bowers@
@srewob.bsky.social
Programmer. Nerd. Introvert. Probable dumbass.
This machine blocks Luddites.
This machine blocks Luddites.
We literally don’t have to live like this: recurrent, painful government shutdowns; folk living paycheck to paycheck; shit healthcare and food insecurity; housing and climate crises.
All these issues, and more, are the result of empowering the shittiest regressives amongst us.
We can do better.
All these issues, and more, are the result of empowering the shittiest regressives amongst us.
We can do better.
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
We literally don’t have to live like this: recurrent, painful government shutdowns; folk living paycheck to paycheck; shit healthcare and food insecurity; housing and climate crises.
All these issues, and more, are the result of empowering the shittiest regressives amongst us.
We can do better.
All these issues, and more, are the result of empowering the shittiest regressives amongst us.
We can do better.
#aiart prompt 1068: Hexagonal grid in amber and cyan; each hex is translucent to varying degrees; backlit; low depth of field; high contrast.
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
#aiart prompt 1068: Hexagonal grid in amber and cyan; each hex is translucent to varying degrees; backlit; low depth of field; high contrast.
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#aiart prompt 656: rain streaked the sky, glowing with diffuse colors of countless city lights; a large, animated holographic projection, depicting a bird mid-flight, ghostly and transparent at the best of times, blurred and glitched through the water-dense air.
November 13, 2024 at 5:24 AM
#aiart prompt 656: rain streaked the sky, glowing with diffuse colors of countless city lights; a large, animated holographic projection, depicting a bird mid-flight, ghostly and transparent at the best of times, blurred and glitched through the water-dense air.
There’s a character in Anna Karenina named Sappho Stolz. [At least, within the Maude translation.]
Um.
Um.
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 AM
There’s a character in Anna Karenina named Sappho Stolz. [At least, within the Maude translation.]
Um.
Um.
We go live to the section of Anna Karenina I’m currently reading:
The Simpsons: Cosmic Wars Premiere
YouTube video by McClarver Productions
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
We go live to the section of Anna Karenina I’m currently reading:
Huh. I ran Deep Zone Crossing last night in #PacificDrive, apparently, without the LIM Shield activated. I had one, and installed it as my rear bumper, but didn’t see an activation prompt, so just blitzed through.
Used a lot of repair putty, and had to replace quite a lot after.
Used a lot of repair putty, and had to replace quite a lot after.
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Huh. I ran Deep Zone Crossing last night in #PacificDrive, apparently, without the LIM Shield activated. I had one, and installed it as my rear bumper, but didn’t see an activation prompt, so just blitzed through.
Used a lot of repair putty, and had to replace quite a lot after.
Used a lot of repair putty, and had to replace quite a lot after.
The PNW is pretty great: cool temperatures, lots of rain, perfect for vampires, about a foot of lowland snow a year.
It utterly sucks whenever there’s aurorae, as there’s often cloud cover blocking.
It utterly sucks whenever there’s aurorae, as there’s often cloud cover blocking.
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The PNW is pretty great: cool temperatures, lots of rain, perfect for vampires, about a foot of lowland snow a year.
It utterly sucks whenever there’s aurorae, as there’s often cloud cover blocking.
It utterly sucks whenever there’s aurorae, as there’s often cloud cover blocking.
Oh dear: I’ve just discovered my prompt numbering is incorrect. I’m off by about two, afaict, at this point.
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Oh dear: I’ve just discovered my prompt numbering is incorrect. I’m off by about two, afaict, at this point.
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#aiart prompt 656: a false color image of a planet as seen from high orbit; the planet is rocky, has areas with high albedo, and no ocean.
November 12, 2024 at 7:12 AM
#aiart prompt 656: a false color image of a planet as seen from high orbit; the planet is rocky, has areas with high albedo, and no ocean.
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#aiart prompt 655: on steel blue textured paper, in white graphite with thick lines: a wireframe sketch of wooded, semi-urban neighborhood.
November 11, 2024 at 8:19 PM
#aiart prompt 655: on steel blue textured paper, in white graphite with thick lines: a wireframe sketch of wooded, semi-urban neighborhood.
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
#aiart prompt 1066: A lake and woods; cold lighting; cyanotype; completely blurred and out of focus. Overlaying: random, black, vertical striations; fuzzed and blended.
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
#aiart prompt 1066: A lake and woods; cold lighting; cyanotype; completely blurred and out of focus. Overlaying: random, black, vertical striations; fuzzed and blended.
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#aiart prompt 654: out of the dark, dank tunnel it emerged: a vaguely spherical, gelatinous void. It was darkly transparent, trapped air bubbling within its depths; numerous glowing chartreuse eyes manifested on its surface before being subsumed back into its amorphous bulk. (cont)
November 11, 2024 at 5:38 AM
#aiart prompt 654: out of the dark, dank tunnel it emerged: a vaguely spherical, gelatinous void. It was darkly transparent, trapped air bubbling within its depths; numerous glowing chartreuse eyes manifested on its surface before being subsumed back into its amorphous bulk. (cont)
Bethesda literally updates Fallout 4 to migrate its older Creation Club and mods systems to its newer Creations platform, and yet keeps the amount of storage space for mods locked at 2GB.
WTAF. Absolutely genius.
WTAF. Absolutely genius.
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Bethesda literally updates Fallout 4 to migrate its older Creation Club and mods systems to its newer Creations platform, and yet keeps the amount of storage space for mods locked at 2GB.
WTAF. Absolutely genius.
WTAF. Absolutely genius.
My two senators can occasionally do shit things, but at least they aren’t those spineless collaborators. Seriously, wtf is up with New England?
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
My two senators can occasionally do shit things, but at least they aren’t those spineless collaborators. Seriously, wtf is up with New England?
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In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
“All this may be very good, but why should I trouble about medical centres which I should never use or schools to which I should never send my children, and to which the peasants would not wish to send theirs either? — and to which I am not fully convinced they ought to send them?’ said he.”
P3.C3
P3.C3
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 AM
“All this may be very good, but why should I trouble about medical centres which I should never use or schools to which I should never send my children, and to which the peasants would not wish to send theirs either? — and to which I am not fully convinced they ought to send them?’ said he.”
P3.C3
P3.C3
Imagine if in Skyrim, immediately after leaving Helgen—ya know, that unskippable tutorial dungeon we’re all supposed to hate because it ruins immersion, replay, and character building?—you were confined to Whiterun Hold until you completed Dragon Rising.
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Imagine if in Skyrim, immediately after leaving Helgen—ya know, that unskippable tutorial dungeon we’re all supposed to hate because it ruins immersion, replay, and character building?—you were confined to Whiterun Hold until you completed Dragon Rising.
I might be done with #OuterWorlds2: thoroughly mid, insipid, and uninspired. It has its occasional moments, so I don’t think it’s terrible, but there’s really no super compelling reason to get back into it. For myself, 2/5; its current ~3.5 on Xbox is deserved.
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I might be done with #OuterWorlds2: thoroughly mid, insipid, and uninspired. It has its occasional moments, so I don’t think it’s terrible, but there’s really no super compelling reason to get back into it. For myself, 2/5; its current ~3.5 on Xbox is deserved.
Certain folk need to be drummed out of the Democratic Party. Right after being tarred and feathered. And hit in the face repeatedly with meringue pies. Then set loose in a field filled with rakes.
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Certain folk need to be drummed out of the Democratic Party. Right after being tarred and feathered. And hit in the face repeatedly with meringue pies. Then set loose in a field filled with rakes.
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#aiart prompt 652: the android looked up and away, staring out across the decaying space station; jagged holes torn in the artificial skin of its face and neck revealed tubing and circuitry, the synthetic musculature of which it was composed. Lights glittered in the dark.
November 10, 2024 at 2:38 AM
#aiart prompt 652: the android looked up and away, staring out across the decaying space station; jagged holes torn in the artificial skin of its face and neck revealed tubing and circuitry, the synthetic musculature of which it was composed. Lights glittered in the dark.
