CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@desea its better than RT...

The old man is the ideal target audience for AI slop voiced nonsense YouTube content so basically I'm being water boarded any time I go through the living room during the day.

MAID: Mutually Assured It Doesn'tmatter

@maxine counting or not counting AGPL violations?

@fiore I wish it wasn't $60

Alright who wants a shot?

@technicallydifficult I should get a khukri for hacking through thorny vines and shit.

@technicallydifficult I'm rooting for the warrior doll, for sure.

@technicallydifficult not blasting out everyone in reply, I was listening to it in between then and now.

Anyway, I feel like some of the metaphor was a little lost on me, but I can tell it came from the heart and succeeds at telling quite the story. I have to admit hearing modern phrases being sung over an orchestral score kinda gave me a little whiplash, but I understand what you were going for with that.

Did you do the vocals as well? That was really well done, very professional sounding.

@crypt0cler1c @jerry Healthy Paws

@jerry I also recommend pet health insurance to anyone who will listen. I pay $180/mo in premiums for two senior dogs, and the policy reimburses 70% of non-routine care.

One dog had $13k worth of surgical procedures in 2025 and I never had to fight to get reimbursement or anything. The other dog takes $15/dose allergy medication, which by itself makes the policies worthwhile.

@technolyze @sampler I can't hate anyone. Its not in my nature to hate. Even people who have wronged me, they were psyopped. Life is too short for petty conflict. I love the people who hate me even more, because they are more in need of love.

@mer everyone should use my model of taking up ungoogleable usernames.

"Now for more songs you probably tried to download on Napster" hey fuck you man

@raccoon I didn't even say anything about one being better or anything, and I don't feel like I really implied it either. I just expressed that I wished you could experience it.

@raccoon its too 4AM for a subs v. dubs debate but I still wish you would.

@raccoon they'd cast some husky voiced mature woman to voice Kikuri and I would declare a fatwa against the people responsible.

Sorry about all of that. Everything else tonight. I didn't lose it, but I kinda got so wrapped up in all of this, that I forgot about everything else for a moment, As one does. Anyway.

Can I ask you for something selfish? Please? When you have the opportunity to do something kind for someone else, will you do it? Please? For me? Hopefully they will have a good time, and not be lonely, at least for a little while. That's all that I'm asking. A "random" act of kindness. No reasoning, no motivation, just because.

I'm a bit embarrassed how much that I want for everyone to have a good time. It makes my heart hurt, to think of excluding some people from it. Its silly. Cooking, cleaning, creating, sharing, all of my hobbies and interests are tied up in things that I want to do for other people, things that will make other people happy. Things done in service of other people.

I'm sorry. I thought that if maybe things were different, that by the time we got here, our fate would be different. But it isn't, and it won't be, even if we tried again. I'm smiling, because I can, but... its okay not to smile. Its okay to be scared. Its okay to be afraid. Life isn't just being happy all the time. If it were all the dumb idiots wouldn't complain about it.

Hope is infectious, isn't it? Wishful thinking, belief, yearning, attention. But what do you think happens next? Are you just going through the motions? Trying to process the day, talking, fighting, studying, working, whatever, to make it through? Surely sometimes it feels like an insult, that the earth continues rotating around you.

But don't you give up. Not ever. Even when you're going through the motions, spinning in place, trying to find something, anything, that means a little something, Don't lose hope, don't quit on what might be. Don't forget about your friends.

You can open your eyes now. The people who need you are crying out. Listen, answer, help, and hope. That's what keeps us human.

I am simultaneously "tired of this grandpa" and also aware that "that's too damn bad".

@lizzy oh max, lmao