Such a perfect response to this kind of dopey, lazy remark from a politician. I could not love this more. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

F340.1 Parting fairies leave gifts for newborn princess.

My day was off to such a productive start before this …

I really truly would pay extra for appliances that don’t sing. They’re leaving money on the table here.

And you may saye to yourselfe These are not my lone and level sandes And you may saye to yourselfe These are not my vast and trunklesse legges of stone

Excellent thread about a great article (about a show which I unfortunately have not been able to watch). Surprise appearance in the article by one of my favourite podcasters saying smart things about one of my favourite writers!

This is very interesting, but I feel like given the name of the tool they should be wary of the results. Like they’ll work, but not in the way you think they’ll work?

the hollowing of local news has given rise to a dearth of coverage about the masculine urge to slide down stuff

become ungovernable

Ugh, YES

Keep going back through the quote posts until you get to the reply about the salad, and then … you’re welcome.

Of alle the shires endes in alle of Engelond, why do they have to wende to Canterbury?

Every year chocolates get smaller and more expensive. Extrapolating backwards, in 1906 a Creme Egg would have been the size of Rochester Cathedral and they would have paid you 12 guineas to eat it.

An incantation to soothe anger from nearly 4 millennia ago for those in need of one. It begins by telling us what anger is and does. “Anger goes like a wild bull, it continually leaps forth like a dog.” Anger is like a lion and a wolf. It is fierce. It runs. It tears at one’s face and stomach.

If you have a special something that others cannot duplicate or doesn't feel focus-grouped to death, readers will eagerly await your next book You are writing to market: YOUR market. The good thing is that I write these things because I like them and my readers also like them, so it isn't a drain 8/

I say this often but it bears repeating: if you make your money from creating art then you NEED to find an art or craft where you just do it for fun and don't try to be perfect or make any money from it, and when anyone tells you to monetise it you say 'No', because otherwise your soul will die.

The spirit of Ea-nāṣir lives on ;) londondaily.com/trader-buys-...

I love this

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

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My wife reading a joke from a cracker: why do they call it the Dark Ages? Me: they don’t Her: because there were lots of knights. Everyone: hahaha Me: ok let me stop you there. Number one…

Caution: room is rapidly filling with ramen

Towards A Holistic Understanding of Mom and Dad's Fridge: Organizing Soda Cans and Leftovers in the Age Of Post-Semiotic "Third Segment" Middle Drawers

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Lo, Hrodulf the red-nosed reindeer – That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils! Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in Anglo Saxon meter: allthingslinguistic.com/post/1359368...

Remember that Playmobil Advent Calendar everyone was excited about a while back?

I have such a vivid memory from like, 2008, of a bookish dude in one of my spaces shitting on Twilight readers, saying they "didn't want to be challenged" this was when I worked at the suicide hotline, and all the other volunteers there, overwhelmingly young women, were super into Twilight

New pilgrimage destination unlocked!

"this could have been slop, but it's not" is rapidly becoming a surefire signifier of premium-ness

In case anyone ever fears you’re not supporting the author by reading from a library, you absolutely are! And the more people request a book the more copies they buy!

I was in no way prepared for the pictures of the interior.

I'll offer a technical opinion for anyone who finds it helpful: spellcheck (and basic grammar checking like what's been in Word for more than a decade) are pattern marching. Even "they're/their" checks are based on looking for tokens in the rest of the sentence. The scope is the text being checked &

Spell check existed long before genAI and in its most basic function is not genAI. Spell check is code. It's a function. It checks against a database of available words. Spell check in certain programs, however, may have been made worse by running it through genAI.

These seem to fall into two main categories: quaint Aesop’s fable animal ones and ones about body parts and poop.

In my experience, brainstorming never leads to the best book titles. The best book titles are handed to you by silent, invisible hands, from a magic nowhere place, without you doing any conscious thinking at all

I absolutely love this series--detective mystery with magic, ongoing romance set in a matriarchal fantasy city, beautifully imagined. If you haven't read them, treat yourself!

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Or, "my boyfriend wants me to have *different* nightmares."

A thread of how to say “nobody asked you” from around the world, starting with this one… A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”

The first Matrix movie, in a cinema that was a converted music hall, with a balcony and everything, on opening night or close to it, so totally packed, and there was applause and cheering like it was a live performance. I would have been in 3rd year of undergrad.

Today in "stuff nobody asked for."

Calling this done because if I don't I'll keep fussing with the details forever and it's driving me crazy. 😅 Titling this one "Languish" 🦁

Incredible thread. *chef’s kiss*

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The Roman shipwreck at Comacchio, Italy, is over 21 m long and 5.62 m wide. It was discovered in 1980 during the maintenance of a drainage canal. The vessel was loaded with amphorae, lead ingots, and boxwood logs. It dates to the 1st c. BC. 📷Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici Emilia Romagna 🏺