In random order, of course:
- Only six months until Christmas!
- R.E.M.’s song “I’ll Take the Rain” is lyrically bland and the music is a weird mix of synth strings and other stuff, yet I can’t bring myself to skip the song when it comes up on shuffle play.
- I don’t remember the last time the grass was so green at the end of June.
- I don’t trust authority. Neither should you.
- Facebook, as bad as it was, is even more awful now. I don’t know how any reasonable person can use it, or would even want to use it. “Inertia is a hell of a drug” may not be catchy, but it might be accurate.
- I am inordinately pleased any time I draw a long, curving line and nail it on the first try.
- I wish I could swim better, but I seriously doubt I will ever try lessons again.
- It delights me to see the EU and other countries kick giant tech companies in the junk.
- Posting on any kind of social media is apparently something I just don’t care about anymore, even on sites that have no ads, no algorithm and you control the experience, like Mastodon.
- I can never remember how to spell “algorithm”.
- I should post more.
- Cats are funny people.
- It would be nice to spend one day in the pre-internet past, I think. Maybe two days. I like the internet, but, you know.
- The AI hype bubble may burst before the end of the year.
- Getting sick still sucks, but appreciating how great it feels to not be sick after is nice (but not worth getting sick in the first place).
Here’s a random GIF I found in my blog’s media library:
