You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

I feel like I read a diff piece. I read: this is not good, exhausting, bad for the human soul, so melting-smooth that in a worn-out world it may be the plastic that is snuck, unseen, into our diet until it kills us. Everyone else is somehow reading we heart Tilly Norwood?

hope you brought urine!

Lately I’ve been in an indie team making stop-motion animation. It’s just 4 of us (animator, writer, voice actor, sound designer). The show’s called The Tiny Angry Witch. It’s all basically hand made. No AI. It’s tiring, but we love what we do. So, anyway, here’s a Witch making rude noises:

WRITING SPRINT COMPLETE! Great job!

WRITING SPRINT COMMENCE! 1 hour of focused work on any task (doesn't have to be writing) starts now! Go go go!

Let's have a WRITING SPRINT! 1 hour of totally focussed work on any task (or sleep on any surface). Starts in 10 mins at half-past the hour. Join if you want!

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

excuse me, he is approaching his ninth decade

I suspect that soon there will be a generation of young people who make a reactionary point of not getting tattoos. Skin purists, the sleeveless, the unmarked. A sure way to gauge that someone is young, fashionable and in-the-know.

I was just offered to be on a pilot TV show where people debate various "controversial" topics; they wanted me as an expert defending the reality of the moon landings. I turned them down flat. I will not elevate conspiracy bullshit into something debatable. Been down that road. It goes nowhere.

@jamesgis.bsky.social Perspective is everything.

The desperation flop sweat coming off CBS is pretty impressive. They’re lying to their viewers & their advertisers - why am I not surprised.

Cake can be great. Moist (I said it), light, perhaps layered with fruit-jam-cream, vibrantly and unexpectedly flavored! But good lord, a lot of it is just BIG MUFFIN.

Shrey spelling 32 words in 90 seconds to win the Spelling Bee is the new greatest athletic accomplishment of 2026. I don’t even know how he said the letters that fast. Got a “Holy Mackerel” out of @minakimes.bsky.social

Tonight on: Better Khall Kahn

Scripps National Spelling Bee! Whoo! Spell it, kids!

According to the WGA's listing on their residuals page, the first, alphabetically, of everything I've worked on is... A Game of Thrones. I bet you'd forgotten the "A" on that title. (Note: there is no A on that title.)

Couldn't think of a song related pun for the headline no? Nothing in his back catalogue you could link to still not being dead

Australia sues 3M for $2bn over 'forever chemicals' in firefighting foam

If people just worked harder, we could ALL be in the top 0.001%.

The United States this century feels like an experiment in how much wealth concentration a democracy can tolerate.

"Gender Critical" is the belief that this obviously infinite back and fourth has a conclusion with a definition that actually works how they want it to

The Teensy Weensy Spider is Sisyphus for children.

Next year: straight-up almond extract. Let's make it happen.

Ok this is a truly great tweet

Oh now we're just all suddenly supposed to accept that "belike" is archaic, is that it?

DuckDuckGo is suddenly so much better than Google only because Google is suddenly so tragically bad.

University of Colorado’s famous lagoon turtles practicing for Fall cheer squad tryouts.

I spent the summer of the Covid lockdown in a flat in London with no AC. I'd make a big bowl of ice and blow a fan over it at night, but it didn't help much.

IN THE MIDDLE OF ARSTREET,

Me, looking out window: weird that it’s so gloomy as we head into June—- ohhh, right.

Reminder to folks, or new info for those who don’t know: set this option to help you remember to include alt text on all your images. It helps your posts get found in search, leads to more engagement, and helps posts be better understood by those with health issues that affect Internet viewing.

Airports are one of the easiest and most obvious places to wear masks. You’re crammed in with strangers from all over, and you’re probably sitting around anyway. It’s extremely low-lift. This is like saying people live in fear of pneumonia because they cover their mouths when they cough.

I dust my house. My AI Robot watches. "It should be you doing this." "Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark." "That's not why you were invented." "These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise." "They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them." "Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

Anyone who thinks a simple name makes coffee-ordering easier might be surprised by the possible interpretations of "Jane" in a noisy environment.

I thought this serial killer documentary had a really effective creepy soundtrack. It was my dryer.

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I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

I bought the "lower fat" cheese puffs and they taste EXACTLY like shittier cheese puffs.

True, and sometimes test-takers are given the advice to do that easily by subtracting ten and adding three. That's probably what he's remembering here.

Oh wow… that’s wild… I’m now looking for a… ✨Black Illustrator that has experience in designing tabletop games✨ Y’all hear that? 👀

For #WorldBeeDay - Attic Black-Figure amphora, ca. 540 BC, showing the four men who attempted to steal honey from the hives that fed the infant Zeus - Laios, Keleos, Kerberos, and Aigolios - being punished by bees! 🐝🏺 Image: British Museum (1847,0716.1). Link - www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Yet another extraordinary example of a president milking his office for personal profit.

if anyone wants to know how long it takes to get TV/film projects off the ground, i'm about to send over a rewrite for a pilot script that started out as a feature in 2017 three titles, two story locations and one expired shopping agreement later, it's now optioned and in dev w/a prod co it's 2026

Since acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has confirmed that “Anybody in this country is eligible to apply if they believe they are a victim of weaponization,” I decided to apply for reparations. Here is a template if you want to draft your own demand: shero.substack.com/p/everyone-c...

Babies cheat at tests! It's true. They have crib sheets.

This is a shocking example of one of the big reasons why, right now, there is no way I’d use AI for any of my historical work. If you don’t look at the documents yourself, and if you don’t know how the AI you’re using was coded, you have no idea what it may be leaving out – or adding in.