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May your diet cokes be crisp and your hoodie strings be even, and may you never stir your coffee with the cat food spoon. This is my sincere wish for you all today.

Peguei a viola botei na sacola e fui viajar

The creator of Einstein doesn't want to do shit of the sort, he wants to scam money from schools, thats the whole business plan

I said this yesterday in a Slack w/r/t the NY Mag piece, but most mainstream articles about fandom aren't really For Fandom — they're for people outside of it, which is why anything written by someone who isn't active in a fandom can often slant towards "let's gawk at the enclosure"

There's a difference between reporting on the power of cultural spaces and directly linking to fanfics (!!) in a "gawking at animals in a zoo enclosure" way. If fandom's powerful enough to drive cultural conversation, then perhaps discussions of it need to start with a baseline of respect.

The launch of every piece of AI-driven surveillance/security/criminal justice software basically goes like this: AI COMPANY: this is an error free, bias free, state of the art, highly intelligent software system Two Weeks Later: …aaaand it’s racist

Ireland's housing system is not 'broken' - it's actually hugely efficient at doing what it is designed to do.

Did you know that homes pay twice as much for electricity as data centers do? It's good that that government are helping out the poor scrappy start ups like Amazon and Google 🥹 m.independent.ie/business/per...

I'm glad that 50% of my wages can go every month to a rich guy's pocket 🥸 #SpeirGorm

The thing about looking for a place to rent in the middle of a housing crisis is that we don't make enough to afford the rents advertised, but we make too much to qualify for HAP or cost-rental. #SpeirGorm

People saying BlueSky doesn't have reach, and seeking shelter in a Nazi-friendly platform owned by a paedophile protector: brother you are addicted to fake attention. You have lost the wherewithal to face the real world. There is a war waging in your soul etc

it … very much will work, and is not remotely wrong in principle; in fact, a *lot* of the problems we have now are because we go out of our way to not tax the rich citation: I'm a published research economist and I know what the fuck im talking about

I keep coming back to something that someone else posted: The confidence the tech bros have in AI isn't based on how well they understand technology, its based on how poorly they understand humans.

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane? Me: Yes, but not the useful kind. Flight attendant: the crew are arguing over whether early modern #bookhistory should pay more attention to the material flows of the paper trade or not. Me: *halfway down plane*

people just assume disability and chronic illness mean you are the same kind of disabled every day. that couldn't be further from the truth. and we have an employment system designed with very little flexibility in that regard

something abled people don't get is you can have just one day a week where you are too sick to work, and that's enough to disqualify you from nearly all full-time jobs. it doesn't take a lot

ever think "hey, remember NFTs?" and then laugh a little

Se a IA escreve melhor do que você, é porque você escreve mal. Não digo para ofender ninguém, mas é fato. IA não tem estilo, não escreve nas entrelinhas, não cria novas formas de dizer as coisas. Ela gera textos corretos, seguros, padronizados. E texto padrão, todo mundo que lê sabe, é uma bosta.

Absolutely no notes, this is perfectly done. Alt text for anyone who needs it;

Charles asking the royal portrait artist if they're any good at court sketches.

Agora fomos surpreendidos

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

During the Brazilian Carnival, the São Paulo police dressed up as the Scooby Doo gang to arrest criminals.

Swiss Olympic bobsled commentator broke a century of neutrality and spent the entire run of the Israeli bobsled team recounting all the pro-genocide remarks and social media posts by Adam Edelman, one of the apartheid state athletes. Absolute legend. More of this in sports please!

Week 2 of the hunt for a new gaff: I would appreciate if agents realised that if they want me to pay over €2000 for the smallest apartment in existence, I cannot afford to lose my job so no, I can't attend a viewing at 3pm on Tuesday.

This is Bob Coveiro. He sat by his human's grave for 10 years until his own death in 2021. Pets were not permitted to be buried with humans, but he was given an exception. Now 5 years later, inspired by his loyalty, Brazil passed the Bob Coveiro Law allowing pets to be buried in family graves. 14/10

As a person who enjoys mess I am loving the absolute dragging of the Wuthering Heights movie but as a person in the romance fandom I am annoyed by the entire situation. Bro leave us alone, this one’s not on us 😭

here's my hot take on the HEA wars. I don't care if normies don't know about the genre requirements for romance. I DO CARE when media outlets don't bother to learn and misinform their readers, & writers who want to cash in on romance readers without respecting the HEA/HFN can fuck all the way off.

I actually ended up putting this on the wall at work, in a spot where I can see it every time I look up from my computer screen. Just as a reminder to myself.

Voting for the 2026 #RomComBracket has begun! Get your votes in now! Round 1 continues tomorrow with the East voting #Romancelandia

Milton Cunha simplesmente esquecendo que é repórter e ignorando solenemente o trabalho pra comemorar com a Tatuapé o fechamento do portão, inclusive sendo defumado. Ele é o melhor brasileiro vivo, não tem jeito

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Welcome to the first round of the 2026 #RomComBracket! It’s the 9th year and I’m so glad you’re all playing with me. This year we’ll be voting on the same off site platform, so there will for sure only be one winner. Without further ado, let’s get started!

The way the Olympics works is exactly like this: one of the worst days of one kid’s life is one of the best days of somebody else’s.

Misha Shaidorov GOLD MEDALIST????? Shun Sato OLYMPIC BRONZE MEDALIST????? Let's go???? I'm not sure where we're going, but let's....leave here quickly?

Shaidorov, seu lindo!!! Ele, o cabelo dele, a coreografia dele, a coreografia do cabelo dele!

Home. Warm. Cats are snuggling. Ready for figure skating.

Estamos completamente imersos na era da pós-vergonha, cuja estética é o neoliteralismo. Eu já disse alhures que textos cuspidos por gerador de lero-lero parecem a cara de quem fez harmonização facial. Hoje a BBC Brasil deu um vídeo da Natália Beauty, que assina o que o gerador escreve. Adivinha.

One of the major lessons to take from all these Epstein files is the social justice rhetoric and activism was seen as a direct threat to Epstein and Thiel’s world domination plans, that’s why they poured so much money into trying to dismantle equal rights initiatives and education.

i don’t know if i’ve ever seen a disparity this large between actual temperature and the apple weather “feels like”

So far it’s been the complicit women who have paid the price of association / collaboration with Epstein. Complicit women who support & benefit from the patriarchy should realise they / it will always throw you to the wolves when & if it suits. The men will save themselves #killthepatriarchy

Looking for a new place in Dublin, about 20 messages on Daft, no response. Sent 5 using my husband's name (he is Irish): 2 invitations to view in less than 24 hours 🤷🏻‍♀️ #SpeirGorm

If I had to describe the last 6 weeks in Ireland it would be that horrible feeling when your sleeve gets wet when washing your hands but for your soul.

The IOC and FIFA continuing their decades-long battle to decide who is the most incompetent, embarrassing, reviled organisation in sports I see

I’ve been thinking about what drives these men to destroy their life’s work (whether we agree with it or not) and all I can see is - at their core was a virulent misogyny, enveloped in toxic patriarchy and a belief that they were untouchable.

CHOOSE DEGENERACY

Last year I traveled all the way to rural Vietnam to officiate a friend's wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony that mixed cultures and language, and was a celebration of the best of humanity. He just sent me this post and said "this is how you lost the war."