Mireille
@ohthatmireille.bsky.social
Devaluing, diluting, and diminishing the Hugo Awards since 2019. Ruining your fandoms since the early 1980s.
I lost my dad just over a week ago. Grief is weighing hard on me. I wish I could talk to him again.
Crap like this LLM would make me want to bite something.
Crap like this LLM would make me want to bite something.
You know what, I have literally millions of words written over 40 years that could be compiled into an LLM representing "me" and still wouldn't come close to being me at all, your grandma's recorded history is confined to a bunch of extremely brief Facebook posts, how's that gonna go
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
December 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I lost my dad just over a week ago. Grief is weighing hard on me. I wish I could talk to him again.
Crap like this LLM would make me want to bite something.
Crap like this LLM would make me want to bite something.
I am generally a fan of everything T Kingfisher writes, but SNAKE EATER is absolutely incredible, and I happily lost a whole Saturday to it.
November 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I am generally a fan of everything T Kingfisher writes, but SNAKE EATER is absolutely incredible, and I happily lost a whole Saturday to it.
If Podcast Descriptions Were Accurate:
"The dumbest MF you have ever encountered and his massively pedantic (and also often confidently incorrect) friend badly explain a 50-year old sitcom."
"The dumbest MF you have ever encountered and his massively pedantic (and also often confidently incorrect) friend badly explain a 50-year old sitcom."
May 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
If Podcast Descriptions Were Accurate:
"The dumbest MF you have ever encountered and his massively pedantic (and also often confidently incorrect) friend badly explain a 50-year old sitcom."
"The dumbest MF you have ever encountered and his massively pedantic (and also often confidently incorrect) friend badly explain a 50-year old sitcom."
My absolute favorite thing about SIM will always be what Matt does with his fleeting moment of restored vision.
Saying this here b/c I was reminded of it and my wife is very tired of me telling her about it.
Saying this here b/c I was reminded of it and my wife is very tired of me telling her about it.
April 4, 2025 at 5:36 AM
My absolute favorite thing about SIM will always be what Matt does with his fleeting moment of restored vision.
Saying this here b/c I was reminded of it and my wife is very tired of me telling her about it.
Saying this here b/c I was reminded of it and my wife is very tired of me telling her about it.
I am so glad Avengers Academy is getting a physical release, because today's issue reminded me of how much I love it.
March 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I am so glad Avengers Academy is getting a physical release, because today's issue reminded me of how much I love it.
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Now THIS is news www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Sale of Ellen Raskin Estate Reveals Unpublished 'Westing Game' Sequel
International Literary Properties has acquired Raskin’s estate and, along with it, two previously unpublished manuscripts by the late author, including a sequel to her Newbery Award–winning mystery, '...
www.publishersweekly.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Now THIS is news www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
"But why," I hear you ask me, "if you invariably loathe the main couple in Marion Chesney's Regencies, do you keep reading them? Even the ones you read when they first came out?"
Because this one has a serial-killer grandma, and that's pretty typical. I don't like them as romances, but they're fun.
Because this one has a serial-killer grandma, and that's pretty typical. I don't like them as romances, but they're fun.
February 17, 2025 at 4:48 AM
"But why," I hear you ask me, "if you invariably loathe the main couple in Marion Chesney's Regencies, do you keep reading them? Even the ones you read when they first came out?"
Because this one has a serial-killer grandma, and that's pretty typical. I don't like them as romances, but they're fun.
Because this one has a serial-killer grandma, and that's pretty typical. I don't like them as romances, but they're fun.
I have to stop asking why people in the reading and writing hobby are opposed to reading &/or writing.
I have listened to enough ttrpg podcasts to know that people in the clicky rocks and maths hobby (for an audience!) can't or won't add two single-digit numbers.
I have listened to enough ttrpg podcasts to know that people in the clicky rocks and maths hobby (for an audience!) can't or won't add two single-digit numbers.
January 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I have to stop asking why people in the reading and writing hobby are opposed to reading &/or writing.
I have listened to enough ttrpg podcasts to know that people in the clicky rocks and maths hobby (for an audience!) can't or won't add two single-digit numbers.
I have listened to enough ttrpg podcasts to know that people in the clicky rocks and maths hobby (for an audience!) can't or won't add two single-digit numbers.
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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
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That's it, this is the winner
In 5 words or less, start a fight not about religion or politics:
The Ray Wars.
The Ray Wars.
In 5 or less words, start a fight not about religion or politics:
Raisins complement a potato salad.😏
Raisins complement a potato salad.😏
January 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
That's it, this is the winner
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With all the turmoil in the world right now we thought we would give you a bit of a bright spot. Agnes will now be taking submissions to her "Dear Aggie" column where she can give you all the life advice you ever needed from a beaver.
www.thepipsqueakery.org/dearaggie
www.thepipsqueakery.org/dearaggie
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Our rescue & sanctuary beaver at The Pipsqueakery in Bloomington, Indiana, is very willing to answer all of your silliest questions.
www.thepipsqueakery.org
January 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
With all the turmoil in the world right now we thought we would give you a bit of a bright spot. Agnes will now be taking submissions to her "Dear Aggie" column where she can give you all the life advice you ever needed from a beaver.
www.thepipsqueakery.org/dearaggie
www.thepipsqueakery.org/dearaggie
Can we add "death of the author" to the list of terms that need to be taken away from fandom due to repeated misuse?
I may just be cranky because of all the time I spent in college slogging through Barthes.
I may just be cranky because of all the time I spent in college slogging through Barthes.
January 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Can we add "death of the author" to the list of terms that need to be taken away from fandom due to repeated misuse?
I may just be cranky because of all the time I spent in college slogging through Barthes.
I may just be cranky because of all the time I spent in college slogging through Barthes.
Zero. Either I read it or I don't. And there's a lot I just don't read.
I feel like my Marked For Later list is out of control so will you make me feel normal and tell me how many pages yours is?
January 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Zero. Either I read it or I don't. And there's a lot I just don't read.
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Art is what helps us through every other fucking thing.
January 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Art is what helps us through every other fucking thing.
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I spent DECADES training myself not to be someone who fucking hates people.
A couple of years of seeing *everyone* who is not personally endangered by covid stop taking a few tiny precautions, which would allow thousands of us to continue living like human beings, undid it all.
A couple of years of seeing *everyone* who is not personally endangered by covid stop taking a few tiny precautions, which would allow thousands of us to continue living like human beings, undid it all.
the response just pisses me off cos so many people will just not acknowledge the part that covid played in his death because it’d mean they’d have to acknowledge their mistakes too. it’s never too late to start masking again. if you care about people then can you just fucking act like it. please.
January 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I spent DECADES training myself not to be someone who fucking hates people.
A couple of years of seeing *everyone* who is not personally endangered by covid stop taking a few tiny precautions, which would allow thousands of us to continue living like human beings, undid it all.
A couple of years of seeing *everyone* who is not personally endangered by covid stop taking a few tiny precautions, which would allow thousands of us to continue living like human beings, undid it all.
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LITERALLY. I don't wanna watch a video to learn how to cook something just write the fucking recipe so I can read it!!!!
Almost always, this video could've just been a post
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
LITERALLY. I don't wanna watch a video to learn how to cook something just write the fucking recipe so I can read it!!!!
The "everyone who crochets is OBVIOUSLY doing amigurumi in Bernat Blanket" trend cannot end fast enough for me.
January 15, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The "everyone who crochets is OBVIOUSLY doing amigurumi in Bernat Blanket" trend cannot end fast enough for me.
I have watched exactly one (1) inauguration in my life, and that was because we watched it at school. I am not changing that because some random dingus thinks I have to
I see some people are demanding we watch the inauguration and I'm all, motherfucker, I didn't watch his first one and spent four years actively avoiding the sound of his voice, what makes you think I'm going to do any different this time around
January 15, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I have watched exactly one (1) inauguration in my life, and that was because we watched it at school. I am not changing that because some random dingus thinks I have to
You know how we keep having to argue with asshats that writing about "bad" things doesn't make you a bad person?
Writing about "good" things doesn't make you a good person, either.
Writing about "good" things doesn't make you a good person, either.
So: there is sadly little to no correlation between one's real life acts and the acts described in one's fiction.
And no moral value in having known a person was problematic before others did.
It is ok not to have known.
And no moral value in having known a person was problematic before others did.
It is ok not to have known.
January 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
You know how we keep having to argue with asshats that writing about "bad" things doesn't make you a bad person?
Writing about "good" things doesn't make you a good person, either.
Writing about "good" things doesn't make you a good person, either.
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eyes roll so far back into my head that they pop out and roll under the couch
just a psa buckaroos you can still be informed citizens without wolfing down non stop tromp for the next four years. its okay to participate in resistance in your own way that is not 'approved' by the lincoln project
just a psa buckaroos you can still be informed citizens without wolfing down non stop tromp for the next four years. its okay to participate in resistance in your own way that is not 'approved' by the lincoln project
I am seeing so many posts on social media about boycotting the inauguration. Don't you dare. Don't you dare turn your eyes away from history, even the awful, scary parts. If you don't watch it with your own eyes, you rely on others to tell you what you saw. We must all bear witness to what's coming
January 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
eyes roll so far back into my head that they pop out and roll under the couch
just a psa buckaroos you can still be informed citizens without wolfing down non stop tromp for the next four years. its okay to participate in resistance in your own way that is not 'approved' by the lincoln project
just a psa buckaroos you can still be informed citizens without wolfing down non stop tromp for the next four years. its okay to participate in resistance in your own way that is not 'approved' by the lincoln project
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If you’re ever wondering why wildfire smoke is so bad for you it’s because it includes things like “an entire bicycle”
My Co-founder Josh Weinsch took this photo of his little daughter’s bike, which was in their driveway when they evacuated. Their neighborhood was vaporized.
January 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
If you’re ever wondering why wildfire smoke is so bad for you it’s because it includes things like “an entire bicycle”
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If I unsubsidized from your newsletter months ago and you decided to send me email trying to get me to resubscribe (again, months later, not immediately after) this is going to make me have distinctly negative feelings about you, instead of just "that newsletter was not for me."
January 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If I unsubsidized from your newsletter months ago and you decided to send me email trying to get me to resubscribe (again, months later, not immediately after) this is going to make me have distinctly negative feelings about you, instead of just "that newsletter was not for me."
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men soaking in toxic masculinity are all “why can’t we get women” and Tom Holland dances in drag and lands one of the hottest women on the planet, maybe there’s a lesson here
January 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
men soaking in toxic masculinity are all “why can’t we get women” and Tom Holland dances in drag and lands one of the hottest women on the planet, maybe there’s a lesson here
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inside everyone, there are two princes. one has diamonds in his pocket and one wants to buy you rockets.
January 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
inside everyone, there are two princes. one has diamonds in his pocket and one wants to buy you rockets.