ao3 apparently went down as i was attempting to upload chapter 13, so i am blaming myself for this unfortunate situation until i get a better explanation for this, @status.archiveofourown.org also sorry everyone :'D

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Please don't post photos of dead children, or videos of dead children, or yell DONT LOOK AWAY. You are sick. Log off. Touch grass. You have PTSD and are inflicting it on us all. If you are not in media/ a conflict researcher/ etc you do NOT need to consume Horrors. Blocking lots right now.

currently performing my (least) favorite editing task: adding a word/phrase only to discover that exact word/phrase is already in the very next sentence

should i actually check social media, or finish editing this chapter before destroying the rest of my day... (i only caught a couple of hints that things are Not Great! but then again that's every day now, so i think i can manage to get a little work done before finding out what's happened now)

once again longing for a government i didn't have to call multiple times a week to express my opposition to the latest iteration of the Orphan Crushing Machine they keep trying to build. Really wish we just had competent decent people doing things for the public good in charge of things again

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

Again: trans people are a very small minority. If your *KNEEJERK* reaction when you encounter these rare & beautiful butterflies is *ANYTHING* other than “What can I do to make your life a little brighter?” you need to interrogate yourself. Impede the life of trans ppl & you’re in danger, from me. ❤️

i really think we need to keep asking the kinds of people who pass these sorts of laws, or who think these sorts of laws are a good idea in general, what in the everloving fuck is wrong with them. because something is seriously not right with these anti-trans people it's concerning they need help

watching fun stuff over zoom with a bunch of friends. someone text me if he keels over. otherwise... lol

very important video please watch

dear spellcheck, i promise you that these characters are discussing eating taquitos, and not mosquitos please stop suggesting i change it to mosquitos i mean wtf...

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now that the sun's out and it's above freezing, the FWOOMPHing has increased. it's like we're being bombarded by a barrage of snowballs in our snow fort. it's gotta end soon. there's only so much snow those trees could be holding

completely weirded out as a long series of FWOOMPH noises hit the roof, as clumps of snow fall out of the trees above. super not unsettling at all! now can it be spring already? please?

This is important y’all. This is our chance to save the stars.

The Gen X urge to build a little birdhouse in your soul

never speak to me or my son or my even smaller son ever again

the main button on my ancient mouse has become unreliable, sometimes it works. regrettably i think it's time for a new one. nothing will feel right for at least three business weeks after that, thank heck i don't have any important editing/formatting jobs to tackle in the next few weeks *ugly laugh*

We all need a a timeline cleanse! A tiny #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of carnelian (height 0.9 cm). Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility. Dating c. 1540-1296 BC, New Kingdom. A lovely weekend to all of you 🐸 📷Cleveland Museum of Art

this is the funniest thing i have seen all week

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this video has doubled its views in the last like three hours 🥰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

Those turkeys are like, "Will you STOP RUNNING we just want to ask you if you have the salad spinner we ordered from Temu!"

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Yell about*

drove all the way to the post office and only then remembered it's closed today i guess it was a nice day for a drive? oh well

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

look my (English) great-grandfather was distraught when his daughter married my grandfather (Scots/Irish). it's... not one big group hug of cultural identities here, and anyone who suggests it is is a nitwit

i am being victimized by an early sign of spring (the chickadees who are too stupid to understand that the side of my house is not, in fact, a tree for them to attempt to nest in) (considered spelling NOT A TREE YOU STUPID BIRB in bird tape on the side of the house but i don't think they can read)

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

i switched off the light and both cats were still milling around my ankles when i started walking, so inevitably i trod upon one of their feetsies, and immediately felt so guilty that both cats got apology treats because i couldn't tell which one i steppy'd this is probably a scam but i'm good w/it

I do not love every damn login requiring me to use my phone. I don't love the extra 'security' that makes life more complicated for average folks while data companies are out there leaking our info like it's stored in colanders. Am I safer now? Less at risk for having my identity stolen? HELL NO.

Post a banger not in English. (this was one of the Most Fun Concerts i have ever been to in my life, but if you gotta pick just one song...) youtu.be/w-isTDv6hq0?...

for people who can't shut up about a place called mar a lago, these folk sure do seem to get twisted up over hearing a little spanish

I found a nice website that features pictures and recordings of the superb owls of Washington State. Enjoy! wildyards.com/owls-in-wash...

Sunny beat me to the very next statement I was going to make. The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression. They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.

well here's the official version for people who want the nfl to be fully aware that we are watching it repeatedly youtu.be/G6FuWd4wNd8?...

Somebody posted the full Bad Bunny super bowl performance on Reddit. I haven't seen it posted anywhere else yet. www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/co...

Macbeth: SHIT

that halftime show was like watching a 15 minute long live action movie. it was beautiful, brilliant, and a joy. most inspiring and american thing i've seen in a long dang time. excellent job from the bad bunny and associates

awkwardly trying to psych myself up for final edits on the thing i have a month to polish up and VERY INAPPROPRIATELY my brain has served up a shiny new idea that i really can't start writing until after these edits are done, except SHINY NEW IDEA my brain won't stop rotissing. it's a problem

I fell headfirst down the Heated Rivalry rabbit-hole over the holidays, but I had too many other projects to focus on to do as much online yelling as I would've liked. Well... I still have far too many projects, but @assortedpuzzlepcs.bsky.social and I went and did a thing anyway. Enjoy ✨

he's still sitting there...

this dapper gentleman has been sitting 6 inches from my face and staring at me for the last twenty minutes so i took his picture

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There is no excuse for anyone in 2026 to use substack. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.