ikr signing into my slrpnk.net account was like going to an old home I hadn’t been in for a while.

This.

Saint Monday is the tradition of absenteeism on a Monday.[where?] Saint Tuesday is the less common extension of this to a Tuesday.[1] The tradition of taking Monday off has been common among craft workers since at least the seventeenth century,[2] when the workweek ran from Monday to Saturday as had been the custom and expectation for centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Monday

My last words will be: “Is this Loss?”

Let me think for a second…

Elder Goths hold the secret to aging successfully.

Embrace that look and go juggalo!

You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside

Not applicable. I don’t think any of those people could be characterised as “beautiful on the outside.”

I learned a really valuable lesson in first grade. My friend Daniele had a really nice belt-buckle, but he was wearing it upside-down. I was like: Daniele, why is your belt-buckle upside-down? And he was like: so when I look down, I can turn it up and look at it.

Daniele was a pretty wise kid.

When he asks to see their code, they send him a single file.

But wat if you’re indoors and have limited room for maneuver?

Elsewhere in a comment someone mentioned Passport Cards. iirc they’re only valid for travel to Mexico and Canada, but they are proofs of citizenship, and you can have a card as well as a passport.

Kinda reminds me of the AI winters that AI research has historically gone through.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_at_the_Crossroads

A day that will live in infamy! But in a good way. A day that will live in famy!

dunno about the anxiety part. But the creativity part, I always assumed it was bc the “filter” that keeps ya down finally got sleepy, leaving you free to self-actualize. The specifics probably vary by individual.

Those poor, poor academic publishers… they’re actually going to have to do some reviewing? And maybe even some EDITING? …nah, they’ll probably just run them through OpenAI…

kinda like an… opium? …of the masses?

• July 4th events megathread (r$ddit interface): https://redlib.northboot.xyz/r/50501/comments/1lopwzc/50501_july_4th_events/
• another list of events: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events
• lemmy instance: https://50501.chat/
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Game on the couch til I pass out. Wake up halfway thru the night, throw self on the mattress, shedding clothes til I’m comfortable. (varies by time of year)