leila
@bkshelvesofdoom.bsky.social
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I think the people at GMail are not anticipating how much inconvenience and agitation I am willing to suffer through just to make their desire to mine my data a tiny bit harder to accomplish.
When I turned that off, the tabs "Updates, Promotions, Social, InBox" were deleted by default. The tabs that existed BEFORE Gemini. #rage
a cartoon drawing of a cat 's eyes with fire in them
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a cat 's eyes with fire in them
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I think the people at GMail are not anticipating how much inconvenience and agitation I am willing to suffer through just to make their desire to mine my data a tiny bit harder to accomplish.
i hate AI so much that my phone usage is down to under 30 minutes a day, sooooo thanks for your annoying-ass choices, Big Tech
To me, the biggest tell that AI is massively overvalued is that Big Tech has to keep shoving it in our faces. I just noticed Chrome has a 'Gemini' button at the top of the browser, and I'm getting prompts all over the place, including Zoom, to 'try AI.'
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
i hate AI so much that my phone usage is down to under 30 minutes a day, sooooo thanks for your annoying-ass choices, Big Tech
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King: you'll love this story
King: joe's a chip off the ol' block
Joe Hill: dad please stop
Hill: i need to find my own voice
Hill: i don't want everyone thinking i'm a nepo baby
King: i'm sorry joe
King: i'm just so proud of you
King: DO YOU HEAR ME, PEOPLE? I LOVE MY BOY JOE!
Hill: dad stahp
King: joe's a chip off the ol' block
Joe Hill: dad please stop
Hill: i need to find my own voice
Hill: i don't want everyone thinking i'm a nepo baby
King: i'm sorry joe
King: i'm just so proud of you
King: DO YOU HEAR ME, PEOPLE? I LOVE MY BOY JOE!
Hill: dad stahp
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
King: you'll love this story
King: joe's a chip off the ol' block
Joe Hill: dad please stop
Hill: i need to find my own voice
Hill: i don't want everyone thinking i'm a nepo baby
King: i'm sorry joe
King: i'm just so proud of you
King: DO YOU HEAR ME, PEOPLE? I LOVE MY BOY JOE!
Hill: dad stahp
King: joe's a chip off the ol' block
Joe Hill: dad please stop
Hill: i need to find my own voice
Hill: i don't want everyone thinking i'm a nepo baby
King: i'm sorry joe
King: i'm just so proud of you
King: DO YOU HEAR ME, PEOPLE? I LOVE MY BOY JOE!
Hill: dad stahp
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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And so it was that throughout the lands, as news readers named Watson and Crick as the discoverers of the DNA helix, a rousing chorus of “Rosalind Franklin” was directed towards the news.
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
And so it was that throughout the lands, as news readers named Watson and Crick as the discoverers of the DNA helix, a rousing chorus of “Rosalind Franklin” was directed towards the news.
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
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The f*&%ing library.
2. What is something “low effort, high reward” you wish more people knew about?
August 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The f*&%ing library.
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Me explaining the MERL deep lore to my partner so that he will understand how this is Very Funny, Actually™
July 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Me explaining the MERL deep lore to my partner so that he will understand how this is Very Funny, Actually™
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“You think your pain & your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.” Baldwin
May 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“You think your pain & your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.” Baldwin
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“You truly cannot separate the personal experience of having this disease from the social experience of it.” @gavingrant.bsky.social and @anneursu.bsky.social on chronic illness, writing, and family.
Two Households, Both Alike in Indignity: An Interview with Anne Ursu
(I wrote this lying down. I sat at my old desk to write and it was a mistake so I had to lie down. Every time I rewrote this or sent Anne questions I was lying down. I dictated some of my questions…
buff.ly
May 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“You truly cannot separate the personal experience of having this disease from the social experience of it.” @gavingrant.bsky.social and @anneursu.bsky.social on chronic illness, writing, and family.
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Merlin doesn’t seem to have a setting for “Creature that screams at you from the darkest shadows at four AM” and this needs fixing asap.
May 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Merlin doesn’t seem to have a setting for “Creature that screams at you from the darkest shadows at four AM” and this needs fixing asap.
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I don’t think it’s a coincidence the conversation around young men is so similar to racism. Someone says “we need to end racism” and so often the response from a white person is “did you just call me racist????”
People with more power are so scared about losing what they know they don’t deserve.
People with more power are so scared about losing what they know they don’t deserve.
May 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I don’t think it’s a coincidence the conversation around young men is so similar to racism. Someone says “we need to end racism” and so often the response from a white person is “did you just call me racist????”
People with more power are so scared about losing what they know they don’t deserve.
People with more power are so scared about losing what they know they don’t deserve.
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A lesson to be learned here
May 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
A lesson to be learned here
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Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
April 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
sound is a must
A modern re-make of a Roman tile makers experiences, in Gaul circa 120 AD.
April 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
sound is a must
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rewatching “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” as homework for a podcast appearance tomorrow in which I will get to explain why it is actually amazing and underrated and romantic and profound despite all the hate it gets, and I’ve simply never seen a man as beautiful as Jim Kirk swooning over his ship
April 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
rewatching “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” as homework for a podcast appearance tomorrow in which I will get to explain why it is actually amazing and underrated and romantic and profound despite all the hate it gets, and I’ve simply never seen a man as beautiful as Jim Kirk swooning over his ship
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there will be plenty of things out there that are not to your taste, but this culture of saying yuck to sincerity to get little more than an empty laugh - it will destroy your heart.
April 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
there will be plenty of things out there that are not to your taste, but this culture of saying yuck to sincerity to get little more than an empty laugh - it will destroy your heart.
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Peek-a-boo!
April 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Peek-a-boo!
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Happy Bat Appreciation Day! The German word for a bat, Fledermaus, means “flutter mouse.” The Basque word, saguzar, means “old mouse.” And the Estonian word, nahkhiir, means “leather mouse.” But to me (and to anyone who’s seen the picture below) the correct term for bats will always be “sky puppies”
April 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Happy Bat Appreciation Day! The German word for a bat, Fledermaus, means “flutter mouse.” The Basque word, saguzar, means “old mouse.” And the Estonian word, nahkhiir, means “leather mouse.” But to me (and to anyone who’s seen the picture below) the correct term for bats will always be “sky puppies”
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King: hey clive i read online that you were pro trans rights
Clive Barker: what an odd thing to say
Barker: why ever would you feel the need to remark on that
Barker: when it's the obvious opinion held by all right-thinking people
Barker: but yes
Clive Barker: what an odd thing to say
Barker: why ever would you feel the need to remark on that
Barker: when it's the obvious opinion held by all right-thinking people
Barker: but yes
April 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
King: hey clive i read online that you were pro trans rights
Clive Barker: what an odd thing to say
Barker: why ever would you feel the need to remark on that
Barker: when it's the obvious opinion held by all right-thinking people
Barker: but yes
Clive Barker: what an odd thing to say
Barker: why ever would you feel the need to remark on that
Barker: when it's the obvious opinion held by all right-thinking people
Barker: but yes
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As Detroit's own Grace Lee Boggs taught us, “You don’t choose the times you live in. But you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think.”
Hard to feel celebratory, here in the Turbulent Era, but I'm proud of the way I've chosen to live regardless ✌🏾
Hard to feel celebratory, here in the Turbulent Era, but I'm proud of the way I've chosen to live regardless ✌🏾
April 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
As Detroit's own Grace Lee Boggs taught us, “You don’t choose the times you live in. But you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think.”
Hard to feel celebratory, here in the Turbulent Era, but I'm proud of the way I've chosen to live regardless ✌🏾
Hard to feel celebratory, here in the Turbulent Era, but I'm proud of the way I've chosen to live regardless ✌🏾
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I worked with Clive. Loved it. Loved him. I would do it again. He knows what the fuck is up.
April 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I worked with Clive. Loved it. Loved him. I would do it again. He knows what the fuck is up.