I am so curious how people like this experience the world. No sense of history or context, no ability to understand cause and effect. Looking at every moment as a brand new children's cartoon whose heroes and villains and conflicts exist solely in that moment. No critical thinking necessary.

Having Grok issue an “apology” is not just insulting and stupid (obviously Grok cannot actually “regret” anything, deeply or otherwise) but cowardly: It asks us to assign responsibility to an unconscious piece of software rather than the humans and institutions who should actually be blamed.

i introduced my child to The Sandlot tonight. They liked it, but complained about the bad choices the kids kept making. Benny is still the coolest kid ever on tv.

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Anyone else reading Liu and Takeda's Monstress? I catch up every winter and every winter it blows my mind.

Puts this here for those that don’t know 👇🏾

Just like corona. Let me know if you need support and resources to start masking again.

Rose Nyland killed at least 3 people in The Golden Girls 👀

The first band I ever saw live and can confirm. Even in 1995, they were legendary.

It really is a huge "what if"

Read every single bit if this thread. Insurance companies decide who lives and dies for money and have for years.

🧪A few more hours to go…

I don't have it in me to write up some big reflection about all the books I read this year, but I will add that my favorite books have been 'The Storm We Made' by Vanessa Chan, 'House of Doors' by Tan Twan Eng, 'Big Chief' by Jon Hickey, 'Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert' by Bob the Drag Queen, and

Even the studies of its effects on reading and writing that conclude with suggestions for *implementing* it do so as a way of *mitigating the harm to critical skills that its use introduces*, rather than advancing any preexisting teaching mission. What a wonderful tool

that MTG news really makes you think about what happened to those Minnesota Dems

this would be life changing for so many of us

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

I am begging everyone on here to read this new post by Bryan Johnson — the super rich tech guy who is now doing the “never die” protocol. I need to talk about it with you all.

Every time one of my mutuals with a larger follower count reposts my stuff I get work, sales, followers. Even smaller accounts sharing my stuff directly translates to making my life more financially secure. If you're ever wondering if your reposts count, they absolutely do.

And my attraction has different tiers. I can be attracted but not feel the urge to do anything about it. I can be attracted and it only be lustful. Anything more than lust has to pass through my Virgo Venus for approval lol.

in related news, my primary doctor was masking for our appointment today

My beautiful friend, a nurse, died at 31 last night. Her cancer treatment was delayed because a visitor did not wear a mask and she became terribly ill for weeks with the flu or COVID and following infections. If you're wearing a mask, thank you.

some toolbag is going around deleting voice actors' IMDB credits including mine, well fun fact actually, the most accurate up-to-date list of all my credits is the one i update on tumblr, this literally has everything i've ever been in prozdvoices.tumblr.com/post/1099756...

The number of confirmed flu cases in my state hit a peak this week far above anything from the previous 12 months. It's basically vertical.

Everyone's covid denialism has me feeling like i'm losing my sense of reality way more than usual. The fifth elderly family friend to die suddenly this year and no one is making the correlation. And I'm the freak for masking. Okay. Sure.

The cease and desist I got from Harmeet’s law firm in January was full of typos. At one point, they mixed up my name and their clients name.

Casually doing research on the murder of a girl i grew up with because it was such a hidden tragedy, then i find that her murderer is seeking an adjustment to his sentence.

Soundbombing II is top five best hip hop album ever made.

“They used [the paintings] . . . as though his work aligned with their values, i.e., promoting this segregationist vision of America,” said Daisy. “And so of course we were upset by this, because Norman Rockwell was really very clearly anti-segregationist.”

i feel my most badass when driving across Michigan when the roads are absolutely trash. Ain't nobody fucking with me and my front wheel drive but the gods

If you have the experience necessary to help guide a non-profit that will independent cartoonists get their comics into libraries, and get readers more diverse stories, check this out.

In #JapaneseFolklore kaze no kami are invisible, evil spirits believed to cause sickness and suffering by travelling on, and controlling, the wind. Particularly active during spring weather, they move from place to place and home to home. When they encounter... #MythologyMonday #yokai 1/4

And to those scoffing at the idea that homeless people stay in hotels: when shelters are full, local agencies regularly place clients in hotel rooms. Many unhoused individuals also have jobs and cycle between hotels, cars, friends' apartments, and the street.

This is another reminder for you to watch North of North. (I think it’s on Netflix in the US?)

Just saw a reel that said “your childhood trauma didn’t cause your divorce, it caused your marriage” and now I need someone to bring me my smelling salts

RZA WAS ON TINY CHEF?!

The climate is fine, no worries

All this Avatar stuff reminds me of when one of my English profs in undergrad who taught Native American lit (white man) got into heated beef with the Lit Theory prof (white woman) because she was teaching us Avatar without any discussion about colonialism.

Because it's apparently needed www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I've been telling people that we are <14 months from someone making the argument that AI should have more rights than are currently available to human women and the only adjustment to that statement that I'm willing to make is to truncate the original timetable.

Please support. They are far from their goal.

i'm watching the Tiny Chef show and it's perfection.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

people keep acting like this is gonna be terrible without an ounce of trust for one of the greatest actors of our generation, nic cage

How it started/How it's going

Its called 'produced water' and its so toxic that you shouldn't even let it hit your skin. 🪶"They know not what they have done." Words that hit hard when I think on the state of this planet

It's so disappointing and upsetting to see Bluesky moderation keep putting spam labels on people trying to survive things most of us have no idea how to watch, let alone endure. The lack of morality is deepening through programming and policy @moderation.bsky.app

Temps here in Nkwejong, Michigan will be going up to mid-50s then down to single digits within a couple days. The climate is just fine, no cause for concern

If you read one story today, it should be this article by an incarcerated writer that includes the plot point "but then there were kittens"