I saw someone call Ai a Thneed and I can't stop thinking about it. It's a PERFECT analogy. The Thneed was an all-purpose tool that didn't do anything really useful. It was a fad that did major damage to the environment to make the Onceler a billionare. It left no real lasting impact, only damage.

Babyfish (who is now older than I was when I met her) gave me a very fluffy blue rainbow dragon plush!!

Today in marine invertebrates

I never mined crypto I used my computer power for more important things

I once got so drunk that I walked to the outhouse naked except for boots in an Alaska winter and thought it was hilarious that I nearly fell over into a snowbank. No Nazi tattoos.

Entomologists worry about the bugs circulating in Texas. Programmers worry about the bugs that are in the AI code. Epidemiologists worry about the bugs everyone keep contracting. And as for me, I worry about the people who aren’t bugged by any of this.

Let’s be clear, because I see a lot of people glossing over this. These allegations are of domestic abuse and physical violence. You could get an order of protection based on these allegations. Domestic abuse isn’t about “hitting,” it’s about using violence and coercion to control your partner.

This is the timeline that Nona the Ninth warned us about

There's a new SRB book:All Hail Chaos. #2 in the Time of Iron series. #1 was a dying cancer patient isekai'd into her sister's favorite book series. Unfortunately, due to her illness, she doesn't remember some very key plot points, and makes everything worse. I found it both emotional and hilarious.

happy birthday! I say it with chaos. 💚

In Defense of “All Hail Chaos” by @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social Look at me blogging consistently!

@sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social Thank you for that beautiful birthday present of a book! All Hail Chaos is brilliant and dropped from my library with perfect timing.

The guest chef is claiming to bake vegan treats, but she's using honey. She doesn't sound like she's what she claims to be. #AmReading #AmReadingMystery

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

He reads the silly post He reads the scoldy post He reads the jokey post And the pedantic post He reads the posts that remind him of the bad site He reads the posts that remind him of the worst site Don’t screenshot that, troll behavior

Wow, today's news has been SO FUCKED, but I learned object tracking so I could PUT A TOPHAT ON A KILLDEER!!!! Full resolution: youtu.be/UkAOMVccO5k 🪶 🐣

Bizarre brain impulses that I'm never going to actually do: use pepperoni as a hair curler. WTF, brain?!

I think Hannah Swensen would be shocked by the term "polyamory" even though that's what's going on with her and her two steady boyfriends. #AmReading #AmReadingMystery

I think I got off easy

Roses are redde Dollars are greene www.latimes.com/california/s...

lmao this one is incredible. “Head of product at X condemns quote-tweeting” my brother in Jira you’re the shift manager at the quote tweet factory

When we read things when we were twelve, our personal golden age, we didn't see a lot of the implications of the stuff we read. This is fine. We were twelve.

The only adult I know with questions about this had basically never traveled before, and was good on subsequent trips.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try." Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

When we have reliable, cheap nanobot labor, I will never taste another popcorn hull.

I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur. HUMMINGSAUR

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in

Status report, "A moment of vagueness" dep't: www.cafepress.com/shopdetail/S... 😏

I know, I know.... "unreasonable beauty standards" and all that. But...

Writing friends, get you a good beta reader so you don't call the thing you usually stand on outdoors "the floor" #AmReading #AmReadingFanfic This is in no way a single author problem.

"In front of Zendaya" needs to join "he disrespected the Wu-Tang Clan" in the great phrase of the 2020s

Praying, "As Zendaya as my witness," enters the lexicon as the new swear to God.

In retrospect, I should not have been reading Feynman's later autobiographies at age seven. Chuck Yeager also. But the one that seriously screwed with my head for a while was Encyclopedia Brown, the one with the exploding plumbing (6).

Whenever they start the pat down and say “Do you have any medical implants?” I always say “Yes, but if you find my IUD, you’ve gone too far.” Most of them crack up, but I have MORTALLY offended a few ladies.

Very cool! I wish we could see a LOT more of this.

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

Hypothetically...traveling while on a very tight budget and you find multipacks on a MASSIVE sale, so you stock up with as many as you can buy and when going home you unpack them from the cartons and slip them into your garment bag so it lies flat, and then the agent hangs up the bag to open it.

And I say this as someone who accidentally covered a TSA agent in tampons and was hauled out of line and questioned for it.

You never have to hand it to a Nazi... Unless "it" is ticking and you're running very fast in the other direction.

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but only Markwayne Mullin can pick his friends’ noses.

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

Try your damndest to live your life so that if you were fired from your job and about to give a speech that someone would tell you.

Without Joss Whedon, right? ... Without Joss Whedon, RIGHT?! (Padme / Anakin meme).

Live your life so that children don’t celebrate you being fired.

@samuraiko.bsky.social If you happen to see a 6'4" Palamades Sextus at Thursday's ECCC, say hi! They'll be in dark grey with a light up name badge

Not gonna share the video of Republican US Senator Tim Sheehy breaking a protesting Marine's hand, but you can find it on @charlotteclymer.bsky.social's timeline. I'll just say that in a functional country, Sheehy would be expelled by the Senate. Democratic Senators should publicly push for that.

Thank you, @benaaronovitch.bsky.social for capitalising LiveJournal correctly.

ao3 authors are truly our strongest warriors