One of the best ways to bring some verisimilitude to your characters is to make them a bit dorky, if only in private.

@fallenlights.net was kind enough to share this with me, and thus, I spread the wealth.

New campaign ad for Dems just dropped.

Happy Tendi Tuesday everyone! Source:

I cannot stress enough that your calls — and your social media posts — on this issue DO matter and WILL impact things long-term But you have to call

"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'" bro what-- what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?

I think we need to be done with grounded, realism-based Batman movies. Batman needs high concept elements or he's just some asshole with the superpower of police brutality.

I think Horror writers and Romance writers should form a mutual defense pact, as genres that require a lot of skill to do well that routinely get dismissive attitudes from other writers and critics.

I'm genuinely losing track of the "Don't Invent the Torment Nexus" moments we're having with modern machine learning aka "AI".

Please tell me we're not rehabilitating Space Laser Lady just because she and Trump had a quarrel. She's still a racist, transphobic, antisemitic piece of shit.

Tyson regularly contaminates its food with things like metal shavings, rubber pieces, lead particles. The first two are the result of a manufacturing. The last one is deliberate, they put lead on chicken breading to slightly increase the weight to sell less chicken for more money.

"I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT." If you're in the United States, that is ALL you should EVER say to law enforcement besides asking if you're being detained, and identifying yourself in a stop and ID state.

Maybe at some point we’ll talk about how the same politicians that ruined sex workers’ lives with SESTA-FOSTA and conflated consensual work with trafficking, had brazen dealings with a goddamn pedophile ring for decades. Or not

once again I'm begging and pleading with someone in the press to draw this obvious connection between trump/epstein and trump's precision defunding of programs that assist women who are the victims of domestic and sexual abuse

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LOVE this for them! ❤️

The insistence on making these robots bipedal is probably the most obvious giveaway that it's all a big carny gimmick

that’s what I’ve been saaaayying maaan

Do you ever not like a book but feel guilty for not liking it? Like, you want to like it, and then you feel weird about not enjoying the experience?

I know literally nothing about Dirty Pair but I know homophobia when I see it. Even if they're both super hetero (press X to Doubt) you don't get to tell people they're not allowed to have gay headcanons. You don't, in fact, support the queers if that annoys you.

Robert Hapworth, 40, commented: “Finley’s our miracle child. Way better than the last one. I mean, what’s the point in my wife taking all that Tylenol if our kid’s not gonna be dunking on all the other toddlers?”

Okay apparently it hasn’t really left because it’s mostly an issue that only teenagers care about and I’ve long outgrown those spaces

Press F in chat :(

9/9 Bottom line: Teen sex ed in the U.S. is uneven, politicized, and under threat from misinformation (especially under the current administration). Public health outcomes depend as much on policy & politics as on biology or education science 🔬

never let them convince you that reading is a waste of time or that reading physical books is replaceable. Physical books, zines, etc -- these are spaces where we cannot be monitored, where we can truly be w/our own thoughts for a gd min & make up our own minds. Of course that frightens them

"If life ain't just a joke, then why are we laughing?"

One encouraging parallel to our “second Gilded Age” is that the first one ended partly because the corporations controlling critical infrastructure overextended themselves, investing heavily in technology they were certain would produce future profits, and then collapsed and enraged everyone

Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM. DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this. Stay safe!

The best part of having POTS and needing extra salt to stabilize your blood pressure is when someone starts selling counterfeit electrolytes that have no salt in them at all! If you have POTS, double check the site you’re buying from, especially on mobile.

what makes the blsky team think i'm here with a constructive purpose

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

We're socialized to constantly apologize for being too outwardly excited about things, but this world is so full of terror and misery that I'd rather see those bursts of light and passion shine through the cracks wherever you can find them.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

I don't like Zutara as an endgame ship, but somebody suggested it as a summer thing where it doesn't work out long term but they both learn something about themselves and holy gremplork does that work for me. Not every ship has to be soulmates.

People believe that when you're LGBTIQ+ you come out once, but the reality is that every time you meet a new person, you have to study them to decide if it's a safe space to say it or not

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Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

The onion is the only outlet telling the truth these days thank you @bencollins.bsky.social

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

this guy fucking sucked and rosalind franklin should have gotten all of the credit he did good riddance

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my favorite (/sarcasm) complaint about depictions of SA survivors is when people are like. okay sure fiiine we GUESS its valid or whatever to react to trauma w hypersexuality but it all has to be all self hatred inducing miserable sex and if they have any positive sexual experiences it's bad writing

the courtroom today

I did some digging and found actual imprint codes Sun Pharma uses on generic Vyvanse they're recalling! Why this isn't included in the recall notices, idk!! it's in section 3 here, make sure you double check w your pharmacy if yours are from the relevant lots!!! dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/dru...

I was really snacking a lot this evening and I just realized it's because I forgot to actually Eat a Dinner.

Stop sharing AI slop. It's one thing if you don't know or just made a mistake. No need to breathe down someones neck b/c its harder to tell nowadays. But if you do know (ESPECIALLY IF YOU DO KNOW) even if you're posting it to make fun of it or sharing it unironically... consider not doing that.

Psst! Canadians! The eligibility lists for the Aurora Awards are now open for work originally published in 2025. Make sure your speculative fiction, poetry, art, and eligible related work is listed! www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

I am mildly bemused by the number of people convinced that NYC is a crime-riddled hellscape who are now convinced that a Mamdani win means NYC will become…a crime-riddled hellscape. (Yes, yes, I know, you don’t need to explain Eco’s rules for fascism, I’m just noting it.)