It does suck that "AI" now means both generative AI (boo hiss) and a whole basket of incredibly useful machine learning techniques.

You know what I’d like? I’d like to go a whole year without having to relitigate that genre Romance requires a happy ending with people who claim that Romance means something like Le Morte d’Arthur or (god forbid) Romeo and Juliet.

The Shepherd’s Crown was released 10 years ago and I have had it all this time but couldn’t read it because I abhor endings.
I started reading it now and… welp! It’s devastating. Goodbye Esme and Terry.

Found my first grey hair on my head today. 2025 is already looking up for me 🥰

Teachers: TURN OFF YOUR ALARMS!!

Anyway divorce yourself from the idea that clocking a smear campaign and finding sexual harassment horrifying means you are defending that person as if they’re your best mate suddenly. You can still not like them. Just drop the bullshit victim blaming smear campaign repeating.

hands down ima choose this one

culturally we've spent too many years conflating wealth with merit and whoops there we are

you are never getting this because Hallmark Chanel is christonationalist propaganda. Like, its pretty obvious lol.

Did/do you know someone who had polio? Were there people who had polio in your family?

Another good example of how #maps can distort our perception of the world.

#Geography

‘Montana outperforms UK Labour Govt’ not your everyday headline …

This is the 2nd lowest approval rating for a presidential transition since CNN started asking the question after Bill Clinton won. (The only transition that was less popular was Trump’s first.)

Now ask yourself what kind of echo chamber you need live in to look at those numbers and offer this take.

I am slowly creeping up in followers despite being a depressed despairing disaster annoyed by almost everything at the moment. Feels good. Welcome fellow depressed disasters!

Oh I heard this! The girls mum is a proper wrong’un

????

🥺. Tbh I wasn’t doing much on there lately so it won’t be a massive loss

Also, blue sky evangelist. Why are you never here?

Fam, she’s working my nerves!!

Nothing brings sisters together more than a parent being aggravating 😭

An image from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, showing miles free falling while upside down, with skyscrapers in the background

Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack playing in your head.

I was listening to this song at the airport the other day and damn near broke into a jog because it makes you wanna do a victory lap.

I love how expressive she is when performing. Never feels overdone

The Earl Who Isn’t By Courtney Milan Milan wraps up her Wedgeford Trials series with characteristic wit in this novel, in which an earl’s secret son and a firebrand with a printing press grapple with long-simmering passion in a majority-Asian town in Victorian England. (I feel about Wedgeford the same way I feel about Terry Pratchett’s Ankh-Morpork: I know it’s not a real place, but it ought to be.) We deserve more gorgeously written books that care this much about joy, justice, community and the world.

So not to change the subject, but my friend just texted me a link to the New York Times list of Best Romances of 2024 and…

Um. What?

And a…Terry Pratchett comparison?

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/b...

She’s everything!!!!!!

People leaving tiktok are actually looking for Tumblr especially if you like TikTok for endless scrolling and bullshit. Tumblr is still curating good fandom stuff. Like the girlies who liked Smile 2 are LIVING over there.