marie
@marieiskandar.me
late thirties. she/her. gamedev, not that i ever finish projects. i am a thousand years old and have seen many a ghost. from the computer, sadly. erstwhile yinzer now living in tokyo. 日本語🆗 (嘘ですが…).
Dropping abstruse and esoteric ramblings into the group chat under the thinnest possible pretexts so the homies hit me with the singular 👍 react before moving on to literally any other topic
Some friends are teaching their baby ASL as an early bridge to speech and they made the mistake of teaching her “want” as a concept. Now she wanders around the house signing “want” all the time as an expression of unfocused desire. They fucked up and made the baby invent the opposite of Buddhism.
see also people who say "well look AI commented my code" with apologies for this misuse of Ludwig Wittgenstein: a nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.
baffled by people who think AI is valuable by side A having AI inflate bullet points into paragraphs, side B having AI deflate those into bullet points, whether an article, email, book, etc send the bulletpoints. that's the only signal in there but it'll be the same bullets, and not show altman too
fell asleep on a shakti mat under a weighted blanket and woke up with a back that looks and feels like a dinosaur hide
Aries: Dress for the job you want. So put those sweatpants back on and lay on the couch, you recluse.
hell yeah
The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social discusses the craft & need for human translation. Then, a Rāmāyana movie, a huge new Sardis statue, the ancient jade trade in Canada, a Dolly tribute, new ancient world journals via @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social, & much more. Let’s go!
I mean if you’re pitching Doug Shippuden and don’t lead with whatever cyborg body Mr. Dink has transferred his consciousness to in order become immortal that’s on you “Douglath, eternal life is very expensive…and ya don’t even pay it in cash”
Concept art for a proposed ‘Doug’ sequel series, titled ‘Doug Kids,’ has been posted online by series creator Jim Jimkins. The series was pitched to Disney in 2019 but ultimately never moved forward.
This morning my large powerful brain burped up the idea of a porn website written by ChatGPT saying, "You won't just come—you'll arrive."
i think a puppygirl broke free of her restraints near my psych clinic based on the trail of prescription sleeping pills that ended in a broken leash
I feel like “Press R2 to hold hands” is going to become a meme
"I'm afraid to be nice to someone because the cool kids will be mean to me" is something you should grow out of. Preferably before first grade.
There's been a pig loose in the bywater back home for several days now and people have been giving it snacks and puddles to lay in while they try to figure out where the hell it came from
dreamt that i was experiencing rebirth into naraka as a sapient short-form video aware and unable to change that it was going to be played in a continuous loop for trillions of years
i think i’m around a 4, and would score even lower if i weren’t a 6’1” baritone
quote this with how intimidating YOU think you are on a scale of 1 - 10 and let other ppl reply to it with how intimidating THEY think you are >:)
the very idea of saying no to this guy is ludicrous
Drink coffee before go? Say yes to me? Say no to me? Yes No Why you say no?
this is the rpg mode of puyo box ps1 for the curious. its good. this is how arle opens doors in it
my father's emails are a unique genre of inscrutable poetry, and they explain perhaps so very much about the way i talk today
Frog and Toad were caught in the rain. They ran to Frog’s house. “I am all wet,” said Toad. “The day is spoiled.” “Have some tea and cake,” said Frog. “The rain will stop. If you stand near the stove, your clothes will soon be dry.”
In 2015 I bought cigarettes from a dog, a literal dog, sold me cigarettes. It was a brand I had never seen and since cannot find, cigarettes called “el viejon”. The logo was a dog with an eye patch Everything in my life has been a mess since then I did quit smoking tho. But I’d smoke el viejon