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katherine morayati@morayati· Jul 9

this is 100% true and no one can tell me otherwise

screenshot of NBA reddit post: Theory: The airpod Shams Charania lost outside Madison Square Garden prior to Game 3 of the finals is now Taylor Swift memorabilia. Game 3 of the finals involved the secret service locking down the entire block so that Trump could attend and curse the Knicks.

On his way to his pregame bit, Shams dropped an airpod in an intersection outside the Garden. When he bent down to grab it, a secret service agent who was not at all profiling told him to keep moving. He lost the airpods.

Various updates were provided on ESPN over the course of the evening. Shams said "we're still on the hunt." Later, he provided a screenshot from the Find My Device page, locating the airpods between Penn Station and MSG

No report has emerged of Shams recovering the airpods.

Fast forward to the Taylor Swift wedding at MSG. Artist Justin Gignac, who's been selling NYC garbage for 25 years, walks around the perimeter of MSG in a tuxedo picking up trash which he then seals in small plastic cubes and sells.

From Gignac's interview: "I found a lot of bottle caps, cigarette butts, and one left airpod on the crosswalk - that was a first."

Photos of the airpod cube show it to be a non-silicone model, which Shams has stated he prefers.

"But it could be anyone's airpod, thousands of people walk there." Maybe. But: (a) in 25 years of this somewhat strange man professionally collecting garbage off NYC streets, the one and only airpod he ever finds happens to be at the exact spot where Shams loses his; and (b) ESPN has yet to report on any other lost airpods.

katherine morayati@morayati· Jun 27

microcosm of the decay of the Web: if you search for Steamboat Willie on YouTube, the first several results are various reaction videos, google ads, and "UltraHD Remasters"; only after scrolling do you find the real short, uploaded 12 years ago by someone with the sign-off "Stay lucky, my rabbits!"

YouTube screenshot of Steamboat Willie, accompanied by a still of Mickey Mouse at the wheel of a ship, uploaded by a user named Oswald Rabbit, with the following video description: This is a video of the first Mickey cartoon ever! Hope you enjoy and stay lucky my rabbits!

katherine morayati@morayati· Jun 15

I don't know why I'm surprised I got this owned by Fuck's Quest II

a screenshot from the noted videogame Fuck's Quest 2, showing the protagonist Fuck by a kind of purple shrine revealing one of his dark secrets, which is that he is 37

katherine morayati@morayati· Jun 14

this is a stupid argument even by anti-pop chud standards, and falls apart the minute you try to generalize it even a little ”songs all written by the same middle aged men” describes… bands, with songwriters who famously are disproportionately male. what rubes their fans are, what filthy casuals

katherine morayati@morayati· May 31

buy an enormous parcel of land and construct a mall of america-sized showcase of fmv interiors from multimedia/edutainment games, complete with being able to walk through walls and interact with everything

screenshot of stairs from Blue Ice that are more pink than a room should be

pool of ideas from mindgym, photo from obscuritory

the playroom from the edutainment game series with adi

katherine morayati@morayati· May 11

counterpoint:

the fyre festival feast: two pieces of sliced bread, two slices of american cheese, a pile of wilted romaine, and a small tomato slice in a styrofoam takeout container

katherine morayati@morayati· May 6

I have yet to dislodge this mental detritus

The New Yorker excerpt: The Weimar Bauhaus was a kind of kindergarten cum commune for adults

katherine morayati@morayati· Apr 26

new playoffs reaction image just dropped

A screenshot of Titanium Court, in which a character wearing a pink suit watching basketball on a TV in a chapel - all of this makes sense in the context of the game - says, The man at the free throw line looks like a corpse.

katherine morayati@morayati· Apr 14

the city of newport, rhode island has implemented some novel governmental initiatives

search result for a dot gov URL for the City of Newport, Rhode Island that has been hijacked to read: AI Girlfriend 2026, Best Tools, How It Works and Real

katherine morayati@morayati· Mar 11

lil miquela, grimesai, this real press release from 2022

I am sorry you have to hear this: Bored Ape Yacht Club 9797 aka Jimbo Releases New Single/Video for Plastic featuring over 25 Bored Ape NFTs

katherine morayati@morayati· Feb 14

I thought that was rule 34

highlighted text: "It is rule 62 of the Olympic Charter that we have to have a condoms story. Faster, higher, stronger, together," [International Olympic Committee spokesman] Adams joked.

katherine morayati@morayati· Feb 5

some free snakes (in painting form) for those needing ideas www.klayjamesenos.com/year-of-the-...

oil painting of a light tan Aruba Island Rattlesnake in a rocky area among twigs

katherine morayati@morayati· Feb 3

according to the music video for "Easy to Fall in Love," Olivia Dean is a beta tester for Windows 98

A computer monitor on an office desk with a Microsoft Word document open and icons visible outside the window, several of which are for Memphis beta testers

Screenshot from the Memphis beta version of Windows, with the same Memphis Beta Tester Web and Memphis Beta Guide icons visible

katherine morayati@morayati· Jan 20

overly dramatic clip art of a football player facepalming at night in the rain

katherine morayati@morayati· Jan 19

my spam email gets other people's spam on occasion and this is not the place you want to integer overflow

This is an automated message from the Are You Dead app.

(name removed) has not checked in for 9223372036854775807 consecutive days.
Please check on their physical condition as soon as possible.

katherine morayati@morayati· Jan 1

our lemon pig kind of resembles the restored jesus

katherine morayati@morayati· Nov 27

diagrams that look like shitposts

a diagram of various stick figure type faced alongside a monkey face labeled “Using a visual stimulus to excise a single cell in a macaque face patch”

katherine morayati@morayati· Nov 9

zohran slogan generator featuring limp bizkit's i did it all for the nookie

katherine morayati@morayati· Nov 3

@klayjamesenos.bsky.social and I have a series -- his paintings, my code -- in "about, not by; for, not from," a virtual exhibition by Unrequited Leisure, featuring work where "artists probe the cultural gravity of algorithms without surrendering authorship to them." newart.city/show/about-n...

Algorithmic Field is a tool for generating aleatoric constraints for plein air paintings in New York City. The project reflects on the ways in which algorithmic logic and quantified thinking shape our interaction with and perception of reality, as well as the aesthetic and expressive qualities of painting itself. The tool can generate a near-limitless number of possible combinations of constraints.

katherine morayati@morayati· Oct 20

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

Merey LaRoc, I mean she stole a gargoyle from Notre Dame, she can't be counted out here

katherine morayati@morayati· Sep 30

a lot of tech-press AI coverage, from both boosters and skeptics, is extremely US-centric compared to the adoption of AI elsewhere in the world - which by most measures outpaces the US, by some measures wildly. good to see some reporting that isn't www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

Excerpt from Technology Review article on how AI and machine translation are affecting endangered languages: Abdulkadir Abdulkadir, a 26-year-old agricultural planner who spoke with me over a crackling phone call from a busy roadside in northern Nigeria, said that he spends three hours every day fiddling with entries in his native Fulfulde, a language used mainly by pastoralists and farmers across the Sahel. “But the work is too much,” he said.

Abdulkadir sees an urgent need for the Fulfulde Wikipedia to work properly. He has been suggesting it as one of the few online resources for farmers in remote villages, potentially offering information on which seeds or crops might work best for their fields in a language they can understand. If you give them a machine-translated article, Abdulkadir told me, then it could “easily harm them,” as the information will probably not be translated correctly into Fulfulde.

Google Translate, for instance, says the Fulfulde word for January means June, while ChatGPT says it’s August or September. The programs also suggest the Fulfulde word for “harvest” means “fever” or “well-being,” among other possibilities.

Abdulkadir said he had recently been forced to correct an article about cowpeas, a foundational cash crop across much of Africa, after discovering that it was largely illegible.

katherine morayati@morayati· Sep 24

me and my book at the chappell show!

me, with my Chappell Roan book, at the Chappell Roan show

katherine morayati@morayati· Sep 17

to commemorate my chappell roan book (out now!), I present to you a pink pony club-themed circle

four square photos arranged to create a circular - or oval in this case - shape in the middle:

top left: greenwich village, new york, a store window with a decal of a chess knight - a pony, get it? - made up of multicolored neon triangles

top right: hell's kitchen, steeples of a church building at night, lit up in violet

bottom left: greenwich village, a courtyard with purple flowers and iridescent circular orb-like decorations

bottom right: greenwich village, the overhead foliage of trees, lit up in bright pink and deep purple, against a brick building

katherine morayati@morayati· Aug 30

those on cohost may remember the "circling the square" photography posts; in an attempt to touch grass more, I'm still doing those. up to several dozen now, here are some of my favorites warning: photography not guaranteed professional tilde.town/~katherine/c...

top left quadrant, taken in greenwich village: brown circles on a green painted wood construction barrier, in front of two white and brown brick apartments

top right quadrant: in Woodside, Queens, a circular illuminated ad on the sidewalk for the computer repair shop Doctor PC, showing a man with a head mirror, stethoscope, and white lab coat

bottom left quadrant: in Woodside, underneath the 7 train platform, a soccer-related advertisement with a drawing of a man kicking a soccer ball, alongside various flyers in English and Chinese

bottom right quadrant: in Tribeca, two lace fringe decorations in the window of a cafe at night, with warm colored lights in view

top left quadrant: on the Upper West Side, a mesh barrier with circular holes cut out of it, and a danger warning sign

top right quadrant: in the East Village, the outside of a building with moldings and tiles in various colors and patterns outside, with a circular pile of scrap metal outside it

bottom left quadrant: in Soho, a wall painted off-white, with the paint chipped off in a circular pattern to reveal painted white bricks underneath

bottom right quadrant: in the East Village, a green mesh barrier by a construction site, with a large metal chain painted green attached

top left quadrant: in Soho, a pile of blankets and insulation foam in orange, red, and brown on the sidewalk

top right quadrant: in Soho, several brown paper bags containing fuzzy pink, white, and green flowers

bottom left quadrant: in the East Village, a wall with the remnants of white, black, and brown paint and old flyers, chipped away and fraying

bottom right quadrant: in the East Village, a close-up of a mural, with teal and green crabs

top left quadrant: in Prospect Park, the arched awning of a wooden underpass, with bright green foliage visible through one of the arches

top right quadrant: in the Upper West Side, a black circular fan sitting on the sidewalk by a barred-off apartment yard, lit so that the fan appears purple and the yard appears bright yellow

bottom left quadrant: in the Upper West Side, the corner of a yellow lighting fixture with a tiled circular pattern, seen in a shop window reflecting light green

bottom right quadrant: in Chelsea, a close-up of a mural, with the night sky painted dark blue alongside green painted blades of grass, a black stylized seagull, and the corner of a bright pink planet

katherine morayati@morayati· Jul 22

networking bird

katherine morayati@morayati· Jun 26

a train arrival display in a new york city subway station, which reads Testing Ram

katherine morayati@morayati· Jun 18

my gut feeling is that it is not -- too many typographical errors for someone not specifically requesting them, and no ponderously fake-confident focus on symbolism compare the hounds of love blurb for instance to this almost definitely llm-generated blurb

slop not worth copypasting but a lot of exemplifying, showcasing, structure, etc

katherine morayati@morayati· Jun 15

interactable adventure game doors:

A pair of white wooden doors, slightly ajar, with a isolated patch of pink lighting highlighting the entrance.

katherine morayati@morayati· Jun 3

the nyc subway fandom:

the LED timetable display at the union square subway station in new york city, with a message cut off so it reads, Please stan

katherine morayati@morayati· May 31

there should be fanfiction of these two