Jackie the eagle.

@Pavel I getcha there. But if the client is lying to you, you can’t really help them explore reality. And that’s not your fault. And one thing abusers often do is present things with the roles reversed so they’re the victim who needs validation. (My ex succeeded in doing with his therapist, and with a significant portion of my friends’ group. He soon began to abuse them, so they all went, “Oh shit, G was right,” and dropped him hard, but years later some of those friends are still ashamed and uncomfortable and this is sad to me because it wasn’t their damn fault.) I think for therapists it’s kinda like that thing where opiate addicts try to sue doctors who prescribed for them based on their lies about pain. The doctors turn around and sue them for fraud. (This is why, in more recent years, those transphobes who think it’s a gotcha to ‘prove’ that gender-affirming care is over/wrongly prescribed by lying about their gender to a doctor and getting a script, as if not having magical truth-detecting powers is malpractice, have just written dumb articles about their fraud where they don’t mention their informed consent form, and not gone to court.)

@junipersky My niece’s 13th birthday is tomorrow. I’m not prepared and yet as the aunt that colors my hair in vivids and owns a ton of makeup and stuff – I’m completely prepared. She’s come a long way from the 8 year old asking me to read her the boob chapter in the ‘my body’ book because you know, I have bigger boobs than the other adults around her so I must understand them better. Noted: I will remind her of this story tomorrow.

A couple of days ago I dreamed that I was part of a performance at some kind of arts academy, it was something like the big once-a-year performances those places do. For some reason I was put on the spot and asked to perform a couple of songs before the show started (many of my dreams have a focus on being asked to do something I’m not prepared to do) so I decided to change the lyrics to “Do You Wanna Build a Snowman” to something more thematic, which was nature, and sing that… Back in the waking world, I was on vacation with my family and thus we were all sharing a room. And that’s how my husband and son got woken up by me shouting “IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE A SQUIRREL” out of nowhere at 8am.

@Aria said in AI Megathread: I’m pretty sure we’re all just living in the plot of Wall-E now and I hate it here. Wall-E and Idiocracy. Yup.

@Pavel Okay, so I didn’t invent her presence on that one whole cloth. Whew. Going to have to check this out.

@RightMeow said in Real life happy: As my return to school isn’t a big deal to anyone in my actual life, I just wanted to share because I can. I am about halfway through my estimated timetable on my degree. I am double majoring with 18 credit semesters while working management for 40+ hours. I’m in accelerated courses to achieve the goal faster. I just got my certificates to say that I have again maintained my dean list holding that I’ve had the whole time and a merit award for taking part in the student insight committee. That is all. I return you back to the game opens, closes, and dramas. Thank you for reading. From someone who was also an adult student carrying a full-time course load while working a full-time job for something like seven years over two degrees: What you’re doing is incredibly hard. Anyone who doesn’t think it’s a big deal doesn’t know what they’re talking about. You should be enormously proud of yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pjzRJstARnE

@Wizz what a handsome

@Faraday CUTE!!

Because this is topical for me today with the final part of Wind and Truth coming out (yay, finally, I can start it!) … Cannot possibly recommend the company Graphic Audio enough as an audiobook experience. It was my gateway drug back into reading after an embarrassingly long stretch of fractured attention span. Their tagline is ‘A Movie in Your Mind’, which it pretty well succeeds at. They make everything a full Radio Play experience, with sound effects and music and a sprawling cast of voice actors for each book. The only downside is that they do tend to retain the same voice talent, so if you bounce around between some series, you’ll be like, “Hey wait, why’s Wit here? Oh, no, he’s not. Just the same voice.” Either way, cannot recommend it highly enough. The actors really swing for the fences, and when it lands, it lands so well.

@Roz obvs so nothing dethrones the AoA thread post count.

Ashkuri’s doodles are awesome. Characters, postcards, random drawing from an offhand comment I made as a joke. Good stuff if you get a chance to take them up on it.

@Cobalt I’ve asked. I’ll message you privately if I get a bite.

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@MisterBoring said in FAT BEAR WEEK 2025: Chunk is the winner. Also, I found out he’s got a broken jaw, so the injured contender story probably pushed a lot of votes his way. “His face looks sad and that makes me sad” versus “his belly is very round and that makes me happy” definitely came into play in a few of my votes for Chunk. The broken jaw is going to be a permanent issue for him, so I hope he continues to have several more years of being a very fat bear despite it.

Arguable, but the Teshigahara film Woman in the Dunes is based on The Castle by Franz Kafka, specifically the first part and the reaction by the villages. Also, please watch Woman in the Dunes, it is beautiful.

@Third-Eye shhhhh they were beautiful and I loved your poems