"don't eat anything you can't pronounce" what if I'm just better at pronouncing things than you

Did you know that you can do a google search without ads or AI? udm14.com

Because people sometimes write "snap pea" as "snapea," I always think of them in my head as /ˈsneɪpiəz/

I saw someone ask "what if you suddenly woke up and you were 15 and your entire life since then was a dream?" and I think that would be a good premise for a trans horror novel I don't even know how to physically use my voice the way I did pre-transition anymore!

First as farce, then as farce again but on your phone.

John Denver

A friend and I used to play a game called the Noun String Length Maximization Challenge. this is a good example in the wild:

fix your hearts or [this word is not available to tier 0 members; to see it, you can subscribe to our English Language Pro™ plan for as little as $19.99 a month]

it's funny that "you have a choice" and "you have two choices" mean the same thing

I realized today that I'm no longer on any platforms where I have to see an algorithmic feed

sometimes one must say colon three

This isn't a fully formed thought yet, but scholars saying "what do you *mean* I'll get in trouble if I use an LLM to generate citations and they turn out to be completely made-up???" seems related to a general tendency to describe all intellectual activity as "labor" (derogatory)

I really wish people would stop going immediately to "you should go to the police", especially for things like sexual assault/dv. I know from personal experience they are often worse than ineffective!!! And stop pressuring victims about what they should do with their own fucking trauma

Anarchists when a new party gets elected:

Rachel Cusk, Transit Alison Rumfitt, Tell Me I'm Worthless Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War

Apparently right-wingers are now decrying the look of Nolan's Odyssey by calling it "aesthetic terrorism" against Greece. That's obviously some weird proxy-nationalist nonsense. But honestly? I still find the trailer incredibly unappealing.

this is every day btw

"The [LGBTQ] commission said that the city needed 'an effective and empathetic response' to protect a 'rapid influx of 2SLGBTQIA+ persons seeking refuge in Seattle.'" www.chron.com/culture/arti...

I hear Gina Carano is fighitng Ronda Rousey tomorrow. I hope they both lose

I finally finished Grace Krilanovich's "The Orange Eats Creeps." Not an easy read but utterly fascinating. According to an interview found, she used Burroughs-style cutups, "crazy voodoo séances, assisted meditation practices, panic naps, Oulipo games, and outright divination" to write it.

John Wick sings Get Scared: "Girl, I've got you under a spell and I'm thinking I'm not going to be letting you out"

but that's my emotional support false dichotomy!

Why are people setting off fireworks? Is today a holiday?

my cat typed: ZAAQAQQAAQQc````````````````````````````````````````````````aA

Happy birthday to the creator of the funkiest song in existence! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftdZ...

"Crazy" characters in old cartoons:

Age gap discourse: "Everyone older than me is a Creep, everyone younger than me is a Child, everyone exactly my age is Cool"

bumpin that

hey did any other trans ppl read "Journey to Terezor" as kids?

ok so I've seen Oculus, Absentia and The Haunting of Hill House. what other Mike Flanagan things should I watch?

I just remembered that a kid I knew in elementary school said he didn't like his middle name because it was "a girl's last name." The "girl" in question being his mom.

It's kinda funny that David Mech's mistaken theories about wolf behavior got taken up in pop culture by exactly two groups, and those two groups are a) macho assholes and b) very horny furries

1995 VHS • Scotch VCR Head Cleaner Plus 60 FPS : 34s

Sofias of the timeline

Whoa damn www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

I could just. Not post. It's so good to not post. People are allowed to say and do things I've got opinions about without my commentary or intervention. Very liberating.

Andrea Long Chu before writing "On Liking Women":

@maeveynot.online your display name!!!

I wasn't so sure about The Haunting of Hill House after the way the first two episodes relied so heavily on horror clichés, but starting with the third episode it just kept getting better and better. About to watch the finale!

Listening to an almost-final mix of the studio recording of "mod wheel go spinny"... this is gonna be a good one!

this yiddish book from 1947 pulling a "jadzia my beloved old friend": "After the wedding, Mulik had sprouted a pair of mustaches, and he no longer wanted people to call him Mulik, but rather, Shmulik. Nu, we'll do just that, and no longer call him Mulik, but Shmulik."

Sycophant, n. A really cool pachyderm

Did a bsky search for the word "normie." Here are some of the groups that people were contrasting normies with: • film buffs • the far left • the far right • the extremely online • ppl with serious mental illnesses • ppl who self-harm • goths • queers • furries • kinksters • venture capitalists

Happy Mothers day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhih...

Gloria Steinem is Christian Bale’s stepmom‽

Mice:

wrong answers only

In the movie Secretary, Lee Holloway's mom is named Joan. Is Joan Holloway from Mad Men named after her? Probably not