Alyssa Harad

Little beige goat in front of an inflatable calavera

We love a skull themed holiday

I really hope no one posts pictures of their pets in Halloween costumes tonight no one wants to see that kind of degeneracy in this economy.

Andrea's front yard is a Jimmy Buffett themed skeleton bar, featuring someone in a huge inflatable rainbow parrot suit

The inflatable parrot suit is hard to sit down in, one must simply flop out

Happy Halloween y'all! The parrot has been a big hit here at Marghoulritaville

Anyway I’d love to believe users can be trained to understand they’re influencing their feed rather than expressing an opinion but I interact with randos on here every day so.

Goddammit I uncapitalized news twice. Wtf.

Will bet a lot that people will unintentionally misuse this to show anger and distress at content and then be confused when all the News disappears from their feed.

Turnip for this!

I mean, I have no idea how to pronounce McWhorter but go off.

*begins googling* I have so much parsley right now.

(And yet still less embarrassing than a French candle company making an AI ad about American pumpkins.)

OK but now I’m googling that candle which has to be even more embarrassing.

“Turn right at the bridge and take the path less traveled into the dark wood…”

"I live near the abyss."
—Theodore Roethke

Sillhouettes of roofs and trees against a delicate pastel dawn sky.

From bed I could see the sky was lit with dawn color, but by the time I got to the window it had faded to pastel, to opal.

What an evening. Beyond grateful for what we made together.

Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.

Can’t we just chuck the lot of them in a bunker until they sort themselves out.

Maybe the bleakest of silver linings to all this is that when the AI bubble inevitably pops and takes down the global economy with it, it might be big enough to take down a good chunk of private equity too.

*the obvs

Continually feel like a lot of people looked at the Enron scandal and thought—oh the problem is that they didn’t make the gamble big enough. We need to go bigger.

Oh so they gigantic AI bubble is being underwritten by private equity. What could possibly go wrong.

Second verse, same as the first. bsky.app/profile/joel...

(I know she’s terrible as well. But she is also just about to find out she’s not a member of that club she thought she was hosting.)

Girl, you in danger.

a meal so nice we had it twice!!

Adjustable!

Preferably by Helen DeWitt.

Also lol fear expert. Would very much like to write or read a novel called The Fear Expert.

Two headlines from the WAPO (I unsubbed but still get the emails): Trump directs Pentagon to test nuclear weapons for first time since 1992 Life can feel scary. What a fear expert recommends you do to face it.

These two headlines as a snapshot of the minimization and normalization complex at work.

Para muchos, el pan de muerto une a las familias. Aquí es dónde encontrarlo en Portland La Casa de Mamá ofrece versiones veganas, mientras que más de una docena de otras panaderías locales venden variedades tradicionales de pan de muerto hasta el 2 de noviembre.

La Casa de Mamá ofrece versiones veganas, mientras que más de una docena de otras panaderías locales venden variedades tradicionales de pan de muerto hasta el 2 de noviembre.

Hang on a minute, did Ozymandias just become the new This Is Just to Say? Someday I want to write a whole article on the memeification of famous poems...

(tired: leaving notes on your fridge about the plums you have eaten
wired: meeting a traveler from an antique land)

The fact that almost every dystopia and utopia skip the collapse part is something I find deeply frustrating. I want help imagining the near future and present.