Grammarly should get fucked
10.03.2026 16:14
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Grammarly should get fucked
This makes me realize it's multiple simultaneous violations of consent.
I do not consent to my work being used to train AI.
I do not consent to AI in my software.
I do not consent to using my computer's resources to power unwanted AI.
I do not consent to the extra labour needed to clean up after AI
#SongOfTheDay2026 Hauki by Ultra Bra (1997) www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pU6... (it's a Finnish appreciation of the northern pike [fish]) www.tumblr.com/fishyfishyfi...)
Filling in the backlog until I'm up to date for #SongOfTheDay2026: why am i like this by @bbnomula.bsky.social (2026) www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9VL...
Filling in the backlog until I'm up to date for #SongOfTheDay2026: The Distance by Cake (Slurmcore version) by Dokpetra (2026) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU4S...
Filling in the backlog until I'm up to date for #SongOfTheDay2026: Water Leaking, Water Moving by Jeffrey Lewis (2011) www.youtube.com/watch?v=doFK...
Filling in the backlog until I'm up to date for #SongOfTheDay2026: Tennis by Lily Allen (2025) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0-m...
Filling in the backlog until I'm up to date for #SongOfTheDay2026: I'm From The Bay by LaRussell (2025) youtu.be/StGuI6W8f3s
Filling in the backlog until I'm up to date for #SongOfTheDay2026: Boom Babba Do Ba Dabba by @powersolo.bsky.social (2014) www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvGJ...
![Madelline - dead [official music video]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n3mxgq7i4tqe365ij7lbkqfm/bafkreieh5waxoaqwywlsnieg75l4ehb3om2tmzdp5jcwpgf7updxumovve)
Filling in the backlog until I'm up to date for #SongOfTheDay2026: dead by Madelline (2022) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaaw...
Filling in the backlog until I'm up to date for #SongOfTheDay2026: 2 Kids in a Trenchcoat by @katemcosentino.bsky.social (2026) www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2NK...
Tarot Reid, Warton Goggins, McCauldron Culkin, Timothee Spellamet, Benedict Cumberbanshee, James Spellcaster, Will Familiarnett, Frank Potion #WitchyCelebrities
Love this. I built out myself a DnD character sheet - I take double psychic damage and have disadvantage in direct sunlight like a drow.
A song about the bracketing ambiguity of PETSMART by Ben Lapidus. www.youtube.com/shorts/gM8a6... #Linguistics
Ai is like: we can summarize and article for you
Me: you mean the abstract
AI: yes but it also might be wrong :)
Cuckoos have a reputation problem. Brood parasitism has associated them with devious behavior and its call has become a synonym for insanity. But is this simply a case of bad PR?
We'll find out this Tuesday at Wicked Ways!
Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/wicked-way...
National Grammar Day is almost here, and submissions are now open for the ACES National Grammar Day Poetry Contest.
Learn more and apply: https://aceseditors.org/awards/aces-national-grammar-day-poetry-contest
A chart that shows the number of Google searches for each Pokémon. The text says: In honor of Pokémon Day, ACE.com, the free-to-play social gaming website, has analyzed Pokémon-related Google search data across the United States over the last 36 months to determine fans' favorite characters. Rank Name Generation Monthly searches 1 Pikachu Generation 1 685,100 2 Flamigo Generation 9 374,600 3 Charizard Generation 1 310,900 4 Charmeleon Generation 1 250,400 5 Squirtle Generation 1 215,800 6 Eevee Generation 1 214,500 7 Mewtwo Generation 1 209,100 8 Snorlax Generation 1 207,600 9 Gengar Generation 1 192,100 10 Ditto Generation 1 175,500 11 Bulbasaur Generation 1 171,600 12 Charmander Generation 1 169,400 13 Grafaiai Generation 9 166,900 14 Gardevoir Generation 3 149,800 15 Lopunny Generation 4 144,900
“Hey boss, are you sure Flamigo is more popular than Charizard, and people aren’t just misspelling ‘Flamingo’ on Google?”
“Don’t be ridiculous. Of course Flamigo is more popular than Charizard, Mewtwo, Eevee, and Snorlax. Send the email.”
Hey.
Tell people when they do good job.
When you like the stuff they make.
When you like the characters they’ve created.
The stories they’ve told.
Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time.
Trust. They don’t.
Tell. Them.
I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage.
I learned a lot.
In a note embedded on top of an FAQ question, “What is the average length of stay for the aliens?” Tim Kaiser, the deputy chief of staff for US Citizenship and Immigration Services, asked David Venturella, a former GEO Group executive whom The Washington Post described as an adviser overseeing an ICE division that manages detention center contracts, to “Please confirm” that the average stay for the new mega detention centers would be 60 days. Venturella replied in a note that remained visible on the published document, “Ideally, I'd like to see a 30-day average for the Mega Center but 60 is fine.”
NEW: DHS left embedded comments in a PDF outlining its plans to warehouse immigrants, identifying the architects and laying bare the gross extent of its regulatory capture. Great scoop by @regret.bsky.social:
www.wired.com/story/metada...
A system built to eat people never stops eating people.
New on the Wordnik blog: Five Words from ... The Notebook, by Roland Allen (
@zibaldoni.bsky.social): blog.wordnik.com/five-words-f...
Types of headaches: editor edition.
A screenshot from the game Plinbo at the ball shop - one of the two options is the Driftleft Ball with the description "Chance to go left +15%"
A screenshot from the game Plinbo showing the triangular shape, with two balls approaching the bottom slots - 0.2x multiplier in the middle, 10x muliplier on the far left and right sides.
Played the new roguelike Plinko game Plinbo this weekend and discovered the DRIFTLEFT and DRIFTRIGHT balls, which are more likely to drop to the left or right (respectively) than a standard ball - therefore more likely to fall into outer slots with higher multipliers. #CutthroatCompounds
Great post! My favorite of these by far is GENDY NOOCH for gender neutral. It was on my personal WOTY list, but I didn't think about the larger trend. www.tiktok.com/@simulatedha... (duet from March 2023)
I've added CLIPPY COMPS to my self-definer list now: www.wordnik.com/lists/terms-...
@kirbyconrod.bsky.social made it to the @boingboing.net summary, I become "an expert" 😁 boingboing.net/2026/02/10/t...
Happily, I'm quoted in the NYT today about words cyclically coming back into use, like earworms from forgotten songs. English has a rich trove of vocab to pull from, and any song, book, or movie can bring those words back in rotation. Thanks @samcorbin.bsky.social! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
Since it's Olympics time again, and there are many non-English names that you're going to want to say as accurately as possible (especially if you're a broadcaster), here's a thread of my relevant pronunciation tip videos over the last 8 years.
Note that even if I don't specifically cover the name…
