populations—not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.” - 1984, George Orwell