Book Club

I try to do a summary of every book I read. I love sci-fi and fantasy and am currently working my way through Discworld. This is my main blog so I talk about other stuff, too.

[hollyhollie]

What the actual fuck. Instagram really put a ln action block on my account?? I have two followers and their my parents so they can see the pictures of birds I take. Yes I am totally a bot.

Instagram is so stupid.

[hollyhollie]

She is a beautiful loving mother of 3 but that doesn't define her.

Tell me you dont see it. #divamom #slay

[hollyhollie]

Uploaded version:

#blink with mama

[hollyhollie]

She is a beautiful loving mother of 3 but that doesn't define her.

Tell me you dont see it. #divamom #slay

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[sarostheghostcat]

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

[wafflebloggies]

moon day is 20th July!!!

[silly-jellyghoty]

Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!

[sashaforthewin]

Happy moon day to all who celebrate

[kitsuneofthemist]

This is your reminder to prep for Moon Day on July 20th.

[inkyrainstorms]

MOON DAY MONDAY THIS MONTH NOT A DRILL!!!!!

[hollyhollie]

Me: i have been discovering the joys of *hobby* which has helped immensely with my depression, increased my physical activity and given me opportunities to socialize with strangers who share my interest in a healthy and safe environment.

Family member: You Should Monetize It.

[honourablejester]

A lot of the time when I reblog jewellery on here, it’s art nouveau jewellery, because I really like art nouveau. In general, and in jewellery in particular. And most of that is the aesthetic. I like the natural forms, I like the twisty curly bits, I like the use of materials, I like how a lot of art nouveau jewellery is using metals and stones and other materials to create a specific form, an insect or a plant or a goddess or even sometimes nature scenes. I like …

I feel like a lot of the time with jewellery, it feels like ‘I’m going to use this object to show off the size and value of my pretty rock’. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Some of those rocks are indeed gorgeous. But art nouveau feels more ‘I’m going to use these pretty rocks, and several other things, to create the impact of this object’? I just love the use of materials, glass and enamel and colour, as well as precious stones and metals, to create a form or a scene.

Like, you get a diamond ring, it’s a diamond ring. But you get something like a dragonfly brooch (Louis Acoc):

Or a lilypad hair comb (Rene Lalique):

Or a wisteria branch (Georges Fouquet):

And it’s a whole creation. A little wearable piece of art.

And I don’t want to sound too dismissive. I know the craftmanship and skill and artistry that goes into any kind of jewellery making. That diamond ring took skill I will never have. I just.

I like the emphasis on form more than material that you get with art nouveau. Like normally you hear ‘glass jewellery’, ‘enamel jewellery’, and it’s cheap, it’s frowned upon, but in art nouveau it’s what that glass or enamel was used to make that’s the important part:

(Rene Lalique)

(Eugene Feuillatre)

Anyway. In summary, I really, really, really like art nouveau jewellery?

[hollyhollie]

When did videos become the primary social media go-to? Why

[hollyhollie]

I traded in my tumblr bird blog that was heavily neglected and honestly just used to reblog random things for an Instagram bird blog where my family can actually follow and like my bird stuff.

[hollyhollie]

I finally figured out my mundane superpower

If I hear a song I can tell you the movie or TV show episode that song is from.

Gonna go far with this.

[hollyhollie]

Sucks that not dressing up for someone is seen as disrespectful when its like okay I literally feel comfortable enough with you to let my guard down. I thought you wouldn't judge me.

[hollyhollie]

Yankee fuckboi went to town

Crusin' a Scion tC

Drew a big G on his belt

And tried to call it Gucchi

[hagnanimous]

Me when I read a book by a famous author that’s a modern classic and everyone says it’s really good and then it’s really good

[hollyhollie]

I want this to be a cartoon but I cannot draw.

Commander Vimes, playing clue: AND THEY DID IT WITH THE CANDLESTICK!!!

[hollyhollie]

I have no drawing skill; only raw inspiration - but hey at least it's not ai

[dragon-in-a-fez]

there's a fine line between being wary of manipulation and becoming completely paranoid because you get very close to the realisation that pretty much all human interaction involves doing things we hope will lead to a result we like

[dragon-in-a-fez]

this post is about a lot of things. it's about my ex saying it was manipulative to talk to them in a cute voice because that influenced their emotions. it's also about someone on this webbed site saying being funny is "engagement farming". like yeah every single conversation you have is going to be "manipulative" if your standard for that is "did something with the goal of eliciting a response". if that bothers you go live in a hut in the forest and speak only to the trees. I'll be over here manipulating my friends into being happy by giving them compliments

[morphmaker]

the silmarillion bride

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[modeus-the-xenofeminist]

People who defend AI are the epitome of Petite Bourgeois.

They wish for access to things without working for it, they wish for a sniveling yesman who has no method to usurp them, they seek to be praised as smarter than everyone else for doing things that others seem unable to figure out. (Aka, things other people have but are just unwilling to do for moral reasons.)

They admonish the Corporate CEO who burns billions and is still offered chances to burn even more, for how theg behave, for their foolishness, whilst wringing their hands over how that lifestyle should be theirs. Because they would be a little less manipulative, a little less eager for power, a little less cruel.

When the inability to convince them that even now, they could be wrong shows the only difference between them and the CEO, is the CEO can act upon their whims more easily.

[the-haiku-bot]

People who defend

AI are the epitome

of Petite Bourgeois.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[petulantpony]

having a crush is basically being hypnotized

[petulantpony]

u don’t have a crush on me that’s just my hypnotic powers. u need to work on ur mental fortitude

[uikipettannko]

*monotone, staring into the middle distance*

i need to work on my mental fortitude