Thank you to everyone who has re-posted the baby foxes in the garden video today. I did, in fact, need to see it a dozen times. Keep it up, I want more cute baby animals tomorrow!

TWILIGHT OF THE DEAD, the final chapter in George A. Romero's long-running zombie saga, is officially back in production with a notable action star in the lead.

I’ve made my peace with not being conventionally attractive. My only regret is that I’ll never be on the cover of a @chucktingle.bsky.social book, being pounded by a concept.

From a real, in print, book. Emphasis so strong it blew the serifs off!

Folks, you can tell your doctor "I do not consent to the AI tool being used for our appointments." Just, FYI. My doctor keeps insisting "I'm the only one refusing." Will I print this out? Yes. Will he read it? I mean, he doesn't even read my test results. But hey, I'm "difficult" and "anxious."🙃

Sex workers have been warning us about this for years. As often, they’re the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to censorship and rights erosion - let’s learn our lesson and may our labour and rights movements be in solidarity with sex workers, always, on principle.

When a cake has cinnamon in it and I don’t like cinnamon, why won’t the baker just serve me flour?

Name a song with girl in the title but replace with squirrel: Just A Squirrel

FYI trans Americans with a Canadian ancestor can apply for expedited processing on their applications for Canadian citizenship!

It’s always anxiety. A woman could walk into the ER and have your elbow fall off and they’ll tell you to learn to manage your stress better and make you take a pregnancy test.

"And in 1920, they had twice the sperm of THAT. And in the 1850s, men? HEAD TO TOE SPERM. THE CIVIL WAR WAS FOUGHT BETWEEN SPERM. What were we talking about?"

I re-watch this every single time it pops up again, and probably will until I die or the video disappears - whichever comes first.

“They’re coming to get you, Barbara.” Iconic.

May the fourth etc etc

The Fall Paterson Seven Dawn of the Dead Shaun of the Dead Dinner in America In Bruges Sinners The Last Seduction Toto Who Lived Twice Le Destin d’Amélie Poulain Lola Rennt Taxi (Jafar Panahi’s) Galaxy Quest Melancholia

Deadwood Supernatural Reservation Dogs Buffy The Vampire Slayer Community Veronica Mars Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Dead Like Me Firefly The Good Place Brooklyn Nine Nine Russian Doll Twin Peaks Starsky & Hutch The Walking Dead

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY

Do I like when someone's behaviour is uncouth? Not really. But I love the opportunity to say uncouth. What a great word.

Trump Appears To Doze During Stroke

Yeah so I thought this was about Severance for longer that i want to admit.

Gina Torres. If she tells me it’s gonna be okay, I believe her. And even if it’s not at least I will have spent some time with a gorgeous woman.

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

Solidarity with @propublicaguild.org members on strike today. Don’t cross the digital picket line! 🚫

So funny to think i watched Hair as a child, probably unprompted since I had no one to recommend movies to me. What did I understand? I was a strange kid.

HAPPY EASTER

I don't mean to be crass, but the more we try to understand AI proponents and unpack what might motivate them, the more I find myself thinking: these are people who don't know pleasure and can't give pleasure either. Some things, the best things in life, are just meant to be experienced.

thank you

idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

Seriously it’s like there is a giant chunk of tech people who don’t understand that when you’ve learned how to write, you feel proud, you look forward to doing more of it, you cheerfully neglect your other work just so you can write more

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

Antibiotic resistant c-diff (If you find this too niche, consider yourself lucky)

Annie Hall came out half of the entire history of the motion picture industry ago, and Seinfeld came out half of the entire history of the television industry ago

I know I'm procrastinating hard when I find myself suddenly so motivated to calculate my work expenses on a Sunday night instead of writing. Help. (although i had been procrastinating on that budget thing for a while too, so maybe it's a win?)

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

When several people who don't know each other all take a little bit longer to reply to me: Oh no, everyone hates me again.

i swear if we had social media in the past people would call the hippie and punk movements 'cancel culture' too. LARGE GROUPS OF PEOPLE MOBILIZING AGAINST THE THINGS THAT HURT THEM IS NOT NEW. SORRY BUD IT IS NOT SOME GEN Z FAD IF YOU SUPPORT HATE THINGS AND FOLKS DONT WANT TO BUY YOUR STUFF ANYMORE

My more nuanced take is FUCK J.K. Rowling. Our trans brothers, sisters, and siblings need our love and support more than we need another Harry Potter. Read and adapt books by better humans. Especially trans ones.

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

listening to ASMR videos at 2x speed so I can feel relaxed faster

We love a nuanced take encouraging us to want to love art, still

“It’s inevitable” “you can’t roll it back” “you just have to accept it”

My body tried keeping the score but I have dyscalculia so it was like, whatever.

One of the many things I love about The Pitt is that it gives me new potential diagnoses to worry about.

My last message here before I disappeared for 7 months aged pretty well. 😏

I deactivated my IG account for a much needed social media break, so naturally here I am. How’s everyone doing over here? (They ask, knowing full well no one will ever see this)

Post someone who looks good in a hat

Today, we're spotlighting just a few trans lit titles featured in our LGBTQ Writers in Schools program. 🏳️‍⚧️✨🏳️‍🌈

Very cool to see so many people praise Fielder. Giving socially awkward weirdos some hope - just gonna learn to fly a plane real quick. I wrote this essay before the season finale came out, and in it I give you two excellent reasons to subscribe to my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/rhymeswi...