A small child on the bus is super impressed by an expensive Audi… because the numbers on its number plate are a palindrome.

We finally got the capitol at my job consolidated. Or in other words, I don’t have to drive from place to place anymore and I can bike to work again.

It’s been wonderful.

Had a dream Nintendo Switch released an emulator for a console I never heard of. And on this console was some kinda’ Ranger X-like game 2D run 'n gun thing where you had a bunch of different characters and pods you could choose between and customize and you and the pod could combine or partially combine, for different weapon configurations and stuff, it was awesome. It also had like Ace Attorney-like cutscenes between stages.

I thought, “the people must know of this game” and was showing it off at some get together. My sister and a woman who was like Amy Ryan but with brown hair and short and tan came up and I was showing her too. I gave her the Switch and she kept bending it without breaking the screen to “get a better grip” and she gave me vibes like she wasn’t super stable or wanting to hear someone tell her what to do so I tried being chill about it but I also didn’t want her breaking my Switch. My sister got mad at me for some reason and took a fee steps away and wouldn’t talk, neither would the Amy Ryan-lookalike, though she was still playing the game extremely suboptimally. She wasn’t even using the transformation mechanic.

And during it a puffy stray cat came by and sat on my shoulder. We were sitting on an old, sunken-in couch until they left with just me with the Switch and the cat on my shoulder. I called out to them but they wouldn’t come back from the crowd of people, asking what I did wrong.

Then I woke up.

Going back and watching Rogue One after Andor, it’s so weird. Much more star war than andor

I’m at my city’s annual hanami event and for some fucking reason for a good while there was just what sounded like generic movie trailer music blaring from the festival ground, who booked this shit

Edit: there is now Japanese music, sanity has been restored

I spend too much time on this damn app

life is unfair

The last bootleg feed I knew of for Trueanon (jumble.top I believe) seems to be down. A sad day when I can’t get podcast slop for free but there’s no world in which I am paying $5 a month for Trueanon, a podcast. Easy come easy go.

Jesus Christ I just got jump scared by my neighbor irl lmao. In my kitchen there is a window that faces there house and they also have a window at there kitchen so I accidently made eye contact with one of them at fucking 1 am and I really hope I didn;t scare them as badly as they scared me lmao

Is anyone else familiar with the experience of having people around you who love to hear you talk but don’t actually give a shit about what you’re saying?

It’s the most infantilising thing. They’ll go through the active listening motions but I can tell from their tone that they’ve checked out. Why the fuck did you ask me about the book I’m reading, or ask me for my take on world events, if you’re just going to mhmm your way through the conversation and start folding laundry or whatever? Sometimes I just trail off midsentence and they don’t even notice - they just respond with an, “…interesting!” a second later.

I put a lot of work into a tech political project recently, and in the early stages I had scraped a pile of politician’s speeches in order to do some word analysis. I described it to a political friend who also works in tech and was met with, “I don’t really get the point but it’s really cool to see you so excited about something!”

Sometimes I find talking to strangers so much more validating because they have nothing to respond to except what I say.

/rant

Question for the people that are actually not afraid of talking to others. How should I ask people if they want to hang out? I haven’t seen some friends in almost 7 months and I want to see them again. Should I just ask them if they want to get lunch or dinner somewhere? Thats what I think I might do tomorrow if I don’t get so scared of talking

I know measles is spreading in the USA (sth like 11 states and 1k cases) but where is birdflu at rn?

How about, when we colonize Mars, instead of making factories and Martian corporations, instead of all that we could just have a little rave. Earth could be for animals and crops, the moon for mining, and a non-stop dance party on Mars.

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Did they fire the “hey have a plan before escalating shit” guy in usaid/cia it seems every other day an asshole in power decide to just crashout/go postal sloppily.