Otter

@otter.is

Old queer 80's ott fellow always seeking happiness and shiny things in life. Writer, indie game dev, amateur photographer & astronomer, math nerd, Vaporwave enthusiast, professional eldritch horror summoner. RFC 2549 compliant since 1999. 🏳️‍🌈Seattle Area🌲

In San Francisco and I made my first pilgrimage to Castro St. This place is gay as hell and I love it.

The amount of AI slop on YouTube is pissing me off. I see a video that looks interesting, click it, hear the AI voice and shit, stop it, downvote it, then I have to go to my history and remove it so that doesn't pollute my recommends. I really miss the late 1990's internet. Fuck this shit.

Windows: "Antivirus isn't turned on!" Me: *panicking thinking malware turned it off, turns it back on, starts a full system scan* Windows, halfway in a 3 hour scan: "Hey, there may be threats! Gotta wait 'til I'm done to see tho! 😘" Me: *ANXIETY SPIKING* Windows: "All done!" Me: *facedesks*

Screenshot of Windows Defender showing the results of a virus scan in which it says it found threats. However the "threat" is the EICAR Test File which is just a text file with a specific string of text that's designed to test if an antivirus program is functioning. It's completely harmless.

Bluesky. Why. Why is everything webp now? That is such an annoying format to deal with when I want to save an image.

I'm sorry to talk even light politics, but no matter where you are, please keep on top of your voter registration. Things are getting more and more messy the closer midterms get and it's blatantly obvious they're trying to rig things by cancelling registrations willy nilly (among other things).

Hey Amazon, when I order a bunch of things and you do everything to convince me to have it all delivered on a particular date and time to "save boxes" and energy, but then shit arrives on multiple trucks and packages through the day, I'm just ignoring that from now on. Kinda defeats the purpose, ne?

Rant time. I had to call the place that installed our AC unit for servicing. The guy that picked up sounded like he was in a busy office and seemed normal at first, but something felt ever so slightly off. His responses made sense in the moment, but at the same time felt...weird?

I was somewhat gung-ho today to work on my game project, but today’s news really sucked the wind out of my sails. Here’s hoping I can pick it up tomorrow.

Dolly Parton showed this world what it looks like to lead with love. She stood with our community long before it was easy. Her voice created a world where LGBTQ+ people feel seen and celebrated. All of us at HRC will miss her dearly — and we will carry forward the light she shared with us.

Graphic. Over a photo of Dolly Parton reads a quote attributed to her: “I think everybody should be treated with respect...I hope that everybody gets a chance to be who and what they are.” The HRC logo is visible.

What kind of stupid bullshit furry drama did I just wake up to? No seriously, someone message me and tell me what’s up, because the only context I have is limited and trawling through Bsky for answers is nigh impossible and I wanna know just what angry words I should be using.

I wish I knew what happened with my generation. A lot of my friends were metalheads and punks in school, progressive and stick-it-to-the-man types. After graduation I watched all of them on Facebook do an about face into far right shit over time. Only me and two others kept our ideals.

Got vaccinated (flu + covid) and my shoulder hurts like a bitch. Never fails to surprise me when it happens. Didn’t used to be like that. Get a shot, no problem. Now it’s like someone sucker punched me in the shoulder as hard as they could. The fun crap that comes with age I guess.