Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 11hThe plumber is coming tomorrow - at 7.30am, so I'll be asleep. I doubt he'll need to go into my bathroom, but I've cleared it out a fair bit anyway. The leak is coming from the pipes under Mum's bathroom - she's just worried he'll want to open up the ceiling of my bathroom to access the pipes. 110
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 20hI thought I'd resolved the phone charging issue by getting a magnetic case and a bunch of matching chargers, since the cable charging seemed to be the issue, but the night before last, my phone was refusing to take a charge for more than a few seconds, and went flat overnight. 110
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 22hJfc...look,if *Amazon* doesn't want to engage with this shit, it probably isn't safe for anyone else. Or they're working on their own version 🤦🏼♀️ 020
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Productive day. Put a new screen protector on my phone, read an entire new Toby Daye book, dug out some one backpacks for mum and the kids to use tomorrow, washed my hair, did the groceries (self scanning as you go = still kind of fun, also faster), and grabbed kfc for dinner. 120
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I...did not even know this was possible. It's not the WORST thing I know about measles, but wow, it's up there. 010
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Any damage AI does to humanity will be because of the way humans choose to use it. I think the most likely scenario is that it's used to perform an important task and it does it extremely badly. Something humans are already capable of, but it can do more of, faster. 151
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Reddit is once again doing a sterling job of reminding me that, while I didn't get as long with Raq as I believe we deserved, we did get a better class of relationship than a lot of people seem willing to accept. Which is both a good thought, and a bad one. #grief 020
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I've been waiting for the keyboard desk I ordered to arrive. It was marked as having made it to Australia 20 days ago. It only moved to "customs", and then "customs complete" today, after no updates for 20 days - after I sent a query. Hoping they actually found it... 010
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Well, bugger. I didn't think of this. I probably can't listen to the Dungeon Crawler Carl Immersion Tunnel while my nieces are in earshot. Especially since I'm currently up to the bit with the dead sex workers... 120
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know the old philosophical question of whether we all see colours the same, but we can't tell cause we all use the same words? People with and without ADHD literally use the same words to describe entirely different experiences all the time. 130
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Sometimes you think of something out of nowhere, and you have to stop and breathe for a bit. Even if I build a life where I can be happy, every moment of that life will be less happy than it would have been. Every bit. I could win the lottery, and still... #grief 120
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My week off has officially begun! The moments of deep relief that pop up every time I remember I don't have to go back to work till the Tuesday after next are just lovely. 120
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Before dinner, I was sitting at my desk, listening to an audiobook and half falling asleep. And let me tell you, that is a weird state to be in when the audiobook suddenly says "And that's when the table tried to eat Donut." 051
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Finished my lunch break, went to the loo, heard a dripping sound...checked the shower, no sign of dripping, but I can still hear it. The sound is coming from the direction of the window...oh, look. There's water dripping from the top of the window frame. 210
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I've gotta say, if you blindly accept your meeting updates without checking to see if this one relates to the meeting you have to fly to another state for, I have minimal sympathy when you have to reschedule your flights and hotel. 010
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Istg, when I read @seananmcguire.bsky.social/Mira Grant's Newsflesh books I really thought the rogue government agencies concealing the truth about health issues was really inventive, not predictive... 18221
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Still feeling drained this morning, and I've still got a headache. Really glad I've just got today and tomorrow to get through before I have my week off. Even more glad that it works out to 10 days straight of not working. 010
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm looking for a particular type of container, and scrolling through amazon, and I spotted this, and just had an immediate mental image of the specific kind of kitchen this would be part of. Nothing is stored in the original packaging, everything matches, and they choose their cereal to blend in. 010
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Please know that I am absolutely not an expert in this subject, and I've never even tangentially been involved in this industry, and even *I* can see this is a terrible business decision. Given the parties involved, I'd assume grift over idiocy, but I wouldn't bet the farm on that. 020
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Made the decision to book my EAP counseling session for the end of the day so it wouldn't matter if I spent all of it crying. Forgot about my adhd pre-appointment paralysis 🤦🏼♀️ I am absolutely not going to have a normal one today. 110
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Got a #grief counseling session booked for tomorrow afternoon/evening, through my work EAP. I go back and forth on whether I'm nervous. I go back and forth on whether I'm going to be able to speak. I'm debating asking mum if she wouldn't mind being elsewhere... 110
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My boss occasionally tells me to slow down or not to assume that other people get things, because I'm very smart, so sometimes I get ahead of people. I often feel like she's being unfair. Then someone will do something that demonstrates very clearly that I've been overestimating their abilities... 110
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My boss has recently decided we need to start making a big fuss about good things we do, cause otherwise people only hear about the times something fails. Wouldn't hurt to apply this strategy to more important fields, too... Like Y2K, if you fix the problem quietly, people think there wasn't one. 020
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I hate that managers have ruined the phrase "friendly reminder". It now always carries a hint of "I shouldn't have to remind you"... 110
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If someone were to tell me that the posthumanist dreams of the AI cultists were going to come true, I would have only one wish for the future. And that would be - that the process of digitising their personalities into posthuman entities would not delete the original until after the copy is awake. 110
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Woke up this morning to an email saying someone had logged into my ubisoft account from the UK. Didn't follow the link there, but went directly to the site, logged in (using 2FA), and found two logins from the UK and one from Columbia. So now I'm quite curious about this failure of 2FA. 120
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 19/09/2026What's weird is, we've literally just been through this with covid. That was the least sexy pandemic-killing-millions imaginable. We all just had to stay home and wear masks and get vaccines - there were no post-apocalyptic gangs and supply runs and adventures. The AI "apocalypse" won't different. 141
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.” – IBM Training Manual, 1979 130
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Alan gets put forward occasionally as a possibility to play Carl in Dungeon Crawler Carl. This tweet from him is the first thing that's made me think there might be more to it than just "big guy" 😂 020
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is going on my list of ideal afterlives, along with the end state of The Good Place. If this was what greeted Raq, they would have been happy enough to be at least temporarily distracted from the actual situation. #grief 010
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I'm so very happy that it's finally Friday, and to compound my joy, my boss canceled the annoying meeting that I would have had to run even though it wasn't my idea or my subject \o/ AND it's not my turn to present anything for our weekly reflection session 😂 010
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Tried out the scan and pay feature at my local supermarket today. It's absolutely intended to spy on your shopping habits - it tracks you around the store and has a camera to monitor the trolley - but it's not going to give them more scope to fire people, so I figured I'd try it 😂 110
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Almost at the end of my second very long feeling week in a row. Cannot wait. Week after next is my week off, and I can't wait for that, either. I'm really drained and I really need the break. 110
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 16/09/2026One of the lesser known challenges of #grief - what about the things they wanted you to watch/read/listen to? The things they loved that were new to you, that you didn't get to before you lost them, because you thought you had so many more years to get to it all. 100
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 16/09/2026@kath-ballantyne.bsky.social How've you been? Are you back onto your antihistamine schedule? No delayed issues? 100
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Just half-watched an episode of a docu-series about the Tampa scandal, and then an I Was Actually There about the Whitlam dismissal and now I'm genuinely angry at the people who did so much to bring Australia down and make it smaller and meaner. 100
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Coming back to my new fancy chair after a day of the office (including the crappy meeting room chairs and the guest chair in my boss' office) is just *so* damn good. 000
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I was planning some leave once the projects that just went live had bedded in, but the week I kind of wanted had a workshop in the middle for a new project, so I wasn't sure when to book. Boss has just told me she's taking that week and she thinks I should too, so we moved the workshop 😂 100
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Perfect quote from Tony Ticehurst, the father of a young woman killed by her former partner - "I'd never experienced #grief before. And oh my goodness, it's a shit of a thing." 030
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Honestly, I would take anxious AI any day over the hallucinating yes-man we currently have. 010
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Earlier this year I bought my first proper mechanical keyboard. A few months ago, I bought a second cause it sounded amazing. Now I find myself thinking wistfully about a third, cause the second one isn't full size... 😂 It's an addiction... 230
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I was already planning on using the process of packing to move as a way to go through all my stuff and filter out anything that wasn't worth keeping. I'm now planning to also use it as an opportunity to prepare things in case I die unexpectedly. 110
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I think we should encourage the really rich ones to colonise Mars, like they want to. Given the way they think and their approach to problem-solving, the radiation will get them within a decade or so, and meanwhile we can get on with things back here. 4194
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I already had a headache, why did I watch the big cut scene of Thou Must Live, Die, and Know from ffxiv Endwalker? It is fun to see a streamer who hadn't cried at the game at any point finally tear up at this point, though... 000
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Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We've got to start calling out AI images and text as the cheap, bargain basement rubbish. Cause it is. Exalt bespoke, human crafted work for the value of the labour and the skill behind it. 000
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 11/09/2026So many questions. Why is this man taller than Optimus Prime? Why have they gone with "beaten up, probably about to sacrifice himself for the others" Prime? Especially when the guy is immaculate? What does Optimus Prime have to do with anything else here? Are there no adults left at DHS? 000
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Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'M PRETTY SURE THIS IS LITERALLY A CRIME. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.au'You get $5,000': Trump promises to pay voters if Republicans win midtermsDonald Trump promises to award $US5,000 to every American adult if Republicans retain control of Congress after the midterm elections. 000
Cow. Boy. Hat. @alisso.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Look...LOOK. We already know everything is insane, we don't need more practical examples! 000