Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

@electrickeet Yes, I'd thought you knew about it which is why I didn't say anything earlier; sorry about that.

It was unusually active and visible from 2200-0200 (I had good luck around 2300) Friday, but might be visible today (Saturday) as well. Seattle definitely has light pollution and the colors aren't as clear to naked eye as with a phone camera, but it shows up mostly as distinctly lighter areas of sky which don't match to clouds.

Went to the nearest park, and once I got past the really REALLY bright lights there the aurora was far more obvious. The colors and shifts in it were far less obvious without the camera, but I could still see them. I decided against walking to 7-11 and by the time I got back to my apartment it was largely no longer visible from my apartment - so I think it really was most visible from here at 10:50-11:30.

Okay, I can *kinda* see it from here if I look due north - first time I spotted it was a VERY slight distort, it seems to have been more active about 5-10 minutes ago, I initially thought I was seeing the milky way which would be pretty unusual here. I can pick up on some green with naked eye but this is all WAY more vivid with iPhone camera, which sadly doesn't take great photos tho I told myself I wouldn't photograph if I saw it, hopefully I haven't messed up

@Ylfingr why not; open the new bag, use some of it, dump the remains of the old one in on top?

Lately I've been getting hit more often by the realization that my buttons are being pressed and naturally I feel MISERABLE,

such that not only might reality be a lot less obnoxious (just harsh),

but also, for most of 18 years my buttons were being pressed ALL THE DAMN TIME, this recursive loop of bullshit which made it impossible to feel like I had a chance of ever getting anything better, enough that horrible self hate was enough of an explanation/distraction that it actually FELT BETTER.

yuck!

Earlier today I was looking at an old Dragon magazine while on the pot and confused an illustration of a wizard with a bracer on his raised arm, to be a wizard wearing an elaborate, Seussian hat.

I thought, maybe D&D needs more weird hats? then realized that’s a slippery slope leading to Dark Sun.

@Kusimanse it’s Cap Hill, it gets furry posters and stickers slapped up everywhere

#drawings today. Future Seattle is full of big terminals with clicky analog keyboards.

hm. "wo shuohua yi diandian zhongguo, duibuqi. Qing shuo yingwen huozhe eyu?"

okay this is cool. Mandarin is kinda logical, so people from Deguo speak dewen, people from Faguo speak fawen,etc. Naturally I want to say which languages I *can* sorta understand so... people for Russia, EYUOSI, speak EYU. And similarly everyone in immediate contact with China (riben, hanguo, yuenan) has older forms. Equivalent to how the Russian for China and Chinese -kitai/kitaiskii - reflects an empire which hasn't existed for over a thousand years.

the Erowid review for taking a shit

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Okay so a 16’ tall dire hobbit, but he had hairy feet and had biscuits with tea, and that still counts. So it was a very large hole in the ground, but it was still a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.

it took me years to realize the name of the old 60s vintage song is "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye," because despite the very clear diction of the chorus I kept parsing it as "Sayonara, sayonara, hey hey, goodbye."

Managed to work on two #drawings today

Indiana Jones and the Egregious Ethnic Stereotyping

@ziphi well this is familiar

but who would be the best fit to direct the movie adaptation of the Silmarillion? since it's a pretty safe bet that David Lynch has effectively retired I'm pretty sure that leaves it a toss up between Peter Chung and Lloyd Kaufman

I was a good boy, girl or whatever the hell gender I actually am and I cooked a fuckton of noodles instead of spending more money. VEGAN even.