I keep forgetting not to use dry humour while wearing a mask. I don't leave enough clues to indicate I'm joking.

I don't believe they run the fans in my workplace on weekends, and I hear we might be getting up to 40 degrees on Sunday. If you don't hear from me after that, I've melted.

I also did this. Back then, there was no software tracking a "version history" my teacher could use to realize I wrote it all out at two that morning. I feel for today's students. The surveillance software and need to prove you didn't use a bot is ridiculous.

I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.

5 living authors I've read 5 books by, each (within the past 5 years, because I needed another limiter): Jasper Fforde T. Kingfisher Seanan McGuire K.B. Spangler Martha Wells

I cannot tell you how often this theme has come up in my work conversations lately. we are now forced to contend with the hard fact that google has decided they don't want to send people to visit websites anymore, very much including ours. all of our peers in news are seeing the same.

As a small press, minuscule even, vetting every submission that comes in for an anthology call is... well, that's a lot of work. Time/energy/staffing to do that work will detract from a different area. So I can see how an AI story could slip through the cracks. 1/

I keep hearing economists talk about AI, saying variations on "in the future, it'll be less about the product and more about the human relationship," and that sounds lovely until you rephrase it as "in the future, all work is customer service."

More jewelry made today: silver plated bisexual pride beaded necklace, 27 3/8", extends to 29 1/2" Non-binary pride earrings in both silver plated and gold plated - two pairs of each. About 2" long.

We have so many rivers named River, mountains named Mountain, and groups of people called The People, that I don't think it's my fault how hard it is to name things during worldbuilding when "translating" everything into English. We, as a species, have never been the most creative at names.

It also literally used to mean “Meemaw fed Peepaw rhubarb leaf pie and everybody looked the other way.” I think it was @karnythia.blacksky.app who did a brilliant thread on this one day. Mariticide rates dropped quite sharply after no-fault divorce.

You have depression because you can't sleep. You can't sleep because you have depression. Your chronic back pain is because you can't sleep. You can't sleep because you're in pain. Sleep is for the weak. It's me; I'm weak. I need sleep.

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

I hadn't realized Arsenic and Old Lace is a comedy.

As a child, I owned a handful of tapes: Let's Dance - Mini Pops Party Party - the Punch Brigade He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper - DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince Cocktail, the soundtrack And for years, that's mainly what I listened to.

I saw this in the original theatre release.

A fun thread. Most songs on my usual playlist are probably novelty songs.

Netflix insists that every profile on my account needs its own email address associated with it? They're really assuming the small amount of content they haven't gotten rid of yet is more compelling than it really is.

"Mum, look!" She ignited the fire by pointing at it. "Ah. You are a sorceress. I did wonder." "Why?" "You're the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter." "I don't have six sisters. Or aunts." "They died. Most children do." "Oh." "Now, what will you do?" "I'll make sure no child dies."

I keep running into this situation: Do I want to do this? No. Will doing this gain me something desirable? No. Will not doing this result in my life becoming immediately worse? No. Will continually not doing this make my life cumulatively worse? Yes. Very much yes.

Slop detectors are also slop, even when selling a pretend counter to slop, because all slop is a grift

They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.

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I fucking knew it. All of this shit is worker exploitation in the extreme. They'll do anything to separate workers from their labor. This is insidious.

The only ones that matter. https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/17091 https://thedevilspanties.com/feed

One of the twisty things about being human is we don’t automatically know why we feel certain ways. “I like this.” “Why?” “Hang on. Just let me a cork board, string, pushpins, and a marker, and maybe we’ll figure this out.”

When you have pain between your shoulder blades, how do you stretch those muscles?

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this whole online ID verification push stuff is turning me into a weird crank at rapid speed because I've never seen such an unpopular policy forced through with such speed in so many countries simultaneously with basically zero real consent from any population, just pure elite collusion

THERE IS NOT ACTUALLY A WAY TO MAKE A WOKE HAYS CODE AND YOU NEED TO STOP ACTING LIKE THERE IS

When exploring RPG mechanics and playstyles, two concepts frequently come to mind: immersion and authoring. These approaches are central to how we experience and create stories, yet they lead to profoundly different player experiences. thoughtpunks.com/ttr... #TTRPG #Blog

Further evidence of the need to preserve the printed scientific record. The digital version is far too easy to manipulate or erase... #histsci #histSTM 🗃️📜

In an unusual and unexpected stroke of fortune, the flooding of our street stopped about one house short of ours.

There's a joke out there - one of the most diagnostic questions a doctor could ask when you're seeking ADHD diagnosis is: "How long have you been meaning to make this appointment?"

"Saskatchewan is one of only three jurisdictions that allows corporations, unions and associations from anywhere in Canada to finance provincial political parties and puts no limit on the amount of money that can be donated." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Losing names and basic vocabulary words: definitely time for a vacation.

Publishers: “Short stories don’t sell and are impossible to market so we are not going to take the risk of publishing them.” Also publishers: “What can we publish to fit this era of reduced attention spans when people are reading fewer novels?”

It's international archives day? Today, I tried to track down a report written in the 80's for an institution that dissolved in the 90's and sent most of their archives to an organization that dissolved in 2015. I appreciate archivists. If no one is paying attention, information gets lost.

Age gating the internet is not about protecting kids. It's entirely about creating an ID barrier for everyone as a form of tracking and privacy invasion putting our data in the hands of private companies that have already proven insecure. This only hyperfuels scammers and makes everyone less safe.

Don't Wordle is a painfully difficult game to beat.

It was worse than I thought. Rent is paid, but now I have $30 to my name and we still need gas and groceries. I think $150 would cover the basics. I would really appreciate any help. PayPal.me/brokenqueene CA/V: brokenqueene

I am grateful for reverse dictionaries. I could not remember the word for parallel texts.

See a bluesky review for the latest book in a series I'm enjoying, and immediately log in to Goodreads. Not to see other people's opinions on the book, no. To discover that yes, I have already read this book. I wish my memories had a Ctrl+F option.

For the interior decorators of the Mammogram room, may I suggest the art of "Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book" by Terry Jones art by Brian Froud.

Libraries help debuts and midlist authors have careers. If people had to pay money for every book they wanted to read, they'd buy a lot fewer books, and they'd likely stick with what they already knew. Borrowing from the library lets you try new authors for free. Then you can buy what you love.

Also! Libraries exist! You can get the thing free at the point of use! From a library! And writers in the uk/roi at least get paid! I feel like I have to say this a lot but I suppose some people are SUCH special boys they can't even use a smelly library in case a writer gets paid which is tacky

I don't use public libraries bc I can't afford to buy the media I wish to read or listen to. I choose to borrow bc I don't need to own the materials, and I'm glad to have an opportunity to enjoy them outside of consumer culture. 📚 (I saw a post that implied that pl use is solely abt affordability)

The clearest sign that I'm doing better, mentally, than in decades (perhaps ever) is that I'm getting more housework done. I find this mildly annoying. I'd like to be doing more fun things, but I'm also doing worse, physically, than I have in years. Life is ridiculous.

What? WHAT? Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin? How have I never heard this before????

And those weren't even supposed to be perks! They were supposed to be part of the absolute basic agreement for every book because that's how you run a business that sells books! Now it's like "No we only want SOME of our books to sell" which means those things ARE perks. :\