This article is written based on a prompt I shared with a friend a couple weeks ago. You can my article from that "round-robin" prompt exercise here.
Since neither of my fedifriends have written their prompts yet, I'm actually borrowing the idea I gave Amin to write:
I'm going to …
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Read MoreFediFriend Amin wrote this in Early September:
Well, NaNoWriMo has made an official statement that they believe categorical condemnation of "AI" to be classist and ableist. I'm… I'm just done with them.
I used to overlook issues I was seeing with the organization behind NaNo, but… this is too much …
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Read MoreA while back, a friend and I exchanged subjects for blog posts, which turned out to actually be a lot of fun.
A week ago, he, I, and another fedifriend got together to exchange blog post ideas/prompts, round-robin style.
The prompt I was given (with purposefully no context) was …
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Read MoreThe working title of my previous post was, "A Grief Exchanged."
I couldn't quite make the title work in my head, so I abandoned it for "Adoption," which still works well.
I'm re-claiming that title for this post, because I can make more sense of where I was going with …
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Read MoreI wrote six months ago about the process of mourning and also my struggle to find another cat to adopt. There were a couple times that I had visited with a cat at a shelter and slowly warmed up to the possibility of adopting them, only to find that the …
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Read MoreA fedifriend mentioned me yesterday on a post about a recent kerfuffle regarding some decisions that Mozilla has been making, particularly in regards to buying an advertising company (and integrating advertising into the browser) and adding "A.I." features into recent builds of Firefox.
I had intended to reply with …
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Read MoreI've just started a new exercise regimen (because, you know, it was either that or apply for asteroid status*).
I've tried to get into exercise for... well... many, many years. I've even spent a lot of money of gym memberships that went absolutely nowhere.
I will say quickly that I …
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Read MoreI sent a link to my blog to my best friend from high school, and he sent me back a screenshot of a poll I ran a month ago (dear God, where does the time go?) asking what I should post next on my blog.
The winning entry was for …
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Read MoreJust moments ago, I removed the cat bed that's been on the corner of my bed for the past nine months, and placed it in the closet.
Minutes before that, as I walked into my home, I called out to my cat one last time (which I had done nearly …
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Read MoreI was chilling out at the parking lot of In-N-Out after having lunch there (because the weather is pretty nice today), but decided to go to a local library to have a nice desk in front of me and do some reading/writing.
I asked the Oracle at Googlii (via …
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