Goodbye, .ai.

Posted 5:30 AM by Gerald So

Updating my Bluesky profile the other day, I pinned a new post:

I don't want AI's help w/ anything, including social media. #Attie

— Gerald So (@sogerald.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 12:44 PM

Just above the post, my bio listed my Mastodon account at masto.ai, a bad look.

I joined masto.ai to ease the strain on mstdn.social from the Twitter migration of 2022. The same fine admin runs both, nothing to do with artificial intelligence. More and more, though, I've wanted to avoid the assumed connection.

I only just realized I could move back. And so, happily, I have.

The Blog Shuffle

Posted 6:00 AM by Gerald So

Earlier today, the blog description I'd used for years caught my eye: "St. Mary's, Hofstra, Queens College...That Gerald So"

First thing: Without a period, it wasn't a sentence. Second: If I mean it to be a sentence that trails off and picks up, shouldn't "That" be "that?"

How to resolve these issues? Title the blog THAT GERALD SO and make its description a sentence that ends with an ellipsis.

Projekt Osterhase

Posted 5:30 PM by Gerald So

Years ago, I made a Yahoo! Avatar of myself in an Easter Bunny costume. It involved mixing stock hairstyles, faces, outfits, and backgrounds.

Last March I began watching tutorials on how to draw faces, adapting the techniques to Inkscape, and I made a front-facing bunny costume avatar from scratch.

In time for Easter this year, I've made a three-quarter view version:

Image by Gerald So