"government ends work-from-home for civil servants" is just a short way of saying "government decides to make your already-unbearable commute at least forty-seven times more excruciating to make sure their donors never miss out on a single dime in commercial real estate profits"

Trying a new cheesecake recipe and it seems pretty normal other than calling for THREE TABLESPOONS of vanilla. What the hell do you meeean that is so much vanilla for one cheesecake! 😵‍💫 It's a no-bake version so I'm starting with a *teaspoon* and tasting it before adding any more.

I have been coughing for a MONTH. 🫠 It was slowly getting better until the past few days and now I'm back to a stuffy nose, sore throat, and v icky coughs. I would say "a plague on the house of whoever got my BIL sick" but clearly they already *had* a damn plague and thanks to them, so do I.

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

If there's one benefit from all the Republican criminality and corruption it's that you never have to treat them like good faith interlocutors again. Every currently living Trump accomplice should be treated at most to a reflexive "Eat Shit" for life, and that's better than they deserve

Embarrassing to see adults talk to robots in a public forum. That'd be like if your friend asked a mailbox for directions once. You'd roast him for decades for that shit. Every time the concept of navigating space came up you'd hit him with "Why don't you ask the mailbox?"

I'm not sure what statistics officially make a book a "TikTok viral sensation everyone is talking about" but I feel like 117 Goodreads reviews and 41 on Storygraph is... not quite crossing that threshold? 😐 #booksky #romancereader

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

if the groundhog pops its head out and doesn't get tear-gassed, the United States gets six more weeks of democracy

The good news is all the brazen, cartoonish corruption makes it easier to run on an anti-oligarchy, good government platform. The bad news is you still need candidates who want to do that

I keep seeing articles about #HeatedRivalry incorrectly saying that our bi icon Ilya Rozanov is gay so I made this silly edit of Land Leopard #romancereader #booksky

"Never Again" means "never again will we allow fellow human beings to be degraded, dehumanized, displaced and brutalized", not "as long as we don't do a shot-for-shot remake of the Holocaust we're good, we'll just change it up a bit next time"

for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence hope that helps

FYI the New York Public Library has no-waitlist downloads of all 6 of the #heatedrivalry books and audiobooks until Feb 14 🏒

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times, up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street

🥺 Will you come to my cottage this summer? Continuing to use my nail art account for Heated Rivalry proselytizing and I'm not even a little sorry. 😈 #booksky #romancereader

My father-in-law got a VR headset (which he calls "3D goggles") for Christmas and apparently he has no interest in games, just wants to use it to virtually tour landmarks and watch whatever weird videos the algorithm feeds him. 😆 Ah, boomers.

"You can leave the church but you can't leave it alone!" I would love to, actually. Never having to think about it for the rest of my life would be great. But it can't seem to leave *me* alone so here I am, once again thinking about it against my will.

a very goopy "Day That Molasses Tank Exploded In Boston 107 Years Ago" day to all who celebrate

Decided to watch The Last Of Us while I have this HBO sub and mannn I forgot what a bummer this story is. So far it's a good adaptation of the game though! ...maybe I should rewatch Heated Rivalry again to cheer myself up 😈

Just ate a popsicle at 4:30 AM in January because my throat is so sore that the pain woke me up. Alas, it didn't help much. Popsicles taste so much better than cough drops though.. 🫠

I don’t know exactly what I’m looking for in a politician but not having every day be a nightmare of horrors would be pretty high up so someone should run on that

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

Someone I follow posted "THAT ENDING" and my first instinct was that yes the whole last episode of Heated Rivalry had me weepy ...but she was talking about Stranger Things 🙈

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