I feel like I've had a really rough week and emotionally I don't feel well. Brightside is apparently 2 companies on IG/twitter reached out to me and stated they wanted to send me art supplies to try. Both seem to be impossible to get ahold of to ask questions so they're probably a lie. Theres a 3rd that has sent me supplies in the mail, or atleast I have a DHL code. Could be poop in a bag.

I submitted to a watercolor contest and then the Trekkel paintbrush company online is hosting a pet portrait contest. They send you a wooden panel to paint on. I meant to work on my panel this weekend but this is the second time I've tried to work on wood ever and I feel like I've already ruined the panel. Likes its frustrating me and killing my creativity. I tried tossing the panel to the side and working on something else but I can't seem to be inspired by anything else to do anything which is rather stagnating. I wanted to paint something this weekend but apparently thats not happening.

We tried watching the new Dumbledore movie and the new Batman movie and I died of boredom with both. Absolutely couldn't do it. I did end up making a corgi pattern though. So if anybody needs to corgi up their day. Have a pattern. Don't know why the damn corgis couldnt appear on my wood panel though!!!!

I said it in the notes on the last post but I’m gonna say it again.

I’m married to someone with severe memory problems. Automation of household appliances & systems helps him a lot and helps me a lot because it reduces the number of things I have to keep in my brain at all times. I love doors that lock themselves, being able to schedule dog food being delivered, a thermostat I can manipulate from wherever. Beyond my little bubble it should be noted that voice controlled appliances can be really good for people with mobility concerns. Appliances that can measure and talk and remember little tasks can be such a blessing for people.

I will never forgive Amazon and Google for taking technologies that could be really helpful and weaponizing them, and fuck everybody who acts like its some kind of conspiracy theory that those devices are spying on you. You absolutely should be distrustful of those devices but just make sure you’re getting angry at the right people.

Making accessibility devices evil is just like so Disney villain

My mom is blind and without her Alexa literally could not cook, go shopping, or do a million other things. Because Alexa is voice-activated, she doesn’t have to fumble with knobs or write a list she can’t read.

I will never forgive Amazon for how much I hate a tool that allows my mother to live her life.

Open source and secure alternatives for some of these:

- Voice activated smart speaker: Mycroft (can be purchased as a complete unit, or DIYed with a Raspberry Pi and microphone+speaker array) https://mycroft.ai/

- Smart Home automation: home-assistant (cannot be purchased, originally developed by MIT) https://www.home-assistant.io/

- Zigbee (the wireless protocol for smart lights and other smart devices) bridge: Conbee II (this takes the place of a Phillips Bridge, for instance. And is in many cases better because it works with all brands of smart light that use Zigbee--which is almost all of them, including the cheap IKEA ones--and also works for devices that aren’t lights. Cannot really be DIYed because Zigbee needs special hardware, not just software) https://phoscon.de/en/conbee2 

I don’t know any alternatives for locks, vacuums, thermometers, or anything else sadly. None of these are that difficult to set up with just a little bit of tech know-how, and extensive guides already exist for almost all problems you could run into because the open-source community is almost psychotically dedicated to its projects, unlike Amazon, Google, and Apple where it’s practically impossible to get help with any problem that’s even slightly unusual.

Oh thank you!! These area really neat

LOL this reminds me of this one

Wait wow now… the beak is a fake? So he can communicate with no mouth..and without his beak he sort of looks like…

DAFFY WAS A MARTIAN THIS WHOLE TIME!?????

Is that why Queen Tyrah’Nee was attracted to him?

Facebook is so beautiful tonight

If this resonates with you at all PLEASE, for your benefit, go read this tweet thread on “fawning”

Oh my god i finally have a word for it….

There’s such enormous power in naming and understanding things, isn’t there 🙏

I nearly fucking scrolled past this, but I came back and read it.

Now I’m sitting here, re-thinking all my past and present relationships with everyone, and….

Fuck

I mean I’m saying, y’all, if it gives you pause, let it!

I see it’s back to call me out again

Same, like…everyday 😂

Okay. I’m crying.

I saw a thing and thought it seemed like something you might find cool

-This is GENIUS-Systlin-

I want to be this badass in my yarn crafting one day!

A plot twist

Its real? 💀💀💀💀

The true meaning of boys will be boys

This is an arachnid

when u scratch a cat’s chin and they lift their head up reblog if u agree

when u scratch a cat’s cheek and they lean their head into ur hand reblog if u agree

when u put your hand in front of your cat’s face and they gently headbut u reblog if u agree

when ur cat runs just a lil bit faster to get to u reblog if u agree

cats reblog if u agree

When you go to pet your cat’s stomach and it tries to push your hand away with its back feet and trap your hand with its front feet and you are sad

*phone buzzez*

Me: “buzz buzz”

bruh the only time a man should have an abortion opinion is if he’s pregnant

so back in high school i was in the class for “troubled kids” and there were like maybe 7 kids in there. there was one punk kid in it and i remember when i got my first denim vest he got excited and just ripped a patch off of his and was like “here is something to add to it” and i always thought it was so sweet and wholesome

and now years later we were just talking and he was like “i’ve always had a thing for you” like goddamn… where was i for this??? why didn’t you tell me??? hello????

THATS NOT JUST BEING NICE??????????????????

it’s the punk version of giving flowers my dude

September 30th

October 1st

I read an article about how Millennials don’t carry cash on them and got annoyed and literally yesterday I was out with a group of friends and NONE of us had cash

I mean if you get robbed you can cancel the card and transactions. if you get robbed for cash that’s it man

millennials are ruining the robbery industry.

When English isn’t taught correctly…

Check this bellend who doesnae ken that Scots, and indeed all “improper” dialects an accents ay English, arenae incompatible wi intelligence oar eloquence ay expression

(I mean, the original post insnae exactly the most poetic ay thoughts, but neither’s fuckin off tae bed wioot gien yer mate a cover, whit the fuck’s wrang wi you, were you raised in a fuckin shed)

Scottish Tumblr ™ came through