Literacy crisis doesn't just mean people using grammar wrong. It mens not understanding context and subtext and a myriad of other important things.

I got real bad news this week and in response I wanna be real impulsive and tell some people about themselves but instead I'mma have a snack and chill.

I HAVE BEEN SUBSIDIZING WALMART AND AMAZON STARVING THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

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There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

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This is your annual reminder that if you inadvertently write on a whiteboard with a Sharpie, you can trace over that with a whiteboard pen and then the whole thing will come off.

When people say this, what they're really saying is, "I think there's a secret that would make this all easy without me having to do any work and no one will tell me what it is." The secret is the work.

Antony Johnston@antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 2d ago

Seeing complaints online that authors 'gatekeep' information…! Absolute nonsense. There is no industry or craft in the world which is so comprehensively written about, studied, and discussed as fiction writing, and every author I know welcomes new writers who are serious about giving it a go.

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

Subscription services are MLMs for tech bros.

There's a comedian that I think is going to basically end up being Bill Maher in 5-10 years.

It’s his fucking diary. If you don’t sound cringe in your own diary there’s something wrong with you.

Flingjore@flingjore.com · 4d ago

Senator Rand Paul publicizes the pandemic-era diary of Anthony Fauci, exposing the doctor's private thoughts during the global crisis. The government logs reveal a stark contrast between internal policy debates and his deep fascination with sudden fame.

Ink sketch of a waffle yaga. Seagull feet bc dumpstercore. Sketch w inks

I got to the Hidden Inventory arc of Hood JJK and now I got "Yeah, Go" stuck in my head.

When I go to the movies I also wanna see the previews.

You cannot analyze why people "oppose AI" if you can't even frame it in the context of how much the systems and social structure opposes PEOPLE. We have public records of leaders engaged in child trafficking and none of them go to jail. You are surprised violence is happening? Instead of what?

I've been saying Alexander Skarsgard has been tired of being hot FOR YEARS. If he's gonna do romance he's either doing something slightly unconventional (Pillion) or just fucking weird like this. He just wants to be a weird little guy but everyone keeps casting Bill for that!

𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧@quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 6d ago

This is my kind of carrying on 😅

Honestly all the shit happening with AI makes me furious that I gave up of some of the sci-fi stories I'd been writing back in the mid 2010s. Write your shit even if it seems weird or irrelevant.

Read this. I'm not even a tech person and I've been warning about this exact thing for years. Technology is going to take on the biases of the people making them and guess which groups of people those biases regularly are against...

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾@blackamazon.bsky.social · 6d ago

I don’t recommend Substacks if I don’t have to So I need you to understand how important I think this is when I say read this twice romance101.substack.com/p/rom-101-ne...

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

I'm posting this not as a complaint, but a lament. Seeing our creations escape control in a universe where authorship is often treated as a detail, frequently ignored www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vpN...

Neuromancer Steps FullHD

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Hello everyone! Many of you likely saw this image recently with the Apple TV+ 'Neuromancer' promotion. Some know, others don't, but this artwork is mine, created alongside actor & post-production artist Milton Menezes, as a personal project and a homage to the original Neuromancer romance

I've always thought of laying off workers while bragging about profits was a way to gaslight consumers and employees but honestly these companies don't think about employees and consumers as more than numbers. They're bragging to one another about these things and don't care that we can see.

This might be more in line with what you watched www.vulture.com/article/circ...

The Odyssey’s Circe Is the Best Female Character Nolan Has Ever Written

Nolan’s never been great at writing women, but what doesn’t exist on the page Samantha Morton conjures through a tricksy, powerhouse performance.

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I agree, but I don't think it would be hard for audiences to empathize, I think Nolan specifically thinks it would be, especially for the kind of movie he likes to write.

kobayashi ḫamṭu@mattboot.bsky.social · last wk.

i agree with this, but i think Nolan's problem would be that it's hard to make audiences empathize with a trickster when things get bad, even if they root for him when things are good. a tricksier Odysseus would make much of the pathos (which was central to Nolan's interpretation) very difficult

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House of the Dragon S3x6 Recap Livestream!

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소셜미디아로 포스트를하면 V-(느)ㄴ다, A-다, N(이)다라고 써야 돼요?

THANK YOU! The Western and the Noir, two more explicitly American streams of folklore, are also full of brooding tricksters like Odysseus. And don't get me started on how the fast talking jokey American superhero making money off his own antics just happens to be SPIDERman.

잠간만... 한국어로 칠락싱라고 말하네요!? 언제 시작했어요!?

Americans have so much cultural background with trickster heroes, we based a whole art form off of it (cartoons, Bugs Bunny to be specific but I believe Oswald the Rabbit might also fit?), also Black American culture been had Brer Rabbit.

Widow's Bay DSA@gonebabygone.bsky.social · last wk.

I saw someone suggest Nolan made Odysseus more brooding because Americans don't have any cultural background with the trickster hero and that might be the "Charlie Brown had hoes" of cultural anthropology

I know everyone’s afraid to hire Black women bc it might make a white man upset but I need some work. I have 5-figure medical debt, a cat that needs a vet appt 😿, a medically complex household, the usual bills that come with adulthood, and I’d love to get good skincare again 😩 HIRE ME.