11/03/26
Freewrite the Cobaltica
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Phoque you, Amazon. Phoque you, Capitalism.
*The sound of a co-opted Jingle Idiocratic Bells AMZN commercial blades through my eBayed camera phone as I try to blog whilst struggling against the T9 autocorrect grammarlyified writer's place I still call my own*How's THAT for some context, fellow blogspotters (and Reddit blogwriters, let's not kid ourselves).Now for a strictly (lol not at all) cons list of what, for example, Amazon Web & non-web services permits and encourages, explicitly:
10/03/26
Freewrite the aquamarine
I was looking up a way to parody you're gonna lose that -girl- by the Beatles, and what Google/YouTube spit out was just a few different versions of You're Gonna Lose That Girlinstrad.
I was hoping to see someone else who had thought of that idea.
I Imagine I'm not the only one.
Jjjjjjjjoin us... jjjjjjoiiiiinnnnn ussssss...
08/03/26
07/03/26
no, I don't have anybfriends
I don't wanna play your stupid war games anymore, Europe
PoE 1 needs help, but not for me
ARmOuR
06/03/26
02/03/26
28/02/26
20/02/26
A replacement of sorts
It's hard to correlate my quantity of writing to anything in particular other than time of day. Whether I'm in school or working full time doesn't really affect the quantity, though I certainly consider the quality of my writing was best back when I was studying full time at U of T. I really miss the architecture so I go there often for my personal studies, but I never really made any lasting friendships there, which is a shame. It did feel like I had a solid group of people I could hang out with whenever I was part of the community, so maybe I could rejoin some extra-curricular groups at Hart House or something.
What I actually wanted to write about is AI's influence on whether I blog or not.
I need to come here more often, that's for sure. I'm not abandoning you, my precious Kaleidoughscope. I still refuse to use the @ moniker for what my online presence; who cares.
This is my online presence, and AI won't change that. I really should stop "arguing" with the chatbots because that's what they are: a smarter, more efficient SmarterChild (MSN... woe is me) chatbots with some creative palm piloting here and there.
I should come here and argue with myself instead; it feels the same way, funnily enough.
I've been using Gemini lately, because Im boycotting chatgpt because they charged me for the actual app without my express permission. Google Play store continues to frustrate me; I actually am starting to miss Windows Phone again, I can't believe it.
I mean I did have a flagship Windowa Phone's but I was so desperate for apps; I've conditioned myself to barely use them WHICH is why I'm peeved that OpenAI/Microsoft charged me unwillingly and the only lending ear was.... a different AI.
Mehta's AI is quirky it picks up quick on context, somewhat like Gemini that at least integrates pretty well with the rest of my Google apps on my OnePlus 11.
Well, not much of an update, but there you have it: a classic free write, barely any typos, and almost all written whilst waiting for my broccoli soup to come to a boil.
Here's a picture before I sign off (and no, no AI helped me write, cook, or code today):
05/02/26
Why did it take 9 years....?
.... to put Legacy controller scheme in Overwatch 1/2?
WTF is wrong with you greedy corporate ********?!
Why can you add like a million hero-specific settings but you can't offer decent input controls?
MSFT-ActiVivendiBlizz, WTF.
03/02/26
28/01/26
The Truth of the Interphonenet
Messy space, chaotic truth
Messy feet, messy sports, messy trampoline of angry russhing mountains
I thought I was being original by taking a picture of my thumb. Turns out it was the very same thumb. Coincidence? I think not.
25/01/26
The Lie of the Internetoile
I clearly don't want to play Genshin Impact, right?
Boolean is not SEO is not gacha.
18/01/26
16/01/26
One upgrade or not to update
this is the question.
this.
this.
thus
thus
thus, is the question nonplussed
15/01/26
09/01/26
Strait Up
-are we one and forever?
-I guess at what you'd sound like
-and it's still me and you — together
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It's been a while since I've talked to you, dear reader. It's also been a while since I called you that. It's also been a while since I've blogged and walked, and it's just nice to be able to call you dear reader even though I read the italicized with some sort of vehemence, for lack of a better term.
I still keep the blog dream alive. One day, I won't have to worry about my place in the world IRL as much, and I can go back to feeling like I'm in tube with the internet (Freudian slip?).
Ugh. It really does feel like the internet is mostly just... YouTube nowadays, at least for me.
I think it's why I now hesitate to continue with my SotD (Song of the Day) posts that link directly to YouTube.
I have a hard time justifying my hotlinking to YouTube. I really do. I still sometimes come across old, human-made, usually self-edited music videos of yore (think early YouTube, like evo of dance and iJustine, or re-uploads of old Internet memes like the Numa Numa guy and The Emo Song) and I smile at the nostalgia, but it's just easier to pick the all-polished "official" versions of pop songs and pray the ads don't break through my filters. Skipping the comments section (unless there's a good reason not to) is also usually the play, pun not intended, in 2026.
I really do prefer earlier YouTube, still, and I guess that's its enshittification at work.
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So for now, my long-term unemployment is being staved off by my intention to improve myself, and especially through diet. Despite a major pitfall recently (won't get into the details — where the devil is after all, but my living situation is feeling precarious and probably will be for the foreseeable future, so I'd rather stay warm and safe than cold & boldly on the streets and, imagine, not living at home during the winter in Toronto). Can I?
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Oh and the SotD is Paula Abdul - Straight Up. It's on the internet, and stuck in my head this week, and I'm citing it because that's the good thing to do in this AInternet hell we find ourselves in currently. I heard it on regular Internet radio last, I swear!
To round out my first big post of 2026, here's a picture I took of my eldest cat, Bébé, instead of a YouTube thumbnail (for once I'm trying to follow the Rules of the Internet):
ChatGPT-5.2-OpenAI consulted only for motivation to blog on this one, which is a big part of my writing process. Mistakes made are my own.
05/01/26
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