treewalking

[treewalking]

Good morning and happy Sunday. 😁

What's one thing that has made you happy this week?

Good evening, and happy Tuesday!

I got to see my brother this weekend for the first time since he’s moved back to California near me. I’m thrilled to be able to hang out with him again.

And I feel like my recent dabbling with AI apps deserves mention, even if I feel my inner Sarah Connor bristling a bit:

1) Just a really cool ghost in a good style, 2) Just one of many attempts at my longstanding imaginary musical artist character, “Angel Nugget”, 3) Trent Reznor standing in front of my 1997 Beanie Babies collection, and 4) Me, working from home, give or take a few details.

What about you? Some happy happenings, I hope?

[miamaimania]

“Landscape Roller Coasters” by Carin Mincemoyer (2007) ➤ Nature’s Thrill Ride

[treewalking]

Oh also, hey! Try playing Kingdom Two Crowns!! K, that’s all for now. ☺️

[ortut]

Electric orange and pink rose Peach rose

[70sscifiart]

Cover art by Morris Scott Dollens for the 1983 anthology Titan 19, edited by Brian W. Aldiss and Wolfgang Jeschke

[callmebliss]

Intro to the 1989 reprint of The Color of Magic the first Discworld book by Terry Pratchett.

“At least ten.” Lmao

[petermorwood]

"Fuzzy geography ... no maps..." :->

[fixyourwritinghabits]

It is with the deepest frustrations that I must report Microsoft has pushed out Copilot onto Microsoft Word no matter what your previous settings were. If you have Office because you paid for it/are on a family plan/have a work/school account, you can disable it by going to Options -> click on Copilot -> uncheck 'Enable Copilot'.

(Note, you may not see this option if you haven't updated lately, but Copilot will still pop up. Updating should give you this option. I will kill Microsoft with my bare hands.)

In addition, Google has forced a roll-out of it's Gemini AI on all American accounts of users over 18 (these settings are turned off by default for EU, Japan, Switzerland, and UK, but it doesn't hurt to check).

To remove this garbage, you must go to Manage Workspace smart feature settings for all your Gmail/Drive/Chat and turn them off. Go to Settings -> See all settings -> find under "Genera" the "Google Workspace smart features" -> turn smart feature setting off for both Google Workspace and all other Google products and hit save. (If you turned off the smart settings in your Gmail, it never hurts to open Drive and double-check that they're set to off there too.)

Quick Edit: I found the easiest way to get to the Smart Feature settings following the instructions above was to do it through Drive. Try that route first.

Now is the time to consider switching to Libre Office if you haven't already.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Okay, all other Microsoft settings addition: If your Microsoft 365 apps don't yet have the Enable Copilot checkbox, you can turn off Copilot by changing your account privacy settings. This worked when I tried it, but it's a fucking pain.

In your app (for example, PowerPoint), go to File > Account > Account Privacy > Manage Settings.

Under Connected experiences, clear the Turn on experiences that analyze your content checkbox.

Select OK, and then close and restart the app.

Here's the Microsoft page for removing Copilot.

[hbystuff]

Death

[circle-of-wildfire]

arrival of dawn

[treewalking]

Constantly hoping the crows I spot on my morning walks think I’m cool.

[troutlawyer]

Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post

[treewalking]

Hey! I hope you and your family are safe from the fires. What are some of your thoughts about fragility? The world seems very precarious these days.

Thank you so much! Yes, we are safe. It was more psychological impact for me than anything else, while people in our backyard were devastated on multiple levels.

I was close to their tragedies, but safe. Meanwhile, strikingly near to this event, I had found a broken jewel of a bird by chance while taking out my trash. The proximity of these two things in the beginning of the year felt like a tarot card reading I needed to make sense of, but my only takeaway seemed to be the frailty of things. And it’s clear why I drew that line - I’m healing crookedly, alone, working hard to change my ways, all while battling a fear of the current American landscape that no one seems to want to acknowledge. I’m stronger than I’ve ever been in my life, and probably also the most scared. I guess really I am the fragility I’m thinking of.

I hope you are well. I’m sorry that I haven’t answered consistently - it’s only because answering truthfully is always something my mind turns into a big BIG project that probably shouldn’t be.

[bluecapsicum]

[lonergurl-deactivated20250127]

Hummingbird Geoglyph, Nazca Lines, Peru

*Only visible from the air*

Estimated to be at least 2,000 years old.

[rowecommaadam]

The 1994 Fotographica poster of my dreams

[retrogamingblog2]

[treewalking]

I spent the weekend before last tending to an injured hummingbird. After a restless night worrying about his nectar vitals, I dropped him off first thing in the morning at the humane society.

The following week our city caught fire and my family and I were moving to and fro in shifting evacuation warning zones.

I just keep thinking of fragility.