What’s fucking enraging about this is that every lovely turn of phrase the AI churns out is human-authored. Google each fragment of the below - “forged in dying stars,” “created in stellar furnaces,” “the universe is not indifferent to us,” “implicated in something vast” - and you’ll find a source.
Good point. I read Hyperion at about 20 (45 now) and I suspect if I revisited it I'd find a lot of red flags I didn't notice back then.
The top review on Goodreads for that one is great. It was how I learned that he'd gone weird since Hyperion.
From memory that was the Rabbi's tale. I didn't read it as skeevy or incestuous, just sad, but I was 20 and might have missed subtext.
The "What even is" kid was rules lawyering by the end - "So, if I can charm animals... do you know that humans are animals?"
I had my first Dungeons & Dragons enrichment group today, for years 3-6. Questions ranged from "What even is Dungeons and Dragons?" to "Are you looking up the stats for zombies? Because you don't need to - I've memorised them!"
The 4 Corners music has become so diminished. They should bring back one of the late 80s ones.
My positive impact on Stella's life: moving water and freeze-dried treats.
My negative impact on Stella's life: annoying orange roommates.
Psychic AND physical damage and I still can't put the fucking thing down.
I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
I actually assumed the opposite until I adopted some sweet natured male cats. I'd known some very affectionate female cats as a kid and heard someone make that generalisation and just accepted it. In retrospect, they were probably talking more about the challenges of an undesexed male.
It baffles me how people would rather buy a Ragdoll or Maine Coon sight unseen ("because they're friendly and affectionate") than actually get to know a shelter cat/kitten to find a good fit.
Kid: Can I go toilet?
Me: Yes, just don't go on a side quest again
5 min later
Kid: I'm back! I bumped into [friend] he gave me this. *holds up squishy ball*
Me: DON'T THROW IT AT THE CEILING!
Kid: Oh. My bad. It'll come down on its own, right?
Other kid: Wow, he did go on a side quest
Me: Always
A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.
Kid: Miss, spelling has no rizz.
Me: Um... yeah, I can't argue with that. Spelling has no rizz. You still need to learn it.
I'm sorry - that really sucks.
I'm jealous - I didn't get under the bridge proper. Those stone pillars were so close when we got turned around.
Me: This film is a parody
Child: It has parrots in it?
I just tried and found I could kind of do it, but I had to concentrate really hard and sit really still.
Yf tech billionaires reallye reade their Tolkien thei wolde understande that it was the obsessive searche by Sauron for selfish immortalitye and individual power above all othir thinges that broughte disaster to Middle Earthe.
It really is this simple.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
I feel like we are seeing what the French Revolution would have been like if (a) Marie Antoinette had actually said “let them eat cake” and (b) then the entire French Court had repeated it for weeks on end anytime someone complained of hunger.
You advised me to take hydralite at the time. I hope you feel better soon.
That sounds like the fever I had before Christmas at School Pd, maybe in 2013 or 2014. I felt really shitty and sweated buckets, but no respirator symptoms.
Ich love my catte so much. Ich kan be full of worryes and anxietye and sadnesse, but then thys litel guy just hoppeth up onto the sofa and doth begin to starte purringe.
America: where having an autism awareness tattoo means you're an MS-13 gang member, but having a swastika tattoo just means you're a German history buff
One of Jasper's worst sins was to pee powerfully and liberally over the edge of a litterbox... onto the bottom shelf of a bookcase, ruining multiple books. 😱😭
At least these days we have enzymatic cleaners.
Autism is not an "epidemic" because it's not a disease. Saying we don't know what "causes" it is absurd. It's genetic and, what's more, NORMAL FOR HUMAN BRAINS TO BE DIFFERENT FROM ONE ANOTHER.
