kirkus is my choice for book reviews that usually steer me right, and today i only looked at the tl;dr sentence before picking up a horror book. this is making me think about how much we are typically told by jacket copy and even cover copy at this point. i genuinely have no idea what will happen

This is super embarrassing for a writer because it's an admission that there are people in love with bridges and roller coasters who have a better imagination than you.

People are requesting more Marcel and Francie so here are a couple more recent pics! The one of Francie showing off her magnificent tufted beans was just yesterday. 🫘

i'm still doing these! i would also love for you to donate to a u.s. immigration law center. let me know if you do and would like a pixel portrait.

chainette yarn says trans rights

yessss i RAN to back this!!

One time in school, I was so sick that I copied my term paper out of the dictionary. It seems like the right idea at the time.

the sycophancy has only turned up. i am a journalist and i cover AI as part of my hard science beat. what this man did is inexcusable. "can't believe they made him work while sick!" they didn't, and he still chose to cheat. sick people go to work all the time and don't have the option to cheat.

To everyone saying "This guy was working on what should have been a sick day — Ars Technica needs a union!!!": they ALREADY have a union, it's @arsunion.bsky.social Even unionization can't keep people from being absolute pinecone-brains about the ethics of A.I. use

i just also want to urge people reading this statement not to repeat or link it and say things like "here's the timeline of what happened." he wrote this completely unverifiable statement. some of this seems . . . unlikely. and i don't believe for a second that this was his first time "trying" it

Oliver leads a difficult life

sorry but i'm so fascinated by these absolute trainwrecks and how so many of them are aging white men in these journalism roles. people younger than them, from less overrepresented groups, have survived in these roles behind them for 10+ years and do not have this luxury.

this is a shocking judgment error, and i would be really, really surprised if this was really the first time he used a tool in this way. sorry, you're so sick you can't read a website to pull quotes, but you're healthy enough to "try an experimental AI tool" for that work? that makes no sense

I would pay a subscription fee for the ability to turn off reposts for *some* users...

hi! most users never touch the settings. try turning off reposts and trending topics and see how you feel click bottom left corner gear button click Content and media switch off Enable Trending Topics switch off Enable Trending Videos click Following feed preferences switch off Show reposts

good morning! yesterday we went to a craft supply thrift store (FOR ME) and got delicious fried fish from our favorite local place (FOR PARTNER) and watched two love-adjacent movies (Black Bag and Eternity) and had a really nice fun day overall, i feel very lucky etc. etc. how are you? what's good?

ko-fi.com/s/9c419ee3db columbo stickers are up in the shop!

The Challenge: Take a 20-minute power nap without waking up hours later disoriented and in darkness.

Happy Valenswine's Day! If you are someone who hates Valentine's Day, you can always use the day to celebrate our pig friends instead. This was our official Valenswine's card this year featuring Huey and Louie.

The study does not remotely say that science “leans hard left.” Nor does the fact that academics left the Nazis-and-child-porn website for a different website mean they’re producing biased evidence. All of the major threats to science in 2026 come from the right.

people who say baseless nonsense like this are 100% of the time right wing and afraid to own up. all science has politics in it. she purports her zone of nutrition science is left wing. likely right wing belief candidates: fatphobia, weird race stuff, pseudoscience about chemicals?

Of course I had to go looking for the parked cloaked toQDuj in Golden Gate Park when I went to San Francisco for Ursa Major... #KlingonGothicLolita #Treklita #EGLFashion

Wonderful example of being a man - standing up for his neighbors, protecting children, able to express strong positive emotion and act on it.

The dance music in the background makes this 40 gazillion times better. Not me being homesick now.

We made a Valentine's Day puzzle for you! (and maybe a hint at our next game? 👀) If you solve the puzzle, you can unlock special Valentines cards to download! Go to upatnightgames.itch.io/up-at-night-..., the password is all three sayings in alphabetical order, no spaces, all lower case We ❤️ You!

This year, I'm trying to be kinder to my delicate laundry! We don't have laundry at home so that means skimming the delicates out of the main basket and into a hand wash zone, then doing them in a little manual camping washer I bought during the pandemic. (cont'd)

My trick is I leave the image on the left very visible. Baby I'm going to see everything in your game

i was teasing stepdad greg for being sleepy at 8:30 but i'm sleepy now and it's 9:37!!! hoisted by my own petard

Still thinking about when a student I had recently wrote a whole essay response about how women "suffered" (from "suffrage") before the passage of the 19th amendment, and how quick i was to think at least they didnt use chatgpt for their answer

Very good to see you again! Here are some Valentine chocolates from Japan. (OK, I actually gave them to my partner, but you can look at them.)

It's a great weekend to smooch swords 💞🗡

it's been a tough week for joseph gordon-levitt fans. i didn't know he's a zionist and longtermist (effective altruism), and he's been yelling in support of a heritage foundation and big tech congressional effort this week. WE WERE ROOTING FOR YOU

love this on couch co-op games from @midimyers.com @mothership.blog, & want to share a (not exhaustive!) list of remote co-op escape room-y games in case some folks are far from their valentines this year. backloggd.com/u/aetataurea...

hi good morning. i woke up too early and keep being surprised that it's not even 9 a.m. yet (it is right now finally). my partner is a pro sleeper, so he slept like 10 hours and i went to bed after AND woke up before him ahhaha. what's the haps with you?

i've seen a number of posts suggesting QGB is ending because of worsening conditions or doom etc. and that is not the case. it was a passion project with few leaders who all had to do a mountain of unpaid work. taylor was burned out in 2024, and we squeaked out two more years together.

Woke to a notification saying that they done put me into a Silent Hill game. & my immediate reaction was Black people exist over there??????

the biathlon is based on the traditional nordic trip to ikea and then shooting an elk on the way home because you ate all the meatballs you were planning to have for dinner

i don't disagree with my friend anna, while i also know many people in the bundle did not ever have access to this much income from their projects otherwise. i definitely prefer QGB to charity bundles, if that choice is faced by someone who is barely surviving in the first place. please get paid!

also, if we know each other and you're interested in starting any kind of cooperative project -- i would be happy to talk and share knowledge from this work. our capacity grows when we work together.

The Queer Games Bundle is officially disbanding. There will not be another bundle this year. Thank you for your support over the years. Please continue to help each other. A community can only exist if it helps each other survive in a meaningful way. Read our final statements here:

every time white supremacists talk about their children, you can see that they're using whiteness as a proxy to teach their children self worth. every child deserves to know their entire worth as a human being, including without relying on racist, homophobic, etc. categories instead of parenting.

fully forgot that i wrote this post while falling asleep and thinking about elton john's "your song" the other night

I am not religious but if you think about it packing a swimsuit for a work conference trip is basically the same as having steadfast faith in things not yet seen.

hello it is good morning. i'm reading a new paper. or i am about to. i'm ambitiously asserting that i am reading this research. how are you, what's the word?

I LOVE THIS THING

"townscaper" or, as i think of it, bas-lag simulator

this is a great idea! couple more days to submit if you feel inspired.