very sick

gave away my clippers tickets

sneezed coughed barfed all the things

can barely look at this screen

i’ll sit in an uncomfortable position knowing i need to move soon but this position is better than the others

symbolism

if not for the cats that always want food id never leave this half laying half seated position.

someone told me they loved me on the phone today

someone unexpected

a bro

but in a very heartfelt, sweet way

on a borderline, hey, you know we’re all gonna die, prob sooner than we think so

just know i love you and youre my bro

but without that character count.

do i have a good life? yes.

are my cats trying to ruin my life by pooping on the floor

FOR A SECOND DAY

and ruining my beauty sleep?

yes, but i should probably stop going to bed at 6am.

true, but my sleep schedule shouldnt revolve around two cats that were strays that appeared on my door as kittens

delicious kittens any mountain lion would have eaten like a twinkie

and then pooped out

not on my floor

not beside the window

not on my cubs blanket on my couch

but in a place the mountain lion knew was the right place to poop.

also talked to a beautiful woman for an hour about some fascinating things

including someone she knows very well i adore from afar

and someone i know ok who she adores from afar

this planet is tiny

dont poop in the wrong places

 

defending my favorite newspaper.

On Twitter a user named @TheAgeofShoddy
told the union boss of the LA Times, which had its first walk out in the paper’s 142 year history: 
You have no business asking for solidarity, now or ever. Your institution and your membership are a mockery of the term.
And then he pasted this opinion column from 2022 that has irked a bunch of anti-vaxxers, to no surprise of anyone. 

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To which I replied thusly:
That’s an opinion column, sweetie.

Every decent newspaper from high school to the pros have them. Subscribe to the LA Times for the next 6 months for just a dollar and you’ll be amazed how much more you’ll learn. latimes.com/subscriptions/

To which he wrote:

@TheAgeofShoddy

As though “it’s opinion” somehow gave a pass to that kind of evil, or remove the responsibility form everyone from the writer of it, to the editors who passed it, to the publisher, to the people like you who defend it without being willing to acknowledge what it is.
And since I am a crazy person with no respect for Time Management I wrote this novella: 
You don’t come across as a young person. Therefore you must have heard a wide variety of opinions through your life on many topics.

The best newspapers provide a place for many voices. The United States, and great newspapers like the Los Angeles Times, prides itself on freedom of speech.

It separates us from other parts of this globe where people have been known to be censored, jailed, or executed for mere words.

In Putin’s Russia last year a man holding a blank sign was beaten and arrested. Then others who followed his lead. It would be irresponsible and unAmerican for those editors who passed the column you mention, or the publisher who paid the writer, as well as people like me who defend it, to claim this is a truly free country if a veteran opinion columnist was censored for writing something that may ruffle feathers — or in your opinion is “evil.”

TV censors once believed Elvis’ hip-shaking was evil.

Performative politicians in Florida today claim American history and even the dictionary in school libraries are evil.

My opinion is the prevention of an earnest exchange of ideas in a newspaper is evil and echoes some of the darkest days in human history. Far darker than a take that rubs you the wrong way.

After a quick search through your Twitter history, you have made mention of the previous POTUS who is now leading the GOP hopefuls for that party’s nomination.

That man last year was found to have raped a woman and, years ago, gave the most notorious pedophile in this nation’s history a positive review. “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump said.

And famously, Trump did his best to overthrow his election loss by any means necessary.

Not only have you not called any of that evil, but you called Trump and his GOP (a party that has forced women to deliver stillborn fetuses), “the lesser of two evils.”

If words are capable of being evil, in your opinion, surely countless violent actions upon innocent children, mourning mothers, and outnumbered capitol policemen are far more evil and do way more damage than a dozen paragraphs in a paper you don’t subscribe to — a paper you should support.

Because that paper, in Voltaire’s words may wholly disapprove of what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.

latimes.com/subscriptions/

why do i love midjourney? let me count the ways

the main reason i love it is because it allows me to be creative in a way i dont have the talent for being. i cant paint. nor do i have the patience to mix colors

i also love how it adds third legs and doesnt seem to know how the human form works

theres a hack where you can upload a pic of someones face and it can apply it to the original face. doesnt always work, but its getting better with every new upgrade

i also like how you can trick it into making art on the background. i love Bosch and any time i ask it to mix a little Hiernonymous in there it kinda does it, but not really. still its the type of wallpaper id have if i was filth rich

another thing it can do is zoom out and then go to the left or right. when you do that sometimes it puts a person on the right

when it does that i also put someones face on that new person. this is also Pure who looks pretty great in these dresses, gotta say. not that ive ever seen a pic of her in anything so colorful or flowery but again thats why imagination come to life is so interesting

why is her hand like that? is she holding an invisible shot glass?

so this is where i was really impressed. i was trying to get marilyn monroe in front of the Berlin Wall. two things i figured any computer would know or have lots of reference images to search from. it did an ok job with MM’s hair and the wall wasnt bad

but when i added Pure’s face it was the best version of her face on someone elses body id seen.

the teeth arent perfect but look at that eye shadow. the details are fantastic even if the dress looks trashy on her. like what is happening there?

the shadows, her eyes, usually there would be glitches that a more patient man would fix in photoshop but all these pics here are straight out of the robot.

this dress looks a lot better. tho Berlin looks mighty grim.

its crazy what happened with my mind last night

i just hit a solid rock. i could not work to save my life. i would have been better off ubering all night.

finally i reached out to pure, above, and told her

whats great about her is she does not gaf so she could either ignore it or commiserate or anything

i said, after this episode i think i need a break,

she never takes breaks. and i hate breaks. i know im alone in this marathon but i wanna set records. records that will never be broken by one person.

which is an insane goal because everything gets broken.

and with tech, its gonna be way easier for the youngsters.

i hadnt done any face tweaks in a while bc i was so busy so tonight after i finished what i wanted i told the computer to give me marilyn monroe in front of the berlin wall then i told it to swap faces with pure’s and other than some slight adjustments with her teeth holy moly

by the end of the year theres no way its not doing video.

amazing.

the episode is up on youtube.

dude was great. he’s a freemason.

 

the devils got me

even though the cats were scratching like mad and meowing

i slept till 1pm

did a tour of the living room and Prince had pooped IN a box so i put him in his carrier

made him stare at it

and fed his sister and he had to watch her eat the entire can

then i made him wait another hour

do i think he got the message?

so hard to say.

the disrespect really is something tho

just know my entire life has been luck

from who i was born to, to where, at what time,

who id meet, how i got out of the hood, who deviginized me in that back seat in ventura

every last drop of it

for the last week ive been sweating my car bc the engine light went on and the garage i had just had it in kept wanting me to come in at 8am

but i dont get up till noon, even for the benz

so i just went to a closer one, of these armenian hippies

sweetest guys, will talk music all night with you

got in there today and there was a kid playing his switch

i think its the aunt behind the desk

sleepy dog sleeping on the couch

and before i could get a nice chat going with the aunt

owner tosses me the keys and says

error code says there was a misfire, but it’s not

and i catch the keys, no charge, alls well

free.

from omg whats wrong NOW with this car to

go out into that wide world and pick up strangers in the dead of night and traverse the second largest city in the usa, for your car is good, but you stink, go home and take a shower.

and then i got home and my favorite internet personality was on

and the rest of my day went to hell when the emmys came on

this week’s episode is going to be either late, or drastically chopped in half.

social media is the weirdest

i can make something original that’s incredible and no one cares

and i can just rephrase a day old news story that probably everyone missed

and it catches fire.

i mean im grateful anything i put out in the world gets interacted with

bc id rather have something than nothing

but it is very interesting.

watched the chiefs win in the bitter cold today.

took a nap. watched Takin Care of Business bc my man George flowed me a few bucks to rent it.

i would have never ever ever watched it

and it was cheesy at first and jim belushi was not great

and yet the movie was good

thanks george!