just guess

This is probably just wishful thinking, but I wonder if the prevalence of AI slop everywhere will give human-made art more status. At least in certain circles.

www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/e... I don’t know how he would go about this but neither does he.

"Implicit in the 'let people enjoy things' mindset is the argument that people need mindless pleasure and distraction during terrible times. But what if those terrible times were a product of our dumbed-down, money-fixated culture in the first place?"

Harcourt:

Bearing a cross on wheels is a great metaphor for Christian oppression

I can’t decide if a vigil at an abandoned grocery store parking lot is too good for him or absolutely perfect.

I have *never* used ChatGPT. Not once. I’m not saying I’m better than you… oh fuck it, I’m better than you.

It may be the first climate-driven bird hybrid found in nature.

Grue jay!

The primary diff between writing fiction and nonfiction is when you write nonfic, you research a topic for 2 weeks and then write 1000 words on it and when you write fiction you research a topic for 2 weeks and get one sentence out of it.

What it feels like the past few years

they all skipped class the day they were supposed to learn about petards, because they assumed it was a new slur for Pakistani people with disabilities

Yeah I have been wondering if attention was part of his motivation. In HS I had a classmate who would threaten to kill his parents and shoot up the school to become famous and I thought “you idiot, there are lots of school shootings, they don’t make you famous anymore”. And that was 14 years ago.

Imagine being such a piece of shit that more people are mourning a Japanese race horse that lost every single race over you.

I wonder if the shooter was military. Sniper shot right in the artery at 200 yards? That’s either insane luck or major skill.

Charlie Kirk believed that empathy was New Age bullshit. So I won’t feel sad for him or his family. It’s what he would’ve wanted.

If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares. www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...

I’m desperately trying to find the gif from Jawan where the health minister is daring someone to shoot him.

Although it's rarely expressed in outright terms, people often use a very simple heuristic when solving fashion problems: they wish to look rich, which is often disguised as "respectable." I will show you why this rarely leads to good outfits. 🧵

Every AI company's pitch to consumers is basically this

I can’t wait until 30-40 years from now when we’ll see RETVRN guys posting advertisements from the 2020s as proof of how wonderful the decade was.

I’ve had a crush on Dev Patel for 16 years and I’m not going to stop now.

People give Tumblr a lot of crap, but the culture there was always more open to discovering new things rather than just sticking to a few popular things. Even finding ways to relate to older media, rather than dismissing it as outdated and irrelevant.

So we've ended up with a society of haves and have-nots that's entirely self-created - the curious kids know everything, and the uncurious kids know nothing except what algorithmically inserted in front of them

Whole lot of people think of art in terms of model upgrades - it's why the live-action Disney remakes are so big, and why people are always concerned with continuing a franchise for the 'next generation' instead of just showing them the original stuff

$483k!! Can we get to half a million for PCRF?

Y’ALL

It's #AfricanWildDogDay! And also my birthday. A super cool creature to share a day with :)

Me whenever an English person criticizes the US

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

If I were to try and write the next Great American Novel I’d make it about carnies. I feel like there’s a lot of untapped GAM potential with carnies.

I’m hoping to take a trip to Norway in a few years, but with how stupid this administration is I’m worried that by then the USD will be worthless and he’ll have declared war on Norway for some reason.

God, don't even get me started. My favorite is when they try to argue that animation isn't just for kids, but then all of their examples are movies and shows aimed at kids. Just because something can be enjoyed by adults doesn't mean it's an adult work!

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

The reason hack contemporary writers discourage people from reading old books is because they only want you to buy theirs so they can make money. That's it.

If I had no morals and wanted to do a health-based grift I’d try to convince people that a lutefisk-only diet would fix all of their health issues. I bet the kinds of people who fall for health grifts would go for that.

Being right wing is so hard bc you’re not allowed to acknowledge any actual phenomena that shape the world, so when you try to describe something you just end up sounding like if a person speaking in tongues worshipped the internet instead of god

so much of american fascism is just Dark Woowoo. they just inverted everything, it's a pallet swap. eg they're religious but not spiritual

I second this, Passport is the best!

taking notes about how to be harsher and sluttier

With K-Pop Demon Hunters, it’s funny to think about how Jinu went about his plan. Was dude just wandering the demon world looking for demons to recruit for his K-Pop boy band? And being all like “okay, you’ll be the buff one, you’ll be the baby one”, etc.

There isn’t enough post-apocalyptic children’s media. I think there’s a lot of potential there.

With the controversy surrounding Rowling, there is a GOLDEN opportunity to make a franchise to appeal to the disillusioned Harry Potter fans and make ABSOLUTE BANK. Who wants to join me? We can all be rich!!!!!!

apnews.com/article/tom-... Damn.

Income curve where the poor know how to cook, esp nonwhite and immigrant communities and the upper middle class/rich cook for health conscious cultural reasons but the middle/lower middle classes have forgotten this knowledge because they’re just rich enough to afford frozen meals and chipotle

ChatGPT is not your friend! real relationships challenge you toward personal growth, as with Mavis Beacon, a beautiful lady professional who taught me to type really fast.

I mean this in the most earnest way possible. If your points of reference for storytelling all come from cartoons I BEG you to read more books. There’s so much more variety out there, so much that hasn’t been distilled through 80 different hands & a single corporation’s S+P department.

Everything is stupid right now. I wish I was back at the Kesha concert. Take me baaaack