@DaveyCraney Just like their app 😜
@DaveyCraney It's probably the CEO's apology letter.
@Mtt Amother awesome theme! 👏🏻
@bjhess It’s similar to the gashapon stores that are opening here in the US. They only carry mainstream series toys and none of the smaller, stranger stuff. (Where’s my mini Ames chair and fishing cats?!)
@bjhess I can’t roll my eyes at this hard enough. Japanese konbini’s are special because of the Japanese people and the culture they have created around them.
@annahavron Love this 🥰
@aa I’m sorry that your having to live with what amounts to a weeping wound. “Splinched” seems an apt metaphor.
I will encourage you that trying your best for your son is really worth it. Every bit of love you share together is real and I’d dare say helpful. There are many parents who can’t handle what you and his mother are doing. Needing breaks to protect yourself and heal sounds healthy.
@alans People put a lot of work into trying not to work
@maique This store sounds like heaven!
@maique The only time I’ll worry is if you don’t pack any cameras at all. 😜 Hope you all have a great time together.
@maique Thank you 😁
@alpower It was as we were very high up from the water.
@DaveyCraney @mroutley @aa Thanks 😁
The impossibly blue Lake Michigan from Sleeping Bear Dunes.
@patrickrhone What an awesome life he got to live. I’m sorry for your families loss. 😞
@UndamnedOne I love that you added descriptions. Sometimes an album can get new life hearing it from another’s perspective. (Also, I’ll now have The King of Spain in my head for the next week😜)
@Annie My team’s good but we feel bad for everyone at CrowdStrike. 😳
Remote work isn’t, by definition, better or worse than IRL work. But it is different, and it is a necessary adaptation in an era marked by climate change and the slow collapse of long-neglected infrastructures. It’s past time to engage with its flaws directly, instead of always harking back to a fabricated office history we never lived in and cannot return to.
- Mandy Brown, Official Myths
I can’t overstate how beneficial working fully remote for the past four years has been for myself and my family.
@alexandra @val Thank you 🙏🏻 I got lucky to catch that light.
@cliffordbeshers I’m with @jomalo: It’s a roof drain in the facade of a big box store where they hide their rooftop air handlers.
Post-storm sunset.
@jean 😍 Print it and frame it!
Today my grandfather passed away. He was my last living grandparent so now that generation has completely exited my life and my parents have no parents.
Thankfully, my daughter’s grandparents are all still here. They came to celebrate her artwork being shown at the Detroit Institute of Art.
Part of what makes art special is that it’s difficult to make, even with all the tools right in front of you. It takes practice, it takes skill, and every time you do it, you expand on that skill. […] Generative AI is only about the end product, but it won’t teach you anything about the process it would take to get there.
- Drew Gooden, AI is Ruining the Internet YouTube
Gen AI is a bad middle-manager trying harder than ever to convince people that its stolen output isn’t bad.
Stay as cool as you can, @alexandra
Happy Independence Day
@tracydurnell I hope you found something you enjoyed.
@bjhess Thank you 😊 My appreciation for human-curated music recommendations continues to grow. Sites like Album Whale are a lifeline in the AI storm.
Looking for some good tunes? My music page has been updated for summer with more albums coming as I listen. Powered by @bjhess awesome Album Whale.
No matter my comfort level, it doesn’t compare to my cat.
Colors after the storm.
The most intense sunset colors lasted less than a minute but I managed to catch them.
Everything Everywhere All at Once - ★★★★★
The first “balloon flowers” are finally blooming. These are my favorite.
The colors of summer.
Finally got my heart rate into the all important Zone 4 during my exercise.
I’ve been using my anxiety over AI and other technological enshitificatiins to do more in the real world. Taking more walks, chatting with friends, taking the family out for ice cream, and witnessing sunsets.
My kingdom for an Apple Watch activity face with numbers! Stupid fashion-minimalists have taken over the watch world.
No rain today but the clouds are all showing off.
Watching the sun set in the alAlpha Beta Parking Lot.
A baby robin stopped by to check me out during his first test flight out of the nest. I felt bad for the nearby parents who immediately wrote them off for dead. Thankfully, once they got far enough from me, the parents fed them and everyone continuedd having a good afternoon.
It’s difficult to photograph but the white, fluffy tree pollen is swirling like snow.
I definitely do not want small talk and relationships outsourced to server farms. This stuff shouldn’t feel hard or taxing; it’s what our presence here on Earth is mostly made up of. The effort, the clumsiness, and the time invested are where humanity is stored.
- Neven Mrgan, How it feels to get an AI email from a friend
Spring is in full swing.
Pain may give purpose but it’s not pain that makes people, it’s love.
Videosphere portable television, JVC-3240, 1970
Summer evenings are back!