Clematis flowers coming into their own! #bloomscrolling

RE: https://1password.social/@1password/116569353856438624

Oh man, I’ve been putting off moving away from 1Password but I guess I need to bump it up the todo list if they’re eating the AI slop.

Which is actually under the red blanket. Two blankets for extra cosy.

Garlic continues to approve of the heated blanket. #GarlicTheCat #catstodon

OK, time to attempt sleep.

TheGamer just posted:

Mass Effect Trilogy Director Says AI Is "Creatively Soulless"

Casey Hudson has a pretty straightforward stance on AI.

https://www.thegamer.com/star-wars-fate-of-the-old-republic-no-ai-claim/

#gamingNews #TheGamer

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

i have yet to meet a single dev or office bee who was forced to use AI and now adopted that AI and saw their workload decrease. it's actually the opposite. now they are just working 2x/3x as hard to double check the AI's "help" 😂

this is one the greatest scam AI companies pulled on everyone while destroying jobs and environments.

Not to be outdone by Ireland, The Netherlands has just picked TikTok, Meta and Uber's lawyer as the new head of the Dutch Privacy Authority. Well done everyone. For shame. https://nos.nl/artikel/2614241-advocaat-van-tiktok-en-meta-wordt-voorzitter-privacywaakhond-ap

Absolutely love to get emails from yarn companies that start with "Due to the current geopolitical situation in the Middle East,"

If it's not a David Attenborough documentary, is it not merely a sparkling nature show?

Yet another nap. Tedious.

Today is made of thinks I am avoiding.

Have headache and keep forgetting to take pills for that. I will correct that now.

I got it done! Chapter 19 of Synthetic Agency is here, and full of angst! https://www.patreon.com/posts/synthetic-agency-158085758

Synthetic Agency is an android romance novel I'm serialising on my Patreon. You can read the first chapter for free: https://www.patreon.com/posts/119290924?collection=1313927

Boosts very much appreciated!

#robots #fiction #romance #SF #lgbtq+ #writing

Garlic pestered me for 2 hours to get up before I did at 6am, so I am not what you would call well rested.

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@ska/116564058110627356

This. The toot this is in reply to doesn't quite work for me because I have never heard Jenga described as cooperative. The aim *is* to not topple the tower yourself and hope the other person does.

But the message that flirting should be cooperative? Yes. And it explains why I usually find flirting makes me feel uncomfortable.

I want honest interactions where we both enjoy each other's company. But my experience of being flirted with is mostly like being hunted. HUGE turn off.

PCOS renamed to PMOS for accuracy, as the ailment only sometimes involves polycystic ovaries but always involves weird metabolic and hormone shit. https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/polycystic-ovary-syndrome-pcos-new-name-polyendocrine-metabolic-ovarian-syndrome-pmos

Happy to see this news, and/but also please kindly remember that's not the only aspect of language about PMOS that's a problem--not all of us who deal with it are women, and the scarce medical literature and reporting that discusses non-women patients can get *extremely* stigmatizing.

me tossing pest traps down around the oven: “cut the enemy’s supply lines, and surely they will flee from you”

the actual spirit of Sun Tzu, floating over my shoulder: “I really couldn’t have been any more clear about what a bad idea laying siege to a fortress is”

Nicole has a simple rule. She won't date women or vampires. Paige is both but Nicole finds her irresistible. Paige keeps sabotaging herself whenever she has a chance to get into a serious relationship. Will their self-sabotage keep them apart?

Find out in Beware Of Fangs! a paranormal romance novella by Midge Hollerin.

#SapphicRomance #ParanormalRomance #EroticRomance