Elizabeth Zelle

Federal judges starting decisions by quoting Orwell is a totally normal and not-at-all concerning thing, right?

Me in the steakhouse

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

😭😭😭 a community member just handed this off to a patroller in our neighborhood

(white chocolate silk with raspberry compote and raspberry cream in a shortbread crust)

A small heart-shaped pie with a shortbread crust, and raspberry center

Just sharing our adorable Valentines pie 🩷

Hey, Valentine! You’re my MVP* *Minimum Viable Product

Time for the annual repost of my favorite Dumb Thing I’ve made 💕

You’re all MVPs in my eyes 🥰

Happy Chinese Valentines Black History Lent Ramadan New Year to all who celebrate.

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

A excellent piece on why 'Design by Reddit' is a terrible replacement for actual user research.

Keeping a finger on the pulse of social media sentiment can be an important *complement* to understanding your users (and even add context to your research responses), but can't replace #GamesUR

The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.

My favorite recent thing is the new trend of people commenting “AI could NEVER” under videos of beautiful, heartfelt human-made art on TikTok.

People recognize and understand the difference when they see art made with soul.

DinoCon with a more prompt response to academics complicit in sexual abuse than uh, the entirety of academia.

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

thank you for contacting the abyss. your scream is very important to us.

me: shares post with partner for the laughs

partner: immediately proves post true with half a dozen texts about how w40k lore is serious business

Post a banger that isn’t in English

youtu.be/WzfteHcskYo?...

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Patriots didn’t really show up for anything other than the Bad Bunny concert, did they

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

the bushes were people 😂

I’m only watching because there’s still a chance the Bears could come back and win this thing

This is incredibly cool — A source familiar with Bad Bunny’s performance tonight tells me that the couple in the halftime show got married for real. They invited Bad Bunny to their wedding and in turn he invited them to get married during his performance.

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they should just put the Chicago Bears out on the field and pretend nothing's different, like a late-season sitcom recasting

Genuinely gives me a lot of hope that the NFL is a cynical, cash-motivated organization and they're betting on this being the future