Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

"AI apps on your phone will be able to tell if you're depressed"

me in 3 years "well this thing's broken, it's sending me alerts daily"

my original plan was "these beans and rice are going to be pretty good, or I'll try to salvage them by dumping kochujang all over them," and they're pretty good, but I'm still pondering dumping kochujang all over them

what if I used today as an excuse to visit a bakery?

the combination of watching other people get a dream come true, with everything that comes out of job hunting (including holding off on weed in case there's a drug test), definitely doesn't feel great.

I don't need to spend money on congee, do I?

#drawings today

well my scanner (from 2015 or so?) finally bit the dust. I realize a GOOD artist draws directly using the wonderful tools in the graphics program, but what if I'm not a good artist and want to draw on the bus or something?

@frost like... maybe if we had UBI and/or being an artist or writer wasn't MADE to be starvation wages, people would care less about a plagarism machine to enrich tech bros. Maybe if we didn't have a looming environmental crisis, using enormous amounts of water to power plagarism machines wouldn't matter as much. Maybe if we didn't have a hostile system that required the constant APPEARANCE of expanding profits, nobody would need to shove plagarism machines down everyone's craw.

@frost I'm usually really skeptical about Marxist rhetoric, but AI definitely makes me want to quote the whole "communism or barbarism" thing

it's the way of the future because YOU KEEP TELLING US IT IS AND PUSHING IT ON US AND PUSHING IT AND PUSHING IT rather than because it's actually a helpful, sustainable technology, FUCK YOU

who pollinates the pollinators?

@blubfeesh I'll take it if you don't get anyone else within a day or so?

hey, autistic folks;

would any of you have an opinion about https://www.acesaba.com/ ? They're my afternoon phone screen, but I want to check whether they're actually helping the kids.

Right now stuff I've run into about ABA makes me VERY wary. I've worked for The Bad Guys before (I actively liked working on U2 stuff), and I need the money, but.

A big thing to come out of my childhood was "I am not safe or comfortable" closely intertwined with "I am bad and inferior." The reality is I'm in some ways amazing and others broken and failed, and no more or less worthy than anyone else, since we're *all similar*, and the discomfort and threat of this world is pretty random. But my buttons get pressed, at some times a lot harder than others, and there's still a not small chance this will take me out.

@erin_kitsune emotional support extrovert!

I am now realizing that the heroic fantasy embodied in the art of Larry Elmore is amazing, luxurious hair.

Okay so it's probably more "being in your late 20s/early 30s forever" but still.

"an evening with Dr. Zahi Hawass, the man who made more money from Tutankhamen than Howard Carter ever did"

apparently listened to the Labyrinth soundtrack enough to recognize right before the BEST part of the movie

@joabaldwin joke's on you, I draw merfolk dolphin-style with horizontal flukes and a li'l vent anyway

stuffing an entire t-shirt into my boxer shorts to add authenticity to singing along with "Dance Magic Dance"

slap that baby, make him pee!

@chimerror Thanks. I was north enough that hitting the Edmonds Ezell's was entirely do-able, and Safeway was on the way back so I theoretically was responsible by buying potato salad and a Coke there.