jace cavacini

@dysamoria.com

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Desperately seeking a home, life-partner, & realistic optimism. The anti-intellectualism, anti-science, ignorance, antipathy, bigotry, corpo/authoritarian-bootlicking in my country terrifies me. Facts. Art. Music. Empathy. Love is a behavior not a feeling.

Photo of a shiny silvery mirrored sticker attached to a boat dock that has a badly drawn (kinda looks generated) computer with arrows shot into the oldschool monitor. The text reads: “Butlerian Jihad Now. Send AI to hell. If you make a robot, I will kill you.” There is also an anarchy logo to the right, scrawled in paint or sharpie.
A cartoon character on solid blue background, styled on Dr Seuss, except the character is Pinhead from Hellraiser, holding “The Box”, with the text “We have such sights to show you, by Dr Barker”
50-year-old man, with salt & pepper hair, in black clothes, all alone in a house he hates when she’s not there, and she never will be again. Standing in doorway with a long hallway behind him.
The Melkur, a supposedly calcified evil visitor to the planet Traken, being met/served by a Traken citizen named Cassia. Screenshot from Doctor Who “The Keeper of Traken”.
Self-portrait with holiday lights along desk, with my face peeking up from behind the desk, looking into the camera, attempting to be good natured, pleasant, and fun. Taken for my (now-ex-)girlfriend, since we'd been separated for over a year by this point, and I wanted to try to be present in her life while circumstances kept us apart (shared living in a tiny apartment, exploitation by rental companies, poverty). Fairly reddish overall exposure.
Cute kitten on cat tower. Tucson Cat Cafe (4/29/24). Canon EOS REBEL T5i. I hate my life. Enjoy some cats I saw with my adorable former girlfriend.
Insanely cute kitten on cat tower at Tucson Cat Cafe (4/29/24). I was still with my girlfriend at this time. Processing photos from our outings is traumatic and I am filled with intense angst. Canon EOS REBEL T5i
Purple hyacinths blooming in my front yard in front of a basement window. Low angle. Something new and beautiful, while my life falls apart.
Unsolicited bathroom selfie. 50-years-old, salt&pepper short-haired man smiling. Smiling because he was unknowingly mere days away from being made formally-single, after a year of separation from the woman he loves against all the odds, who has spent the last several years becoming progressively detached from him but not actually breaking up with him or making clear communication that she wanted to, nor how to bridge any gaps or progress the relationship. Being loving and kind and patient with people who have long-term trauma issues seems like a good thing to do when you’re able to commit, but it’s not good for you if the other person never works on any of their traumas and leaves you with a refreshed repeat of your own traumas. I am demolished.
A The Far Side comic, featuring: 1. Rattlesnake rattling its rattle 2. Puffed-out, spiky pufferfish 3. Arched-back angry cat 4. Man in glasses, wearing a blue plaid trench coat, standing on a street corner, with an inflatable horse-headed pool toy around his waist, carrying a bazooka, with a boot on his head. Caption: How nature says “Do not touch”.
Closeup photograph of a tiny seedling plant growing out of my garbage disposal. I tried to save it by putting it in a glass with soil and water but the transplant killed it. I don’t understand how the garbage disposal was a better environment.
Photo of a mini SUV crashed into row-houses. Image taken from adjacent porch. An old man drove his mini SUV into my neighbors’ houses several days ago. It’s too bad he missed my trees or the telephone pole out front. There was no skidding. This was not a weather-related issue. Wheel tracks cross over the corner of my minuscule yard and over the neighbor’s. The curb and snow in front of it show no skidding as was created when dragging the vehicle away. I don’t know how it happened but I’m sad for my neighbors (two houses suffered damage), and just generally confounded that we coexist with cars like this.
Low angle photo of my back walkway covered in snow, where you can see how deep it was when I took the photo (maybe closing in on a foot?). I hate this.
Screenshot of customer service “contact us” chat bot for Giant Groceries. Bot says: “Feel free to ask any question as you would to a human, or explore some of the following topic options to get started:” I asked: “Why have you discontinued Nature's Promise Non-Dairy Chocolate Coconutmilk Frozen Dessert???” To which it replied: “When you become a GIANT CHOICE Pass holder, you enjoy more than just unlimited FREE delivery. You also get $15 off an online order of $300 or more each month.”
Cropped screenshot from Fallout Shelter game. Two vault dwellers in the residence quarters. One man, one woman. Woman is pregnant (for the 20th time - for fuck’s literal sake, guys, use some birth control).
Screenshot of creating a post on Bluesky on iPad OS with a Smart Keyboard attached, where the text-suggestions and emoji palette are FUCKING ROTATED 90º. This is apparently the result of having the iPad connected to a TV via HDMI. The computer industry is UTTER FUCKING BULLSHIT!
That’s me. White guy in front of a shower curtain wearing a black fleece shirt with collar, side-lit from a window off screen, engaging a stern expression and allowing you to see his terribly inelegant unshaven face that will never grow a good-looking beard. Side of head is shaved and most hair is flipped over the top to my left side because I’m experimenting with trying to hold on to some kind of atypical but not aggressively fringe outward characteristics, which I’m uncertain about as a 50-year-old having a midlife crisis due to life experience, aging, and the nightmare of fascist & religious insanity gripping the USA. Shitty iPhone SE3 image quality, with its non-consensual image processing that cannot be disabled, plus some chosen stylizing via various settings adjustments that I regret, but fuck it. And fuck any corporation using alt tags to feed their image theft tool’s metadata. Generative tools aren’t AI. Fuck corporate America and their thorough corruption. Fuck the tech industry for destroying the vast potential of computers. Fuck authoritarians, extremists, and the self-righteous. So fucking sick of it all. It never had to be this way. Hold on to each other, people. The only way to survive is to actually fucking care about each other, not endlessly split into endless factions. Sincerity is better than preemptive defensiveness and untouchable posturing.
In ALL CAPS, it’s the "a computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision" meme, but modified. It now reads "A computer can never be held accountable and it will fail you. You were warned. You did not listen. Therefore a computer shall make all your management decisions forever. May you burn in hell of your own making."
Screenshots of resetting iOS's FUCKING CURSED keyboard dictionary. Go to "Settings" app, then "General", then "Transfer or Reset iPhone", and then "Reset", which will give you a list of things to reset, which is where Apple have fucking hidden "Reset Keyboard Dictionary". THE MOTHERFUCKERS
Purple box for the 1970s/1980s preschool toy “cootie”. The toys are segmented and multi-legged caterpillar-like or worm-like bugs made of plastic in flat bold colors. The creatures’ parts are sort of modular. I have no idea what the so-called game was about, but I remember the toy in grade school.
Screenshot of making a new post on BlueSky. Above the keyboard is a blank suggestion bar. Above that is dead empty space as a buffer for these idiotic Liquid Glass zones so it has unnecessary borders to show off. Above that is an entirely useless bar that does fucking nothing at all despite having controls (they do nothing except for the checkmark which closes the keyboard). Do nothing but block the screen, I mean. Above that is more dead space until finally there’s the name of the website in yet another unnecessary glass bubble that gets in the way. Half the time these things and the page scroll are positioned in such a way that they are overtly CENTERED on the text box. Is that BlueSky or Apple? I know for a fact Apple can’t be bothered to ensure the fucking cursor stays centered on the visible portions of the screen while typing in iMessage so I’m leaning heavily on this being Apple’s fault. Again: it wasn’t this bad before iOS 26. More screen space on larger devices helps a little but does not solve the inherent architectural failures of this motherfucking shitty UI design (and it looks cluttered and confusing). That all these things demand time to animate their constantly shifting positions is further abuse of the user for Apple’s masturbatory indulgence.
Screenshot of using BlueSky on iOS goddamned “26”.2. A lot of what I was trying type is obscured by the shitty and cluttered UI.
Fairly creepy animated gif of a "beta unit" forming his face to be a copy of someone else, from a scene in "The Last Starfighter". It's a wet, pale, semi-skeletal face with the skin pulsing in and out, and seemingly no eyelids. Not exactly gory, but it shocked me as a kid. Great movie, fun character, and I will always feel bad that Alex and Beta Unit Alex didn't get a chance to know each other and that Beta Unit Alex deserved better...
Screen shot from “Konrad”, a TV movie about a mall-order child. Image is looking down on a sort-of dehydrated boy, crouching in a large powder-blue 50 gallon drum… …drums which would become far more sinister (and rusty) when 1988’s War of the Worlds TV series hits…
Screenshot from Space Quest 3, a 1989 adventure game by Sierra On-line with 16-color, 320x200 EGA graphics (most of the screenshot is composed of grey, CGI pink/red, and blue). Screenshot is at the in-game location of “ScummSoft”, an evil software company. The image features rows of programmers in small cubicles, above and between them on two catwalks are larger guys walking back and forth cracking whips (which were based on executives at Sierra at the time of the game’s development). A much larger cubicle is off to the right side of the screen, as well as the game player’s character Roger Wilco (wearing grey janitor’s overalls to blend in since he’s not supposed to be there, but Roger is himself actually really a janitor, as seen in Space Quest 1 & 2 so the outfit is appropriate).
The character Josephus Miller, in a screenshot from The Expanse, wearing a dark grey outfit on a dark blurry background. Miller is played by Thomas Jane. This is possibly from an early point in season one before he shaved off much of his mane. He is very very pouty.
Clipping from a Johnny the Homicidal Maniac comic by Jhonen Vasquez where a side-character looking utterly crazy is screaming “Oh my god!! Somebody put shit in my pants!!!” The ending of the most hilarious side-story in the series.
Screenshot of my GF responding to this bit of thread I shared with her: “‘Heart’ and also ‘hahaha’” and “I feel understood 😊”
Common morning glory (intense purple flower with somewhat ragged heart-shaped green leaves) growing out of an imperceptible crack between paved road and ridiculously-high yellow “curb cut”. Morning photo, so there’s an amount of blue light here I couldn’t easily eliminate via iPhone adjustments. PS: Yes, this was a curb cut; there are many in my town that look like malicious compliance.
In 1995, two Hoss's waitresses sued the company after a cook skewered, mutilated and deep-fried a Barbie doll. In the lawsuit, the waitresses recalled the events that took place in September 1994 including accusing the managers of fondling them, employees discussing sexual encounters and obscenities and other sexual and inappropriate behavior. They accused the restaurant of not regularly changing the cooking oil including after the Barbie doll incident. One of the waitresses also accused a manager of demoting and eventually firing her after she complained.[18] The lawsuit went to trial in federal court in 1998[19] and, according to a 2000 book, the jury ruled in favor of Hoss's[20] though other details about the case have not been found.
Honeybee landing on spearmint flower
Another modification of the “that foreigner wants your cookie” painting where Rupert Murdoch is propagandizing a white working man about being afraid of his cookie being taken by a brown-skinned immigrant… in this one, Murdoch is literally encased in ALL THE COOKIES. I forgot to put alt text on the prior one I shared which is the same concept, except Murdoch’s got a huge pile of cookies instead of just a bunch (in all cases, the immigrant has zero). The original artist’s name is never shared and I forget who it is, but his Facebook profile is public and the original painting (which these posts are replying to) is there in his image gallery.
A pale orange spider-type creature that’s ugly as sin and I think you’d be better off if I didn’t describe it. The fucker looks like it was created for a scifi horror. It has a very large abdomen that almost looks albino scorpion-like without a stinger, and it has extra … thingies coming out of its head that look like legs but probably aren’t (??). Its head looks like a ginger white man with beady eyes too close together, and its giant-ass mouth parts look like a beard. Does not look like a British royal.
Amazon marketplace product screenshot. What stands out is the product photo (??) of a soft-canvas (?) blue & black cat carrier on plain white background: Sticking out of the open cat carrier is a deeply uncanny valley cat that’s been edited into place. It’s not enough that the cat has been awkwardly composited into the carrier, no no no. Whoever created this image, to advertise this pet carrier on Amazon, also chose to apply fucking makeup to the cat’s face. Human makeup. Mascara. Lipstick. Giant, human-styled, fake eyelashes. Blush. What the goddamned fuck? The cat’s mouth is open and its tongue is protruding as if licking delicious gourmet cat food off of its cheek. I’m not sure that tongue is even a real tongue; it too may be composited or drawn in. The choices made here for this product image are beyond baffling.
Gene Simmons playing the bad guy in the 1984 sci-fi movie “Runaway”, holding a fantastical “bullet with your name on it” gun to the cheek of a woman hostage in a scene from the film. Fun-schlocky 80s sci-fi film, BTW.
Subject: A mostly white flower that looks vaguely like an orchid (is that remotely helpful in alt text?), with slight streaks of purple spreading outward from the core, that end up as speckles toward the outer areas of three of the four(?) large curly petals (top petal is just white). There are two bright yellow streaks at about 4 & 7 o’clock, coming from the inside of the flower core, like landing strips for the insects they’re probably intended to attract. Background (blurry): my hand holding this discarded flower, and, further back, the paved walkway of a rail-trail, with lots more of these discarded flowers scattered around. Tiny bit of grass at the top left.
A conglomeration of pretty and colorful plants and flowers. The primary subject from the center to the left is a curly yellow-edged red-leafed plant I haven’t identified. On the far right is a tiny yellow flower I also haven’t identified. Above that is a bright purple flower that’s possibly Browallia speciosa. Then there are green leaves and a mostly blue sky above. Okay NOW I’m going to go make a sammich!
Small, white-petaled flowers, with yellow sex parts near the center and an undeveloped bud that is like a tiny pink rose, toward the center left of the image. This is part of a larger hedge-like green plant or plants making up the background. I’m hungry. Gonna make myself a sammich now.
Small, white, slightly spikey trumpet-like flowers in a cluster, on a green stalk, surrounded by green leaves and a bit of blue sky above. Every time I write an alt text description, I feel like I’m helping give free labor to OpenAI and the like. If they’re reading this, no, you don’t have permission to use my images and text to feel your gluttonous business’ pathological tech.
Four smallish white flowers with 5 crumply petals each, holding delicate stamen, growing from a reddish stalk with green sawtoothed leaves.
Small, white, tube-like flowers hanging downward from a tree branch. The background is green tree leaves and blue sky.
Small, purple and white, bell-shaped flowers growing from stalks that have green leaves with a brush-like stroke of white down their middle/spine. The growth pattern and leaf shape reminds me of mint species, but I didn’t check to see if the stalks are square.
Photograph of white honeysuckle flowers, which are small, somewhat tube-shaped before opening, have hints of purple when not yet opened up, and have yellow stamen(?). Growing from slim, reddish branches, with smallish almond-profile leaves. They smell vaguely like honey, hence the name(?).
Photo of my hand pulling a yellow-orange tulip-tree flower into view of my phone camera. Green leaves surround the large, round flower. Not the most beautiful of flowers, and a bit late in its bloom, but still worth seeing and acknowledging. I struggle to get out for so many reasons, that it’s a necessity to attend to the beauty there is to enjoy in my world, in my lifetime.
Macro photo of the seeding portion of some desert grass. It has an almost feathery quality to it, with greens and reds. The background is an abstract blur of similar colors.
Photograph of cherry tree flowers on a branch. The flower petals are white with tiny green, yellow-tipped stamen. The branches are grey-brown and mostly out of focus. The developing leaves in the center of the image are quite immature, have reddish-brown bits, some little shiny red balls that might be insects (I can't tell). There's a ladybug partially out of focus in the dead-center of the image, on one of the leaves. The background is blue sky and very blurry parts from the same tree, pushing the focused parts forward. Also, if you're feeding this alt text and my image into an image generation model, you're an asshole for stealing people's work for your own profit (no, you don't have my permission to use this image in that way), and so-called "AI" is an absolute pile of bullshit the way it's being positioned by corporate assholes. PS: Fuck unregulated capitalism and its fuck-buddy fascism.
A slightly better version of the previous posting of this same photo. Macro photograph of a dandelion flower in all its yellow niceness. It's centered in the photo, while the background of the yard is fully blurred into abstract greens and... uh... greyish browns? This photo is detailed enough to see the distinct parts of the dandelion flower, which I myself never noticed until I did macro shots of them.
Macro photograph of a dandelion flower in all its yellow niceness. It's centered in the photo, while the background of the yard is fully blurred into abstract greens and yellows. This photo is detailed enough to see the distinct parts of the dandelion flower, which I myself never noticed until I did macro shots of them. Shallow depth of field, but still cool, so why not post it. It's doing me no good just sitting on my hard drive.
Macro photograph (three shots into one focus-merged image) of a cherry tree's new spring leaf growth near the tip of a small branch. In the focal area, there are greens for the new leaf growth, browns for the branch twig, and some red fringes that I don't understand, but are maybe related to the buds(?). The background is a vague blur of other branches, setting off the sharp focal area.
Macro photograph of a very tiny flowering plant. The image is mostly green blurry background, with some brownish stalks in the focal area, which might be developing seed (I don't know), and some white-to-pink flowers in the center area.
Macro photograph of a small area of a crazy number of small, reddish-brown ants clustering on a sidewalk, ant facing ant, doing whatever it is that these ants are doing. I'd love to know, if you know.
The Scream emoji… because Jesus fucking Christ of all fucks, what the fuck else is there to do in reaction to the fascist Republican fucks eliminating food safety inspections, for fuck’s fucking sake?????????? Jesus goddamned Christyfucks!!!
Side-eye Chloe, as an emoji.
Screenshot from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which I have modified to censor the faces of Cult Leader Trump and his VP of Couch Fucking, and drawn an arrow to the subject that I really care about. In this image, there are three people: Zelenskyy, Trump doing his usual double hands gesture, squinty Vance, in a Whitehouse meeting, as shown on news a lot lately... but more importantly, there's a skeletal figure in the center-back... like... is that a fancy wooden backed chair coincidentally aligned with a same-colored bust of... I have no idea... sitting on a table behind the empty chair... but on casual glances, I see a brown skeleton man that people should be paying attention to because not doing so makes his presence even more unsettling...
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Here's another attempt at my previous post's message: If you’re a tech person who’s unable or unwilling to acknowledge that ALL computer tech is inconsistent, unreliable, and generally broken, I do not trust your judgment about anything else either, because you're acting from a selective attention to facts. It’s a basic sanity check that most tech people seem to fail, being too acculturated to failure as “normal”. I don't want them messing with my life, my people, or my government. It’s the same as when I ignore anything & everything coming from people who’ve subscribed to or platformed conspiracy theories: if someone believes vaccines cause autism, for example, that person doesn’t care about science or scientific consensus. It indicates that their judgment is compromised and I don’t trust anything else from them; certainly not my life, my people, or my government. Even if they seem to support one of my own "crusades", I want nothing to do with them. Their involvement would be poison to me, my credibility, and my peace of mind. Sanity checks! It’s also the same as when I find out a person supports Trump in any way: they’ve failed a major sanity check, as well as massive attention-to-facts check, and I do not trust them under any other circumstances either. If you don't care about empathy, at least care about facts. Fact: the man demonstrates clinical narcissism on a continuous basis IN PUBLIC. It's strikingly obvious. That's a broken person who deserves zero authority. If you won't see it, I won't deal with you. This is not politics; it’s rationality and critical thinking skills. It’s ensuring that sanity and respect for reality is involved when dealing with people. If you show a lack of these basic traits, I want nothing to do with you as a social connection, let alone as someone in a position of authority.