Erin H.

When your friend transitions but they keep their name

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Professional hockey players, part-time content creators 🤳

Sadly, a friend of a friend recently got a cancer diagnosis, is in need of a marrow transplant, and isn't currently a match with anyone in the registry. I've been registered as a donor for years myself, but the least I can do is pass on the word to help him or others if you're eligible: www.nmdp.org

Come get yourself a digital copy of The Map and the Territory for $2 off! That's all the post-apocalyptic magical road trip shenanigans your body has room for, at a 28% discount!

Most cats just THINK the sun shines out their ass.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

One of the realest ever to do it, for like eighteen different definitions of "it".

[update] Investigating: #AO3 is aware of issues related to email notifications, searching, challenge matching, history, works and bookmarks showing in listings, and other background functions. We are working to resolve the issue and will keep you updated!

THE DANCE OF ICK AND NOPE

Turned in my ballot. A+ way to spend a birthday.

Technically, a dictionary is a book of spells.

Just a reminder that Scribble font exists to make your writing unreadable. Why would you want to do this, you ask? 🤔 - To write continuously without editing yourself (popular) - You’re writing a certain genre of story around *polite* company 👀 (very popular) Let's just say our users love it 🙈

#AO3 is excited to announce that we're beginning to roll out translated email notifications, allowing you to receive emails from us in languages other than English! At the start, this will only be for Simplified Chinese, but we can't wait to add others! Read more at ao3-news.org/4w4r6mkz

Now, I know it refers to pets. Still, this definitely has multiple possible interpretations.

if you remember none pizza with left beef, it's time to start taking a daily multivitamin

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

There are so, so many verified diaries of white Union soldiers at the beginning of the war saying "I don't know about this, I condemn the deplorable violence" and then they get down there and see slavery with their own eyes and immediately go "John Brown was right we gotta kill these motherfuckers"

Sentences most likely to wake you up REALLY quickly: "Didn't you have work?"

It's so good!

A crowd of French children didn't perform in unison as chain-smoking, hungover Serges Gainsbourg so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

here take a hit and pass it

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This commercial for French's Mustard from 1987 is equal parts charming and also kinda unsettling, but what strikes me is the work that went into the absolutely delightful puppetry and practical effects for a *mustard commercial*!! Imagine that today??

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

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More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN

RIP, Coach. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Okay, I dig it!

thinking about this post again

ALERTE: PUMPKIN WOLFE

I read the news today, oh boy

Catholics don't believe that dogs have immortal souls, but Anthropic expected the Pope to believe that a concatenation of Reddit posts is going to heaven?

There are NOT machine-made clothes. If there were, your clothes would be made in the country you live in (where the customers are), or in China (where machines are cheap). They’re made in Bangladesh or India or Indonesia because that’s where the LABOUR is cheap. Your clothes are made by people.

Oh, wow, it's October. I should probably go to bed.

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I never signed a release

PCA's 10.6 fWAR is 2nd in Cubs history behind Rogers Hornsby's 11.0 fWAR in '29. Only 8 MLB CFs with better fWAR: Willie Mays (10.7 in 1965), Ty Cobb (11.0 in 1911 & 11.5 in 1917), Stan Musial (11.0 in 1948), Aaron Judge (11.1 in 2022 & 11.2 in 2024) and Mickey Mantle (11.4 in 1957 & 11.5 in 1956).

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.