Gerrymandering for me, not for thee

a young girl is sitting at a table with her arms outstretched . Alt: A young brown-haired girl in a teal and white striped shirt is sitting on a high top chair at her kitchen counter, doing a full body laugh until she physically can't hold on anymore and slides off the chair to the floor, all the while grasping at the kitchen counter with her hands.

"crumb ghouls"

A boring airport wall in Reno is much improved by mixed media pieces from the Nevada Museum of Art. This particular oil painting on canvas by Mike Callahan is nearly 8 feet long and 3 feet high. It depicts a pack of five wolves running through a snowy birch tree forest. Four of the wolves are shades of gray, but there is one striking black wolf up in second position. Most of the wolves have their ears and head forward, but one sweet gray wolf has the back of their head to the viewer, and its ears are laid back in a more seemingly relaxed and deferential position, and the viewer can just make out the softness of its face while it's looking to its pack.

My favorite art wall right now is RNO! And I love to stand and just admire this "Running with the Pack" oil painting on canvas by Mike Callahan (since my pocketbook can't afford it!).

a woman stands at a podium with her arms outstretched and the words all of this above her Alt: Cecily Strong in an SNL skit parodying school board meetings during the height of Covid, where she has a short brunette wig on and an obnoxious pink, purple, and white jacket. She's standing at a podium and speaking into a microphone while wildly waving stacks of papers in both hands, while saying "All of this!"

🎯🎯🎯

Shadow of an adorable 30-lb pupper named Busy Bee, walking alongside her mom's shadow on a combination sandy and rocky beach.

Beach walks with Bee and me #PNW

RFK Jr sitting in a congressional hearing with not one, not two, but three cups with Dept of Health and Human Services logos on them. He actively has his hand on one while the other two are sitting dangerously close and even on top of the paperwork he's looking at. Odds that he spills?...

Why does the man have 3 disposable cups in front of him? Does he not know he can refill them? Or is it only healthy to drink once for fear of ones own backwash 🤔

I'm so utterly charmed by these 🥰

Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.

For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.” Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.” “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”

Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT. In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.) The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school. “I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.)

This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

A blonde puppy is directly facing the camera while laying on a bed and has an adorably "funny lip" as if she was mid-changing expression. In the background is a large TV playing the re-entry live stream of Artemis II, and the ship is glowing with the heat of re-entry.

Space Puppy so confident in the landing that she didn't even watch most of it

Today we are a brave girl #BusyBee #PNW

AND...????? You're missing a big other half of the equation.

You know what offramp is very overdue? 🤔

(You do. It's voting for impeachment. It's literally the least you can do.)

the world won’t end, i know that. you and i won’t die. even if the worst happened, we’re not going to die today and the worst won’t happen. but this is a kind of worst. even if he does nothing, there are lines that we don’t uncross. a certain kind of world order has already died today.

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

This is why we internet. Important investigations and truthiness!!

Fuck. Yeah.

a woman is crying and laughing with the words literally crying laughing above her Alt: The Countess Luann de Lesseps from the Real Housewives of New York City is sitting squarely facing the camera in one of those classic confessional/testimonial scenes, and she's laughing so hard that she's crying and dabbing her perfectly made up eyes with the corner of a Kleenex. The caption reads "literally crying laughing".

Spain: "The power of women in 2026 - spayed or neutered."

Strayed: "Hey I'm in menopause so, you know, I'm basically spayed."

Spain: "Oh my gosh and I didn't have kids so between the two of us, we're literally worthless!"

a woman is sitting at a table with her hands folded in front of her . Alt: Amy Poehler sits behind a nighttime talk show desk and makes the gesture of a chefs kiss with her right hand to her mouth.

Strayed: "On one hand, the categories of people we hate - women - and the categories is people we love - you know, vastly underqualified for the job."

Spain: "Perfect."

Spain: "Well cause our brains are so small, but if we put two of our brains together, it'd be like a man's." Extra points for delivering the line in the most innocent and deadpan way 🤣

<mike tyson-like typing detected>

Author Steven Vickers wrote on Threads, "To confirm, this '100% AI generated' passage is the opening of Chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I think authors are going to get screwed in these AI witch hunts."

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

a woman from schitts creek says me too girl in yellow Alt: Alexis Rose, played by the incredible Annie Murphy, has her back to the camera but looks over her shoulder while exiting the Café Tropical while saying "Me too, girl"

This is the way.

Real life McPoyles.

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid.

Parable about the US relationship to the world outside. For most Americans the threat didn’t rise above the level of a meme, displaced by the next outrage. Danes were preparing to fight and die.

Anyone without introspection is a literal psychopath. Case in point, this micropenis coneheaded motherfucker.

PS Catholics and Jews may not have invented guilt but we certainly perfected it over the millennia, not just since the 1910s/1920s 😆