joyce, the poets have assembled at thy altar

the same geese who yowled about how hard their work became once women started using webmd

brother may I have some Öates

!!!!

New Elon Musk/Daryl Hall Venn diagram just dropped.

stop wasting water on AI... just go to Schlitterbahn and be healed...

on a serious note, this wasn't a thought experiment. these are examples of how AI-generated content is being used. how do I know this? because people brag about things unfit for a confessional!!!

you lot cannot imagine what i suffer

i am sorry to say that samuel pepys would have been all about ai generated images of lady castlemaine

it's kind of wild that tech guys are like "the ability to make art is a human right! any impediment to ai creations is tyranny!" and the art in question is this:

imagining st. anthony surrounded by the swarm of demons, but it's the logos for chatgpt & co

chatgpt tormenting jerome in the desert

you want inspiration? do the work [become malnourished in an abbey till the virgin mary makes an appearance]

can we edit those Musk tweets so it looks like his declamation of "Oates" is being said by a horse

Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"

as a lapsed catholic, this whole "chatgpt maximizes my creative process" bit is so crazy. i don't know what malfunction inspires the rest of you, but i for one grew up with a healthy sense of shame.

Describe your cat's personality with one photo

nabbed this cashmere sweater for six bucks at the thrift shop. addressed some holey bits with wool roving and thread. red isn't really my color, but I'm happy with it. :)

never forget

closest I've gotten to this in the wild was the time a very old man from Pakistan complimented me on being a smart and dutiful daughter, after which he began to elaborate upon the possibility of my Muslim heritage

your dad 🤝 all bubbes “That bright young man is a credit to all [Chicanos/Jews]” “But [dad/bubbe] . . . he’s not [Chicano/Jewish]” “Well he SHOULD be!”

mi gente

see if Han is now Latino?

this man gave me the silent treatment for the space of an afternoon because I said James Talarico does not belong in the Chicano hall of fame, primarily on the basis of not being Chicano

you think it's rough letting kids in on the truth about Santa, but none of you have had to explain to my father that Curtis Sliwa is not in fact Puerto Rican

this is one of the immortal sayings

Most likely...

he think they're a direct line to Master Splinter

she's Pallas Athena

you can tell a lot about a person based on how they'd react upon being confronted by Alvin and the Chipmunks. I just know Zohran would approach them with the tenderness of a father... Curtis Sliwa would outfit them with little hats...

played the long game

when I was nine, summering at my uncle's in D.C., I wound up with the sort of random heat-induced rash that afflicts outdoorsy kids, and when adults asked what happened I told them that Dick Cheney made me sick

hehe

LEGHOST was right there

were they real legos or ghost legos

my mom gets so steamed about this post for "making her sound boring" because she now claims she in fact beheld a ghost child playing with legos one time

I'm sorry but this is my best post by miles

unfinished business!!!!!

ghosts fly to-nite @yorkshiretea.bsky.social

I’ve said this before but white guilt is useless. I don’t want people to feel guilty for things they had no part in, and guilt easily curdles into resentment. But everyone regardless should feel an obligation to correct injustice, especially if you somehow benefit. bsky.app/profile/mich...

the president says I can't have new pencils... the Yorkshire Tea people won't let me enjoy a soothing cup of Toast & Jam... I am about to do something so desperate, Guy Fawkes will be utterly forgotten...

@yorkshiretea.bsky.social do the right thing!!!!!!

@yorkshiretea.bsky.social I am outside your house begging you to bring back Toast & Jam

while you're here for the uncles, do check out the great work of NIJC. able to donate? send me an email, and I'll mail you a little thanks!

very quickly: I so love hearing about your uncles! thank you for sharing them--and through them, your own stories--with me. I'm somewhat sporadic at replying to things, but please do know I make my way through all of them!

The thing to understand about fascism is that most people you know will be bought off. Bought with promises of peace and stability, bought with business opportunities or paid with actual cash. Most people aren't going to resist. Get used to it and get used to operating in that environment.

My Uncle was married with a child before my father was even born. He went down to Texas to work in oil for a time and came back with a local pageant queen wife named Beulah. He was often drunk, but rehabbed baby birds for the state. When he walked outside, birds he saved would land on his shoulders.

let the good times roll: and by good times, i mean uncles

Someone challenged my uncle Carlos to eat a light bulb when he was in a bar, and so he ate a light bulb Lemme tell you, that is an immediate trip to the hospital

This isn't lore but something wholesome. I was a shy kid from the country when we visited our big family in Philadelphia. Instead of trying to hang out with my cousins, I found an encyclopedia set. My Uncle Mickey found me reading in the den & said "You, my friend, are a scholar" Made me feel smart.