A distant link to the (hopefully few) writers who think you can’t use ‘said’ much.
She uttered/spat/sighed/exhorted etc etc etc

I could see it for like a normal person though. “It’s my birthday and here I am looking smoking hot, enjoy/lavish me with compliments” <— maybe I should try this next year

This morning's atrocities: Firefox(?) sneaking in a 'Ask AI Chatbot' option on the right-sodding-click menu. And Adobe Reader automatically generating a document summary (which means cloud processing!) despite my having turned GenAI features off multiple times.

You can measure in seconds how quickly I did this in about:config when I saw that in Firefox.

If you've just updated, you might want to go into settings->search and remove Perplexity, which has just been added and enabled by default.

Brosnan was my first!

Existential risk to craft is not just about losing jobs, but about pressures to be "more productive or else" from people who don't understand or value quality in your craft.

It is AN EXPERIENCE

AGREE
(though I do enjoy most of them with increasing caveats as we go back in time, we don't even speak of the unwatchable 'You only live twice')

I did actually like Brosnan in Goldeneye, but I'd love to see the other timeline where it was Dalton.

_stares in bewilderment and envy and respect_

I think the last time I had that long off was school summer holidays.

:-) I suspect it’s more for other sports… but yes

Hahahah I have thoughts.