Yep, this. Don't compare your first draft to other people's greatest hits. Just get it out of your brain and onto a document and you've gotten over one of the biggest hurdles of writing.

Dr. King is a petunia 🥲

NEW: The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a trial told 404 Media.

Absolutely exhausting, but also profoundly morally corrosive, to live like this.

"The coffee giant won't extend these benefits to its unionized stores, as it continues engaging in some of the most egregious and rampant union busting in modern US history." BOYCOTT STARBUCKS. Peet's and Coffee Bean make better coffee anyway.

Happy Easter, friends

"I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided. That's my daring idea. Just say no."

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And speaking of People, the magazine did a split cover when Selena died, with the singer featured in the Southwest and the cast of “Friends” in the rest of the country. Selena’s sold out. So People produced a rare tribute issue. That sold out too. “… and that’s how People en Español came about.”

i do loathe the way AI pollutes reality

boo phew BOO

I CAN’T

Favorite exchange from this week's EP of Top Chef: "How's everybody feeling?" "Fighting for my liiiiife ✨✨🥰"

"this is like a bookstore ripping the covers off the books it puts on display and changing their titles" www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

🔥 Whale Shark gliding through Bioluminescent Algae looks like its floating through space. By Mike Nulty

Now it's hardened into public consciousness, this idea that Russiagate was overblown. But I challenge people to read the actual Mueller report. You will realize that common wisdom is absolute shit. There's a reason 34 people were charged with crimes! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimina...

I need to be administered a shock every time I open this website on my phone when it's already open right in front of me on my laptop

At some point we are going to have to reckon with the fact that in our society individuals taking on enormous unserviceable debt is an irresponsible vice, but finance guys taking on enormous unserviceable debt to buy media companies, then laying the suffering on the workers, is a virtue.

They want you to surrender your intellectual capacity so they can rent it back to you. It is psychotic

English muffin Brioche bun Sourdough slices Bagels are too hard. Croissants are too soft. Biscuits are too crumbly. Tortilla is not a sandwich. (This is for breakfast sandwiches. I love all these things in non-sandwich form.)

Watching Julia Child use a mandoline bare handed, truly this woman would have faced God and walked backwards into hell

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

85 schoolgirls. just one is a world, a future of infinite possibilities, a universe. that america has done this atrocity to 85 of them, that it will continue to do even worse... i don't even know what to say. i condemn this with every fiber of my being, but that doesn't feel like enough.

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what if i'm just a holodeck character

Happy birthday to this young man, and really to us all

Oh that fucking sassy little move the bobsledders are doing before they go down

PSA to my fellow Zoom users -- it's automatically turned on a bunch of A.I. features without asking you✌️ to turn all 32 of them off, go to "Settings" --> "My Account" --> "View advanced features" it'll open up your browser and list a SHITTON of A.I. features, many of which will be on (scroll!)

every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make

A few years ago, JPL engineer @kevinmgill.bsky.social, with input from Candy Hansen and William Kosmann, used modern techniques to process the original image data and produce an updated version of the iconic photo. (3/n) Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin Gill

"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." —Carl Sagan Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🔵 Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

fundamentally no matter how awesome writing feels sometimes other times it feels like snowshoeing in slush and you just gotta keep going

Aw I like when people get super hype for their teammates in the Olympics... The joy is infectious

I really like the Targaryen casting & styling in Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. The short hair works!

Holding my cat walking around the house singing I GOT THE MEOWER

Television is 100 years old today! 🎉

Confirmed acts for the fundraiser livestream 1/24/26 from The Elysian theater include: DeAnne Smith, Chris Fleming, Cameron Esposito, Alice Wetterlund, Adam Conover, and Guy Branum.

is anyone with any actual power going to do anything

House Democrats Draft Incredibly Powerful Social Media Post hard-drive.net/house-democr...

Does a codex count? I love a codex. If there's multi-tiered lil thing with chunks and chunks of text filling out the world I am reading it

Apropos of general media literacy in our TVTropes-pilled times

And my personal favorite from a mss from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1528, added to a mss copy of Cicero’s De officiis by a monk of Osney Abbey about John Burton, the local abbot (&, according to other historical sources, an actual massive POS). So much solidarity, dear little monk.

very important thread, here. 1/x One of the earliest written examples of the word "fuck" is this, Fuckebegger (1286/7), part of the last name of one of Edward I’s grooms:

This is the AI bubble’s end game: “when AI has infiltrated work processes to the point that exit costs are prohibitive, the customer base will be unable to escape and coerced into paying up. The world will be hooked on AI, and the tech firms will collect handsome profits.”

I'm a lung with a tear in it!

So... We're officially in the back half of the 2020s??

I feel like it's become fashionable to brag about how you're going to be in bed early tonight and I just want everyone to know I will definitely be awake at midnight