Whether it's a return of early autumn nostalgia or just dreaming of an era when reality was biting but not quite so hard, I find myself asking Alexa to loop the atmospheric music of Dead Can Dance--

So 90s. So much a phenomenon. So very weird.

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Please don’t treat ChatGPT as a source of facts. It can be so confidently and randomly wrong. It’s great for brainstorming, summarizing, editing —but not for proving a point. Especially not on controversial topics, where its training set contains conflicting data…

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The heel of my left foot has been hurting for a while, so I went to have it checked out. The doctor examined me and said, “It seems that you’re suffering from fasciitis.” So I said, “Well, yeah, duh~ Now tell me what’s wrong with my damn foot.”

Got to see my favorite local Japanese singer/songwriter Ai Nagayoshi perform her English language debut here in Miyazaki.

She started the concert with this song, and with her classically trained voice and a live band behind her, my eyes were wet from the power and intensity--

youtu.be/e7oo1Wl1ZGo

Not sure why but I just watched the mecha-action film Pacific Rim.  The only thing it's got going for it is a pimped-out Ron Perlman.

I now realize he is my totally guilty pleasure…

Seeing what he'll do with his side-character is often excuse enough to watch a bad action flick.

Fight me for it?

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The three kittens got strategically shaved for their recent "coming of age" surgeries. So now instead of just the usual pink cat-buttholes, their little boy-parts are prancing around on full display. It's totally obscene, and yet still somehow manages to be cute and adorable...

Lawful-Good is often seen as the highest alignment even though some spiritual originators like Jesus and Buddha promoted the more charitable attitude of Neutral-Good.  What's up with that? and why does it matter?

www.joyomancy.com/blog/neutral...

Please enjoy the possibility that you can find a role in society that you find fulfilling to you. And appreciate that there are plenty of other roles that people can fill that are fulfilling to them in their own ways.

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We have made a huge mistake in conflating politics with entertainment:

Entertainment should be exciting!

Politics should be boring.

but we've gotten them all mixed up
and we're starting to see the worst that can happen…

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As a D&D RPG Gamemaster, it's my job to give players an immersive fantasy experience. But with Trump in the Oval Office, it's getting hard for me to maintain that escapist separation between my fantasy goblins, etc., and real-world political speeches and actions…

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The present is such a slippery thing  —you can try to put your finger on it only to find that it has squished out into the past and future.

While there is no shame in taking the comfy path, beauty and wonder favor the unconventional--

The new moon graces this new year with its magical 3rd-day crescent sliver while a lonely frog sings gently by the stream. Have a year full of wonder--