Do you think my cat would know that he's a fluffy, fluffy cat if i didn't sing made-up songs with lyrics that point it out?
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Bomkatt
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mastodon 4.7.2I like talking to people about the things that interest them. People are interesting! I pick up heavy things and put them back down, and I run when no one is chasing me. Love #books, #knitting, #outdoors, #weightlifting, #running and #baking.
curiositas et benignitas
Header: a road sign leaning by a tired looking wooden fence in the middle of a hay field.
Profile: Hic Sunt Dracones (here be dragons) sticker on a post
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Joined March 04, 2023
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Middle of the United States (first Osage, Kaw and Otoe-Missouria lands. Later Wyandot and Shawnee were forcibly relocated here)
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There are 11 starlings finding food in my yard right now.
I may have gone full Count Von Count and said "nine starlings. Ten starlings! 11 starling!" as the last two landed.
That uniquely IT moment where you catch yourself saying things like "no, you can't just do what people ask you to do!" or "i know they requested it, but why?"
I'm also trying to think about how to remove obstacles that are stopping me from good actions.
I got out of the habit of walking during breaks in the workday when i was suffering from injuries. How can i get back to that as the weather warms up?
Will buying some new gym gear motivate me to wear it to said gym?
What will help me feel good in my body the way it is currently?
If i am disappointed in this batch of cookies, i should try a second batch to see if it is better, right?
I made it through a dozen reddit posts that were actually sincere and helpful before the inevitable intentionally-missing-the-point-in-comments one.
Maybe i should play the lotto today too
No matter how well it suits my range, i probably should not sing I Touch Myself by the Divynals for work karaoke
I just heard a Ludacris song in a Home Depot ad. For the garden center.
Gathering myself up to push hard on the bike trainer today.
I'm also trying to shake off the sense of "nothing i do matters anyway so why try?" that i had last week.
I will not stall on granting access just because the request bugged me. I will not stall on granting access just because the request bugged me. I will not stall on granting access just because the request bugged me. I will not stall on granting access just because the request bugged me.
I just got myself through a 18m/30ish? Km bike ride, so that felt good.
Well, it feels very bad right now, but i'm sure accomplishment will settle in soon. Right?
There was all kinds of casual locker room nudity today.
That always makes me happy because the US culture is really uptight about nudity. There is nothing sexual about me trying to get myself back into street clothes after a swim
Pre-gym blog post done. I think today is going to just be a swimming day, plus maybe a walk to enjoy the nice weather later.
https://bomkatt.wordpress.com/2026/04/19/19-april-clever-summary-here/
For your Sunday reading, well, not enjoyment necessarily. Enrichment? Distraction?
In any case, here's a blog post
I forgot to post yesterday's workout, but it was brutal.
16 min amrap of
8 shoulder taps
4 weighted squats
4 thrusters
4 strict presses
My quads and shoulders are appropriately indignant
Last week, i said something about being a worrier in a call with a work friend. She agreed.
By "worrier," i meant that I have made a habit of thinking about potential problems before they happen. I am frequently correct for doing so
Now, in true worrier styles, i am concerned that i'm worrying too much and/or about the wrong problems
Someone sent me an email flagged for follow up, and by gods do i want to mark it as complete and then not to it
I grabbed some shorts yesterday, and they were too snug. It's sending me in an anxiety spiral... of binging on cookies.
It such an obviously Bad Solution to things, but somehow this is where i'm going.
It seems self defeating at best. Self punishing at worst. Do not recommend
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To priorize traffic over everything to capture revenue. And on and on and on.
Granted, it was published in 2024 while the "LLM = AI" PR stuff was still underway, so the author does mean AI broadly.
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@bright_helpings@mspsocial.net @pisscotheque@godforsaken.website i am so relieved to have left my boys-on-tractors days behind me.
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@saphire@dragon.style i particularly enjoy that the agentic AI tools are designed to help avoid agentic fraud
Need the Agentic AI Buster Buster
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@jan@fedi.kcore.org do use boiled or distilled water if your local authorities recommend it.
In the US, we have some bacteria that are safe to drink due to stomach acid but not safe for nasal passages.
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@alicemcalicepants @artemis i talk about getting a "recreational phd" someday.
I find the process and the studying intriguing, but no one is ever going to pay me for having it.
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@Sheril gut reaction: i would be skeptical as shit that a 20-something hetero man wouldn't expect me to be his mother and his partner.
(I know there are exceptions of course! Age dynamics don't bug me, but power dynamics can if not managed carefully)
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@ghost_bird i forget how many people are just not that great at seeing how things fit together.
I will highly recommend Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia to anyone looking for a very accessible discussion of the impact Ai and algorithms are having on society at large.
She focuses on human impacts and stories as well as the business and technology forces causing them.
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@WTL well, they're the Philosopher Kings and Great Warriors, obviously.
And not buried away in some backwater with no opportunity for literacy
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@WTL just the hubris, i suppose.
Are you well-connected, wealthy and powerful now? Then what makes you think you would be in this mythical past world?
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@WTL i think i'm so drawn to this because it makes them so human. It makes me look at them and think "what a bunch of weirdos."
I haven't yet decided if this is a compliment, but i am leaning towards no
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@randomized @WTL NOT YET! i like any kind of toffee or caramel or combo of butter and sugar, really
Well, this is new- i can't close an account till i click a link sent to my email, but the page it sends me to won't open.
I suspect this is stupid fingerprinting stuff- i was using multiple devices to try to do this.
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Taken from All Roads Lead to Rome by Rhiannon Garth Jones.
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@emilymbender @BoydStephenSmithJr i actively refuse to go to a local provider chain because of the Terms of their EHR software. It basically kept the right to do what it wanted with data.
I always think of how few people would care enough to do that level of reading as well as have the education to catch the nuance and resources to choose another practice.
That is not to shame anyone! It is asking a lot of an individual to do that
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@catobelli it's Chocolate Toffee Matzah time here. Well, it was last week, but i was disappointed with the batch so we can extend it.