You should be able to disable this via chrome://flags/ Disable "Enables optimization guide on device" as well as every other AI flag www.askvg.com/how-to-get-r...

Sometimes when you’re sick but you get out and vote anyway you need to treat yourself to a grown-up happy meal.

Just a reminder that Blambot's Indie License allows small press comic creators to use Blambot's indie fonts (those marked with a $0 option) for free even if you make money with your comic or merch directly related to your comic. More info: blambot.com/pages/licenses

Aww, I came home to some sweet local news! Our legendary hometown drag troupe got one of the state historical markers this weekend. www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton...

I’m sick with a cold this weekend and have pretty much just been sleeping (and rewatching umbrella academy) BUT I did help my husband check the beehives today! Both queen cages were empty, we couldn’t find Queen Ursula but we did find Queen Buttercup! We think. 😬 finding the queen is hard!!

Okay, so, years ago I was chatting with my writer's group and we all agreed that we would really like a sequel to LABYRINTH. "But who is out there with the same androgynous sex god energy as David Bowie?" I asked. "Janelle Monae," @kellybarnhill.bsky.social said. So yeah that's my pick.

So, friends: I promised I'd tell the story. Now I shall. Let a (former) psych nurse tell you the true (gods help us) story of a night in a big-time NYC emergency room: and the arrival of The Man With The Bloomingdales Bag. (1/n)

This is amazing lol

The chicken strapped onto the front of the kayak is where I absolutely lost it LOL

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Gently annoying broody hens is a good way to get them to leave the next and get their hormones back to normal levels. It's also a good instrument.

Was stuck on a WIP because I couldn’t fit all the scenes I wanted into the plot, but couldn’t make them align with the sequel I had in mind either. Sat with index cards and brainstormed ideas & lore. Now starting to feel an overarching story arc forming for a full trilogy. 😎

Timeline cleanse: cat snooze edition.

The Hampster Dance website in 1999 This website was one of the earliest examples of an Internet meme and it was created by Deidre LaCarte in 1998. #InternetHistory

As always, the secret second half of the phrase "write what you know" is "know interesting things"

1/ We're experiencing an unusually high tick season this year, and with that, they’re bringing something a lot people haven’t heard of: #alpha-gal syndrome. We’ve gotten a lot of questions about this lately, so today I'm doing a deep dive into all things alpha-gal🧵

the Sacramento zoo has 6 BABY CAPYBARAS

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

CJ Cherryh has announced retirement, everyone, raise your cups to a legend of the game. Thank you for your service www.facebook.com/groups/Balti...

Dude at a Disability-focused bookstore is looking for author contacts and title recs: Patrick Antenucci is the name and he's co-owner of Nightlight Books. Are you an author of disability-forward fiction--especially spec fic? DM me and I'll give you Patrick's email address. (And please reskeet.)

Who would rather see baby goats playing than talk about this shit anymore?

Okay, I did more reading on it, and this is almost certainly the globemallow bee, a solitary native bee which specializes in this plant family. Females dig little nests, but these are males, which don’t have nests and just sleep in the flowers!

As seen on the beer walk-in cooler door at the local liquor store.

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

MORE BEE CONTENT. I did not get stung! (But I was also not doing the install, I just helped by handing him things and taking photos and putting the lids on the hives.)

They changed the headlines—not the policy. ICE isn’t in the spotlight anymore… but the raids, detentions, and family separations never stopped. I break down what’s really happening open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

BEES. Volume up if you want to hear them buzzing, volume down if you do not.

WE HAVE BEES.

Guys! Today is BEE DAY! We get to observe some installs and then take our 2 hives of bees home with us. I’m only a little nervous 😬

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

I’m on board with Moby Dick as cosmic horror. 🐋

FYI: I’ve been informed by a reliable source (my teen) that there’s a slang term where “smash” means to have sex. This is news to me! This was discovered when I asked my kid if he was going to “smash a bunch of people in the Smash Bros tournament” and his response was “whoa.” 😅

is starbucks coffee named after battlestar galactica or moby dick

Gotta show you this tardigrade cake I saw at the American Museum of Natural History.

Today the 12yo has declared it Bunny Harvestman Awareness Day! Let your feelings about arachnids be tempered with the knowledge that some inexplicably and adorably have bunny ears.

We need more baby goats 🐐 ♥️

We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

It’s my yard! Chickens and a bun.

As an editor and publisher, I'm very disturbed by the trend of putting submitter's work into AI detectors without their consent or knowledge. I can tell you this is happening at a lot of major magazines. I don't care if the detector is supposedly not using data put into it. you must gain consent.

guys, this is how you lose the time war

'sup, sickos — who likes FOUND FOOTAGE???? good, because SO DO I and I am going to spend my tax monies on BRINGING MORE FICTION INTO THE WORLD and editing an anthology this summer. because we need more weird art and I want YOU to help make it. 👀⬇️ mercfennwolfmoor.carrd.co#recordedantho

📢 Casting call 📢 Hi, we're looking for a female narrator for our new game! No VA experience neeeded, and no accent preference. Must have access to ok mic, like a home podcasting setup. Paid gig, of course. Would love to hear reading samples in your natural voice: [email protected] 🙏❤️

Kaleidotrope will be open to fiction and poetry submissions three times this year: 🔹 April 19-25 🔹 July 19-25 🔹 October 18-24 Any stories or poems submitted outside those windows will unfortunately not be considered.

The Lounge exists in our heads and in our hearts - and in various places on the internet. If it were a physical place there would be an ominous ticking sound as the big clock labelled "Submission Period" moves inevitably towards midnight Eastern Time (UTC−04:00) and it closes.

Spring snapshots from the yard: smol tree frog friend on the windowsill, lily-of-the-valley, apple blossoms, and pawpaw flowers.

Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this. In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications. Signal Settings > Notifications > Show “No Name or Content”

Ahhh my bees arrived!! (Not the real ones; the ones I ordered from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social.) They are so gorgeous! also behold my chonky dragon friend!

i'd never seen this before, absolute GOLD www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftU5...

I feel the Rice Truck Saga is in the same category as the Tom Holland “Umbrella” post; when it crosses my feed I have to share.