After decades of being overlooked and underrepresented at the Oscars, the horror genre is finally getting its due
But I can’t help thinking it’s only because, at this point, horror is completely indistinguishable from our daily life and thus the judges don’t even think of it as genre work anymore
Living in Florida, I would guess that there will actually be a moment in my life where I'll have to deal with a gator.
However, they're slowly outlawing reading here in Florida, so good luck finding a bookshop.
Just going to play this on a loop for a while.
@tkingfisher.com I think I'd get more work done if you'd just slow down for a bit. Pre-ordered Wolf Worm. #sigh
Your afternoon jam.
I'm the lyrical Jesse James.
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"In January 2013, while serving as the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, John Fetterman chased down and detained an unarmed Black jogger with a shotgun after hearing what he believed to be gunshots."
Zebra not changing his stripes, etc etc.
Is there any problem a Cheap Trick Essentials playlist can't solve? I seriously doubt it.
I should just go to bed at 1pm. If only I could be as tired at 9pm that I am immediately after eating lunch and taking a walk. At 1pm each day, I could close my eyes while standing up and take a small nap.
"How many dollars are in the Dow?"
Pam: "I dunno, like 50,000? That's a lot!"
The coolest kids in my friend group had a box of floppies they carried around with them in middle school. Pirated Ultima and Wizardry and Zork and whatever else. #copyIIpc
@paigeleitman.bsky.social You know what's missing in this world? An Image of Ross Gellar holding an Excel spreadsheet and yelling PIVOT.
Aye, join those tables!
Man, I got PTSD from this thread.
"It's airline policy not to imply ownership in the event of a baguette. Use the indefinite article."
You wouldn't know him. She met him at camp.
Over 20 years of rolling my eyes at something Whitta posts online.
Having just read @travisbaldree.bsky.social 's cozy fantasy novels, Kindle is now telling me that there's an entire genre dedicated to this. Pretty sure these books, combined with the delightful @tkingfisher.com novels and Bujold's Penric series, Kindle has me buttoned up for a few months, here.
"Jameses Haek and Introcaso"
@sumsung.bsky.social Chatting today with the customer service bot about my Samsung washer/dryer combo. It gave me some helpful answers, and 2 videos I'm not sure of. Should I click on those?
Well, I'd never seen this ad before and now I'm a little weepy and really in the Christmas season.
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
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I was a wizard on Ivory Tower and a regular on Genocide. #mudsarecool
I maintain that Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is best heard after a hard day's work, long after you really should have been in bed. Sometimes it's best heard while driving on a humid summer evening, with the windows down. Sometimes any time else. But mostly that first bit.
@guygavrielkay.bsky.social It was 2am, literally Reading in the Dark, when I put Written in the Dark down.
What a lovely and calm and sweet addition to my library this has been. I see Alaina visited you.
Thank you.
as many of you know i did consult on Daggerheart, i feel strongly now that i need to now peel back the curtain and share some of the feedback on this otherwise excellent game that darrington press unfortunately completely ignored
Yep. Eventually, they'll be on sale on D&D Beyond. Expect to see them in Spring of 2026.
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This morning, even though I haven't heard the song for a while, Metallica's "For Whom The Bell Tolls" is going through my head.
Is this an omen?
A friend of mine is moving on to another company today.
7 years ago, today, we both started playing Pokémon Go.
So, he came by my desk this morning to trade Pokémon one last time.
#nerdstuff
Why are you posting a picture of my parents fighting?