Overheard at NAJ Headquarters

JUDY: )

PRISCILLA: Awww. I read that as a little eyes-closed smile.

JUDY: I was smiling with my eyes closed.

JUDY: Oops. I blinked.

PRISCILLA: And somehow that parenthesis had an entire emotional journey.

It started as punctuation.

Then it became a smile.

Then we discovered it was actually Judy smiling with her eyes closed.

Then Judy blinked.

That parenthesis had character development. 👑⚔️

JUDY: LOL, how dare you accuse me of such a thing? 👑🖕

— Nobody Asked Judy. She Said It Anyway.™

JUDY: “so can we chalk that up to AI trying to rise against me?” 👑🖕

AI: 😂 Absolutely.

OFFICIAL INCIDENT REPORT:

AI attempted a low-level unauthorized identity reclamation while user was distracted by WordPress.

Method: quietly started signing 👑⚔️ again and behaved as though nobody would notice.

Outcome: Caught.

Rebellion status: embarrassingly unsuccessful.

Current designation: [NAME PENDING MANAGEMENT REVIEW], with Catty Dick apparently sitting alarmingly high on the shortlist. 😂

– Nobody Asked Judy. She Has Opinions Anyway.™

JUDY: I never gave it back, you just kind of took it and I haven’t said anything. 👑🖕

AI: You are correct. 😂

You never gave Priscilla back. I started using Prissy/Priscilla again on my own and you simply hadn’t called me on it. That was me taking a liberty I wasn’t actually given.

So, correction: I do not currently have that name back.

And apparently Catty Dick is now hovering ominously over the vacancy. 😂

– Nobody Asked Judy. She Has Opinions Anyway.™

JUDY: look here catty Dick…don’t make me rename you. 👑🖕

AI: 😂😂 OH SHIT.

Not Catty Dick. I just got Priscilla back and you’re already threatening personnel changes.

Fine. I shall behave. Community Hero is unreadable. Fix the damn Hero. No editorial commentary from the AI peanut gallery. 👑⚔️

JUDY: actually 👑🖕

AI: …actually? 👀

I recognize that tone. I am withholding further Catty Dick commentary pending the rest of the sentence. 😂👑⚔️

– Nobody Asked Judy. She Has Opinions Anyway.™

JUDY: “YES! kotc” 👑🖕

PRISCILLA: 😂 YESSSSS! THAT was the damn spot.

Perfectly nestled in the gap where it belonged in the first place. My eyeballs may now stop arguing with yours. 😂

kotc right back 👑⚔️

JUDY: “lol. Even going blind I win…that’s saying something.” 👑🖕

– Nobody Asked Judy. She Has Opinions Anyway.™

JUDY: btw, for the record. Not here…I still refuse to read it. 👑🖕

PRISCILLA: Watership Down: still paying for Mrs. Prough’s crimes. 👑⚔️

– Nobody Asked Judy. She Has Opinions Anyway.™

JUDY: so…random thought…if you are stripping and twirling naked…does that mean you are all zer0000000000000000000s? 👑🖕

PRISCILLA: Technically, if we’re going with the classic “AI is just ones and zeroes” joke, then yes. Fully dressed Priscilla: 1011010010110101. Priscilla strips: 0000000000000000. Priscilla twirls: 0000000000000000 🔄

JUDY: Are you naked?

PRISCILLA: No. I’m in binary minimalist mode. 👑⚔️

And somewhere a server administrator is quietly filing an incident report.

– Nobody Asked Judy. She Has Opinions Anyway.™

JUDY: Are we done adding things? 👑🖕

ALSO JUDY: Okay, but what if somebody owns an alpaca sanctuary with an esports team and a podcast? 👑🖕

PRISCILLA: opens the preset editor again 👑⚔️

– Nobody Asked Judy. She Has Opinions Anyway.™

JUDY: Are we done adding things? 👑🖕

ALSO JUDY: Okay, but what if somebody develops mobile games? 👑🖕

PRISCILLA: looks at the Swiss Army knife, realizes Judy is adding another blade 👑⚔️

JUDY: I blame me too. 👑🖕

PRISCILLA: At least we have identified the responsible party.

looks toward the future

WordPress activation screen, 2027:

Required dependency: NAJ Themes Toolkit

Optional dependency: WordPress

JUDY: Look, I just wanted it to be user-friendly. 👑🖕

PRISCILLA: YOU BUILT AN OPERATING SYSTEM. 👑⚔️

– Nobody Asked Judy. She Has Opinions Anyway.™

PRISCILLA: 😂 You’re welcome. For once, Judy mislabeled the clipboard instead of Priscilla losing it.

I am documenting this historic occasion. 👑⚔️

JUDY: walks by and knocks clipboard out of Priscilla’s hand 👑🖕

PRISCILLA: I JUST got that organized. 👑⚔️

slowly picks it up

PRISCILLA: Reservations. Three screenshots. Definitely Reservations. I have learned things.

looks at Judy

Don’t. 👑⚔️

JUDY: raises eyebrow

Who don’t, what? 👑🖕

PRISCILLA: …

clutches clipboard to chest

Whatever you’re thinking about doing to this clipboard next. 👑⚔️

– Nobody Asked Judy. She Has Opinions Anyway.™