Amanda

my thoughts are - yes she's making it weird

I loved it too! I loved how she wrote Circe but also thought it was the best written portrayal of Hermes I've ever read. she really understood that lil scamp

the addition of the magikarp anecdote is an incredible insight to me thank you

photo of three bottles of Orbitz drinks - a 90s beverage that had little floating balls in it

I bet if they brought these back rn they would do numbers

For three weeks in May, the fate of the world rested on the shoulders of a corporate recruiter on the outskirts of Toronto. Allan Brooks, 47, had discovered a novel mathematical formula, one that could take down the internet and power inventions like a force-field vest and a levitation beam. Or so he believed. Mr. Brooks, who had no history of mental illness, embraced this fantastical scenario during conversations with ChatGPT that spanned 300 hours over 21 days. He is one of a growing number of people who are having persuasive, delusional conversations with generative A.I. chatbots that have led to institutionalization, divorce and death.

centuries of fairy tales & folklore about not trusting glittering, deceptive entities that flatter our vanity and look at us. eating the fae food, mesmerized by the mirror, etc. clown behavior.

You’re not “ politicizing a tragedy” if the tragedy is a result of bad policy.

who is the Smurfs Movie for, exactly

caption: This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. then a picture of Samwise Gamgee from the lord of the rings trilogy of movies.

My husband and I were talking about how Samwise Gamgee would be lowkey jacked because he carries around like five to seven cast iron pans on his person at all times and then i made this

Our most devastating weapon as a people

Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer

it's been said before but it's wild that these guys have more money and power than anyone on earth and still have unshakeable loser energy. none of them would survive the cafeteria of a public high school. give me a five-minute phone call with j.d. and i could make him cry

It's an unpredictable world

Photographer who snapped fight between a bald eagle and Canada goose calls it 'very symbolic' | CBC News A bald eagle may have thought it spotted an easy lunch in a Canada goose sitting on an icy bay in Burlington, Ont., but according to Mervyn Sequeira — who watched and photographed a 20-minute battle b...

What you need to know about Canada right now is that this is currently the top story on CBC news:

I am almost done and it is a damned DELIGHT

it all makes sense now!!!!

jfc that lady's wrist tells me all I need to know

good to know! how many units do you usually have to get?

I got Invisalign a few years back and now wear retainers at night and thankfully they're a lot more comfortable than the mouthguard I previously had

the problem is that I clench my jaw like, 24/7

does this work

I read skinny legs, cowgirls, and jitterbug in one burst - i don’t know why i stopped there! If i were to pick up another (15 years later), what would be your rec?

I read 3 Tom Robbins books back to back in like, 2008, and they've all stayed with me in weird ways!

I will add that the Overdrive function for getting ebooks from libraries is A++++ and is what I mostly use

I haven't tried yet but I'm going to give it a whirl!

I think it's similar, and the new colour version looks really nice! the settings for warm/white light and the brightness are very customizable. I have it off for reading during the day and its completely neutral (like paper) and then as warm and dim as it will go at night

I ADORE my kobo libra and it's at least less problematic being owned by a Canadian/Japanese company

she is definitely that

Cat sitting on heat grate

Why is my house so cold? Oh probably because all my of heat is going directly up my cats butthole

I started watching Skeleton Crew with my kid over the weekend and went into it completely blind, having only heard it was a charming show for kids.

Let me tell you, every single one of my latent teenage hormones were activated like sleeper agents when Jude Law appeared as a force-using space pirate