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cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 14h

It really is like fae or dreams.
Hands (her holding knife)
Teeth (dog, maybe)
Camera looks away and back: did it change? (her skirt goes a little jumpsuit)
Mismatched earrings, glasses arms, shirt cuffs, etc.

Also the wobble/flicker as already noted. And what's on the dog's muzzle? Not that cake.

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cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 1d

I'm eating less fresh vegetables, now! I used to eat a bagged salad for lunch as many days as not, but with gutted surveillance for foodborne diseases, raw prepared produce consumption seems ill-advised. I guess I am eating more beans because food in general is more expensive?

I hate that man.

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cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 1d

Me: I don't want to queer code my villains! That's lazy and kinda -phobic

Also me: please wreck me hot evil lady! do you want a minion?

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cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, do you hear the haunting vocals? The time signature? How everything (somehow) holds together?

Aaaaaargh.

If I thought it'd help, I'd sacrifice a goat so their next headline tour would come through here. All it would get me is goat curry, though. Much too much goat curry.

cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 1d

It's been like a year since I had to bail on seeing Leprous because the kiddo had such a bad evening that I was not capable of leaving the house without assistance after. Parenting with a chronic illness, it happens.

I get salty about it when From the Flame plays, though.
youtu.be/FZSlX1zXnfM

LEPROUS - From The Flame (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

YouTube video by InsideOutMusicTV

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Natasha Tara Petrović @ Portland Retro Game Expo 732 @1000deaddraculas.bsky.social · 2d

YOU WOULD DOWNLOAD A CAR

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cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 2d

I kind of love blackberry Dr Pepper Zero? I think the strawberry is just gross, but I got a case of this stuff.

Also, it really encourages me to savor it, because that wonderful blackberry jam flavor recedes as I drink unless I give my taste buds a break.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning! 🪶

Three burrowing owls peeking out over a wall.

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cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 3d

I gotta say, being measurably stupider and knowing you're measurably stupider really, really sucks.

Most people just don't believe me when I tell them how debilitating my long COVID is. And I know people who have it worse.

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cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 4d

No, I'm pretty sure this is GenAI. Shockingly good hands, though fists are easy. Labels are wonky from what I expect. But the jacket sleeve really is the dead giveaway.

Generative algorithms don't understand "clothes" or "glasses" and tend to match parts to nearby stuff instead of correct stuff.

cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 4d

I hope it's a bot, because otherwise it seems like someone drowning in a manic phase. Oof.

cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 5d

I don't like knowing what searches cluster with this particular news piece (about a camper mauled to death by bear he'd previously photographed in his campsite). There's a reason I was on Something Awful but never on Rotten.

G Related searches:
Dismembered camper photo
Caused by dog attack
Mysterious camper death
Photo reveals killer
Canine mailing victim

cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 5d

Ghirardelli's Ground Chocolate (cocoa, sugar, vanilla IIRC). But only by the dry, crunchy spoonful, standing by the cabinets, and coughing out a cocoa cloud when startled.

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cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, I used to pour myself half a mug and sip slowly. I'd swear sometimes it made my teeth ache. But then I hit 35 and started working to be kinder to my pancreas.

I'll still occasionally do a little shot of creamer when I'm someplace that has free coffee and those tiny cups of it.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 6d

i don’t really understand why this made me start bawling i just really love seeing people try to help each other in creative ways and that this shit is necessary

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cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 6d

1) You married a good one.
2) I am never ever ever showing my partner this post. Ever.

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Sprouts 🌱🔜 BLFC DD @coolartcorner.bsky.social · 6d

currently the mood rn

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 11d

"The political ineptitude of the magnates of industry and finance was no less than that of the generals and led to the mistaken belief that if they coughed up large enough sums for Hitler he would be beholden to them."

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 237)

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cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 7d

But by all the gods, who thought that it was a good idea to have game chips get inserted in a divot underneath the battery? You had to remove the battery to swap chips!

Maybe this is like those obvious errors in medieval tapestries: perfect = blasphemy, obvious error = I intended this "mistake"?

cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 7d

Impossible to use for gaming, but absolutely indestructible + good for calls and mp3s. Once you got over feeling weird for talking into a taco, it was great!

Also, for a brief moment in time, it could be acquired for the low low price of dumpster diving.

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cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 7d

Don't know if it's the low dose naltrexone kicking in, but I haven't been down a fractal Wikipedia hole like that in a hot second.
Start: Ukraine hitting Russian cracking units
Cul de sacs include: Pitch Lake of Trinidad & Tobago, fluid beds, naptha.

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Félix the Rover @therovercomics.bsky.social · 8d

Supervillains were invented so that superheroes would stop trying to make the world a better place and would rather spend their time defending a meaningless status quo instead.

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cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 7d

Pareidolia is an interesting framing for some human foibles. Face in an arrangement of buildings, sense in ramblings, empathy in innumerable matrices dressed in a lab coat.

We are such a hopeful species. It goes wrong sometimes, sure, but it also gives us furniture that is just trying its best.

cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 7d

But seriously, people who aren't familiar with ML almost always do things like assign theory of mind to what is, in fact, hundreds of millions of matrices in a box. We've seen how maladaptive and terrifying it can be when people confuse an LLM with a living creature. We don't need more of that.

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cellular powerhouse @cheshious.bsky.social · 7d

Sometimes works for humans, tho! See: bone marrow transplant, adenosine for tachycardia, etc..

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