Get thee from my sight, thou who claimest the title artist yet useth that vile machinery of mediocrity the artifice of intelligence. Verily, the knowledge therein is but a facsimile ready and eager to drip venom into thy mind; a bile as deadly to thy imagination as was Claudius's liniment to ears.

what am i up to? oh, you know, calculating nutritional and caloric requirements for fairies in speculative fiction, as one does

I got messaged by somebody in HR trying to figure out why she's getting errors. I couldn't help her and without really thinking about it I told her "Good luck to you and your rubber ducky."

Am I watching the Very Silly TV series Sleepy Hollow (where Ichabod Crane comes back to life in the modern day and solves crimes with a black lady detective) just because Tom Mison in that show is what I think Anders DA2 would look like? ... yes. Yes I am. And also because Hulu just put it up.

I made biscuits.

Don't live your life in such a way that when you die the google search for "crab rave" spikes by 150%

Growing up, I'd watch two episodes of Voyager reruns on Spike TV while doing my homework and then switch over to M*A*S*H on Hallmark. This explains a LOT about me and my sense of humor.

Remember when the right collectively lost its shit over the phrase “wise Latina”

*pounds table* FAT BEAR WEEK

this person knitted a teabag

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When life gives you lemons...

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In the bookshop this morning: PARENTS: “Okay, we’re leaving now.” CHILD: *pulls another book from the shelf and sits down * CHILD: “Then I guess this is goodbye.”

Last photo of your pet. Toast was SHOCKED by the level of soap opera silliness on 911 (the ABC firefighter show).

We're heavy in bees vs wasps season out here and I'm tired of the wasp aggression!

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

Breakdancing bee at my niece's wedding. We all celebrate in our own way.

@ninersbookclub.bsky.social I know it's late, but I've got a yen for some new books. What are some super-realistic science fiction novels set nowish? Think The Swarm, Darwin's Radio, Michael Crichton (when he's good). Bonus points for disasters and apocalypses.

"Why are you dusty?!" - a favorite exclamation of every cat owner.

Same way that the rest of the world was fine in The Hunger Games and the US just chose to be like that

@quasihatrack.bsky.social Look out, Dad! Lorikeets!

This little guy - *slaps heap of fabric* ow - is absolutely full of pins

I fucking love Star Trek but if someone started directly funneling the profits from the Star Trek franchise into destroying a vulnerable minority for the sake of their own bigotry I would chuck Star Trek out the window in a heartbeat. So if you can't let go of Harry Potter, you got a *problem.*

If you're wondering if your anxiety/depression/ADHD is bad enough to medicate, then yes, it is, go see a doctor People without life-impacting symptoms don't sit around thinking about it

what do you want

“every border implies the violence of its maintenance” includes gender

There are a lot of bad things happening all at once, and it’s overwhelming to think about how to meet moments like this. Jean says to focus on 1 or 2 things that you care about, understand fairly well, and are either local or involve a topic where you’re likely to have influence and find community

I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested

Feels glib posting from thousands of feet in the air but in light of Current Events Back Home, this remains as true now as it did 5 years ago, if not more so

OK, this may seem like a small thing, but the more of us who do it, the better. This is a direct point of contact that we can use.

Oh man, I almost forgot these!

My view of the napping kitten. She loves to get tucked in.

Seriously. #BadUsesforAI

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

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If you are still driving a Tesla at this point... I don't know, what are you even doing man?

there's this little gas station in town. it has one of those changing-text signs outside. except the top line and the bottom line are about two seconds out of sync. so every time, in between "HOMEMADE / TAMALES" and "WE HAVE A / BITCOIN ATM", there's a couple seconds of "HOMEMADE BITCOIN ATM".

Sometimes sunlight shining on asteroids makes them explode. (If anyone argues on "magnificent", I submit that the pictures are cool: science.nasa.gov/resource/ast...)

the only problem with wine is that it makes me warm, and then I have to fan myself like a Regency belle.

Hello, human. I don't know what you have in that pot on the counter, but have you considered: give it to dog?

In the end, the 2 richest men in the world will slap fight to death over the last dollar. The survivor will then starve to death in the ruins next to a mountain of gold. “If only they’d given me more,” he’ll wheeze with his last breath. “It’s their fault.” And then a merciful silence.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I can’t take credit for this creativity. I saw someone else do it and I thought it was so brilliant that I had to copy.

I was trying to remember the phrase "cup of tea" and my brain provided me with "bag of soup".

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Omg it’s really doing this