oh i'm also reading city of bones, which, lmao. My favorite part is when the protagonist is told that the villain is fantasy-racist by an adult, who was once taken in by the villain, she's immediately like: "oh, ew, he's like one of those white power guys, and YOU fell for it." go off honestly

I read Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation. It was hard to put down, sometimes funny, and a deeply unpleasant read lol

AI has been annoying, and has made the world worse, but it hasn't made MY life worse until gmail added the AI suggestion underlines. My brain has been trained for the last twenty years to think there is an error when text is squiggly underlined and now it's trying to make style suggestions

The Pokémon card secondary market exists because Pokémon cards are a gambling product, so I think it's odd when people say that Pokémon cards "should" be accessible to kids because they are "for" kids. The problem is that a gambling environment was intentionally created.

I watched an old video about Jordan Peterson yesterday and it’s pretty disturbing to see how much worse things have gotten. Want to misgender trans people and think poor people are stupid? Like, welcome to the Democratic Party, Jordan

Why are they making an animal farm movie that isn’t about the Russian revolution??

since the mid 2000s, whenever i learn about something that matters sort of, but is ultimately useless to me, my brain goes: "Updated my journal."

listening to a book that introduces a character and then says he was holding a stack of what looked like pasteboard. And then in the next couple of sentences was like (paraphrasing): the pasteboard was actually flattened cardboard boxes why

so i recently tapered off of abilify and have encountered an odd phenomena of seemingly real (?) inpatient mental health treatment facilities with AI written (?) informational pages about abilify discontinuation that all use the phrase "abilify ruined my life"

i love to learn about john boyne just a little bit at a time so yesterday i learned about the boy in the striped pyjamas. holy fuck dude. this gets read in schools??

Imagining a Star Wars ballet and 40% of the run time is the celebration at the end of A New Hope. Luke, Han, and Chewbacca just standing there watching delegations from every planet do a dance

Arrived at the wedding and the gang’s all here: two cats, bluebird, red riding hood & the wolf, and evil lady (forgiven)

I knew someone in college that thought it was called Valentimes day. And he was right, it is Valen Times

every time i worry that I've thought of a use for AI, I realize I just need OCR and that all of those services have been made worse by being folded into AI packages

free ingredients for a joke that isn't mine to make: "Anthony Goldstein, Jewish Wizard" has the exact cadence of an MTG card name, and Hasbro just did a big Harry Potter licensing deal

i was looking up why meth labs explode (answer: chemicals), and i love how all the top results online sound like school papers with word count requirements written an hour before the due date with no actual research or information and definitely by a human

playing final fantasy vii (remake) feels a little like being trapped in an unbreakable cage playing break-out-of-the-cage-simulator brought to you by the Square Enix Holdings Company, Ltd.

my new website is almost done so i need you all to make websites too so that we can all be in a web ring together.

the program i have to use for work has an expanding AI sidebar now, popping up and interrupting what i'm doing every five minutes. we're fucking under attack!!!!!! what are we going to do?????

Barthes' essay is pretty good, but did anyone else think it was weird when he started talking about how it's actually okay to go to a theme park, even if the creator was complicit in a pedophile island for rich people? I thought that was strange.

i'm just receiving word that this is who i've been emailing about legislation and receiving form letters back from. humiliating

i hate how much of painting is optical illusions. i can't keep all of that stuff in my head at once

I forgot to post this the other day #lizrpgart

why does every entertainment property have to be Forever? Some things just won't stand the test of time, otherwise we would simply have too many things. kids not wanting to read harry potter doesn't have to be about the fall of liberalism

watching casablanca and catching all the world war 2 allusions

okay i read the nyt harry potter op ed. Lots of good stuff in there. This is one of my favorite parts because 1) I don't think that's why lol and 2) the fantastic beasts movies don't have allusions to WW2 in the same way that harry potter has allusions to WW2. WW2 is a canonical Problem in FB

i can't figure out how to get around the nyt paywall, but i want to read the harry potter op ed

How am I supposed to work in these conditions

"earned wage access" companies..................... go to hell immediately

Tomorrow

Twelve Kingdoms spoilers

proboards is still around? what are we even doing here and on discord

i hate it when i'm stressed out about something for days or weeks and then someone comes along and is like, "Hey, have you noticed this pit has a slowly descending pendulum?"

i probably wouldn't even be called, but i'm so torn between not wanting to do jury duty but also feeling like more people like me need to be doing jury duty lol

I was going to play final fantasy last night to relax after work, but honestly had to sleep on the aerith tifa decision. It’s not like I’ve had since like 1997 to decide

Saw people were posting photos from 2016, so here’s what I’ve got. Were there more flattering pictures I could have picked? Yes lmao

Do kids these days still have to learn about Harry Houdini in schools or is that gone like cursive?

The little orphan kids in final fantasy 7 remake all have whimsical wooden swords except for one who has a nail bat?? He’s gonna kill someone, damn

My violin tuner app has ads because I don’t pay for premium, but it just showed me an ad for a porn site and all the “examples” looked like they were from the Blair Witch Project

Going to Johto, anyone need anything? #lizrpgart

I want to be careful how I say this because I don’t want to do a “books these days…” because I think that’s fake. So I’ll just say I’m reading a fantasy book right now and it’s so refreshing to read a protagonist that makes cowardly, wrong choices sometimes

Hi, it’s me again, remembering to TAG MY ART #lizrpgart

They’re calling it the worst team in Kanto

Guess who saved 16GB of Untitled_Artwork locally on her iPad 🙃

I see

i made this for the group chat, but it turned out cute

Bad guys are like, "Bad things are bad, and we should stop them........................ .............and I'll kill all the women and children who get in my way."

Outer Worlds, you were so nothing to me (Review Contains Spoilers)

Continuing on, here are some (unedited) words about Silent Hill f. Spoiler-ish.

Firefox home page served me up an article about how the ceo of Netflix’s favorite book is the 1902 novella Typhoon by Joseph Conrad.