Take your VSA and Gendarmes back home and return our public spaces. While you’re at it, return our public broadcaster to produce anything but a homage to Visa and LVMH 24 / 7
“The French don’t want the Olympics to end” no, we’re pretty much done with all of it thanks, it’s Macron who wants to keep flogging this dead horse as it distracts from the utter shit fuckery the French government is currently in. Let’s not even start on Bruno Le Maire and the national accounts
Remember if you’re watching the Paris 2024 Merci event on TV tonight that is surely going to be some kind of Macron festival, it’s france.tv holding the bill because l’Elysee pissed away it’s budget
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Today I’m like, I should really exit the grind set mindset and just vibe. Anyways, I’ve created a new company logo for my project and I’m writing the copy on the website I barely touch
Jessie Gender said something about AI art in her latest video, and honestly, I ran a couple tests in two AI slop generators. No matter how you engineer the prompt it is just unoriginal shit spewed out in a different order
Because I have psychotic firewall rules, I managed to accidentally block Bunny from connecting to the mmn.ca webserver so 90% of the site tanked as a result of not updating bunny’s ever changing IP list. Whoopsy doodles
I also need to work on my Malt profile, I’m literally number one on a keyword and ain’t nobody sending offers, including Malt. Anyways, at least I can see a working future unlike this time last year
I’m also going to be the first to admit my long term business goal is a lofty idea - a profession that is generally seen as expendable and is very poorly paid, being turned into a cooperative where we equally share the wealth of our work. I’ll never be able to compete with Teleperformance 😬
So my .coop domain was approved, now I have to turn the mess of a professional website I currently have in to something classy that screams “I do professional good”. I’m fairly sure my contract will be extended at the end of the month, so it’s not like an immediate panic, just a long term panic
That of course doesn’t cover the state of “social cleaning”, the insane corporate police state brought to you by VISA, and some guy trying to install his own puppet government after losing two elections in a row. But you know something something art from the artists
I have to say, fuck the Olympics, but Paralympics as an atmosphere is much better. The couple next to me didn’t really know anything about wheelchair rugby when they walked in but were mega invested by the end of it. That’s cool
Jarod on the other hand insists on taking up half the bed or get buried under the blankets until it’s suffocatingly hot, for that is his ideal sleeping temperature
I’m starting to have a new relationship with Samy, he’s began a new routine of settling in on my pillow next to me and waiting to be tucked in under the covers. Because he’s a little independent man his front leg must be over the blanket
Why the absolute fuck do I need to constantly opt-out of fucking commercial crawlers. You’re not a search engine, you inhale the internet to sell to companies to spy on people or inject BrAnDs in to my comments
Yesterday afternoon during work a mega headache took me out, I finished my shift in bed and promptly fell asleep as soon as I closed my laptop for the day. Woke up again three hours later, and yet today fine got the energy, went to the supermarket before work 🤷♂️
Amazon : fuck you we’re adding ads for a service you pay for at the end of August
Also Amazon : Jeff needs a new rocket so here are a bunch of unskippable ads now 🫶
It’s been at least a few hours since I last saw my cats and honestly it’s like their version of going to work, be outside and sleeping in boxes. Anybody hiring for a similar role ?
I love it when the UI just moves a thing I was clicking on and I end up clicking on something I didn’t want to, then go back to find my thing but I can’t because the UI is all fucked. I’m glad everybody makes their app like this ❤️
I locked in so hard to #CitiesSkylines that I basically forgot what time it was and I’m now suffering from not eating. Anyways now got the hungey shakes as I’m starting to cook my food 🫠
Because the real world is bullshit, today I will be working a new map in #CitiesSkylines and my city Betty White Heights will feature free and abundant public transport with taxes on large business and single family homes
Opening ceremony pushed the envelope, caused a lot of boring people to complain, and saw Aya Nakamura exit l’académie française with the garde républicaine after weeks of far right harassment. The closing one, empty promises and a bit of a let down
Snoop Dogg has been in Paris for this whole time and they can’t even put him on stage in the stadium, that let me remind you again, they’ve been selling tickets between 250€ and 1600€ for
I love how the Olympic ceremony went from sending American right wing grifters into a wheezing fit to what I can only describe as boring ass shit for 250€/seat minimum (you can find those 8km near the top of the stadium)
If this closing ceremony doesn’t include every trans person in France guillotining the billionaire class for abusing them as a “culture war”, can we really call it a success?
My landord who basically never responds to my emails has increased the price of my rent by the usual 33€/month to continue avoiding replying to my emails. I’m not saying all landlords are bastards but my current ones ain’t trying to dispute that
By contrast, a friend and I went up to a bar in the 11ème because they were doing a huge deal for unlimited cocktails and frites. Nobody, not a single person outside of the JO zone. I’d genuinely love to see the figures on how fuck all we got from this as a city
I don’t even know what my autocorrect was doing here “and don’t even get me started at sitting in the living area while it’s time to be standing” it should read DOOR area but I’m guessing it’s updated with AI now
My rage posting is basically four weeks of this bullshit, low flying aircraft all day, random policies that have personally cost me 200€ of money I don’t have, and for what ? Some free tickets to stand in the rain and watch TV while a Gendarme stares at my phone ?
They just spill out on to platforms not following instructions, blocking all the barriers with their giant baggage, and don’t even get me started at sitting in the living area while it’s time to be standing
Jesus fucking Christ on a pogo stick I’m glad that this is the end of this fucking nonsense today. I’m trying to get to the supermarket, I’m only one train in, and it has been hell
It’s worth mentioning that I’m pretty white and if I’m not comfortable in this situation because the vibe ✨ might ✨ be wrong and they’ll fuck up my day. I can only imagine how bad it is for somebody darker than Italian dealing with this bullshit where they will absolutely fuck up your day
Other than my destination being a pain in the ass to get to and from, I just missed the earlier train because as I briskly flew through the gates I was greeted by two gendarmes in an empty station. ✨ Casual police state just staring at me ✨
It would absolutely not surprise me if the pick up in speed on 4G had something to do with a middle man connection run by Atos that was sniffing every single packet and sending it to Gégé himself to read
Unintentional JO benefit ? I’m doing my semi-regular battery draining by wrecking some unlimited 4G on my 4G wifi box. Anyways only two bar, -113dBm, and I’m not that far off what Free is struggling to supply over copper wire. It’s never been this quick
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Samy crawled into the cupboard in the bedroom, as he normally does. I closed the door for him, as I normally do. He got up, went to let himself out and decided “nah” before going to sleep. Anyways I’m jealous because insomnia 🫶
Like I’m all cool with these athletes kicking it, and good on all of them. My beef is with the shitfest that is the half assed everything else brough to you by King Dumbfuck and his court of clowns with the literal police state on my doorstep
Also JO update. Got an email yesterday, apparently they’ve decided after fucking us all around, you no longer need a QR code to be inside a taxi and to pass a fictional border that was vaguely checked when the vibe was right. Imma need some refunds M. Nuñez
JO update. When I went to the supermarket yesterday they had totally redone the station near Parc des Princes. And by redone, I mean literally slapped stickers on the place so it didn’t look like shit
So I had a weird burst of insane motivation this afternoon. Anyways it ended in me changing the direction of my professional project and once the .coop verification takes place, the actual name of my activity
What suspiciously looked like a presidental motorcade just blew through here full volume. You’d think that held want to keep a lower profile as if we didn’t hate him enough at 23h
Hair done, probably going to get a QTF for walking too fast through this fucking bullshit. Also unrelated probably, I’ve switched to a 2mg less snus so I might be somewhat nicotine stressed on top of JO stressed
I’m trying to hype myself up to go and get my haircut. Normally this would be a one hype deal, but the place is in the centre de l’enfer des Olympiques and quite frankly 😩
I say a lot of things about France, but while it is a chaotic place, I have to admit the efficency of Afnic to move a .fr domain in under 10 minutes can not be faulted
I thought I played Samy by hiding the pill in his wet food, turns out he played me to give him and Jarod more than normal. No problems swallowing that pill when he’s stuffed
Trying to feed Samy pills is literally the hardest thing ever, but here he is now able to open his mouth wide because the antibiotics and his dental work are doing the job
As if Samy didn’t hate me enough already, he has to have antibiotics for five days, two pills a day. The manual method I hurt him while trying to keep his head still, to make up for it I gave him pill laced meat, he figured it out the first two times, the last time he did not
It also doesn’t help that for Samy’s appointment he’s not allowed to eat this morning, which means Jarod can’t either until we get back later this morning. Jarod is not at all happy about this change in his life plan
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