Anyone else remember the Pivot To Video era where it turned out that Facebook was counting 3 seconds of scrolling past a video as a "view"?

Every time the subject of Jimmy Fallon’s spinelessness comes up, I think of this passage from Tina Fey’s Bossypants

"i just use it to generate ideas"

The fun thing about watching half (0.5) of a video about typewriter repair is that now 90% of YouTube’s recommendations are about the typewriter collection I don't have. I need to go back to looking at videos while signed out.

I have spent the last hour painstakingly trying to type something up on a typewriter for a rehearsal tonight bc I'm not well enough to get to the library and I have no printer, and some crucial part of my typewriter has just broken D:

Urrrrggggghhhhhhhhh.

Twit-Twoo 😍 Animator and illustrator Grace Oldman brings this characterful owl, sketched by Edward Burne-Jones, to life. Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones, was born on this day in 1833. This little owl appeared in a letter he wrote and illustrated in the late 1800s.

Squeezing out the last bits from summer but meanwhile I am blatantly posting this selfie to encourage you to buy tickets for my concerts in September 26/09 - The Stone Church VT 27/09- Somerville Theater MA 28/09 - Sellersville Theater PA 30/09 - Gramercy Theater NY THANK YOU WITH BELLS ON!

please stop anthropomorphizing the auto correct slop machine it’s so fuckin depressing to see grown adults start talking like a tamagotchi has feelings

I am at the point where I think anyone with a complex illness (mental or physical) that doesn't respond to The Accepted Treatments(tm) should try antihistamines, a GLP-1 antagonist, and a course of one of the monoclonal antibody anti-inflammatories JUST BECAUSE, heh

They literally did a study with software developers - the people who should be able to get the most out of it! The developers swore up and down that it made them faster. It didn’t. It made them slower. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/s...

For reals. Humanity has had access to ChatGPT for several years now and no one has generated a single piece of creative art or media that has had any impact whatsoever. If ChatGPT did what they say it does, we would be witnessing a huge influx of culture shattering novels, movies, etc.

In 2023-24 Australia collected more than four times more from HECS repayments than the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. “In Australia, we subsidize the fossil fuel industry, and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.” - Richard Denniss, Executive Director @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

#Auspol This is one of many reasons Australians shouldn't hate on our Jewish Community. Hate Netanyahu, his Zionist Government and the IDF is my opinion.

(It was still a stupid thing to do, but I understood the impulse. I understood it a lot.)

The big difference between diagnosed and not boils down to 'Were you able to develop coping strategies that you could implement that outwardly made you seem normal', because even if they exhaust the hell out of you and eat 90% of your focus, well, you seem neurotypical to your average doc now

I am going to keep screaming this EVERY time: do you know how fucking many hoops animal behaviorists have to jump through to get research alleging that animals feel happiness or sadness published and the WALL STREET JOURNAL prints that LINES OF CODE WITH NO BRAIN STEM can SELF REFLECT

really remarkable. feel like there’s spiritual kinship here with The Unknown, the character from the AI-generated Wonka Experience script. Same wavelength

One thing that's striking about Ozzy Osborne's death is how difficult it is to imagine the music industry producing another figure like him. The barriers to working class people are so great, and there's a related attitude to culture that is neutered as a result.

I've done a very brief check, and one of the trans surgeries subs also has this block. Obviously the new law around NSFW content is absurd, but this? This is dangerous. Let's restrict access to support for trans people OR force them to give their ID to some shady website. That'll end well, I'm sure.

Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.

If you're planning to drop in on our hybrid historic wills transcribathon tomorrow, here's the running order of talks from the research team 📜✍️ Find this and further info on the Eventbrite page at: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com #skystorians #history #tudors #earlymodern #citizenscience

AUKUS be like

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The publisher pays you. If you are paying for it, then YOU are the publisher. This is a scam, and at £20,000, it’s an outrageous scam.

Are you a Terry #Pratchett fan? Did you know that @tansyrr.bsky.social (yes, she who wrote a whole series about Pratchett's Women) is currently doing a Pratchett's Men series? Some are subscriber-only, but here are the free-to-read ones (so far!): www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/tag/t...

"I've potted this petunia in cactus soil and I'm watering it once a month but I just don't understand why it's not doing well" Society re neurodivergent people

I was NOT PREPARED

Have just realized that the silly “Bezos wants to buy Vogue as a lavish wedding gift for his bride” story that’s been circulating is inaccurate - Bezos wants to buy Condé Nast which owns The New Yorker,Teen Vogue, Wired & Arts Technica because he is an oligarch who wants to crush all dissent.

Australia's greatest threat? Not a foreign power, it's environmental collapse. Defend against that. Scrap AUKUS. Forget about dodgy credit schemes/markets. Fund conservation directly. It'll pay back, socially, economically & culturally, many times over. www.rsv.org.au/articles/tru...

A good first step would be to redeploy senior water company executives to dig fatbergs out of the sewers.

you say you don’t believe in love but still you dream of it every night, the supple sable blanket of its pelt, the galaxy of its teeth each a pinprick of a hungry star hovering just above you, you wake with a mouth full of ash and blood from whispering its name, ah romance

I will never not recommend Nicola Griffith to my students to get them to understand the medieval world!

k, friends, looks like this is up, and you can get a free PDF of it for the next few weeks! if you read it, i hope you find something useful to think with.

I’m gonna be straight up with you: please buy my game so I can have the funds to move out of this country before it kills me. That’s why I’m pushing so hard! Trying to move my entire trans household out of here and it’s very expensive. If you have the game, please leave us an honest (5words) review?

Without even thinking about it, we raised the pension age to 67 which is fucking ridiculous. It should be returned to a reasonable age.

the confidence with which some people practice law is wild to me

Foolishly tried to use V/line to travel into the country. So far a trip that takes two hours during the week is going to take over three hours, and I'm stuck at a station in the middle of nowhere for the next thirty five minutes. Woo. It's not exactly the fucking bullet train, I'll tell you that.

Senior year bucket list item? Switch bodies with your crush 🔄💞 Get to know Ngozi Ukazu (creator of graphic novel hit Check, Please!) in July's Graphic Novel Preview! FLIP is an equally relatable and reality-bending new YA graphic novel, out 9/23 😍 bit.ly/3I95sPR

These articles grind my gears. There's a rash of them every winter, all of them placing responsibility on consumers. But the issue is not the profligacy or carelessness of consumers. It's structural - the Key govt privatised the sector and prices shot up. #nzpol

All the Animals have undertaken the Crossing. They awkwardly straighten their postures, put on nooselike ties and cover their glorious pelts with dull fabrics. They take jobs, claws trying to grasp phones, paws doggedly adapting to gardening tools.

Reading all these takes about how Bluesky people are judgy hall monitors

I know it's been said but I keep getting re-infuriated about RFK Jr doing his thing, like we had this vaccines thing *settled*, they rule and they were working and all we had to do was NOT put the worst possible person in charge of the country's public health apparatus.

Things are dogshit, but I am very proud to work here today.

hard to predict the vibes tomorrow, but historically the instigators most likely to disrupt a protest with violence are the police

NOT. SWIM GOGGLES. Friends. Do not wear swim goggles at a protest. If you take a projectile to the face the force can pop your eyeball out of its socket. If you're going to invest in protest eyewear, use impact resistant safety goggles and tape the vents.

A friend just texted me from LA that this was happening at the park she was at