evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

In Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov, a character is stuck after his car breaks down, because he doesn't know how to open the door.

Guys, Asimov predicted Teslas.

Happy Sunday from Canada.

The lockdown project for one of my parents neighbours was to build a scale model of the lake district from Lego. It’s now in the local museum.

So like 30% of Gen Z identifies as LGBTQIA+. Not only is that great, but it points at exactly how many queer kids of prior generations stayed in the closet so long they forgot it was even a closet. The only difference between then and now is that my generation fought like motherfuckers to make it safe for these kids to be themselves. If you think for one second you’ll drag us back, I got news for you - we already kicked your ass once, we can do it again as many times as it takes.

GOP pollster Patrick Ruffini pretends AI generated photos show black Trump supporters registering to vote.

(ETA: no wonder he needed AI, the fictions compound. Black republicans? Republicans registering black people to vote? Black Trump supporters? It's all made up like the star on that "American" flag.)

(Look carefully)

it's doomsday tomorrow and im still procrastinating.

Sculpture by Georgy Balabanov, Bulgaria.

Oh my!

#sillyScribbles #googlyEyes #cute #silly #drawing #snail

Saturday afternoon, in gif form.

#sillyScribbles #video #loop #Scotland #HighlandCow #drawing

With Space X we thought we were past being stuck having to use rockets made by Nazis.

Plus ça change...

Well, it's #GroundhogDay, again.

“Only in America do we accept weather predictions from a rodent but deny #ClimateChange evidence from scientists.”

I share this meme every year on February 2. #science

Had to get a loaner vehicle from a local dealership because a 10 y/o car that I love needed a lot of work. So they gave me the latest model of the same car -- brand new -- which was vastly less powerful than ours, and kept trying to steer me between the lines and cause the steering wheel to rumble when I hit a line and all kinds of crap that just annoyed me.

The dealership probably thought they would entice me to buy the newer model, but driving it just made me more convinced I made the right decision to put the money into the old car.

There was a practice session earlier on 😄

#sillyScribbles #animation #dance #silly #drawing

@stavvers Reminds me of the (apocryphal?) story of crows that pull horse-chestnut seeds off trees and put them on roads, so passing cars will crack the tough seeds open.

But crows don't like horse-chestnuts that much. On the other hand, squirrels love them. So squirrels run into the road to collect them. And sometimes get hit by cars.

And crows love the taste of dead squirrel.

computers are a completely normal field where there are still existing databases built on descendants of something called PICK OS, an early database made in the 60s to organize parts for a helicopter that never existed, for a system called Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS), as created by a guy named Dick Pick.

you took a perfectly good turing machine and gave it to a bunch of capitalists. look at it. it's got hallucinations. it thinks it's a parrot. what have you done.

h/t @Meyerweb

It has been a long day. Still, nearly the weekend.

#sillyScribbles #animation #seaShell #googlyEyes #silly