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you could never write No Scrubs today because there just aren't the same evocative qualities to the dating app equivalent of hanging out the passenger side of his best friend's ride, trying to holla at me

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

blue moon... you saw me standing here alone... without a beef in my heart... without a feud of my own 🎶

seen locally

no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s

happy pride to these two women, specifically

They really snuck that second headline in there.

“Judeo-Christian values” is out. We’re now saying “Judeo-Muslim values” and the values is joking about how the trinity is basically polytheism.

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

imagine if everything else about fantasy tropes was the same but replace orcs with orcas

if it's free from basil pesto what's in the jar?

"The door a writer could step through to make a career 50 or even 20 years ago, the one opening onto a life where someone who works hard and does well could buy a house on the strength of that work alone, has been slammed shut."

the banh mi place that closed for renovations last year is back! and causing me some logistical difficulties... do you think this qualifies as a sandwich? assuming you are not a pelican?

You don't often see a street named after a typical discussion on a Doctor Who forum

helping clear out my grandparents' flat as they've moved into a nursing home. just wondering why they've been keeping mustard in the bathroom cupboard...

how... how large is it

Why no call for the Israeli ruling parties and IDF to be replaced and have no role in Israel?

I'm so over Adobe at this point. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

It what may be one of the most Somerset things to have ever happened, the inhabitants of Royden in the 1630s were investigated by the Archbishop of Canterbury for using their chapel font as a cheese press.

just discussing the vibe shift if Arthur Dent was totally naked under that bathrobe

"oh, were you procrastinating on tidying this? let me help"

I feel like. bears is also a verb. all we are missing is Perth being a verb for a classic buffalo buffalo headline

Don't buy Oblivion Don't buy Doom: The Dark Ages Cancel your gamepass subscription Do not give Microsoft another red cent that they don't pry from your dead fists

@themountaingoats.bsky.social nude jeans for the rat queen? 🤔

Hey all, here's a post at @ssrc.org about how anti-trans talking points are getting wrapped into Google's AI search results. AI search not only cites anti-trans disinfo, but sanitizes it, making practices like conversion therapy sound legitimate and safe.

@floralashes.bsky.social academic question! do you know if anyone has done a big review of studies that include sex/gender statistics to sort them by what that actually means?

Hiiiii cis reviewers! I’m fine to avoid spoilers for Murderbot all by myself but your responsibility is TO GET ITS PRONOUNS RIGHT IN YOUR REVIEWS. Alexander Skarsgård = he/him Murderbot = it/its Okay? Okay. Good talk.

If anyone has ever told you that a fancy text trick you used on socisl media is inaccessible to screenreader users and you didn't understand why, this is a great video that demonstrates the problem super clearly!

For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

Hey, so this thread moved me and guess what I tracked down a print copy of? Whitin Badger’s poetry chapbook Unicorn. Clearly in the classic self-published poet tradition, with occasional hand-lettered corrections. About half of this is love sonnets, my favorite poetic form.

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

CBS on the cardinals: "One thing we know they're not doing is checking Instagram because their devices have all been confiscated. I believe the kids call it rawdogging."