Andrea Phillips

People are so used to just trusting what a computer tells them is true. For decades, the output of a computer was mathematically infallible, an absolutely true execution of what you told it to do (just you might have instructed it wrong)

The thing that makes this extra funny to me is that I think the cat is about to say this is all moving too fast…

I came to say exactly the same thing

I do wonder if either one had Lynch syndrome, the BRCA of colon cancer

Went to urgent care for lowkey infected ear piercing. He gave me an ointment and an oral antibiotic but did not actually look at my ears?!

It helped, so I'm pretty sure it really was ibuprofen!

I just took what I'm pretty sure is ibuprofen from a mystery plastic baggie of pills I've had floating around, so that's fun!

Donate to Haven Watch MN – Support at the gate, care beyond it, organized by Haven Watch Haven Watch was created to help individuals released from ICE detenti… Haven Watch needs your support for Haven Watch MN – Support at the gate, care beyond it

So, the folks detained at Whipple are largely being released. Their phones, wallets, and often their winter clothes are confiscated. They are dumped out the front gate with nothing.

Haven Watch is standing there and welcomes them back.

gofund.me/608979105

Exciting Firsts and Second Chances — The Haunt* Here we go, right? My very first indie/self-produced book* is finally out in the world - or on Amazon, where you’ll now find the author’s cut of Cinderwich in ebook…and now paperback!…formats. That’...

SPEAKING OF BOOKS...behold: I have dipped a toe into the waters of self-production, vis-a-vis an "author's cut" of CINDERWICH which is now available in paperback for just ten bucks!

www.cheriepriest.com/blog/excitin...

National Primary Day or bust

A squirrel standing on its hind legs. the body is white, the floofy tail and the face are kind of brown-gray. The paws and (super floofy pointy) ears are red.

look at this Eurasian squirrel

if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there

A+, would hang out with at the family reunion picnic

My mom has an "Uncle Toad"

I know that there's a lot going on but is anyone else paying attention to South Korea's upcoming cultural domination victory

What it was like to be a bush at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance The bushes on the field during the halftime show became a meme after the internet found out they were actually human performers.

Now THIS is service journalism

My child with industrial-grade, free-access-to-benzos anxiety got the "everybody feels worried sometimes" talk from her pediatrician

So did the kid with OCD

Trump Wildly Claims China Will ‘Terminate ALL Ice Hockey’ In Canada "The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."

My deepest sympathies for @bencollins.bsky.social and team who have to keep up while this shit is actually, apparently, happening for real?! www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Drug ads should be illegal again

Finally, someone who gets that the Muppets are a bunch of lowkey raunchy fuckups with big hearts

Unfortunately GenX turned bad. Turns out when you raise a whole cohort of nihilists...

It could tell me to eg. water my plants every 3 days but not stack up extras if I missed it, and without an overwhelming interface to set that kind of thing up 😭

Similarly goddamn Microsoft Entourage, the task/calendar application they made for Mac in like 2008, is still the best productivity software I've ever had, RIP

It really burns me because Google actually DID make great inroads toward this kind of machine learning assistance and then it just... went away

It could be flagging possible scheduling conflicts for you based on plans you're making in texts and email vs. your calendar! It could be telling you there's an accident on the freeway so you should leave earlier! It could notice you're overdue to make a dentist appointment! But no.

It's okay to just stop watching it! Life is too short!

How in the world did I end up getting phishing emails for French NHS?

"Aw, look at that precious pretty baby!"

You are definitely selling me on this book

I for one respect their commitment to more hang time