O.S.G.W.
@oliviasview.bsky.social
"... her graceful portrait, all smiles and cashmere" - Edith Wharton
Personal account. Here for the literature, coffee, and social satire.
Personal account. Here for the literature, coffee, and social satire.
One thousand reasons I hate AI but one of them is that it is normalizing people thinking they can just take other people’s words without consequences, whenever they feel like it.
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
One thousand reasons I hate AI but one of them is that it is normalizing people thinking they can just take other people’s words without consequences, whenever they feel like it.
Sitting amidst a bunch of paper pumpkins cut out of old New Yorkers
(we’re crafting) while my 4yo daughter is crying that she wants to “go out! to the restaurant!” and Florence + the Machine is playing in the background, and idk I appreciate these moments that parody the hell out of my parenting.
(we’re crafting) while my 4yo daughter is crying that she wants to “go out! to the restaurant!” and Florence + the Machine is playing in the background, and idk I appreciate these moments that parody the hell out of my parenting.
September 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Sitting amidst a bunch of paper pumpkins cut out of old New Yorkers
(we’re crafting) while my 4yo daughter is crying that she wants to “go out! to the restaurant!” and Florence + the Machine is playing in the background, and idk I appreciate these moments that parody the hell out of my parenting.
(we’re crafting) while my 4yo daughter is crying that she wants to “go out! to the restaurant!” and Florence + the Machine is playing in the background, and idk I appreciate these moments that parody the hell out of my parenting.
I love my hometown 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.
September 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I love my hometown 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
September 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
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A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
July 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
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Em dashes, of course, were named in honor of Emily Dickinson, because she used so many of them.
Kerning, by the way, is named after Jerome Kern, who took a special interest in the posters and other advertising art for his shows, and God help the fellow who once rendered Kern's beloved SHOW BOAT as SHOWBOAT.
May 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Em dashes, of course, were named in honor of Emily Dickinson, because she used so many of them.
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people who act like no one uses em dashes are essentially saying “I don’t read books!”
May 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
people who act like no one uses em dashes are essentially saying “I don’t read books!”
Anyway, I went to Paris and I feel very confident in my deserving Swiss citizenship now because despite having grown up in the French school system, I looked a waiter in the face and said « septante-cinq » and absolutely blanked when he didn’t understand and kept saying « septante-cinq »
May 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Anyway, I went to Paris and I feel very confident in my deserving Swiss citizenship now because despite having grown up in the French school system, I looked a waiter in the face and said « septante-cinq » and absolutely blanked when he didn’t understand and kept saying « septante-cinq »
I am once again internally screaming in the Petit Palais over an out of body aesthetic experience (at the Worth exhibit).
May 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I am once again internally screaming in the Petit Palais over an out of body aesthetic experience (at the Worth exhibit).
Extreme flashbacks to myself as a child but clear preview of what awaits my child today as on the bus, another American mom was reading a Lovevery book to her ~18 month old, and my child, from diagonally across the aisle was shouting out all the answers.
May 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Extreme flashbacks to myself as a child but clear preview of what awaits my child today as on the bus, another American mom was reading a Lovevery book to her ~18 month old, and my child, from diagonally across the aisle was shouting out all the answers.
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
As an exiled Chicagoan abroad, hilarious to get multiple missed phone calls from an unidentified Chicago number in between the appearance of white smoke and the announcement of Chicago Pope.
May 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
As an exiled Chicagoan abroad, hilarious to get multiple missed phone calls from an unidentified Chicago number in between the appearance of white smoke and the announcement of Chicago Pope.
Minor effect of having the same digital accounts for most of our lives at this point, but my iTunes has gone rogue this morning and is shuffling music from my mid-2000s library that I haven’t heard in 20 years and I wonder why it’s doing it but also wow… time.
May 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Minor effect of having the same digital accounts for most of our lives at this point, but my iTunes has gone rogue this morning and is shuffling music from my mid-2000s library that I haven’t heard in 20 years and I wonder why it’s doing it but also wow… time.
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This wrapping paper turns everything into bread 🥖
Created by Japanese designer Ippei Tsujio
Created by Japanese designer Ippei Tsujio
May 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This wrapping paper turns everything into bread 🥖
Created by Japanese designer Ippei Tsujio
Created by Japanese designer Ippei Tsujio
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L’asperge, ce légume originaire d’Anatolie qui a conquis le monde
➡️ https://l.letemps.ch/PYc
➡️ https://l.letemps.ch/PYc
May 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
L’asperge, ce légume originaire d’Anatolie qui a conquis le monde
➡️ https://l.letemps.ch/PYc
➡️ https://l.letemps.ch/PYc
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The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan
The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan
The trip leaned on a vision of women’s empowerment that is light on substance and heavy on a childlike, girlish silliness
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan
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if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
April 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
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I am genuinely so baffled when I see the dumb shit people willingly use AI for, knowing the damage it does to our brains, our society, our planet - like AI to find early cancers? Yes, sounds great! But using AI because you don’t want to write your own grocery list or write a five paragraph essay?
April 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I am genuinely so baffled when I see the dumb shit people willingly use AI for, knowing the damage it does to our brains, our society, our planet - like AI to find early cancers? Yes, sounds great! But using AI because you don’t want to write your own grocery list or write a five paragraph essay?
No joke, no one I know thinks it’s safe to travel to the US.
NEW 🧵
The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.
Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.
Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
April 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
No joke, no one I know thinks it’s safe to travel to the US.
My 3yo has started loudly stating “tout le monde, stop talking!!!” when she wants quiet, and I want to try that out on the bus (and many other public spaces).
April 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
My 3yo has started loudly stating “tout le monde, stop talking!!!” when she wants quiet, and I want to try that out on the bus (and many other public spaces).
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Pride and Prejudice except every single character is played by Olivia Coleman including Mr Collins
Young Olivia Coleman would have also made a great Caroline Lucas.
Older Olivia Coleman will make a great Lady Catherine de Burgh.
Older Olivia Coleman will make a great Lady Catherine de Burgh.
April 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Pride and Prejudice except every single character is played by Olivia Coleman including Mr Collins
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Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
PRAMS Shuttered for Good
In the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
We’re not a Cocomel*n household, we’re a Nana’s original 1964 LP of Mary Poppins household
April 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We’re not a Cocomel*n household, we’re a Nana’s original 1964 LP of Mary Poppins household
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”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"
OpenAI CEO Responds to ChatGPT Users Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images
The latest version of OpenAI's image generation technology has resulted in a flood of users sharing images transformed in the style of Studio Ghibli.
variety.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"