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You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

The 21st September Guy is Demi Adejuyigbe??? 🤯 m.youtube.com/watch?v=_zzE...

gonna pull together a list of polyam romance recs in a thread 🧵

'_"Dis Infection! ARR!" HE Agonises_ no wait we're not in the US so there's an o in there like in oesophagus so it must go before the e' is how I spell diarrhoea every single time

I don't think they should have abolished the Not Proven verdict. I think they should have declared that it now had a status that was equivalent to having been abolished, but with a lingering suspicion that it still existed.

Has anyone thought about turning it off and not turning it on again

What an expertly called shot

Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.

Gonna pitch an article to Forbes about the brand new trend of people bringing sandwiches to work and putting them in the work fridge, it's called wichchilling and it has massive implications for workplace productivity.

a) ok you SHOULD read to the end of this, it's amazing b) this has YULETIDE FANDOM written all over it c) oh god do you think the onion guy knows that this is right in time for yuletide d) surely not

I had a really nice weekend 🥰 I hope you did too

Yikes, and NOTED

Me at 11 watching the X-Men movies: Xavier is doing his best in a difficult world! Me now: Magneto should be allowed to hunt every senator that supported the mutant registration act for sport

The full Festivids schedule this year is up at: Tumblr: www.tumblr.com/festivids/79... Dreamwidth: festivids.dreamwidth.org/156491.html Nominations start midday tomorrow, September 1st, and will run through Friday, September 12th. WILD. How is it September already?

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

An AuDHD man has become the battleground for an escalating series of tense arguments after his autism and ADHD started sharing the same space, it has been reported.

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

I'm reading this at the moment. It's absolutely stunning

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon

www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.

HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE ALL-TIME BANGER THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD m.youtube.com/watch?v=2X-A...

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Turns out Bluesky does have an algorithm but it just sends your joke to the person least likely to get it and most likely to get real mad about not getting it

Hi, data centre engineer here. The power needed to keep a storage array ticking over is negligible. What does take power is processing. The sort of processing needed for ChatGPT to tell you there are two Rs in strawberry.

I would rather die than create an account to continue

It honestly keeps reshocking me that the bloke who had a row with the Holocaust museum about his dogshit Holocaust book, the bloke who went TERF after being criticised for writing a similarly awful novel about trans kids, and the bloke who plagiarised Zelda by mistake, are all the same bloke.

Anyone who has ever tried to get a team of PhD-level experts to split a restaurant bill correctly or agree on coherent wording for a simple paragraph of instructions will admit the justice of the comparison.

the initial draft of the syllabus I'm writing describes genAI as "a fascist environmental catastrophe disguised as a plagiarism machine, marketed to people who dislike thinking for themselves" maybe that's too much for the course policies section but my heart knows what it knows

"Tell my wife I'm running late using the base lexicon of 2013 tumblr marinaded in 12 years of increasingly abstracted in jokes and shared grudges to the point that we are truly insufferable to anyone else but each other"

"go to hell" is basic, it's overdone "I hope a celebrity whose work you enjoy joins an HP production" is terrifying. it's possible.

Housemate Avery Mann, 26, said: “Ellie used to be so depressed, she couldn’t complete basic tasks. Now she’s still very depressed, but her teeth are less manky and she’s put on clean underwear.”

Re my alternative career as an unhelpful advice columnist:

Unhelpful advice columnist with cult following

If it was Hastening the Kali Yuga Brownies I would be up for it No-More-Moksha Mochi! Maya-Piercing Strawberry Cake! My-Atman-The-Universal-Atman-We-All-Pursue-Ice-Cream!

Apologies to whoever just dm'd me - I have no access to my dms until I age verify, and no interest in age verifying until I see how the first few data breaches play out

I just sent this out. The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment. It is a choice not to heed them. Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.

I blogged about fashion defector.com/innovation-s...

I've just verified my age by confidently referring to the 1990s as 'about ten years ago, maybe fifteen'.

Low stakes opinions without the need for likes! 1) I totally get why BBC Number Blocks takes so long to introduce zero, but it still makes me sad

ChatGPT is not your friend! real relationships challenge you toward personal growth, as with Mavis Beacon, a beautiful lady professional who taught me to type really fast.

When I lived in Russia, many years ago, the only being to whom I regularly spoke in English was the cat in the lobby. I discovered (by hearing myself imitated) that my professor's two very young kids thought I spoke Cat and so tried to communicate with her the same way ("kom hiyah, ki ti!").

You should have to apply for an exemption if you want your film to be over ninety minutes long. If you can't tell a heist story in a tight hour and a half you need to go back to the storyboard.

Funny how all that protect women’s sports energy went out the window as soon as WNBA players showed up with T-shirts bringing awareness to the lack of financial equity they have in their league.

INCREDIBLE interactive Murderbot fanfic: Closed Loop System by One_of_Them archiveofourown.org/works/66992527 You are two SecUnits with working governor modules trying to secure the area with the information from your short-range scanners - aka minesweeper plus chat logs

Neighbour continues to visibly struggle with whether I, a soft butch lesbian, am a) basically a bloke, and therefore his natural ally against his daughter in law's modern notions or b) basically a queer, and therefore automatically in favour of all modern notions

Every time I put on an ep of cracking the cryptic (youtube series where a guy solves sudoku puzzles for a rapt audience of millions) I think I'll just have it on in the background and then half an hour later I'm staring at the screen yelling "No, Simon, you need to use the 1 in the top left corner!"

"Oh, I haven't checked bluesky in a while, I wonder how everyone's- Right. Wanking about air conditioning. Good. Excellent. I guess it is a lovely day to throw my phone in the bin and walk into the sea"

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Every British person on the internet is complaining about you