Ink & Bear
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powerful yearning for a hat, scarf, long coat, hot apple cider, and a long walk through the autumnal woods
I always thought lippy-smacky noises were an exaggerated thing when miming eating and not a thing anyone does for real, but today someone in the lunchroom has disabused me of that notion
Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.
Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe Wachowski sisters didn't use 120 cameras to film one shot just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
I have been craving beef lo mein for 2 months and finally had an opportunity to get some that outweighed my reluctance to leave the house
Libraries pay millions to rent ebooks they never own. So maybe it's no surprise Penguin Random House is sponsoring arguments against stronger library ebook rights. www.libraryjournal.com/story/news/m...
Moving Beyond the Publisher Playbook: Why State-Level Contract Law is Essential to the Future of Digital Library Rights
The era of mere “firefighting” and polite, incremental negotiation is over. The library sector is asking for relief from ebook pricing schemes that consume tremendous amounts of public dollars while p...
libraryjournal.com
making a bastard cherry crumble hobbled together from like 3 recipes and a few extra things at midnight-forty-five because I had cherries that needed using poor impulse control and absolutely cannot follow cooking instructions to the letter let's fuk it uppppp
grilled some bread and put guacamole and an egg on top for lunch damn now I'll never own a house
the psychic damage inflicted whenever a fully grown adult-ass YouTuber I like mentions their birth year and I realize I'm old enough to be their parent
This is a *fantastic* video that explains exactly WTF is going on with Taylor Farms and how tracing works TLDR: - they are responsible - the false positive was only on one of several samples - it’s difficult to test parasites - there may still be other sources - Taylor Farms is being shady AF
went to bed before midnight two nights in a row and apparently my body naturally wakes up after 5½ hours of sleep I am cursed to never be well rested
why can't miis have crushes on two people at once, instead Rupert over here switches back and forth between Jackie and Merina each time he gets rejected where is the INNER TURMOIL
For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚
Trung Le Nguyen@trungles.com · 5mo agoSo I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.
if you're falling asleep and find yourself thinking "I'll go to bed when arbitrary amount of time passes" do not listen, that is the devil speaking, you will become wide awake before then and will not be sleepy ever again
always strange to witness anyone coming to an artist's personal art to complain "your experiences aren't universal" or "the world doesn't revolve around you." we're aware of that. my art does revolve around me, though. it is from my perspective and i made it for me. you should make some art for you.
there are chanterelles up earlier than usual out here and I can't go get them cause we're under heat advisory for the next 3-4 days I want my fancy delicious mushrooms but I also do not want to get heat stroke in 80% humidity with a big helping of feels-like-109°F if the woods with no breeze
helped a parent with tech support setting up an iPhone to work with an old printer and holy shit do I hate using iOS
I should invite people over more often so the knee-jerk stress cleaning reaction keeps my house livable