brain on fire

Fannish geek, elder queer. Please interact if you're friendly. I REPORT and block ~SPAM~ and FUND REQUESTS

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Apparently some people still need to hear this so: using an 'ai checker' is still using ai. If you are feeding someone's fic to one of these checkers, you will still not be sure their fic is ai because they are not 100% accurate, but you can be 100% sure that you are using ai. For fic. Furthermore you are doing the work of an ai scraper for them. You are, personally, feeding the machine. There is no actual excuse for using an ai checker on fanfic as a hobby. YOU are the problem.

If you think a fic is ai, mute it and move on. That's it. That's all you do.

[scribefindegil]

really obsessed with this photo of the lone giant monstera in our otherwise completely empty living room

[64mpg]

i haven’t been real for a few days thinking about becoming real again soon though

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[allthebooksandcrannies]

My only previous experience with Ben McKenzie before this post was watching him play Jim Gordon in the show Gotham. I had no idea he'd made a documentary or co-wrote an investigative journalism book on the subject of cryptocurrency until I googled him after watching the video. Turns out he's been interested in the subject since his time working on his undergraduate economics degree.

Sharing to hopefully spread this information to anyone else who would be interested but had no idea his book or documentary existed

[some-stars]

more white men need to be pursuing the teen heartthrob to leftist investigative journalist career path

[bluering8]

listen to me, this is so so important: you've gotta get used to really giving it your 60% as a default. like don't half-ass it necessarily but try not to go over 70% or so of an ass. you'll feel better and live a happier more fulfilled life, and on the rare occasions where you do need to lock the fuck in you'll be able to pull off bullshit that the sad miserable wretches giving it their 100% can never dream off, because they're busy draining themselves dry and you have energy reserves to spare.

[smokingchagga]

This is actually what I was adviced to do at the work rehabilitation program I went to. Hasn't left my mind since. 10/10 solid advice

[elljayvee]

I have probably mentioned this before, but I work on a pretty small team and we needed to make a 10-year plan so we found a consultant etc. and what the consultant said was that we were scheduling ourselves too heavily. We were scheduling ourselves at 100%. They were like. No. Schedule yourselves at no more than 80%. Otherwise you will (a) have no capacity to handle emergencies and (b) burn out. 80%. Max.

[remanence-of-love]

[raccoonmilf]

This is also true for bugs

[lizardsfromspace]

Average reaction to The Odyssey on Bluesky: "Wow! Christopher Nolan's tour de force is a reminder of the magic of the movies!"

Average reaction to The Odyssey on X: "This disgusting moral failure of a film is propaganda for woke! We need to support a real version of The Odyssey, generated by Grok"

Average reaction to The Odyssey on Tumblr: "Christopher Nolan is a hack! We need to support a real version of The Odyssey, Epic the Musical."

Average reaction to The Odyssey on Sea Captain Date dot com: "Baby, I won't keep you waiting ten years."

[clotheshorsepodcast]

Listen, I'm no stranger to being called "depressing" or "cringe" by randos on the internet. It's always so silly to me because I'm actually always laughing, creating elaborate hilarious backstories for my cats, singing made up songs, and wearing fabulous outfits.

But it is interesting that the comeback to "don't buy disappointing shit" is always "you suck and you're depressing."  In fact, in last week's Costco Esprit sweatshirt discourse, lots of people (on Threads) thought I was a bummer, bitter, and even a "buzzkill."

If you dig into that, it reveals something important: decades of marketing have successfully transformed us as humans, making us believe that the only real source of joy is shopping.  And TBH if you think buying something is an easy way to cheer yourself up, you're not alone. I was raised to feel the same way.  Shopping was literally the only time my family seemed to get along. Telling someone to buy something (because they "deserved" it) was how we showed our love.

So yeah, a lot of us think shopping = fun, joy, happiness.  Of course, these days shopping is also often disappointing and stressful.  Sometimes we end up feeling scammed or questioning the size and shape of our bodies.  Still, when shopping = happiness, you start to thing that non shopping = unhappiness and misery.

But actually...the slow fashion way of life is filled with joy, creativity, connection, and fun! Seriously, I might be tree hugging, compost loving, Costco Esprit sweatshirt hating buzzkill, but somehow I'm happier than I've ever been because I'm constantly feeding my brain and my heart with information, new skills, and creative thinking.

Anyway, I was inspired by the Threads feedback last week to create my own graphics about this. As I was playing around with this idea while I playing with the foster kittens last night, I realized that it was reminding me of a new version of the 90s Nirvana shirt. So I tracked down the Nirvana font (it's called Onyx) and I used images from the 1978 children's book, Baby's Toy Box.  This post took 3 hours to make.

[crab-day-counter]

Six Days to Crab Day

[hawkesque]

sorry but i shrimply can’t believe there’s a movie where sterling k brown fucks mark duplass pregnant and practically no one on this, the mpreg website, talks about it. what are you people even good for

[ngbri]

I'm sorry but these two posts needed preserved together.

[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

[lil-leviathan]

My clasped weft cowl is finally off the loom! I can't believe i warped this up a whole month ago. I'm absolutely loving the technique and how it all came out. I just need to wash it, trim ends and block it!

This will be my entry into the state fair for the 'woven scarf or shawl' category!

[cpericardium]

at the euthanasia party everyone gets a sip of the forbidden lean

[tastyrepulsorboots]

Yeah, same

[kosmogrl]

[howisthepope]

Do you think the pope has ever touched the Chicago bean

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]

[spitblaze]

I'm gonna get phthaloplasty. Oh yeah my shit's all gonna be a serene sea green, or perhaps a tidal blue