IF YOU SEE THIS CLOSE THE TAB IMMEDIATELY this is a trick to install malware on your machine. it is not a real captcha system.

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

Having a cat is like living with a tiny furry grad student. They’re always either napping or intent on some mysterious plan they barely seem to understand but pursue with single-minded intensity.

birds do it bees do it even educated fleas do it let's do it let's hate ai

If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed

everybody over 40 is saying “LiveJournal” and honestly, yes ::pours one out::

Kids with autism will write so many poems. They will fall in love with a form of structured poetry and write one a day for years. Kids with autism are single-handedly keeping the sonnet industry afloat in these trying times.

As a heads up, I will be hiding purl two together and its sequel on AO3 the morning of 6/16/2026.

Please call your reps, this thing is so evil

rest well, Jane Yolen, our dragon mom who raised us

Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

Hey man, are we cool? I noticed a line of candles on the hallway floor lit up automatically in sequence as I approached your door

(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this

The Onion didn't fuck around with this one, wow

our neighbours are getting solar panels so the scaffolders showed up last week, and proceeded to install the scaffolding on the wrong house, so they came back today and dismantled it and are now reinstalling it on a different wrong house

Not sure who needs to hear this but admitting you're wrong doesn't kill you instantly

I am sorry to inform you all that baby possums have appeared in the garden and on the deck and there will be nothing done until further notice.

Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant. www.tom-cox.com/my-notebook-2/

I'm regrettably not perusing a quaint bookstore on a cobblestone street in Edinburgh, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well."

🚨Bad news. A THIRD National book banning bill has passed committee in the house.🚨 Meet the CHARLIE act that will prohibit the teaching of what they call: equity ideology (not white supremacist jingoistic history) More from @authorsabb.bsky.social when we have it. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Finally got into that space under the sofa where my cat likes to hide her toys and I found a stack of museum blueprints and a grappling hook

scheming vizier reportedly depressed after king is taken out by previously unknown shellfish allergy instead of his elaborate plan put into motion months ago. "i don't even want the stupid throne anymore", he says, dejectedly kicking around priceless jewels

Do not mess with crafty bitches.

This passed the house today, so now is the time to call our senators (and yell at our house reps if they voted for it) This bullshit bill is an assault on trans people and on every kid’s right to read and see the world as it exists. Reps.fyi

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

the FCC wants to make trans existence in television “explicit” and require warnings the House is trying to ban all books by or about trans people — right now — YOU SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING RIGHT?? C A L L Y O U R R E P S ~please!~

People who don't write books assume writer's block is staring at a blank page with zero ideas. In truth it's invariably the opposite. Writer's block is when a dazzling array of options become tyrannical, team up with an unwillingness to fail, mug you in a dark alley and stick a bag over your head.

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

Dangerous kitten, not good for pettings, but lovely to look at respectfully.

Reading Into the Blue, and I must ask: Emma Brodie, are you a freaking reylo? [extremely affectionate]

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

Not me, laughing at this for 10 minutes straight.

People I care a whole lot about rely on SSRIs to make their lives work. I don’t know where I would be without SSRIs. Get your fucking hands and your crazy conspiracy theories out of our medicine cabinets.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

The hair physics! The walking/talking player character animations! The dialogue tone trying to respond to contradictory flags! This is hysterically funny.

One of the all time great tweets from the last days of Old Twitter

You're not longing for the 90s, you just want to solve mysteries while having sexual tension with Gillian Andersen. It's a universal feeling.

Cats breaking the news

Bring back the ancient knowledge

Once again, it's a Tuesday, and that means there are many good books being published today. Buy or borrow one and it will be an automatic distraction from the daily horrors.

California lawmakers are fast-tracking AB 1709—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user, regardless of age, to verify their identity before accessing social platforms. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

creative process

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

Okay. Let's take a moment to talk about How To Be A Hugo Nominee And Come Out Of It Happy About the Honor. I realize this is relevant to like, twelve people. I don't care, those twelve people deserve my time. (You may have seen a version of this thread before. I do it every year.)

SCENE PARTNER is now unveiled and available for preorder!!! Releasing JANUARY 19th 2027 and able to be added on goodreads! PREORDER HERE: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818464...