The idea that all of this death and destruction is going to apply only to other people in perpetuity, and will never, ever blow back on Americans, is carrying a lot of weight that it can't support forever
Which celebrity death hurt you the most?
Out tomorrow: Nobody’s Baby, a sapphic sci-fi mystery novella on a space cruise ship where, suddenly, a wild baby appears!
"Be a writer," they said. "You'll be rich," they said. "They lied," the narrator said.
Edmund Burke: WAIT WHAT THIS IS A STIMULANT AND IT CONTAINS A TROPICAL FLOWER AND MILK AND IS BITTER AND YET SWEET? HEY ADAM SMITH YOU HAVE TO TRY THIS SHIT ISNT CAPITALISM AMAZING
Curious about Donald Trump’s objective in Iran? Throw this sheet pan spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks!
move slow and repair things
Carpenter, Farmer
(Oh crap, someone is going to try to recruit me to run for something.)
Raskin: “Based on what you know today, were Renée Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists?”
Noem: “There's ongoing investigations…I would think you would want there to still be investigations going into these situations.”
Raskin: “You stated [your] conclusion 2 hours after they were killed."
I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.
Sometimes, when things are rough and the world feels heavy, it helps to imagine a future where we have crushed these sons of bitches and are left to the actual business of constructing a world that we deserve and is fundamentally kind and good.
My photo shows the front of a warm-yellow coloured Minoan clay flask, hand painted in black with a frontally depicted octopus. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side. The octopus is swimming diagonally with its eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the whole surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the ‘Marine Style’. The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The Palaikastro excavations, carried out between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.
Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus 🐙❤️
Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro, Crete.
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Two posts from altnps.bsky.social: Amazing work, everyone the OpenAI boycott is working! And thank you to our international supporters who are joining us. Sam Altman is in panic mode he went on X tonight telling users to ask him anything about OpenAI’s Pentagon deal as the boycott of ChatGPT grows. We know a lot of people are choosing to boycott AI overall, and we support that. AI is terrible on the environment! At the same time, we understand many people still use AI tools. If you’re going use AI please delete the ChatGPT app, and switch to Claude by Anthropic instead.
As an author whose book was pirated by Anthropic: using Claude is not an ethical choice
Timeline clense
If you know someone who is really great at running an RPG, you have got to hold on to them, you know?
Carpe DM, friends!
We should remember to celebrate their reported nuptials by watching BOTH Zandaya’s and Tom Holland’s lip sync performances! youtu.be/1i5DEipIWh4?...
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.
10. American Midnight by Adam Hochschild
11. Over My Dead Body by Greg Melville
I didn't intend to read more NF than fiction, nor to have two NF books be super-grim (The Barn and American Midnight), but sometimes that's where library holds and LibraryThing challenges take you.
3/3
#books #reading
5. Breach of Promise by Elisabeth Fairchild
6. Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
7. The Barren Grounds by David Robertson
8. The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson
9. Useless Etymology by Jess Zafarris
2/x
#books #reading
I read 11 books in Feb., same as Jan. I'll need to speed it up once the Nebula and Hugo finalists are out.
1. Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree
2. Pathogenesis by Jonathan Kennedy
3. Time Loops & Meet Cutes by Jackie Lau
4. Building God's Kingdom by Julie Ingersoll
1/x
#books #reading
With Random Cookbook # 9, I found what I think will be a new go-to weeknight recipe in Rachael Ray's Cowboy Spaghetti, because sometimes you just need something made from pantry staples that all three of you will eat.
www.susannafraserstone.com/blog/cookboo...
Liberals, Progressives, America First Conservatives: WITAF SOMEONE NEEDS TO DO THEIR JOB AND STOP THESE POINTLESS WARS
Schumer: Don’t worry, this letter is VERY strongly worded!!
In my headcanon Ayla stayed with the Mamutoi because she realized that Ranec was funny, mature, and self-aware, all qualities that A) Jondalar lacked, and B) are better foundations for long-term happiness than having the biggest schlong in the Paleolithic.
We are at war for no good reason because we created a presidency with unbounded war powers and then elected a madman to it www.vox.com/politics/481...
cool that the two legal methods for removing the incompetent, incoherent, sundowning, criminal president are a) his cabinet, who are all worse than he is, or b) congress, which I'm pretty sure no longer exists other than to hold show trials
People say what's the point of impeachment? It'll fail.
The War Powers resolution will possibly (probably?) fail as well, like the Venezuelan War Powers resolution.
You push for both because both are required responses to the illegality we're facing.
It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.
There ain't a mirror big enough for this lack of self-reflection
So all of this is in a thread about a Claude tool someone built to link to NLRB opinions, and it's just such a massive misunderstanding of how law works.
