thankful that raffi’s “bananaphone” has been lodged in my brain for the past month, the soundtrack to the roller coaster that is selling a house/moving, eclipsing that chaos with its own, sending me off into this next chapter on a cloud of banana-tinged temporary insanity

i am just-squeezed-toothpaste-into-my-contacts-case level of tired

The predominant feeling I get when someone shows me their Ghiblified AI “art” is devastation. The technology is incredible, and this is where I get off the image generation train.

More adventures in procedural sound design- this time, a new attempt at a more accurately modeled American Robin (Go easy on me, ornithologists). Synthesized with 7 instances of Phase Plant, all being triggered real-time inside Ableton Live. #ProceduralSoundDesign #SoundDesign #PhysicalModeling

shoot, I WISH I were learning pytest in minuet format. suddenly need way more musical tutorials in my life.

not opposed to entering the rock tumbler myself and just jangling around for the next 4 years

daughter finished her rock tumbling cycle after nearly 2 months and in the silence I’m realizing how dependent I’ve become on this emotional support rock tumbler for its steady, friendly, pebble-jangling white noise that drowns out all that is bad in the world

it's pretty nuts to see inclusive language being gutted from government agency websites in real time via GitHub commits:

github.com/18F/handbook...

Of all the things to be confused/enraged by these days, the fact that the Heeler family keeps their Vegemite in the fridge is what my brain can’t stop spinning on

successfully rerouted my about-to-barf cat from horking into my roller skates by airlifting her off my desk, the pressure of being picked up causing an instant and magnificent firework of cat barf, exploding into a thousand suns through the air. success but at what cost?

do you think clippy and the hamburger helper glove ever kissed in a kroger

Just basking in this early-2000's-flavored experience of seeing a non-algorithmic feed composed of a handful of people I know and like, with a digestible amount of new posts and a clear end in sight.

In other foundation-shaking news, T. rex and Stegosaurus lived 80 million years apart. They never hung out. They never made sexy eyes at each other and then slapped their little tails together in a fit of dominance like they did in all the picture books. Not even close 🥲

Y'all have been saying "fediverse" this whole time??? I thought it was fetaverse. I thought it was cheese. Reality is worse, but noted.

bought our cats the “wrong” brand of cat food and they’ve survived for 3 days on nothing but popcorn and resentment