Today's book haul:

honestly I think anyone hung up on Harry Potter just has the taste of a literal child and should be bullied for that alone

Remember, kids: No gods. No prophets. No heroes.

Why are we arguing about JK Rowling again? Or still? You know my stance on this: Find. Something. Else. to. Read.

Remember the heady days of the AI boom when we were told that we would make all of our own entertainment via prompts? How's that working out for everybody?

Cory Booker has a book out today and don't you have better things to be doing, man?

Okay, so I *am* playing the new Pokemon game. But in my defense Pokopia is basically crack cocaine

At this point, no one has any excuse to support the Harry Potter franchise. The only conclusion to be drawn from adults who still engage with the media is that dead trans people are an acceptable price to pay for their nostalgia.

Officially passed the 25% completion point on Purple Blanket mk II last night.

Have you ever felt your internal organs shift around in your abdomen? It's weird as hell, man.

That's the wrong way to talk about teeth, Jake.

I just saw Henry Ford described as "the Elon Musk of his day" and while this absoutely NOT a defense of Ford, Elon Musk is so much more of a dipshit laughing stock than Ford ever was.

I wish anyone loved me as much as wellness influencers love their air fryers.

Tech oligarchs have to try to convince us that there's nothing deeper than "my butt itches, so I'll scratch it" because that's the closest that AI will come to having a real consciousness and even then, 75% of the time AI is wrong about what area needs to be scratched.

Anyway i hope he dies and the ugliest bird ever hatches out of his head

Do you think that if you gave Marc a good, solid shake, you'd hear a rattle?

Apparently, it's "Audley is a weeb" day at work. Today's book haul:

Firefox just asked me if I was "overwhelmed by tabs." I have eight open. Eight. Do you guys not know how people use web browsers? I have at least 50 open on my phone.

Didn't y'all JUST update to 11?

It's just one cask of Amontillado, Montressor, how much could it possibly cost, my life?

Now that we know at least some of who and what are in the Epstein Files, I think that it's a really good time to interrogate why society pressures us women to be as thin and small as possible. What has always been harmful to women and girls has gotten a hell of a lot more dark in the past few weeks

Yep. “Knowing who to be mad at is praxis” is Mariame Kaba’s quote and it is wisdom for these times. (1/2)

The thing about all these freak AI execs constantly going "our machine may have gained sentience?!" is that they want slaves. That they are ok with slave labor. And *then* it always, always turns out their latest AI trick actually used slave labor somewhere in the global south. They're slavers.

"I shouldn't have to be nice to people who are inherently inferior to me" is driving so much of what's going on in the world right now

OH FUCK YES Also, October? In time for my birthday AND Halloween? Somebody loves me.

It is, in fact, quite easy to get a skull-and-bones tattoo that isn't a Nazi tattoo! Citation: My skull-and-bones tattoo that I got when I was in my early 20s that isn't a Nazi tattoo.

Anyone who's navigated ob market last 18 months could tell you this is indeed current state of things, but whew boy have we been gaslit by breathless reports about the booming stock market, which is entirely driven by AI, a technology precisely engineered to destroy as many human jobs as possible

yes yes yes yes yes I love Moreno-Garcia. You all know this. And whew, I am loving this book.

Or anywhere, really. We did great in Korea and Vietnam, for sure.

I'm largely swerving around the current AI discourse, but I will note that there is absolutely no way to convince me that the environmental and social devastation would be worth it EVEN IF it was correct most of the time. It's not.

The advantages of working for a bookstore, even when one is on medical leave:

Idk, I feel like in my lifetime there have been lots of satisfying zingers during official hearings before congress, and none of them led to any action that took power away from bloodthirsty ghouls. No more "so-and-so DESTROYS Noem" videos unless destroying means leading away in handcuffs, etc.

The big question a lot of soft AI defenders gotta ask themselves is "okay so after the bubble pops and this stuff isn't free to use anymore is it STILL gonna be worth it?"

More men would probably read were there not a cadre of billionaire pedophiles and tech bros who need low information voters with limited imaginations to serve as grunts.

That man really said, "ew, reading is for GIRLS!" with his whole chest.

We could feed about 6% of school children school lunch for a year in exchange for 6 days of war.

How many school lunches would this pay for?

BUT One of the cool things I've learned is in the First Temple, there was a curtained off section (the Holy of Holies) where the Ark of the Covenant was kept. Atop the Ark was the "mercy seat" where God would sit and hang out. That's just the coolest thing.

At this point, you should probably know that American evangelicals believe that for the conditions of Eschaton to be fulfilled, the Jewish people (who will NOT be saved, mind) have to rebuild Solomon's temple. Which is why there is so much unwavering support for Israel among the fascists.

There is reporting that military command is telling servicemembers that our attacks on Iran are a holy war and that Trump has been anointed by Jesus to herald the Second Coming. Do I have that right?

Here's the thing: these people are clowns that no one respects, yes, but they're still abducting students off of campus. I don't know, I just see stuff like this and I'm so tired of people making it out like it's some sort of win.

I don't know if it was the LHC, but I have had a feeling deep in my bones for about 10 years now that there is something deeply broken with the fabric of reality itself.

Also, this is certainly a 🧐 moment if I've ever had one.

"Romantasy" needs to be further divided into two categories: 1: Classic fantasy tropes meet classic romance tropes 2: YA but marketed for adults

And we're back to horror in translation! I'm about halfway through "Teddy Bears Never Die" by Cho Yeeun and enjoying it immensely. I've watched Korean horror, but this is my first time reading a Korean horror novel.

If someone attempts a coup, receives no consequences, then becomes president of the United States a few years later, the coup worked

FOUND IT! My hrt patch is doing some THINGS to my libido.

A team partying with the director of the FBI under a fascist regime isn't a good look, but anything to take a dig at romance readers, huh?

So they're really going ahead with SotU tomorrow night, huh? What's the over/under that Trump falls asleep in the middle of his speech?