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Quatrarius  ·  8 hours ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 26, 2025

it's about 5 months until i move and i've been putting off the job search for this exact reason - i have no confidence in online job postings and my boyfriend's mom is a hiring manager that has said NEVER COLDCALL PEOPLE to us so the messaging is mixed

i don't have the sauce to lie to people is part of the issue and the job dance is all lies - i am extremely confident in my ability to learn any job that i might get my hands on but i can't tell somebody oh yah eh i have 15 years experience in the Skeet workspace

Quatrarius  ·  5 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Putin’s Puppets Are Coming to Life

my best shot before looking it up: a deposition is a collection of your sworn testimony in like a pre trial context and an affidavit is a declaration of .. something that you confirm?

after i looked it up i see no reason why we have two words for this

Quatrarius  ·  8 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Generative AI Con

inject this haterade into my veins

i was chatting with a buddy earlier and i was saying that i don't know anybody who wants AI shit - i know AI haters and AI agnostics, but nobody i know in person is gung ho for AI. who is this stuff for? the biggest effect this whole craze has had on the average person is massively increasing the amount of spam online and adding some shit into your phone U2 album style

Quatrarius  ·  67 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 591st Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

to be honest I've just been jamming to bbc radio dance and then falling asleep to radio 3 classical

youtube finally managed to make it impossible for me to listen to music ad free on there by account locking me so I've returned to the old fashioned way

Quatrarius  ·  79 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 4, 2024

i will say i definitely have my favorites and my least favorites out of these but i defer to the reader on which ones they think are which

Quatrarius  ·  79 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 4, 2024

in quiet streets

i set up shop

with woven sheets

and bottletops

with shuddered breath

and stuttered sigh

from poisoned chest

to passersby

i pull him out

that devil seed

the gripping want

the frantic need

to break my back

to suck my sap

to find a lack

and make it laugh

i bottle it

go down the road

how easy with

just half the load

can i get an amen

can’t i catch a break

i chase it up top

i forgot about the storm

i’m swallowing spit

and my eyes are dry

but it's warm and it's ball one

and the coin flips over

my lungs ache and my heart melts

and it comes up heads

why not give it a try

amen

and to all the different kinds of blue

the refuse of a happy tune

the one that comes in afternoons

the now, the never, sometime soon

on waves that tumble to the bay

the green, marine, and robin’s egg

and even mixed with bitter grey

i love you more than i can say

—-

the better than the better is

the trade you trade for knowledges

the mix you mix with sour grapes

(however long that it will take)

to clarify or to begin

to find out where to follow him

dog with a bone

all alone

watch her run

watch her roam

mom’s not home

chew the bone

watch her

as she checks her phone

—--

create the world!

enjoy its light!

ignite your flame

to rule its night!

escape the bed, the frame, the trite

and fight the forest with a knife!

—-----

Juliet, 25

sees the ways her lover lied.

—--

i know you

perfect blue

perfect dawn

perfect you

keep me warm

keep me true

perfect love

perfect blue

—--

eye of the needle

watching over me

feverings and visions

tongue stitches

taking lashes

bearing new fruit

—--

hello the halfmoon

that grows when it splits

hello the hart

that the hunter will miss

hello to apemen

picking up tools

hello to apricot

mixed in the gruel

—--

lung splitter

back snapper

gut ripper

leg cracker

little creature

growing old

can you fit

a better mold?

—--

net cast the fish float adrift to be pulled in might be relief

—--

one fine december morning

skies dark, the train is empty

closed circuit captured, strutting

tall man inspects his weapon

Quatrarius  ·  79 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 4, 2024

quiet week at the bar. here are a bunch of poems i wrote in the last bit

Quatrarius  ·  91 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 27, 2024

it's a nana special of crushed potato chips with melted butter sprinkled on top

Quatrarius  ·  91 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 27, 2024

yurrrp

Quatrarius  ·  93 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 27, 2024

just spatchcocked the turkey for tomorrow

Quatrarius  ·  99 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 20th, 2024

down to 145 for the first time i can remember. progressing well with workouts. the tonsillectomy recovery was horrible for the first 5 or 6 days but then after that I've been golden. medication still working well. i made a whole turkey as practice for thanksgiving and it turned out perfect. life is good.

Quatrarius  ·  100 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: On the Democratic Party's Cult of Powerlessness

it turns out that if you constantly say that either you can't do anything about problems or that the problems don't exist, people view you as useless losers

the party of adulting strikes again

Quatrarius  ·  120 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 30, 2024

tonsillectomy yesterday after a night in the ER -finally

Quatrarius  ·  125 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 23, 2024

I've been exercising and dieting again and so far I've lost 10 pounds, hoping to lose 10 more by new years - I'm gonna be down for 2 weeks in november for a tonsillectomy but it is what it is

i screwed up the meniscus in my right knee when i was 16 and it's been giving me a little grief lately, but I'm just ignoring it for now and keeping at exercising and stretching until it starts interfering with anything important. i figure it'll be with me for the rest of my life and I'll be damned if i have surgery on it until I'm old and grey, so the only way out is through

Quatrarius  ·  141 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 9, 2024

we need better jobs and we need to get out of our college town otherwise we never will, and chicago is a good kick in the pants

i had to get the abscess needle drained and then cut open which was more painful than recovering from getting castrated to be honest, i took my first opiate the afternoon after they cut it - but hopefully it's all over

it'll be an adventure anyway

Quatrarius  ·  141 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 9, 2024

the plan is to move to chicago in the summer so wish us luck

Quatrarius  ·  239 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 3, 2024

we've had a car for 2 months and already we've fucked it up - i scratched the side paint on somebody's bike that was locked up next to a parking spot, and today my boyfriend had his foot slip off the brake and dented/scraped the hood on a chain fence in a parking garage. luckily both times there was no damage to anything other than our car, but it just sucks because it's a nice car that's only a couple years old, and it was in perfect shape when we got it. i hate the anxiety of having something that is so expensive and so easy to damage. i've been trying not to worry whenever either of us takes the car somewhere and it's not easy to do when stuff like this happens

Quatrarius  ·  307 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Man Who Wasn't There

i don't much like the line about him being "neurodivergent and doing naughty things sometimes" when he raped two women -that's not naughty, that's reprehensible. the overwhelming majority of mentally ill people are not rapists. i get the gonzo journalist impulse to write in this goofy way, but i don't like it here.

Quatrarius  ·  307 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 570th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

    Why would you want to learn a language

joie de vivre. you play for the love of the game and not to win.

the only two things that can get you to learn a language as an adult is sheer necessity and love, and necessity only takes you as far as the grocery store and someday your kids might speak it. you need to love it because the more you learn, the more you discover you don't know. it's like the riddle of the hole: the more you dig, the deeper it gets. the stakes economically need to keep getting proportionally higher to justify the investment, but if it's not an investment to you, it doesn't matter

Quatrarius  ·  315 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 17, 2024

taking notes for legal hearings -not as a real court monitor, but verbatim notes. I've been doing it for a couple months but I'm finally getting more shifts and making good money

Quatrarius  ·  316 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.

yes, of course - why else would I be here? he cites the same statistics (hosted on a different website) that i used.