Seriously, Palantir and Thiel are really one degree away from being a Final Fantasy villain.

Ahhh, thank you for reminding me of Wally!

In case people think only “creatives” are being robbed. And yes, they’re scraping all your Gmail too. Your online posts & comments. They’re stealing our lives to create more profit. Good thing we’re going to get a cut of the earnings, huh. 😑

You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely. - The Sick Times If community-building is a bulwark against autocracy, then asking after one another might be a good place to start.

“People assumed someone else was checking in on me, so very few did. Months of avoidance turned to years. Eventually, the party went on & my #illness was the bad smell in the room noticed only by me.”: buff.ly/Gvfb3D9

via @thesicktimes.org
#LongHauler #ChronicIllness #disabled #NEisVoid #LongCOVID

The Moomins!!! 🧡🧡🧡

This is a dance-off. If you see this, repost a dance.

youtu.be/LZKNX1iKaMY?...

I really want to get my newsletter going again. I miss the joy of putting together pretty e-mails, but starting again feels a little scary. Will people still want to read my e-mails?

So I'm telling myself it will be fine; I can start with baby steps, a newsletter a month, perhaps. 😊

Good morning from Frankfurt! Wishing you all a weekend full of small joys! 🌞

HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY, @charlottestein.bsky.social!!! 🎉🎉🎉

#JoyScrolling

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

A friend gifted me Poppy Girl because she knows how much I love Dorothy Dunnett's novels.

Ah, thanks!

The hero of Ross' novel is very clearly a nod to Lymond.

And then there's Jacqueline Gilbert's contemporary romance "Poppy Girl" - the author is / was very clearly another Lymond fan: Her main characters are Philippa Ingram and Francis Balfour. 😊

IMO, it's VERY obvious that she was inspired by the Lymond Chronicles.

Do you know Julia Ross' "The Seduction"? This is the author's dedication: "This book is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Dorothy Dunnett. Lymond will remain forever unequalled."

Leopold Kozeluch, Sonata 37, Moderato YouTube video by Sandra Schwab

How cute is this itty-bitty mini keyboard with 37 mini keys? (Perfect for the campingsite and Miss Hetty adventures!!!) I'm currently trying to figure out which bits of my repertoire I can squeeze onto it.
#RomancePianists
#Piano

youtube.com/shorts/06R52...

"Could you turn me into a cat?" the man asked.

The witch gave him a long look. "Why?"

"So I could be your familiar," he said with a grin.

"What an interesting idea! Let me try."

*poof*

"Oops!" the witch said.

She picked up the frog. "Let's get you to a pond."

There has been a Matlock reboot?

"All my haters got pronouns."

Oh, bless him.

EMOTIONAL WOMEN LOSE SENSE OF FEAR

(and the mere possibility utterly terrifies the 'manosphere' and the women who enable them)

That is gorgeous!

Zohran Mamdani is showing the best possible way to weaken conservatives:

all you have to do is do rad, common sense shit all the time and let the conservatives make themselves look CRAZY about it

Hello Carolyn! 🧡 Happy Friday!

The itty-bitty Saalburg* owl! Isn't it pretty?

*If you've read The Centurion's Choice or Eagle's Honor: Ravished: That's Caius' fort. 😊 It will also be the place from where Damianus gets his 🍆 face pot. 😁

*I'm

(Was too excited when skeeting.)

Oh my goodness! That is AMAZING!!!! SO HAPPY FOR YOU, Charlotte!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

This.

Happy, happy book birthday, @pretensesoup.bsky.social !!! 🎉🎉🎉

Well, still is a very slow spider. Present tense. No spiders were harmed during the move from Sandy's sitting room to the great world outside.

A migraine day is bad enough, but a migraine day where, when you wake up from a nap, you find a GINORMOUS spider on the wall next to your head?!? Gah! 😱

(The spider now lives in our backyard. Luckily, it was a very slow spider.)