in the Grinch’s defense, if my neighbours gave their children this thing for Christmas I would also make it my personal mission to abolish the holiday

love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

Being productive today is so hard, all I want to do is rewatch and/or reread Heated Rivalry and talk about it with the friends in my phone 🥲

4 least favorite books of 2025 📚💙 Spookily Yours - every conflict got instantly, easily solved Sneaking Around With #34 - dumbest breakup backstory ever My Pigeon Familiar - silly but not very coherent The Exile (Outlander graphic novel) - I've read the book but still could barely follow this

Not just that but Tolkien also said, “Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.” Sound familiar? 🙄

in 10 years it’s gonna come out that crave & HBO invented technology to infuse tv episodes with crack and they tested it on heated rivalry but accidentally tripled the dose and we’re all gonna get million dollar payouts and free HBO subscriptions for life

so far the only concrete thing ai has done is make the entire tech market worse and every consumer facing tech product less usable or accessable

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

How am I supposed to go to work in these conditions?? And actually I don’t mean weather I mean when my good friends Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander are both heartbroken??

"co pay" is a brilliant rebranding by insurance companies of them not paying

Watching a #HeatedRivalry interview and the woman asked if Rose coming to one of Shane's games in episode 4 was "an homage to Taylor and Travis." Hudson's response being, "Oh. Um... No." was incredible.

#HeatedRivalry has already been renewed and I'm so damn happy for Rachel, Jacob, Connor, Hudson, and everyone who's been loving the books and/or the show. Queer joy is important!! I hope the massive success and hype sends a message to publishers, TV/movie studios, and the NHL. 💕

In college I briefly unsubscribed from Markiplier because he swears and I thought that meant watching his videos was a sin Anyway it's v cool that he has an actual movie coming to theaters soon! I sadly have the wimpiest stomach ever so a movie full of blood is, uh, a bad idea for me to watch 🙃

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

*sighs* For everyone complaining that the writing in xyz popular book is bad, please realise that the word you're missing is "subjectively". eg. it's not to your taste. You need to understand that not everything is FOR you but that doesn't mean other people shouldn't enjoy it.

Seasonal reminder that Christmas is, in fact, a holiday. If someone gets upset when you wish them a "happy holidays" instead of being specific about which one, they're a cotton-headed ninny muggins.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Me: WOW I LOVE THIS BOOK. BEST BOOK EVER🫶😫⭐️ Also Me: ᴮᵘᵗ ᶦᵗˢ ⁿᵒᵗ ᶠᵒʳ ᵉᵛᵉʳʸᵒⁿᵉ ˢᵒ ʸᵒᵘ ᵐᶦᵍʰᵗ ⁿᵒᵗ ˡᶦᵏᵉ ᶦᵗ ˢᵒ ᶦᵈᵏ ᵐᵃʸᵇᵉ ʳᵉᵃᵈ ᶦᵗ ᵒⁿˡʸ ᶦᶠ ʸᵒᵘ ʳᵉᵃˡˡʸ ʷᵃⁿᵗ ᵗᵒ ᵃⁿᵈ ʳᵉᵐᵉᵐᵇᵉʳ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵉᵛᵉʳʸᵒⁿᵉ ˡᶦᵏᵉˢ ᶦᵗ ˢᵒ ᵐᵃʸᵇᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ʷᵒⁿᵗ ᵇᵘᵗ ᴵ ʰᵒᵖᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ᵈᵒ

#HeatedRivalry is the number two trending show on HBO Max in the US, the book is selling out all over the place, the ebook is number thirteen on the Kindle store... Gay hockey for everybody!! 🎉 #romancereader #booksky

Forgot to read anything via Kindle yesterday, RIP my streak 🥲

Happy #HeatedRivalry day to all who celebrate!! I'm way more excited about this show than Thanksgiving tbh

understated effect of ai is that it's made me scared to click on sparkles now. if you make me scared to click on sparkles you've automatically failed at everything

I'm going insane because people constantly recommend using AI for things and it is always, ALWAYS worse than repeatedly bashing my head on a brick. It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"

#HeatedRivalry is coming to HBO Max in the US and I'm so happy I might actually cry! Shane and Ilya are going to be on my screen and I won't even have to use a VPN to get them there!! 🥹 #romancelandia #romancereaders #booksky There's still time to read the book before the show comes out... 👀

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰

Asked a Discord's fanfic writing channel for help figuring out how a prank could work logistically and people in there knew one of my stories! My silly two chapters of nonsense have been perceived and enjoyed?? 🥹 Now I have extra motivation to make sure this new chapter is good 😅

Remember 5 years ago when people thought there were coded messages in the Wayfair catalogue so elites could traffick children in giant cabinets? Anyway it turns out they just send emails like "hey it's me, your best buddy Pedophile Jeff, come do sex crimes at my house"

“We have Lord Vader’s guarantee that this deal will not be altered any further.” – Senate Democrats

STOP having "conversations" with ChatGPT and START talking to your stuffed animals like a normal person

Officially registered for my second ever 5K. The first one happened when I was 14 and had gym class and dance practice all the time. Currently I am 31 and very unathletic. What could go wrong? 😬 (I can walk a 5K just fine but I'm gonna try to start working my way up to jogging at least part of it.)

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

Rearranged some bookshelves tonight and apparently hurt a knuckle during the process? My immediate reaction when I noticed the cut was "I better not have gotten any blood on a book" followed by "at least it won't be visible in nail pictures." Ah, priorities. 😆 #booksky

Finally caught up on library books so I can start this without feeling guilty 😅 #booksky #romancereader

A book I love: Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid A book I hate: House of Flame and Shadow by SJM A book I want to read: Brimstone by Callie Hart #booksky #bookishQOTD

"When I was your age I bought my first house for $17,000 dollars because I wasn't wasting my money buying myself a muffin every once in a while. Now get off your ass and get a 3rd job you lazy bum" - every old person

I don’t know how many times I have to say this but if you didn’t know any geek girls in high school or you don’t know any now it’s because they didn’t trust you and you’re *NOT A SAFE PERSON* for women to be themselves around.

gosh I can’t believe the people who wrote a “here’s exactly how we would dismantle democracy and create a dystopian nightmare” book are currently dismantling democracy and creating a dystopian nightmare

okay I'm sure it's super annoying to see people shittalking something you love but also I see five times the number of "if you hate Taylor just shut up!!!!!!!" posts compared to people hating her and/or her music Personally I would like to opt out of any and all TS discourse

Had a dream where I found some earrings that looked like croissants but in the shape of swans... croisswans Good thing I like puns because my brain generates them even while asleep, I guess

Really wish more romance authors would write characters who don't want kids without the "what if I'm like my awful mom/dad??" reasoning because those characters always seem to end up ~seeing the light~ and deciding they DO want babies after all. 😐 #booksky

I don't want a relationship with my computer, my appliances, or my phone. I just want them to function without fuss and certainly without opinions or suggestions. I have living, breathing friends and family for relationships. Tech bros need to try that.

Really REALLY starting to understand the tech landscape today as the age of "loss of consent". My settings don't stay set. Features are forced on me either forced upgrades or by inclusion with a critical security patch. I increasingly have ZERO CHOICE in my interactions with computers.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Saw a guy dressed as Ridoc from Fourth Wing at the Ohio Renaissance Festival today but we were moving too quickly past each other for me to tell him how awesome he looked and how much I love that character 🥲 #booksky

The trailer for ‘HEATED RIVALRY’ starring Connor Storrie & Hudson Williams. It follows a pair of leading Major League Hockey players who harbor a secret: Away from their rivalry on the ice, they are secretly lovers. Premieres November 28 on Crave.

My copy of Mate by Ali Hazelwood is out for delivery but I just got an eARC of a book in a series I adore and I don't know what to read first but man what a great problem to have #booksky #romancelandia 💙📚