HOLY FUCKING SHIT

GUYS

GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC

GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU

OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

If you're an author and have ever wondered hopefully whether it might be worth replying to the nice lady who wants to get your book to the dedicated readers in her {Exactly Your Book's Genre} book club, please read this.

Every time I feel like I know a lot about the rise of fascism in Germany, I learn something new.

It's not my people's Italian but I gotta go D I think, just to get Italian, Japanese, Indian, and Thai

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

Here is the aforesaid entire blog post so we can never do this again.

It sounds plausible to me because that is how I feel about instagram mental health and adhd content. It feels good to read it for a while, because some of the tidbits are genuinely useful to me. I'm on a downward arc with it, because I have had my fill, yet IG keeps shoving more at me.

Why did it take them two days to arrest neo-nazi Thomas Sewell after he was filmed throwing a punch, attacking indigenous protesters? I don’t understand. He’d have been arrested doing this outside some pub. But two days?!?? Is he more immune to arrest than someone normal? He has a violent record.

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

a drop-down menu for selecting a color; the options are silver and Dark Gary

my favorite color, Dark Gary

Australia - Cookers

Really cannot overstate how powerful this essay is. My ears were ringing by the end of it

Underrated cover version vocal performance. Up there with Paul Young's Wherever I Lay My Hat. Frankly.

every queer and every slut is lesbian now

fandom i love you

Sound on 😽🤍

Smaug, painted after an illustration by Tolkien himself. The border is borrowed from an early book jacket for The Hobbit.

I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.

On a Mac keyboard, you literally just hit the dash key twice in a row

A Late Roman Beaker. Probably 7th century.

Sign the Petition Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community

It's possible we've been cutting through a bit with our @nionwomen.bsky.social work too, which calls out this "false feminism".
Pleas sign if you haven't already!
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Absolutely fabulous thread on how the Georgians made ice cream

Good News: Two of Apple TV+'s Most Slept-On Sci-Fi Shows Have Hopeful Plans for More Executive producer David Goyer weighs in on the future of 'Foundation' and 'Murderbot.'

@marthawells.com
“We hit our Byzantine-metric threshold & I think it has performed well enough that there will be another season. It’s not guaranteed, but I believe that to be the case,” Goyer said. “And the response, critically, I think, could not have gone better.”

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K.J. Charles's review of Mr Collins in Love I don't like Jane Austen. I realise this is not a popular literary opinion but here we are. I also don't generally like Jane Austen retellings because with a couple of honourable exceptions (eg What W...

I read Mr Collins in Love: A Pride and Prejudice inspired m/m romance by Lee Welch

You know you can just not use AI, right?

You can make a choice not to be part of this.

Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.

You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Stop Scott Morrison's Order of Australia

Petition against Scott Morrison getting a Kings Birthday award chng.it/gjVDR4bQdj

two men looking at a bird in a cage with the words nah that 's not dead it 's resting on the bottom ALT: two men looking at a bird in a cage with the words nah that 's not dead it 's resting on the bottom

The LNP are irrelevant Mike.

Their branch network is borked, a Christofascist RW Religious cult. They cannot resonate policy or vibe with the public.

It is a dead parrot …

#auspol #BinNight

it will never not bother me that the people building AI tools didn't first focus on making computers do the tedious drudge work that nobody likes doing and instead have spent bazillions of dollars getting computers to do the things that enrich human lives.

Trump’s America is impossible to respect.