Semi-retired, reads a lot. 💜: The Best Show, Kids In The Hall, KOllOK, Dir En Grey, X Japan, Trekkie. Gendermeh. Name for pronoun is okay. ☸️🖤🤍💜🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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The hare was on his fourth bowl of summer salad with white hazelnut cheese and sage-crusted bread. Between salads he had demolished a number of cranberry tarts, a mushroom 'n' carrot pasty with gravy, and a huge portion of summer trifle topped with meadowcream.
I think about this stuff a lot more now!
It's really not. The mismatches between "I now know how to do that", "I have time to do that", "I have funds to do that", and "I have the energy to do that" are unpredictable and I'm so annoyed.
Mumuration is such a good word
I don't want to get rid of mine, but reading mass market paperbacks is no longer pleasurable, because I need so much more light and magnification. 😭
Signing up for a variety of newsletters has made opening my inbox a real pleasure. There's probably something here for you.
Oh, for sure. I've no problem with out-there adaptations, but a media critic should know something about source material and the history of the story, at the very least.
They have some random idea of what the story is, because they don't read. Happens a lot, unfortunately.
Read Frankenstein for free! Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, LibriVox (as an audiobook), and other places have it available.
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(s'all I want in a Jekyll and Hyde film, really)
Happy to take the birthrate people seriously the second one of them is like omg, have you seen the black infant mortality death rate? We’re losing out on so many lovely black babies!
I'm a journalist. If you're struggling to access a COVID vaccine, I'm interested in hearing from you. Particularly if you're chronically ill or disabled, please reach out. Contact info in my bio. RTs appreciated.
The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
Booooo for forest fires! I hope your rest and better air helps with recovery. 💜
Maybe it's because I don't hang out with them enough but can we all just pour one out for all the librarians who got advanced degrees in how to query and organize huge amounts of information who are now being told to teach students to use alphabet soup to divine fake answers to complex questions?
those who have made this connection and understand its implications are who are most opposed to LLMs invading everything. setting aside what could be done to improve the tech, we're always back to it being a shortcut for thinking.
*cracks knuckles* okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public? now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
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important to reiterate from time to time: "artificial intelligence" does not exist. there is no sentient artificial being. no threepio. no demerzel. no terminator. what the tech publicists call "a.i." is just big, crappy databases and mindless and often incorrect autocorrect.
Kamikaze Girls (2004) Starring Kyoko Fukada and Anna Tsuchiya Written and directed by Tatsuya Nakashima - BOTD in 1959
Word.
always a deadsmaid, never a dead
Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead.
this is journalistic malpractice
I was too young to remember seeing this when it originally aired in 1970, but I knew who Dick Cavett was before I really knew who I was. He was always there, and I was always a fan. My parents let me set up a little table and chairs in the living room and allowed me to interview them sometimes. 😊
thank you update DENTAL HELP GOAL: $50/1500 CA/V: JeHyeonSim pic for attention
roses are red gold is the key
As a physician, I know conversion therapy is dangerous and goes against everything we stand for in healthcare. It's abusive and not grounded in science.
I like to show up early to beat the crowds. I really like their screams when I pull out the baseball bat.
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#Mythology
Any time I get a chance to show David Blaine doing card tricks for Emmitt Smith while he's dressed like the missing member of Boyz II Men I'm gonna post it
I worry about saying this because I really don’t want people to tune out when Jews talk about antisemitism. It’s real, it matters, and it’s the canary in the coal mine. That’s why the right is trying to weaponize it and/or make it meaningless. Don’t stop caring. Just consider the source.
It's wild! 😫
The post-menopausal abdominal bloating stuff is not helping. I don't think I've had the same exact physical or mental day twice in a row for at least a decade.
Watching my friends go through this with their kids. Sending good vibes your way!
😆 lol
Booooooooo. Mine was "eclipse". I figured it out as I was spelling it, but I was OUT
Thanks for the update! No baboon heart for you is GOOD 🫀
Putting on my elitist cap once again: I think one of the core reasons 2025 is worse than 2017 is that supporting Donald Trump is no longer seen as a low status signifier in many elite circles.
Working at the last bit of this cough, just in time for migraine time. It's staying low-grade abdominal, at least. Woo hoo
It's awful. The only thing good about it is that my skin looks fantastic right now.
Ndlovu Youth Choir - "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Official Music Video) isiZulu version
the thing that always baffles me about the bubblesky™️ discourse is that it just makes me feel so sad for the kind of person who has only ever seen social media as a place you must extract tangible value from--political clout, or clicks for your hot takes, or idek what they're doing. I like people.
Adam & The Ants - "Stand And Deliver"
Adam & The Ants - "Kings of the Wild Frontier"
The history of the #Covid19 #pandemic is being furiously rewritten, especially (though not solely) re: the safety and efficacy of the vaccines. But there is an evidentiary record and this is a hugely helpful compilation of it. Read and bookmark.
the 80s and 90s were such an amazing era for little kids watching movies that they absolutely should not have been watching
Graham Greene, it’s hard to believe he’s passed on. On TV, a phenomenally talented presence in everything from Reservation Dog to Northern Exposure & a million other TV & film projects. Just watched 4 hr version of Dances with Wolves & Kicking Bird is an all-time great cinema performance, period. 💚
Our joyful defiance undermines them because it exposes just how weak they are. They could be doing literally anything else with our tax dollars…
Mom was a fan. Seeing him in a movie was like cheering on a neighbor.
This video is about gender-affirming fashion and disability. Gender-affirming fashion is clothing and accessories that make the wearer feel good about their gender. Sometimes gender-affirming clothes aren't made for disabled bodies. This video explores that topic. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
This would look very nice on a mug, in a tasteful font.
As a progressive with an agricultural background, I love that she's got backing now. Because her points are all on target!
And while I am yelling about shit will you motherfucking auto designers get rid of all the god damned tactile free buttons and touch screens and go back to knobs and switches you can operate without looking at them. It's horribly unsafe.
Everybody (bosses, workers, clients, partners, users) wants other people to respect their time. And almost nobody does.
last act of Citizen Kane vibes
Dating is a mutual and social phenomenon between peers. There's no sociability possible here because the AI is not knowable and not a social peer with the human being.
Also, use alt text on your images, you cowards. Make your posts more likely to get shared. Help your visually impaired and screen-reader-using audience grow. Accessibility is easy.
One of the victories of the "AI" industry is that the use of the word "intelligence" for their product has led to people conflating a massive appropriation of intellectual property for an database sorted and outputted with algorithms, with what actually happens in human brain, one artwork at a time.
Happy Labor Day! Time to put some #sociology to work (a thread): ⭐ "Black Women and the Anti-Work Movement," by @sharlaberry.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... ⭐ "To the Moon: Hype and Start-Up Work," by Patrick Sheehan journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
Happy Labor Day to all who celebrate, and a miserable Labor Day to those who don't, because people who hate labor don't deserve nice things.
Every Labor Day I remember that the holiday was moved from May 1 to September not only for the Haymarket attacks but to break up the possibility between the US and the international labor movement (which celebrates in May). And it worked!
If you have not been, now is a really good time to start tracing your multi-size patterns instead of cutting them out. This is a resource we'll never have again.
400!
Ooh, stop 😅🤢
I've said this before and it bears repeating: One way we'll know if and when a real machine intelligence happens is that it will create art that is an artifact of its own intelligence, not ours, and it likely to be absolutely incomprehensible to us human on first approach. How cool with that be.
Expert here. What happens is the generative AI you fed this to is a piece of shit that tried to extrapolate a shadow into what statistically should be flesh, while you sat there loudly saying "ENHANCE. ENHANCE." like a dipshit.
We are losing the ability to make our own stuff, which means more reliance on off-the-rack fast fashion.
I wouldn't be mad at that at all, though my guts sure would be
Also, please support indie pattern makers by buying patterns directly from them or from reputable shops.
I barely survived the 1970s! If they start up aspics and what-not again, I dunno what's gonna happen.
I was in Northern Ireland a few years ago. There's regular-degular bread there!
Can you imagine such a thing happening now? What would that look like?
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
Remember, they don't have to pass any laws banning porn to ban it. The reason we have such a breath of amazing and niche work now more than ever, is because of the ability for people to monetize their art better than ever. If this threat continues, that art goes away instantly.
For real. Like, sourdough's a really early leavened bread, right? Some people have a much bigger need to feel upset about small stakes stuff than I do, I guess
I had no idea about the Opryland connection! The production was higher-quality than I expected. I'd been burned so many times by a beautiful opening 😅
There's a whole Hovis range, for goodness' sake. And Warburtons. Dunno what else. I didn't spend much time at markets when I was over there. You don't HAVE to eat sourdough, ya expletive 😆 ALT text:
It really hit the spot! There's that gap between science fiction and westerns that doesn't get explored nearly as often as it should.
John Van Tongeren - "No Guts No Glory" (From The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers)
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Just a little bit of neighborhood, for some weirdos to come and live and make and do stuff or whatever
A city block with a garden park and a neighborhood internet service provider
My list is too long!
A high school math teacher posed a historically impossible-to-answer question to her students. St. Mary’s Michelle Blouin Williams says she didn’t expect anyone to solve it, but two students made history when they did. cbsn.ws/3WAmpYu
It's so BIZARRE, like someone needed a crappy comic book idea.
Was this written with AI?
Short 🧵 When I taught South African history a couple of years ago, I spent a week talking about mining and labor struggles. One of the main features of the initial stages of both gold and diamond mining there (this is pre-Rhodes) was that anyone could own a claim, regardless of race.
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
"The Republican Party wants to pull YOUR teenage daughter's pants down in the middle of gym class if they think she's too good at lacrosse, this is vile and depraved and only the start of their intrusive government overreach" should be the party line and I don't think it's a heavy lift
I think it would be hilarious if they unionized.