Oof, had to stop watching Mouse (2021) more than halfway through because of all the animal murder. But also oof to the "science". Watching with my husband the neuroscience PhD sure was something. 😆 That's not how genes work! That's not how brains work! Those "newborn" kittens are FIVE WEEKS OLD---

Nora!

HANG IN THERE! 화이팅! #art|#kpdh

Buyers: So your games... guns and football, yes? EA: Mmhmm, mmhmm, mostly guns and football, yep. Buyers: No gay stuff? No politics we're not going to like? EA: Haha, definitely not! Hey, could you give me one sec? I just need to shut down a studio real quick. kotaku.com/report-saudi...

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

I mean. The instructions are to choose just ONE chapter from "The Cambridge Companion to K-Pop" (2023), and then the table of contents looks like this?? (I am only K-pop adjacent, but would love to know more about - well. Everything!) Well. I downloaded the whole thing so I have the PDFs available?

Manny Jacinto posted this bc he knows how sad and anxious we all are

Some beauty from my morning walk. #NayePhoto

I finally got my official course syllabus, since it's starting October 7th, and there has been some revisions... including there being less required reading and more "choose one of these". But I've been reading ahead, so - well. How about I choose all of them that's okay right?! 😆 (#Overachiever)

We report in waning sunshine: a couple of days after the equinox, we experience its lesser-known cousin, the equilux. We thought our expert was making fun of us as they spelled it out. Today, day and night are the same length. We stand here at sunset in a rare moment of balance.

While ao3 is down you should read the first book of @feliciadavin.com ‘s gardeners hand series because it’s free and fucking fabulous and also F/F (with later (F/F/NB) www.feliciadavin.com/the-gardener...

come do Festivids! it's a lovely vidding exchange for small fandoms. If you've never made a vid before, this is a great way to start, or to get back to it if you've been away. there's lots of help and support and community around it!

Happy Reducing a List of 649 Things to a List of at Least 4 Things week!

Being a bisexual emperor must be the most stressful shit in the world. You go to the inner palace and your wives are scheming. You go to the outer court and the male concubines that you promoted to viziers are fighting. Your wife just poisoned your favorite twink eunuch. There’s no peace

Companies big and small keep using machine translations for their Swedish and I hate it. It's always so awkward and full of fail. I was just shown an ad that used the word for "sentenced" instead of "judged"? Positively embarrassing. It would've been so easy to hire someone but NO, "just use AI". 🙄

Seeing the "political motive" get reported uncritically in national news here has me tearing my hair out. Could we just. Double fact check everything coming out of the US, please?? (They're still reporting on [The President Said] as if that is a serious statement that needs to be shared though, so.)

Trying to get my brain to both parse and produce Korean vowels correctly wasn't working well using English sources. Not surprising - General American English doesn't have all the right sounds. But if I add my other languages, I actually have most of these in my brain already! (Now to learn IPA...)

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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There are so many excellent sources nominated I have no idea how I'm going to narrow it down to just ten requests...!(Especially since all my 10 were approved. Help.)

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"The job of agents and editors is to find authors whose books will be successful, which means finding ways to cash on social media trends...And those trends aren’t neutral. The TikTok algorithm that produced them is racially biased, suppressing content from Black and queer creators. "

Okay 25 minutes in and I am loving it! I'm really glad I've read scholarly texts on shamans and geomancers so I actually have context for what's going on. But also I paused bc now would be a great time for everyone to listen to the geomancer, leave the bad juju tomb, and live happily ever after!

Feeling incredibly cranky about embodiment, so making choices like watching a horror movie with breakfast. (I don't usually do horror! I'm too scared! But someone nominated Exhuma for Festivids and I'm so intrigued...)

It's not just these chuckleheads. I am sick and tired of autism speaks types thinking their children are defective. Kindly fuck off. Seriously.

Summary of my stoma therapist's appointment today. Details in thread (and it's not THAT dire, the meme is just apt, because it's nothing neither she nor I can do anything about). #NayeHealth 1/4

Bluesky is a wonderful place that has flourished in large part because of its artists and intolerance towards facists/Nazis. The Updated policy currently going into effect Oct 15 could fuck that up and we should be very vocal about it. Here are some specific things to mention in feedback (THREAD)

Got a call from the stoma clinic this morning, with a very apologetic nurse checking in and letting me know they were all out on Friday, but they didn't turn the phone off before I got my call in. So glad they followed up as soon as they could! But still: newly suspicious of any promised callback!

Woke up to almost half a dozen comments left on individual One Piece 300 drabbles from 2009. I am now having the warmest and fuzziest feelings for the reader who took the time to express what they liked, and for 29-year old naye who wrote something someone still enjoyed sixteen years later.

We report in the humble beginnings of light: the temperature is not that much lower than it was a few weeks ago, but we feel those degrees of difference under our skin, in the flesh near our bones. The sun is a sleepy eye between the eyelashes of clouds, slowly blinking.

If you see this, repost with the first #CDrama you watched.

The problem with finishing a great show that hits just right and has a satisfying ending (talking #Healer2014 here) is that it's really hard to know what to watch next. It's very...

This show and my beloved Gintama overlap in a beautiful Venn diagram of ridiculous dumbasses, hijinks, and, uh. Family jewels? Anyway I love Dan Da Dan. The kids are ridiculous for sure, but they're good kids (and fantastic characters)!! What a joy that we have a third season to look forward to.

Romancelandia: even if you don't read dark romance, the new Bsky guidelines should concern you. Disallowed: "Illustrated or animated" depictions of nonconsensual adult content. Why ban fictional depictions of anything? And how will consent be determined from an illustration?

We report: it is raining movie rain tonight, like a giant watering can is following us around. We breathe with care, lest we inhale water in the process. We have tucked our hands into our sleeves, to no avail - soon, we get the distinct feeling of being completely drenched.

if you want to understand tailoring, you only need to watch mid-century movies, when actors were dressed by tailors, not brands. in the 1944 film cover girl, gene kelly's suit drapes beautifully, moving with him, not against him. collar stays on his neck, even as he dances.

Didn't get my usual weekend drive & walk due to health reasons today, and... Hm. I hadn't actually realized how much it did for my mental health to Go Somewhere and See Something until I did not get to do those things! So. Maybe tomorrow? In the meantime, at least our deck marigolds are pretty.

I already said it, but I will say it again - we need better MODERATION tools, not censorship guidelines. Automod is still incorrectly flagging art as explicit content when too much skin is showing or it represents LGBTQ+ community. We should be given more labels to what we post, not this.

The Thursday Murder Club movie was a lot of fun!

We report in the midst of the frantic agitation of early morning: it was already raining, we were already late, we had already forgotten our keys. We did not need the sun to make a bold statement to have us more frazzled. The rain stops for a brief moment, also distracted.

when I gave Irwin a treat after accidentally kicking him a bit with my foot what I thought i was doing was apologizing what I was actually doing was teaching him the concept of insurance fraud it is only a matter of time before he trips me and I break my neck

It worked! Not a single actual emergency (being ghosted by the stoma clinic doesn't count) today. Whew. Now raising the bar: fingers crossed my guts settle down and I can feel more normal tomorrow.

Really feeling this gratitude for serial narrative fiction today. Yes please put the fictional characters in situations so I can disconnect from embodiment and just enjoy myself for a bit.

trying to clear your head #trigun #wolfwood

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

I usually like the callback system, and shrug my worry about being forgotten off as normal phone anxiety. But guess what happened to my callback from the stoma nurses I was suppose to get at 9am? YEP. No call, and before I could call back they closed. My anxiety will use this against me forever.