Deep State Whine
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A straight shooter with upper management written all over him
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hahahaha I couldn't remember the name of the hard cider, so I called it the cranky tree one.
December 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
hahahaha I couldn't remember the name of the hard cider, so I called it the cranky tree one.
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme... I may be coming to this very late (it's 2.5 years old), but this neatly summarizes a phenomenon I feel is accurate but have struggled to articulate. (And yes, I realize that reaction is an example of subjective validation, LOL.)
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
softwarecrisis.dev
November 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme... I may be coming to this very late (it's 2.5 years old), but this neatly summarizes a phenomenon I feel is accurate but have struggled to articulate. (And yes, I realize that reaction is an example of subjective validation, LOL.)
They have. Moved Things. In my grocery store. Moved them.
November 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
They have. Moved Things. In my grocery store. Moved them.
Home! Staring at the TV. The TV is turned OFF and it is completely silent. It is blissful.
November 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Home! Staring at the TV. The TV is turned OFF and it is completely silent. It is blissful.
Returned home with a Meatball we think is on the mend, and tonight's TV show is all about "sluicing".
Tomorrow, hitting the road early morning to beat a winter storm home!
Tomorrow, hitting the road early morning to beat a winter storm home!
November 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Returned home with a Meatball we think is on the mend, and tonight's TV show is all about "sluicing".
Tomorrow, hitting the road early morning to beat a winter storm home!
Tomorrow, hitting the road early morning to beat a winter storm home!
Meatball will look around at the holidays and go "is anyone going to get sick from being overfed treats and need an emergency vet visit?" and not wait for an answer
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Meatball will look around at the holidays and go "is anyone going to get sick from being overfed treats and need an emergency vet visit?" and not wait for an answer
How many Ranch N' Rodeo TV shows can there possibly be a need for at once? We've just fired up an episode of what must literally be at least the 4th distinct cowboy-hat-and-horse drama I've seen since I got here.
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
How many Ranch N' Rodeo TV shows can there possibly be a need for at once? We've just fired up an episode of what must literally be at least the 4th distinct cowboy-hat-and-horse drama I've seen since I got here.
Last full day in Michigan, time for a 5 mile hike down the Saginaw Rail Trail! Temp pegged at 31, winds about 15 with gusts to 20, and 1 dog who is 100% go.
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Last full day in Michigan, time for a 5 mile hike down the Saginaw Rail Trail! Temp pegged at 31, winds about 15 with gusts to 20, and 1 dog who is 100% go.
"Clowns, ladies and gentlemen! You just can't beat them!" - The guy yelling into a microphone at the Macy's Thanksgiving parade, apparently surrendering on behalf of humanity
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"Clowns, ladies and gentlemen! You just can't beat them!" - The guy yelling into a microphone at the Macy's Thanksgiving parade, apparently surrendering on behalf of humanity
Shoutout to the nearly 2 hours of silence we enjoyed while M and FiL were out to dinner. They're back! They brought takeout, and now we're watching Survivor at top volume while Penny cronches a plastic water bottle.
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Shoutout to the nearly 2 hours of silence we enjoyed while M and FiL were out to dinner. They're back! They brought takeout, and now we're watching Survivor at top volume while Penny cronches a plastic water bottle.
I have trained for this moment
November 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I have trained for this moment
Thanksgiving dessert prep in full swing
Using a toilet paper tube and an armature of wire coat hanger, we assembled a narrow gage hose attachment to suck all of the pie crust pieces out of the inaccessible burner.
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Thanksgiving dessert prep in full swing
Randomly surfing through local news:
"...photos too graphic to share, they involved some spanking, some waterboarding; all these firefighters have been terminated..."
"...photos too graphic to share, they involved some spanking, some waterboarding; all these firefighters have been terminated..."
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Randomly surfing through local news:
"...photos too graphic to share, they involved some spanking, some waterboarding; all these firefighters have been terminated..."
"...photos too graphic to share, they involved some spanking, some waterboarding; all these firefighters have been terminated..."
"Do the frogs still have two heads?"
"Breaking news ... in the garage area."
It's YouTube clip surfing time.
"Breaking news ... in the garage area."
It's YouTube clip surfing time.
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Do the frogs still have two heads?"
"Breaking news ... in the garage area."
It's YouTube clip surfing time.
"Breaking news ... in the garage area."
It's YouTube clip surfing time.
9am! Time to fire up the grimdark prison town drug gang dirty cop epic of human suffering TV show! (I guess it's this or the news... coin toss.)
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
9am! Time to fire up the grimdark prison town drug gang dirty cop epic of human suffering TV show! (I guess it's this or the news... coin toss.)
"Murder in a small town is sponsored by Chewy"
Bad look, Chewy
Bad look, Chewy
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
"Murder in a small town is sponsored by Chewy"
Bad look, Chewy
Bad look, Chewy
Household achievement unlocked: relative sitting less than a yard from a TV on commercial (very loud) firing up a Youtube video on his phone (also very loud)
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Household achievement unlocked: relative sitting less than a yard from a TV on commercial (very loud) firing up a Youtube video on his phone (also very loud)
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I am not doing a special sale in my shop this weekend because everything is already at cost, I’m not able to ship until next week, and I didn’t make some of the extra stuff I intended. But cat toys and goat totes are available! Bookmarks! A couple of original paintings!
ko-fi.com/octopusgalle...
ko-fi.com/octopusgalle...
Visit OctopusGallery's Shop!
Pay what you can crafts and art. Lots of upcycling and creative reuse but mostly cat toys.
ko-fi.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I am not doing a special sale in my shop this weekend because everything is already at cost, I’m not able to ship until next week, and I didn’t make some of the extra stuff I intended. But cat toys and goat totes are available! Bookmarks! A couple of original paintings!
ko-fi.com/octopusgalle...
ko-fi.com/octopusgalle...
Wishing you the tranquility of a Meatball who went on a 4 1/2 hour hike today
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Wishing you the tranquility of a Meatball who went on a 4 1/2 hour hike today
"Protein: it's seemingly everywhere we turn." - Jane Pauley, ominously, on a "special edition" of "Sunday Morning", to which we have now tuned.
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"Protein: it's seemingly everywhere we turn." - Jane Pauley, ominously, on a "special edition" of "Sunday Morning", to which we have now tuned.
There's a TV show where Sylvester Stallone is apparently a mob boss in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It's kind of heavy content for 8:00am but it... has a good cast?
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
There's a TV show where Sylvester Stallone is apparently a mob boss in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It's kind of heavy content for 8:00am but it... has a good cast?
Central Michigan Thanksgiving trip for a week starting tomorrow. I've barely had time to think about it, but it's probably the "completely unplugged from my Washington DC daily grind bullshit" fix I absolutely need right now.
November 22, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Central Michigan Thanksgiving trip for a week starting tomorrow. I've barely had time to think about it, but it's probably the "completely unplugged from my Washington DC daily grind bullshit" fix I absolutely need right now.
We really lost something as a nation when we stopped posing our electronics floating over a faux metal grid in front of an azure horizon
November 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
We really lost something as a nation when we stopped posing our electronics floating over a faux metal grid in front of an azure horizon
Me: Hmm, haven't read Reddit in a while. Go see what's happening over there.
5 minutes later, reading off the screen: "Your perceived entitlement is unbounded, and hell is waiting for you." It's a post about traffic on the Prince William Parkway.
5 minutes later, reading off the screen: "Your perceived entitlement is unbounded, and hell is waiting for you." It's a post about traffic on the Prince William Parkway.
November 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Me: Hmm, haven't read Reddit in a while. Go see what's happening over there.
5 minutes later, reading off the screen: "Your perceived entitlement is unbounded, and hell is waiting for you." It's a post about traffic on the Prince William Parkway.
5 minutes later, reading off the screen: "Your perceived entitlement is unbounded, and hell is waiting for you." It's a post about traffic on the Prince William Parkway.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)