Real question: the fuck do you guys think the word meant before

everybody say thank you @ninepiecesofcrait.bsky.social for this art 👌✨ archiveofourown.org/works/585001...

assembling this fucking GULLABERG and thinking about that fic where Ben eats ass and complains about the smug little cartoon ikea bastard

I love how the pop psychology view of meditation/mindfulness has become some diffuse+ phones have broken us all, that me sitting down without my phone to watch an hourlong episode of straight-hockey-university is now considered a "mindfulness win"

You’ll never be him

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

Actual life hack: you’ve gotta be the person who’s bringing two people to almost everything you’re invited to unless it’s, like, a seated dinner reservation. Combine the social circles. You don’t need to make an individual catchup date with everyone you know. *That* is what is holding you back.

(scrolling Bluesky) I reject the premise. I reject the premise. Granted. I reject the premise. Not my fetish. Granted. I reject the premise. Funny. I reject the premise.

Sustainability fashion brand Everlane is reportedly being acquired by fast fashion company Shein

This is the situation I refer to the most when trying to explain a the state of book bans right now. Utah has state mandated book destruction for books like Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and Damsel by Elana K Arnold. The vast majority of the books are written by women.

I've said it once, I'll say it again: they don't want assistants, they want mommy dommes that they can turn on and off

Yeah, I'll admit it -- my American female mind CAN'T comprehend this!

Fascinating long thread about the disability use-case for Meta glasses and its broader implications.

I've programmed an AI video lady with giant honkers to read my posts on youtube in order to Reach The Voters

Prime Video's Off Campus dares to ask, "What if a hockey player was straight?"

“he’s the kind of guy who would go snorkeling at Pearl Harbor” sounds like a hyperbolic insult you would use to convey that someone was particularly dead inside and the other person would laugh because the premise is obviously so ridiculous and yet!

Those peripheral idiots Always have a bite to bear

The Trump administration wants to decrease a mother's allotments for fruits and vegetables from $52 to $13 a month.

'drop dead' by @jackiepsq.bsky.social was such a fun treat! #reyloWRW 🛏️ archiveofourown.org/works/84206891

not a reylo rec, but this #hollanov fic is *incredibly* impressive and gorgeously written!! it has my HIGHEST recommendation, even (especially) if, like me, you don't regularly read HR fics! (fanart by n-rdlys on Tumblr.) 🚀 archiveofourown.org/works/80797406

read from under the cork tree last night and im still thinking about them ✌️🥹 archiveofourown.org/works/65572054

We're just putting the finishing touches on tomorrow's piece—here's a hint. 😉

BRUSHSTROKES is on NetGalley for a limited time. You can request a copy here: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... #booksky

turns out that you can drive up the birthrate with a baby bonus, you just need to crank it up to twice the per capita income www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/o...

No one ever had to yell “adapt or die” to get me to use any other bit of technology in my life.

the main legacy of donald trump, other than the fascism, is the breakdown of consensus reality I don’t know how you put that back together

I regret to inform you that Arnold is playing Santa Claus and Reacher is making him look like Danny DeVito

When your cat looks in another direction for a minute and you're puzzled about what has their attention, that's when it's addressing the audience. If you read Garfield you'd understand that's the beat where it's thinking about something really funny, at your expense, making you look like an idiot

FYI trans Americans with a Canadian ancestor can apply for expedited processing on their applications for Canadian citizenship!

"What’s driving me crazy, then, is not the idea that AI exists or that people are using AI. It’s that I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings."

the iran war is a really fascinating lesson in global supply chains did you know a key component of (insert thing here) travels through the strait of hormuz? now you do!

this is extremely good one of the fundamental flaws with how people use gAI is assuming more content is better but we're already drowning in content. filtering that content has become our primary cognitive load and now, AI slop has only made the filtering process that much harder

This guarantees I will never see a movie at Alamo ever again lol open.substack.com/pub/embedded...

too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes

Every time I hear someone ask what writers are supposed to do instead of starting a Substack, all I can think is, my god, literally anything else. Go create something! Start a blog with your friends! Make weird stuff! Let some of it fail/succeed unexpectedly! It's 2026—you've got dozens of options!

can I walk you through my favorite things about this site, which I made *with these hands*??? (thread lol) petobits.coyotemedia.org

destroying the trees themselves instead of the peaches is where this goes from unmitigated greed into actual evil

Travel industries regulated by the Department of Transportation are funding a road trip reality show for the (former reality star) Secretary of Transportation???

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

was worried about what i’d do if i couldn’t get my abortifacients in the mail but folks god loves to open a window

And it's not a case of L&O being set in its old ways, because its old ways were often great. Watch early eps: the plotlines, writing, and politics were dense, idiosyncratic, often surprising, and the guest casts were the cream of NY theater instead of whoever they can lowball to keep costs down.

I've only read the sample but even that was jaw droppingly horny...hot people in books are allowed to be evil....

we are talking laura kinsale level stakes and sherry thomas angst, except it's an alternate history and The Duke is a cold & imposing lesbian with a cold heart & muscular thighs. it is doing things with gender that speak to me in ways i shant examine! ive read it twice in six months.

Still the best film adaptation of The Odyssey

Unironically this was perfect comms strategy.