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"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

submitted 19 hours ago • 23 comments

Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to… A: find your mom’s Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I’m your daughter. Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

submitted 5 days ago • 230 comments

Publishers don’t pay for nonfiction books to be fact-checked, the author does out of their advance.

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

Shocking to outsiders? Authors' work finances dozens of full time jobs, from publishers to agents to book printers to booksellers, yet very few authors make enough from their own books to write full time and either have other jobs or spouses who earn more. I find this extremely fucked up.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Leave it to Jeeves

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I just discovered this meme and I love it. Happy #PrideMonth to all my #LGBTQIA + friends!

submitted 6 days ago • 246 comments

I may not understand the rules of baseball as well as I had thought

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Extreme levels of helping underway.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

i'd rather ask ursula from the little mermaid for a favour and life advice than ask chatgpt anything

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

"I had not touched a cat in 15 yrs when an orange kitten wandered over to sit w/me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child."

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He's been let out of reading jail

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

The secret to my native gardening success

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Out and about in Oslo! I saw this sign on a yarn store, but missed the first bit at first, so it looked kind of like a threat to knit the giver.

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

4 years ago today these two absolutely perfect girls arrived. They are the most beautiful cats in the world and i will not be taking questions or rebuttals at this time #proofofcat

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Wait, what is that leopard doing?!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, “disaster” is the correct word – this is a public health catastrophe. The pressure for him to resign should begin tonight, and continue until it happens. Nothing else should be in front of this. Go to a 19th century cemetery anywhere in this country to know why.

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

We won't. The troll dynamic is essentially unchanged since the days of USENET, because the goal is the same: disrupt civil discourse and waste other people's time. There's nothing I've seen from troll recently that I didn't see 30 years ago in a newsgroup.

submitted 19 days ago • 62 comments

Good news: Japanese researchers may have found an explanation for long Covid and a possible treatment for it.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Not now Sauron.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Stumbled upon this in my photos and it seems so incredibly fitting for these times we find ourselves in.

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

Every so often this banger surfaces and I every. single. time. I read it all the way to the end. Incredible storytelling.

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

In 500 years, if anyone is writing history, the dismantling of these US institutions will be one of the indicators of the fall of civilisation www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

submitted 21 days ago • 20 comments

I see it's time to talk about heat waves and caffeine again. All right fine, let's do this. The fundamental problem with coffee in a heat wave is not dehydration! www.newsweek.com/thousands-to...

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No notes.

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I would like to be able to temporarily deactivate all my social media accounts and leave behind a badly painted wooden sign reading GON FISHIG, please, except it’s GON SCREAMIG

submitted 147 days ago • 4 comments

so hey, not to be That Guy, but remember how SFF fans called for a boycott of Chengdu Worldcon on the basis of the CCP’s actions in Xinjiang and China potentially not being safe for certain authors? are we going to have a similar discussion about Seattle Worldcon given the circumstances, or -?

submitted 147 days ago • 52 comments

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "No shit," said Gandalf, "It isn't as if most people wish for this kinda of fuckshit to rain down on them. It sucks. It totally sucks. Why do you think I have so much 'pipeweed' on me at all times? C'mon now."

submitted 146 days ago • 5 comments

I do NOT understand how this can possibly be comfortable!

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

sorry i didn’t come to your ai webinar, but i asked chatgpt to summarise the invite and it said you were a pack of chancers talking absolute shit

submitted 158 days ago • 1 comment

UK FOLKS! I know of two full-time salaried roles in tabletop that will soon be open for: - Editor - Games Developer Ideally based in/willing to move to Nottingham, UK. And I've been asked for recommendations! I'll be prioritising marginalised folks, so please: DM me for details, comment and tag!

submitted 157 days ago • 40 comments

About to take an unfed Tortie on public transport. Which technically counts as carrying an offensive weapon under UK law. It's what our armed police units use.