Eagerly getting into the submersible industry, that’s the point there right?

I’m being informed that in light of recent events this is no longer true

the fact that big studios are unironically reenacting the plot of The Producers and setting up their own films to flop so they don't have to pay anybody profits is something I don't think Mel Brooks ever knew he would be psychically foreshadowing 50 years in the future

idk what they put into it but Yumyulack is such a good fucking name

AGREED IT SOUNDS SO NICE

my mom loves to lie and like she always swears she was NEVER homophobic or anything to me as a child “i even have a gay work friend” but a really funny memory resurfaced recently where i asked if i could use birthday money i had to buy a rainbow flag when i was like ??? 7?? because i LOVED rainbows. and she said no that means something Evil and god will hate you . so what did i do. but ask my grandmom for a rainbow sweater for christmas and proceed to only wear that sweater for three years when it got cold because i didnt like the idea that god hated colors and i wanted to challenge him

you can improve literally any word by adding “girl” in front of it btw. girlscared. girlnormal. girlweird. girlsilly. etc. girl can be such a beautiful focal point of anyone’s vocabulary

the trick is though you can ALSO improve literally any word by adding girl behind it. scaredgirl. normalgirl. weirdgirl. sillygirl. girl can be such a beautiful focal point of ANYONES vocabulary

hey um chuckles nervously. what the fuck are they doing over on tiktok

Circle of protection against capitalism

10/10 addition

told my manager today that i wish i had a shirt that said “i love vaccines, autism, and abortions” to wear to work (we have a big conservative clientele) and immediately she said “i can make one for you. does your partner want one? i want one too. we can get staff shirts.”

i’ve never felt happier in a workplace

guys….. it’s here

whats that defunct land quote again? every part of the film making process is awful, but not making film is even worse? idk something like that. anywah im being completely normal about art rn ::))

found it

some dipshit uploaded my book to an AI site, so suffice to say, I will fucking kill them

emailed my agent cuz our contract states she has to protect me from shit like this, so we'll see what she says

but I will still kill these ppl

LMFAO THE SITE IS BEING TAKEN DOWN

hey so, just so there's no ambiguity about what just happened-- this was about Prosecraft, a website that would help you compare your writing to your favorite author by analyzing the "vividness" of the words used, passive voice vs active voice and the number of adverbs used in a given section.

unfortunately, the service is dogshit for various reasons but that's not the issue here.

the issue is that the website had trained an AI on 25,000 books, one of which included mine. and i definitely did not give anyone permission to use my work to train an AI. it's literally stated in my contract.

and if i didn't give permission--i can imagine quite a number of authors didn't give permission either. (oops, i don't have to imagine--because hundreds of authors came forward and said they didn't give permission either!)

so i emailed my agent about this. my agent directed me to my publisher which has a legal department that looks into piracy on this scale. all of those authors did the same, emailing their legal team, getting The Authors Guild involved.

EVERY AUTHOR pretty much roasting this guy named Benji Smith on Twitter for claiming to "support authors" yet clearly using pirated work to train an AI.

of course, he decided to take the website down. authors are now talking about getting AI protection clauses in their contracts going forward. i already have one with my agent, but I imagine I will have to get it instated into every publishing contract moving forward.

source: it happened to me lol (but if you don't believe me, here's a link)

Disabled people deserve government assistance and benefits. Even if they have incomes. Even if their spouses have incomes. Even if both they and their spouses have incomes.

Because being disabled is fucking expensive, even with affordable healthcare, even under the best circumstances and in the most accessible situations.

[ID: A hand pointing to an edited poster from the Simpsons with text in all caps that says, "Don't forget: Theythemming trans women and men and non-binary people who dont use they is still misgendering" /End ID.]

And like, intersex people. Pls start including us in this kind of stuff.

Completely inactionable fetishes are so funny to me. "I wanna be a robot girl and I want you to install a virus on me." Like okay good luck with that.

“Abolish Golf”

Sticker spotted in Chicago, Illinois.

A typical golf course uses 200 million gallons of water a year. There are over 16,300 golf courses in the United States.

That's nuts.

Ngl I hate golf and I'm all for this. They put a golf course in our public park at the expense of hundreds of centuries-old live oak trees. Half of the walk around the park you're just looking at an empty golf course. Like 2 people want to play golf. So annoying.

Golf was a game developed in Scotland, where it rains up to 250 days of the year, and where the courses use very hard-wearing grass. The sand in the bunkers is because it used to be played on the coast - these traditional courses are called "Links" courses. The top Links course in Scotland, Royal Dornoch, uses no mains water at all. They have their own rainwater collection system.

It wasn't originally intended to be played in the middle of a desert on lush green turf that takes thousands of gallons of water a day to maintain. Unless you can keep the course alive using only rainwater collection, it shouldn't exist.

flashback to when MLK Jr said the worst group in the US for black rights wasn't the lawmakers passing Jim Crow laws or the KKK but the white moderate. That it was the white moderate who was forcing the country to find a middle ground between civil rights and genocide which allowed the continued systematic mistreatment of the African American community

MATRIX THEMED DRAG PERSONA CALLED NEO PRONOUNS

list of things that i think medieval peasants would love

Nyquil

~gas stoves~

and also probably freezers

i know they took these bird banding photos of house sparrows like this in order to show the difference between male and female but it just looks like someone’s using them as dolls for a bird marriage

typecast as the spawn of Satan due to my affinity for grains

https://inhabit.global/read

image description: orange text in a calligraphic sans serif font that reads “We need fighters, makers, thinkers -- creativity, and ingenuity. We need builders, healers, farmers, designers, and engineers. We Need You.” end image description.

the “how is it to be done” link above is a bit of an eyesore, and potentially a trigger with the flickering background, so here is a link to a pdf of the same text.

https://azinelibrary.org/approved/Tiqqun_-How_is_it_to_be_done-_English_imposed_version.pdf

it’s in imposed format, ideal for printing, but if you read it just keep in mind you have to alternate which side your read until you get to the bottom, then go to the other side and alternate again going up. the pages are numbered if you get lost.

"ao3 is the modern day library of alexandria" no that title goes to the internet archive. ao3 is the omegaverse website. easy misconception.