Fonch

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Not all who wander are lost, but I definitely am. DC➡️ABQ she/her I post about the library and my dog Higgins a lot. “Fonch” is my version of the grink.

GODDAMMIT. The iPhone told me it had an update ready to install for iOS 18. But when I clicked, yes, it actually installed iOS 26! Can I roll it back? Can I uninstall it? What would happen if I installed my most recent backup from my computer?

I’m reading a novel where this woman marinates her pot roast before cooking it. I’ve never marinated a pot roast in my life. Is everybody out there marinating pot roast, and nobody told me about it?

media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

This comes back to my thing that we are the most easily connected to millions of people than we have ever been and people still choose to talk to the computer that is programmed to agree with them. They don't actually want connection they just want to be told that they're smart and correct.

Seeing a lot of discourse about the movie where people only get to have sex one night out of the year and what you have to understand is that for some of us that’s pretty good

I was a little surprised by how much this bothered me, tbh. Not because I thought it was intentional or even human carelessness- it's a reminder that these algorithms work against difference, they work against outliers, they work against marginalia (literal & figurative). And that's what I write for

Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · 6h ago

my pinned tweet for years was "I write for the people whose names get underlined in red by microsoft word" and...this is why. (no shade to the lovely people at the MIT Press reader, who changed it immediately as soon as I pointed it out)

a screenshot from my essay. You can see the byline: "By: Malka Older" and some truncated text as well as the corner of an image of the cover of the book and the image caption: "Martha Older’s essay appeared in an annotated version of Jules Verne’s “From Earth to the Moon.” "Martha" is underlined three times in orange by me

On trial because I had sex outside the one night a year single people are allowed to have sex. I plead with the judge that handstuff shouldn't count. I'm sentenced to five years hard labor. When I'm released, my mind and body aren't the same. I couldn't do handstuff if I wanted to