Category Archives: Microblogging
A Comedy in Six Screenshots
Since I stopped posting daily, I’ve been doing a lot more writing by hand. I have a very nice journal (this one, if you’re curious) and it’s been nice to get more tactile with my art again.
Of course, the big downside of handwriting is it’s harder to get it into a computer so I can revise and publish it.
I’ve been working on a complete rewrite of my poem “is,” and I figured I’d try getting an LLM to transcribe my draft for me instead of typing it in by hand. (I mean, if you can’t use these things for OCR how useful can they possibly be?)
The results were quite a bit funnier than I expected! At first, my phone’s AI transcribed the page perfectly (in between smothering me with sychophantic flattery), but when I started trying to crop the image to get a transcript of only part of the page…well, see for yourself:
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Essentials
I like to snack throughout the day, so I try to keep my desk stocked with all the basic food groups:
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Somebody Please Make This So I Don’t Have To
Lady Justice/Lady Liberty enemies-to-lovers yuri as a metaphor for history’s transition from totalitarian governments to democratic ones.
(C’mon Tumblr, this is your moment!)
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Why Am I Like This, pt. XVI
Me: Alright, time to leave soon. I’ll start wrapping up.
Five minutes later: Okay, I think that’s everything.
*checks watch*
Me: …it’s been THIRTY minutes??
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Substitute Writer: Autumn Christian
This week’s been rough. I’d like to share one of my all-time favorite essays with you. It’s called “The Routine Boredom of Misery,” and it’s about joy. Normally I would put an excerpt here to entice you, but I can’t pick just one part. Believe me, I’ve tried. Every sentence of this thing carries weight; every paragraphs leans on the ones before and after it for support; every point builds on what’s already been said while simultaneously setting up what comes next. Just read the whole thing, it’s not that long.
Then, if you like it, read some more!
Joy and health to all of you.
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I Love This Mug
This is my office mug. It’s got a bunch of banned books on it, which is great, but it also has THIS on the bottom and I can’t believe I didn’t notice it sooner:
Here’s the rest of the mug, if you’re curious:
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I Really Need to Rebuild My Buffer
Why, you ask? Because if I don’t, I’ll be in danger of writing more posts like this one.
Nobody wants that.
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Why Am I Like This, pt. XV, pt. II
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Why Am I Like This, pt. XV
Me: The Palworld type system needs fixing.1
Nobody:
- I’m sorry, but it’s just so dumb! The “basic five” circle of 💧-🔥-🌿-🪨-⚡ is fine–don’t fix what ain’t broken and all that–but then they have this weird little…dongle off to the side. Fire gets two advantages for no apparent reason, neutral is objectively the worst, the relationship between dragon and dark makes no sense, and all the other coolest types from Pokemon (like ghost and psychic) just get lumped in with dark. Ugh. ↩︎
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In Search of Secrets 