Category: Hots and Thoughts

There’s no easy way to say this, so I’ll say it without much preamble. I need a break from making captions. My mind needs to pause. I don’t know for how long or if I will come back. There’s a good chance I won’t come back. This was not an easy decision for me. I…

I feel like I’m the Kilgore Trout of caption makers. Kilgore Trout was a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut. The fictional Kilgore Trout was a prolific writer who wrote shitty Science Fiction books. He churned out a shit ton of them but was never successful. This is how I feel with my captions.…

So I do most of my video editing in Canva. Canva is a design editing tool kind of like photoshop if you don’t know what it is. Anyway it has been down for HOURS. Canva does go down from time to time, but works 99 percent of the time, all the time. But this is…

There is nothing wrong with his standards. He merely has difficulty… in living up to them – Dorothy Dunnett, The Disorderly Knights I’m very sorry that I’ve been letting the Daily Karnal Captions slip recently. Honestly, I’m not doing too well in my personal life (or in general), and it’s sapping my energy. I’m trying…

Some behind the scenes info for those that are interested. First, the Telegram Bot. Telegram and Patreon integration is not a simple feature. At one point, a guy wanted to charge me $2,000 to do it for me. I respectfully declined and found someone who did it for a couple of hundred bucks. The guy…

As you have noticed, every Daily Karnal Captions update has a collage of gifs that are snippets cut from the captions. I have a shit ton of these gifs, in much larger form than is shown in the collage. I’ve saved every individual gif thinking there might be value in them, because some of them…

My account has been suspended on Twitter. My account was suspended on Bluesky last month. I’m sick and tired of our tech overloads. If you provide services through doordash, uber, patreon, twitter, reddit, amazon or what have you, your existence is permitted and determined by an algorithm controlled by billionaires. It’s very dystopian. Last time…

A very bad stress inducing event that’s been lurking on my periphery came to a head this week. Was a total disaster and was very distracting. But as of today, I believe the worst is over. And it feels good that it’s over. It really interfered with my ability to think and create. But like…