One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

Actual exchange from court today: Me: I can't do January 20 for the hearing, your honor, because I'm having surgery, but I can do [dates in February] Judge: Ordinarily I'd accommodate medical issues, but not for people like you. Attend from the hospital if you have to.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

This is the funniest thing that's ever happened on Threads.

It’s cool we collectively have a term for dreading going back to work, definitely a healthy cultural indicator

Being loud and ignorant…is a choice. Anyway, here is Mira Nair, Toni Morrison and Ousmane Sembène, on the white gaze. None of whom are “Internet libs.”

Wake Up Dead Man was quite good but seemed more Evangelical than Catholic

Just learned the Irish word "aonarán" which is someone who is totally content with their own company--not lonely, not sad--just someone who just enjoys solitude; and yes

If you get lucky and sign away the ownership of your work, you will get access to a marketing department that also tells you to make your own commercials for free. What do *they* do you might ask? Great question — they repost your commercials. Sometimes they even pay to BOOST your commercials.

Social media is going great, in order to make a living, we’re forced to make our own free commercials for the things we’re making until the most of what we’re making is the commercials.

Local Furby says “Whoa! Big sound, wah!” Join me, Reuters, an alleged news organization, as I inexplicably treat it as a source.

Dunking pistachio shortbread into hot cocoa and watching Downton Abbey, they would have burned me at the stake for my hedonist ways

eating black lentil soup to set me up for digestive success this year

ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes! MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes

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"If you start this movie at 10:02 PM, then right at midnight--" buddy I am pausing that movie 47 minutes in to get cookies and use the bathroom, midnight happens when I say it does

"The government has it! The government has Brians_Big_Day_Sombrero_Funny_Maybe_Ask_Janet(3).jpg!!!"

A fun thing I've learned is that, if you upload a file for a Copyright claim, there is no way to delete that file. At all. So now I'm picturing a Tim Robinson sketch where he accidentally uploads an awkward but harmless Photoshop of himself and starts losing his shit via various escalation paths.

My brain is very Cool, because if I state any goals I hope to achieve, it will go "All Done 😌" and I'll never complete them I can only toil in darkness and announce after

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

NYE on social media always has weird apocalypse vibes because everyone posts like “It’s all over now. Nothing to do but wait.” like idk maybe have a yummy treat

i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me

Filed copyright for "Drosera regina." Won't stop the sloppers from stealing it, but once again the onus for protection is on the creator.

what a shocking turn of events who could’ve seen this coming

Speaking of typos, someone should direct Ms. Dhillon to U.S. v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n.1 (7th Cir. 2005), aka the greatest footnote in appellate court history. scholar.google.com/scholar_case...

[End of the year sappiness alert] If you've reached out to an author and told them how much their work means to you, or how excited for their next book you are, or just that you think of their writing journey and wish them the best? You're keeping the fires burning against some cold, harsh nights.

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read these words again and they rock, actually

ah, a 308 day rejection to keep me humble

Almost got me again! Time to write instead.

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tfw you wrestle out some words, go "these suck," eat a sandwich, drink some water, then go "actually these are fine"

Well Fiasco am ALSO on Chrismus blanket so now everybody haves to say "OH ISN'T HIM HAMSOME" instead of horrible babby, right

Well I’m either a farmer, a killer, or Truman Capote.

Not looking forward to the "just asking questions about LLM consciousness" philosophers stomping all over the personhood of disabled people

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Salt & vinegar Tartar sauce

Working on my end of year book recs newsletter, and I read so many good books this year!! I have many graphics to make 😩🎻

All my major sales have come after I took a big risk, either with craft or subject matter. I think the joy of pushing myself and learning new things comes out on the page.

10 PM cookie after day of sugar, you will not regret having a cookie at 10 PM after a day of constant sugar

Heard my cousins talking about stranger things and describing a "demogorogon" so I got them super high and I'm showing them The Thing and the amount of screaming happening rn is possibly my greatest accomplishment

Multiplayer games should let you tag players who kill you so your character can have a revenge arc

I’m not watching a podcast. I don’t care if it’s the new hot thing. I know what I like, and it’s old cold things.

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