Converse

@lousywords

Author. Tech writer. Former software engineer. Looking for work as a technical or copy writer. Converse is my family name. I am not the shoe company. Banner image ©️2011 by me. All rights reserved. Profile image by @valentinebarker.com

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Converse@lousywords· 22d

This.

A small human child looks up at a manatee in an aquarium. The words “set it all on fire, child” appear as dialog for the manatee.

Converse@lousywords· 29d

I’m hijacking this post/thread I guess.

A wombat passing through a portal set like the ones from the video game Portal.

Converse@lousywords· Jun 24

A black cat sits in the foreground, three cat trees in the background. She is absolutely done with “Come here kitty baby” bullshit.

Converse@lousywords· Jun 6

A pelican stands on a veterinarian’s table, head folded back so it can look down into the eyes of the lady who is the vet, like it’s trying to intimidate her. She looks amused. The meme text reads “WHAT YOU DID THERE … I SEE IT.”

Converse@lousywords· Jun 3

In return, I offer my smooth criminal.

A black cat curled up with a single forepaw stretched out, sleeps the sleep of the Just, having conquered the evil Orange String Gang.

She’s deeply asleep after we played with that toy for most of an hour.

Converse@lousywords· Jun 1

My tattoo of @alwayscoffee.bsky.social’s #tinypoem from 2019 is all healed up and looking amazing. Every one of my tattoos has a personal meaning to me, and this one is the most powerful. I have words that speak into being a version of myself as seen by another. It’s a powerful totem.

A tattooed left forearm against a dark gray sheet. The arm is capped with a clenched fist to make the arm’s muscles lay flat. The tattoo is a black and gray, depicting a poem framed by a mountain vista at the “top”, the silhouette of trees on both sides, and a path and a seated fox along the bottom. See the next image for the poem text.

An image of a tweet from Nov. 2019 of a poem by Ali Trotta for her #tinypoem series.

Poem written for me. It was a moment where someone who doesn’t know me deeply turned their poet’s gaze and told me what they saw of me, and it had a lasting, deeply moving impact because I felt genuinely seen.

Poem text:

This small fox, clever
and curious, is also a thief,
trickster god, laughing
at his own perils,
he is toolish and brave, until
he becomes something else,
but in this forest
of mistakes, he hides,
hoping both to be seen
and to remain unbeholden
in innumerable ways.

Converse@lousywords· May 28

It’s a trap!

Converse@lousywords· May 24

I got the tattoo I have been wanting to get for ages. The brilliant @alwayscoffee.bsky.social wrote a #tinypoem for me on Twitter in 2019. It made me feel seen and understood. Now it lives on my left forearm. Thank you Ali (poem) and Jericho Sepulveda (EmptyCoffins Tattoo in Las Vegas).

A picture of my left forearm. A poem is framed by a mountain at the top, a forest on both side, and along the bottom a path and a seated fox.

The poem reads:
This small fox, clever and curious,
is also a thief, trickster god,
laughing at his own perils, he is foolish
and brave, until he
becomes something else, but in this forest
of mistakes, he hides,
hoping both to be seen and to
remain unbeholden in
innumerable ways.

Poem by Ali Trotta, Nov 15, 2019

Converse@lousywords· May 14

Not trying to be flip, but this sums it up.

A scene from "The Thing". Macreedy is recording a log. Frame one has the text "Nobody trusts anybody now." Frame two has the text "And we're all very tired."
Both frames show Kurt Russel as Macreedy sitting at a table and speaking into a handheld microphone connected to a tape recorder. He has a glass of whiskey by his elbow.

Converse@lousywords· May 13

Daemir just decided to go back to bed and stay there.

A black cat sleeps on a blue bedspread, lazing in the sun, her favorite orange string toy in the foreground.

Converse@lousywords· May 8

Proof of the heinous deed.

A KitKat bar, bitten through the top. A crime against God and Nature. The author is unrepentant.

Converse@lousywords· May 8

Time for a life of (candy) crimes. Tag: @talkwordy.bsky.social

An unopened KitKat candy bar rests on a dark gray background. Little does it suspect it is about to be the victim of a crime.

Converse@lousywords· Apr 13

I laid down to rest my back/legs and now I am trapped by a sleeping house-panther.

A black cat basks in sunlight, lying atop a blue bedspread, trapping her human right where she wants them.

Converse@lousywords· Apr 7

Wurk is for thumb-monkeys. Naps are for cats.

A black cat sleeps on the corner of a bed, basking in the sun while her favorite mouse-on-a-stick toy is safely at her feet.

Converse@lousywords· Apr 7

Me, problem for later.

A black cat sprawls as she naps basking in sunlight.

Converse@lousywords· Apr 1

The Magic the Gathering card, “Imprisoned in the Moon,” from a key point in the Magic story about an ancient eldritch horror locking itself into the moon.

rules Text
Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker
Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "TAP symbol: Add colorless mana symbol" and loses all other card types and abilities.
Flavor Text
Only one vault was great enough to hold Emrakul.

Converse@lousywords· Mar 31

Wesley Snipe as Blade stands in front of brutalist concrete architecture. The text reads: “SOME MOTHERFUCKERS ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO ICE-SKATE UPHILL”.

Converse@lousywords· Mar 21

Sgt Apone from the Aliens movie: A black man in military working uniform, chewing a cigar stands in front of industrial equipment. The text reads “THAT IS … ABSOLUTELY BADASS!”

Converse@lousywords· Mar 19

Is this Monty after a binge of the ol’ ‘nip? This is my Daemir. More than a little ‘nip was enjoyed about 30 minutes prior to this photo.

A black cat lays on the corner of a bed, half on its side half on its back, paws up, neck stretched, bathing in the sun from a large patio door. A stack of boxes and a cat tree fill the background.

Converse@lousywords· Feb 27

Lunch for one. I blame @talkwordy.bsky.social

A diner table with two drinks, a small bowl with a lemon wedge sits before them. Upper left is a small vase with a flower. Lower right shows silverware on a napkin.

Converse@lousywords· Feb 25

Here’s Daemir, tripping hard on the ‘nip, sniffing at delivered food. Taken yesterday morning.

A black cat sits in an office chair, the back of which is covered by a fuzzy striped blanket. The cat’s head is covered in catnip leaves. She is craning her neck to sniff at take-out containers on the table next to the chair.

Converse@lousywords· Feb 5

I love Uncle Deadly and I would take him on field trips to the Hollywood Wax Museum.

Uncle Deadly from The Muppets. He’a weird looking dragon-ish sort of creature with gray-blue skin, a long snout, wispy white strands of hair, and chin tentacles. He dresses in 1880s era suits and speaks in an overly dramatic fashion.

Converse@lousywords· Jan 22

My house panther is the other side of the spectrum. She demands I come nap, and actively disrupts things if I am not napping on schedule.

A black cat lies folded up and asleep at the bottom corner of a bed, a “mouse on a string” toy in the foreground.

Converse@lousywords· Jan 17

A photo of a very surprised looking black cat, eyes open to the maximum, pupils shrunken very narrow, ears folded down.

The caption reads “WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN …
Cannot be un-seen”

Converse@lousywords· Jan 14

Daemir hassled me for 30 minutes non-stop to go lay down so she could do whatever this is.

A black cat is sprawled out in a twisted position on her side/back, asleep and without a concern in the world.

Cat is seen from slightly above and to the right. She is lying on a gray sheet, and household boxes and a cat tree are visible behind her.

Converse@lousywords· Jan 3

Daemir concurs. “My what big paws you have, Floof.”

A black cat sits, a front paw slightly raised and blurry in the shot, her gaze to the lower right of the frame, ears alert.

Converse@lousywords· Dec 28

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains. Harder Mode: no Tool albums. I played this album on repeat for so long my fiancé threatened to leave me, or at the very least destroy the physical media. It’s still in heavy rotation.

The album cover from Crash Test Dummies ‘God Shuffled His Feet’ from the mid-1990s. The cover art superimposes the band members' faces over the figures of Titian's painting Bacchus and Ariadne.

Converse@lousywords· Dec 19

My cat, Daemir, also likes to try to lift my spirits when I am feeling down or ill. She defends me from every other human on the planet, but she means well.

A black cat hides inside her blanket fort, which is perched on her human’s chest. Her giant yellow green eyes stare directly into the camera, her right ear flattened by the blue blanket that makes up her fort. There’s no sound in a still photo, but she was purring up a storm.

Converse@lousywords· Dec 14

Pure serendipity on my skyline this morning.

A screenshot of part of my skyline;
Top post: Stephen Blackmoor brilliantly and wryly says “Like putting glue on pizza” as a dunk on a headline “We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.”
Immediately below, Effin’ Birds post is an image of a hawk on the right, looking at the reader, while very large text reads “OH HONEY NO”.

I found the sequence hilarious and preserved then shared it. You should follow both @stephenblackmore and @effinbirds.

Converse@lousywords· Dec 4

Same energy.