I got some incense coils. This one has already been burning for seven hours straight! #incense #fragrance #shoyeido

Can we stop making fun of people who play the lottery please? We know we're not going to win it; we're just paying for that brief, illogical feeling of hope. #money #lottery #hope #gambling

There must be a hyper-specific German word for that sense of abject despair after a long break from work that comes from realizing you're only days away from having to go back?

For about a week now, there has been a single fly in my apartment who just seems to want to hang out. He chills in the bathroom or on a lampshade until people are up and about and then he just goes and tries to sit on you or just walks / buzzes around your area as if to see what you'r[...]

A version of Hook in which Captain Hook is explicitly an old queen: *Stabs Rufio* "Now *that's* what I call twink death Smee!" #hook #gay

That feeling when you accidentally like your own woot and can't undo it lol

The hardest part about testing an incense composition is, counterintuitively, not trying too hard to smell it. You have to kind of let the fragrance come to you. Before I commit to turning it into incense sticks, I'm using a traditional Chinese method of incense burnin... see complete post

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

doom boy@doomboy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

All I want is to live in a country where this story isn’t the 80th most alarming news story of the day

Working on boring spreadsheet; going to take a break in a bit and work on fun spreadsheet instead. :A_BlobCat_Wobble:

Part of a batch of palmiers I made over the weekend; these crunchy, sugary little ears are quite possibly my favorite thing to make with a box of frozen puff pastry. Originally posted at https://nathanupchurch.com/gallery/cooking/dsc0033-compressed-webp/ #vegan #baking #pastry

Sarah's Vegan Kitchen just dropped Cozy Autumn Kitchen 2025. Big fan of these videos. :neocat_cofe_256: #vegan

Picture from a review I wrote on Boy Vienna's 11:11 incense "cigarettes." #incense #designer #review #blog #cigarettes

Anyone else see this going very wrong, very quickly? #AI #slop #SpicySlop RE: https://mastodon.social/users/verge/statuses/115373821553522545

I love 3D printing it lets me have things I never thought I'd get to own like a 🌈 coffing incense smoker. I got the file for this off of bambu labs #incense #incensesmoker #3dprinting #3Dprints #pokemon