Failing to anticipate people would use your image generation bot to make consentless-pornography should be criminal incompetence. Failing to include safeguards against it should be criminal negligence. Failing to shut it down once (a) and (b) became obvious should be criminal distribution.

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

It would have a series of videos of junior ministers being forced to hold increasingly absurd lines in media rounds for people with a humiliation kink.

i’d die for her

I missed this two years ago, in the Twixtmas blur. It’s beautiful.

Oh, dear god 😡

Love this! And love the various solo holidays I have taken.

I am going to mark this day every year. Gisèle Pelicot is an international hero. I hope that every single day she knows safety and love and peace. www.girlonthenet.com/blog/dominiq...

🎶 She wore an Itsy bitsy teeny weeny…

Well.

Well.

Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all): whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...

Good appointment

So: Trump has finally filed a law suit against the BBC. New reports say he filed the suit in Florida yesterday. Am going to have a look at this and will post more later.

In a fitting tribute, Trump turns his inanity up to eleven.

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

They should do a Polar Express sequel where the train gets hijacked but luckily John McClane is aboard

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he knows when you are seeping...

This sent me to Linda Fiorentino’s Wikipedia page. I was always intrigued by what happened to her career and remembered her reputation as being “difficult”. Reading it, I see where some of the “difficulties” may have stemmed from.

First, leave X. Leave X. Now.

hahahahaha

So (see @klonick.bsky.social last night) today may be the day that the EU Commission fines X for breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA). Busy day for me, and I expect many questions if it happens, so here's an explanation thread in advance. First of all, a reminder of the provisional decision

I can't help but feel as though all this heat over whether Nigel Farage was a racist bigot fifty years ago is a distraction from the same discussion the press and political class continue to dodge: That the party he leads, right now, is a, racist, bigoted, far-right political party.

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

And so say all of us!

"Helluva lotta work building a motte and bailey castle" "Keep on top of it?" "That's the standard design, yes"

*Hamilton karaoke party* *Hegseth steps up to the mic* 🎤 "I wanna be out of the room where it happens* 🎶

Countless things wrong with Labour's pandering to the right but one, as we can see, is that the right will hate them with a demented fury regardless of what they do so one would be wise not to invite the hatred of the left (very broadly defined) as well. I've never understood that strategy

I saw a meme last night about a generational divide marker of folks who cannot sit through videos and want the words typed out because they read faster than they can watch a video and I felt that deep in my heart. I'm happy for folks who love video, but I hate them. Give me text. Let me read.

Searing, articulate, brilliant. Brava!

this. www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad

Have you tried being rich?

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

NEW blog: Please do not ever 'settle' for me www.girlonthenet.com/blog/please-... With apologies and thanks to @doctornerdlove.com who said I could have a go at explaining this. And big thanks to @stuartcb.bsky.social as always for this amazing image.

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

NEW on the blog: An FAQ About the #1 Biggest Mistake Men Make on Dates with Women girlyjuice.net/an-faq-about... I got annoyed again about men who don't ask women questions on dates, so here's 3,300 words of helpful (& snarky) advice about that, for these men + the people who date them

True words

While you're waiting for the budget, why not pop over to my blog and check out today's NEW post. It is my hottest take of all time: You never have to have sex if you don't want to. www.girlonthenet.com/blog/sex-sch...

dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus

I make each of my flower necklaces by casting real flowers in silver incl snowdrop & bluebells. I also hand-sculpt much-loved bird species to make wearable versions incl wrens & blackbirds 20% off my jewellery atm with code TINYOWL20 Cut off day for🌲orders is Tue 25 Nov: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.

evergreen

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

This week the Society released its new Strategy, 2026-2028 bit.ly/43A9tF4 The Strategy outlines five goals for the Royal Historical Society over the next three years. It comes at a vital time for the health and future of our discipline and profession, with advocacy a top priority. #Skystorians

Same enshittification, different tech.

Not too sure about that restaurant…

"it may not be reason in itself to dismiss the relationship" Fascinating comment: a guy gets upset hearing about people's sexual past but says that shouldn't prevent a relationship. Men who may one day want to date me (or someone like me), pls read my reply. www.girlonthenet.com/blog/why-i-g...