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Rita Chang-Eppig (she/they)

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Novel: Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea (Bloomsbury). Indie Next, Barnes & Noble Discover, Good Morning America Buzz Pick. Stories in Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, One Story, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, etc. rchetypes.com

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Wut

11.03.2026 15:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Heard somebody say that people think using generative AI is like having a Janet (from The Good Place) when it’s in fact like having a Derek 😂

11.03.2026 15:58 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It’s the specificity of this simile that does it for me every time:

It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

11.03.2026 12:55 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Loving this new word I just spied online. Dicktim: someone who acts like a dick and then claims to be a victim when you call them out on their dickery.

11.03.2026 06:08 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

This is a fun thing

What's My JND? 0.0034
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

11.03.2026 03:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ate scalding hot sundubu jjigae and burned my tongue badly. WORTH IT.

11.03.2026 03:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh yeah, this is one of those stories that's going to Haunt Me for a while.

05.03.2026 03:24 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you 😊

05.03.2026 04:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

02.03.2026 03:03 👍 6304 🔁 1491 💬 104 📌 75

I would like to personally smack every single person who said in 2024, “It can’t get worse.”

01.03.2026 08:46 👍 41 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

I do actually think there is a serious imbalance on this app. A lot of politics and not enough culture. Some of that has to do with the fact that Black Twitter mostly went to Threads.

01.03.2026 02:54 👍 1831 🔁 175 💬 56 📌 51
Text reads: log in to TikTok. Manage your account, check notifications, comment on videos, and more. Then there is a box with my user name with a trash can icon next to it.

Text reads: log in to TikTok. Manage your account, check notifications, comment on videos, and more. Then there is a box with my user name with a trash can icon next to it.

Help, everyone. I thought I deleted my TikTok account a month ago, but this still shows up when I open the app to check if the account is deleted. Is this normal? Is there a way to tell if the account is gone for good?

28.02.2026 02:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

FFS how many times do they need to reboot Mortal Kombat? It feels like Hollywood has completely lost its guts and only recycles content now.

27.02.2026 12:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

Quelle surprise

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

27.02.2026 10:43 👍 193 🔁 71 💬 3 📌 4

I think that you're right, and I hate the fact that you've put this thought into my head

24.02.2026 05:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Insert sad trombone noise here

24.02.2026 05:53 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"I'm the first US elected official with Tourette Syndrome and I have some thoughts about BAFTA"
"I'm the first US elected official with Tourette Syndrome and I have some thoughts about BAFTA" YouTube video by New York City Public Advocate

Ah

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgaq...

24.02.2026 05:11 👍 66 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 3

I think the Nobel Prize for Peace should go to the people of Minnesota in recognition of their struggle against fascism

24.02.2026 02:36 👍 120 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 3

oof, stay warm

23.02.2026 14:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just to be clear (because I've had questions):

*** We are currently open to submissions. ***

23.02.2026 00:43 👍 129 🔁 27 💬 5 📌 0

Ok if you succeed can I have the recipe? I love that stuff so much I could eat it multiple times a day.

23.02.2026 06:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I might get my Taiwanese citizenship revoked for this, but I can’t stand pineapples. If I wanted to chew needles coated in sugar, I would just do that.

23.02.2026 05:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pope Leo is JD Vance’s Joyce Carol Oates.

21.02.2026 23:46 👍 523 🔁 47 💬 4 📌 2

Black folks have a right to go into public spaces and not have slurs hurled at them. Two things can be true. You can be empathetic to this person and their Tourette’s, but also be empathetic to Michael B Jordan, and Delroy Lindo.

22.02.2026 22:33 👍 1858 🔁 287 💬 21 📌 13

Boosting this!! There are still a couple weeks to apply. It will be very fun

23.02.2026 02:50 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Anyone else buy fancy lotions from places like Lush and then forget to moisturize or am I the only one with this personality defect

22.02.2026 09:26 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Niche complaint: why do the fake session transcripts in psychotherapy manuals always sound like they were written by people who haven’t actually talked to anyone in thirty years? A bunch of “I sure am!”s and “Gee, I never thought of it that way”s.

22.02.2026 04:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

American individualism meant people could not conceive of committing to an incredibly small sacrifice, wearing a mask, for their good & the communal good. Capitalism meant the wheels had to keep going & no one could stop to contain a virus, & people had to or chose work sick. Societal choices.

21.02.2026 14:49 👍 71 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 1
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ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her ChatGPT sent screenwriter Micky Small down a fantastical rabbit hole. Now, she's finding her way out.

I initially had sympathy but then theres the bit about how she started with using ChatGPT to outline screenplays and I guess I'm into personal responsibility now

www.npr.org/2026/02/14/n...

21.02.2026 08:21 👍 233 🔁 21 💬 10 📌 7
A meme of the boy in the brown hoodie who fist booped the obnoxious MAGA spawn with the word “OKAY” under the image.

The background is yellow and the image is black.

A meme of the boy in the brown hoodie who fist booped the obnoxious MAGA spawn with the word “OKAY” under the image. The background is yellow and the image is black.

He’s already earned legend status.

16.02.2026 23:34 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0