Enjoy this true story of backrooms

a modular origami ball and three small friends made of recycled security envelopes

with this cyclospora outbreak, you may worry that a lot of lettuce and other produce is going to waste. but rest assured that the government has developed a giant radioactive rabbit who can safely eat it all

Examinations of almost 4,000-year-old mummified princesses suggest that they were skilled users of the daggers, bows and other weapons buried with them, researchers report. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-egyptian-princesses-weapons-war

omfg in my morning haze I just ate shredded lettuce 😑

Guys if there is smoke out there, you do not want to go outside. You want to spend as little time outside as possible. Wear a mask (you still have masks, right??) if you go outside, close your windows, basically batten down the hatches.

Me: I need a keyword for [[SECRET REDACTED PROJECT]] G: keyword? Me: Like that describes me. My brand. My writing. G: I don't know. Your book and short stories are very different from each other-- Me: NO GUT REACTION RN WHAT IS SOPHIE BRAND G: ... hag Me: ... yes, perfecttttt

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"Literary Criticism: Hanging by a thread?" From Dracula to Pride and Prejudice, "live-reads" of classic works by astute commentators have garnered huge followings and renewed interest in such books. In this essay I will

Okay okay okay let’s go

pretty sure that's an "ash falling from the sky, death of the dinosaurs" kind of situation

Raffi you’re so right

Hive Mind! I am looking for a Deaf or Partially Deaf artist/graphic designer who signs (I'm not overly bothered whether that's BSL, ASL, or what) who might *potentially* be interested in doing some SFF book covers for pay. These are fact-finding enquiries for me at present, not immediate contract.

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚

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Flock doesn't just search for cars, it searches for you. "'FreeForm' searches... allow cops to use Flock’s system as though they would use a search engine, with Flock’s AI and image recognition interpreting what footage and which people are relevant to a police officer’s search." @404media.co

FUND SCIENCE

alternating packing boxes with reassuring my cat that she is coming with us this time, too

reminder that all the AI "authors" swamping publications RN are using software built on shit like this:

There doesn’t have to be a right and wrong everyone can be wrong

every gardener i follow is going absolutely hogwild flexing that they eat lettuce from behind their house. i've never seen gardeners act like this in my life. this is our super bowl. this is our olympics. gold medal in shitting normally

for sale: baby shoes, never worn -- actually, for free, just come take them, good god, idk why people bought us so many baby shoes? babies can't even walk? and there's so much of it pants sweaters bows help me I'm typing this from underneath a pile of tiny tiny rompers and socks

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which were probably contaminated with e. coli or cyclosporiasis Forgive me the diarrhea was so sudden and so explosive

There are no excuses left. Say goodbye to this TERF and stop giving her money. Do not work with her. Do not consume her works. Do not give her air.

In fact, it's only ever mentioned as an example of her being *so imaginative* that she can't focus on the real world but... people are dying, Joanne?

It's weird to me that discussions of JK Rowling always being a dick never being up the fact she spent her time at Amnesty International drafting books when she was supposed to be documenting war crimes in Africa.

1. Taco Bell is the one restaurant that did the right thing and spoke up, very clearly, about this. 2. Taco Bell has now removed the potentially infested ingredients from their menu, rendering it the single most safe place to eat. We should all be heading to taco bell. We should all be Baja-maxxing

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

Either everyone's human rights are safe or no one's are. The problem with fascism is not that we're not the ones doing it, the problem with it is that it harms people and that is immoral, unethical, the foundational sin of this blood soaked nation.

And I am all about prosecuting this administration but as soon as people start with a politics of punishing people in large swaths of the population for how they voted that's just more fucking fascism and I will fight y'all motherfuckers too, see if I won't.

You do not take healthcare from people because you don't like how they voted. Healthcare is a human right. You do not take food from people because of how they voted. Food is a human right. You do not take human rights from people, ever, for anything.

Hi as a queer trans man who has never left rural areas and spent a third of his life as a political and community organizer in the rural south you do not take food from the mouths of children because of the sins of the parents unless you're a fucking fascist.

Brunch break (gnocchi, peas, and bacon) and then more packing. sOS

one thing about writing an entire book about sandwiches is my brain is just full of random facts now. coffee plants were forcibly introduced to java by the dutch. tuna fishes have extraordinarily high lung capacity. barbecue was a status symbol denoting slave ownership in the antebellum south

let me talk about this, some more, since the coffee is kicking in and I feel feisty. Part of the problem with "AI" in writing is that if you are using it to write your work, you are using a tool that was built on stealing from your colleagues and using it for your own profit.

reminder that all the AI "authors" swamping publications RN are using software built on shit like this:

"Taco Bell Illness" is right up there with "Spanish Flu" as a misattribution that is certainly going to become the meme.

You might need this little soapstone carving of a whale today… (1200-1600 CE, Chumash culture, California, held at Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal)

What the actual fuck

It's amazing how this combination of words either means absolutely nothing to you or makes you stand up and run around the room

My first job in college was prepping materials for archives. I'd sit and make tiny little acid-free envelopes, slide a Hindi (I think??) religious pamphlet in there, label it. FOUR HOURS A DAY. I never made it through the religious pamphlets. Sometimes they let me envelope other stuff. For variety.

evergreen

oh dear god this required campus training that includes a whole 10 minute module on "healthy boundaries" and is, like 10bit animated, dear god is this why the youth invented "cringe"

"That's what I do, not what I am" Hearing him here's hitting me like losing someone you just met because writers can absolutely benefit from this advice

You know what this fucking sucks

fact: a jeremiad is a prose work in which the protagonist is a bullfrog

Hey friends, I just backed khōréō, and I hope you do, too! They're soooo close to funded!

Y’all my favorite show has reruns now 😍😍😍

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.