I'm not even joking when I say that, as a former writing teacher, I think even the act of bullshitting through a 10-page paper on a book you only skimmed is also incredibly valuable learning.

7月12日はおこさんの誕生日🕊️ Happy Birthday, Okosan! 🎉 #Hatoful

Saw a USian giving tips on how to handle things if you experience repeated explosive diarrhea from cyclospora, and one tip was installing a bidet sprayer. THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES TO BRING CIVILISATION TO YOU? THE LOOMING THREAT OF MASS EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA?

I read somewhere that owls have one brain cell and it just screams "MURDER"

In the winter, wild ravens visit the ravens in the zoo exhibit in our town (Anchorage, AK), and the incarcerated corvids throw some of their rations through the bars to their kin.

Kira Nerys and Ensign Ro commission #startrek #DS9 #TNG

When the going gets (too) hot, the over heated moaning food historian makes Victorian ices....

We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away

Thanks to #PlayStoryPress our prior, archival work is getting a massive boost into posterity. It's satisfying to know that people will be able to find and get copies of this work for decades to come. Those POD books are so inexpensive btw that your local library *could* get the set.

Lemme explain what the words BELIEVE WOMEN should mean. They don't mean you have to believe women no matter what. They do mean that you have to treat women as a source the same way you'd treat a man.

just come over the news now that Iceland's *other* musical institution, Megas, has just died. Iceland's premier chaotic troubadour, turned proto-punk speedfreak, turned beloved crazy uncle who turns up unannounced to your kid's confirmation. RIP to a real one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cKM...

This is what I imagine ranch dressing sounds like.

Literally any random group of teenaged kpop fans or school band kids could do better than this (I say this as someone who was both!)

“There was a tendency to emotionally corner mangaka.” Cells at Work! creator’s allegations prompt numerous fellow artists to speak out about mistreatment by editors Other mangaka report unpaid royalties and disregard for health concerns by publishers automaton-media.com/en/news/cell...

thinking about the tumblr posts from security guards who are so used to watching multiple camera monitors and being intimately familiar with them and their blindspots that they dream in the pov of buildings

Re: book piracy discourse on Threads. It's deeply concerning and hilarious that people with usernames that indicate they're readers—or worse, PUBLISHED AUTHORS—are jumping on a random Bolivian for saying that "go to the library" is not as viable an option for non-NA/EU folk as people may believe.

F*** that nice write-up I got in the Guardian. This is my all-time favourite review of one of my books.

Cat: [tries to eat plastic] Me: Skittles, no! [takes away the plastic] What is wrong with you? Cat: [looks upset, small meows] Me: Oh of course there's nothing wrong with you, you're a perfect little princess kitty, I'm so sorry. But also princess kitties don't eat plastic, okay?

ADHD Women's Summit— a summit specifically for a cohort of people CATEGORICALLY KNOWN to have auditory processing issues— is *Charging A Fee*. For *Subtitles*. What in the ACTUAL FUCK.

Palestinian and Ukrainian flag flying side-by-side on a Tokyo rooftop.

So we saw SUPERGIRL. I liked it. I think it could have used a little more depth here and there, more meat on the skeleton. But it was fun. Space Mattie Ross was fun. Lobo was fun. The villains were pretty generic, could have used a more badass central figure. But it was a treat. Krypto rocks.

Guys, shoujosei and shouseinen are just foreign fandom terms for joseimuke and danseimuke (the equivalent used to group female and male demographics manga in Japan). Also, "shoujo manga" is basically shorthand for "shoujosei" in Japan already because they're not really separate. 🧵

Every time someone uses USian to describe the collective behaviour of people who are citizens of the USA, I know it's going to be a sledgehammer of truth.

Yeah.... because when USians weren't thinking about their presidents, THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD were!

well that's rockstar, uber and nvidia on the fuck no list source www.bbc.com/news/technol...

This is funny but it’s also not funny because it’s the result of rich evil fuckfaces breeding vast numbers of terrified brainless animals purely to be gunned down so the rich evil fuckfaces can tell themselves they’re brave hunters upholding some kind of important rural tradition

Yeah... always keep in mind bluesky & games media in general are a tiny bubble of now mostly middle-aged men who are VERY attached to consoles. I mean, just remember Astro Bot was TGA 2024's GOTY lol

please please please bring back valko because itd be the funniest reversal ever

The household is beyond elated! Over 44 countries have been recorded with demands to bring #Valko back! Raise your voices ladies, gents, and in between! #loveanddeepspace #savevalko #awooo

a lot of people in Py play the game too Me included... (I stopped playing in solidarity with the Valko girls) If cn don't want Valko there, i know we'll gladly take him here too, he'll be loved We'll even give him Pyan citizenship and rename him VALERIO LUISON #BringBackValko #valkocomehome #valko

my mc (he/him) and valko. i hope they bring him back.

#BringValkoBack Adding Valko to all my sets

congrats infold. you removed valko and now i hate all men <3

Spay Later being on the ad for a pet expo is so funny

And the same for authors and books

Well Well Well, Guess Who Wishes They Used More Alt Text Now, Huh?

I think about that one Yasuhiro Nightow interview a lot, where he complains about Vash (who he designed) wearing too many belts, and he says, "I want to sleep, but I have to draw (the belts). I hate him." I feel like everyone who creates any sort of art has felt that at some point.

So I wrote on one of my other socials that I don't eat apples unless they've been processed to the point where they don't resemble the original form and someone came into my DMs going BUT THEY'RE SO DELICIOUS no just fuck off? Some people have things they just can't eat, let them be ffs!!!

For reference: This otome game has over 50 million players. "The greatest controversy in gaming this week is PlayStation no longer producing discs" "Wrong, it's that the hot werewolf guy in an otome game will no longer be releasing"

As an aside, you do have to somewhat laugh at the saving physical games petition only getting 40k signatures while the petition asking Papergames to bring Valko back to Love and Deepspace got 150k signatures in one day. Especially given most will have never heard of Love and Deepspace before.

There seems to be an issue where images are just coming up as black boxes and this is a perfect time to say: this is why clear and descriptive alt-text matters for everyone.

So medication shortages have me on a half-dose of my usual mind meds and wow it is horrible. I'm very twitchy, can barely hold a thought, and it took me over 2 days to re-read a pretty easy book that I needed a refresher on for a group discussion. Anyway, public healthcare for all!

I really am not surprised if D&Q would turn the other way wrt stealing other people's works (LRT) since they did it to me for Constitution Illustrated. "Fair use" was their excuse for tracing wholesale.

Tillie based her book on my work. Her website lays out her process clearly. You could have put that information up front so readers and reviewers knew it. Instead you took my title, cover, and story and buried a one-sentence acknowledgement in the back. The rest of your statement is hand-waving.

I miss this era of my life lol

100% what my game collection in Egypt looked like

I saw the word "nooch" in a recipe and had to look it up and it's NUTRITIONAL YEAST, I am as annoyed about the existence of that word as I am about "zhuzh"

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There’s many things that are art once you consider the skill and the patience to craft it.

casual emet-selch sketch bc i'm obsessed (*/ω＼*) #FFXIV #emet-selch #hades #fanart #FinalFantasyXIV