I will never be as cool as this guy on the mcmaster carr catalog

It's driving me to drink.

Which seems wasteful, to be honest, cuz it's really a very short walk.

These fuckin' headlines.

"Far-left extends victory streak into Denver"

Far-left? Far-left?!?

Only billionaires think fair wages, reasonable healthcare, decent schools, and viable housing support are "far left" issues.

<sigh>

SoCraTes UK 2026 was a fantastic event as always. Sadly this year we sold fewer tickets and had fewer sponsors than we hoped, and the upshot is that we finished this year’s event with a shortfall of £2,300. :(

We've therefore started a crowdfunder to raise money to clear the remaining debt: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/socrates-uk-2026-crowdfunder

We will be delighted to receive whatever you are able to share. No amount is too small! And if you can't donate money, then sharing this campaign also helps :)

On the last day of Pride Month, happy Trans Pride, now and forever and ever and ever, Amen.

Dammit.

I completed today's article and was wondering how many lines it was on the screen. I didn't find that out, but Safari included a menu item "Summarize", clearly an "AI" summary of some kind, so I clicked it. It provided two very coherent paragraphs that sounded quite certain about it all. Each paragraph was substantially correct, and each included an important error that resulted in a misstatement of what was really in there.

Damn "AI" and the horses asses it rode in on. 🐴🍑

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Look, I'm elderly, nobody fucks me anyway, nobody even touches me, so I can just ask stupid questions.

Listen, I'm just glad you're staying alive.

On TV, women wear bras to bed.

Now.

I freely admit to a limited experience of sleeping with women -- not all of whom I was having sex with -- but I have to tell you, none of the women I ever spent the night in bed with wore their bras to bed.

Some slept nekkid. Some slept in formal nightgowns. Most slept in a long t-shirt and panties.

Am I just so inexperienced?

Christ I'm tired. They keep telling me all this smoking and drinking will kill me.

When, Lord, when?

I wish the fuck people would stop saying "AI".

It was James Baldwin, actually, who taught me that one can be angry and kind at the same time.

(I'm that guy who sits down at the end of the bar, and patrons say, who's that, and the server says, oh that's geepaw, he's very nice, don't go down there.)

Oh, and *another* thing: if you have to encode the variable's type in the variable's name, your functions are too long or your boundaries are too permeable.

Look.

It's Monday.

Your teeth are sharp. Your claws, carefully curled under, but still visible to the knowing, are razors.

And your booty? Well. I mean. I don't wanna get weird here. Dag, man, you flat-out *fit*.

The point is:

Stay safe.

Stay strong.

Stay angry.

Stay kind.

*RESIST*.

Every way you can, every time you can, every place you can, as much as you can.

Oh! Total cross-fertilization of threads. In another part of the forest, I was talking about "The Music Man".

Here's "'Til There Was You".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLDsLeVxOaU

Look, I'm a judg-y motherfucker, and I want I want I want to judge.

But if you never felt love, you won't know what love is.

If you never saw art, you won't know what art is.

If you never heard music, you won't know what music is.

And if you've never seen excellence, how the fuck would you know?