Katherine Hunnicutt

The Victorian era was actually a specific time and place. Frankenstein (the book) was published a year before Victoria was born, let alone reigned. It is not Victorian.

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing." John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Portland resists with whimsical improv theater, Chicago resists by screaming at weird jagoffs that don’t belong in the neighborhood. Every city brings its own strengths to the fight

Block letter print on notebook paper, pinned to wall YOU LOOK GREAT. YOUR TEETH ARE SHARP. YOUR EYES ARE LUMINOUS. THE TOWN FOLK WHISPER YOUR NAME IN HUSHED TONES

#MondayMotivation

or, in the words of the Nac Mac Feegle:

“Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

Wholesale Produce Supply of Minneapolis, Minnesota is Recalling Fresh Cut/Processed Cantaloupe, Because it has the Potential to be Contaminated With Listeria Monocytogenes Wholesale Produce Supply of Minneapolis, Minnesota is Recalling Fresh Cut/Processed Cantaloupe, Because it has the Potential to be Contaminated With Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause...

Any food safety expert will tell you that cantaloupe is riskier than other melons because as it grows the rind naturally cracks and reseals. This makes those familiar raised patterns on the melon rind. But it also gives bacteria a chance to sneak in.

We are actually closed today in honor of this grand event.

(Or it's Staff Day. One or the other)

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

The birth rate is never going to rise until governments actually invest in women’s and children’s healthcare and rights but apparently no one likes hearing that.

I just finished the ARC and want to tell you how much I appreciated it. DILF is genuinely helping me better understand a close person in my life *and* as someone who has been reading you since Tiger Beatdown, I'm so happy for the lovingkindness you seen to be finding in your own journey.

"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie." 🎥

there are interesting and important arguments about AI and climate/copyright but I think I have fully radicalised myself re: children on the basis that *we know this thing is giving grown-up adults psychosis*

Not to add to the discourse, but…

It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’
It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’
It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’
It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’
It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’

I mean if nothing else this is an extremely important lesson in “it really doesn’t matter if you have the same basic idea as someone else because they will definitely do ‘magical singers attract and then have to fight demons’ WAY differently to you “.

"people are just not built for modern times, that's why everyone's sick and nuts" DID IT EVER OCCUR TO U THAT MODERN TIMES SHOULD BE BUILT FOR US

It was genuinely unsettling to experience. I switched right back to Allegra, which I still use with no discernable side effects.

Zyrtec didn't make me sleepy, but it absolutely erased my (normally very strong) impulse control to the point where I invented a household mythology I then had to perpetuate for several years.

There is absolutely no reason for these data centers to be on the public power grid, driving up costs and instability for the rest of us. If tech companies feel it's vital for these centers to be built, then those companies should arrange for their power - and pay for it on their own dime.

Speaking as a public librarian, a huge part of my job involves physically being there in the library, helping people, often with navigating the technological complications of modern life. I don't think LLMs can teach someone to use a mouse.

Every AI evangelist makes it sound like I’m basically gonna be a witch in a decade because I can still tell time, make change, write cursive, read/write/speak multiple languages, read maps, hold focus for longer than two seconds, do math in my head, engage with culture

You don't actually know what will or will not make a difference which is why it matters to try to do things.

"It’s true that there are physical feats that players in one league can accomplish that players in the other league simply cannot. For example, one league has players like DeWanna Bonner, who can carry and give birth to twins and return the next season to average 17.3 points and 7.2 rebounds a game, while the other league has multiple players like LeBron James, who can carry the ball."

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www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

A shoal of silver-blue swallowtail shiners, small minnows, surround a shining orb in the top left corner of the painting. Their scales shine with yellow light.

🌕🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟 // swallowtail shiners // gouache on hot press paper

*bank account

I have reached the point where my back account can afford to go out for lunch, but my psyche can not.

Corn is so great. I love you corn, you're so beautiful

“All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine! I have a duty!”

Wee Free Men has the Ultimate quote about the way selfishness is just another way of being stubborn and protective and possessive (and the quote I think about all the time) which was the deciding factor though

The Ghost of Christmas Present, from ‘A Muppet Christmas Carol’

Toxic Masculinity is OUT!
Ghost of Christmas Present Masculinity is IN!

- Loud laughs
- Roasted meats and spiced drinks
- Hospitality to strangers
- Living in the moment
- Singing in public
- Body positivity
- Emotional generosity
- Sick robes

Writing tip: To create vivid scenes, engage with all eight of the senses: sight, sound, smell, touch, taste, horse, fashion, and Spidey.