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

You bastards made the first five minutes of UP and you expect us to believe you’re worried about the audience needing therapy?

These would be so perfect as birthday party favors, just saying!! 💜🐢🌈

@neilpbardhan.bsky.social for you!!!!!!!

Yup. At its most benign it incentivizes strategic incompetence

Well now I’m making my town’s usage of AI slop images, and the library holding a session on how to use a technology that has stolen all my books, everyone’s problem. This will be in print in The Retrospect tomorrow (and I’ll post photos then too).

I first learned this "fun" fact from Silent Partner: A Memoir of My Marriage by Dina Matos McGreevey. Page 185! I will post a photo.

The removal of extraordinary privilege isn't really a punishment. It's just a return to what is highly normal for everyone else on this planet.

This got me thinking about how, back in 2018, I’d written (on Facebook) about my undergrad experiences while I was processing a legal investigation into my & other’s graduate experiences. Figured maybe the story deserved to live off FB: whitknits.wordpress.com/about/story-...

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

Fire Island was great but I own the DVD of Last Holiday, it holds a special place in my heart because it *has* so much heart. 💗

Just this week I have personally: a) jumped into an overheard conversation (abt the reason whistles are needed) at the Y to share the free whistle link, so it can be passed on to leadership at one local organization b) shared it w/a different community org during an ELL meeting at my local library

Romance novelists who are loudly anti-AI are also currently 3D printing hundreds of thousands of whistles for ICE resistance, so anyone throwing around terms like Luddite without context can go hang out in the sea.

The joke is on them because being an AI teetotaler while they're offloading critical thinking skills to the sycophantic, planet-burning, plagiarizing algorithm only makes me smugger. My smugness could power an entire data center and only needs 64 ounces of water a day.

Oh, you want these romances, you say? Congrats, they exist! Historical bicycle riders: A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell Victorian werewolves: Soulless by Gail Carriger Queer dragon shifters: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha (aka the horny dragon book) Hockey historical: Puck and Prejudice by Lia Riley

Obviously this is who we have always been, that is a given... but the fact that people who did not know that are out here, protesting for the first time, in actual tears? They have lost complete control of this narrative, man.

Happy Valentine's Day, Romancelandia. Keep offering the world love in all its forms and identities. And don't forget to love on yourself.

Okay fine we're doing a little origin story thread: how did I become a horse game consultant and what does that even mean? 🧵

I keep misreading Polymarket as Polly Pocket and it makes for funny mental images. I'm sorry, Polly! You don't deserve this!

There’s an Alyssa Cole historical romance based on Mary Bowser and it’s a BANGER: alyssacole.com/an-extraordi...

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Princess Bride Crone Vigorous Boo dot gif except it's the whole stadium is how I imagine this

“(This is how men behave.)” It is not how men behave. It is how creeps behave. I swear to god, nobody is as eager to torch the reputation of men as men are.

explain to me, very slowly, like the dimwitted child you must think I am, how body cameras or ICE cooperating with cops would have prevented any of the many, many, many law enforcement murders committed by both ICE and cops over the years which were already thoroughly documented on video

No scholar, no matter how "brilliant," deserves a pass for treating others with such callous disregard.

I sell prints, canvases and posters of my work at rhenyard.darkroom.com and use proceeds to further my practice and support local mutual aid efforts. I'm keenly aware as a Black wildlife photographer how few of us are in this space, and I'm hoping my work sparks wonder & further interest 🪶📸🎨

SCREECHING AT THE ANACHRONISM OF BENEDICT SWIMMING FRONT CRAWL AAAAAAAHHHH INCORRECT WHYYYYH yeah I know Bridgerton uses, like, pop instrumentals and stuff. But COME ON just have him swim breaststroke, you had him keep his head up anyway. geez oh man. season 4 ep 3 around 46:30

The middle-aged CONSTERNATION I feel watching these teenagers go to school wearing only hoodies when I know they have perfectly good warm winter coats available (my own kids included, of course). One kid WAS wearing a coat...only by the hood, with the rest flying behind like a cape. 🤦🏻‍♀️

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

It's hardly the most egregious failure of fact checking from the New York Times recently, but this outrageous assertion tells me that nobody who edited this story has actually read this book to a child. The entire book is narrated (beautifully) in the third person. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/s...

Even **within my own family** where we all love each other, a perfectly acceptable response to a sincere verbal apology is "thank you for apologizing. I'm still upset."

I think about this post a lot

Abusers are always most violent when you try to leave.

"Food banks" was right there.

Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!

The whole thread of my last repost is worth reading. It aligns with my personal experiences.

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

I made a sign for our house a while back!

It's frankly absurd that we expect better behavior and greater accountability from untrained civilians than from police officers. I'd love to see this actually happen. (And barring that, can we at least get rid of qualified immunity for authority?)

DO NOT WANT

stop what you're doing and let Amber Glenn take you to church #USPrevagenChamps #figureskating

The thing that jumps out to me here is that the article says the doctor’s *colleague* went looking for the fake studies. It suggests the doctor who used ChatGPT didn’t check for himself and uncritically assumed they were real. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/hosp...

I will take a movie or tv show, thank you www.them.us/story/usa-ca...

Kelly would be 43 today. She died at 16 at Columbine. #sensiblegunlaws would have made a difference #EndGunViolence Visit thebirthdayfairyproject.org for our full calendar of tributes

This is my favorite headcanon and it's a great example of how readers can offer a different reading of a text that the author never considered and did not intend, but is nonetheless validated by the text itself.

Look, after what happened on CBS tonight + Semafor's reporting about NYT and WaPo? I'm putting this out there again. Publishing friends, so many of you have been so great about this - I'd appreciate another boost. Because I'm worried. 😕

Assume a spherical cat

I like Storygraph but it continues to bug me that it lists "graphic novel" as a genre instead of correctly labeling it a FORMAT.

The escape of the 3-foot, gray-haired marsupial has sparked a growing search, with neighbors reporting alleged sightings.