they really fucking tried it after the Grammarly backlash?

A "Little Free Library" filled with only Merriam-Webster Dictionaries

Happy National Library Week to whoever did this.

I'm not sure I've ever overheard a conversation that in any way involved the sentiment "'AI' is *amazing!" I'm in a Starbucks and I've overheard two in the last 30 minutes talking about how it's dumb, including the baristas behind the counter where one said "there's no way it's the future".

What a waste of time! That's not how you DDOS BlueSky.

You DDOS BlueSky by posting "That's it! I'm going back to Twitter! I get more engagement there!🤡" or "BlueSky is dying!🤡" or "You call that decentralized? Pathetic! On Mastodon we prefer...🤡" and then the whole site is unusable for 3 days.

I just want to alleviate concerns for all my authors and prospective authors that I have never used ChatGPT, never shared anything AI, worked really hard to avoid every aspect of it, and will ABSOLUTELY NEVER upload your novels to any AI function.

I am a slow reader, but it me. I am the reader.

The white man starts telling me his problem(s).

I do not look at the white man, I simply put my hand up, face out, level with his face, and say "I'M HELPING SOMEONE ELSE RIGHT NOW I WILL HELP YOU WHEN I AM FINISHED HERE" and then I continue helping the first person.

Very, very satisfying.

I get entirely too much pleasure when the following scenario takes place, as it does every couple of days:

I am at the reference desk helping someone--usually a PoC or woman or both.

A white man--and it is *always* a white man--interrupts me while I'm talking to the other person.

we need to get Abbot from The Pitt to talk to these men about their mental health.

also, this was Bioshock, if you chose to save the Little Sisters?

super weird to read this while reading @juliaserano.bsky.social's book Sexed.

AP was about education, then about saving money on college tuition, and then about building a better resume for college applications, and now it’s about … what?

the cold war teachers and professors responsible for the program's original design excluded courses like this because they wanted their students to experience liberal education before professionalization or specialization

made me imagine firing up my nineteen year old Nokia 7610 again

I remember my ex-husband thought the whole drama around the COVID vaccine was absurd because in his words, he had to get SO many shots and vaccines and they so FREELY gave out pharmaceuticals in the military that he would survive a nuclear fall out like a roach.

Between this and forgetting to feed the troops, we’re like 7 months away from a scurvy outbreak in the US navy

“Making the troops get vaccinated” is literally a foundational principle of the US Army

Tis true.

"Finding the smallpox to be spreading much and fearing that no precaution can prevent it from running thro’ the whole of our Army, I have determined that the Troops shall be inoculated." - General George Washington, 6 Feb 1777

www.nps.gov/articles/000...

this might be the first year our honeysuckle produces more than one measly flower. I hope we get hummers!

something about being in my late 30s really has me sitting at the window watching the birds jumping in the little dishes of water i set out for them in the garden, i can’t get enough of this shit despite having no preexisting interest in the business of birds.

CDC panel votes to limit who is eligible for this fall's Covid vaccine Only people 65 and over or with underlying health conditions should get the shots, the advisory group recommended. There may be insurance roadblocks for others.

This is super cool bc:

1) Many of the highest-risk conditions, like ME/CFS & Long Covid, aren't on the list

2) The best way to protect the vulnerable is to protect the population so others don't infect them

3) None of this accounts for Novavax which is not mRNA

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

"making the team" shouldn't be the only way kids get to access organized sports.

there are all sorts of advantages that are partly genetic. a piano player's reach. the way certain brains work. the answer to this is to have a path to a dignified life for everyone, and lots of amateur/pickup sports so people (especially kids) still get to play if they want to.

this for me is one of the basic questions about "sports fairness!!" that its proponents do not want to answer: we know that there are many congenital or genetic advantages in different sports, height and basketball being a very obvious case. when is a genetic advantage fair? when is it unfair?

here to report that Kiwi-Strawberry Electrolit tastes a lot less gross than blue Gatorade with sugar.

(I usually drink sugar-free versions.)

I got grounded for three months once because I snuck into the gym at Christian school where the Scholastic fair books were staged and read 10 of them instead of cleaning the school for tuition like I should have been. It was still worth it, I got through like three Animorphs books alone.

My parents completely controlled the media I was allowed to watch/read/play and one of the few times I got a glimpse at stuff outside of that was at the Scholastic book fair. No wonder people are trying to kill it.

bengal cat resting his head on a stuffed weasel on a red leather couch

he loves this stupid toy so goddamn much

even during the early pandemic when the restaurants in our neighbourhood closed except for takeout and it was deadsville, I was making friends with folks, getting free cheesecake, and I always had a source of flour and toilet paper.

I am quite certain I would be something of a Radar type character.

LOOK WHO'S WATCHING HER

Big Wet Wipe knows how to make wet wipes that can be removed one at a time but refuses to do so because they make so much money when you pull them out in clumps