I cracked a mirror five years ago, but it didn’t come off the wall. I thought it didn’t count.

Hold it straight down, is what I tell myself every time.

One of my bosses posted, “Teamwork makes the dream work.”

I wanted to ask “Whose dream?”, but I needed the job.

“Oh, we’re all in this together, we’re a TEAM! Yes, it’s my dream, and I take far more personal profit out of this company than any of you, but we all work for the same goal! I mean, we all have bills to pay. Yes, my bill is the mortgage on my 8000 sq. ft. McMansion, and my ski boat, and your bill is food, and a car payment, but really, we’re all the same here, just trying to get along in life. Right!?”

Fuck you, JOHnaTHaN.

Over the years, there have been fewer and fewer people in my life. Sometimes I told them to fuck off, sometimes they told me to.

Now that I’m retired, there is no one left, except my adult son, and the cat. It’s fine.

I do what I want to do, when I want to do it, and answer to no one. No compromising, no tongue biting, no one pushing me to do something different.

I’m happy and content. No regrets.

This kid will dream about Bluey and wake up in a cold sweat.

How to play a scale on a Theremin. This is Carolina Eyck, she demonstrates her technique for playing a scale on the Theremin that she invented and which has become the standard way to play the instrument. It took all these years for someone to figure this out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n-o71RUrQw

Yep. Grab it, spin it, set it back down–takes literally one second. I don’t need microsecond precision for pasta.

Sponsor Block–Skips some YouTube ads.

Language Tool–keeps me from making stupid grammar errors.

Cookie Quick Manager–you can lock cookies and other stuff.

So, like plain water, then?

Can’t put it science, they’ll gripe, “Why is this fluff cluttering up my feed?!”

It fits well enough in Science Memes, tho.

Post video!

Wait…

The extent of my use of AI: I downloaded and installed Deep Seek locally and played with it a bit. I also installed Forge AI locally. I didn’t see anything of interest to me and removed it. There’s no way I’m making an account on any of the online AI sites. I’ll leave that to others.

It always happens in the middle of the night, like it’s waiting. I tore one of mine off the ceiling and put it in the car, in the garage, so I couldn’t hear it. I damn near smashed it, but then I had the idea of putting it in the car.

Not next door to me, but a house on my walk has done this twice over the past few years. It’s been going on for at least a month this time, every time I walk past BEEP BEEP BEEP! I think the house is a rental. If I lived next door to that, I would 100% break in and solve the problem.

The topic always changes. You miss your chance. It bugs you so much that you hang onto the thought for weeks, months, or years, and bring it up promptly at the next opportunity.

“We talked about banana peels four years ago?”

“Almost five.”

“And, you waited for it to come up again to say that banana peels are used in water purification?”

“… yeah?”

“…”

They hold the thought in sharp, high-res focus and loop it in their head over and over, never forgetting.

This might be a temporal anomaly.

A very painful temporal anomaly.

How stupid should we make this character?

Yes.

We’re animals, we shouldn’t be afraid of the environment we evolved in. The ongoing and rising obsession with cleanliness is not a good thing.

If Ivory stops making their traditional soap, I think I’ll need to start making my own to avoid antibacterials.

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Gotta admit, I’m a bit jelly.