LaCraux or just sparkling chaos?

atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

Listened twice already via Patreon and loved it- fantastic cast, phenomenal soind design, engaging story and memorable characters (including our beloved Troughton 🥰) - definitely listening again over the public release!

Co-signed.
If you can’t be arsed to put the necessary work into your own book, why should I put the work into reviewing it?

So that now makes Lena McDonald, KC Crowne and Rania Faris leaving ChatGPT prompts in their ‘books’.

I’m so fucking tired, guys. If you don’t write, you’re not a writer. It’s that simple. Stop doing this to your readers, who PAY.

Readers and authors deserve better than this. 📚💙

i do miss that game so much :(

The thing about this is that Amazon is widening their own cut of each book, while narrowing author royalties. It's not about "paper costs" or anything, it's sheer greed.

I recommend getting out of KDP, both ebook and paper, as fast as you can. It's what I'm doing.

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Everyone go listen to Carmilla for your lesbian vampire fix! @redracula.bsky.social are releasing it now.

Like it's fine but I was born into the final moments of an old world that's now unimaginable to those born later and I was raised during the dawn of a new age that baffles and alarms those who came of age before it emerged. 's weird

Fred Rogers does seem to have been a genuinely decent human being and also he would probably be the first to tell you not to idolize him, but to find in yourself what is beautiful and special and hold that up to the light so that you can see it clearly, and can everyone else.

10/10 recommend deleting Facebook and Instagram from your phone and replacing them with the Libby app. Then download the genre of books you find most addictive. I'm currently tearing through Lauren Groff's "The Vaster Wilds."

Cults and mind viruses run rampant. Powerful algorithms hijack our minds. No wonder we all feel so deranged. They say my novels are surreal. But when I watch Elon Musk playing the jester in Donald Trump’s court, I’m not so sure. His latest novel is “Absolution.”

Written before the election. I have found that immersive reading is saving my mind right now. That means without my phone nearby to doom scroll, btw. Immersive reading does not work with constant distraction.

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ratface my beloved 🥰

‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test Mozilla’s latest edition of *Privacy Not Included reveals how 25 major car brands collect and share deeply personal data, including sexual activity, facial expressions, and genetic and health informat...

Mozilla's advocacy arm was also super helpful on issues like consumer privacy

YouTube video by NamibiaCam Namibia: Live stream at the Okaukuejo waterhole in Etosha National Park, Namibia

A reminder that this live stream of a waterhole in Namibia exists. It is weirdly well maintained, constantly features a pretty huge range of animals and you learn individual creatures / family units pretty quickly. Very relaxing

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Cartoon of Daffy Duck wearing a blue trek uniform staring up at a broken pencil. He's holding a Vulcan big ass weapon whose name I've forgotten :) Caption: Duck Amok

Stuff from the Larchives! Posting random cartoons to help fight the doomscroll for the next few days. Feel free to request topics and if I've got a toon for it, I'll share it :)

Your most annoying neighbor might be trying to Karen up the school board so she can scream at queer kids and threaten teachers and your single vote could literally ruin her year and make her cry.

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Impeaching Alito for this will be just like busting Capone for tax evasion and we should 100% do it.

Anti-Gerrymandering Groups Warn That Ohio’s Ballot Language Is Misleading Voters If “yes” on Issue 1 wins, it’d create an independent redistricting process. But some voters are saying the GOP-crafted ballot summary tricked them into opposing a reform they support.

If you're in Ohio, read this before heading to vote:

The ballot language on redistricting was written with an eye to confusing ppl. I talked to someone who says it tricked them. Others have come forward to say same too. Make sure you know what you want. boltsmag.org/ohio-issue-1...

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Save this image (and/or its Alt text) to your mobile device. If you experience or see intimidation, harassment, or suppression of voters at a polling site, call the number for your state, or the national number. If you are turned away at the polls, ask to vote by provisional ballot per federal law.

This is the funniest thing for a Supreme Court justice to get impeached for, and so absolutely perfect for Samuel Alito. Say what you will about his opinions, but he has always been likely to go down for accepting a bejeweled scepter from the most racist living member of the Bourbon dynasty.