Anatopism. Like 'anachronism' but for place. (literally 'something out of its proper place') This is a real word already but definitely needs adopting by fantasy writers for the reasons skeeted!

Trump TACO'd, which good, and also no surprise. But JFC, can the absolute walnuts in Congress PLEASE get off their asses and do something about this bullshit?

Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.

Mirror universe spock goatees christina too

Love that Corgi 🤣🐶

If I could roll my eyes as hard as this deserves the Earth would shift in its orbit.

No actual writer is using AI for anything, published or no. Why would I outsource writing, which I love to do? I even love to do the shitty parts like editing and spellchecking. Why would I outsource doing the thing I love to a spellchecker on steroids that is actively worse at it than I am anyway?

I have actively, knowingly used an LLM chatbot precisely once in my entire fucking life and it was to confirm that it was trained on my work without me receiving any compensation I do not think the visceral revulsion that every author I know expresses toward generative AI is merely performative

This is one of the things I find completely bizarre. Growing up, trump was a constant punchline. EVERYONE made fun of him, no one took him seriously. I'm baffled that he got elected once, let alone twice.

If you put more toppings on a burger than typical condiments, you're probably not making a good burger. The salt in bacon can overwhelm the beef. And if you want rare beef, eat a steak; a good burger should have a blend and fat ratio that's aimed at taste maximization for a medium-well cook.

My guess is that the researchers developed their initial opinions through watching women's tradwife content & didn't consider the men's point of view.

If the wealthy can get you thinking about who deserves basic needs and who doesn't, they win. They don't care if you think wealthy people are the ones who don't deserve; establishing that it must be earned is the key. With that done, they can just keep expanding the definition of "undeserving."

Don't know about Twitter, but this is my favorite Tumblr post

We actually got sent home early, if I remember right. I can't remember if we watched the launch in class or not, but I remember getting home and finding my Mom watching the news about it on TV.

forgot the most important of the genre

lying about it happening on april fool's day: mean-spirited, hurtful, not funny at all it actually happening on april fool's day: possibly the funniest thing of all time

seeing a lot of "higher gas prices won't affect me because I don't drive very much" and unfortunately it is my sad duty to inform you that your food does not teleport to the grocery store

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1675: It really helps to love what you do. If you don't, then there are lots of far easier ways of dying poor.

Rahm Emanuel. Gavin Newsom. 🙄 JFC. I don't want to vote for these diet Republican-ass dipshits anymore. I want to vote for an actual progressive. Get me some wild-eyed frothing socialist who wants free healthcare for all, UBI & a 4-day work week.

On No Kings day, remember: The “Where are the protests?” lament after Trump took power was always based on a (willful) misperception – a myth propagated by a punditry vying for relevance, hellbent on presenting grandiose reckonings rather than careful empirical assessments.

The event being memorialized for any who missed it youtu.be/smGQUH5ldTA?...

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

Basically the same people as go to no kings just did the biggest civil resistance campaign in more than a generation in Minneapolis, but sure, whatever

Wow. That is a *spectacularly* bad haircut. Haircuts like this are how you can tell absolutely no one likes you.

Ongoing very public displays of ICE’s uselessness may not be making the point imagined.

This video has always struck me as a fantastic way to get your little dog punted twenty feet away.

The universe is a glorious, stunningly beautiful place, and it’s offensive & gross when people produce or share fake space imagery. There’s a video floating around on here pretending to be the night sky viewed from Mars. It’s extremely fake, has been polluting the internet for years. Don’t share it

Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating the network’s decline. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...

We DID have stability in the region, until trump screwed it all up.

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

I’ve said it before but I really believe that a government agency that can get mail anywhere in the country cheaply and within just a few days is basically one of the high points of modern civilization—and it’s being systematically gutted.

Support the USPS

You should turn off the notifications on your phone. I did it a few years ago, it's fantastic. I have everything but the most important ones turned off (ring tone, text messages) & even then I have it set to Do Not Disturb like 75% of the time, so only my family's texts/calls get through.

mind-boggling to me that i still have yet to see a single democrat utter the phrase “every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy and started a war”

It's going to be Mar-A-Lago, though, right? He'll just declare that's his library & everyone will go along with it. Assuming he lives that long.

No thank you. I have never been ID'd one time in 30+ years of voting . Fraud is so low as to basically be non-existent. I don't see why I need ID now.

Cities in Vermont and Maine are experiencing some of the same tactics that ICE has been using across Minnesota since December, and facing lots of resistance.

Today in Michigan, a man rammed his truck into a synagogue and its preschool. Thank GOODNESS, no one was harmed… Antisemitic attacks are on the rise and must never be tolerated. Violence will never lead to anything other than devastation. Ever. Source: www.reuters.com/world/michig...

An assortment of groups has submitted a set of awful proposals to the FDA concerning estrogen as HRT. theneedlenews.com/anti-trans-h... Public comment is still open. If you comment opposing these proposals and send me a screenshot, I'll draw you a sketch in this thread (link+examples below).

#GNUTerryPratchett "A man is not dead while his name is still spoken."

“It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.” - Terry Pratchett, Jingo #GNUTerryPratchett

This is false. Jamal Harrison Bryant, a Megachurch pastor, has said the boycott is over. He is not leaders, plural. He and his church were not the ones to start the calls for boycott. Nekima Levy Armstrong, who founded the Racial Justice Network, and other Minnesota civil rights activists were.

When Americans were asked to temporarily sacrifice going to their barbers so we could keep the morgues from overflowing, people with guns stormed the Michigan capitol.

Are these people not aware that Europe exists? Like, they're talking about homelands for white people. That would be various European countries, places like England, Ireland & Scotland, etc. Yes, I know this is just Nazi bullshit, but also, it's so stupid.

the whole purpose of the post-menopausal woman is to prevent the rise of generative AI

Info on the new BLM plan to clear cut Oregon old growth forests so regime buddies can rake in cash without any consideration of ecosystems, watershed, salmon habitat, recreation, etc etc. Comment period open until March 23. You can write in! morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...

You are mistaken, we do not respond to legal requests from anywhere other than the Swiss authorities. It is unlikely that one could build a business through ignoring the laws of the jurisdiction that it is in. The mail provider you're moving to included.