sleepygeeky
@sleepygeeky.bsky.social
tired. artist. writer. likes books, paint, genre tv. and cute animal pictures.
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I need you all to see the hype video that this person made to sell their 1994 Geo Metro
June 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I need you all to see the hype video that this person made to sell their 1994 Geo Metro
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We are vandalizing our own cultural history with AI
March 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We are vandalizing our own cultural history with AI
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Valentines is coincidentally the anniversary of the time my dad had a medical event behind the wheel, passed out and hit a tree head-on at 70mph, and survived because the previous week he had traded in his 14yo car for something safer. Happy automobile safety day to all who celebrate (me and my mom)
February 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Valentines is coincidentally the anniversary of the time my dad had a medical event behind the wheel, passed out and hit a tree head-on at 70mph, and survived because the previous week he had traded in his 14yo car for something safer. Happy automobile safety day to all who celebrate (me and my mom)
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I'm reading UNDER ALIEN SKIES by @philplait.bsky.social and while I highly rec it to anyone interested in space, it would be INVALUABLE if you're writing scifi & want to know, for ex, what someone would see in the night sky on Mars/whether you could see Mars' moons from the equator
amzn.to/4jwmLIL
amzn.to/4jwmLIL
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
14 black-and-white illustrations; 8 page full-color insert
amzn.to
January 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I'm reading UNDER ALIEN SKIES by @philplait.bsky.social and while I highly rec it to anyone interested in space, it would be INVALUABLE if you're writing scifi & want to know, for ex, what someone would see in the night sky on Mars/whether you could see Mars' moons from the equator
amzn.to/4jwmLIL
amzn.to/4jwmLIL
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one cool thing about being a millennial is that I got to do my embarrassing public meltdowns on AIM and Xanga and now they're just gone forever. poor gen z kids haunted forever by a bad tiktok. or like, boomers bickle-posting under local news. there should be a kind of bankruptcy for your reputation
January 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
one cool thing about being a millennial is that I got to do my embarrassing public meltdowns on AIM and Xanga and now they're just gone forever. poor gen z kids haunted forever by a bad tiktok. or like, boomers bickle-posting under local news. there should be a kind of bankruptcy for your reputation
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New to the zoo: three bat-eared fox kits.
[via San Diego Zoo]
Video: an adult bat-eared fox watches her fuzzy, kitten-sized wobbly kits sniff, chase, and pounce in the clumsy way of excited baby mammals.
[via San Diego Zoo]
Video: an adult bat-eared fox watches her fuzzy, kitten-sized wobbly kits sniff, chase, and pounce in the clumsy way of excited baby mammals.
January 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
New to the zoo: three bat-eared fox kits.
[via San Diego Zoo]
Video: an adult bat-eared fox watches her fuzzy, kitten-sized wobbly kits sniff, chase, and pounce in the clumsy way of excited baby mammals.
[via San Diego Zoo]
Video: an adult bat-eared fox watches her fuzzy, kitten-sized wobbly kits sniff, chase, and pounce in the clumsy way of excited baby mammals.
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That virtually everyone feels this way is a sure sign things are going great
Feeling tremendous guilt that I can’t contribute to every single Go Fund Me myself, as if I alone were meant to be the public safety net.
January 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
That virtually everyone feels this way is a sure sign things are going great
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I've realized my current relationship w/ the fires mirrors my current relationship w/ the country, which is, "Danger is closer but I'm currently safe but just for now & I shouldn't assume I'll be fine but right now I'm safe & others aren't so I shouldn't make it about me but I'm scared for us all."
January 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I've realized my current relationship w/ the fires mirrors my current relationship w/ the country, which is, "Danger is closer but I'm currently safe but just for now & I shouldn't assume I'll be fine but right now I'm safe & others aren't so I shouldn't make it about me but I'm scared for us all."
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L.A.'s alert room rn
a bald man in a white shirt and tie is holding a hose in his hands and smiling .
ALT: a bald man in a white shirt and tie is holding a hose in his hands and smiling .
media.tenor.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
L.A.'s alert room rn
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Can confirm
This is my first time in years experiencing a major local breaking news event from outside a newsroom, and it’s awful.
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/fires-and-...
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/fires-and-...
Fires and the facts
The breaking-news experience is awful for consumers.
mattdpearce.substack.com
January 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Can confirm
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LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.
January 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.
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January 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Images: a lemur--gray with a white face and ears-- sitting up gnawing at a mango chunk clutched in its little furry hands. The orange fruit brings out their bright amber eyes.
There is no room for thought. It is Mango Time.
There is no room for thought. It is Mango Time.
A delicious Tuesday treat! 😋
Classified as Endangered by the IUCN Red List, the Ring Tailed Lemur has a diet comprised mostly of fruit and vegetation, but also insects and arthropods (such as spiders & cicadas) 🥭🕷️
📸: ©️Brian McGarry
#WelshMountainZoo #Zoo #lemur #treat
Classified as Endangered by the IUCN Red List, the Ring Tailed Lemur has a diet comprised mostly of fruit and vegetation, but also insects and arthropods (such as spiders & cicadas) 🥭🕷️
📸: ©️Brian McGarry
#WelshMountainZoo #Zoo #lemur #treat
January 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Images: a lemur--gray with a white face and ears-- sitting up gnawing at a mango chunk clutched in its little furry hands. The orange fruit brings out their bright amber eyes.
There is no room for thought. It is Mango Time.
There is no room for thought. It is Mango Time.
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They are gonna put this man's head in a jar, Futurama style, and have LLMs make up his commentary
It’s 1995. James Carville is still inexplicably on the Sunday shows
It’s 2005. James Carville is still inexplicably on the Sunday shows
It’s 2015. James Carville is still inexplicably on the Sunday shows
It’s 2025. James Carville is still inexplicably on the Sunday shows
…
It’s 2005. James Carville is still inexplicably on the Sunday shows
It’s 2015. James Carville is still inexplicably on the Sunday shows
It’s 2025. James Carville is still inexplicably on the Sunday shows
…
I am so sick of James Carville.
January 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
They are gonna put this man's head in a jar, Futurama style, and have LLMs make up his commentary
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I know a lot of other disabled people are wondering what we can do to help the world be less of a dumpster fire
With limited energy, and often stuck at home with limited local community (or none at all)
So I'd like to talk a little about what I'm trying to do, and why I think it's important
With limited energy, and often stuck at home with limited local community (or none at all)
So I'd like to talk a little about what I'm trying to do, and why I think it's important
January 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I know a lot of other disabled people are wondering what we can do to help the world be less of a dumpster fire
With limited energy, and often stuck at home with limited local community (or none at all)
So I'd like to talk a little about what I'm trying to do, and why I think it's important
With limited energy, and often stuck at home with limited local community (or none at all)
So I'd like to talk a little about what I'm trying to do, and why I think it's important
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Something missing in all these obituaries of Jimmy Carter is his book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. He wrote it in 2006 and, sadly, it still holds up.
December 29, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Something missing in all these obituaries of Jimmy Carter is his book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. He wrote it in 2006 and, sadly, it still holds up.
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I like to say I respect despair as an emotion but not an analysis. As an analysis it assumes we know what can and can't happen, and the future is both uncertain and at least to some extent what we make of it. Plus why would I give them what they want, as premature surrender? Thanks Senator Schatz.
Be furious be angry but despondency is what they want from us. And be very suspicious of people on the left who say “we are cooked” or whatever. Imagine the civil rights movement, or suffrage, or any movement for change, hitting a roadblock and just “saying well we are well and truly fucked now.”
December 21, 2024 at 6:02 PM
I like to say I respect despair as an emotion but not an analysis. As an analysis it assumes we know what can and can't happen, and the future is both uncertain and at least to some extent what we make of it. Plus why would I give them what they want, as premature surrender? Thanks Senator Schatz.
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This was always my favorite thing about him (besides him being an engineer)
Being an actual humanitarian is aggressively at odds with being considered a “good” president. You need *at least* a pinch of ruthlessness and disregard for people for that.
Everybody doesn’t have or want to have that
Being an actual humanitarian is aggressively at odds with being considered a “good” president. You need *at least* a pinch of ruthlessness and disregard for people for that.
Everybody doesn’t have or want to have that
Now, especially, it's poignant to consider that part of the reason Carter was considered an ineffective president was because he too much of a humanitarian to be an effective president
December 29, 2024 at 9:16 PM
This was always my favorite thing about him (besides him being an engineer)
Being an actual humanitarian is aggressively at odds with being considered a “good” president. You need *at least* a pinch of ruthlessness and disregard for people for that.
Everybody doesn’t have or want to have that
Being an actual humanitarian is aggressively at odds with being considered a “good” president. You need *at least* a pinch of ruthlessness and disregard for people for that.
Everybody doesn’t have or want to have that
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More to say on burnout and I'm probably going to boost it a few times because folks need to hear it:
Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains.
It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.
Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains.
It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.
Man burnout can mess you up for a very long time.
And it can sneak up on you: things can seem stressful but mostly manageable until suddenly they're not manageable.
Self care and vacation are great, but they're guardrails: they don't help when you've already fallen in.
And it can sneak up on you: things can seem stressful but mostly manageable until suddenly they're not manageable.
Self care and vacation are great, but they're guardrails: they don't help when you've already fallen in.
December 13, 2024 at 2:14 PM
More to say on burnout and I'm probably going to boost it a few times because folks need to hear it:
Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains.
It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.
Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains.
It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.
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Reporters writing about autism talk to one (1) fucking autistic person instead of a slew of Autism Parents(tm) challenge 2k24 (difficulty level: APPARENTLY FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE)
December 13, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Reporters writing about autism talk to one (1) fucking autistic person instead of a slew of Autism Parents(tm) challenge 2k24 (difficulty level: APPARENTLY FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE)
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My "how to make your insurance company cry" post is going around again and this quote post of it links a "how to make someone fucking around with your credit report cry" post and it's absolute fucking solid gold advice
This is good advice and reminds me of this classic post: www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/i...
"Paper trails ... are terrifying to regulated institutions... [A]nyone who sounds like a well-organized professional with a paper trail is a problem to be swiftly addressed.
That, dear reader, can be you."
"Paper trails ... are terrifying to regulated institutions... [A]nyone who sounds like a well-organized professional with a paper trail is a problem to be swiftly addressed.
That, dear reader, can be you."
December 5, 2024 at 4:13 PM
My "how to make your insurance company cry" post is going around again and this quote post of it links a "how to make someone fucking around with your credit report cry" post and it's absolute fucking solid gold advice
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as a kid, i fixed my parent's computer. as an adult I fix my kids's computer. pretty sure we are the only gen that knows how computers work
December 3, 2024 at 12:37 PM
as a kid, i fixed my parent's computer. as an adult I fix my kids's computer. pretty sure we are the only gen that knows how computers work