Oof. Morpheus in 1999 talking about how Ai brought about the downfall of humanity in the early part of the 21st century.

Here's to all the kids who were born with non-default settings; to all you who put the effort in to figure yourselves out.

You're amazing and deserve to be celebrated.

I'm glad you're here 💝

#ComicsWithoutContext

Regular reminder that just because funding was cut by the government, PBS is still here. You can donate $5 or more and get access to a ton of their stuff on streaming too, including lots of local shows. It's a good deal.

https://www.pbs.org/explore/passport/

Same with NPR. The funding cut sucks but I can still listen to my local Detroit NPR's music shows

You know what WON’T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz?

Sunlight and solar panels.

#MakeOilHistory #iran

Forced to use AI at work, hate it. Usage is monitored so I can't avoid it. I've set up mine to play a Sim City clone. It burns through tokens, making crap cities that quickly go bankrupt. Just been told that I'm getting a bonus for being a top user.

#3GoodThings

1. Pouring a glass of Dalmore 12 sherry cask-aged scotch, then
2. Popping on my Pandora Classic Rock station, then
3. Playing some Stardew Valley

TL:DR Encouragement for newer Mastodon users and explanation of my personal follow logic.

Folks who follow me here. I get quite a few followers and I don't always notice or follow back immediately because there's a lot of noise in my mentions, and I'm a bit chaotic generally.

I don't want to offend anyone and appreciate you signing up to hear my bullshit, so as a rule of thumb for a follow back, if you post or boost a lot of politics I'm probably not going to follow, I have way too much already, this is my happy place.

If we've not interacted, then I often don't notice. I'm here to talk, so if people talk to me it's a conversation and if I realise you follow me already but I missed it, often that will prompt me. Don't be shy.

If you just want to silently rubberneck at my ongoing car crash of nonsense then we're all good too.

I say all this because when I very first started here it felt a bit alien and cliquey, but over time I learnt it was ok to join in, and people were accepting, as long as I read the room and got the vibe.

I absolutely love it here, it's a revelation for me personally, and I hope it is for others too.

I was once on the outskirts, looking at the, as I saw them, "cool kids" talking amongst themselves, and it can appear like that, but it's not. If you're polite, and don't get weird (in a bad way, we're all weird here) folks will, in my experience, be nice.

Don't be a dick, join in and you can find your people.

Love to all the Fedifolk, new and old ❤️

We're not perfect but fuck me, look at the alternatives.

I wonder how many mastodon users I could ̶k̶i̶d̶n̶a̶p̶ hang out with...

Given what is going on in the world, #silentSunday is destined to increasingly become an act of #radicalselflove. Switch off the #news and enjoy #breathing. Enjoy #hereandnow, the very underrated only #truth there is. And yes, eventually you can go into #organising, campaigning, advocating later in the week. But for now, enjoy being. If you must DO rather than BE, try #crafts, the #arts. Something to give the world the colours you want to see. Because no one else is going to do that for you.

#ThreeGoodThings #3GoodThings

Good walk with Donny even though it wasn't nearly as warm as yesterday
Fun playing disc rollers with Joule outside
Friends on Mastodon

"If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are."

– A Zen proverb

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #proverb #Aproverb

🪷 When #AntoninusPius died in March 161 AD, #MarcusAurelius and #LuciusVerus became co-Emperors. Marcus being the elder, was given the title Augustus, while #Lucius #Verus was called Caesar. They are the only example of effective co-rulership in Rome: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/02/marcus-aurelius-and-lucius-verus-become.html 🪷

🪷 #Niankhkhnum and #Khnumhotep are saints of #Antinous for history's earliest depiction of a true-life same-sex mortal couple (not divine or mythological) kissing & sharing an Egyptian tomb for eternity. Their tomb was discovered 11 Nov 1964. Full tribute: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/niankhkhnum-and-khnumhotep-saints-of.html 🪷

The Gods must be Crazy on You

#RetroMovieASong
#HashTagGames

#3GoodThings

1. I thought I was going to the auto body shop to make an appointment, but instead the guy took a look at the displaced seam and just reached under and pressed it back into place. No charge.

2. The lengthening daylight in my part of the world.

3. Sablefish. It has a lot of nicknames, but I know it best as black cod. It's caught locally by Princess Seafood, and they had a perfect little tail-end filet that was perfect for my dinner.

https://www.princessseafoodmarket.com/our-fish-market

New #introduction who dis?

Katharine is a quadragenarian with an affection for Memphis Milano aesthetics, bossa nova, art deco, and 20th century pop culture (specifically films of the 1930s, music of the 1960s, and television of the 1980s).

See some of my life's work at my glitch in bio page: https://outbound.thatkatharine.com

Posts are generally "and here's another irritating thing about life" observations.

From bluesky:

Posit that to be judged for a sin implies that information about the sin is available to god/jesus.

Information implies entropy implies energy implies mass.

...so you can run an attack on heaven by sinmaxxing so hard Christ converts into a black hole from sheer acquired mass-energy and oneshots God by trapping him in something not even His light can escape from