The weird thing about depression for me is that I don't notice it until I start getting better...looking around at the piles of trash and how little I've accomplished in the last few weeks like, "Oh yeah, that's depression alright."

Ah yes, 5 pm, when I switch from the Bad Computer to the Good Computer.

I haven't tweeted for a while. Instead I've been struggling with depression. If you haven't heard from some of your friends who suffer from mental illness, now is a good time to reach out. The holidays can be hard - hope yours are going well.

lazy smoke rising, dissipating - carrying memories of warmth #haiku

just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world. - Mary Oliver

a veneer of ice over a slow-moving brook: façade of stillness #haiku

Why are city-dwelling gnomes very good at keeping time? . . . . Because they are metrognomes.

In retrospect, listening to a sad playlist while drinking wine and having a fire might not have been the best idea. Such brooding, much angst, wow.

frozen wind biting exposed skin - like a lover impatient for more #haiku

A poem explaining backprop, featuring bears. #ChatGPT

Same.

Checked off a milestone today: signed the contract to publish the first piece of poetry I have ever been paid for. It's a small thing, but it feels good to know that my work has a tangible "value", whatever that means.

Not even 10 am and I've already broken prod so really the day can only go up from here

What aspect of human life do you absolutely, positively NOT want AI to emulate?

You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid And Donner and Blitzen But they were all of them deceived for another reindeer was made

I, for one, welcome our robot overlords

It baffles me that people use the word "chemistry" to describe a certain je ne sais quoi of attraction. Have you tried chemistry? It is the most sexless thing I can imagine. Lots of measuring and weighing things. Calculating enthalpy. Consulting tables. Phase diagrams. Moles.

Connect with me on Mastodon, if you care to. Same @. Twitter has always been an adorable shit show but if I wanted to generate content just to feed money to a troll I would have stayed in academia.