I am completely serious: there is something extremely menacing about a group called Vintage Explosion advertising that Rod Stewart said they have “the best white soul singer.” Why do you think that’s an important thing to call attention to? Also Rod Stewart? Really?

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight

Camped out here on Two Things Can Be True Hill: 1. The romance genre has a history deeply entwined with white supremacy, ableism, and the most reductive kind of stereotypes. Like every genre. 2. Painting all romantasy readers as “zombies” is also a reductive stereotype, and misogynist to boot.

The wider access turnstiles at the train station are not so you and your gigantic drunk friend group can stick together. They are for people who cannot use the other ones. And I see you pretending not to notice the wheelchair. See also small lifts/elevators.

There are many people who simply do not understand the stakes and either understate or overstate them. The issue is not that AI will replace writers or w/e: it can't. The issue is that AI will make our working conditions significantly worse and harm the development of new artists in our fields.

Seems rude to not include the article itself since it is actually quite funny www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

In the past week, I've seen stories of AI: - being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students - calling innocent people sex offenders - shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars - emitting more CO2 than New York City What the fuck are we even doing?

And this isn't just about one person. Next year some publisher who publishes Big Names may announce AI editing policy that excludes certain works, and those authors will be rightly upset. It will be EVEN MORE important to hold the line in that circumstance.

I’m thinking of our survivor community this week as more Epstein files are circulated. Every day that passes without transparency and accountability is another day we’re forced to face the cruelty of a country that protects predators over survivors. Please know I will never stop fighting for you.

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

Oh, what, now Schumer can get spicy?

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I love that this cohort holiday gathering basically turned into “the Americans horrify the UK dwellers and swap driver’s licenses”

I love so many things and people it’s hard to pick one. I love musicians. Music is in fact a universal language. I love standing under safety blues. I love library folk, particularly the queer and disabled ones. I love cats. All cats, but especially chatty cats, buzzy cats, opinionated cats.

[first day as a shepherd] boss: where are you going? me: [pointing] star boss: what? why me: [shrugging] baby

I think this is a really important point. When folks say "no AI" they often don’t mean "I can conceive of no possible use for AI"—they mean "the use cases I’ve been shown do not begin to justify the harms"—that’s not something you respond to by offering another narrow use case

1537) Jinglebots. What's that faint ringing in the distance? What's that sound effect that makes a pop song with no hint of a festive theme a viable Christmas No. 1? Yes, it's Jinglebots!

Seven years at OU, and this is exactly who and what the administration is. Such craven servants of the Christian fundamentalist White nationalist right, that’s the whole criteria for appointing presidents and administrators at OU: how low can you genuflect to republicans politicians and the right?

Christmas movies? Die Hard ❌ Lord of the Rings ✅ It has: Elves. Gift giving. Three wise(ish) men traveling east. A jolly old bearded man who delights children. At least 5 golden rings. But they were all of them deceived. For another ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom.

Joining the War on Christmas as a hard-ass commander who was once Christmas’ strongest soldier and became increasingly horrified by what has been done in its name. She hopes it isn’t too late to take it back and build it into something better.

Starting to need to consider ring splints. I appreciate the hell out of people who try to make them look pretty or at least inconspicuous. The last thing I need is to be the weird wheelchair lady with Seven of Nine digits.

Except that we won’t. The social Darwinism and eugenics are a huge part of MAHA. After all, a key idea behind the antivax movement is that vaccine-preventable diseases can’t harm you if you’re healthy and that if you’re not healthy it’s your fault.

Annabelle Lee and The Cremation of Sam McGee have the same meter and rhyme scheme and my insomnia hobby is swapping lines between them. Twas many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, lived a maiden fair whom you may know by the name of Sam McGee.

So I am going WAY TF out of my comfort zone tomorrow and am going to a Yule get together. (Masked. As always.) And the transport situation is objectively miserable. The closest train station has stairs, which wouldn’t be an issue if the distance from the station to the place weren’t so long.

I have more than a few, given previous employment and my current study, but I think my favorite is a state archive which shall remain nameless accidentally mistook some old cataloging/processing tools as exhibit pieces. That in itself is only worth a chuckle, but older employees were PISSED.

I love Star Trek, but it sounds like Roddenberry was a nightmare to work with. Between the faux-progressivism, the sexual harassment, and his incomprehensible story demands (his series bible declared that in the future we will evolve past workplace conflict)…

The original painting is sold, but you can get this one on a silk scarf artologica.etsy.com/listing/1607... #sciart

This is art. The review, not the racist ableist bullshit movies. I have been marveling at the layers of roast and venom in this. Admiral Badguy and Poopy Dookus were a cherry on top.

I appreciate that things like taping joints and compression garments exist, but at this point a need like…a compression bodysuit and then to be wrapped in tape like a mummy.

My ex-boyfriend wrote a short play I kind of inherited a part in (pre-dating, no ethics worries here) about a Hollywood director struggling to adjust to the introduction of sound to movies. I found it interesting, because it was sympathetic to this guy whose art form was being radically changed.

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I can tell who hasn’t lived with shitty people by who likes that Mariah Carey Christmas song. The rest of us are bracing for: “Wow, I sure wish someone got ME a nice present.” “But—you said all I want for Christmas is you.” “A small thing would have been nice. It goes without saying.”

Can’t stop laughing every time I glance over

Thread on why even using AI as a way to brainstorm a project is a horrible idea.

Anna in 2015: wow, technology is advancing so fast and it really feels like society is kind of getting its shit together. Some scary parts but I can’t wait to see what good we can do Anna in 2025: my jobs are threatened by snake oil salesmen who are also Nazis and snake oil is highly combustible

I have said it before and I will say it again, Debate Kids are the ones actually ruining the country.

PS: and the cancer bots have been found being racist lately, so no. No good uses at the moment.

YES. Every time we are expected to say “AI has SOME good uses”, even though the kind currently discussed (the slop producing kind) is not the same thing as the “good at spotting statistical anomalies” kind, and that disingenuous bullshit is to try to make people shut up about the slop engines!

This is specifically about AI use in humanities disciplines within academia, which is clear from context- this crap is extremely harmful in that setting. Inevitably, people show up to be like "AI finds cancer cells tho". NOT THE SUBJECT, and that conflation has been inflicted upon us intentionally.

Hey gurl wyd tonite

Ha ha wow, the r slur in a joke. 2006 called. It wants its fucked up humor primarily comprised of dehumanizing people who are different back. Le edgy jokes. So l33t.

There’s a library social media trend where they show a staff member asking a children’s librarian for things and they get more ridiculous as time goes on. Children’s librarians do have a lot of weird stuff. But what you should really be afraid of is when they go “I could probably make that.”

The headline is over the top, but the phenomenon is real. When people clamor for digitization of archives, they don’t think about the risk of changing formats, market interests, etc. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

I don’t know anything about boxing I didn’t learn from a very strange nonfiction class in undergrad, but it is immensely satisfying seeing these fake tough guys being unable to fake being tough while getting their shit rocked by real fighters.

So, since we have Yet More Discourse going on, I wanna toss out a thing because I keep seeing it come up. Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.

Imagine looking up at the ceiling and getting an eyeful of taint and having to pretend to your host that it’s a very tasteful choice.

"Mother's little helper" implies the existence of "Father's massive obstruction"

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

This machine kills fascists

Yeah, I feel you, Herman.