adam w.k. @sabbatical@qoto.org

was looking up whether it's "mascarpone" or "marscapone" and there were at least TWO AI-generated articles on the first page of google trying to convince me those are actually two often confused but separate types of soft italian cheese!

@pixelambacht @elliotjaystocks oooh! haven't read this one. will have to search it out.

@bjb wow

@niclake i ought to do that. i never really settled on a go-to reader after google reader folded. whatre you using?

@randahl but what about bothsides-ism? are you really not going to even mention bothsides-ism when talking about whataboutery? typical.

@jbwharris yeah, i mean i do wish i could tote both kids around in my kei — if i eventually switch out for something else, that'll be why — but i also love spending next to nothing on gas and feeling like the star of my own anime when i'm out and about

my sister recommended me a book on cptsd, and was just able to read a good chunk of it on open library. forgot how cool their system is! (good book so far too: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27167959M/Complex_PTSD)

it hurts so much

variations on a theme

@jbwharris manivan? whoa

please sir, couldnt you include alt text?

please sir, do you have any old memes or tweets saved you could spare? [dickensian puppy dog eyes]

home depot parking lot. two 4x4 pickups with the same bed size. which way western man?

TBT to when the very idea of ONLY A SINGLE MAPLE LEAF on the canadian flag was a front page shocker. (found this newspaper from 1964 stuffed in our old chimney flue)

@Kilian haha… ahh. this has never been me, but i bet there’s a non-trivial amount of time the docs *are* wrong, don’t you think?

@mistersql @ZachWeinersmith tech accel combined with pervasive media outlets and polling companies who figured out that people love to click on this type of nonsense and it’s easy content to create. also very wealth-centric, as in many parts of the world, tech accel is not generational. i grew up in rural bangladesh where i had a computer, but other teens i knew didn’t even have telephones, let alone laptops!

ooo, roli is bringing back the seaboard block in july! tempted to finally lay out the bucks for one.

a selection of books i just added to my library: